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26 OCT—1 NOV 2024

PADDINGTON DIGITAL
EDITION

RETURNS…
…to Peru! Everybody’s
Paddington in Peru
in cinemas from
8 November

favourite bear heads

home for his greatest
adventure

INSIDE
Ben Whishaw
Emily Mortimer
Simon Bird
Sue Johnston
Parminder
Nagra
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From the Editor

WHETHER YOU HAVE just had
half-term or it’s looming, the
question of how to entertain the children
or grandchildren in the autumn and winter
is never far away. Finding a film that the
family can watch at the cinema or on TV
VIES TO WATCH — PAGE 17
can be a struggle. Something with enough TEN OF THE BEST FAMILY MO
appeal and magic for little ones, with good
jokes and pacey enough for the adults.
Have no fear – Paddington to the rescue!
Paddington and Paddington 2 redefined the
THIS WEEK FEATURES YOUR RT
term “family film” and now the third in the The Listeners 6 Paddington 12 Books 130
series, Paddington in Peru, is in cinemas There’s a low hum of anticipation Meet the team who bring the There’s no stopping Rick Stein
from 8 November. The films have a slightly for a forthcoming BBC thriller bear to life — and Ben Whishaw,
chaotic British charm that runs through who gives him his voice Gardening 132
them. When we asked Ben Whishaw, who Parminder Nagra 8 The best shrubs for winter colour
voices Paddington, how he embodies the The Bend It like Beckham returns Sharon D Clarke 18
to solving crime in DI Ray Her lead role in a police drama Travel 134
bear from Peru, he cheerfully admits, “I have Take a trip to verdant Vermont
no idea what I’m doing”. There’s something is a key moment for equality
Ant Anstead 9
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page 12, and see page 17 for nine other films classic cars — and wooing It’s old v young in a battle Financial advice from Paul Lewis
to entertain your family up to Christmas.
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Wednesday 9.00pm BBC2
A decade after the
withdrawal of British troops
from Afghanistan, ten
soldiers recount the indelible
experiences they endured in
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TO & STREAM

p Moonage
FILM Daydream
1111 j
Saturday 10.10pm C4
An exhilarating and exhaustive
documentary in which David Bowie
narrates his own story via archive
recordings, while a wealth of footage
— much of it previously unseen —
showcases each of his distinct eras.

TV Generation Z TV
Sunday, Monday 9.00pm C4
This horror drama lumbers into view in Ellis Thursday Archive on 4:
RADIO The
time for Halloween, and stars Sue Johnston 8.00pm Channel 5 Year We
as retiree Cecily among an ensemble of Sharon D Clarke gets a much-deserved Lost the Climate
pensioners who are metamorphosed lead role as DCI Ellis, an enigmatic Saturday 8.00pm Radio 4
into flesh-eating zombies. Their detective who’s parachuted into failing Environmental journalist Roger
feast of choice? Teenage blood… investigations. It’s a potent set-up that Harrabin examines whether the
results in plenty of friction between 2000 election of George W Bush to
INTERVIEWS P22 the US presidency set back the fight
her and local police forces.
against climate change by years.
INTERVIEW P18
FEATURE P108

PODCAST
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Available now
Netflix’s “Tudum”. The iPhone
ringtone. People saying “blah
blah blah”. The sounds of
everyday life are pulled apart
in fascinating detail by Dallas
Taylor. In the latest episode he
explores the background noise
in many a family
home — the sonic
design of Bluey
— revealing the
natural sounds
behind the
stylised visuals.

FILM
RADIO The Lucan Obsession
Mon—Fri 1.45pm Radio 4 The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
The disappearance of Lord Lucan in
1974, after the murder of the family’s
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Available 25 October Netflix
nanny and an attack on his wife Veronica,
In this warm documentary a young
has fascinated people for decades.
man’s parents discover, after his death,
Historian Alex von Tunzelmann dives
that he led a parallel life online where he
into the mystery in an attempt to get
positively impacted dozens of strangers.
past all the myths surrounding the case.

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 LISTEN UP
Rebecca Hall and Ollie
West filming The
Listeners, a drama
about a woman plagued
by a mysterious
humming noise

NEW DRAMA

HEAR THE SILENCE

In new BBC drama The hum, as I discovered a decade a group of separate white noise person to bring that sympathy
Listeners, Rebecca Hall ago, is a real-life phenomenon incidents grouped together,” he and uncertainty to the screen.
plays an English teacher who is that people do experience and says. But he found it straddled “Rebecca is actually very, very
tormented by a strange noise — report around the world. ‘The an interesting cross-section of similar to how I pictured Claire
a low-level hum that it appears Bristol Hum’, here in the UK, “faith, mania and conspiracy”. while writing her [in the book],”
only she can hear. Her family are is one of the most famous. “I also think there’s a long he says. “She has this X factor
baffled, and tests reveal nothing. “In a town in Ontario, Canada, history in medicine of particularly which makes her relatable and
But when a pupil at her school they said it was making their women’s symptoms being likeable. But also there’s this
claims he can hear it, too, the windows rattle and causing belittled,” he says. “My own enigmatic quality to Rebecca.
pair become bound together on a nosebleeds, headaches and mother had cancer for many There’s a sense that she can
transgressive hunt for answers. insomnia.” years and was told that it was in unravel in a spectacular way.
“It’s ultimately a quest to Tannahill spoke to many people her head — until they eventually And she certainly does…”
know the unknowable,” Canadian who can hear ‘the hum’ to discovered that she had stage HUW FULLERTON
screenwriter Jordan Tannahill, research his novel, and says he’s four metastatic cancer.”
who adapted his 2021 novel of not entirely convinced it exists. And in Rebecca Hall, Tannahill The Listeners will be shown
the same name, tells RT. “The “My personal theory is that it’s says they found the perfect on BBC1 in November

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 GRAPEVINE
The TV stories that are
getting us talking…

WHERE IN THE WORLD?

Coming next summer: Rob Brydon
will host BBC1’s latest reality
competition Destination X,
where Race across the
World meets The
Traitors. The show will
send contestants on
a mystery ride in a
blacked-out bus to
take on challenges
that will unlock clues
about their location.

GORDON BENNETT!
Does the world need another Pride
and Prejudice? Dolly Alderton,
writer of Everything I Know about
Love, thinks so — she’s putting a
fresh spin on Jane Austen’s novel
for a Netflix series. Meanwhile,
younger sister Mary Bennett’s story
will be told in The
Other Bennett Sister,
a ten-part BBC drama
adapted by Sarah
Quintrell (His Dark
Materials) from
former BBC2
boss Janice
Hadlow’s novel.

SLOUGH AND STEADY

Good news for fans of Slow Horses:
series five has already been filmed
and now Apple TV+ has confirmed
filming of series six will
begin next year with
Gary Oldman, Kristin
Scott Thomas, Jack
Lowden and the rest
of the cast. However,
while previous series
are all based on one
of Mick Herron’s
novels, series six will
condense his sixth and
seventh books into its six episodes.

PAS DE DEUX
Channel 4 and UKTV are both
dispatching a pair of male comic
celebrities around France. Hugh
IMAGINING IT? Dennis and David Baddiel, who
Rebecca Hall both got their break on The Mary
(right) plays Claire, Whitehouse Experience in the
a teacher who is 1990s, are cycling around the
tormented by
country for a four-part C4 series,
a noise her
friends and while on Gold, Neil Morrissey, who
family can’t hear lives in southern France, is taking
a road trip with his former Men
Behaving Badly co-star Martin
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Clunes. ROBIN PARKER

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 TEN QUESTIONS WITH

NAGRA
She shot to fame by bending a ball like
Beckham — now she’s telling it like it
is as Brummie detective DI Ray

Parminder Nagra got her

big break in 2001 aged 26,
when she was cast as the football-
mad teen Jess in Bend It like
Beckham. After moving to the
US, she joined ER as Dr Neela
Rasgotra, a role she played until
the final episode in 2009,
becoming its longest-serving
cast member. Since then, she’s
appeared in Agents of SHIELD,
Fortitude, Intergalactic and
Maternal, and in 2022 made her
debut as DI Rachita Ray in ITV1’s
police drama DI Ray, which is now
in its second series.
‘When friends’
children kick a
It’s been 23 years since Bend
It like Beckham, which helped ball, there’s an
launch yours and Keira
Knightley’s careers. Has there expectation
ever been any talk of a sequel?
I heard Gurinder [Chadha, I’ll bust out
director] had said somewhere she’d
got an idea of where a sequel would
CHAMPIONS
As Jess, with Keira
some moves’
go, but I don’t know – sequels can Knightley’s Jules,
in Bend It like
PA R M I N D E R N A G R A
be tricky. The expectation is so up
Beckham
there, especially with something so
beloved. Can you imagine if Ferris
Bueller’s Day Off or The Breakfast
Club had sequels? Some things
need to be left alone. Have you been able to play There’s a second series of DI Ray
football since then, or does currently on ITV1 — was the
So you don’t ever wonder what everyone get their cameras character easy to get back into?
Jess would be doing now? out if you go near a ball? I felt more settled with her this
I don’t know what she’d be up to. When friends’ children are kicking time, even though she’s unsettled
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Would she be coaching? Would a ball around, I think there’s an at the start of series two. I get
she have a daughter who was expectation that I’m suddenly who she is – fundamentally, she’s
getting into football? I almost going to bust out some moves. The someone who wants to do the right
don’t recognise that girl that training for that film was intense, thing and get to the truth, even if it
was in Bend It. I know it’s and I do sometimes think, what ruffles a few feathers. But in season
me, but it feels like I’m if I’d have carried that on? I’d two, it’s about playing the politics a
watching someone else. probably be a lot fitter! little bit more, so I’m just nodding

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 WHAT IT’S LIKE TO…

be a TV mechanic
RESTORATION MAN
Ant Anstead

NO-NONSENSE
Playing DI Ray,
with Patrick
Baladi as
DI Patrick Holden

my head and saying Angeles, but I’ve been lucky because

yes, then doing what filming DI Ray overlaps with the
I want anyway! holidays, so I go from being a
mum to being a crime-fighter!
What reaction did you
have to series one? Is there any other series you’ve
I had so many texts done or character you’ve played
saying it was lovely to that you’d like to return to? Ant Anstead’s new show becoming a mechanic in 2005.
see a south Indian Alcatraz was a big one [she played follows the TV mechanic’s There were times I’d turn up in
person on screen that Dr Lucy Banerjee in JJ Abrams’ attempts to turn a profit by uniform to a drunken bar fight
just isn’t stereotypical. one-season 2012 sci-fi show]. That restoring classic cars. The and I’d have to be clear, concise,
But ultimately, it’s series was like a good meal – it was money will help him renovate lead the moment. It’s the same
a numbers game, just so sumptuous. My character the 500-year-old farmhouse with presenting. Plus it gave me
because it’s existed in the present and also in the he’s bought for his parents in a sense of proportion. Policing
showbusiness. In 60s, so she was straddling timelines. the Bedfordshire countryside. was serious work. This is just fun!
terms of audience, it And then it finished, so we never
felt like it had been got to find out what was going on BORN A MECHANIC As a MY DAD IS A NATURAL I live
received well and with her! We had an amazing cast, young child [Ant grew up in full-time in America [with partner
people stayed to the it was ridiculous – Sam Neill, Cambridgeshire], I was always Renée Zellweger]. We met on an
final episode. But it’s Mahershala Ali, Rami Malek… fascinated with building stuff. I’d American car show called Celebrity
all a work in progress, build go-karts and throw myself IOU: Joyride. She’s a car person.
so when you’re going Similarly, how disappointed were down hills with my brothers! I built She’s not involved in this, though,
back to do a second you when ITV’s Maternal didn’t my first car when I was 16. I worked as she’s really busy! When I come
series, you’re asking get a second series? out quite quickly that I could buy back to the UK it’s all about family.
what are the things Oh we were all gutted! I loved a wreck, fix it, sell it, make a bit of I roped in my three brothers, my
that worked? What straddling that line between profit and go buy another one. sister, an auntie, my mum and
didn’t quite work? comedy and drama. When we took I source all the cars. dad. My mum restored the seats
How do we make it a deep dive in terms of emotion, on an MG Midget! She is slightly
better? I mean, we got we really went there. I’d love to do THIS IS REAL A lot of TV shows uncomfortable on camera, but my
to do series two, they something with that tone again. put themselves in the reality dad is a natural. I think he will be
ordered six this time, space but aren’t necessarily real. on Strictly by next year!
and they’re longer And finally… you spent your 30th For this show, I said, “Guys, I’ve
episodes, too. birthday with George Clooney — bought the house for real. I’m DIY! For this series, we restored
who starred in ER before you fixing cars because I can make eight cars in 12 weeks, but not all
Would you get on with joined the cast — having bumped some profit. Just come and press of the cars were profitable. None
DI Ray, do you think? into him at the restaurant you record.” There were no production of the restorations were what we
I probably wouldn’t say were celebrating in. Any starry meetings, no director. It’s more call rotisserie restorations, where
some of the things she says – she’s plans for your 50th next year? accessible and free-flowing. you take the car apart and it
very bold. Especially some of those I’d need Tom Cruise at the next sits on a spit. We fix the
interview scenes, they were very one! My 30th birthday was the PRESENTING V interior and frames, get the
exciting to play. She just goes there, most surreal experience of my life. POLICING I got my TV engine running. I’d love for
to get to the truth of the matter. At the end, I went to take care of presenting break with For someone to watch this show
I’d be friends with her for that: the bill because I’d been with the Love of Cars with and give it a go themselves!
“Oh, you say it like it is, you’re cool!” all of my friends and they said Philip Glenister in 2014. STEPHEN KELLY
no, George had taken care of it. I learnt to be a TV
It’s filmed in Birmingham, but It was nuts! STEVE O’BRIEN host from my six Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic
you’re still based in LA. How years working in the is on Quest on Thursdays
does that work for you? police [he joined
CAR
DI Ray is Sunday—Tuesday at 9.00pm PERSON at 9.00pm and available
My son goes to school in Los on ITV1, or catch up on ITVX at 18], before Ant’s partner to stream on Discovery+
Renée
Zellweger
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 VIEWPOINT

DOES ROYAL
STARDUST HELP
THE HOMELESS?
Rough sleeping is a key issue for
our time, but can Prince William
really help, asks Neil Ansell
CAMPAIGNER
Prince William
meeting a Big
Issue vendor
WHEN I WAS six years old, my
family was made homeless
following a fire; a fire in which
we lost everything and I had
to be rescued from in the dead
of night. Nowadays, we would
be the responsibility of the
local authority in Portsmouth. But back then, we
were on our own and spent a bleak winter in a
building with no running water, electricity or
heating. It’s made me keenly aware that home- ‘They are the ultimate sits firmly lodged at the very top of that pyramid
of inequality in which we all live. And yet I have
lessness is something that can affect almost
anybody. All it takes is a spark.
beneficiaries of witnessed first-hand the impact that a little royal
stardust can have on the public discourse. As a
Homelessness has continued to be a spectre in
the background of my life. In my 20s, I ended up
the status quo’ manager with the homeless newspaper Big Issue,
I oversaw an occasion when Queen Elizabeth
out of work and homeless in London for a couple a shortage of affordable housing, that whole met up with some Big Issue vendors, and bought
of years before walking away from the chaos and pyramid of ingrained inequality that can squeeze a copy from one of them, in front of the watching
washing up on the Isle of Jura in Scotland, where people out onto the streets. You can help turn press. And for a while there was a huge public
I put my life back together. I went on to spend someone’s life around with empathy and a tail- discourse about a problem that’s all too often
ten years working with rough sleepers. Later in ored response, but it can feel that, ultimately, you completely ignored. Because of the then Queen’s
life, as a BBC journalist, housing and homeless- are addressing the symptom rather than the cause. gesture, even magazines that typically trafficked
ness became a significant part of my beat. And only in celebrity tittle-tattle were forced to engage,

P
most recently, the issue reared its head in some RINCE WILLIAM HAS chosen homelessness at least briefly, with a pressing social issue.
of my books – The Circling Sky and my memoir as his adopted cause, and his involvement The same likely applies in this case: Prince
Deer Island, which is centred around a depiction with his Homewards initiative features in William’s involvement may well bring much-
of homelessness in 1980s London. the ITV documentary Prince William: We Can needed attention to a neglected issue. I anticipate
Working with homeless people can be equal End Homelessness, which follows his input over that the individual homeless people who partici-
parts rewarding and frustrating. Sometimes, the course of a year. In a clip released from the pate in this initiative may benefit greatly, and
what you offer can be life-changing, even life- film, he is asked whether he is the right person that can only be a positive thing. As to whether it
saving. But then a new government policy, per- to lead the challenge. “I come with no other will touch on the root causes, I have my doubts,
haps a change in benefit entitlements, can release agenda than desperately trying to help people for the royal family are the ultimate beneficiaries
a flood of newly homeless people onto the streets, who are in need. I see that as part of my role,” he of the status quo, and the demand made of them
the course of people’s lives utterly changed by says. “Why else would I be here if I’m not using in return is always that they should attempt to
the stroke of a pen in Whitehall, and it can feel this role properly to influence and help people do good works without upsetting the applecart.
like you are trying to hold back the tide. Each where I can?” He attributes his interest to Prin-
individual homeless person’s story is unique to cess Diana broadening his outlook. Prince William: We Can End Homelessness is
them, but the underlying problem is structural – It’s easy to be cynical – after all, the royal family on Wednesday and Thursday at 9.00pm ITV1

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 Famıly
FILM
SPECIAL!
10 famisly
film
TO WATCHMTNH
AUTU
IS
Paddington
In cinemas from 8 November
S I ENTER the building,
I can’t quite believe my
eyes when I see who is
waiting there to greet
me. Dressed in his signa-
ture blue duffel coat and
red hat, it’s none other
than Paddington Bear.
Staring at me with his warm brown eyes, his
chocolatey fur is begging to be stroked. “You can
touch him if you like,” I’m told, snapping me out
of my daydream that Paddington is a real bear
that exists in the real world.
The startlingly hyper-realistic “stuffie head” –
essentially Paddington’s head on a stick – cost
£30,000 to make and is crafted from humanely
sourced beaver fur, explains Rob Silva, co-
producer of the upcoming third Paddington
film, Paddington in Peru. It’s used to provide an
eye-line for the actors in the film and also to
show how light falls on the fur for the animators
who create the computer-generated version of
the lovable bear. And that is the process I’m
about to get an insight into today at the London
headquarters of Framestore, the multi-award-
winning visual effects company responsible for
bringing him to life on screen. Have passport, will travel…
Paddington might not be real, but when it
comes to creating the films, he is hand-crafted in Paddington Bear heads home to
such detail that it feels as though he might as
well be, hard stares and all. “The most important Peru – as an English gentleman
thing is making sure that the eyes are looking
right into you, into your soul,” animation direc- INTERVIEWS BY LAURA RUTKOWSKI
tor Pablo Grillo says.
Co-producer Rosie Alison adds: “In one of the
first images that came out for the first film, he wouldn’t think the Home Office would have a (Antonio Banderas) and his daughter Gina
looked a bit dead-eyed. People were worried it sense of humour, but under official observations, (newcomer Carla Tous).
wasn’t going to work. There were lots of they’ve just listed him as Bear.” “We wondered whether coming out of the
comments about ‘creepy Paddington’. He’s quite And so, passport in paw, Paddington is ready oddness of a bear walking around London
hard to capture in static images, but it’s all about to set off on his next adventure. Henry Brown would work as well, but we’ve been thrilled to
coming alive through the eyes, and all the (Hugh Bonneville) and his wife Mary (Emily find how much potential there is,” Alison says.
twitches in the face.” Mortimer, who takes over the role from Sally “When he goes back to Peru, he has turned into
In Paddington in Peru, coming to UK cinemas Hawkins; see page 15), along with their children a British gentleman.”
on 8 November, Paddington Brown, voiced once Judy (Madeleine Harris) and Jonathan (Samuel

T
more by Ben Whishaw (see page 14), is issued Joslin) and housekeeper Mrs Bird (Julie HE CAST, CREW and Paddington the
with a British passport, which means he’s now Walters), travel with him to Peru. But when they “stuffie head” filmed at various loca-
allowed to travel abroad to visit Aunt Lucy arrive, Aunt Lucy is missing. tions in Peru, including the famed
(Imelda Staunton) in his homeland. She has been living at the Home for Retired Incan citadels of Sacsayhuamán and
“We wrote to the Home Office, asking if we Bears, run by the smiling, singing Reverend Machu Picchu, and Colombia for two months.
could get a replica, and they actually issued Mother (Olivia Colman), but is nowhere to be Multiple sets were also built on the 500-acre
Paddington with an official passport – there’s found, which sets Paddington and his pals off Berrybushes Farm, near Watford.
only one of these,” Silva says, holding it up, into the Amazon to try to find her, aided by Director Dougal Wilson led the expedition,
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complete with Paddington’s photo inside. “You charming riverboat captain Hunter Cabot taking over from Paul King, who directed and

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 BEAR NECESSITIES
Above: director
Dougal Wilson
Right: a storyboard
sketch of the
moment Paddington
discovers Aunt Lucy
is missing. Bottom:
voice of the bear,
Ben Whishaw

‘Under official
observations in
his passport, the
Home Office
have listed
him as Bear’
CO-PRODUCER
R O B S I LVA

which was also highly venomous, and stands in for the bear, and even wears his duffel
remains involved, however, having created the I almost got bitten by a bullet ant. A rainbow coat and hat, so he can be added in later.
story alongside Simon Farnaby and Mark Burton. macaw came down and ate a piece of cake from Back in London in a basement studio,
Wilson, who was asked to come on board in the tea table… Some of that has perhaps Whishaw wears a head-mounted camera rig as
2019, says: “I was immediately incredibly appre- rubbed off on the film!” he delivers his lines, separate to the rest of
hensive. Paddington 2 is one of the greatest Even though Paddington and Ben the cast. “The camera gives the animators a
films of all time. I was very scared and very Whishaw weren’t actually on location, it reference for mouth movement to lip-sync,”
anxious. I’m under no illusion of how difficult it still feels like he is very much there. As Grillo explains. “And Ben has such wonder-
is to follow up those first two films, and obvi- well as the “stuffie head” used to indicate ful eyes and thoughtful brows. This all
ously a third film is always very challenging. where Paddington is standing, and provides a brilliant starting point, and a
I really hope we don’t let down the fans.” eye-line sticks and even a big lovely reference for us to explore and
In order to immerse himself thoroughly in teddy bear that’s the same start choreographing Paddington’s
Paddington’s journey, Wilson ventured off into colour as Paddington, there’s performance.”
the Peruvian rainforest and stayed in the an actor reading Paddington’s Grillo adds: “Paddington is quite
Tambopata National Reserve. “I almost trod on lines off camera. Lauren minimal. We try to keep an essence
the second most poisonous snake in the Barrand, who’s the same of deadpan about him. There’s an
Amazon, almost touched a wandering spider, height as Paddington at 3ft 6in, inscrutability in his face. He’s got ▷

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◁ a cheery, upbeat quality, but generally he
doesn’t smile much. He doesn’t smile well.
Often, for marketing purposes, they want a
big, gleaming smile and we go, ‘Oh my God!’
It’s very hard to find the right tone. It’s often
just a tiny little something. He’s thoughtful,
and he keeps everything quite buttoned up
emotionally. He displays emotion through
action more than through his face.”

A
NIMATION SUPERVISOR ARSLAN
Elver describes himself and his
team of 120 animators working
on Paddington at Framestore,
I FEEL A BIT
using keyframe animation to bring the bear
to life, as “digital puppeteers”. “It’s a bit like
traditional animation, but rather than pen
SILLY GROWLING
ON MY OWN
and paper, we use a mouse and a keyboard,”
he explains. “It makes it a lot more special
compared to some of the big blockbuster
movies that employ motion-capture.”
There are at least 200 “controllers” used to
gradually move the face and body of the
animated characters, from a blink of an eye
had to make do with a basement studio in Soho
to the swing of an umbrella. I ask if I can have
When were you first approached comes down to the tiniest little breaths and
‘Paddington to create Paddington’s voice?
It was over ten years ago now. I was very
the tiniest intonations and what works with
the animation.
doesn’t smile much against it because I had auditioned
several times to do voice work for animation, While recording the voice, you have to wear
well… or often’ and I was dreadful at it! But they were having a motion-capture helmet with a camera, so
problems and were already halfway through the animators have a visual reference of
A N I M AT O R PA B L O G R I L L O editing the first film and couldn’t find a voice. your face. What’s that process like?
a go and, under his instruction, I use the Colin Firth was doing it but he stepped In a way, it’s just like any other kind of acting.
mouse and tap a few keys to make Aunt Lucy aside because he felt he was too old. I didn’t I have to embody it. There’s always a moment
turn her head ever so slightly. It takes me know that at the time. I auditioned and at the beginning of the process where I feel very
about five minutes to create that one move- I didn’t think it was very good, and I went self-conscious, because I’m in the dark about it
ment, but turning that movement into a cine- back a few more times, and I think they and I feel a bit silly, because I have to make
ma-ready shot, complete with facial expres- just gave it to me out of desperation, these strange growls. And there’s no animation
sions and poses, takes considerably longer. because time was ticking. at that point. There’s a blank screen where the
One second of finished film requires 24 It was all incredibly rushed. We didn’t know bear will one day be.
frames, and it can take an animator up to what we were doing, but somehow something I have to surrender my self-consciousness
three days to create them. As Elver says, “It’s did kind of work. We had more time on the and just jump into it like a child. I play, muck
a labour of love.” second film, because I was there from the around and try anything, but I also take it very
It takes a village to make everyone’s favour- beginning of the process. I now feel quite seriously. I quickly forget that I’ve got the
ite bear – and it all began, of course, with familiar with the character as I’ve also done camera filming my face.
Michael Bond’s books, illustrated by Peggy three seasons of the animated cartoon.
Fortnum. “When we were doing the first film, You also have Paddington props — a hat, coat,
the lovely Michael Bond was nervous about What do you think is the key to suitcase and umbrella. Do they help you get
what it would be like, but he was also quite Paddington’s voice? into character?
relaxed,” Alison says. “He said there had been I don’t like to think about that really. I have I put that hat on, or I have the umbrella,
quite a variety of incarnations of Paddington, no idea what I’m doing when I do it. It’s not and I get given a pace. I act bits of it out,
and somehow his spirit and who he is any different to my own voice; it’s not like I’m which is always really fun because, of course,
manages to persist through all of them. We putting on a voice, but it is somehow different. Paddington’s smaller than I am, so I have to
all know Paddington.” Obviously, he’s saying Paddington-ish things, see everything from his perspective physically.
As it turns out, he’s very real after all. and then it’s just trial and error. It really I gather that it really helps Pablo [Grillo], our

14 RadioTimes 26 October–1 November 2024

brilliant animation director, and the rest
of the extraordinary team, to have some
physical things to start to build the
animation around.

A lot of the cast filmed in Peru and

Colombia. Were you able to go? MEET THE BROWNS
I would have loved to have gone to Peru and From left: Madeleine
Colombia, but I didn’t get to go. I was just in Harris, Hugh
a basement in Soho the entire time. Bonneville, Samuel
Joslin and Emily
Mortimer
Do you spend any time at all with the
rest of the cast?
I don’t meet them. I never met Antonio
[Banderas] or Olivia [Colman] for this film, MY DAD NEVER WENT
ANYWHERE WITHOUT
but I hope I will at some point, because
I watched their performances and enjoyed
them so enormously. On Paddington 2,
I never saw Hugh Grant, not once.

I’ve heard that you don’t like marmalade,

A JAR OF MARMALADE
so what would be your emergency snack?
Emily Mortimer is taking on the role of Mary Brown
Sadly, I don’t like marmalade. It really
doesn’t agree with me at all, but I am a big What was it like taking not being on set? lots of marmalade. I could get
Marmite lover. Marmite with Lurpak butter over the role of Mary We got very close playing through ten slices of that
on toast is, to me, pretty much heaven. Brown from Sally Hawkins? brother and sister in Mary easily. Marmalade has always
I was asked at the beginning Poppins Returns. I didn’t really been a big thing in my family.
of last year, and it wasn’t a talk to him about Paddington My dad [the playwright and
‘On Paddington 2, decision I took lightly. They’re at all, but I felt very close to barrister John Mortimer] never

I never saw Hugh such big shoes to step into.

I admired and loved Sally’s
him all the way through filming
Paddington in Peru. I felt his
really went anywhere without
a jar of marmalade, even on
Grant, not once’ performance in the films, as
everybody did, so I wondered
spirit somehow. It was a very
intimidating environment as
holiday.

B E N W H I S H AW if there was a way I could even the newcomer, but I would calm What’s something important
begin to compete with that, myself down by imagining Ben you’d keep under your hat at
Paddington in Peru is very much about the because it was so perfect and and having a conversation with all times?
idea of home and the conflicting emotions beautiful. It was nerve-racking, him, and then it was all right. My husband and my children!
that brings up for Paddington. What does but also impossible to say no, Also wherever I am in the
the idea of home mean to you? because I would feel so churlish Was it difficult not having an world, I find an app that can
For me, it’s much the same as this film – it to say no to Paddington. It felt actual Paddington Bear to get me on to Radio 4 or the
could be anywhere. You make it and you like the honour of a lifetime to act alongside? BBC World Service. Radio 4
find it. It may not be where you expect, be asked. Often in acting, there’s CGI reminds me of home, and of
and it may not be where you begin. I guess and I’m talking to a tennis my dad — Desert Island Discs
I have to say now that London feels like my Did you relate to Mary Brown ball or something, which is and the Today programme
home. I love it very much, even when it at all? challenging! With a lot of films were always on. I also love
drives me crazy, or it’s drab and wet. When you meet the Browns where stuff is added in a bath. If I could take those
I suppose all of us who live here feel that in this film, they’re about to post-production it can feel like wherever I went in the world,
conflicted relationship with it sometimes. become empty-nesters and there’s no magic to it at all, it I’d be OK.
When I’m away, even if I’ve enjoyed being they’re going through the just feels like computer fakery.
somewhere else, I always feel ready and accompanying stresses and But Paddington isn’t like that. What does the idea of home
excited to come back to London. strains that puts on a marriage, The animators are so invested mean to you?
where you’re stuck with each in it and such artists Home is a complicated thing
Paddington often feels like he doesn’t other and you blame each themselves. for all of us, but especially for
fit in. Have you ever felt like that? other for the children not people like me who don’t live
Oh, I feel that all the time. I think it’s very wanting anything to do with Did you enjoy the Paddington where they grew up. My home
common, which is maybe why the character you. I was very understanding books as a child? is in New York with my family,
is so appealing, not just to children, but to of that position. Hugh Oh, yes, I really did. What but I’m also very connected
adults too. It can be hard to always put on [Bonneville] and I both have I remember is being delighted to London and England, and
ELLIOTT MORGAN / GUARDIAN / EYEVINE

the front of being a civilised adult human children that have left home. by the marmalade sandwiches all my family and friends who
being who knows how to interact with The middle-aged married under his hat. It’s such a live there. That’s partly why
everyone. Paddington gets it wrong all the banter came very easily. strange and amazing image Paddington resonates so
time, because he’s a bear, so it’s all quite that stayed with me. I love much, because he belongs
mysterious to him, but he has learnt some You worked with Ben marmalade. It’s almost like a everywhere and kind of
things. There’s something about his well- Whishaw on Mary Poppins vice. If I’m really hungover, my nowhere. Home is where the
meaning nature and kind-heartedness that Returns. Were you in touch go-to is Mother’s Pride white people I would put under my
we can all relate to. during filming despite him toast with lots of butter and hat are.

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 FILMS FOR ALL
THE FAMILY
7 WICKED
In cinemas 22 November
The hit stage musical — a prequel
to The Wizard of Oz that’s played across
Broadway and the West End for decades
— gets a big-budget movie adaptation
Nine more must-see starring pop star Ariana Grande and
British actor Cynthia Erivo (above).
movies coming
soon to cinemas
and television

2 THE WILD ROBOT

In cinemas now
A crash-landed robot
ends up going native with

8
the local wildlife in this sweet
animation written and directed
by Chris Sanders (How to Train WALLACE & GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL

5
Your Dragon). The all-star voice BBC1 Christmas Day
cast includes the Oscar-winning Some 31 years since he was taken down by Wallace and Gromit in The
actor Lupita Nyong’o and
MOANA 2

3
Wrong Trousers, penguin criminal mastermind Feathers McGraw is back,
Heartstopper star Kit Connor. In cinemas seeking revenge. Hand-modelled in clay and full of gags — including Wallace’s
29 November latest invention, a “Smart Gnome” voiced by Reece Shearsmith — Vengeance
RED ONE

9
After Frozen, Moana Most Fowl looks set to be the jewel in the crown of the BBC’s festive schedule.
In cinemas 8 November is probably Disney’s
Wrestler-turned-actor biggest animated hit,
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson so a sequel was inevitable. MUFASA:
leads this Christmassy action Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne THE LION KING
comedy that sees Santa Claus Johnson (yes, again) are back as In cinemas 20 December
(JK Simmons) kidnapped. To track Moana (above) and Polynesian Oscar-winning director Barry
him down, Johnson’s head of Jenkins turns his hand to Disney

6
demigod Maui respectively.
North Pole security must hire in this “live action” (read: non-
THAT CHRISTMAS

4
a tricky bounty hunter (Captain cartoon) prequel that focuses on
America star Chris Evans). Netflix 4 December Simba’s noble dad in his scrappy
Richard Curtis and younger days. The voice cast
SPELLBOUND Christmas movies go includes Aaron Pierre,

10
Netflix 22 November together like “rom” and “com”, Seth Rogen and Beyoncé.
Netflix attempt their own but his latest venture sees him
Disney-esque animated movie in enter the world of animation SONIC THE
which a magical kingdom is split for the first time. Brian Cox, HEDGEHOG 3
in two and its people turned Jodie Whittaker, Fiona Shaw In cinemas 27 Dec
to monsters by a spell. and Bill Nighy lend their HOLIDAY TREATS The popular video game
Rachel Zegler (West Clockwise from adaptation returns with a new
voices to the film that has above: That
ALAMY; SHUTTERSTOCK

Side Story) stars as been described as “a series Christmas, Red

villain — a brooding hedgehog
Princess Ellian (right), of entwined tales about family One and Mufasa: called Shadow, voiced by
with other voice cast and friends, love and loneliness, the Lion King Keanu Reeves — forcing
including Nicole Santa Claus making a mistake Sonic to team up with his
Kidman and Javier — and an enormous old foe Robotnik (Jim
Bardem. number of turkeys!” Carrey). HUW FULLERTON

17
 Ellis
Thursday 8.00pm Channel 5

WO WOMEN, ONE white, one black,

are waiting in the reception of a
police station. A cop appears and
walks straight up to the white
THE NO 1
BLACK
woman, assuming she’s DCI Ellis,
a detective who has been brought
in to help a failing investigation. The white
woman shakes her head; the cop looks baffled.
He asks the receptionist where DCI Ellis is. She
nods towards the black woman. When the cop
finally approaches Ellis, she declines to shake his

LADY
hand before following him into a room of white
men in cheap suits, all of whom turn to stare.
Over the course of the three feature-length
episodes of Ellis, Channel 5’s new detective
drama, Sharon D Clarke as the eponymous
senior police officer forms a solid bond with

DETECTIVE
Andrew Gower’s DS Harper – but not before he
learns a thing or two about his implicit biases.
The surprise in Ellis isn’t to show institutional
racism and misogyny in the police force, but the
fact this is the first time a black woman has led a
TV police series – and it’s the first time Sharon D
Clarke has taken a lead role.
Clarke is a phenomenal, charismatic actor,
equally at home playing a grandmother in
Racism has made Sharon D Clarke
Doctor Who and a doctor in Holby City as
portraying Linda Loman on stage in the 2019
feel invisible all her life – but now
revival of the Arthur Miller play Death of a Sales-
man, for which she won a third Olivier Award.
she is finally taking the lead in a
What took so long?
She grins and then laughs, a long, contagious
primetime cop show and feeling seen
laugh that seems to indicate disbelief more than
anything else. “I can’t tell you why I’ve never THE RT INTERVIEW BY A M Y RAPHAEL
been number one before. You’d have to ask the
people who do the programming. I think it’s the
idea that black doesn’t sell. Full stop.” her to rise through the ranks. I fed some of
Clarke opens her fan – “the bloody meno- Irene’s experiences into Ellis.”
pause!” – and continues. “I haven’t been sitting Inevitably, Clarke also fed some of her own
around saying, ‘Why not me?’ It’s how life is. experiences into her character. Her mother, a
Everything in its time.” When Clarke got the call seamstress who worked for Harrods and
saying there was going to be a new detective Selfridges, and her father, a carpenter, moved to
series with a black female lead and asking if London from Jamaica in the early 1950s. Sharon
she’d be up for it, she didn’t hesitate. “I didn’t attended the Ivy Travers Dance School in Stam-
grow up seeing someone like me in the lead role ford Hill on Saturday mornings. She enjoyed
of a TV series, so I was all over it! Plus I love a tap, ballet and jazz and played a babe in Babes in
good cop show like Law & Order: Special the Wood. Aged six, she sang the Marie Osmond
Victims Unit and Criminal Minds.” song Paper Roses on stage, coached by her mum,
Eighteen months before filming started on who was a great singer. She was hooked: “The ▷
Ellis in Belfast, Clarke talked to co-creator and
co-writer Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, who had
previously adapted Agatha Christie’s Murder Is
Easy for BBC1, about DCI Ellis’s back story.
“I wanted her to be from a multicultural place,
so she’s from Tottenham, north London, which
is where I grew up. She’s tough; she has worked
her way up to the top despite the endemic racism
in the force. I also had a long chat with Irene
Afful, Merseyside Police’s first black female
inspector, about her experiences. She told me
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that her colleagues wouldn’t let her

lead on anything, and she was like,
TOP DETECTIVE
‘I’m a black girl, I can take care of Sharon D Clarke as
myself.’ Two great detectives, both DCI Ellis, with her
male, saw her potential and encouraged colleague DS Harper
(Andrew Gower)

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it taken
so long? They
thought black
doesn’t sell.
Full stop’

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 HOLBY CITY 2005—19
Her character Lola Griffin
“had authority. She was
opinionated. Strong”

◁ energy exchange
you have with an audi-
ence when you’re on
stage is intoxicating.” DOCTOR WHO
At 14, Clarke joined 2018—21
the Anna Scher Thea- As Grace; with
tre, with “the raw kids, Mandip Gill,
Tosin Cole, Jodie
the ones off the street”. Whittaker and
She wanted to act, but Bradley Walsh
her parents knew it
was precarious, espe-
cially for a black working-class girl, and
insisted on an education. She trained to be
a social worker because she’s a great listener
(“People always share their stories with me
on the bus”), but thought about acting the
whole time, until one day she noticed an
advert for auditions at Battersea Arts MR LOVERMAN 2024
“My proudest moment in
Centre. She applied and got the job. television”: co-starring
Theatre is, she says, her first love, but TV with Lennie James (centre) THE IMPORTANCE OF
is important because of representation. and Ariyon Bakare BEING EARNEST 2024

A
Part of the “white canon of
theatre”. Clarke plays the
S A CHILD, Clarke loved Doctor key role of Lady Bracknell
Who, Wacky Races and Grange
Hill. The family got a colour
TV in 1981 “so my mum could first time I’ve worked with
see Diana’s wedding dress in all its glory.” Lennie, but we just got on.
She loved television, but “there were no And I’ve never worked on a set
black folk doing stuff on TV.” One day, she saw
an ad with a black guy brushing his teeth and
‘Racism isn’t just so diverse, from the cast to the crew to the
accountants. This is 2024. This is how you do it!
the landline didn’t stop ringing with her mates
calling in disbelief. There is more representation
an industry thing, Mr Loverman is probably my proudest moment
in television.”
now than in the 1970s, but as Clarke says, “We
can always do more” – and then she tells a series
it’s a daily thing’ I ask Clarke, who grew up in less tolerant
decades and who married writer and director
of anecdotes. killed off in Doctor Who and she laughs. “I was Susie McKenna in 2008 after meeting her on a
When she went to her first Olivier Awards like, ‘People, you’ve missed a trick here!’ To have production of Cinderella in 1999, if she has often
ceremony in 1995, she and Adrian Lester were those different generations of women in the experienced homophobia. “I didn’t come out till
the only black people in the room. She still has Tardis was glorious. A black woman, a white I’d talked to my late parents, and after that
to tell people not to touch her hair. She has been woman and a brown woman. The flack that I wasn’t afraid to talk about it at all. I’m very out!
ignored on TV sets. “Racism isn’t just an indus- Jodie [Whittaker] took for being the first female Everyone in the industry knows I’m married to
try thing, it’s a daily thing. It’s how I live my life. Doctor was ridiculous. Someone said little boys Susie. I’ve been very, very lucky in that respect.
I still have to say, ‘Excuse me’ several times when no longer had a role model! What the hell! And It’s important for me that shows like Lost Boys
people are standing in a doorway” – she repeats now Ncuti Gatwa is a funky, funny, charming, and Mr Loverman exist to help everyone under-
“Excuse me” three times, her voice rising in a cheeky, sexy black Doctor. We’re on the frontier stand that it’s OK for some people to come out
frustrated crescendo – “And finally they casually of time, right here, right now, and we should and not so easy for others. You have to let people
say, ‘Oh, I didn’t see you there.’ It’s exhausting.” always be pushing those boundaries.” do their own thing.”

I
For years, Clarke was offered roles as a nurse Clarke is cautiously optimistic that the bound-
in various TV series before, finally, being cast as aries are being pushed. Apart from starring in T’S TIME TO go – the allocated 45 minutes
consultant Lola Griffin in Holby City. “I stopped Ellis, she is starring alongside Lennie James and have turned into 90 minutes – but before
auditioning for telly for a while because I didn’t Ariyon Bakare in Mr Loverman, a gorgeous she steps out into the rain, Clarke wants to
want to play a nurse simply because I’m black. adaptation of the 2013 novel by Bernardine talk about The Importance of Being Earnest,
But Lola had authority. She was opinionated. Evaristo about a family man who has to hide his the Oscar Wilde play that opens at the National
Strong. I walked on set on the first day and saw love for his male best friend. “I read the book as Theatre on 21 November and also stars Ncuti
Robert Powell. Oh my God, it’s Jesus!” [Powell soon as it came out. I loved Bernardine’s bravery Gatwa. “Like Death of a Salesman, it’s part of the
BBC PHOTOSALES; NATIONAL THEATRE; GETTY

played the title role in Jesus of Nazareth in in telling this untold white canon of theatre and thus was never on
1977.] She fans herself. “At one point I was in story of an elder gay my radar. I didn’t even have to audition! I’m so
‘I’M VERY OUT!’
an episode with five black women of all Sharon D Clarke is couple from the excited because we have the glory that is Ncuti
different shades doing a scene on married to writer/ Caribbean. I’ve been in it and I know there will be a younger genera-
primetime TV and there wasn’t a man director Susie lucky enough to do tion coming because of him. That boy is sexy!
or a white person in sight. That was a McKenna two gay-led stories And do you know what?” She looks mischievous.
first!” When Clarke left the show in this year – I also did “If Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare were writing
2008, a whole episode was written Lost Boys and Fairies, today, they’d be writing for the society we live in.
around Lola’s exit. which was so truthful Our truly glorious, multicultural society.”
I say that I couldn’t believe and honest. I don’t
Clarke’s character Grace was know why this is the Mr Loverman is on Monday at 9pm, 9.30pm BBC1

21
 Generation Z
Sunday, Monday 9.00pm C4

Prepare to be scar
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Anita Dobson, Su
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and Robert Linds ohnston
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NINE
ALL IT WHAT you like – the PLAYS JA and
n (above)
generation gap, boomers v millen- Anita Dobso astEnders
r former E
nials or even the culture wars – but the he
ie Grantham
battle between the smashed avocado on and angry; the young are bemused, irritated co-star Lesl
toast-eating youngsters and the mort- and then… dead.
gage-free boomers has been blamed for The cast spans the generations. Lindsay is get asked to
everything from Brexit to the housing crisis. joined in the upper-age bracket by, among do things like FearFest – who knew there
Now imagine what would happen if the boom- others, Anita Dobson and Sue Johnston; the was a FearFest? And who knows what a FearFest
ers became zombies overnight. Gen Xers are led by Johnny Vegas and Rebecca is? But Comic Con will embrace this whole-
“They would get rid of their children,” Robert Humphries alongside a host of rising stars like heartedly. And so we’ll go along to do the sign-
Lindsay grins in delight. “The young are in the Lewis Gribben and Viola Prettejohn. ings, and there will be people there with their
way. They’re good for the appetite. Very good Dobson and Johnston, both of whom play heads hanging off.” She seems positively cheerful
protein!” He laughs out loud. zombies, still seem surprised at their roles. “I’d at the prospect.
Lindsay is speaking from experience. He’s one just done an episode of Inside No. 9, which was a
DON SMITH/RADIO TIMES ARCHIVE

of the stars of Generation Z, a new horror bit of a departure for me in itself,” Dobson N SCREEN, JOHNSTON – who plays a mili-
comedy on Channel 4 from cult director Ben recalls. “When I first spoke to Ben and I said to tant pensioner, one of the first to fall victim
Wheatley. In the series an experimental him, ‘It’s very dark…’ he said, ‘Anita, if we don’t to the mysterious gas and ends up leading a
bio-weapon literally falls off the back of a mili- have fun with it, if we don’t make them laugh, gang of infected people to secure food and
tary lorry in the fictional town of Dambury, we can’t do it.’ Which was what sold me.” evade capture – spends much of the time in
creating a plague that turns the old into Were they fans of the genre? “Not really, no,” impressive prosthetics. They were so impressive
monsters but leaves the young unscathed. Or Dobson laughs. “Bloody gore is not really on my that Lindsay walked into make-up on his first
rather, initially unscathed. The old are hungry go-to list. It’s a whole new world. Suddenly you day and saw her furiously trying to ring some-

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 grins mischievously. “There’s a pile
of resentment which I’d probably
feel if I got shut in a residential
home, which I probably will be. It’s
that whole thing of let’s get rid of
the old, we don’t need the old. It’s
the physical side of being old which
I find so bloody annoying. And so, to
be regenerated is potent.”
Dobson’s character has no intention
of giving up her infected status when
the authorities arrive. “She likes who
she’s become,” she grins. “She really
takes it on. It’s unfortunate she has to
eat people to stay like this, but so be it.”
Then she gets serious. “The thing is,
getting old is scary. Of course it is. You
RGAN know it’s going to happen to you at
PLAYS MO ) and some point, but you don’t really connect
say (above
Robert Lind n wife Zoë to it until you start to see it on your face,
his on-s ee My Family
cr
feel it in your knees, and suddenly you
in
Wanamaker
think, ‘Oh, here it comes’.
“But I wake up in the morning, I think, ‘Well,
supplies recreational medical treats for the nothing’s dropped off. I’m good to go’. Do as
youngsters – he’s a drug dealer – and he’s much as you can while you can. Have a sense of
a former scientist and activist with a mysteri- humour. If you don’t laugh as much as you
ous background. For me, the role was a possibly can, then life really does become dull
no-brainer, not least because my boys are huge and scary.”
PLAYS CECILY fans of Ben Wheatley.”
Sue Johnston (ab
ove) and Ricky Dobson and Johnston – also more familiar to ORKING WITH THE younger actors
Tomlinson as Ba
rbara and audiences for their long stints in family favour- underlined this a little. Lindsay’s activist
Jim in The Royle
Family ites EastEnders and The Royle Family respec- spends most of his time uninfected and
tively – still aren’t quite sure why the horror working with the kids. “I found myself
one but finding her iPhone facial recognition director, whose last movie was the Hollywood very isolated even in the make-up trailer,” he
had no idea who she was. blockbuster Meg 2: the Trench, turned to them. admits. “They were always joking about things
“Oh gosh,” she shakes her head giggling. “I Dobson suspects Reese Shearsmith suggested I didn’t understand. The music they were play-
was getting so frustrated with my phone. her after she played a violent gangster in an ing, I hated. And I couldn’t hear any of them.
Robert wandered in and I had my innards Inside No. 9 episode described by Radio Times They mumbled the whole time.”
and all sorts hanging out. We’re old friends, as the “goriest yet”. Dobson agrees: “I was never so aware, of the
but we’ve never worked together before, and it generation gap as I was when I joined Genera-
wasn’t the perfect first on-set meeting.”
Lindsay’s character does wear some pros- ‘It’s unfortunate tion Z. I have a lot of young friends and we go
out for meals and drinks, but on set I felt like an
thetics – it’s difficult to explain without spoil-
ers – but he remembers the day Channel 4 sent
she has to eat old person. One of the boys was playing some
music and I started digging it and he looked at
him his stomach. His wife and daughter
thought it was an Amazon delivery.
people, but so be it’ me like I was mad.”
But all the senior stars insist that they have
“I knew what was inside, so I let them open A N I TA D O B S O N never been tempted to reverse the clock with a
it, and all of a sudden, my torso appeared with little plastic surgery. “I was talking to an agent
cuts and blood and pipes,” he laughs. “I’ve been “When I read it, I thought, ‘Oh, I don’t get this yesterday who gets lots of requests from casting
asked to auction some things this year in aid of really’,” Johnston shakes her head. “I was totally directors saying they don’t want anybody who’s
Hampstead Theatre after they had their Arts naive. I didn’t absorb what we were up to until had any work done,” says Dobson with a little
Council grant cut, so I’ll be selling off my stom- I came out of make-up and realised we had to go grin. “If they were playing creatures like Sue and
ach for them.” into prosthetics for another three hours.” They I are playing they’d say, ‘Oh, no, I’ve just had
For fans of Lindsay more familiar with him as all burst out laughing. Botox all over and my chin done and my nose
the patriarch in My Family, there’s a pleasure in But the best horror is always a metaphor for done and I don’t really want to cover it up.’”
seeing him play a paranoid activist and conspir- something, and Generation Z has serious under- “Anita,” Lindsay jumps in. “I’ve just come
acy theorist who’s clued in to the government’s tones. Wheatley deals with pandemics and lock- back from LA. I worked there in the 80s, and
attempts to hush things up. His basement radi- downs, and most of all, the way society treats the I was catching up with some very old friends
cal has an echo of his starring role in the sitcom elderly. In the case of Dobson and Johnston’s and I didn’t recognise any of them. I’m serious.
Citizen Smith, playing Wolfie, the leader of the characters, they’ve been abandoned by their I was completely shocked.”
Tooting Popular Front. families when the infection arrives – and part of Johnston sighs. “I think it’s just sad, don’t
“Ben Wheatley was a huge fan of Citizen their motive is revenge. you? I’m very proud of the three of us,” she adds.
Smith,” Lindsay nods. “One of the things he sent “It’s a relief to get out of the residential home, “We’ve gone with the flow, got our wrinkles and
me initially was a picture of Wolfie, so yes, which is, my character believes, where they put let me tell you we are growing old quite disgrace-
I think that was in his mind. My character you when they’re finished with you,” Johnston fully.” STEPHEN ARMSTRONG

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 Helmand: Tour of Duty
Wednesday 9.00pm BBC2

F THE MANY horrors he witnessed

during his six-month tour of
Afghanistan’s Helmand Province
in 2009, one in particular brought
Steven Peters to his knees. Peters, a
sergeant in the Welsh Guards, saw
his unit’s interpreter blown to pieces in front of
him. The man, an Afghan who was seconded to
Peters’ team, had been due to go on leave less
than 24 hours later, to visit his young family.
Instead he became another casualty of this most
brutal of wars. “It broke me,” Peters recalls. ‘‘It
was like when you’re a child and you start to cry
and you can’t stop.”
Yet this terrible tragedy was far from an
isolated incident. History would later judge that
the ferociously demanding six-month tour by
the Welsh Guards – with its extraordinary
number of casualties, including 72 fatalities –
was the bloodiest period for British forces in the
entire Afghan conflict.
Now, to mark the ten-year anniversary of the
withdrawal of frontline British troops from
Afghanistan in 2014, a compelling new BBC
documentary, Helmand: Tour of Duty allows
survivors – and their loved ones – to tell their
stories. Unsparing in its depiction of the realities
of day-to-day warfare, it also examines, unflinch-
ingly, the impact of the conflict on both soldiers
and their families. Ten years after British
“I don’t think the public really had an idea of
what was going on there on a daily basis,” says troops left Afghanistan,
Peters, now 42. ‘‘Mortars going off, missiles –
there was something happening on an hourly a new documentary tells
basis. It was constant.”
A career soldier, Peters joined the Army in the real stories of those who
1988 as a 16-year-old, retiring only last year.
‘‘Until then, the Army was all I’d known,” he
reflects. When he arrived in Helmand in March
2009 he was sergeant of a recce platoon and a
veteran of several overseas tours, including the
Balkans, Northern Ireland and Iraq. “They were
nothing compared to what we walked into in
Afghanistan,” he says.
This is an assessment made chillingly clear by
the documentary and shared by fellow veteran
Jonathan Jenkinson, who describes the province
as a “relentless 360-degree battleground”.
Jenkinson, who like Peters had joined the take the blast,” says Jenkinson, now 50. “When- out. Some were injured, a couple floated out
Army straight from school, was soon made ever we were in them I was worried. You’re with no life in them. We got them back, but if we
aware of the stark realities of Helmand. Working thinking, ‘Please God, let’s not go over the IEDs.’” had had two more minutes without any doors
as a colour sergeant leading a fire support group, For Peters, the Viking was at the centre of opening, we would have lost eight soldiers.”

T
he recalls how a young lance corporal was killed another horrifying incident during which an
by an IED (improvised explosive device) less attempt to secure a canal used by the Taliban to HE MEMORY REMAINS traumatic. “But
than a month after their tour of duty began. transport troops and weapons nearly ended in at the time, we were commanders, and
‘‘I think what the Taliban were doing was just tragedy when one vehicle rolled into the water. you have to be almost robotic in some
sussing us out initially, so for the first couple of Amid the threat of enemy fire, he describes the sense; everything needs to be filed away
©SUSANNAH IRELAND; THE TIMES

weeks, we didn’t really understand what was frantic attempts to open the sealed door of what somewhere else,” Peters says. “You can’t show
going to come forth,” he explains. was fast becoming a watery coffin for those weakness. You can’t show that you’re flapping,
Working in searing heat and dust, with the trapped inside. “All I’m thinking is that the because it flows down to your soldiers. And
risk of landmines all around, the soldiers were Taliban are 100 metres away and they’re going to there’s no time – you’d have an incident like that,
also hampered by equipment they didn’t always ambush us, but also knowing that all my soldiers, and then six hours later, the next mission comes
think was up to the job, among them the “all friends, brothers are drowning. in. It’s relentless.”
terrain” Viking vehicle in which they were regu- “Then after about five minutes, we managed Both men were also mindful of the ongoing
larly deployed. “If you hit an IED it wouldn’t to get the door open and bodies were coming anguish of loved ones back home. Peters, then

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 SURVIVORS
Jonathan Jenkinson (left)
HEADS DOWN and Steven Peters
British troops shelter as a
Chinook helicopter takes off
from the town of Cher-E-Anjir
in Helmand Province

very difficult for my wife to understand,” he

acknowledges. “It was upsetting for her and the
family, but I needed to get back and do my part
and make sure my soldiers were looked after.”
When he finally returned home, suffering
flashbacks and nightmares, he chose to undergo
private counselling. “I was lucky I didn’t go off
the rails,” he says. “Although my wife says, since
Afghanistan, I have never really slept properly.”
He retired in December 2013 after 23 years
of service and went on to work as a hostile envi-
ronment consultant, which involves visiting
dangerous countries. “I must be a glutton for
punishment,” he says wryly.

M
EANWHILE, PETERS CONFIDES that
when he returned home he chose to
lock away the traumas he had endured
“to be dealt with at a later date”. That
came in 2019 when, still a serving soldier, he
suffered a breakdown that he only survived
through intensive therapy. “I had to embrace the
vulnerability and totally open up and it made all
the difference,” he says. Today, he lives a
quiet life in a Northumberland village,
where he works part time as a gamekeeper
Right: The Times and for a family security business.
covering the British Both men struggled with the news of the
withdrawal from withdrawal of the last American troops in
Afghanistan in 2014 August 2021. “When I saw it on the news it
left me reeling,” Peters admits. “I had close
married to first wife Leanne, had left her friends and colleagues who were killed,
behind along with three young children injured, suffering mental trauma and you
aged between one and five, while Jenkinson ask yourself, ‘Was it all for nothing?’”
had a stepdaughter at primary school and Jenkinson found it similarly tough.
young sons with wife Jess. “At the same time, politicians are paid to
“Obviously you do think about your family make those decisions. You sign on the
all the time, especially when you’re out on dotted line, you go where they tell you to go
patrol, but you have to compartmentalise,” and you do the best job you can while you’re
Jenkinson explains. ‘‘You’ve got your family, there. If you think about it too much, you
and then you’ve got your other family could drive yourself crazy.”
– in the Army.” Both hope that the documentary will help
This feeling of responsibility towards his men viewers to understand more about the realities
was reinforced after he was injured, struck in the
back by an artillery drone, a few months into the
a child. You cry... and of war. “Ultimately we are normal people, but
there is a lot of suffering that does get left behind
tour. Flown back to the UK for intensive treat-
ment, Jenkinson opted to return to Helmand
you can’t stop’ and forgotten about,” says Peters, “so it felt good
for us to tell our story.”
the minute he was declared medically fit. “It was STEVEN PETERS KATHRYN KNIGHT

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Beethoven, puzzles or those mustard hues… What
is it that makes Ludwig such a delight to watch?
MANY PEOPLE CONSIDER Beethoven’s show across all ages and
greatest work to be his Ninth Symphony, which, four episodes in,
particularly its fourth movement with its raptur- already feels like a safe
ous Ode to Joy libretto. Much borrowed by cornerstone of the
bodies from the football Champions League to evening schedule – in
the European Union, it remains, in its 200th the words of one RT IN-LAWS
anniversary year, awe-inspiring and unique. correspondent, “ripe for Anna Maxwell Martin
Ludwig, the detective named after the a second series”? as Lucy, sister-in-law
of David Mitchell’s
composer, can’t claim to be quite so original. As The Beethoven-
John Taylor — aka
John Taylor, a happily solitary puzzle compiler inspired soundtrack is puzzle expert Ludwig
(“Ludwig”) forced by events to masquerade as a nice touch, but I take
his missing identical twin James, who happens more delight in the
to be a senior police detective, David Mitchell palette – Ludwig has two production designers Some critics have said that he’s just playing
has seemingly borrowed from every other working overtime to create all those lovely blues himself, despite his wife Victoria’s protestations
beloved TV sleuth. With his social discomfort, and mustards. Then there’s the pleasure of a that this is no Upstart Crow or Peep Show. She
Ludwig is cut from the same cloth as Jason challenging puzzle tied up with a big bow before may have a point: the real Mitchell is actually
the credits, plus the never-failing premise of a playing his customary screen Mitchell playing
‘Ludwig feels like beta male in peril, just about securing his dignity
and getting one over younger, fitter types – in
John Taylor, playing James Taylor.
It would be an Oscar-worthy Russian doll of
a safe cornerstone of this case by solving every crime from under their
noses, and almost in passing, when he should be
an effort if all those characters weren’t essen-
tially what we believe to be the real David
the evening schedule’ determining the fate of his brother. Mitchell – a gentle, wide-eyed, self-deprecating
soul, unafraid of expressing vulnerability but

A
Watkins’s DS Dodds (McDonald & Dodds) T THE HEART of it all as the clearly a quick-witted match for anyone wanting
and Ben Miller’s Richard Poole (Death in beleaguered, corduroy-jack- to take him on. Mitchell as Ludwig isn’t perfect
Paradise), while his clumsiness is that eted eponymous hero is casting, because it’s not even casting.
of Poole’s successor, Humphrey David Mitchell. Does it hinder that he Despite its derivation from every other bit of
Goodman (Kris Marshall). and his scratchy RP tones are so TV sleuthing, it can’t be as easy as it looks, or
Ludwig’s Cambridge setting FAMILIAR familiar that he could have walked they’d all be doing it. An American advertising
has hosted plenty of Kris Marshall off the set of a panel show and into executive called James Webb Young once said,
crime-solvers, from as Humphrey a police station? No, because the “An idea is nothing more or less than a new
Goodman in
Professor T to Grant- premise is already so ridiculous – combination of old elements.” Here, that is the
Death in
chester’s vicars and, for Paradise why haven’t James’s colleagues who simple pleasure of a solvable mystery in a cosy
his pleasure in puzzles, have worked alongside him for so setting, led by a character we root for. Nothing
see also Morse, young long, and are actual police officers, too puzzling, in fact, just satisfying – or joyful,
and old versions. become at all suspicious? if we were to ask the original Ludwig.
Why, then, all the love Mitchell’s presence is just a
for Ludwig, which was last reminder that we have nothing to Ludwig continues on BBC1 on Wednesday,
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 RIDING A WAVE
Liverpool’s Arne
Slot and Arsenal’s
Mikel Arteta have
brought fresh ideas
and impetus

Arsenal v Liverpool Sunday 4pm (k/o 4.30pm)

Sky Sports Main Event/Football, 4.30pm 5 Live

IT’S A TOUGH job to follow

the bad boss who left the
place in a terrible mess. But
it’s much harder to follow the
great boss. It’s called the
Succession Problem and if
you want to study it more SIMON’S
closely, read Shakespeare. It took all Henry PICK
IV’s energy just to stay in the job, but OF THE
Henry V was a howling success – Agincourt WEEK
and all that. Then came Henry VI, gentle, pious
and easily swayed: he could never live up to his

MEET THE
dad so we had the Wars of the Roses.
Is it even possible to be a success following a
truly superb boss? The Premier League proves
how hard it is. At Manchester United the great
Matt Busby was followed by Wilf McGuinness,

NEW BOSS
Busby’s brief and unsuccessful return, Frank
O’Farrell, Tommy Docherty, Dave Sexton and
Ron Atkinson, over a period of 17 years. Each
man failed to scale the heights that Busby had.
Then came the glory years under Alex Fergu-
Following a great leader is tough, says Simon Barnes
Live Sport

son. Since he stepped down, 11 years ago, he’s

been followed, with limited success, by David
Moyes, Ryan Giggs, Louis van Gaal, Jose Mour- — but Arne Slot and Mikel Arteta are bucking the trend
inho, Ole-Gunnar Solskjaer, Michael Carrick,
Ralf Rangnick and now Erik ten Hag – who
certainly knows why Henry IV said: “Uneasy ing against AC Milan at the monolithic San
lies the head that wears a crown.” After seven ‘Both clubs will wish Siro. In Slot’s third match in charge, Liverpool
games in the Premier League this season,
Manchester United were 14th in the table. their opponent had a beat Manchester United 3–0 at Old Trafford.
What Succession Problem?
Succession Problem’ Slot has used the same players as his prede-

Y
OU CAN LOOK at all this history and shud- cessor, made a few tweaks in formation and
der. Or you can just carry on. A good position, and switched – subtly – to a more
boss goes, so just appoint another good Arteta has managed Arsenal for nearly five patient style, with a sounder defence. Slot
boss, right? As Liverpool play Arsenal at the years now and has developed a team that offers himself comes across as unflustered. He’s look-
Emirates this weekend, both clubs will be wish- the greatest challenge to Manchester City, with ing good, and might even last.
ing their opponent had suffered second-place finishes in the past two seasons.

L
rather more from the curse of The Liverpool succession is a still greater IVERPOOL HAVE DONE all this before, of
the Succession Problem. miracle. How do you follow Jürgen Klopp, who course. The apparently irreplaceable Bill
Arsène Wenger spearheaded in nine years brought Liverpool their first Shankly was followed by the even more
Arsenal for 22 years, during league title in 30 years and a Champions successful Bob Paisley. He in turn was followed
which he led them to three League trophy? He produced a team that by Joe Fagan, who won the league and the
Premier League titles, seven played heavy-metal football, full of swagger European Cup before Kenny Dalglish became
FA Cups and a Champions and optimism, rather than one weighed player/manager.
League f inal appearance. down by a decade of Liverpool and Arsenal today both have a
When he took over, Arsenal relative malaise. great sense of urgency and a clear sense of their
prided themselves on their Follow that! own identity. They also have the luxury of being
insular stodginess; by the time All right, said chasers rather than champions. There’s a spirit
he left, in 2018, his leadership Arne Slot, I will. of excitement in both clubs: they’re each on
style and their flair had revolu- Liverpool started a quest.
tionised the English game. this season like a Manchester City will look at this match with
Unai Emery got the job when bullet train, top of the a certain trepidation. They will ponder two
Wenger left, but lasted just 18 league by the interna- things. The first is the nature and commitment
CLUB LEGENDS
months, with a fifth-place finish. Former Liverpool tional break, and of their two most serious rivals this season. The
Perhaps Arsenal let him go too manager Jürgen with good wins in second is: what the hell are we going to do
soon, as he’s currently going great Klopp and Arsène the Champions when Pep Guardiola leaves? How could
guns at Aston Villa. But Mikel Wenger of Arsenal League, includ- anybody follow him?
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Sport editor Michael Potts on the best of the week’s action on TV and radio

FOOTBALL
England v
South Africa
Tuesday 7pm (k/o
7.45pm) ITV4/ITVX,
7.40pm 5 Sports Extra
It’s never too early to
start thinking about next
summer, and England
TENNIS CRICKET women’s preparations
for Euro 2025 begin with
Paris Masters West Indies v England: a warm-up against South
From Monday 2.30pm First One-day Africa. Alessia Russo
Sky Sports Tennis/Now International Thursday 6pm (right) and the Lionesses
Jannik Sinner will finish the Discovery+, Talksport 2 welcome Banyana
calendar year as world number England men’s cricketers must be Banyana to Coventry,
one — but the operation to the only people on the planet who having met only twice
dislodge him from his commanding don’t enjoy a paid trip to the before, in 2009 and
perch begins immediately with the Caribbean. The Test team have 2010, during the Cyprus
Paris Masters. The final ATP 1000 won just one of their past 12 series Cup in Larnaca. England
event of the year will attract the touring the West Indies since 1968, stormed to a 6—0 victory
finest players in men’s tennis. the ODI side has won just three of in the first match and
Novak Djokovic (above) could fall 11 series there, and the T20 team Jill Scott netted the
further off the pace should he fail one of four. Jos Buttler returns only goal of the
to defend his title, while Carlos from injury to skipper the side in second game.
Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev the ODI and T20 series, with debut

Live Sport
have plenty to gain as they aim to trio Jafer Chohan, Dan Mousley
come back from shock early exits and John Turner handed call-ups
in last year’s tournament. to try improve England’s fortunes.

FORMULA ONE
Mexico City Grand Prix
Sunday 7.55pm (start 8pm) Sky
F1/Main Event/Now, highlights
11pm C4; 7.45pm Radio 5 Live
The Mexico City Grand Prix hasn’t
given Sergio Pérez (below) the
jubilation he would like on his
home circuit and now, with his
form in a tailspin and his place
FOOTBALL RUGBY LEAGUE at Red Bull a source of constant MOTORCYCLING
speculation, he needs to dig out
EFL Cup: England v Samoa a win. The 34-year-old Mexican Thailand MotoGP
Tottenham Hotspur Sunday 2pm (k/o 2.30pm) crashed out of last year’s race on Sunday 8am TNT Sports/
v Manchester City BBC2/iPlayer the first turn and is yet to win on Discovery+
Wed 7pm (k/o 8.15pm)Sky Main England entered the last Rugby home soil. There has never been A two-bike race continues to keep
Event/Now, 8.10pm 5 Sports World Cup on home soil hoping a better time for him to end that the MotoGP season alive to the
Extra, 9.30pm Radio 5 Live to overthrow the established order barren run. very end in 2024 as riders tour
We’re in the fourth round, nearing of Australia first, everyone else South East Asia. Jorge Martin
the stage where the giants of second. It’s a shame Samoa didn’t and reigning champion Francesco
English club football decide that read the script. The Wall of White Bagnaia have duelled for the lion’s
it’s a competition worth winning. dominated them in their opening share of two seasons now, the
Expect Spurs and City to field match with a 60—6 scoreline that Italian coming out on top in 2023,
strong line-ups. Ange Postecoglou gave England confidence, but the and the fight is too close to call
has a glittering record of collecting visitors struck a dramatic golden- with just three races left. Bagnaia
second-season silverware and will point winner when the teams met boasts the most wins by a distance
be determined to end Spurs’s again in the semi-finals. Two years of any rider this term, but Spanish
drought, while Pep Guardiola has on, coach Shaun Wane (above) and star Martin has shown remarkable
won the competition in four of his his men have a chance to avenge consistency with double-digit
eight seasons with City. that stunning defeat. finishes inside the top two.

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death, is experiencing strange some cash by convincing the that gives the show its name. Instead she is herself the only
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drama that conceals a dark Pontius Pilate (James McAvoy), two’s opening episode forms a focused, explosive extraction
fantasy twist, this M Night as writer/director Jeymes Samuel thriller, with a carload of Americans taking on hordes of
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as the ultimate duly falls on Oklahoma Duntsch, who after a series of
Man of Steel horrifically botched operations is
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(Neal McDonough, above, with
classic 1978
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original that set
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the mould for
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NUCLEAR DRAMA Hauntings The Enfield horror shorts that take Hannibal
on such potent topics
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as insta-celebrity and
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Never untimely but now more the dark web.
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The seven million who saw it on its
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1984 debut have never forgotten it; Deadhouse Dark FBI criminal profiler
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by director Mick Jackson, its his hit podcast to the Amazon Prime Video Disney+
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Threads is a tough watch. And

was meant to be. MARK BRAXTON The Enfield
Poltergeist

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The “cursed” home in
Amityville, Long Island
Apple TV+
in New York

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The thrills keep coming, with Eli
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talking literal blood, which has WHAT I’M STREAMING
become a recurring image as it
swirls down plugholes or oozes RICHARD E GRANT
from a neck wound in another “I’m absolutely riveted by Slow Horses,”
unsettling dream sequence. Being says The Franchise actor. “I’m really enjoying
a child psychiatrist, Eli is obviously it and I think [showrunner] Will Smith is a moral
looking for a diagnosis. But we get crusader. This is the first show that I’ve seen
the impression this is no mere case since Succession where I have watched all the series.”
of dissociative identity disorder, and All four series of Slow Horses are available on Apple TV+
that the explanation may well lie The Franchise is on Mondays at 10pm on Sky Comedy
in the realm of the uncanny. DB

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were quick to cry double fault when
it came to both their tennis-playing
parents, mum Joy having been
frozen out prior to vanishing due to
a damaging secret she’d kept for two
decades. These guys could keep
therapists in business for years — we,
on the other hand, must only wait
until next week’s finale. DAVID BROWN

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WONDERS The Voice UK Final
Later... with Alice Roberts
8.10pm ITV1
Jools Holland admires the Sabanci
Emma Willis is on hand to

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10.20pm BBC2 (10.50pm Wales) Adana, Turkey encourage the nervous finalists
Catch up via iPlayer as they sing their hearts out for
Back in the early 1990s, Manic Street a coveted recording contract.
HISTORY
Preachers promised journalists they
would only ever do one LP — and then Ottoman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts Abandoned Railways
implode in a vortex of rock ‘n’ roll 9.10pm C4 Catch up via C4 streaming from Above
chaos (or words to that effect). Over A fine and distinctive travel companion, Professor Alice 7.10pm C4
30 years later, they join Jools for a NEW Roberts takes to the trains for a spectacular journey The final programme in the series
SERIES from the city of Adana in south-east Turkey through the comes from the Borders, and a

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chinwag about their 15th album.
Conversely, British funk veterans Balkans to Budapest. Adana is a seldom seen but lively line that once linked communities
Cymande largely slipped under the starting point: as a pivot between East and West, coveted by from Carlisle to Edinburgh.
radar during their 70s heyday, but Byzantines and Mongols alike, it has been a mélange of cultures,
were revived by the hip-hop scene politics, religions and nationalities since its foundation millennia ago. Buddy Holly: Rave On
in the 80s and make their overdue In between enlightening trips to churches, mosques and 9.00pm Sky Arts
UK TV debut here. mausoleums, Roberts, of course, takes a detour to the excavation Paul Anka, Don Everly and Bob
And Jerron Paxton does a of a neolithic site, but is perhaps most thrilled to observe the Harris are among those
choice impression of a wizened manufacture of that peak of Ottoman culture: Turkish Delight. remembering the rock ’n’ roller.
old bluesman, despite having been GABRIEL TATE
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Pakistan v England
Ms Ballas) is crazy. 6am Sky Sports Main Event/
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Anton Du Beke can Day three of the Third and final
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A tight contest, between two
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is why Bill Bailey and
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by chefs Gennaro Contaldo and Julie Lin, and special whose Halloween Street Preachers
guest Sir Trevor McDonald. Helen McGinn selects routine will cast unveil songs from
the drinks to go with the dishes. (S) (HD) a spell on Motsi? their latest album
11.30 Nadiya’s Cook Once, Eat Twice 6/6. Recipes
include a savoury peanut chicken traybake and soda
bread laced with nuts. Shown last Tuesday BBC2 (S) (AD) (HD)
12 noon Football Focus With Kelly Somers. (S) (HD)
1.00pm BBC News Weather (S) (HD) 4.00pm Garden Rescue 4.20pm Ice Station Antarctica: Horizon
1.15 Bargain Hunt From Shrewsbury. (R) (S) (HD) Creating a relaxing family space in Fleet, Hampshire. Meteorologist Peter Gibbs makes an emotional
2.00 Money for Nothing Some antique furniture has Directors Steve Peet and Ben Hewish return to the British Antarctic Survey’s Halley
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BBC2 Director Chris Treece; Editor Helen Dapre (S) Michael Baggott finds an impressive scent bottle.
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6.15am Hey Duggee (R) (S) (HD) 6.20 Go Jetters (R) (S) 5.20 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
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8.15 Blue Peter (R) (S) (HD) 8.45 Newsround (S) (HD) are Sas and David from West Sussex, George and 7.10 Solar System
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the solar system’s most tempestuous planets and

9.55 I Was Monty’s Double HHHH Second World Director Dave Skinner; Series producer Adeel Amini
investigates the weird weather on distant worlds.
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War drama with John Mills. The true story of an He finds mountains covered in a peculiar metallic
actor with a likeness to General Montgomery, 6.25 Strictly Come Dancing frost and landscapes etched with dust devils, while
who was sent to North Africa to convince the Nazis
that an invasion of Europe was to be launched from
that area. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 45.
4Ep 6. Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman present
the Halloween special as the remaining couples
monsoons fall on a moon a billion kilometres from
Earth. More Monday 9pm. Shown last Monday (S) (AD) (HD)
strive to bring a bewitching touch of magic to the
Director John Guillermin (1958, U) (BW) (S) (W) (HD)
dance floor. But which performances will be deemed 8.10 Sad Songs at the BBC
11.30 Elephant Diaries Following the story of a baby
elephant that needs to be flown to Nairobi. (R) (S) (HD)
frightfully fabulous by judges Shirley Ballas, Craig
Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke?
4BBC
A compilation of classic tear-jerkers from the
archives, featuring songs from Coldplay,
12 noon Rick Stein’s Food Stories 5/6. The chef Available with signing via the red button. Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Randy Crawford, Dolly
enjoys a full English breakfast. Shown last Thu (S) (AD) (HD) The results are tomorrow at 7.20pm. See page 39. Parton, Eric Clapton, the Smiths and Eric Carmen’s
1.00pm Julius Caesar 5 Drama based on Series director Nikki Parsons; Exec producer Sarah James (S) (AD) (HD) anthemic 1975 ballad All by Myself. See page 38.

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William Shakespeare’s play, with James Mason. 8.10 Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel Series producer Simon Goretzki (S) (HD)
It’s 44 BC and Caesar, having returned to Rome
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elected Dictator for life. But a number of statesmen,
43/10 Series 5. Leigh Francis, Susan Wokoma, Ade
Adepitan, Richard Madeley, Laura Whitmore, Ayda
9.10 Dusty at the BBC: Volume Two
A selection of archive appearances on the BBC by
fearing Caesar’s abuse of his power, hatch a plan to Field, Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo are on hand Dusty Springfield through the decades, including
assassinate him. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review p45. to help contestants answer their way to a fortune. performances of Son of a Preacher Man and The
Director Joseph L Mankiewicz (1953, U) (BW) (S) (W) (HD) A box set of previous episodes is on iPlayer. See p38. Look of Love. Volume One follows at 11.05pm.
Director Chris Power; Series producer Simon Adsett
2BBC SPORT ONLINE 2.20—4.15 Wheelchair Rugby Repeated Monday 12.30am (S) (HD)
Producer Shelley Talton; Series producer Simon Goretzki (R) (S) (HD)
League England v France from Wigan, at bbc.co.uk/sport
3.00—4.20 Rome’s Lost Empire Dan Snow sets out 9.10 Apples Never Fall 10.20 Later... with Jools Holland
to uncover the secrets of ancient Rome. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4 6/7. Stan. Stan’s erratic behaviour generates
suspicion as a new piece of evidence emerges
42/6. Jools presents the musical showcase from
Alexandra Palace, featuring a set from Manic
ITV1 in relation to his wife Joy’s disappearance. The Street Preachers, as the enduring Welsh rock band
6.00am For the Love of Britain Julie Walters shares whole series is on iPlayer. See page 39. (S) (AD) (HD) play tracks from their upcoming 15th studio album,
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the glories of the Scottish landscape. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Stan Delaney Sam Neill Simon Barrington Nate Mann while songwriter Nicky Wire discusses his exhibition
Joy Delaney Annette Bening Savannah Pagonis Georgia Flood celebrating his love of the Polaroid photograph. The
6.25 M&S: Dress the Nation 6/6. The finalists Amy Delaney Alison Brie Elena Camacho Jeanine Serralles programme also features performances from New
create their own collections. Shown last Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD) Brooke Delaney Essie Randles Monty Fortino Timm Sharp York blues singer Jerron Paxton, Danish electropop
7.30 Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh With Logan Delaney Conor Merrigan Turner Indira Chaundry Pooja Shah
Troy Delaney Jake Lacy Gina Solis Paula Andrea Placido star MØ and south London singer/songwriter Nia
Brian Conley and Thelma Barlow. Shown last Sunday (S) (HD) Smith, and legendary British funk band Cymande
Claire Delaney Madeleine Jones Tyler Quentin Plair
9.25 ITV News (S) (HD) Ethan Remy Dylan Thuraisingham make their first ever UK TV appearance. See p39.
9.30 James Martin’s Saturday Morning The chef Director Janet Fraser Crook; Series producer Caroline Cullen (S) (HD)
is joined by guests Lulu and Fred Sirieix, while there 10.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
are recipes from Cyrus Todiwala and Sally Abe. (S) (HD) 11.05 Dusty at the BBC: Volume One
10.20 Match of the Day A collection of Dusty Springfield’s performances at
11.40 John and Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen John Highlights including Manchester City v Southampton,
the BBC from 1961 to 1995, from her folk beginnings
Torode and Lisa Faulkner demonstrate four fuss-free Aston Villa v AFC Bournemouth, Brentford v Ipswich
recipes for those who are tight for time. (S) (HD) with the Springfields and memorable chart-toppers
Town, Brighton & Hove Albion v Wolverhampton such as You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me through
12.45pm ITV News Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD) Wanderers and Everton v Fulham. With Gary Lineker. to her 1987 collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys.
12.55—4.00 LIVE Racing Oli Bell presents coverage Producer Ian Finch; Editor Richard Hughes
Repeated tomorrow 7.35am (S) (HD) Producer Dione Newton (R) (S) (HD)
of day two of the Showcase from Cheltenham. There 12.05am Definitely Dusty Members of Dusty Springfield’s
is also action from Doncaster headlined by the 11.40 The Last Right HHH inner circle highlight the woman behind the diva. (R) (S) (HD)
Futurity Trophy, plus racing from Newbury. (S) (HD)

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1.05 BST Mari HHH Drama starring Bobbi Jene Smith.
While preparing for a show, dancer Charlotte learns
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Daniel Murphy is on a flight to Cork when the elderly
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6.55 Frasier Five episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Daniel as his next of kin on the passenger declaration. sister, Lauren. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 45.
9.10 The Simpsons Seven episodes. (R) (S) (AD) Soon, Daniel is on a road trip to Antrim, along with his Director Georgia Parris (2018, 12A) (S) (W) (HD)
autistic brother and a kindly mortician, to deliver the 1.35—3.35am GMT Sign Zone 1.35 GMT Showtrial 3/5
12.35pm Four in a Bed The competition visits Sam reaches breaking point. Shown last Sun BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
Nailsworth in Gloucestershire, two establishments in man’s body home. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review p45. 2.35 GMT Mr Loverman 3/8. Morris asks Barry to meet
Director Aoife Crehan (2019, 15) (S) (W) (HD)
Ceredigion and a B&B in Powys. (R) (S) (HD) him and excitedly plans to pop the question. (S) (AD) (HD)
3.10—4.30 The Great British Bake Off 5/10. The 1.20am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 3.05 GMT 4/8. Carmel reflects on her life as she returns
1.25 BST—6.00am GMT BBC News (S) (HD) to Antigua. Both episodes shown last Monday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
remaining bakers face the challenges of Pastry Week.
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FILM: The Last Right
10.00pm A look the ravers: David Louise Bergstein 1.20 GMT Weather for
back at a chat with Bowie’s life and confronts a the Week Ahead
Samuel L Jackson career revisited shadowy mystery 1.25—6.00 GMT BBC News

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7.00pm The Seven
7.15 Icons of Football
7.30 Sportscene:
4.00pm Ninja Warrior UK 4.30pm Hotel Transylvania: 7.00pm The Flying Gardener Premiership Highlights
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contestants tackling the extreme obstacle Series producer Kathy Myers; Executive producer and McCarthy 9.30
son-in-law Johnny uses a device to turn Dogs of War: Storyville
Owen Gay Repeated 1.50am (R) (S) (HD)
course. Presenters Ben Shephard, Rochelle himself into a scary creature, which also transforms 11.00—12 midnight
Humes and Chris Kamara cheer them on. the vampire and his monster friends into humans. 7.20 All Creatures Great and Inside Barlinnie
Series director Paul Kirrage; Exec producers Michael Kelpie, Simon Available to stream for seven days. Review p45.
Marsh and Martin Scott Signed rpt Thursday 3am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
Small STV
Featuring the voices of: Series 1. It Takes All Kinds. James
Jonathan Andy Samberg Ericka Kathryn Hahn 3.00—4.45am GMT
5.00 Tipping Point: Best Ever Finals Dracula Brian Hull Van Helsing Jim Gaffigan meets a farmer’s daughter when Unwind: relaxing scenes
Two more of the most dramatic endgames from Mavis Selena Gomez Wayne Steve Buscemi called to treat a calf’s broken leg.
the arcade-themed quiz hosted by Ben Shephard. Directors Derek Drymon and Jennifer Kluska (2022, PG) (S) (HD) Repeated 12.10am (R) (S) BBC1 WALES
Director Richard van’t Riet; Executive producers Kate Lownds, 8.10 Calf Love. James has a rival for 4.00—4.30pm
Sara Doyle and Hugh Rycroft (R) (S) (HD) 6.10 Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List Helen’s affections, Tristan learns to Weatherman Walking:
5.30 Celebrity Catchphrase It: Brilliant Builds cope with pigs and Siegfried reaches
Dylan’s Walks: exploring
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Stephen Mulhern presents as Rachel Stevens, breaking point with Miss Harbottle.
Danny Miller and Richard Arnold try to guess required radical changes on a shoestring budget James Herriot Christopher Timothy BBC2 WALES
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and scoop £50,000 for their chosen charity. Tristan Farnon Peter Davison of Games 6.15 Rick
Director Geraldine Dowd 6.40 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD) Mrs Pumphrey Margaretta Scott Stein’s Food Stories: the
Executive producer Gary Chippington (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Miss Harbottle Madge Ryan chef enjoys a full English
7.10 Little Trains and Big Names with Mrs Hall Mary Hignett with Stuart Maconie
6.30 ITV News Pete Waterman Writers James Herriot, Anthony Steven and 7.15 Gardeners’ World
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4/4. The music producer and railway modeller Johnny Byrne; Directors Christopher Baker 8.15 Sad Songs at the
and Terence Dudley Repeated 1am (R) (S) BBC 9.15 Al Pacino: Once
7.05 The Chase Celebrity Special meets The Grand Tour presenter James May,
upon a Time in Hollywood
Bradley Walsh presents as Danny John-Jules, who shows Pete how to repair toy trains. 9.00 Justice: Those Who Kill 10.20 Charlie Cooper’s
Yinka Bokinni, Tom Bosworth and Eamonn Holmes
pit their wits against one of the ruthless Chasers
Series director/producer Joe Lister First shown on More4
Repeated Thursday 7pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD) 4New series. 1/8. Danish thriller
with Natalie Madueno. Alongside
Myth Country: King
Arthur’s treasure 10.50
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in the hope of winning a potential prize pot worth 8.10 Abandoned Railways from Above Frederik Havgaard, new criminal

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thousands of pounds for their chosen charities. 6/6. Scotland. Following a line that once linked profiling teacher Louise Bergstein takes 60 Years of Welsh Pop
Executive producers Michael Kelpie, Martin Scott and communities between Carlisle and Edinburgh. on the case of a gang member gunned
Helen Tumbridge (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
Along the way, Gretna hosts the site of what down on his release from jail. (HD) ITV1 WALES
8.10 The Voice UK was once the largest factory in the world. The 9.45 2/8. Louise commits herself to 7.05pm Backstage
the cases after finding a link between 7.35—8.10 Face to Face:
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vocal talent show. The remaining acts take to of track at Whitrope Summit, while the final stop the killing of Patrick and several other
the stage in one last attempt to impress star before Edinburgh’s Waverley station is the Lady gang-related murders. Danish BBC2
judges Tom Jones, will.i.am, LeAnn Rimes and Victoria Colliery, once Scotland’s deepest coalmine. +subtitles. The whole series is on NORTHERN
McFly’s Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones, and win Repeated Thursday 8pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD) iPlayer from today. See page 38. (HD) IRELAND
a record deal, a cash prize and a holiday. The Louise Bergstein Natalie Madueno
9.10 Ottoman Empire by Train with Gunnar Nymark Dag Malmberg 7.10pm Paula McIntyre’s
finalists also sing duets with their coaches, and Alice Roberts Frederik Havgaard Simon Sears Hamely Kitchen USA:
there are guest performances from Perrie Paula enjoys music and

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Director Diccon Ramsay; Producers Leo Holden, Catherine Johannes Jespersen Olaf Johannessen
Empire. Her journey starts in Adana in southern Jimmys Nabo Jaques Lauritsen of the Year: Laurence
Bolton, Shauna Botrel, Claire Cubberley, Elliot Hitchcock, Kieron
Melissa Olsson Julia Ragnarsson Llewelyn-Bowen visits
Maye, Emma Robinson, Mohammad Mohsin and Yasmin Rai Turkey, near the Syrian border, where she meets a rental property given
Repeated tomorrow 6am (S) (HD)
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Robin Smith Omar Shargawi
10.00 The Jonathan Ross Show: Turkish delight. Alice then travels by train across Bjarke Moller Rasmus Hammerich
Special Guests the Taurus mountains to Konya, to learn about Jacob Ostergaard Cyron Melville
New series. 1/6. A selection of memorable whirling dervishes and the Ottoman leaders’ Aksel Bramsen Caspar Phillipson
moments from the chat show, featuring interviews decorative tombs. The complete series is 10.30 Wogan
with celebrity guests including Samuel L Jackson, available to stream after this broadcast. See p39. The broadcaster is joined by Steven
Paul Rudd, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Crouch and Director Paul Crompton; Exec producer Steve Havers (S) (AD) (HD)
Berkoff, Tom T Hall, Duncan Norvelle,
Abbey Clancy, Millie Bobby Brown, Sir Michael 10.10 Moonage Daydream HHHH Christopher Timothy and Frankie Goes

oDocumentary
Caine, Michael McIntyre and Maya Jama. that tells the story of David to Hollywood. First shown in 1986.
Executive producer Bea Ballard; Series editor Tom Barrett
Repeated Friday 11.40pm (S) (HD) Bowie’s life and career from the 1960s to Series producer Frances Whitaker (R) (S)
2016. Footage collected from throughout the 11.10 Porridge
10.25 ITV News decades presents each of the singer/songwriter’s
Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD)
2/8 Series 2. Heartbreak Hotel. Godber
evolving musical styles, fashions and personas. gets some bad news, but can Fletch’s
10.45 EFL Highlights Available to stream for 30 days. Review p45. daughter ease the pain? From 1975.
Director Brett Morgen (2022, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
Action from the latest fixtures, including Also showing Wednesday 11.05pm 4seven
Shown last Tuesday (S)
Burnley v Queens Park Rangers, Coventry City v 12.45am BST Life HHH Sci-fi horror starring Jake 11.40 Hancock’s Half Hour
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Luton Town and Sheffield United v Stoke City. Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson. 8/10 Series 6. The Photographer
Repeated tomorrow 9am and 11pm ITV4 (S) (HD) Astronauts intercept a research pod containing a
living organism. It’s a discovery that will have deadly Tony’s new camera gives Sid a money-
12.15am Dogs of Grime Some of the biggest names
in UK grime, including Nadia Rose and Snoochie Shy, implications. Available to stream for seven days. making idea. First shown in 1960.
answer tricky questions and take part in weird and Review p45. Director Daniel Espinosa (2017, 15) (S) (W) (HD) Shown last Tuesday (BW) (S)
wonderful challenges alongside their four-legged friends. 1.25 GMT Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The 12.10am All Creatures Great and Small
Part of the Fresh Cuts strand. Shown last Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD) chef visits a New Jersey restaurant. (R) (S) (SL) (HD) Shown 7.20/8.10pm (S)
12.40 BST Home Shopping (HD) 2.20 GMT Dispatches A special investigation. 1.50 BST The Flying Gardener
3.00 GMT Pride of Britain Awards Carol Vorderman Shown last Sunday (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) Shown 7pm (S) (HD)
and Ashley Banjo introduce the 25th anniversary 3.10 GMT Frasier Four episodes. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.10—2.10am GMT Nature and Us: a History
edition of the annual ceremony. Shown last Thursday 4.50—6.00am GMT Hollyoaks Omnibus edition. through Art 2/3. James Fox explores how
Repeated Monday 10.45pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) Shown last Monday to Wednesday E4 art led humans to try to understand nature
4.45—6.00am GMT Unwind Daily escape. (S) (HD) Repeated tomorrow 4.20am E4 (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) for the first time. The whole series is on
ITV1 Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103 Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104 iPlayer. Shown last Monday (S) (SL) (HD)
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actually a turtle who has overslept. (S) (HD) dog becomes anxious when his owner has Wearing. A schoolgirl goes missing (S) (SL) (AD) 4/13 Tracey makes an effort with her in-laws;
(HD) 8.50 FILM The Magnificent Two HH 9.40 5/13. Dorien joins the Open University;
9.05 Entertainment News (S) (HD) a child, but grizzled farm dog Rooster helps Comedy starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie 10.20 6/13. Dorien ends up in hospital (S)
9.15 Cruising with Jane McDonald The him overcome his fears. After Max’s rabbit Wise (S) (W) 10.45 Agatha Christie’s Poirot: 11.00 Lovejoy: 14/14 Series 5. The antiques
best bits of Jane’s trip along the Danube, pal angers a circus owner, the pet gang is Cat among the Pigeons. A schoolgirl gets dealer’s visiting American cousin flees the UK
which started in Budapest. (R) (S) (HD) plunged into danger. On iPlayer for 24 days. embroiled in a case; 12.50pm The Labours with the loot from a raid on Wakering Hall (S)
9.25 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun Directors Chris Renaud and Jonathan del Val (2019, U) of Hercules. The quest for a missing maid 1.00pm FILM Escape from Sobibor HHHH
Paula and her team have cause to celebrate. (S) (AD) (W) (HD) Shown last Sunday on BBC1 leads to a very personal showdown; 2.50 Second World War drama starring Alan Arkin
10.20 A woman who has been doing tarot 8.20 Top Gear The Mystery of the Spanish Chest. A dinner and Rutger Hauer. The true story of the
card reading professionally for 24 years. Richard Hammond celebrates the party is a prelude to murder (S) (AD) (HD) audacious escape from the Nazi death camp
11.25 Colin Brown enlists Sebastian’s help 40th anniversary of the Ferrari Daytona. 3.55pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot at Sobibor, Poland, during October 1943 (S)
putting up a gazebo to keep guests cool. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (HD) 4.00 Father Brown: 8/15 Series 5. The Crimson
12.25pm James and Peter organise a
The Affair at the Victory Ball. The Feather. When Mrs McCarthy’s goddaughter
coach trip to the town of Nerja. (R) (S) (HD) 9.20 Two Pints of Lager and a sleuth is invited to attend a masquerade goes missing, Father Brown follows her trail
Packet of Crisps ball and finds time amid the revelry to to a risque gentlemen’s club (S) (AD) (HD)
1.20 Inside the Tower of London Tracy
Borman investigates the bridges connecting 2/8 Series 8. Louise struggles as a mum solve an aristocrat’s murder. (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00pm The Brokenwood Mysteries
the Tower to the south bank. (R) (S) (HD) and receives advice from Tim. 5.00 Midsomer Murders 6/6 Series 9. Motorcycle Mamas. A murder
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2.20 A focus on the events of June 2022, 9.50 3/8. Janet decides to become Series 3. Judgement Day. The residents casts suspicion among the ranks of an
which saw the Platinum Jubilee weekend a police community support officer. of Midsomer Mallow are looking forward all-women motorcycle club. (S) (AD) (HD)
and the celebration of Elizabeth II’s 70 10.20 4/8. Janet finds herself out of her to the “Perfect Village Competition” until 7.00 1/4 Series 1. Blood and Water
years on the throne. (R) (S) (HD) depth. Wesley tries to fit in with the gang. a local thief is stabbed to death. (S) (AD) Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd is sent
3.15 Queen Victoria: How She Shaped 10.50 5/8. Donna and Gaz reminisce. 7.00 Series 4. Garden of Death. When to the New Zealand town of Brokenwood to
an Era Miriam Margolyes narrates an A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD) the Inkpen family hatch a plan to turn investigate the death of a farmer. (S) (AD) (HD)
exploration of the queen’s life through her Midsomer Deverell’s memorial garden into
diaries, journals and letters. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD) 11.20 Paranormal: the Village That 9.00 New. Blackshore
Saw Aliens a teashop, they dig up much more than 2/6. With the case confirmed as a murder,
5.15pm Our Yorkshire Farm 1/4. Examining reports of the biggest just the animosity of the villagers. (S) (AD) Fia suspects her new partner is involved in
In the hayloft, Edith and Violet detect mass UFO sighting in Britain. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Shetland Roisin Hurley’s death. And, after a confession
signs of barn owls, so the boys build 11.50 2/4. Sian Eleri heads to a hilltop 1/2 Series 1. Crime drama starring Douglas from Cian, she accepts his help. (S) (HD)
a nesting box that they hope will hotel. The series is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD) Henshall. DI Jimmy Perez and his team
become a home for the birds. 10.10 The Last Detective
12.20am Top Gear (S) (HD) 1.20 The Fast investigate when an elderly resident is 3/4 Series 2. Benefit to Mankind. DC
Director/Producer Kate Fraser (R) (S) (HD)
and the Farmer-ish (S) (HD) 1.30 BST BBC shot and killed on an archaeological site “Dangerous” Davies investigates the
6.10 5 News (S) (HD) New Comedy Awards (S) (HD) 1.00 GMT Two in the grounds of her croft. (S) (HD) death of a medical researcher. (S) (AD)
6.15 Mysteries of the Pyramids Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (S) (AD) 10.15 2/2. DI Perez has no strong leads
with Dara O Briain (HD) 3.00—4.00am GMT Paranormal: the and is under pressure to make an arrest 11.45 Passport to Freedom
The comedian explores the mysteries Village That Saw Aliens (S) (AD) (HD) before the crowds start to descend on 2/8. Aracy redoubles her efforts to
surrounding the world’s pyramids with BBC3 Freeview 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) Freesat 107 the islands for the fire festival. (S) (HD) secure visas to Brazil. (S) (HD)
the help of archaeologist Raksha Dave Sky 115 (117 Wales; 121 Scotland) Virgin 107 (113 Scotland/Wales) 12.55am 3/8. João must prove he’s serious
11.30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot about joining Aracy’s rescue efforts. (S) (HD)
and Egyptologist Chris Naunton, looking ITV2 6 The ABC Murders. The sleuth looks into
at why and how these structures were 1.55 BST The Chelsea Detective: 5/8 Series 2
a bizarre series of deaths. (S) (AD) (HD) A psychotherapist is murdered during a
built. The journey begins in Egypt. 6.00am CITV (HD) 9.00 Totally Bonkers 1.35am BST The Double Clue. Poirot falls video call; 1.45 GMT 6/8. Emma denies
Director/Producer Ewen Thomson (Revised rpt) (S) (HD) Guinness World Records: the fastest time to for Countess Vera Rossakoff, a suspect in
pull an aircraft (S) (HD) 9.15 Love Bites (S) (SL) murdering her father (HD) 2.45—4.00am
8.10 Blenheim Palace: behind the a series of jewel thefts. (S) (AD) (HD) GMT The Missing: 1/8 Series 1. Tony and Emily
(AD) (HD) 10.15 Dress to Impress (S) (SL) (HD)
Grandeur 1.40 GMT Bless This House Shown 6am (S) Hughes’s five-year-old son goes missing while
1.15pm FILM Harry Potter and the
4 3/4. The events team has a busy 2.05—2.30am GMT Unwind (S) (HD) the family are on holiday in France (S) (AD) (HD)
Philosopher’s Stone HHHH Fantasy
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Middle England arrive to perform at a 4.20 FILM Harry Potter and the Chamber +1 Freesat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317 +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316
jousting event that is being held on the of Secrets HHHH Fantasy adventure
estate’s south lawn. See page 38. starring Daniel Radcliffe. When Harry, Ron ITV4 26 ITVBe 28
Director Horia Dragoi (S) (HD) and Hermione return to Hogwarts for a new 6.00am Football Rivalries (S) (HD) 6.15 7.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 7.25 Kelsey Parker:
term, they discover a sinister message Sherlock Holmes: the Last Vampyre (S) (SL) Life after Tom (S) (HD) 8.30 The Real
9.10 Harry and Meghan: Going written in blood on a wall (S) (AD) (W) (HD) (AD) (HD) 8.25 World Superbike Highlights (S) Housewives of Beverly Hills: triple bill (S) (HD)
Their Separate Ways? 7.25pm FILM Harry Potter and the (HD) 9.30 New. Racing: the Opening Show 11.10 The Big Bake: Halloween (S) (HD)
PR, branding, and marketing experts give Prisoner of Azkaban HHHH Fantasy (S) (HD) 10.30 Match Time Revisited (S) (HD)
an in-depth analysis of the Duke and 1.05pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta (S)
adventure starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert 11.30 Football League Legends (S) (HD) (HD) 3.00 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 4.00
Duchess of Sussex’s brand. Plus royal Grint and Emma Watson. With criminal Sirius 11.45 LIVE Darts: day three of the European Billie and Greg: the Family Diaries (S) (HD)
insiders tell the story of how the couple Black on the run from Azkaban, Harry Potter Championship from Westfalenhallen in 5.00 Abbey Clancy: Celebrity Homes (S) (HD)
reached this point in their relationship. begins his third year at Hogwarts surrounded Dortmund, featuring the opening four second-
by heightened security. But is Black the real round matches (S) (HD) 4.00pm Made in 6.00pm M&S: Dress the Nation The final
Executive producer Andy Dunn (S) (HD) three create their own collections. (S) (AD) (HD)
threat, or is there someone even more deadly Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Monster Carp (S) (HD)
10.10 When Chat Shows Go trying to get close to Harry? (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 7.00 Jimmy’s Taste of Florida Jimmy
6.00pm LIVE Darts The evening session
Horribly Wrong 10.10 Family Guy Series 18. Stewie builds a on day three of the European Championship, Doherty heads to the east coast. (S) (AD) (HD)
Gloria Hunniford narrates a compilation machine that will help him remain clever for featuring the concluding four second-round 8.00 Jason Atherton’s Dubai Dishes
ever, but the invention has the adverse effect. matches, played over the best of 19 legs. Peter The chef serves up baba ganoush and his
of on-air disasters from chat shows, own take on fish and chips. (S) (AD) (HD)
featuring stroppy hosts, technical 10.40 Peter is told by his boss to work Wright continued his run to the title at this stage
from home due to his excessive sweating. last year with a comfortable 10—4 victory over 9.00 Botched Terry Dubrow removes a
troubles and on-screen bust-ups. 11.10 Brian becomes a local hero and Lois gets breast lump to stop a leaking nipple. (S) (HD)
Director/Producer Kenny Reid (R) (S) (HD)
then-world champion Michael Smith. (S) (HD)
a pixie cut, despite Peter’s protests. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 FILM Police Academy 6: City 10.00 Botched by Nature A woman with
12.10am Million Pound Motorhomes (R) (S) 11.40 American Dad! Series 12. Stan is under Siege H Comedy starring Bubba severely deformed breasts. (S) (AD) (HD)
(HD) 1.05 BST Casino (S) (HD) 3.05 GMT hunted across the Old West. (S) (AD) (HD) Smith. The bungling cops attempt to bring 11.00 Dr. 90210 A Madonna look-alike
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (R) (S) (HD) 12.10am Stan and Hayley work together LA’s Wilson Heights gang to justice. (S) (W) (HD) needs a non-surgical pick-me-up. (S) (HD)
3.45 GMT The Wonderful World of to thwart a terrorist plot. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.40 BattleBots Part-frog, part-killerbot 11.50 Kavos Weekender New guests give
Chocolate (Revised rpt) (S) (SL) (HD) 4.40 GMT 12.40 Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility (S) (HD) 1.25 Ribbot takes on MadCatter. (S) (HD) Lucy and Jaegia a spring in their step, and
House Busters: a south London home (R) (S) BST All American (S) (HD) 1.30 GMT Totally 12.40am The Sweeney (S) (SL) (HD) 1.35 BST some food for thought for Joel. (S) (HD)
(SL) 5.05 GMT Wildlife SOS (R) (S) (SL) 5.30— Bonkers Guinness World Records: two episodes (S) Minder (S) (SL) (AD) 1.40 GMT Minder (S) (SL) (AD) 12.50—1.55am The Real Housewives of Melbourne:
5.40am GMT Entertainment News (S) (HD) (HD) 2.45—3.00am GMT Unwind (S) (HD) 2.30—3.00am GMT Unwind (S) (HD) Anjali and Gamble smooth things out (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105 ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 (132 Scotland)
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4.55 Entertainment News 5.00 NCIS
6.00pm NCIS Series 18. Three episodes. Gibbs
fears the worst when his search for Fornell
leads to blood 7.00 Gibbs and Fornell strive to
find the head of the drug ring 8.00 Bishop
and Torres engage in a shootout in a former
sheriff’s residence 9.00 Criminal Minds
Series 8. Three episodes. The BAU discovers
ritualistic marks on human remains 10.00
A murderer strikes on the same date each
year 11.00 A killer targets married couples
12 midnight Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
12.55am BST Criminal Minds 1.50 GMT Blindspot
999: on the Front Line 8.00pm Buddy Holly: Rave On 9.00pm Great Canal Journeys 7.00pm 2.45—3.00am GMT Entertainment News
Mullen and Laura tend to a woman Don McLean shares his memories Prunella and Timothy are in Wales 5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
8.55am Food Unwrapped (AD) 9.30 A Place 6.00am The Marriage of Figaro 9.15 6.10am How to Build a Motor Car 8.00 +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320
in the Sun: three back-to-back editions Tales of the Unexpected: three episodes (AD) Adolf Hitler’s War 11.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
12.30pm Location, Location, Location 1.30 11.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: double bill 2.00pm Ireland with Simon Reeve 3.00
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New. Great British Home Restoration (AD) 1.00pm FILM Frankie & Johnny HH Musical Cornwall with Simon Reeve 4.00 Robson 8.00am Car Pound Cops 8.35 Happy
2.35 Come Dine with Me: in Bristol and Bath comedy drama starring Elvis Presley as a Green’s Weekend Escapes: two editions Campers: the Caravan Park 10.35 Shoplifters
5.15pm Four in a Bed Laskill Country Mississippi riverboat entertainer who’s in 5.00pm Great Canal Journeys The and Scammers: at War with the Law
House in North Yorkshire, the Swan Hotel love with his partner, Frankie. Review p55 Marne-Rhine Canal in Alsace and Lorraine. 3.30pm FILM What Women Want HHHH
in Telford, the Scalford Hall Hotel in Melton (W) 2.45 Portrait Artist of the Year 3.45 6.00 Travelling down the River Douro through Romantic comedy starring Mel Gibson
Mowbray and the Abbey Hotel in East Sussex Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters the striking landscape of north-west Portugal. 6.00pm Motorway Cops: Catching
compete to be the best establishment. 5.00pm Bee Gees: One Night Only 7.00 Timothy West and Prunella Scales Britain’s Speeders Inspector Anton Sullivan
8.00 999: on the Front Line Featuring Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb perform their explore the Monmouthshire and Brecon canal. is in one of six police cars involved in a pursuit.
a woman who tripped and put her head greatest hits, such as Jive Talkin’, How Deep 8.00 Great American Railroad Journeys 7.00 Inspector Anton Sullivan attends the
through a glass door, a gardener who Is Your Love and Stayin’ Alive, in a concert Michael Portillo follows America’s iconic scene of a three-vehicle crash on a country road.
accidentally head-butted a wall and a young at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, in 1997. (AD) River Hudson, beginning at New York City’s 8.00 PC Matt Turner chases down a drunk
cyclist who fell off after hitting a pothole. 7.00 The Music of Buddy Holly and the Penn Station, before sampling ale and driver who caused a collision on the school run.
9.00 24 Hours in A&E Pub landlord Tony Crickets A documentary celebrating the life meeting the State Senator in Albany. 9.00 FILM RoboCop HHHH Sci-fi remake
has badly burnt legs as a result of his barbecue of the Texan singer/songwriter, who began 9.00 Michael travels across New York state, starring Joel Kinnaman. In 2028, after Detroit
gas cylinder exploding, builder Bill was his career opening for Elvis Presley and discovering how General Electric also leads cop Alex Murphy is critically injured, tech giant

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knocked unconscious after falling from his shed became a star in his own right. (AD) the way in rail technology. OmniCorp seizes the opportunity to rebuild
and Henry suffers breathing difficulties. (AD) 9.00 Buddy Holly: Rave On The story of 10.00 ’Allo ’Allo! The Resistance commandeers him as a part-man, part-robot police officer. (AD)
10.00 Doctors treat a 63-year-old man with Buddy Holly’s tragically short life and career René’s café to conceal two British airmen. 11.15 FILM Van Wilder H Teen comedy
throat cancer who has suffered a bleed, a through interviews with those who knew 10.50 René conceals a valuable painting. starring Ryan Reynolds. Cool student Van
ten-month-old baby who stopped breathing him and worked with him. Contributors 11.25 Communists capture the airmen. Wilder has no intention of graduating. But
at home and a young expectant father include Don McLean and Paul Anka. 12 midnight Bangers and Cash (AD) 1.00am after seven years in further education, his
involved in a motocross accident. (AD) 10.15 The Life and Deaths of Christopher BST How to Build a Motor Car 1.00am GMT Great father pulls the plug on his finances.
11.05 Emergency Helicopter Medics In Lee A look at the life and career of the English Continental Railroad Journeys 1.50—3.00am 1.15am BST S**gging Nine to Five: Adults Only
County Durham, medics try to keep a man actor, featuring interviews with friends, GMT Great American Railroad Journeys 1.15—3.00am GMT Police Interceptors: double bill
alive after he has a seizure. A fun day goes family members and film-makers including U&Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129 5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 (129 Scotland)
wrong at a motocross track when a 12-year- Peter Jackson, John Landis and Joe Dante. +1 Sky 255 Virgin 329 Virgin 126 +1 Freesat 140 Sky 228 (229 Scot) Virgin 326
old suffers a limb-threatening injury. (AD) 12.15am Dracula Unearthed 1.45 BST Classic
12.10am 999: on the Front Line 1.15 BST 24 Artists: Jethro Tull 3.05 GMT The Great
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Line 3.15—3.40am GMT Food Unwrapped (AD) 5.00—6.00am GMT Discovering: David Bowie (AD) 7.10am Big Zuu’s Big Eats (AD) 8.00 Storage 9.00am Entertainment News 9.15 Car Pound
More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 (137 Scotland) Sky Arts Freeview 36 Freesat 143 Sky 130 (131 Scotland) Hunters UK 10.30 Railroad Australia Cops 9.45 FILM Star Trek II: the Wrath of
Virgin 147 +1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 (237 Scot) Virgin 347 Virgin 123 EE 350/HD 365 12.30pm Soapbox Race 1.30 Guy Martin: Khan HHHH Sci-fi adventure starring
the World’s Fastest Van? 3.00 Trawlermen: William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
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6.00am Lego Masters Australia (SL) (AD) 9.00am Four in a Bed: five episodes Extreme Fishing Challenge 5.00 Simon Spock HHH Sci-fi adventure starring William
Reeve’s South America: Simon visits Brazil Shatner 2.05pm FILM Seven Men from
7.10 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.25 Made in 11.30 Find It, Fix It, Flog It: triple bill (AD) Now HHHH Western starring Randolph
Chelsea 9.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares 2.30pm Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It: 6.00pm Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone
Fishing Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer Scott, Gail Russell and Lee Marvin 3.50
USA 10.30 Modern Family: five episodes Brilliant Builds 3.00 A Place in the Sun FILM Operation Daybreak HHH Second
1.00pm FILM Peter Rabbit HHH Part- head to the River Exe in Devon. (AD)
6.00pm A Place in the Sun: What 6.35 Bob and Paul travel to the Crogen World War thriller starring Timothy Bottoms
animated fantasy with the voice of James Happened Next? Catching up with the 6.15pm FILM The Devil’s Brigade HH
Corden (AD) 2.55 The Big Bang Theory (AD) Estate near Bala to fish the River Dee.
owners of properties in Mijas Pueblo and Alvor. 7.20 Paul and Bob catch the sleeper train to Second World War adventure starring William
6.10pm The Big Bang Theory 20/24 7.00 Revisits to properties bought in the Highlands to fish for the ferox trout. (AD) Holden. Late in 1942, Lt Col Frederick is
Series 9. On a cabin trip with Penny and Amy, northern Tenerife and Tarragona. 8.00 Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers assigned to train the first Special Service Force
Sheldon spills one of Leonard’s secrets. (AD) 8.00 Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It: A cache of weapons bound is intercepted. for a mission in the Norwegian mountains.
6.35 FILM Sahara HHH Action adventure Brilliant Builds A look back at a tale of two 9.00 Not Going Out 8/10 Series 10. Lee 9.00 FILM Papillon HHHH Drama starring
starring Matthew McConaughey. Courageous unfinished projects impacting both property and Lucy take the children out trick or treating. Steve McQueen. Henri Charrière, nicknamed
salvage expert Dirk Pitt comes across a clue values and family life, including a mum-and- 9.50 3/7 Series 13. Lee gets into trouble Papillon, is sentenced to life imprisonment

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in the middle of the African desert. But his 9.00 Grand Designs Ep 5. Kevin McCloud 10.30 Pride Live at the Apollo A compilation Guiana, for a crime he did not commit.
rescue of a plague-hunting doctor from the follows the progress as Adam and Tassy make of the funniest stand-up from LGBTQ stars. 12.05am BST FILM Outland HH Sci-fi
forces of a military dictator puts the adventure a family home out of an abandoned water 11.10 Including Tom Allen, Stephen K Amos, adventure starring Sean Connery 1.20 GMT
on a completely different footing. (AD) tower. Shown last Wednesday C4 (AD) Jen Brister, Al Porter and Gina Yashere. Trucking Hell (AD) 2.25 GMT Car Pound Cops
9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox Love Island 10.00 New Zealand’s Best Homes with 11.50 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 2.50—3.00am GMT Entertainment News
and Alan Carr’s Epic Game Show: Celebrity Phil Spencer 2/6. Properties in Auckland 1.50am BST Not Going Out: four back-to-back 5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130
Special are appraised. From June 2022. (AD) and Queenstown. Shown last Wednesday C4 editions 3.10—4.00am GMT Live at the Apollo
10.00 Gogglebox Views on Starstruck,
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Catfish UK are reviewed. From March 2023. (AD)
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Be My Valentine (SL) (AD) 1.20 GMT Gogglebox (AD) 4.25—4.50am GMT Everyone Else Burns (AD)
Madagascar: a Little Wild 8.20 Moominvalley 7.00pm The Dambusters Dan Snow relives
(SL) (AD) 3.10 GMT Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 4seven F’view 49 F’sat 127 Sky 137 (138 Scot) Virgin 143 the countdown to the boldest bombing raid
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Declare (AD) 11.00 Highway Cops (AD) 11.30 on Germany during the Second World War.
E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 (136 Scot) Virgin 106
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Friend’s an Animal First shown on Sky Nature (AD)
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British Superbikes 8.00 Wheeler Dealers 12 noon of the raid on Germany’s dams.
Nature 4.00 Deadly Australians 5.00 New
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Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic 4.00 Salvage Hunters 6.00 New. Uptown Otters First shown on Sky of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery.
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Shopping 8.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 10.00 6.00pm Salvage Hunters: three editions. Drew Nature 7.00 Micro Monsters with David
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the Sun 8.00 The Bad Skin Clinic (AD) 9.00 New. biographer Lady Colin Campbell reveals antiques 9.00 Britcam: Emergency on Our Streets: Rob off-grid home in the Irish wilderness.
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& Crew: Mayor Greatway asks the Sensitive and charming fantasy with
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pups to fix up a house for Halloween
and Sue’s taste of freedom Richman heads to Chicago Donald Trump’s charges Full listings for Channel 5 are on p42 Robb as ten-year-old misfits who
invent a magical kingdom in their
6.10am The Bill 11.00 Tipping 6.00am The Pioneer Woman 8.00am Beautiful Serengeti 8.30 local woods. Zooey Deschanel (2006, PG) (S) (AD)
Point 3.00pm My Family (AD) 11.00 James Martin’s Brittany Mafia’s Greatest Hits 9.35 The CBeebies 202
4.25 Miracle on 34th Street
6.20pm My Family Ben and Susan 3.00pm Jamie’s Money Saving Hidden Side of World War II HHH Warm-hearted remake of
1.00pm Amerigo Vespucci: 6.00am Baby Jake 6.10 Raa Raa the
have problems in the bedroom. (AD) Meals 4.00 Jamie’s Money Saving Noisy Lion 6.20 Bing 6.30 Love the classic festive fantasy. Richard
Meals: Extra Portions 5.00 Jamie’s Forgotten Namesake of America Monster 6.40 Chuggington: Tales from Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins (1994, U) (S) (AD)
7.00 Outnumbered Sue and Pete Money Saving Meals 2.05 Normandy ’44: D-Day and the Rails 6.50 Go Jetters 7.00 New.
get a glimpse of life without kids. 6.00pm Jamie’s Money Saving the Battle for France 5.15 The Vegesaurs 7.05 Supertato 7.15 Bing 6.40pm Cowboys & Aliens
7.40 There is a lot to discuss Meals: six episodes 8.00 Tom Hidden Side of World War II 7.30 Hey Duggee 7.45 Go Jetters HHHH Mysterious loner Daniel
at Ben’s parents’ evening. Kerridge Secrets of the Pub 8.00 Peter Rabbit 8.10 Octonauts Craig must ally with tyrannical
6.25pm The Hidden Side of 8.25 New. Vida the Vet: Popcorn is
8.20 Ben is determined to enter Kitchen: Tom serves up generous World War II 2/3. Examining the cattle baron Harrison Ford against
afraid of a spooky corn maze 8.35
a school talent competition. (AD) helpings of delicious nostalgia political struggle between De Mojo Swoptops 8.50 The Furchester outer-space mole monsters in
9.00 Gavin & Stacey Pete and 8.30 Tom Kerridge More Sunday Gaulle and the Allied forces. Hotel 9.00 Something Special: We’re this sci-fi western. (2011, 12) (S) (AD)
Lunch: Tom cooks a tasty posh 7.35 3/3. The cells used to All Friends 9.20 New. Tiny Wonders
Dawn renew their wedding vows. 9.00 Venom HH Stylish action
version of chicken and chips 9.00 exfiltrate wanted Nazis. 9.25 Bluey 9.40 Hey Duggee 9.55
9.40 The gang head to the beach Man v Food: six editions. Adam Halloween in the CBeebies House fantasy in which reporter Tom
on a sunny Bank Holiday Monday. Richman travels to Amarillo, Texas 8.40 Amerigo Vespucci: 10.15 New. Nikhil & Jay: Nikhil and Hardy becomes infected by a
10.20 Bryn and Jason finally put — the beef capital of the world Forgotten Namesake of America Jay both want to win the family Boo
their big secret to bed. (AD) Contest 10.25 Dodge’s Pup School symbiotic alien parasite. (2018, 15) (S) (AD)
9.30 Adam visits the Windy City The truth behind the Italian banker.
10.35 Room on the Broom 11.10 i The Innocents HHHH
11.00 Wife Swap USA A no- 10.00 Sampling hot wings in 9.45 Democracy on Trial 1/2 11.05 Spidey and His Amazing Friends
Haunting Scandi thriller set on
nonsense fire chief swaps lives with Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 10.30 Michael Kirk investigates the roots 11.25 Fred & Pete’s Treasure Tales
a housing estate, where four
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a conservative stay-at-home wife. A 13lb “carnivore” pizza in Atlanta, of the criminal cases against 11.40 Garden Tales 11.50 Dog Squad
11.55 A high-tech mum swaps Georgia 11.00 Adam’s culinary tour former President Donald Trump. 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm troubled children discover
lives with a technophobe who stops in Boston 11.30 Adam tackles 10.55 2/2. Trump’s argument to Chuggington 12.25 The Game they have paranormal powers.
the hottest curry in America Catchers 12.30 Hey Duggee 12.40 Review, right. Rakel Lenora Flottum (2021, 15)
keeps her family off the grid. have the case against him dismissed. Octonauts 1.00 JoJo & Gran Gran 1.10
12 midnight BST Man v Food: four
12.50am One Born Every Minute further editions 1.00am GMT Diners, 12 midnight Mafia’s Greatest Hits: Dog Loves Books 1.20 Love Monster 1.30 BST—3.45am GMT
1.50 BST The Undateables (AD) Drive-Ins and Dives 1.30 GMT Adam the story of Meyer Lansky 1.05am 1.25 Go Jetters 1.50 Yukee 1.55 High-Rise HHH Good-looking
1.40 GMT Jo Frost: Nanny on Tour Richman Eats Britain 2.00 GMT Diners, BST Beautiful Serengeti 1.00— Roots and Fruits 2.00 Something if disjointed dystopian drama.
2.25—3.00am GMT Inside the Drive-Ins and Dives 2.30—3.00am 2.00am GMT Amerigo Vespucci: Special: We’re All Friends 2.25 Old Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons (2015, 15) (S) (AD)
Jack’s Boat 2.40 My World Kitchen
Ambulance: a man has collapsed GMT Adam Richman Eats Britain Forgotten Namesake of America 2.50 Numberblocks 2.55 What’s Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
U&W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 (133 Scotland) Food Network F’view 43 F’sat 148 Sky 140 PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only) in Your Bag? 3.00 Yukee 3.10 Hey Sky 313 Virgin 428
Virgin 125 +1 Sky 232 (233 Scotland) Virgin 325 (141 Scot) Virgin 190 +1 F’sat 154 Sky 240 (241 Scot) Freesat 155 Sky 173 Virgin 187 Duggee 3.15 Dodge’s Pup School +1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
3.30 Twirlywoos 3.40 YolanDa’s Band
Rewind TV 95 HGTV 44 U&Eden 57 Jam 3.55 Mojo Swoptops 4.05 Molly
and Mack 4.20 Magic Hands 4.30
Talking 82
6.00am That’s My Dog 6.30 7.00am A Place in the Sun 9.00am Wild and Wonderful Treasure Champs 4.45 Supertato
4.55 Bluey 5.00 Vida the Vet 5.15
Pictures TV
Space 1999 9.30 Monkey 10.30 11.00 My Lottery Dream Home Denmark 12 noon Frozen Planet: Katie Morag 5.30 Nikhil & Jay 5.45
Watching 1.00pm The Cuckoo 3.00pm Escape to the Country three editions (AD) 3.00pm Wild 6.00am The Lost City Action
Sarah & Duck 5.50 Charlie and Lola
Waltz 2.30 Trouble in Mind 3.00 6.00pm Escape to the Country: and Wonderful Denmark: three adventure. (S) 7.55 The Beverly
6.00pm Tee and Mo 6.10 Clangers
Time after Time 3.30 A Fine seven editions. Jules Hudson helps editions 6.00 Frozen Planet: three 6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50— Hillbillies TV comedy. (S) 8.30 Black
Romance 5.00 Surgical Spirit a couple who want to move to editions (AD) 9.00 Expedition with 7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories Saddle TV western. 9.00 Saturday
6.00pm Monkey 7.00 New. My Steve Backshall: adventures in Morning Pictures Classic serials,
Leicestershire 7.00 Aled Jones CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702 plus Cry Wolf (1968). (S) 12 noon One
TV Rewind: Michael Aspel 8.00 helps a pair of cyclists searching for Mexico, Russia and Arabia (AD)
Bust 9.00 The Mrs Merton Show: 12 midnight BST Anthony Bourdain: Step Beyond TV horror. (S) 12.35pm
with Jimmy Hill and Paul Daniels
a property in Worcestershire 8.00
A young family looks for a home in
Parts Unknown: two episodes 1.00am CBBC 201 Women of the Prehistoric Planet
9.35 Thriller: a serial killer escapes GMT Wild and Wonderful Denmark
7.00am Shaun the Sheep; Odd Tubes H Desperately amateur sci-fi.
the Dorset countryside 9.00 Nicki 3.35 GMT Frozen Planet (AD) Wendell Corey, Keith Larsen, John Agar (1966, U) (S)
from the asylum where he has Chapman travels around Somerset 4.25-5.00am GMT David 7.10 Danger Mouse 7.25 Dennis &
been imprisoned 11.05 FILM Gnasher Unleashed! 7.35 Boy Girl Dog 2.25 Saber of London TV crime
to help a pair of equestrian Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (AD)
The Great Smokey Roadblock HH Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45 New. Newsround drama. 3.00 Captain Scarlet and
Action adventure starring Henry
enthusiasts 10.00 An American U&Eden Freeview 57 Freesat 160 Sky 166 7.55 Ninja Express 8.05 Odd Squad the Mysterons TV sci-fi. 3.35
Fonda and Eileen Brennan
expat couple search for a home in Virgin 176 +1 Sky 266 Virgin 376 8.20 Super Happy Magic Forest The Riddle of the Sands HHH
1.10am BST FILM Cold Sweat HH
Surrey 11.00 Viewing properties in 8.30 Ooglies Funsize 8.40 Pokémon: This glossy action adventure
Action thriller starring Charles Bronson north Wales 12 midnight A London Blaze 64 XY 9.00 New. Saturday Mash-Up!: stars Michael York and Simon
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couple search for a home in Suffolk Joe, Shereen and Stanley throw a
2.10 GMT That’s My Dog: double bill
Halloween party with Pickle Storm
MacCorkindale as yachtsmen
3.10 GMT FILM Santa Claus Conquers 1.00am BST Divided by Design 6.00am Container Wars 8.15 discovering a German invasion plan
the Martians H Sci-fi comedy drama 1.00—4.00am GMT Escape to the Mysteries from Above 11.15 and Inel Tomlinson 11.30 Blue Peter
12 noon FILM 100% Wolf HHH prior to the First World War. (1978, U) (S)
John Call and Leonard Hicks Country: three back-to-back editions Monsterquest 12.10pm Big Cat 5.40 Assassin for Hire HH
Animated comedy. Young Freddy Lupin
5.00—6.00am GMT Unwind with Rewind HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 149 Sky 158 Virgin 191 Britain Declassified 2.00 Egypt’s is from a proud werewolf family, but at Suspenseful but slight British crime
Rewind TV Freeview 95 Sky 190 +1 Sky 258 Virgin 391 Unexplained Files 3.00 Queens of his first transformation he turns into drama starring character actor
Ancient Egypt 4.00 Ancient Aliens a fluffy poodle, not a fearsome wolf. Sydney Taffer as a sympathetic
Great TV 50 Challenge 48 9.00 The Proof Is Out There: an Faced with banishment from his pack,
Freddy embarks on a quest to prove
contract killer. Ronald Howard (1951, PG)
examination of glowing lights seen 7.00pm Z Cars TV drama. (S)
8.00am Highway to Heaven: eleven 7.00am The Chase (AD) 9.00 his wolf status (W) 1.30pm Monsters
above Marfa, Texas 10.00 The v Aliens: Night of the Living Carrots 8.00 Reckless Romantic TV
back to back episodes 7.10pm Bruce’s Price Is Right (AD) 10.00 UnXplained with William Shatner:
FILM The Gourmet Detective: Supermarket Sweep 11.00 All Star 1.40 So Awkward 2.05 Pickle Storm drama starring Robson Green. (S)
UFO hotspots at various locations 2.30 The Dumping Ground 3.00 9.05 Dead Gorgeous TV crime
Death Al Dente HH Henry Ross is Family Fortunes: triple bill. John
Barnes versus Natasha Hamilton around Earth 11.00 Monsterquest Total Dramarama 3.20 Monster Loving comedy starring Helen McCrory. (S)
hired to find the best chef for a new 12 midnight My Paranormal Nightmare Maniacs 3.30 Shaun the Sheep 3.40
eatery, but a number of deaths see 11.40 Paul Daniels and Joe Swash Arthur and the Haunted Tree House
11.05 The Edgar Wallace Mystery
1.00am BST Haunted Hospitals 1.00 Theatre TV crime drama. (S)
him at the heart of the mystery compete 12.20pm The Dingles of GMT Believers: Extreme Hauntings 4.40 Danger Mouse 5.00 Boy Girl
9.00 Fixer Upper Mysteries: Framed Emmerdale take on Hollyoaks’ 2.00—6.00am GMT Hardcore Pawn Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 5.15 Dennis 12.15am BST Confessions of a
For Murder 10.55 Murder 101: McQueens in a Christmas special & Gnasher Unleashed! 5.50 Super Window Cleaner H Dire first entry
1.00 Cash Trapped 3.00 The Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 161 Sky 164 Virgin 174 Happy Magic Forest: Trevor topples in the sex-comedy series. Robin Askwith,
Locked Room Mystery: A professor
Chase Celebrity Special: triple bill. into a cavern of tiny mushrooms Anthony Booth, Sheila White (1974, 18) 1.00 GMT
and a private detective investigate
the suspicious death of a spiritualist With Jo Whiley, Jake Canuso, BBC Parliament 232 6.00pm Grizzy and the Lemmings: the Confessions of a Pop Performer H
Georgia Taylor and Marcus Lemmings haunt Grizzy. 6.05 Total Dismal sex comedy populated by
12.50am Movie News 1.00 BST FILM 6.00am Westminster Hall 11.00 PMQs Drama Island: Reboot 6.30—7.00pm
Mary Higgins Clark’s The Cradle Will Fall Brigstocke 4.00 Greg Rutherford, 11.35 Welsh FMQs 12.35pm NI Assembly refugees from the fag-end of 1970s
Horrible Histories: Scary Special
HH Mystery thriller 2.00 GMT Castle Lesley Joseph, Matthew Wolfenden 1.20 Senedd Cymru 2.05 Commons 2.40 TV sitcoms. Robin Askwith (1975, 18) 2.45
3.00 GMT Randall and Hopkirk and Chris Kamara take part 5.00 CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701 GMT Blonde Fist H Glass-jawed
Lords 3.15 Commons 4.15 Senedd Cymru
(Deceased) 3.50 GMT Movie News Jonathan Ross, Katy Brand, Chris 5.15 House of Lords 6.00 Select comedy drama about a girl with a
4.00 GMT Highway to Heaven Hollins and Jo Wood face one of Committees 12.55am PMQs 1.30 BST ITV Kids on ITV2 mess of a life but a socking right
4.50—5.00am GMT Movie News the Chasers 6.00 The Chase (AD) Welsh FMQs 1.30 GMT Home Office hook. Margi Clarke, Carroll Baker (1991, 15) (S)
ITV Kids shows also stream on ITVX
Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Sky 157 9.00 The Family Chase 10.00 2.30 GMT Foreign, Commonwealth and 4.50 GMT Talking Pictures with
Virgin 170 +1 Sky 257 The Chase 11.00 BST Bullseye (AD) Development 3.30 GMT NI Office 4.00 6.00am Scooby-Doo! Knight Time Margi Clarke An interview with
3.00am GMT The Chase Celebrity Special GMT Cabinet Office 5.00—6.00am Terror 6.30 Looney Tunes Cartoons the actress. 5.30—6.00am GMT
FREEVIEW channels (AD) 4.00—6.00am GMT The Chase (AD) GMT Commons Business Questions 6.45 Mr Bean: the Animated Series The Law & Mr Jones TV drama.
7.00 Dodo 7.30—9.00 Aloha,
continued from overleaf Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 142 BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201 Scooby-Doo: the gang investigates Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Sky 145 Virgin 139 Sky 504 Virgin 605 spooky goings-on at a surfing festival. Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445

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9.00am Perception 10.00 A 6.50am The Persian Version (Bruce Willis). Hartnett’s
Dangerous Date HH Thriller about HHHH An Iranian-American latest thriller, Trap, is
a widower’s seemingly perfect online film-maker returns to her estranged
romance. Jillian Murray (2018) 11.45 My family. Layla Mohammadi (2023, 15) 8.40 As reviewed on page 37. ADAM
Killer Nanny H A childminder’s new 6.05pm 10.35 Bob Marley: One SMITH (US 2006, violence, swearing)
boss reveals a dark side. Mia Topalian (2020) Love HH Clichéd but well performed
1.40pm Hitch HHH Will Smith brings biopic. Kingsley Ben-Adir (2024, 12) 12.25pm i The Innocents HHHH
easy charm to this fun comedy. Eva
Mendes (2005, 12) 4.05 Charlie’s Angels
As 8pm 2.30 As 10.05pm 4.20
Caddo Lake HHH Eerie rural 11.10pm-1.30am Film4 j
HH Lightweight action comedy mystery thriller. Review p31. (2024, 12)
FANTASY In this slow-burn
adventure. Cameron Diaz (2000, 15) 6.05pm The Radleys HHH
6.05pm Robin Hood: Prince of Damian Lewis and Kelly Macdonald Scandi thriller, a housing
Thieves HHHH Entertaining are the vampire parents struggling estate is an unlikely setting
retelling of the Sherwood legend. with their youngsters’ bloodlust. (2024) for a battle of wills, as four
Review, right. Kevin Costner (1991, PG) 8.00 Ghostbusters: Frozen children hang out one Nordic
9.00 Hitman HH Flashy but Empire HHHH Hugely entertaining
insubstantial action crime thriller next chapter in the franchise. summer. Ida (Rakel Lenora
about a genetically engineered Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Mckenna Grace (2024, 12) Flottum) gravitates towards
contract killer. Timothy Olyphant (2007, 15) 10.05 i Don’t Tell Mom the Sam Ashraf’s troubled
11.00 Hitman: Agent 47 HH Babysitter’s Dead HH Fitfully loner, who reveals he has
Confusing thriller sequel based on amusing remake of the 1991
the video game. Rupert Friend (2015, 15) comedy. Simone Joy Jones, Nicole Richie (2024, 15) paranormal powers. Director
1.05am BST Hitman: Redemption 11.50 The Radleys As 6.05pm Eskil Vogt’s low-key approach
HHH A typically tough Ron Perlman 1.45am BST As 4.20pm 2.25 GMT makes for haunting viewing.
heads a classy cast in this menacing Zombie Town HH Amiable horror JEREMY ASPINALL (Nor/Swe/Den/
thriller. Famke Janssen (2018, 15) 2.20 GMT
Wild West Chronicles 4.00—5.40am
comedy. Marlon Kazadi, Madi Monroe, Dan Aykroyd
(2023, 12) 4.15 GMT Robin and the
FILM i Moonage Daydream HHHH Fin/Fr/UK 2021, violence, swearing)
GMT A Daughter’s Deception HH Hoods HHH Delightfully creative OF THE 10.10pm-12.45am C4 j
TV-movie thriller. Jade Harlow (2019) family fantasy. Darcey Ewart (2024, PG) DAY The Last Right HHH
Great Movies Freeview 34 Sky 321 Virgin 425 Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401 MUSIC DOCUMENTARY David Bowie’s career as 11.40pm-1.20am BBC1
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archive footage and recordings in this engrossing movie. In
Great Action 42 Legend 41
an inspired twist, Bowie himself narrates the film, thanks to COMEDY DRAMA In Aoife
8.00am Police Ten 7 9.00 7.00am The Twilight Zone 8.00 material gleaned from interviews he gave to radio and TV Crehan’s movie, Michiel
Operation Valkyrie HHHH Moody Strange Invaders HHHH Warmly over the years. The patchwork portrait that emerges is of a Huisman stars as a man
dramatisation of the German plot comic sci-fi drama about aliens relentless and constantly inspired artist forever moving the who causes an international
to kill Hitler. Sebastian Koch (2004, 15) 11.00 who have settled on Earth. Paul Le Mat, incident when he drives
Midnight in St Petersburg HH Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid (1983, 12) 10.00 goalposts as he explores the possibilities of his creativity.
Half-hearted thriller. Michael Caine (1995, 15) MacGyver: five episodes 3.00pm A richly layered cinematic offering, this utterly captivates. across Ireland, transporting
1.00pm Wild West Chronicles The Sting 5 Classic period TERRY STAUNTON (Ger/US 2022, swearing, sexual references, nudity, HD) the body of a man he barely
1.30 Silverado HHHH Invigorating crime caper in which two conmen knew. The set-up is hard to
western adventure with Kevin Kline take on a powerful racketeer. Paul I Was Monty’s Double Brian Hull, replacing Adam swallow, but the script’s
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.

and Kevin Costner. (1985, PG) 4.15 Bite Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw (1973, PG)
the Bullet HHH Gripping allegorical HHHH Sandler) visits the Amazon humour keeps the story

Television
5.30pm The Curse of King Tut’s
drama. Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen (1975, PG) Tomb Adventure starring Casper 9.55-11.30am BBC2 y to search for a cure after he bouncing along, while the
7.05pm Joe Kidd HH Misfiring Van Dien and Leonor Varela. is turned into a human by soundtrack sets a nice
range-war western scripted by 9.00 Out of Sight HHHH Caper WAR Based on a true story, his goofy son-in-law (Andy whimsical tone. VICTORIA
Elmore Leonard. Clint Eastwood (1972, 15) with George Clooney as a criminal this slick, unassuming Samberg). The mix of jungle LUXFORD (Ire 2019, swearing, HD)
9.00 Lucky Number Slevin and Jennifer Lopez as the US Second World War film stars
HHH Convoluted thriller about marshal trying to catch him. (1998, 15) adventure, odd-couple romp
a young man caught up in a gang 11.20 Pandorum H Astronauts John Mills and Cecil Parker and fish-out-of-water comedy Life HHH
war. Review, right. Josh Hartnett (2006, 18) fight mutant monsters on board as British officers plotting never quite comes together. 12.45 BST-1.25am GMT C4 j
11.30 BST Vendetta HH Grimly their spaceship in a dull sci-fi to deceive the Germans in KEVIN HARLEY (US 2022, HD)
efficient action thriller. Danny Dyer (2013, 18) shocker. Ben Foster, Dennis Quaid (2009, 15) 1944. ME Clifton James SCI-FI HORROR There are
1.00am GMT Disaster Zone: 1.25am BST Maniac HHH Slick — more than a few nods to Alien
Volcano in New York HH Daft and just as sick — reboot of the gory
plays himself, the “double” Robin Hood: Prince of
of the title, whose likeness Thieves HHHH 6.05- in this chiller set on a space
disaster movie. Costas Mandylor, Alexandra 1980 cult horror, starring Elijah Wood
station. Jake Gyllenhaal,
Paul, Michael Ironside (2006) 3.00—5.00am
GMT Arctic HHHH Gripping
as a deranged psychopath. (2012, 18)
2.15 GMT The Reptile HHH
to military leader General 9.00pm Great Movies g Rebecca Ferguson and Ryan
Montgomery makes him
survival drama with Mads Mikkelsen Splendidly spooky vintage Hammer ADVENTURE Buckles are Reynolds are among the
as a stranded pilot. Maria Thelma (2018, 12) horror. Noel Willman (1966, 15) 4.05—5.30am
invaluable to the mission.
DAVID PARKINSON (UK 1958, BW, HD) well and truly swashed in crew members battling a
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited) GMT The Twilight Zone
Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324 Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149 this entertaining spin on the rapidly mutating organism
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legend. Alan Rickman is a joy that originated from Mars.
Great Movies 52 Legend Xtra 69 1.00-3.00pm BBC2 y as the Sheriff of Nottingham, Daniel Espinosa’s movie is
Christmas 6.00am Battlestar Wars H Zero- HISTORICAL DRAMA
while Morgan Freeman is a fun popcorn fare for those
8.00am An Old-Fashioned budget, CGI-heavy sci-fi mockbuster. commanding presence as a who can stomach the gore.
Marlon Brando plays the
Thanksgiving HH Sentimental Luke Fattorusso (2020, 12) 8.00 Night of the cultured Moor. Kevin Costner STELLA PAPAMICHAEL
period drama. (2008) 10.00 Kristin’s Big Heat HH Sci-fi horror about a role of Mark Antony in one (US 2017, violence, swearing, HD)
of the finest Shakespeare is more “Indiana Hood” than
Christmas Past HH Watchable freak heatwave plaguing a remote
the Locksley lad of yore,
fantasy comedy. (2013, PG) 12 noon A British island. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
(1967, 15) 10.00 Alien Convergence H
adaptations. Brando is
but the whole thing is put
Mari HHH 1.05 BST-
Mission for Christmas HH Likeable
fantasy. (2015) 2.00pm Christmas Trashy sci-fi about a team using magnificent, particularly his
together with plenty of flair 1.35am GMT BBC2 h
Angel HH Light adventure. (2012) 4.10 a fighter jet to battle flying lizards. oration at Julius Caesar’s
Correcting Christmas HH Warm- Caroline Ivari (2017) 12 noon The Last funeral, and Louis Calhern and imagination. ALAN JONES DRAMA Writer/director
hearted romance. Kelly Overton (2014) Sharknado: It’s about Time HH was clearly born to play (US 1991, edited for content) Georgia Parris makes an
6.00pm My Santa HH Sentimental Time-travelling episode in the
Caesar. Making the most assured feature debut with
fantasy. Samaire Armstrong (2013) comedy horror series. Ian Ziering, Tara Lucky Number Slevin this meticulous chamber piece
Reid (2018, 15) 2.00pm Premonition HH a meagre budget, director
8.00 The Spirit of Christmas
Casper Van Dien plays a cop who has Joseph L Mankiewicz wisely
HHH that fuses drama with modern
HH A lawyer comes across a cursed
Christmas ghost when she tries to visions of impending disasters. (2004) concentrates on the drama 9.00-11.30pm Great Action z dance. Bobbi Jene Smith
close a property deal. Jen Lilley (2015) 4.00pm Andromeda Five makes a strong impression
episodes of the TV sci-fi series. and not the spectacle. TONY THRILLER In this playful
10.00 Christmas Wish HH as the choreographer who
9.00 Marauders HHH SLOMAN (US 1953, BW, HD) movie from Paul McGuigan
A struggling woman falls into an is summoned to her dying

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alternate world where she married Predictable heist thriller lifted by (Film Stars Don’t Die in
her high-school crush. Nicole Eggert (2007) a charismatic turn from Bruce i Hotel Transylvania: Liverpool), Josh Hartnett grandmother’s bedside and
12 midnight BST Christmas Willis. Christopher Meloni, Dave Bautista (2016, 15) HH plays a young smart mouth
experiences a tense reunion
Makeover HH Fun romcom. Lily Anne 11.05 Jack’s Back HH Madcap
Harrison (2018) 1.00am GMT A Christmas suspense film with James Spader 4.30-6.10pm C4 g caught between rival gang
with her sister (Madeleine
Wedding Date HH Undemanding as the twins who are drawn into a Worrall). DP (UK 2018, swearing, HD)
COMEDY The animated leaders (Morgan Freeman
romcom. (2012, PG) 3.05—5.00am GMT Jack the Ripper copycat case. (1988, 18)
monster series presents and Ben Kingsley), who each
The Town That Banned Christmas 1.00am BST Marauders As 9pm Films to stream from p30
HH Scrappy comedy. Matt McCoy (2006, 12) 2.00—3.00am GMT Andromeda a tired front on its fourth appear to be employing the
outing. Dracula (voiced by same mysterious hitman Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and more
Great Christmas F’view 52 Sky 319 Virgin 424 Legend Xtra F’view 69 F’sat 138 Sky 317
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 320 Virgin 171 +1 F’sat 139 Sky 318 Virgin 371

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Sinister 9.50pm Ellison Game of Thrones 9.00pm A League of Their Own US The Outlaws 10.00pm Rani’s Death in Paradise 9.00pm
makes a disturbing discovery Stannis launches an assault Road Trip 10.55pm Race day parents cause problems Jack and JP are on the case
6.00am Clifford (AD) 6.15 MC 6.00am Fish Town 9.05 True 6.00am Supergirl 11.00 Merlin 7.30am Keeping Up Appearances 7.10am Murdoch Mysteries 10.00
Grammar: Halloween Party 6.20 Blood 2.25pm Billions (AD) (AD) 3.00pm Hawaii Five-0 8.00 Are You Being Served? 8.40 Hudson & Rex (AD) 2.00pm
Dodo 6.30 Tom Gates: a Monster 5.45pm Billions 8/12 Series 3. Axe 6.00pm Hawaii Five-0 10/22 Still Open All Hours 9.20 Only Fools Father Brown: four episodes (AD)
Halloween (AD) 6.55 Where’s Wally tries for a fresh start at Axe Capital. Series 10. Adam’s girlfriend and Horses: thirteen episodes (AD) 6.00pm Death in Paradise 5/8
7.20 Isadora Moon (AD) 7.35 6.00pm Only Fools and Horses
Moominvalley 8.00 FILM Monster Chuck asserts his political autonomy Tamiko is kidnapped right in front Series 8. The murder of a festival
Family H (AD) (W) 10.00 The F1 and wrestles with whether to of him, and he breaks all the rules Del persuades Denzil to lend him queen leaves DI Mooney with a fresh
Show 11.00 The Simpsons 12 noon honour his word to a friend. (AD) in order to get her back. his redundancy money. crime to solve, and puts a strain on
Hitler’s British Island 1.00pm Clash 6.50 9/12. Axe makes a bold play 7.00 11/22. A helicopter tragedy 6.40 Del encounters an old flame Florence’s relationship when it turns
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6.30pm The Lord of the Rings: ends up outstaying his welcome. murdered at a wedding. (AD)
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q 5 Fantasy adventure Series 2. Tyrion defends King’s England cricketer Andrew Flintoff 8.00 Shakespeare and
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starring Elijah Wood and Ian Hathaway: Private Investigators
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eagerly egged on by Del. 1/10 Series 1. Frank Hathaway and
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worth to Qhorin Halfhand. Glen steps up as acting manager. 9.15 The Trotter family agree
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Football Everton v Fulham from 9.15 Champions League 9.30 NBA
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Television
New. GMT I’m Not a Monster: the 1.00am BST Shark Squad 1.00 (AD) 7.30 Talking Cricket (AD) 8.00
Genesis Championship, day three. Test Highlights 9.00 You Guys Are
Lois Riess Murders: the convicted New series. GMT Ireland’s Wild
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9.00 PGA Tour Champions 10.00
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Cricket Sri Lanka v West Indies.
Golf Zozo Championship, day four.
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WW2: Hell under the Sea 11.00 Nazi of the Zoo 11.00 Natural Treasures MotoGP 7.00 Reload (AD) 7.30
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Sky F1 Football An NCAA match. Test Cricket 8.30 Australian
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Monmouth in July 1685 9.00 The New. The Incredible Dr Pol: double bill. 9.00—12 midnight LIVE Mexico Cricket India v New Zealand.
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Bid and Destroy 4.20 GMT Food 12 midnight BST Swamp Men: double Tennis The final of the Tokyo Open. the ATP Swiss Indoors, ATP Vienna
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BLOOD AND GUTS

Teenagers stand
up against the
vicious zombies
who are after
their blood

DRAMA in the village of Dambury are hungry for teenage Johnson, Anita Dobson and Robert Lindsay.
blood. Which is inconvenient for phone-addicted There may be faint shades of B movie, yet despite
Generation Z 9.00pm youngsters Charlie (Jay Lycurgo) and Finn (Viola being billed as “darkly comic” there are also about
Channel 4 Full series available on C4 streaming Prettejohn), who are preoccupied enough with teen as many laughs as an apocalypse. Ironically it needs
OAPs become OAZs in this new horror angst, never mind the threat of murderous retirees. some fleshing out, because so far, it’s surprisingly
NEW drama, which sees pensioners Having hordes of 70+ year-olds tearing through staid. Had it been given the full Shaun of the Dead
SERIES transform into zombies. Following a the youth of today is a neat premise; one that’s treatment this could’ve been a superbly satirical
noxious gas leak, care home residents propped up with an appetising cast including Sue feast. FRANCES TAYLOR See feature page: 22

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Fishing 9.00pm BBC2
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Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing, west stretching from Aberdeenshire in days when lawyers of the like of
They got drenched in Norfolk but Bob
London, where on a previous visit north-east Scotland to the border Atticus Finch or Perry Mason could
Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse are
Fiona Bruce confessed that a with England in the south is be relied upon to provide the moral
now bathed in sunshine for a perch
Martinware statue that had been characterised by sprawling urban backbone of a legal drama. In our fishing expedition on the River Ouse
valued at a staggering £260,000 centres, agricultural farmland, modern era, those who appear in Bedfordshire.
would give her nightmares. fragmented forests and large rivers. for the defence or prosecution They’ve tried (unsuccessfully) to
There’s nothing likely to give her This landscape makes it tough for are just as likely to be as fragile or land a big perch before, although with
bad dreams this time. Instead, the wildlife to survive yet in Edinburgh, compromised as the ones in the dock. weather and scenery like this, it
experts are shown a programme for for instance, a pair of peregrine Showtrial is very much a case in doesn’t matter. And there’s plenty for
the classic sci-fi film Metropolis, a falcons are raising a family while near point, as many viewers will no doubt these two friends to chat about
medal awarded to a suffragette Glasgow some water voles are living be anticipating the character flaws including amusing things to do with
that has an enthralling story, a despite being nowhere near water. of Sam (Adeel Akhtar) and Leila Nigella Lawson, wayward nose hair
collection of vintage trainers and a Postponed so that BBC2 could (Nathalie Armin) to be revealed now and corn snacks.
quirky 18th-century children’s flip show full coverage of the Young that the action has moved to the However, Paul is in an unusually
book. However, it’s a doll that its Musician of the Year final last courtroom. But it’s also wise to keep melancholy mood as he’s just waved
owner found in a storage box that Sunday, this documentary captures an eye on defendant Justin (Michael his youngest off to big school.
excites Bunny Campione the most. the antics of native creatures Socha), whose facetiousness feels “I told all my kids not to grow up,”
It turns out to be a real little treasure. including marsh harriers, filmed for like a mask that’s in danger of he tells Bob sadly, “but none of them
JANE RACKHAM the first time in Scotland. JR slipping. DAVID BROWN have paid any attention to me.”JR

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DRAMA
DI Ray 9.00pm ITV1 ALSO ON
Catch up via ITVX
“Why do you think it’s OK for you
TODAY
to barge into any dangerous
situation that comes your way?”
Superintendent Ross Beardsmore
asks DI Ray, echoing the thoughts of
everyone watching this series.
The body count is rising but the
West Midlands police chiefs seem
more concerned with wrapping up
everything quickly to avoid unrest.
If they can find a scapegoat for the
last killing, preferably an Asian one,
so much the better. The racism within
the force that she encountered in
series one hasn’t gone away and Ray
would fit the bill for that perfectly. JR
Ten questions with Parminder Nagra:
POWER
page 8 Crown Prince of
Saudi Arabia
Mohammed bin
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DRAMA Salman Al Saud 6.20pm BBC1
Matt Baker and Charlotte Smith
Ghost Stories Night (above) visit the Cambridgeshire
from 9.00pm BBC4 farmer who has 485 acres of rare

SUNDAY
Catch up via iPlayer
DOCUMENTARY
crops from his native Zimbabwe.
It’s often the Victorian- or Edwardian- Kingdom Uncovered: inside Saudi Arabia
set short films from the A Ghost Story 10.15pm ITV1 Catch up via ITVX Leeds International
for Christmas strand that are From the outside, Saudi Arabia gives the impression of a country Piano Competition
repeated, but tonight’s lesser-known evolving under the forwards-looking guidance of de facto ruler, 7.00pm BBC4
tales eschew those period trappings. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Petroc Trelawny and Alexandra
Dariescu present highlights

Television
The first, Stigma (first shown in 1977), Women being allowed to drive, concerts by Alicia Keys and
is a bloody affair filmed in sight of the Pharrell Williams, the Vision 2003 project (which incorporates The from this year’s final.
prehistoric standing stones at Line, a $1 trillion project), and the likely award of the 2034 World
Avebury in Wiltshire. Meanwhile, The Cup. But perhaps everything is not quite what it seems. I’m Not a Monster:
Ice House (from 1978), which is set at Undercover journalist ‘Noura’ unearths a cornucopia of the Lois Reiss Murders
a residential health spa, goes for odd (unverified, although the footage appears damning) horror stories. 10.00pm Sky Documentaries
but ends up being borderline baffling. She investigates the overcrowded, disease-ridden Jizan detention The convicted murderer who
The evening starts with an archive centre where detainees sleep in binbags, and the migrants who form killed her husband in 2018 tells
Mark Gatiss-hosted doc that profiles 75 per cent of the Saudi workforce.Their passports are confiscated her story for the first time.
MR James, the master of creeping and there’s no access to water or electricity. JOHN AIZLEWOOD
DB

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LIVE SPORT
FILM Malcolm X
10.00pm BBC2 Snooker: Northern
i Memoria 12.30am C4 Catch up via iPlayer Ireland Open
12.45pm, 6.45pm Eurosport 1
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Capping the BBC’s film

q Thai director Apichatpong The final, live from Belfast. Judd

screenings for Black History
Weerasethakul is one of the Trump triumphed this time
Month is a rare showing of Spike
most original film-makers working, last year.
Lee’s 1992 epic biopic of the US civil
and this 2021 hypnotic drama is his
English-language debut. Tilda
rights figurehead born Malcolm Little. Football: Premier League
The screenplay, based closely on Chelsea v Newcastle United
Swinton is the expat in Colombia Malcolm X’s autobiography, weaves 1pm (k/o 2pm)
who obsesses over a mysterious, together punchy anecdotes and fiery Sky Sports Premier League
distant thud that only she seems speeches to convey its subject’s vital Arsenal v Liverpool
able to hear. Though slow, quiet and 4.00pm (k/o 4.30pm)
messages about racism in America,
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increasingly mystical, the film

but the film’s backstage troubles are Sky Sports Premier League
should engage anyone who can Two crucial top-six clashes.
just as telling: severely lowballed on
sympathise with the frustrating Sport: page 28
the budget by Warner Bros, Lee had
feeling of trying to grasp some
to beg, borrow and steal to get his
receding dream. CALUM BAKER
film completed, despite its obvious
F1: Mexico Grand Prix
6.30pm (starts 8pm)
FILM REVIEWS page 55 prestige. Still, the results are right Sky Sports F1
there on screen — Denzel Washington The lights go out in Mexico City.
gives an all-time great performance
NOISE in the title role, and the period is SPORT HIGHLIGHTS
ANNOYS
Tilda Swinton filmed magnificently. CB page 29
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12 noon The A to Z of TV Cooking The tour of the grow, pick and pack the beans for big coffee brands.
BBC’s culinary archive reaches the letter K. (R) (S) (HD) 7.20 Strictly Come Dancing: the Results The boom in the industry has made some people
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It Takes Two is on weekdays 6.30pm BBC2. (S) (AD) (HD) 42/3. More than 80 per cent of Scotland’s
population live in the Lowlands, a vast swathe
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Tanya Arnold presents coverage of the First Test in in Ealing, west London, where Alastair Chandler landscape, but its wildlife is clinging on and in some
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ITV1 of the 1927 German science-fiction film Metropolis, Director Fergus Gill; Series producer Jon Morrice
6.00am The Voice UK 9/9. Shown Saturday 8.10pm (S) (HD) while Hilary Kay marvels at a miniature bottle of
First shown on BBC Scotland Postponed from 20 October (S) (AD) (HD)
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9.25 ITV News (S) (HD) begins and the prosecution set out their case several series. They reflect on memorable teenage
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8.30 Formula One: Mexico City Grand Prix — 10.30 Match of the Day 2 powerful enemies with his controversial statements.
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Mohammed bin changes in the 7.00pm Petroc and Rangers v St Mirren
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A now happily married Sophie prepares to The Sunday Show
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Producer Louise Bracken (S) (HD)
flashbacks show a young Donna discovering
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On the island of St Martin’s in the Isles of Scilly,
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Captain Steve Hiller Will Smith Marilyn Whitmore Mary McDonnell the edge of a stone circle. However, 10.30 A Century of Stories:
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3.00 Motorsport UK The Mini Challenge and the Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2021, 12) (S) (W) (HD)
12.45 MR James: Ghost Writer
Porsche Sprint Challenge. Shown last Monday ITV4 (S) (HD) 2.45 Taking the Plunge A selection of films nominated Shown 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)
3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD) for the 2024 Iris Prize for Best British Short, on the 1.45 Stigma Shown 10pm (S)
5.05—6.00am Ainsley’s Fantastic Flavours Ainsley theme of throwing caution to the wind. (S) (AD) (HD) 2.20 The Ice House Shown 10.35pm (S)
Harriott is examining floral flavours. (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 4.05—5.45am Frasier Four episodes. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.55—3.25am The Secret Life of Books:
ITV1 Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103 Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104 Frankenstein Shown 12.15am (S) (HD)
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Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun House of Gucci 9.00pm Patrizia (Lady Foyle’s War 10.00pm The detective Recipes for Love and Murder 8.00pm
8.00pm Setting the bar: John and Jamie Gaga) initiates a power struggle embarks on a search for a traitor Maria and Candy are not convinced
5.40am Milkshake! See page 54 7.00pm EastEnders 6.00am Inspector Morse: Series 2. Last Bus 7.25am The Bill: five episodes. A probation
8.50 SpongeBob SquarePants Old Man Teddy attempts to reach out to Barney. to Woodstock. A crime of passion intrigues officer is accused of rape; 8.15 Rumours of
Jenkins disrupts business as usual at the Shown last Wednesday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD) the detective; 8.10 Series 3. The Ghost in the Sun Hill’s closure reach the local press; 9.15
Krusty Krab. First shown on Nicktoons (S) (HD) 7.30 The Panesars gather to debate Machine. An aristocrat goes missing (S) (SL) Zain’s double life reaches the point of no return;
the best way to exact their revenge. (AD) (HD) 10.25 Agatha Christie’s Poirot: 10.15 Drugs mule Eva Garcia disappears;
9.05 Entertainment News (S) (HD) Curtain: Poirot’s Final Case. In David Suchet’s 11.15 Kristen discovers Zain’s double life (S)
Shown last Thu BBC1 Cast Wed/Thu BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
9.15 NFL: End Zone Cori Yarckin is in final appearance as the Belgian detective, 12.15pm Miss Marple: 1/4 Series 1. A couple
Los Angeles to visit the LA Rams, as they 8.00 Waterloo Road Poirot and Captain Hastings return to Styles, wake up to find a strangled corpse on the
take on the Minnesota Vikings. (S) (HD) 7/8 Series 14. As Billy struggles to cope, where they met and conducted their first hearthrug in their library, and turn to
9.40 Michael Portillo’s Pyrenees Steve discovers what he’s willing to do to investigation 30 years earlier; 12.25pm Dead neighbour Miss Marple to investigate (S) (AD)
Adventure In the Ariege region of protect his son. A box set is on iPlayer. Man’s Folly. Ariadne Oliver is hired to appear 3.25 Catherine Cookson’s Colour Blind: drama
south-west France, Michael meets the Shown last Tuesday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD) at a “murder hunt” at a summer fête; 2.25 about a girl who returns to her Tyneside
nuns at a Benedictine abbey. (R) (S) (HD) The Case of the Missing Will. A Cambridge
9.00 House of Gucci HHH don meets with foul play shortly after
home newly married to her black husband,
10.40 Michael retraces the route his
q Biographical drama starring Lady and encounters bigotry from all sides (S)
father used to flee Spain in 1939. (R) (S) (HD) deciding to change his will (S) (AD) (HD)
Gaga. Patrizia Reggiani comes from 6.40pm Last Tango in Halifax
11.40 Dorset: Country and Coast A visit to humble origins, but in the 1970s, she marries 3.45pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot 1/6 Series 3. Sally Wainwright’s romantic
an ice cream parlour in Weymouth. (R) (S) (HD) The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge
12.35pm Exploring the Dorchester cottage fashion scion Maurizio Gucci. Over the drama starring Derek Jacobi and Anne
next decade, Patrizia and Maurizio grow Hastings and a reluctant Poirot attend Reid returns. Newlyweds Celia and Allen’s
where Thomas Hardy was born. (R) (S) (HD) a grouse shoot at a friend’s estate —
ever more ambitious while their marriage honeymoon period comes to an abrupt
1.35 A Kiss before Christmas HH where the Belgian detective is roused
q Romantic fantasy with James Denton. begins to fray. With the Gucci company’s end when an unexpected visitor forces
fortunes in the balance, events take a turn from his sickbed to solve a murder case. Alan to think about his past and the
Family man Ethan makes a Christmas 4.50 The Theft of the Royal Ruby
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wish and wakes up in a world where he’s a for the deadly. On iPlayer for 28 days. secret he’s kept from his wife. (AD) (HD)
Patrizia Reggiani Lady Gaga The sleuth’s plans for a quiet Christmas
success at work — but he never married. are scuppered when the theft of a 8.00 New. Recipes for Love and
Director Jeff Beesley (2021) (S) (W) (HD) Maurizio Gucci Adam Driver
Paolo Gucci Jared Leto fabulous jewel from an Egyptian prince Murder
3.20 Swept Up by Christmas HH 5/10. Maria and Candy confront John,
Jeremy Irons becomes a matter of national security.
q Romantic comedy drama. An antiques Rodolfo Gucci
Aldo Gucci Al Pacino 5.55 Death on the Nile. Poirot goes Martine’s ex, but he insists he’s innocent.
specialist and a cleaner clash while Director Ridley Scott (2021, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD) Marius Rabie, a local property developer, puts
helping to downsize a large estate. on an Egyptian cruise, but when an
Shown last Friday BBC2 American heiress is murdered, his little pressure on Dirk to sell his land to him. (S) (HD)
Director Philippe Gagnon (2020) (S) (W) (HD)
5.00 5 News (S) (HD) 11.30 RuPaul’s Drag Race UK grey cells go into overdrive. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.05 Silent Witness
5/10 Series 6. The queens join Graham 8.00 The Larkins 3/5 Series 19. Life Licence. An ex-convict is
5.05pm The Big Freeze: Winter ’63 Norton for a special chat show. A box set 1/6 Series 2. Bad Neighbours. Pop found murdered in his home and suspicion
The most devastating weather event to hit of previous episodes is on iPlayer. (S) (HD) accepts a lucrative offer that he can’t immediately lands on a child killer recently
Britain is examined, with the assistance 12.40am Ginger’s House (S) (HD) 12.50 refuse. New neighbours the Jerebohms released from prison under licence. Guest-
of celebrities including Joanna Lumley, Charlotte in Sunderland (S) (HD) 1.50 The host a terrible dinner party. (S) (AD) (HD) starring Lyndsey Marshal. (S) (AD) (HD)
Pete Waterman and John Craven. Fast and the Farmer-ish (S) (HD) 2.00 Dubai 9.00 2/6. The Trap. Nobody throws a
Director/Producer Charlie Clay (R) (S) (HD) Hustle (S) (HD) 3.00—4.00am Paranormal: 11.20 Passport to Freedom
party like the Larkins, and everybody is 4/8. As Thomas Zumkle launches an
6.30 Secrets of the Chocolate the Village That Saw Aliens (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) welcome, even the Jerebohms. (S) (AD) (HD)
BBC3 Freeview 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) Freesat 107 investigation of corrupt officials in
Factories 10.00 Foyle’s War Hamburg, he looks to link João to the
Sky 115 (117 Wales; 121 Scotland) Virgin 107 (113 Scotland/Wales)
A look at the manufacture of popular Elise. When Hilda is targeted by an illegal sale of Brazilian visas. (S) (HD)
confectionery around the world, featuring ITV2 6 assassin, Foyle suspects the shooting 12.20am 5/8. Aracy steps up her efforts
the production of Toblerones and KitKats. may be connected to a traitor within the to help refugees flee Germany. (S) (HD)
Director/Producer Simon Newton (Revised rpt) (S) (HD) 6.00am CITV (HD) 9.00 Totally Bonkers Special Operations Executive. (S) (AD) (HD) 1.20 The Brokenwood Mysteries: 1/6
Guinness World Records: the fastest tightrope
8.00 New series. Bargain-Loving walk in high heels (S) (HD) 9.30 Love Bites (S) 12.05am Agatha Christie’s Poirot: After the Series 10. A palaeontologist is found dead
Brits in the Sun Funeral. Richard Abernethie is found dead (SL) (HD) 3.00—4.00am Hotel Portofino: 5/6
(SL) (AD) (HD) 11.35 Dress to Impress (S) (SL) (HD)
Ep 1 Series 13. Jamie Waite steps out of 12.35pm Scared Shrekless (S) (HD) 1.10 The
shortly after disinheriting his sole heir (S) (AD) Series 1. An Italian guest tries to help Bella
his cousin John’s shadow to take over (HD) 2.00—2.30am Bless This House (S) resolve her problems with Signor Danioni (HD)
Smurfs: the Legend of Smurfy Hollow (S) (HD)
the management of a sports bar, and 1.45 FILM Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 U&Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
has an idea for a way to pull in more HHHH Animated fantasy with the voice of +1 Freesat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317 +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316
punters. John Thomson narrates. Helena Bonham Carter (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 3.20
Directors John Willats, Nathaniel Walters (S) (AD) (HD) FILM Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ITV4 26 ITVBe 28
HHHH The fourth instalment of JK
9.00 Rich House, Poor House Rowling’s fantasy adventure franchise 6.00am New. Motorsport Mundial (S) (HD) 7.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 7.25 Abbey Clancy:
Ep 2 Series 11. An edition that looks at starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma 6.30 New. Auto Mundial (S) (HD) 7.00 Celebrity Homes (S) (HD) 8.30 The Real
Motorsport UK (S) (HD) 8.00 MotoGP Housewives of Beverly Hills: double bill (S)
the wealth divide in women’s football, Watson and Ralph Fiennes (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
Highlights (S) (HD) 9.00 EFL Highlights (S) (HD) (HD) 10.20 Drama Queens (S) (HD) 11.20 The
with millionaire couple Liv and Gal 6.15pm FILM Harry Potter and the 10.35 Monster Carp (S) (HD) 11.30 Football Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (S) (HD)
swapping their manor house for Emma Order of the Phoenix HHHH Fantasy League Legends (S) (HD) 11.45 LIVE Darts:
adventure starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert 4.00pm The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 5.00
and Kevin’s two-bedroom rented house. the afternoon session on day four of the Billie and Greg: the Family Diaries (S) (HD)
Directors Matthew Dolan and Darren Green (S) (HD) Grint and Emma Watson. Despite having European Championship at Westfalenhallen in
battled Voldemort in person, Harry Potter 6.00pm Dermot O’Leary’s Taste of
10.00 The Killer Clown: Dortmund, featuring the quarter-finals (S) (HD) Ireland Dermot heads to Cork. (S) (AD) (HD)
cannot convince the wizarding world of the
33 Murders and Counting evil lord’s return. Inspired by his friends in 4.00pm Made in Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Gino’s Italy: Secrets of the South
Three experts examine the crimes of the secret Order of the Phoenix, Harry forms 6.00pm LIVE Darts Day four of the Gino D’Acampo investigates the culinary
American serial killer John Wayne Gacy, an underground army in preparation for European Championship at Westfalenhallen secrets of Puglia and Basilicata. (S) (AD) (HD)
battle with the forces of evil. (S) (AD) (W) (HD) in Dortmund, Germany, featuring the 7.30 The fortress port of Gallipoli. (S) (AD) (HD)
who was convicted in 1980 of the murders semi-finals and final. Jacqui Oatley presents, 8.00 Fletchers’ Family Farm There’s an
9.00 New. Big Brother A chance to catch
of 33 young men and boys. (S) (HD) up with the latest events in the house. (S) (HD) with analysis from Alan Warriner-Little and emergency when a ewe falls sick. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Most Shocking Celebrity 10.00 New. Big Brother: Late and Live Chris Mason, and commentary by Stuart 9.00 New. The Only Way Is Essex
Moments Companion show to this year’s series, Pyke, John Rawling and Dan Dawson. (S) (HD) Freddie and Jake go on a double date while
Memorable incidents from the 2000s, presented by AJ Odudu and Will Best. (S) (HD) 10.00 River Monsters Angling detective Junaid asks Joe to be exclusive. (S) (HD)
11.05 Family Guy Series 22. Meg discovers Jeremy Wade journeys to the Pacific Ring 10.00 New series. The Real Housewives
including the birth of reality classics The her tears produce delicious cookies. of Fire, where a fishing community is being Ultimate Girls’ Trip The housewives arrive
Osbournes and Big Brother. (R) (S) (HD) 11.35 Series 9. Peter and Joe play Halloween terrorised by something in the water. (S) (HD) in Thailand for the trip of a lifetime. (S) (HD)
1.00am Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 Ben Fogle: New pranks on their friends and neighbours. 11.00 EFL Highlights Action from the latest 11.10 The Real Housewives of Orange
Lives in the Wild (R) (S) (HD) 3.45 The Wonderful 12 midnight Series 18. Peter is grounded by fixtures. Shown yesterday 10.45pm ITV1 (S) (HD) County Shannon prepares for a fiesta party
World of Chocolate (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 4.40 House Lois after overspending on a credit card. 12.30am Minder (S) (AD) 1.30 The Sweeney (S) while dealing with bad publicity. (S) (HD)
Busters (R) (S) (SL) 5.05 Wildlife SOS (R) (S) (SL) 12.30am American Dad! (S) (AD) (HD) 1.20 All (SL) 2.25 The Protectors (S) (SL) (HD) 12.10am Be Beautiful: with Tia Ward (S) (AD) (HD)
5.30—5.40am Entertainment News (S) (HD) American (S) (HD) 2.10—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 2.55—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 12.25—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105 ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 (132 Scotland)
+1 Freeview 38 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 305 +1 Freeview 29 (7am-2am) Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 315 +1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 318 Virgin 119 +1 Virgin 319

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9.00am Entertainment News 9.10 Law &
Order 12.05pm Blue Bloods 4.00 NCIS 4.55
Entertainment News 5.00 NCIS Series 18
Four episodes. Sloane’s name is found in
Afghanistan, near a dead bus driver 6.00
A man is found frozen to death in the back of
a food truck 7.00 A case sends Gibbs past
his breaking point 8.00 McGee, Torres and
Bishop are assigned to Covid compliance
duties 9.00 NCIS: Hawai’i Series 1. Ernie and
a team of hackers search for the culprit of a
ransomware attempt 10.00 Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit: three episodes
12.55am Criminal Minds 2.50 Blindspot
The Emergency Ward 9.00pm Nurse Frankie & Johnny 8.00pm Is lady ‘Allo ‘Allo! 8.00pm Edith continues 3.35—4.00am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera
Ebony helps an intoxicated patient luck smiling on entertainer Johnny? with her search for a new husband 5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
8.55am Ugly House to Lovely House with 6.00am Peter and the Wolf 7.30 Charles 6.10am The World at War: six editions +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320
George Clarke (AD) 10.00 George Clarke’s Hazlewood: Beethoven and Me (AD) 8.30
Amazing Spaces: memorable builds (AD) 11.00 Tales of the Unexpected: five editions (AD)
12 noon Train Truckers: double bill
2.00pm How Britain Worked: three editions
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George Clarke’s Old House, New Home (AD) 11.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 5.00pm Canal Boat Diaries Robbie 8.00am Traffic Cops 12 noon Police
12.05pm Come Dine with Me: five editions 12 noon Portrait Artist of the Year 1.00pm Cumming takes a tumble at Buckby Locks Interceptors: four editions 4.00pm Nightmare
from Gloucestershire 2.40 Four in a Bed Comedy Legends 2.00 The Art of Film with and has a problem with his power supply. (AD) Tenants, Slum Landlords: two editions
5.20pm Come Dine with Me The dinner Ian Nathan 3.00 The Art Mysteries 3.30 6.00 Robbie encounters a leaky lock pound 6.00pm Nightmare Tenants, Slum
party challenge heads to Brighton, where The Moody Blues Live at the Isle of Wight on the Perry Barr Flight before travelling Landlords A property developer calls in an
guests are treated to vegetarian dishes, 5.00pm The Shadows: the Final Tour under Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham. eviction specialist after finding that he could
a seafood surprise, a fun dress code, a Thai A 2004 concert by the instrumental rock 7.00 Robbie explores the picturesque be arrested if he tries to oust squatters from
menu and some Jewish-Irish fusion food. band, in which Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. (AD) the derelict pub he has recently purchased.
8.00 24 Hours in A&E Cyclist Stuart, 40, is and Brian Bennett reunited to perform tracks 8.00 ‘Allo ‘Allo! The British airmen are 7.00 Peterborough Council receives a tip-off
transferred from another hospital after being including Apache, Riders in the Sky and FBI. forced to return to their hideout at Rene’s that leads them to find a property with
involved in a multiple collision during a race. 8.00 FILM Frankie & Johnny HH Musical café following a bungled escape attempt. life-threatening electrics and damp.
He is rushed into emergency surgery after comedy drama starring Elvis Presley as a Edith continues to search for a new husband. 8.00 A landlord who moved abroad for work
a CT scan reveals he has internal bleeding. Mississippi riverboat entertainer who’s in 8.40 The British send their finest finds his tenants have left him more than
9.00 New series. The Emergency Ward love with his partner, Frankie. But Johnny is French-speaking agent to say “good £20,000 in arrears on his mortgage.
Ep 1 Series 2. Doctor Emma calls in back-up a compulsive gambler whose losing streak moaning” to Rene and his colleagues. 9.00 Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?
to save a woman clinging to life after a high- changes when lady luck smiles on him in the 9.20 Rene and Captain Geering are A Suburban Nightmare Documentary looking
speed crash, while paramedics bring in a man attractive shape of Nelly Bly. Review p55. (W) ambushed by the Resistance. at the unsolved murder with cooperation
who has been on a two-day drug bender. (AD) 9.45 The Ghost of Richard Harris The life 10.00 Bangers and Cash Derek heads to from John Ramsey, JonBenet’s father.

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10.00 24 Hours in Police Custody and career of the Irish actor, told through County Durham, where Neil Walker is reluctantly 11.05 The Accused: Guilty or Innocent?
After a man is violently attacked on the previously unheard tapes recorded by letting his late father’s car collection go. (AD) Police reopen the cold case murder of a
doorstep of his home in Luton, detectives journalist Joe Jackson during interviews with 11.00 Paul and Jack head to Staffordshire to young marine who was killed in a hotel room.
from Bedfordshire Police’s Major Crime Unit Harris conducted over the course of 15 years. pick up five vehicles from a collector’s colossal 12 midnight Adults Only: Sexual Healing (AD)
launch an attempted murder investigation. (AD) 12 midnight FILM Dracula — Prince of Darkness barn, including a Mini and a Morris Minor. (AD) 1.00am I Escaped a Murderer (AD) 2.00 Police
11.05 Emergency Helicopter Medics HHHH Horror starring Christopher Lee. A group 12 midnight—3.00am How Britain Worked Interceptors 3.35—4.00am Car Pound Cops
A man fights for his life following a cardiac of English tourists set out on a sight-seeing tour, Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129 5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 (129 Scotland)
arrest, while a tumble on an obstacle course but are left stranded in the shadow of a castle in +1 Sky 255 Virgin 329 Virgin 126 +1 Freesat 140 Sky 228 (229 Scot) Virgin 326
leaves Vijitha with a painful open fracture. (AD) the Carpathian mountains — the home of Count
12.10am The Emergency Ward (AD) 1.15 24 Hours Dracula, supposedly dead for ten years (W) 1.45am
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in Police Custody (AD) 2.15 24 Hours in A&E Classic Artists: Cream 4.05 The Great Songwriters
3.20—3.50am Food Unwrapped (AD) 5.00—6.00am Discovering: Johnny Cash (AD) 7.10am Big Zuu’s Big Eats (AD) 8.00 Storage 9.00am Car Pound Cops 9.30 Trucking Heavy
More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 (137 Scotland) Sky Arts Freeview 36 Freesat 143 Sky 130 (131 Scotland) Hunters UK 9.00 Abandoned Engineering 10.30 FILM Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home
Virgin 147 +1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 (237 Scot) Virgin 347 Virgin 123 EE 350/HD 365 (AD) 11.00 Top Gear USA Special (AD) HHHH Sci-fi adventure starring William
12 noon Top Gear (AD) 1.00pm Storage Hunters Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley
E4 13 4seven 49
UK 3.00 Gino’s Italian Escape: Hidden Italy 12.55pm FILM The War Wagon HHH
6.00am Hollyoaks (AD) 7.15 Rude(ish) Tube 9.00am Four in a Bed 9.30 Four in a Bed 5.00pm Mediterranean with Simon Reeve Western starring John Wayne and Kirk
Shorts 7.20 Married at First Sight (AD) Simon visits Malta, southern Italy and Albania. Douglas 3.05 FILM Cast a Giant Shadow
2.00pm A Place in the Sun: four editions HHH War drama starring Kirk Douglas
12.10pm The Great British Bake Off (SL) (AD) 6.00 The traveller explores Cyprus,
6.00pm A Place in the Sun: What Happened Lebanon, Israel and Gaza. 5.55pm FILM Where Eagles Dare HHHH
1.25 FILM Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Next? Amanda Lamb returns to Lorraine, Second World War action starring Richard
HH Animated comedy adventure featuring 7.00 New. Border Force: America’s
France, to see the house she helped secure. Gatekeepers Officers intercept a shipment Burton and Clint Eastwood as members of an
the voices of Ben Stiller and David 7.00 Lee Juggurnauth returns to the Greek elite group of commandos who must enter
Schwimmer (AD) 3.05 The Big Bang Theory of hundreds of gun parts headed for Mexico.
sea-view villa he helped find for Liz and Ian 8.00 World’s Most Dangerous Roads 1/8 an almost impregnable Nazi stronghold to
(AD) 5.25 New. Lego Masters Australia: the in 2021 to see what they have been doing. rescue a high ranking American officer.
teams build models representing secrets, Series 4. Actor Will Mellor cajoles one of his
8.00 Grand Designs Ep 5. Kevin McCloud best mates, comedian Keith Lemon, to join 9.00 FILM The Dirty Dozen HHHH Second
mysteries or conspiracy theories (AD) follows the progress of Northamptonshire World War adventure starring Lee Marvin and
him on a high-octane road trip in Albania. (AD)
6.45pm FILM Bumblebee HHH Sci-fi couple Adam and Tassy as they create 9.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You Ernest Borgnine. Major Reisman’s mission to
action adventure starring Hailee Steinfeld a fun family home in an abandoned concrete Guest host Mel Giedroyc is joined by Hal lead a covert operation behind enemy lines is
and John Cena. A troubled teen discovers water tower. Shown last Wednesday C4 (AD) a tough one; especially when his team is to
Cruttenden and Sathnam Sanghera.
that her beaten-up Volkswagen Beetle is a 9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox Including Rio and be made up of 12 prisoners convicted for
robot in disguise. Together they must protect 10.00 QI With Doon Mackichan, Jimmy Carr
Kate Ferdinand, Martin and Roman Kemp, and Dara O Briain. Presented by Stephen Fry. murder, robbery and other violent crimes.
the Earth from the evil Decepticons. (AD) and Shaun Ryder and Bez. From June. (AD) 12.10am FILM Lone Wolf McQuade HHH
9.00 FILM Men in Black: International HH 10.40 Mock the Week With Angela Barnes,
10.00 Taskmaster 7/10. Rosie Jones is left Ed Byrne, Rhys James, Nish Kumar and Ellie Action adventure starring Chuck Norris
Sci-fi action comedy with Chris Hemsworth, feeling badly let down by her team-mate Jack 2.20 Trucking Hell (AD) 3.20 Car Pound
Tessa Thompson and Liam Neeson. Rookie Taylor. Hosted by Dara O Briain.
Dee, while Babatunde Aleshe shouts about 11.20 Guests include Rachel Parris. Cops 3.55—4.00am Entertainment News
Agent M is sent to the London office, where a fortune cookie. Shown last Thursday C4 (AD) 5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130
she’s partnered with Agent H. When their first 12 midnight Live at the Apollo 1.00am Red Dwarf
11.05 24 Hours in A&E At Queen’s Medical (AD) 1.35 Not Going Out 3.10—4.00am Schitt’s Creek
assignment together ends in disaster, M begins
to suspect a mole must have infiltrated the
Centre in Nottingham, Dr Ian treats 15-year-old
James, who has been struck in the eye with
U&Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (112 Wales) Virgin HD 127 5 Select 46
agency. But who could it be? (AD) U&Dave Ja Vu F’view 74 Sky 211 (212 Wales) Virgin 327
an arrow during a holiday archery class. (AD) 9.00am Entertainment News 9.10 Paul
11.15 Gogglebox Reactions to Million Pound Martin’s Antiques Showdown 10.10 Ben
Cube and Strictly Come Dancing. (AD)
12.10am Generation Z (AD) 1.15 Love Cheats (AD)
2.20 Celebrity Gogglebox for Stand Up to Cancer
Sky Mix 11
Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 1.10pm Columbo
12.20am Strictly Come Dancing, Don’t Rock (AD) 3.25 Everyone Else Burns (AD) 3.55—5.00am 6.00pm Columbo A chess champion fears
the Boat and The Undoing are appraised. (AD) 6.00am Border Patrol 8.00 MC Grammar:
Into the Jungle with Ed Stafford (AD) he will be beaten by a rival, and decides
1.25 First Dates (SL) (AD) 3.25 Gogglebox (SL) Halloween Party 8.05 Isadora Moon (AD)
4seven F’view 49 F’sat 127 Sky 137 (138 Scot) Virgin 143 8.20 Tom Gates: a Monster Halloween (AD) the only way to avoid defeat is murder.
(AD) 4.20—6.00am Hollyoaks (SL) (AD) 7.25 An inventor manipulates security
8.45 Dodo 9.00 Monkey Life (AD) 11.30 999
E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 (136 Scot) Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 (236 Scot) Virgin 306
Quest 12 Frontline 12 noon Road Wars 1.00pm Caught camera footage to provide himself with
an alibi for murdering his mother-in-law.
E4 Extra F’view 31 F’sat 126 Sky 138 (139 Scot) Virgin 144 6.00am Combat Dealers 8.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog Red Handed 3.00 Border Security: Canada’s
Front Line (AD) 5.00 Highway Cops (AD) 9.00 Bradley Walsh: My Comedy Heroes
It: five episodes 1.00pm The Repair Shop 3.00 The funnyman celebrates his comedy heroes,
Really 17 The Yorkshire Auction House: three editions
6.00pm Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House 7.00
6.00pm Caught Red Handed: triple bill. A
shop manager is forced to fight off a burglar
starting with a nostalgic homage to the sitcom.
Shed and Buried: four editions. Henry and Fuzz 10.30 Man about the House: 50 Years of
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home 6.40 A shop assistant terrorised by robbers Laughs A celebration of the 1970s sitcom,
Shopping 8.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 10.00 visit an ex-commercial pilot with two hangars’ 7.20 A family shop comes under attack 8.00
The Bad Skin Clinic (AD) 11.00 Dr Pimple Popper worth of stuff 7.30 Sam and Henry examine an which was considered shocking at the time.
incredible collection of classic American motors
Nothing to Declare: the work of customs 12 midnight The Big Steam Adventure: Here We
1.00pm A Place in the Sun: six editions 7.00 officers in Australia 9.00 Britain’s Most Evil
Cornwall Air 999: double bill 9.00 New. The 8.00 Henry and Fuzz visit a farm near Colchester Go Again!: the Lake District 1.00am Ben Fogle:
Grindr Killer: a Faking It Special 10.00 Faking It: with vintage tractors galore 8.30 The boys visit Killers: double bill. The story of cult killer New Lives in the Wild 3.00 Digging Up Britain’s
Jimmy Savile 11.00 The Bad Skin Clinic (AD) Rob, who has an impressive collection of vintage Zahid Zaman, then the crimes of Stephen Past 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News
12 midnight Celebrity Help! My House Is Haunted: British bikes 9.00 The Repair Shop: three editions Unwin and William McFall 11.00 Snapped 5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138
the team visits Frankie and Joey Essex (AD) 1.00am 12 midnight Nasa’s Unexplained Files 2.00am 12 midnight Caught on Dashcam 1.00am Brit
Unexplained: Caught on Camera 2.00 Shopping The Alaska Triangle 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 2.00 Motorway Patrol: FREEVIEW TV and film
4.00—6.00am Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet Quest Freeview 12 Freesat 150/HD 144 Sky 144 Virgin 137 four editions 4.00—6.00am Border Patrol
channels continue overleaf
Really Freeview 17 Freesat 145 Sky 142 Virgin 128 +1 Freeview 70 Freesat 151 Sky 244 Virgin 337 Sky Mix Freeview 11 Freesat 141 Sky 151 Virgin 135
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 200 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 EE 313

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U&W Food Network PBS America
25 43 84
CHILDREN’S FILMS
Milkshake! on C5 Film4 14
5.40am Paw Patrol 5.45 Milkshake! 11.00am Playing with Fire HH
Monkey’s Amazing Adventures 6.00 California firefighters are forced to
Sunny Bunnies 6.05 Milkshake! Monkey babysit three cutely obnoxious kids
6.10 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom in this broad family comedy. John Cena,
6.20 Little Princess 6.30 New. Fireman
Sam: Moose helps the Detectives and Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo (2019, PG) (S)
the Why Files 6.40 Thomas & Friends 12.55pm The Spiderwick
6.55 Chip and Potato 7.05 Pip and Chronicles HHHH Refreshingly
Posy 7.25 New. Peppa Pig 7.35 The cute-free family adventure, with
Adventures of Paddington 7.55 New. Freddie Highmore in a dual role as
Mixmups: Pockets, Giggle and Spin spot twin brothers. Sarah Bolger (2008, PG) (S) (AD)
Emergency: First Time Medics Halloween Baking Jungle War 8.40pm The end a rainbow 8.10 Paw Patrol 8.25 New.
2.45 The School of Rock HHHH
Dora: the sun refuses to set without its
9.00pm Tej is all smiles Championship 7.00pm Duff of the conflict in Vietnam missing Pillow Cloud 8.35—8.50am An out-of-work guitarist passes
New. Rubble & Crew: the pups discover himself off as a supply teacher in
6.10am Tipping Point 11.00 My 6.00am Man v Food 8.00 Adam 8.00am Beautiful Serengeti bats at their autumn festival this upbeat, family-friendly musical
Family: six episodes (AD) 3.00pm Richman Eats Britain 11.00 James 8.30 Jungle War 1.00pm Mafia’s comedy. Jack Black (2003, PG) (S) (AD)
Full listings for Channel 5 are on p52
Outnumbered: five episodes (AD) Martin’s Brittany 1.00pm James Greatest Hits 2.20 The Great Fire: 5.00 Time Bandits HHHH Terry
Martin’s Champagne: The chef London Burns 3.20 The Great Gilliam’s marvellous, meticulously
6.20pm Outnumbered Sue
thinks Jake is hiding a secret. (AD) enjoys the grape harvest in Rheims Fire: Death and Destruction 4.20 CBeebies 202
designed fantasy comedy follows a
2.00 James Martin’s Brittany The Great Fire: a City Rebuilt 6.00am Baby Jake 6.10 Raa Raa young boy who is whisked through
7.00 Inside the Operating 3.00 Halloween Baking 5.20pm Jungle War 1/4 the Noisy Lion 6.20 Bing 6.30 Love time. John Cleese, Sean Connery (1981, PG) (S) (AD)
Theatre A four-year-old girl has Championship 7.00 Halloween Monster 6.40 Chuggington: Tales
her droopy eyelid lifted. (AD) Baking Championship: For the
Investigating how the jungles from the Rails 6.50 Go Jetters 7.00 7.20pm Table 19 HHH Mild and
grand final, the remaining bakers of the Pacific shaped the battles Vegesaurs 7.05 Supertato 7.15 Bing fitfully amusing romantic comedy
8.00 Nick has an ultrasound taken of the Second World War.
from inside his body to find out if have six hours to construct a 7.30 Hey Duggee 7.45 Go Jetters geared around wedding reception
spooky ‘ginger dead’ house 6.25 2/4. Exploring the aftershocks 8.00 Peter Rabbit 8.10 Octonauts outcasts. Anna Kendrick, Lisa Kudrow (2017, 12) (S)
he needs open-heart surgery. (AD) of the Second World War. 8.25 Vida the Vet 8.35 Mojo
8.00 Adam Richman Eats Britain: 9.00 Venom: Let There Be
9.00 Emergency: First Time Eight helpings. Adam explores the 7.35 3/4. Examining ever- Swoptops 8.45 The Furchester Hotel
Medics Zak treats a man who culinary delights of Britain, evolving jungle warfare tactics. 9.00 Something Special: We’re All Carnage HH Comic-book sequel
Friends 9.20 Bluey 9.40 Hey Duggee
may have had a mini stroke. (AD) beginning with a Lancashire hot 8.40 4/4. A look at jungle warfare 9.55 Vida the Vet 10.05 Supertato
with Tom Hardy up against
10.00 Tristan gets a diagnosis pot 8.30 Gorging on cheese in in the final years of the Vietnam war. 10.15 New. Nikhil & Jay: Nikhil, Jay and Woody Harrelson. (2020, 15) (S) (AD)
spot-on, and Christine has a Cheddar 9.00 Sampling Britain’s 9.50 Lost World of Angkor Wat their family celebrate Deepavali, also 10.55 Free Fire HHH An illegal
patient with an alarming finest pork pie 9.30 A scone in 1/2. Using advanced scanning
known as Diwali, with kolam, laddus
deal in a warehouse descends into
combination of symptoms. (AD) Scone 10.00 Adam tries Yorkshire and bunting 10.25 Dodge’s Pup School
technology in south-east Asia’s 10.35 Spidey and His Amazing Friends chaos in this fun but derivative
11.00 One Born: What Happened pudding in Yorkshire 10.30 The rainforests to uncover the rise and 11.00 Swashbuckle 11.25 Fred & Pete’s shoot ’em up. Review, right. Cillian
Next? Cameras follow Donna and American food fanatic discovers fall of the medieval Khmer empire. Treasure Tales 11.40 Garden Tales Murphy, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer (2016, 15) (S)
Wayne as they tackle the challenges the home of steak in Scotland 10.55 2/2. The team uncovers 11.50 Dog Squad 12 noon My World
12.45—3.05am The Book of Eli
Television SUNDAY

of bringing up their two little girls. 11.00 Adam visits a gastropub and one of the world’s largest Kitchen 12.10pm Time for School
learns about the accidental 12.25 The Game Catchers 12.30 Hey HHH Thought-provoking action
12 midnight Featuring Judith, who ancient water systems and Duggee 12.40 Our Family 12.45 drama set in a post-apocalypse
invention of Bakewell pudding
had to cope with an anxiety disorder 11.30 Adam travels to Kent for a ancient weapons reveal the true Octonauts 1.00 Bitz & Bob 1.10 Love America, with Denzel Washington
after going through a tricky birth. very special sandwich in Sandwich power of the Khmer military. Monster 1.25 Go Jetters 1.50 Yukee as a drifter striving to protect a
1.00—3.00am One Born Every 12 midnight Man v Food 2.00—3.00am 12 midnight Mafia’s Greatest Hits 1.55 Roots and Fruits 2.00 Something sacred book. Gary Oldman (2009, 15) (S)
Minute: two back-to-back editions 1.10—2.00am Beautiful Serengeti Special: We’re All Friends 2.25 Old
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: double bill
Jack’s Boat 2.40 My World Kitchen Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
U&W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 (133 Scotland) Food Network F’view 43 F’sat 148 Sky 140 PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only) 2.50 Numberblocks 2.55 What’s in Sky 313 Virgin 428
Virgin 125 +1 Sky 232 (233 Scotland) Virgin 325 (141 Scot) Virgin 190 +1 F’sat 154 Sky 240 (241 Scot) Freesat 155 Sky 173 Virgin 187 Your Bag? 3.05 Yukee 3.10 Hey +1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
Duggee 3.15 Dodge’s Pup School 3.30
Rewind TV 95 HGTV 44 U&Eden 57 Twirlywoos 3.40 YolanDa’s Band Jam
3.55 Mojo Swoptops 4.05 Molly and
Talking 82
6.00am Unwind with Rewind 7.00am My Lottery Dream Home: 9.00am Equator: the Line of Life Mack 4.20 Magic Hands 4.30
Treasure Champs 4.45 Supertato
Pictures TV
6.30 FILM Flight to Mars H Sci-fi six editions 10.00 Escape to the 11.00 Fascinating New Zealand (AD) 4.55 Bluey 5.05 Vida the Vet 5.15 6.00am Alibi Breaker HH Stodgy
adventure 8.00 That’s My Dog Country: five editions. A young 12 noon Africa from Above 3.00pm Katie Morag: there is a problem with
9.00 Return of the Saint 11.00 family searches for a home in the Blue Planet II 6.00 Africa from the potato crop 5.25 Our Family:
crime drama about a gambler
Jason King 2.00pm FILM The Dorset countryside 11.00 A couple Above: triple bill. The route of the George and Freddie pretend to be framed for a theft. Basil Langton (1937, U)
Medusa Touch HHH Supernatural look for a home in Somerset Volta River in Ghana 7.00 Ethiopia, pirates, but will they find any treasure? 7.20 Vengeance Is Mine H
thriller starring Richard Burton and 12 noon An American expat couple 5.30 Nikhil & Jay 5.45 Sarah & Duck Overwrought low-budget revenge
the most populous landlocked thriller. Valentine Dyall (1948) (S) 8.35 The
Lee Remick 4.00 Dick Turpin: search for a home in Surrey 5.50 Charlie and Lola: the duo visit
country on Earth 8.00 Uganda’s Granny 6.05 Tee and Mo: Tee is Crater Lake Monster H Shoddy
triple bill 5.30 Shine on Harvey 1.00pm Searching for a property rich biodiversity 9.00 Blue Planet II
Moon 6.30 Surgical Spirit: triple heartbroken when his favourite Action sci-fi drama. Richard Cardella (1977) (S) 10.20
in north Wales 2.00 Jonnie Irwin 12 midnight Anthony Bourdain: Parts
bill 8.00 A Fine Romance 9.00 travels across Suffolk to help a pair
Ape outfit gets dirty 6.10 Clangers Bandido HH This routine 1950s
Unknown 2.00am Africa from Above 6.20 In the Night Garden... western adventure is lifted by the
Hancock 9.30 The Optimist: the of busy Londoners decide on a 4.30 Blue Planet II 5.20—6.00am David 6.50—7.00pm Bedtime Stories: Bjorn
Optimist finds he has a rival in love property 3.00 A Place in the Sun: Ulvaeus reads The Storm Whale presence of Robert Mitchum. (1956, U) (S)
Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (AD)
10.00 FILM The Medusa Touch five editions 8.00 Derelict Rescue: CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702
12.20pm Thunderbirds TV sci-fi.
HHH Supernatural thriller starring U&Eden Freeview 57 Freesat 160 Sky 166 1.25 Batman Caped fun. (S) 2.00
Alan and Anne take on a crumbling Virgin 176 +1 Sky 266 Virgin 376
Richard Burton and Lee Remick The Weaker Sex HH Sentimental
12 midnight FILM The Fabulous
nineteenth-century church. CBBC 201 wartime drama about life on the
Dorseys HH Biographical musical
They’ve given themselves just 60
weeks to turn the draughty building
Blaze 64
7.00am Shaun the Sheep; Odd Tubes
home front. Ursula Jeans (1948, U) (S)
starring the legendary Dorsey brothers 3.40 Norman Wisdom: a Life The
(BW) 1.45am That’s My Dog 2.45 The into a luxury eco holiday let 9.00 A 6.00am Hardcore Pawn 8.00 7.10 Danger Mouse 7.25 Dennis &
Gnasher Unleashed! 7.35 Boy Girl Dog comedy star talks to Paul Ross. (S)
Optimist 3.15 Hancock 3.45 FILM Place in the Sun: four editions UFO Hunters 10.00 Craig Charles: 4.30 Out of Town Documentary. (S)
The Amazing Transparent Man H Sci-fi 1.00—4.00am Bargain Mansions (AD) Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45 New. Newsround
UFO Conspiracies 11.00 Ancient 7.55 Ninja Express 8.05 Odd Squad 5.00 The Footage Detectives
5.00—6.00am Unwind with Rewind HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 149 Sky 158 Virgin 191 Aliens 12 noon Close Encounters 8.20 Super Happy Magic Forest 8.30 Clips from a Tod Slaughter film. (S)
Rewind TV Freeview 95 Sky 190 +1 Sky 258 Virgin 391 Down Under 1.00pm Conspiracy OOglies 8.35 Transformers: EarthSpark 6.00pm Miranda HHH Whimsical
Files: Unsealed 7.00 World’s 9.00 Blue Peter 9.30 Game on comedy fantasy starring Glynis
Great TV 50 Challenge 48 Greatest Treasure Mysteries 8.00 Grandparents 9.50 A Kind of Spark
10.15 DIY Deadly with Steve Backshall
Johns as the flirtatious mermaid
The Curse of Oak Island 9.00 New who ends up in a couple’s bathroom.
8.00am Highway to Heaven 11.00 7.00am Scrapheap Challenge 10.30 Planet Earth II 11.30 Deadly 60
Royal Autopsy: Alice Roberts Review, right. Googie Withers (1947) (S)
Murder, She Wrote: seven episodes 10.00 The Crystal Maze 11.00 12 noon Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures
6.00pm Murder, She Wrote: triple Play Your Cards Right (AD) 12 noon
revisits the death of Queen 12.10pm Princess Mirror-Belle 12.35 7.40 Final Appointment HH
Elizabeth I 10.00 New. Medieval Game on Grandparents 12.55 Horrible A combination of wit and suspense
bill. Ian Ogilvy guests in a tale of Dickinson’s Real Deal 1.00pm Murder Mysteries: Prince Arthur of
Lily Savage’s Blankety Blank 3.00 Histories 1.55 Danger Mouse 2.30 keeps this thriller from outstaying
death at a Monte Carlo hotel Brittany 11.00 What on Earth? Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 3.05 its welcome. John Bentley (1954, PG) (S)
7.00 A British MP is murdered Through the Keyhole 4.00 Cash 1.00am Adventure Gold Diggers Super Happy Magic Forest 3.40 Grizzy
8.00 Jessica’s neighbour is shot Trapped 5.00 The Chase Celebrity 9.00 Victorian Scandals TV
2.00 UFO Hunters: two editions and the Lemmings 4.05 Operation
dead 9.00 Fixer Upper Mysteries: Special: double bill. Gregg Wallace, Ouch! 4.35 4 o’Clock Club 5.00 Pickle period drama with Patricia Hayes. (S)
4.00—6.00am Flipping Bangers
Deadly Deed: a banker is found Denise Lewis, Mark Pougatch and Storm 5.25 The Next Step: Ultra-Elite 10.05 Villain HHH Menacing
Gina Yashere work as a team to Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 161 Sky 164 Virgin 174 finds a new studio to call home 5.45 crime drama with Richard Burton
murdered inside a Victorian
secure a cash prize for charity, then Odd Squad 6.25 Jamie Johnson FC as a vicious London gangster.
mansion currently being renovated
by Shannon Hughes 10.50 Sam Quek, Basil Brush, Andi Peters BBC Parliament 232 6.55—7.00pm Our Black History Review, right. Ian McShane (1971, 18) (S)
Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses: and Charlie Higson take on one of 6.00am Westminster Hall 11.00
Heroes: Dylan talks about his hero, 12.05am Cabin Boy HH A rich kid
tennis player Serena Williams mistakes a fishing boat for a luxury
a champion racehorse is stolen the Chasers (AD) 7.00 The Chase: House of Lords 11.45 Senedd Cymru:
12.40am Castle 1.40 Movie News double bill of the quiz show hosted Welsh Parliament 12.45pm House
CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701 liner in this unoriginal comedy.
1.50 Castle 2.50 Movie News 3.00 by Bradley Walsh (AD) 9.00 The of Commons 1.45 House of Lords Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley (1994, 12) 1.40 The
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 3.50 Family Chase: a family from Cardiff 2.20 House of Commons 2.55 ITV Kids on ITV2 Heritage Chart Show Music show.
Movie News 4.00 Highway to Heaven compete in the game show, hosted Senedd Cymru: Welsh Parliament 2.40 Suddenly HHH Well-played
4.50—5.00am Movie News ITV Kids shows also stream on ITVX thriller starring Frank Sinatra. Sterling
by Bradley Walsh 10.00 The Chase: 3.40 Prime Minister’s Questions
Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Sky 157 six back-to-back editions of the quiz 4.15 Welsh First Minister’s Questions 6.00am Teen Titans Go! 6.30 Looney Hayden (1954, PG) (S) 4.15 Crosstrap HH
Virgin 170 +1 Sky 257 show hosted by Bradley Walsh 5.15 Northern Ireland Assembly: Tunes Cartoons 6.45 Mr Bean: the Curious if minor British B-Movie.
4.00am The Chase Celebrity Special Executive Office Questions 6.00 Select Animated Series 7.00 Dodo Laurence Payne (1961) 5.30—6.00am
FREEVIEW channels (AD) 5.00—6.00am The Chase (AD) Committees 11.55—6.00am Sign Zone 7.30—9.00am Scooby-Doo! Stage The Larkins TV comedy. (S)
Fright: animated comedy. The cowardly
continued from overleaf Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 142 BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201 hound and his friends enter a talent show, Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Sky 145 Virgin 139 Sky 504 Virgin 605 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445
ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

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Great Movies 34 Sky Premiere FILM REVIEWS

9.10am Perception 10.10 The Lover: 6.00am Scarygirl HHH Great- footage of the title number in
A Deadly Affair HH A night of looking animation. Sam Neill (2023, PG) the finale reprise is just lazy.
passion turns to obsession. (2017) 7.35 Restore Point HHH Finely
12.10pm Killer Grandma HH drawn Czech sci-fi detective flick. TONY SLOMAN (US 1966, HD)
Outlandish TV-movie thriller. Kelly Andrea Mohylova, Matej Hadek (2023, 15) 9.35
Sullivan (2018) 2.10 Source Code HHHH The Color Purple HHH All-singin’, Fiend without a Face HHH
Jake Gyllenhaal is in a time loop to all-dancin’ musical version of Alice 9.00-10.30pm Legend Xtra g
find a mass murderer in a fascinating Walker’s novel. Fantasia Barrino (2023, 12)
sci-fi thriller. Michelle Monaghan (2011, 12) 4.05 12 noon As 8pm 2.05pm As SCI-FI HORROR Canadian
Snow White and the Huntsman 10.05pm 4.20 The Radleys HHH atomic experiments cause
HHH Good-looking fantasy. Kristen Likeable dark horror comedy. Damian
Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron (2012, 12) Lewis, Kelly Macdonald, Harry Baxendale (2024) human thoughts to turn into
6.40pm The Huntsman: 6.15pm Don’t Tell Mom the brain-sucking creatures in
Winter’s War HHH Eye-catching Babysitter’s Dead HH Fitfully this grisly little 1950s number
though uneven spin-off from the amusing remake of the 1991 that features unusually
Snow White story. Chris Hemsworth (2016, 12) comedy. Simone Joy Jones, Nicole Richie (2024, 15)
9.00 The Take HHH Pacey action 8.00 Ghostbusters: Frozen graphic special effects for
thriller with Idris Elba as a Empire HHHH The spook-chasers the period. Arthur Crabtree’s
CIA agent who teams up with take on icy spectres that carry an Quatermass-style shocker
pickpocket Richard Madden. (2016, 15) ancient curse. Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon (2024, 12) starts off ordinarily but, once
10.55 Righteous Kill HH Heavy- 10.05 i The Book of Clarence
handed thriller featuring Al Pacino HHH LaKeith Stanfield’s conman the flying spinal cords whip
and Robert De Niro as cop partners tries to pass himself off as a into action, the screams you
on the trail of a vigilante killer. (2008, 15) messiah. Review pxx. (2023, 15) hear may very well be your
1.05am The Exception HH Wartime 12.25am As 6.15pm 2.10 Lisa own! AJ (UK 1957, violence, BW)
Frankenstein HHH Gleefully camp
spy drama. Lily James (2016, 15) 3.20 Wild
FILM Malcolm X HHHH
West Chronicles 4.00—5.40am Kill
Thy Neighbor HH Melodramatic
romantic horror. Kathryn Newton (2024, 15)
4.00 Freud’s Last Session HHH OF THE 10.00pm-1.10am BBC2 (not in N Ireland) j Villain HHH
thriller. Andrea Bogart, Hannah Barefoot (2018) Theatrical period drama. (2023, 12) DAY 10.05pm-12.05am
Great Movies Freeview 34 Sky 321 Virgin 425 Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401 BIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA Though conventional Talking Pictures TV z
+1 Sky 322 EE 501/HD 515 by Spike Lee’s standards, the writer/director’s three-hour
biopic of American civil rights leader el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz CRIME DRAMA Taking
Great Action 42 Legend 41
— more widely known as Malcolm X — is suitably monumental. inspiration from the Kray
Denzel Washington commands every scene in the title role, twins, Richard Burton stars

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8.00am Police Ten 7 9.00 The 7.00am The Twilight Zone 8.00
Last Blitzkrieg H Second World End of the World H Awful disaster as Malcolm Little evolves from low-level teen hoodlum in the here as a vicious East End
War drama. Van Johnson, Kerwin Mathews, drama. J Jhey Castles (2018, 15) 10.00 The 1940s to reformed figurehead of the American Nation of gangster who rules by fear
Dick York (1958) 10.55 Christmas Truce A-Team: five episodes 3.00pm
HH Melodramatic wartime tale. Craig Tremors 3: Back to Perfection Islam in the late 1950s, before his assassination at the hands and the cut-throat razor. He’s
Anthony Olejnik, Ali Liebert (2015) 1.10pm Wild HH Bug-blasting horror comedy of militant activists in February 1965. Top-tier film-making. also adored by his mother
West Chronicles 2.10 Drums across sequel. Michael Gross (2001, PG) 5.00 CALUM BAKER (US 1992, violence, swearing, sexual references, drug abuse, HD) and has a toy-boy lover (Ian
the River HH Average Audie Jurassic Hunters H Cheap Jurassic McShane). Wavering between
Murphy western. Lisa Gaye, Lyle Bettger World cash-in. Eric Roberts, Rib Hillis (2015, 15) The Third Man 5 again causes floods of tears horror, sentimentality and
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.

(1954, PG) 4.00 Two Rode Together 6.45pm Primal Force H

HHH Slow-moving but well-cast 12.15-2.00pm BBC2 g in this rollicking sequel that dark humour, the film is only

Television
Derivative humans-in-peril-from-
western. James Stewart, Richard Widmark (1961, PG) mutants adventure. Ron Perlman (1999, 15) showcases more Abba songs. held together by Burton’s
6.20pm Warlock HHHH Former 8.30 The Twilight Zone TV sci-fi.
FILM NOIR Developed from The plot — which sees Sophie performance. ADRIAN
gunfighter Henry Fonda turns 9.00 Rules of Engagement HH a Graham Greene story, this (Amanda Seyfried) planning TURNER (UK 1971, violence, swearing)
lawman in Edward Dmytryk’s Stereotypical military courtroom is one of the best British films a re-opening of her late
impressive western. Richard Widmark (1959, U)
9.00 16 Blocks HHH Laconic cop
drama that wastes a terrific cast.
Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L Jackson (2000, 15)
of all time. It’s set in postwar mother’s taverna — is thin, Free Fire HHH
Bruce Willis is assigned to transport 11.30 Sword of Vengeance HH
Vienna, and director Carol but the film springs to life 10.55pm-12.45am Film4 j
motormouth criminal Mos Def from Grisly action adventure starring Reed fashions a city in which with each musical number. AJ
to the courthouse. David Morse (2006, 12) Stanley Weber as a medieval prince menace lurks around every ACTION DRAMA This fun
(US 2018, sexual references, HD)
11.10 Punisher: War Zone HH out for violent revenge. (2015, 15) corner as Joseph Cotten’s shoot-’em-up from British
The Marvel Comics vigilante hero
returns in this trashy, hard-edged
1.15am The House of the Devil
HHH Ominous chiller about a
writer uncovers murky Miranda HHH 6.00- director Ben Wheatley (Kill
dealings while looking for List) all but dispenses with
thriller. Ray Stevenson, Dominic West (2008, 18) babysitter who is lured to a creepy 7.40pm Talking Pictures TV
1.20am Stonados HH Low-budget house for a job that isn’t all it seems. his old friend Orson Welles. plot. An illegal guns deal in a
sci-fi disaster flick. Paul Johansson (2013, 12) Jocelin Donahue (2009, 18) 3.05—4.55am DAVID PARKINSON (UK 1949, BW, HD) COMEDY FANTASY Glynis warehouse rapidly becomes
3.15 Cops Uncut 3.45—5.00am Maximum Conviction HH Steven Johns gives one of the best a trigger-happy free-for-all

m Monster House
The Blitz on Cologne Seagal and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin performances of her career as grudges are aired between
team up for this action flick. (2012, 15)
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited)
Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324 Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149
HHHH as Miranda the flirtatious Cillian Murphy, Brie Larson
2.00-3.50pm C4 g mermaid in this fishy tale. and others. Wheatley delivers
Great 52 Legend Xtra 69
COMEDY HORROR As Griffith Jones is something the action with verve, but
Christmas 6.00am Independents’ Day H Halloween nears, three of a stuffed shirt as the the third act drags. TERRY
Sci-fi mockbuster about an alien doctor who pulls her out of STAUNTON (Fr/UK 2016, violence,
8.00am Coming Home for youngsters must unlock the
Christmas HH Sweet and corny invasion. Fay Gauthier (2016, 12) 8.00 Eye
secret of a haunted house the sea and gives her the run swearing, drug abuse, HD)
family drama. Carly McKillip (2013, U) 10.00 of the Beast HH The people of a of his bathroom, but Googie
Santa’s Secret HH Cute fantasy. small town battle a giant squid. James before it swallows the
Withers is good value as his
i Memoria HHHH
Alicia Witt (2014) 12 noon Jingle around Van Der Beek (2007) 10.00 Apocalypse neighbourhood’s trick-or- 12.30-2.45am C4 h
the Clock HH Warm and fuzzy of Ice H A pandemic-ravaged world treaters. Director Gil Kenan suspicious wife. It’s never
romance. Brooke Nevin (2018) 2.00pm is further threatened by a global exactly funny, but enjoyable MYSTERY DRAMA Tilda
creates a fun and thrilling
Crashing through the Snow HH ice storm. Tom Sizemore (2020) 12 noon
all the same. DP (UK 1947, BW)
Romance. Amy Acker, Warren Christie (2021) Category 7: the End of the World ride for kids, with plenty Swinton plays a Scottish
4.00 Christmas at Graceland HH 4.00pm Knight Rider Five of imaginative detail. ALAN botanist on a sojourn to
Sugary romantic tale. Kellie Pickler (2018) episodes of the TV drama. JONES (US 2006, scenes that some
Frankie & Johnny HH Colombia who awakens to
6.00pm Christmas on 9.00 Fiend without a Face HHH younger viewers may find disturbing, HD) 8.00-9.45pm Sky Arts y an inexplicable sound in her
Honeysuckle Lane HH Emotional Atomic experiments have surreal
head, which sends her on a

m Ghostbusters II HHHg
drama. Alicia Witt, Colin Ferguson (2018) consequences in this cult British MUSICAL Elvis Presley and
8.00 Reunited at Christmas HH horror with graphic special effects. Donna Douglas make a sweet journey of self-reflection. The
Routine true-meaning-of-Christmas Review, right. Marshall Thompson (1957, PG) 4.15-5.55pm BBC1 glacial pacing and weirdness
pairing as a Mississippi
tale. Nikki Deloach, Mike Faiola, Lisa Durupt (2018) 10.30 Dracula 5 Peter (starts 3.45pm in Wales) may be off-putting for some,
10.00 A Family for the Holidays Cushing hunts for bloodsucking riverboat singing duo who fall
HH A romance is complicated by a Christopher Lee in this classic See review, p65. out over his gambling habit but if you’re prepared to go
family secret in this sequel to Finding Hammer take on Bram Stoker’s (US 1989, edited for violence, HD) in this film version of the old with it, a trippy ride into the
Father Christmas. Erin Krakow (2017) terrifying horror tale. Michael Gough (1958, 12) unknown awaits. JAMES

m Mamma
12.15am St. Agatha HHH A young
jazz/folk song standard. It’s
12 midnight The Christmas Chalet Mia! Here gaudy and bright but, like
MOTTRAM (Col/Thai/Fr/Ger/Mex/
HH Opposites attract in this drama.
Erica Durance (2019) 2.00am Highway to
pregnant woman receives no mercy
when she seeks refuge in an isolated We Go Again HHH most of Presley’s films from
Qatar/UK/Chi/Swi 2021, HD)
Heaven 3.00—5.00am Christmas convent in this claustrophobic 4.30-6.35pm ITV1 g this period, it has an air of
Festival of Ice HH Warm-hearted horror. Sabrina Kern, Carolyn Hennesy (2018, 15) Films to stream from p30
romantic drama. Taylor Cole (2017) 2.20—3.00am The Twilight Zone MUSICAL Cher raises the having just been thrown
diva roof and Meryl Streep together — and using repeat Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and more
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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon American Rust 11.05pm SEAL Team 9.00pm Drew Only Fools and Horses CSI: Vegas 10.00pm Folsom
— the Book of Carol 9.55pm Alejandro learns the truth explains his behaviour 8.55pm Del and Rodney heads to a convention venue
6.00am Clifford (AD) 6.15 The 6.00am Fish Town 7.00 Urban 6.00am Merlin (AD) 7.00 Merlin 7.10am The Fosters 7.45 Keeping 7.10am Murdoch Mysteries
Very Small Creatures 6.20 Norman Secrets 9.40 True Blood 2.45pm (AD) 10.00 The Overlap on Tour Up Appearances (AD) 8.20 Only 10.00 Father Brown (AD) 2.00pm
Picklestripes 6.45 Madagascar: a Billions: three episodes (AD) (AD) 2.00pm The Walking Dead Fools and Horses: seven editions (AD) Inspector George Gently (AD)
Little Wild 7.10 Trolls: Trollstopia (AD) 5.55pm Billions 1/12 Series 4. The 6.00pm The Walking Dead 4.00 Death in Paradise (AD) 5.00
7.35 New. Moominvalley 8.00
5.50pm Only Fools and Horses Shakespeare and Hathaway:
bitter feud between Bobby Axelrod 7/22 Series 10. Carol pushes Rodney wins a holiday at a
Formula One 10.00 The Office US Private Investigators (AD)
and Chuck Rhoades appears to be boundaries that make Daryl five-star hotel in Majorca, but
12 noon FILM Monster Family 2 HH uneasy, while Alpha and Beta have 6.00pm Father Brown 8/10
Animated comedy adventure with over, but new opponents rising cannot understand why the
may threaten their alliance. (AD) reservations about someone. trip is for three people. (AD) Series 2. It seems that someone
the voice of Emily Watson (AD) (W)
2.00pm David Attenborough’s Global 6.55 2/12. Axe closes ranks, 7.00 8/22. A fight causes tensions 7.00 Del’s beloved mum apparently will stop at nothing to keep
Adventure (AD) 5.00 The Simpsons determined to destroy Taylor, who in Oceanside, while the Alexandrians makes contact during a séance at Father Brown from the truth when
is doing everything it takes to set out on a high-stakes mission. the Nag’s Head, inspiring him to a recently returned PoW is
6.00pm The Simpsons Bart’s keep the new company afloat. (AD) accused of killing his uncle. (AD)
toys take up arms against him. 8.00 Rob and Romesh vs visit the doctor to seek treatment
7.55 The Wire 8/12 Series 2 Ballet 1/4 Series 2. Rob Beckett for stomach cramps. (AD) 7.00 Hudson & Rex 1/16 Series 3
6.30 More spooky tales, including When Sarah bumps into Charlie
parodies of Bambi and Parasite. McNulty gets himself assigned to and Romesh Ranganathan go 8.15 Dad’s Army Mainwaring tries
Daniels and Rawls who are trying behind the scenes at Birmingham to talk Frazer into depositing his and Rex on a day off, Charlie
7.00 Lisa goes on a killing spree recounts the first case that he and
and Homer learns that he is a robot. to intercept one of Sobotka’s Royal Ballet Company and take part hoard of gold sovereigns in his bank.
illegal consignments. in a performance of Swan Lake. (AD) Rex ever solved together. (AD)
7.30 New. Lisa asks Sideshow 8.55 Only Fools and Horses 8.00 2/16. Charlie and Rex are
Bob to help find a killer. 9.00 Sweetpea 3/6. Rhiannon is 9.00 SEAL Team 5/10 Series 7 Rodney and Cassandra tie the knot,
Tempers flare during a mission in on the hunt after a prison-van crash
8.00 Rob and Romesh vs high on power and righteousness while Del tries to dodge a bashing frees killer Danny Winters. (AD)
Ballet 1/4 Series 2. Rob Beckett and goes after her next target, Malaysia and as the team sets up
camp in scorching hot temperatures, from the Driscoll brothers over 9.00 Death in Paradise 3/8
and Romesh Ranganathan ultimate bully Julia Blenkingsopp.
grievances are aired and Drew reveals some stolen mobile phones. (AD) Series 6. Humphrey and Martha
10.00 The Penguin 5/8. With his
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perform in Swan Lake. (AD) why he’s been so closed off. (AD) 10.00 Ghosts A historical plan a romantic weekend at the
9.00 SEAL Team 5/10 Series 7 nascent operation at stake, Oz remote Hotel Cecile, but their
makes a desperate move to turn 10.00 Brassic 5/7 Series 6 documentary team comes to film
Tempers flare during a surveillance Cardi’s mum shows up in Hawley an episode at Button House. getaway is disrupted by the
mission in Malaysia. (AD) the tables, while Sofia strives to murder of the hotel owner. (AD)
build a new legacy for herself. after being Awol for years and 10.40 Button House is being
9.55 The Walking Dead: Daryl asks her to be her maid of honour fumigated for woodworm. 10.00 CSI: Vegas 4/10 Series 3
Dixon — the Book of Carol 4/6 11.05 American Rust 6/9. Harris 11.20 Alison invites Lucy to The team investigates the death
travels back to Pittsburgh with his as she’s getting married. (AD)
Series 2. All hope feels lost as stay, but begins to worry about of a man visiting Vegas for a
old partner to repay a debt. (AD) 11.00 The Walking Dead: Daryl her real motivations. (AD)
Genet begins an attack on the Nest. Dixon — the Book of Carol 4/6 health convention. (AD)
12.10am In Treatment 12.45
11.00 New. Formula One Highlights Watchmen (AD) 2.00 New. The Series 2. All hope feels lost as Genet 11.55 Billy Connolly Does... 11.00 Father Brown 7/10 Series 6
from the Mexico City Grand Prix. Penguin 6/8. Oz seeks to expand his begins an attack on the Nest. A look at how fame has taken A contestant is murdered at a
12 midnight The Force: Manchester reach in the city Rptd Mon 9pm 3.05 12.05am The Force: Manchester Billy to some weird places. (AD) ballroom dancing competition. (AD)
2.00am Road Wars 4.00—6.00am Euphoria (AD) 4.20 In Treatment 2.00 Road Wars 4.00—6.00am 12.55am Ghosts: triple bill (AD) 12 midnight Hudson & Rex (AD)
Nothing to Declare: four editions (AD) 4.55—6.00am The Guest Wing (AD) Sun, Sea and A&E: double bill (AD) 2.50—4.00am The Real McCoy 1.00—4.00am Murdoch Mysteries
Sky Showcase Sky 106 Virgin 109 Sky Atlantic Sky 108 (109 Wales) Sky Max Sky 113 (114 Wales) Virgin 111 Gold Sky 110 (111 Wales) Virgin 124 Alibi Sky 109 (110 Wales) Virgin HD 114
EE 340/HD 355 +1 Sky 206 EE 342/HD 357 +1 Sky 208 (209 Wales) EE 346/HD 361 EE 344/HD 359 +1 Sky 210 (211 Wales) Virgin 324 EE 343/HD 358 +1 Sky 209 (210 Wales) Virgin 191

Sky Sci-Fi Sky Witness Sky Replay Sky Comedy Discovery

6.00am Most Haunted 8.00 6.00am The Force: Manchester 7.00 7.00am Four Weddings (AD) 9.00 8.00am Young Rock (AD) 8.25 Veep (AD) 6.00am Kindig Customs 12 noon
Home Shopping 11.00 Star Trek: The Force: Manchester 8.00 Border Border Security: America’s Front Line 6.30pm The Office US: five episodes. Alaska: Homestead Rescue: triple bill
Deep Space Nine: five episodes Patrol 10.00 Border Security USA 12 noon Magnum P.I. (AD) 3.00pm Michael injures his foot 7.00 Jim regrets 6.00pm Scrap Kings: the team has a
(AD) 11.00 The Real A&E (AD) 12 noon Departure (AD) 5.00 Brit Cops: Rapid telling Michael about his feelings for difficult task demolishing an old cable
4.00pm Stargate SG-1 19/22 Response (AD) 6.00 Merlin: triple bill. Pam 7.30 Michael reminisces about his car station 7.00 New series. Alaska:
911 Crisis Centre 1.00pm Bondi Morgana realises she has magic powers pre-management days 8.00 Michael
Series 4. Carter takes a brilliant, if Rescue 2.00 Nothing to Declare
Homestead Rescue: the Raneys share
undisciplined, cadet under her wing. 7.00 Gwen is kidnapped by a savage hosts a seminar 8.30 The staff members their family’s journey 8.00 New
5.00 20/22. An alien probe 6.00pm Nothing to Declare outlaw 8.00 Uther falls for a lady who plan festivities for Valentine’s Day 9.00 Deadliest Catch: on the Bering Sea, the
Border Force investigate two is hiding a dark secret (AD) 9.00 Day of Divorce: double bill. Frances’s curiosity fleet braces for their first Super El Niño
takes over the computer system, the Dead: five episodes. The group find gets the better of her, then Frances and 9.00 Alaska Mega Machines: the
accessing sensitive data. young female passengers. refuge in an empty department store Robert try to establish ground rules for construction of a colossal dam capable
6.00 21/22. The team members 6.30 Officers suspect a man is 10.00 The survivors turn the store into the kids (AD) 10.20 Sex and the City: of powering an entire town 10.00
revisit a planet they helped free lying and the truth may be in his bag. a fortress — only to face new threats double bill. Carrie dumps Big, then Kindig Customs: stories of what
from Goa’uld enslavement. 7.00 Drugs are discovered in a from within 11.00 The Paymart fortress Miranda learns to talk dirty 11.40 Girls: happens behind the scenes of the show,
7.00 22/22. The team pays a young man’s baggage. comes under siege, forcing the group to double bill. Elijah visits Hannah, then and projects under way (AD) 11.00
7.30 A woman shocks the team fight for their lives or flee 12 midnight tension mounts between Marnie and Desi Goblin Works Garage: Jimmy brings in a
visit to the Tok’ra homeworld in The cornered survivors seek any refuge (AD) 1.00am Chris Ramsey: Live from classic ‘65 racing Ford Mustang
Cronos’s mothership. with an incredible revelation.
1.00am The remaining survivors London 2.00 New. The Franchise See 12 midnight Shorty’s Dream Shop:
8.00 1/22 Series 5. Teal’c returns 8.00 Border Security: Canada’s prepare for the ultimate showdown (AD) choice, p59 Rptd Mon 10pm 2.40 Hello four editions (AD) 4.00am America:
to his old self, and the team fights Front Line The contents of a 2.00 A League of Their Own (AD) Ladies (AD) 3.20 A.P. Bio 3.55—5.00am Facts vs Fiction 4.30—5.00am
for survival against Apophis. suitcase reveal a surprise. (AD) 3.00 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (AD) Wellington Paranormal: double bill (AD) How It’s Made: Dream Cars
9.00 The Crazies HHHH 8.30 Text messages raise suspicion 4.00—6.00am Four Weddings (AD) Sky Comedy Sky 114 (115 Wales) Discovery Sky 125 (126 Scotland) Virgin 177
Sky Replay Sky 152 Virgin 156 Virgin 112 EE 347/HD 362 EE 320/HD 325 +1 Sky 225 (226 Scot) Virgin 377
q Horror starring Timothy about a traveller’s intentions. (AD)
Olyphant and Radha Mitchell. 9.00 Blue Bloods 8/18 Series 14 Sky Crime Comedy Central Discovery History
The water supply of a small Iowa Danny and Baez are on edge when
town is contaminated by a a killer who once targeted Baez, is 6.00am Motorway Patrol 9.00 8.00am Last Man Standing 10.00 6.00am Shed and Buried 9.00 Tony
mysterious chemical spill that turns released early from prison. (AD) Highway Cops 11.00 Britain’s Most Evil Friends (AD) 1.10pm FILM Bring It On Robinson’s World War One 12 noon
those who come into contact with 10.00 The Cleaning Lady 11/12
Killers 1.00pm Killer in My Village HH Comedy set in the cut-throat world Combat Dealers 3.00pm Salvage
it into zombie-like killers. It falls to 2.00 Murder Uncut (AD) 3.00 Twisted of college cheerleading, starring Kirsten Hunters: the Restorers: triple bill
Series 3. As Ramona continues her Killers 4.00 Forensics: Catching the Dunst 3.00pm Friends (AD) 7.15 FILM 6.00pm Blowing Up History: Seven
Sheriff David Dutton to get to the attempts to recruit Thony into her
bottom of the situation and at the
Killer (AD) 5.00 World’s Most Evil Killers Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 HH Comedy Wonders 8.00 Salvage Hunters: the
business, Thony and Fiona work 7.00pm Killer in My Village: starring Kevin James 9.00 FILM Restorers: double bill. Woodworker Robin
same time save his own family. (W) with the FBI to help Nadia. (AD) investigating the murder of Satnam R.I.P.D. HHH Supernatural crime Johnson restores a kitchen dresser, then
10.50 Westworld 5/8 Series 3 Singh Blugher 8.00 Made for Murder: comedy starring Jeff Bridges, Ryan dealer Drew Pritchard asks blacksmith
11.00 Fire Country 7/22 Series 1 the story of Ian Paton, who strangled Nev Morris to save a wirework plant stand
Caleb is dosed with an unusual drug, Reynolds and Kevin Bacon 10.55 Lee
Bode’s crew is accused of taking a his on-off partner Kayleigh Hanks Evans Live: the Different Planet Tour 10.00 Shed and Buried: four editions.
and Dolores piles the pressure on watch during a fire mop-up. (AD) 9.00 Forensics: Catching the Killer A tractor enthusiast’s heaven 10.30
Liam for access to Rehoboam. (AD) 11.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers 12.25am Jason Manford Live at the Henry and Sam find themselves down
12 midnight FBI: International (AD) Manchester Apollo 1.25 Key and Peele
12 midnight 6/8. As the world 1.00am New Amsterdam (AD) 2.00 12 midnight The Real Manhunter (AD) in the south west of England 11.00
1.00am Killer in My Village 2.00 New 1.50 Reno 911! 2.20 Important Things Henry and Sam find some very rare
falls into chaos, Serac gains New. The Cleaning Lady 12/12 with Demetri Martin 2.50 South Park:
Forensics: Catching the Killer 3.00 early-1900s steam-powered cars 11.30
control of Delos, changing Series 3. Russo receives a warning Mark of a Serial Killer 4.00 What the triple bill 4.05 Beavis and Butt-Head Henry and Sam are in Somerset with
Charlotte’s plan. (AD) from Sin Cara Repeated tomorrow 9pm Killer Did Next (AD) 5.00—6.00am 4.15—5.00am Guessable? Mark and his amazing motorbikes
1.10—6.00am Wynonna Earp 3.00—6.00am Nothing to Declare Motorway Patrol: two editions Comedy Central Sky 112 (113 Wales) 12 midnight—5.00am Combat Dealers
Sky Sci-Fi Sky 139 (140 Scotland) Virgin 122 Sky Witness Sky 107 Virgin 110 Sky Crime Sky 122 (123 Scotland) Virgin 121 Virgin 132 EE 345/HD 360 Discovery History Sky 174 Virgin 181
EE 348/HD 363 +1 Virgin 229 EE 341/HD 356 +1 Sky 207 Virgin 310 EE 349/HD 364 +1 Sky 222 (223 Scot) Virgin 321 +1 Sky 212 (213 Wales) Virgin 332 +1 Sky 274 Virgin 381
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Sky Main Event TNT Sports 1
Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 EE 419/HD 439 Sky 410 Virgin 527 EE 408/HD 430
6.00am LIVE Test Cricket Pakistan 6.00am LIVE AFLW Brisbane Lions
v England, day four of the Third Test. v St Kilda Saints (bounce-up 6.05).
12 noon LIVE Scottish Premiership 8.00 Champions League Magazine
Football Hibernian v Hearts. 8.30 Premier League (AD)
2.00pm LIVE Premier League 9.30 Premiership Rugby Union
Football Chelsea v Newcastle United; 12.30pm LIVE Premiership
4.00 Arsenal v Liverpool at Emirates Women’s Rugby Union Saracens v
Stadium (kick-off 4.30). Sport: p28 Gloucester-Hartpury RFC (k/o 12.45).
7.30 LIVE Mexico City Grand 2.45 LIVE Premiership Rugby
Chimp Crazy 9.00pm Tonka’s Woodpeckers: the Hole Story Prix Round 20 (start 8.00). Union Exeter Chiefs v Harlequins
future could be decided 9.00pm The birds’ skills 10.00 LIVE NFL A top match; from Sandy Park (kick-off 3.00).
11.30 San Francisco 49ers v Dallas 5.15 The Rugby Review 6.00
6.00am Discovering: Alain Delon 6.00am Hope for Wildlife 7.00 Cowboys (kick-off 12.20am). Football’s Windrush Story (AD)
(AD) 7.00 Discovering: Maggie Hope for Wildlife 8.00 Secret Life 3.30—5.00am Sky Sports News
Smith (AD) 8.00 The Directors (AD) 7.30 LIVE Italian Football
of the Koala 10.00 Monkeys and Fiorentina v AS Roma (kick-off 7.45).
10.00 God Save Texas: the Price of More: Our Closest Relatives 11.00
Sky Football Snooker 12.45pm Eurosport 1 9.45 Muddy Roots of Football 10.15
Oil (AD) 11.00 Ethel 1.00pm FILM In for the Kill (AD) 12 noon World’s
Sergio Leone: the Italian Who Judd Trump took last year’s Test Cricket 11.15 Premiership Rugby
Most Toxic Animals (AD) 2.00pm Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 EE 421/HD 441 Union 12.15am Premiership Women’s
Invented America HHHH A profile David Attenborough’s Global Northern Ireland Open crown
of the legendary director of the 6.00am Championship Highlights Rugby Union 1.15 Italian Football
Adventure: three episodes (AD) 2.15 Reload (AD) 2.45 Test Cricket
Dollars spaghetti western trilogy
and Once upon a Time in the West (W)
5.00 Accidental Wilderness:
11.00 LIVE Scottish Premiership
Football Hibernian v Hearts;
Sky Premier League 3.45—6.00am LIVE Test Cricket
Europe’s Everglades 2.30pm Motherwell v Celtic. Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 EE 420/HD 440 India v New Zealand, day five of the
3.00 Ali and Cavett: the Tale of the
Tapes 5.00 I Am Paul Walker 6.00pm Ireland’s Wild Islands 5.30 Championship Highlights 6.00am Highlights 10.00 Matchday Second Test. Continues until 12 noon.
with Eoin Warner The wildlife 6.15 German Football 12 noon PFA Winner 12.15pm My Origin
7.00pm Natalie Wood: What
Remains Behind Natasha presenter explores the magic of 6.20 LIVE German Football
FC Heidenheim 1846 v TSG 1899
Story 12.30 Sticker Book 12.45 Unpacked
1.00 LIVE Premier League Football
TNT Sports 2
Gregson Wagner presents a Ireland’s western islands.
Hoffenheim (kick-off 6.30). Chelsea v Newcastle Utd (k/o 2.00); Sky 411 Virgin 528 EE 409/HD 431
unique insight into her mother’s 7.00 David Attenborough’s 8.30 Scottish Premiership 10.30 4.00 Arsenal v Liverpool at Emirates
life and movie career. (AD) 6.00am LIVE MotoGP Grand Prix
Rise of Animals: Triumph of Championship Highlights 11.15 Scottish Stadium (kick-off 4.30). Sport: p28 of Thailand Moto2 race (start 6.15);
9.00 New. Chimp Crazy Tonia the Vertebrates How primitive Premiership 11.45 Championship 7.30 Against the Odds 8.30 Football’s 7.15 MotoGP race (start 8.00).
struggles to let go and dreams of fish made the move onto land. Highlights 12 midnight Classic League Master Spy 9.00 PFA Winner 9.15 My
Cup (AD) 2.45am EFL Greatest Games Origin Story 9.30 Sticker Book 9.45 9.00 MotoGP 10.00 Wrestling
opening her own island sanctuary 8.00 David Attenborough looks (AD) 4.00 Championship Season Review PFA Winner 10.00 Highlights 3.00am (AD) 12 noon World Rally (AD)
where she can live among at how mammals came to dominate 1.00pm Sheene (AD) 2.15 MotoGP

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(AD) 5.00—6.00am Best Goals (AD) Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Best Goals
chimpanzees. Last in series. (AD) the natural world. (AD) 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD) Films (AD) 2.30 MotoGP 4.15
Champions League Magazine
10.00 I’m Not a Monster: 9.00 Woodpeckers: the Hole Sky Golf 4.45 LIVE Italian Football Inter
the Lois Riess Murders The
convicted murderer tells her story,
Story Exploring the unique abilities
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 EE 423/HD 443
Sky Cricket Milan v Juventus (kick-off 5.00).
of the woodpecker to reveal what
attempting to explain her actions makes this bird so special. 7.00am LIVE European Tour Golf Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 EE 422/HD 442 7.00 NBA Action (AD)
and revealing a disturbing family Day four of the Genesis Championship. 5.50am LIVE Test Cricket Pakistan 7.30 LIVE NBA Indiana Pacers v
history and a gambling addiction. 10.00 Monkeys and More: Our 7.30 PGA Tour Champions 8.30 Roots v England, day four of the Third Test. Philadelphia 76ers (tip-off 7.30).
Closest Relatives A journey around (AD) 9.30 PGA Tour Champions Learning 12.30pm Talking Cricket (AD) 1.00 10.00 NBA Originals 11.00 UFC
11.50 Crazy, Not Insane An the world to find the shared traits Centre 10.00 European Tour 3.00pm Women’s Big Bash League Cricket 3.00 Connected 11.30 UFC: the Ultimate Fighter
examination of the research carried 1.30am International One-Day Cricket

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between monkeys and humans. PGA Tour 7.00 LPGA Tour 10.00 Roots Test Highlights 4.00 Women’s Big Bash
out by forensic psychiatrist Dorothy (AD) 11.00 Tee Time Tips (AD) 12 midnight League Cricket 6.00 Test Highlights 2.30 NBA Action (AD) 3.00 Europa
Otnow Lewis, who investigated 11.00 Ireland’s Wild Islands PGA Tour Champions 1.00am The Open: 7.00 Women’s Big Bash League Cricket League and Conference League Highlights
with Eoin Warner As 6pm. Official Films 2.00 PGA Tour Champions 8.00 Test Highlights 9.00 Women’s Show 4.00—6.00am Motor Racing (AD)
the psychology of murderers.
3.00 Tee Time Tips (AD) 4.00 PGA Big Bash League Cricket 10.00 Test
2.00am Wirecard: a Billion Euro Lie 12 midnight Africa’s Wild Year Tour 5.00—6.00am PGA Tour Highlights Highlights 11.00 Pushing Boundaries
(AD) 4.00—6.00am BS High (AD) 4.00—6.00am Uptown Otters (AD) 12.15am Best of the Women’s World TNT Sports 3
Sky Documentaries Sky 121 (122 Scotland) Sky Nature Sky 124 (125 Scotland) Cup (AD) 12.30 The Hundred Bitesize
Virgin 188 EE 352/HD 367 Virgin 189 EE 354/HD 369 Sky F1 1.00 Best of the Women’s World T20
Sky 417 Virgin 529 EE 410/HD 432
(AD) 2.00 Women’s Big Bash League 6.00am LIVE Test Cricket India
Sky 406 Virgin 516/HD 506 EE 424/HD 444
Nat Geographic Nat Geo Wild 6.30—11.00pm LIVE Mexico City
Cricket 3.50 Test Highlights
4.50—6.00am LIVE Test Cricket
v New Zealand, continued coverage
of day four of the Second Test.
8.00am Food Factory USA 9.00 Ice 8.00am Hidden Wonders of Europe Grand Prix Round 20 (start 8.00). Pakistan v England, day five of the 12 noon Cricket Reload 12.30pm
Road Rescue (AD) 12 noon Air Crash 11.00 Fish Tank Kings 1.00pm Shark Third Test. Continues until 12.30pm. International One-Day Cricket 1.30
Investigation 3.00pm Dark Secrets of Attack Files 3.00 Wild Mississippi Pool 3.00 NBA Action 3.30 Wrestling
the Lusitania 4.00 Defending Europe 5.00pm Secrets of the Zoo: double bill. Sky Tennis 5.00 Australian Football 7.00 MotoGP
5.00 Erased: WWII Heroes of Colour Dr Priya gives Connie the elephant an Sky 407 Virgin 537/HD 520 EE 425/HD 445 Sky NFL 11.15 Reload (AD) 11.30 Europa League
Reload 11.45 Italian Football 12.45am
6.00pm Apocalypse: the Fall of Hitler: eye exam, then some of the deadliest
double bill (AD) 8.00 New. Lost patients at the zoo, including a 8.00—10.00am LIVE WTA Tennis Sky 408 Virgin 517/HD 507 EE 426/HD 446 Born Racers 5.30—6.00am Reload (AD)
Treasures of Egypt: a look at Egypt’s 200-pound python with killer back pain, The Guangzhou Open final. 6.00am Highlights 1.00pm Gameday
New Kingdom era, exploring why the 1.00—4.30pm LIVE ATP Tennis
mummies of the period’s most famous
a girl-shy male lion and a bear with a
gnarly cough 7.00 Wonders of the Coverage of the Vienna Open final;
4.00 LIVE NFL A week eight match;
8.00 Another week eight match;
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pharaohs were found stashed in an Ocean: double bill. Wildlife inhabiting 3.00 The Swiss Indoors final. Sky 421 Virgin 530 EE 411/HD 434
unmarked tomb (AD) 9.00 Mystery of
11.30 San Francisco 49ers v Dallas
Pacific Islands, then ocean-dwelling 4.00—6.00am LIVE Tennis Action
MH370: Drain the Oceans: the case of creatures try to avoid becoming prey Cowboys (kick-off 12.20am). 6.30am TNT Sports Reload
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which 9.00 Wild Arctic: triple bill. The impact from the WTA and/or ATP Tours. 3.30—6.00am NFL Bitesize (AD) 6.45 International One-Day Cricket
disappeared without a trace in March of summer on the Arctic 10.00 The 7.45 LIVE International One-Day
2014 10.00 Air Crash Investigation
12 midnight US Secret Service: in the
wildlife of the Boreal forest, the largest
woodland on Earth 11.00 The flora and
Sky Sports Mix Sky Sports + Cricket India v New Zealand, the
second ODI in the women’s series.
Line of Fire 1.00am Atlas of Cursed fauna that are able to survive in the Sky 416 Virgin 510 EE 429/HD 449 Sky 412 Virgin 518/HD 508 EE 427/HD 447 4.30pm NBA 6.00 MLB 8.30 Ariel
Places 2.00 Bid and Destroy 2.55 harsh conditions of the Arctic tundra Helwani Meets 9.00 Wrestling 10.00
Food Factory 3.45 Abandoned 12 midnight Swamp Men: double bill 5.00am LIVE International Rugby 6.00am LIVE European Tour Golf What Went Down (AD) 11.00 MLB
4.35—5.00am When Sharks Attack 2.00am Secrets of the Zoo: two League New Zealand v Australia, The Genesis Championship, day four. 1.30am Premier League Legends (AD)
Nat Geographic Sky 129 (130 Scotland) editions 4.00—5.00am Yukon Vet a men’s match (kick-off 5.05). 7.30 Good Morning Sports Fans 2.00—6.00am MLB Classic
Virgin 183 +1 Sky 229 (230 Scot) Virgin 383 Nat Geo Wild Sky 165 Virgin 182 7.00—12.45pm LIVE Women’s Big 8.00 LIVE WTA Tennis Coverage
Bash League Cricket Melbourne of the Guangzhou Open final.
Sky History Animal Planet Renegades v Sydney Sixers; 10.00 Super Sunday Matchday
Eurosport 2
9.25 Perth Scorchers v Melbourne
Stars at the WACA in Perth.
12 noon Sports Sunday Sky 414 Virgin 522 EE 413
6.00am Auction Kings 6.30 Auction 8.00am Insane Pools: off the Deep End 2.30pm LIVE Championship
Kings 7.00 Storage Wars 10.00 Pawn 9.00 How Do Animals Do That? 10.00 2.20—4.30 LIVE German Football 6.00am British Superbikes
Stars 1.00pm Lost U-Boats of WWII Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 12 noon VfL Bochum v Bayern Munich. Football Norwich City v 7.30 Alpine Skiing
7.00pm The Real Hunt for Red Insane Pools: off the Deep End 1.00pm 5.00—12 midnight LIVE NFL Middlesbrough (kick-off 3.00). 8.30 LIVE Alpine Skiing First
October: double bill. Lifting the lid on Crikey! It’s the Irwins 2.00 Wild Dubai Redzone The NFL Network show. 5.30 LIVE NFL Redzone run in the men’s giant slalom at the
the 1968 incident involving a missing (AD) 3.00 Growing Up: Clouded Leopard 12 midnight Sky Sports News World Cup meeting from Solden.
Soviet submarine, then the secret 4.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 4.00—6.00am LIVE Tennis 10.30 Cyclo-Cross 11.30 Winter Sport
events surrounding the Russian
submarine K-129 9.00 The Lost
6.00pm Insane Pools: off the Deep End:
Lucas builds a giant pool for a friend
Premier Sports Action from the WTA and ATP Tours. 11.45 LIVE Alpine Skiing Second
Pyramid: Egyptologists uncover what 7.00 Crikey! It’s the Irwins 10.00 The run in the men’s giant slalom at the
12 noon—7.30pm LIVE Spanish
they believe is the missing pyramid of
Giza, thought to have been built by the
Last Alaskans: the families hunt for the
perfect way to stay fed through the heart Football Leganes v Celta Vigo Eurosport 1 World Cup meeting from Solden.
1.15pm Alpine Skiing 1.45 Cycling
fourth-dynasty pharaoh Djedefre, about of winter 11.00 Swimming with Monsters (kick-off 1.00); 3.00 Getafe v Sky 413 Virgin 521 EE 412
Valencia (kick-off 3.15); 5.15 Real 2.05 LIVE Cyclo-Cross Men’s race,
whom little is known 11.00 Hitler’s with Steve Backshall: Steve travels to
British Island: Nazi control of the the Pantanal wetland region in Brazil Betis v Atlético Madrid (kick-off 5.30). 8.00—10.30am LIVE Triathlon Superprestige meeting from Overijse.
Channel Island of Alderney 12 midnight Rugged Justice 1.00am 6.00—10.30 LIVE Nascar Cup The latest Supertri event. 3.15 Alpine Skiing 4.15 Winter Sport
12.45—4.00pm LIVE Snooker 4.30 Triathlon 5.30 Sailing 6.00 World
12 midnight Alone 1.00am Believers: The Last Alaskans 2.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky From Homestead-Miami Speedway. Superbikes 8.00 Cyclo-Cross 9.00
Extreme Hauntings: double bill Mountain Vet 4.00—5.00am Insane 7.30—11.30 LIVE Spanish Football The Northern Ireland Open final. Alpine Skiing 10.00 Triathlon 11.00
3.00—6.00am Pawn Stars: triple bill Pools: off the Deep End Real Sociedad v Osasuna (k/o 8.00). 6.45—10.00 LIVE Snooker The British Superbikes 12.30am Sailing 1.00
Sky History Sky 123 (124 Scotland) Virgin 131 Animal Planet Sky 162 (175 NI) Virgin 178 1.00—4.00am LIVE NHL Colorado conclusion of the Northern Ireland Alpine Skiing 2.00 Triathlon 3.00 World
EE 353/HD 368 +1 Sky 223 (224 Scot) Virgin 331 +1 Sky 262 (275 NI) Virgin 378 Avalanche v Ottawa Senators. Open final at Waterfront Hall, Belfast. Superbikes 5.00—6.00am Triathlon

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Find It, Fix It, Flog It
8.00pm U&Yesterday Full series available on U
By now, you would think there wasn’t a barn, shed or
outbuilding in the land that Henry Cole hasn’t had a
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rummage inside of. When he isn’t teaming up with

Simon O’Brien for this charming fixer-upper series
(which returns tonight with its ninth series), he can be
found resurrecting abandoned automotives with Fuzz
Townshend and adorable four-legged helper Jelly Bean
on Shed and Buried (Tuesday 9pm on Quest).
A couple of gems without engines get Henry revved
up tonight, including a mid-century chair that requires
a full reupholster and an unpromising-looking wooden
trolley and piece of pipe that Simon envisions can be
transformed into a table and two stools. After a lot of
stripping down, repainting, varnishing and adding some CAN THEY
FIX IT?
bold details, the finished articles are striking. Upcycling
But the star of the show is lurking under a tarpaulin experts Henry
— a gorgeous 1960 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire Cole and Simon
that buffs up brilliantly after a good wax and shampoo. O’Brien
It might look fantastic, but will it run? FRANCES TAYLOR

SOAP DRAMA DRAMA SCIENCE

EastEnders The Brokenwood Mr Loverman Solar System
7.30pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer Mysteries 8.00pm U&Drama 9.00pm, 9.30pm BBC1 9.00pm BBC2
There’s always one present you Full series available on U Full series available on iPlayer Full series available on iPlayer
remember opening as a kid on In a town as bloodthirsty as Donna (Sharlene Whyte) and her son Would anyone else on peaktime
Christmas Day that you couldn’t Brokenwood, you really are tempting Daniel (Tahj Miles) step into focus television sketch out a graph in a
wait to play with and knew would fate in staging a Mexican “Day of the for tonight’s double bill. Flashbacks notebook to illustrate a key point of
continue to bring joy throughout Dead” festival. But that’s the idea the explain both Donna’s latent hostility astrobiology to do with the phases
the year. EastEnders’ “The Six” local small business association goes towards Barry (Lennie James) and of water? It’s the sort of thing
storyline has been the proverbial with, despite a back-up option being her own personal sadness, as a Professor Brian Cox can get away
gift that’s kept on giving — and, on the table. Granted, plan B was a violent marriage is followed by blind with, flattering our intelligence as he
happily, it looks like there’s still life mud-wrestling event, but it surely dates underscored by daddy issues. explains things that could get quite
in the audacious plot. would have been marginally less risky Daniel, meanwhile, is torn between taxing for the non-professorial brain.
Which is more than can be said than the Día de los Muertos, which his innate diligence and an urge to In this case, it’s a “phase diagram”,
for Keanu, whose murder case unfortunately ends with a mariachi belong that extends to accepting the and what it tells us about Earth may
has been reopened by the police. murdered and strung up in a tree. grotesque, racist bullying of his also be relevant to the possibility
Suspicious Nish works out what Naturally, those who had hoped so-called friends. Barry takes (no more than that) of life beneath
really happened that fateful night to have merely made a killing selling serious-minded steps to educate his 18-mile-thick ice on one of Jupiter’s
and confronts a stressed Suki. sombreros and face paints are left grandson, before an electrifying, 95 known moons, Europa. Tonight’s
What he does next is anybody’s mortified. But someone appears harrowing showdown sees theme, frozen worlds, also takes Cox
guess, but if you thought Christmas to have had a macabre reason for revelations tumble out unbidden to Alaska, where he uses glaciers and
Day 2023 was eventful in Walford, ensuring that this celebration and family ties potentially severed ice picks to illustrate how “nature’s
just wait until we get to Halloween honouring deceased ancestors came for ever. GABRIEL TATE imagination far exceeds our own”.
2024. JOHNATHON HUGHES to a fatal finish. DAVID BROWN Sharon D Clarke: page 18 DAVID BUTCHER

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DRAMA
DI Ray ALSO ON
9.00pm ITV1 Catch up via ITVX TODAY
As soon as DI Rachita Ray (Parminder
Nagra) uncovers a promising lead,
it turns into a dead end or merely
muddies the waters. Frank Chapman’s
ex-lover has been tracked down,
but what does she have to do with
anything? A local councillor has been
in contact with one of the Mochanis,
but why, unless it’s connected with
a lucrative council contract?
Ray, meanwhile, doesn’t know
who to trust since she found suspect
texts on someone’s mobile, and an
unknown gunman orders her to stop
the investigation. It’s little wonder
she has a permanent frown on her
face. Concludes tomorrow.
CLASS CLASH?
JANE RACKHAM Ten questions with Lady Adella
Parminder Nagra: page 8 Fitzherbert (Holly Jamie: Fast and Simple
Sturton) and 8.00pm C4
Joe Hardacre
SITCOM (Adam Little)
Jamie Oliver (above) rustles up a
creamy red pepper pasta dish and
The Franchise

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a “free-form” strawberry tart.
10.00pm Sky Comedy
Catch up via Now Trump: a Second Chance?
Do make sure you have the subtitles DRAMA 8.00pm (10.40pm N Ireland;
on for this superhero satire from 11.05pm Wales) BBC1
Armando Iannucci. Without them, The Hardacres 9.00pm Channel 5 Catch up via My5 Panorama reports on Donald
it’s easy to miss the quips and digs Despite their new-found wealth and finery, the former dockworkers Trump’s bid to be re-elected as
President of the United States.

Television
that reverberate around the script. are discovering that it’s not that easy to shake off their past and fit in
Filming on Tecto: Eye of the Storm with the upper classes. “It’s not just about money, it’s about class,”
continues apace, but a last-minute young Joe Hardacre (Adam Little) is told cruelly. Generation Z
rewrite lands the crew with the Someone who has both those attributes is the deadly dull Lord 9.00pm C4
derided character “The Gurgler”, Hugo Bathurst (Denis Grindel, looking and acting uncannily like Hugh In the second episode of Ben
whose limp superpower is hacking Grant). It’s thought that with a little encouragement he would be the Wheatley’s bold zombie-horror
up toxic mucus. Producer Anita perfect match for Lady Adella (Holly Sturton), although she thinks satire, Cecily (Sue Johnston)
he’s a vain lump. “We must lead this horse to water,” announces Lady incites the hungry OAP horde.
(Aya Cash) pleads for better from
Fitzherbert (Cathy Belton) firmly. “You do know how that saying ends, See feature: page 22
Maximum Studios bosses, panicking
that her film is “becoming a refugee don’t you, dear?” her husband George (Owen Roe) asks. JR
camp for displaced IP”. FT

COMEDY DRAMA
LIVE SPORT
SITCOM Cricket: Men’s Test Series
Pakistan v England
6.00am Sky Sports Main
Event/Cricket
Day five in Rawalpindi brings the
series to a close.

Football: League One

Blackpool v Wigan Athletic
7.30pm (k/o 8pm) Sky Sports
Main Event/Football
Under the lights at Bloomfield
Road.

American Football: NFL

Pittsburgh Steelers
v New York Giants
12 midnight (k/o 12.15am) Sky
Sports Main Event/NFL

SPORT HIGHLIGHTS
DADDY ISSUES page 29
Alma (Sophie
Willan) tracks JR FILM REVIEWS page 65
truths. down her father

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DAYTIME BBC1 1 BBC2 2

BBC1 EastEnders Alma’s Not

6.00am Breakfast Jon Kay, Nina Warhurst. (S) (HD) 7.30pm Still reeling Normal 10.00pm
9.30 Morning Live Michelle Ackerley and Gethin from recent events, Alma (Sophie
Jones present the weekday magazine show. (S) (HD) Avani (Aaliyah Willan) runs into
10.45 Crimewatch Caught Examining how a serial James) tries to put her dad Richard
killer was finally caught in Pembrokeshire. (S) (HD) on a brave face (Craig Parkinson)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer Following
properties in Derby, Stoke and Margate. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt Roo Irvine presents as two
teams of in-laws compete in the Down village of
Greyabbey. Repeated tomorrow 6.30am BBC2 (S) (AD) (HD)
5.15pm Pointless 5.15pm Flog It!
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) Quiz show with Alexander Armstrong and Andi Oliver. Paul Martin uncovers history in Cornwall. (R) (S) (HD)
2.00 Doctors Scarlett meets a young girl who needs Director Abigail Dankwa; Series producer James Evans (R) (S) (HD)
her help. What is Graham’s next move? (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD) Nick Pickard, Sian Lloyd, Ellie White and Jordan
2.30 New series. Expert Witness The return of the
series exploring how some of the UK’s most serious 6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD) Banjo begin a week of trivia-based games. (S) (HD)
cases were solved, starting with the abduction and 6.30 Strictly It Takes Two
murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne in 2000. (S) (HD) 7.00 The One Show
Roman Kemp and Clara Amfo present. (S) (HD) Fleur East meets the latest couple to be eliminated
3.00 Escape to the Country Steve Brown helps from the contest after losing the dance-off. (S) (HD)
a family from Essex search for a new home in Perth 2 BBC iPLAYER 7.00—9.00 Monday Night Club
and Kinross. Repeated Wednesday 6.30am BBC2 (S) (HD) The panel of experts discuss the latest football news 7.00 Saving Lives at Sea
A spot of paddleboarding goes badly wrong when
3.45 Garden Rescue Creating a family friendly 7.30 EastEnders a father gets separated from his young children.
cottage country garden in Worcester Fernhill. (R) (S) (HD)
4.30—5.15 The Bidding Room People try to sell 4 Nish starts to grow suspicious and Jean battles
with her guilt, while Honey and Billy reveal
Producer Luke Proctor (Revised rpt) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.30 Mastermind
stilts, perfume bottles, furniture locks, a ranch phone some worrying news. See page 58.
toy and a nautical trio. Repeated tomorrow 7.15am BBC2 (S) (HD) Writer Lydia Marchant Cast Wednesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD) Clive Myrie asks questions on the poetry of John
Keats, the films of David Fincher, the Holy Roman
BBC2 8.00 Trump: a Second Chance? — Panorama Emperor Henry IV and musician PJ Harvey.
For two years, Panorama has been following some of Series producer Paul Christian; Executive producers Chris Jones,
6.30am Bargain Hunt Two teams compete in Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters, including one Kate Middleditch, David Young and Jimmy Mulville (S) (HD)
Newark, Nottinghamshire. Shown last Friday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD) who was just feet away from the former president
Television MONDAY

7.15 The Bidding Room Items include fairground when a gunman tried to assassinate him during a rally 8.00 Only Connect
signs and a Chinese card box. Shown last Friday BBC1 (S) (HD) in Pennsylvania in July. These followers discuss why Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts another first-round
8.00—9.00 Sign Zone The Repair Shop The experts they want Trump to win a second term in the White match as the Uisge Beathas play the Third Agers.
restore a teddy bear, a serviette marking the West Stanley Director Siân G Lloyd; Producer Nick Martin (S) (HD)
House, while experts analyse his continued appeal.
mining disaster of 1909 and a Dutch clock. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Director/Producer Matthew Hill Signed rpt Friday 1.05am BBC2 (S) (HD) 8.30 University Challenge
9.00 BBC News (S) (HD) NOTE: as Panorama reacts to the news its subject matter may change Amol Rajan asks the questions as Leeds University
12.15pm Politics Live Analysis and debate. (S) (HD) 9.00 Mr Loverman faces Edinburgh University in a first-round match.

45/8.
1.00 Impossible Rick Edwards presents. (R) (S) (HD) Director Bridget Caldwell; Producer Clare Parody (S) (HD)
Over the course of an evening, it becomes
1.45 The Tournament Alex Scott hosts. (R) (S) (HD) clear how secrets and misunderstandings have 9.00 Solar System
2.30 The Boss Quiz with Susan Calman. (R) (S) (HD)
3.15 Operation Gold Rush with Dan Snow The
shaped Donna and Barry’s world views. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.30 6/8. When Barry is tasked with looking after 44/5. Ice Worlds. Professor Brian Cox explores
the solar system’s frozen worlds, from a dwarf
team mines for gold using old methods. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) his grandson Daniel, the pair must learn to relate to planet where mountains of solid ice float across the
4.15—5.15 This Farming Life Dani prepares to each other — until a betrayal provokes an outburst. surface to a world illuminated by a strange form of
perform pregnancy tests on all her cows. (R) (S) (HD) The whole series is in UHD on iPlayer. See page 58. ice and a black and white moon painted with frost.
Barrington Walker Lennie James Ted Jamie Bacon In the far reaches of space, ice behaves in ways we
Carmel Walker Sharon D Clarke Adonis Stanley J Browne
ITV1 Morris de la Roux Ariyon Bakare Young Barry Keenan Munn-Francis
could never have imagined, and as Brian discovers,
6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD) Maxine Walker Tamara Lawrance Young Morris Gabin Kongolo may have even created habitats for alien life. The
9.00 Lorraine Fashion and showbiz news. (S) (HD) Daniel Walker Tahj Miles Larry Walker Edem-Ita Duke whole series is available on iPlayer. See page 58.
Donna Walker Sharlene Whyte Raff Hiroki Berrecloth Series producers Suzy Boyles and Alice Jones; Executive producers
10.00 This Morning Lifestyle features, cookery and Teenage Donna Teagan Imani Tim Will Antenbring Gideon Bradshaw and Andrew Cohen (S) (AD) (HD)
celebrity interviews. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD) Tony Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Louis Dominic Herman-Day
12.30pm Loose Women Daily discussion. (S) (HD) Merle Jessica Murrain Kriss Holly Cattle 10.00 Alma’s Not Normal
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
2.00 Alan Carr’s Epic Game Show It’s time to Play
Dramatised by Nathaniel Price; Producer Irma Inniss
Director Hong Khaou (S) (AD) (HD)
Sharon D Clarke: page 18
44/6 Series 2. The Black-and-White Movie
Alma tracks down her long-lost father. Series 1
and 2 are available on iPlayer. See page 59.
Your Cards Right as four hopeful couples pit their wits Alma Sophie Willan Bill Dave Jones
against an unpredictable deck of cards. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) Lin Siobhan Finneran Jim Nicholas Asbury
3.00—4.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars Ben Shephard 10.40 Have I Got a Bit More News for You Joan Lorraine Ashbourne Richard Craig Parkinson
Mr Ashton James Clossick David Kenneth Collard
hosts as Jason Manford, Iwan Thomas and Debbie Charlie Brooker hosts an extended version of last Young Alma Maizie Wickson Museum receptionist Lisa Allen
McGee take part. (R) (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather (S) Friday’s edition, with Grayson Perry and Angela Barnes Leanne Jayde Adams
joining Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD) Writer Sophie Willan; Director Andrew Chaplin
Channel 4 Producer Gill Isles (S) (AD) (HD)
5.45am Countdown Linford Christie guests. (R) (S) (HD) 11.25 Bump
47of/10events
Series 4. Talk It Out. An unexpected turn 10.30 Newsnight With Victoria Derbyshire. (S) (HD)
6.25 Cheers Three episodes of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD) is in store for Dom when he visits 11.00 Weather (S) (HD)
7.40 The King of Queens Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Oly’s office to take her out for lunch. Elsewhere,
9.05 Frasier The shrink is delighted when a station in tensions are high as Angie and Edith accompany 11.05 Ophelia HH
another city begins relaying his radio show. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
9.35 Formula One: Mexico City Grand Prix —
Jacinda to her jujitsu tournament. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.55 8/10. Jeffurry. Santi acquires a lucrative new q Period romantic drama starring Daisy Ridley.
The independent-minded Ophelia serves in the
Qualifying Highlights Action from round 20 at client, but it proves to be an unusual assignment. court of King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude. Soon, the
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. Shown Sunday 11pm (S) (HD) Bowie finally receives the present Dom bought him for young Prince Hamlet returns from university and
11.05 Come Dine with Me: the Professionals Chefs his 21st birthday, and Oly discovers a secret about begins to court Ophelia. But when the king is found
from Lost Property, Finkle and Green, and Banh Mi Shauna. A box set is on iPlayer. See p59. (S) (AD) (HD) dead and his brother takes to the throne, a bloody
compete in Middlesbrough. (R) (S) (HD) 12.05pm News (S) (HD) Reema Safia Arain Vince Ingram Ioane Saula tragedy ensues. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review p65.
Tim Ryan Johnson Dom Chalmers Angus Sampson Ophelia Daisy Ridley Polonius Dominic Mafham
12.10 Renovation Nation A couple tackle a former Rakim Arlo Green Shauna Steph Tisdell Queen Gertrude/Mechtild Naomi Watts King Hamlet Nathaniel Parker
Warwickshire gentleman’s residence. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Santiago “Santi” Hernandez Bowie Christian Byers Hamlet George MacKay Laertes Tom Felton
1.10 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Restorations include a Carlos Sanson Jr Edith Anita Hegh Claudius Clive Owen Cristiana Daisy Head
pair of manhole covers and a beehive. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Olympia “Oly” Chalmers-Davis Angie Claudia Karvan Director Claire McCarthy (2018, 15) (S) (W) (HD)
Nathalie Morris 12.45—3.50am Sign Zone 12.45 Countryfile Following
2.10 Countdown With guest Neil Delamere. (S) (HD)
12.30am Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel 3/10 Series 5 the harvest on a potato farm. Shown yesterday 6.40am (S) (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun A woman seeks her dream Guests include Leigh Francis, Susan Wokoma and Laura 1.40 Waterloo Road 7/8. Nicky is distraught when Preston
holiday home in La Zenia, south-western Spain. (R) (S) (HD) Whitmore. See choice, page 38. Shown Saturday 8.10pm (S) (HD) finds himself in trouble. Shown last Tuesday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00—5.00 The Great House Giveaway Two 1.30 Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 2.40 Industry 8/8. A visit to an old friend alters things
1.35—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD) between Robert and Yasmin. Shown last Tue BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
strangers with building experience buy a bungalow
at auction in the Derbyshire town of Glossop. (R) (S) (HD) BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101 BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102
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SCOTLAND
6.30—7.00pm Reporting
DI Ray 9.00pm Love Cheats Frozen Planet Scotland; Party Political
Watching the 10.00pm Running 7.00pm David Broadcast: by the
detectives: Rachita up that bill: Attenborough Scottish Green Party
10.40 Stevens and
(Parminder Nagra) Aaron is left in narrates as McCarthy 11.05 Inside
faces pressure deep debt by a animals face Barlinnie 12.05am Have I
from all sides fraudulent partner a harsh winter Got a Bit More News for You
12.50 Bump 2.00 Weather
for the Week Ahead
2.05—6.00 BBC News

BBC
SCOTLAND
4.00pm Deal or No Deal 5.00pm Four in a Bed 7.00pm Frozen Planet 2.30pm Landward: signed
New series. Stephen Mulhern returns with the The contest begins at the Laurel Bank Hotel in Fife. 5/7. Winter. Temperatures plummet 3.00—3.30 Scotland’s
game show as contestant Myles tries to open Signed repeat 5.20am (S) (HD) as winter arrives in the polar regions. Greatest Escape: signed
the 22 red boxes in the right order for the 7.00 Grand Tours of
5.30 Help! We Bought a Village A polar bear seeks out a spot to give Scotland’s Rivers 8.00
chance to win a life-changing cash prize. An ex-Olympian and his wife take on the challenge birth, wolves and bison attack and Island Crossings 9.00
Signed repeat 5.05am (S) (HD) defend for their lives and emperor The Nine 10.00 River
of a derelict settlement in France. (R) (S) (HD) City 10.30 Designing
5.00 The Chase penguins protect their eggs from the
6.30 The Simpsons the Hebrides 11.00 Jules
Bradley Walsh hosts as Erika, Tom, Kim and fierce storms. More tomorrow 7pm. and Greg’s Wild Swim
Mark pit their wits against one of the ruthless Frinkcoin. Homer and Marge compete to be the The whole series is on iPlayer. 11.30—12 midnight
Chasers in the hope of taking home a potential subject of an essay by Lisa. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Repeated 1am (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Best of Chewin’ the Fat
prize pot worth thousands of pounds. (S) (HD) 7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD) 8.00 Landscape and Memory STV
4/5. Seas. Simon Schama looks at 6.00—6.30pm STV
6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD) 7.55 Harry’s Story: Stand Up to Cancer The
how the sea has fired the imagination News; Party Political
6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD) story of award-winning aerospace apprentice Broadcast: by the
of writers, painters and explorers, from
Harry, who was diagnosed with two brain tumours. Scottish Green Party
the village of Cullercoats on the
7.30 Emmerdale Signed repeat 1.50am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
Northumberland coast to the waters
10.40 Scotland Tonight
It’s the day of Billy’s big fight, Nicola comes to a 11.05 Pride of Britain
8.00 Jamie: Fast and Simple of the Caribbean. First shown 1995. Awards 12.55—3.00am
realisation, and Moira has some explaining to do. 4/5. Jamie Oliver sets out to make a satisfyingly Director Francis Hanly; Producer Jane Alexander Home Shopping
Writer Adam Sales Cast Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD) First shown on BBC2 (S) 3.50—6.00 Unwind
creamy red pepper pasta dish that’s packed full

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8.00 Coronation Street of flavour, then lets the oven do the work with a 8.40 City Scapes: Las Vegas ITV1 BORDER
Lisa follows up an unexpected lead on Joel’s simple but trusty traybake of chicken and bread Exploring the architectural history of
murder and Jesse makes an announcement that
SCOTLAND
sauce. He also showcases a big beef brisket that Las Vegas while delving into the 6.00—6.30pm
stuns the Platts. Dev refuses to pay Chesney, can be used for multiple meals. And for dessert, Nevadan city’s diverse influences. Lookaround; Party
Nick asks Toyah to be his manager, and Steve a free-form strawberry tart is on the menu. First broadcast 2001. (R) (S) (HD) Political Broadcast: by
boosts Cassie’s self-esteem after a bad date. Series director Ed St Giles; Series producer Delia Williams the Scottish Green Party
Writers Ella Greenhill and Jan McVerry This week’s episodes Repeated tomorrow 7pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Call My Bluff
produced by Verity MacLeod, directed by George C Siougas, Frank Muir, Hilary Tindall and Robert BBC1 WALES
Penelope Shales-Slyne and Durno Johnston 9.00 Generation Z 8.00pm Crimewatch

Television
Cast Wednesday/Friday (S) (AD) (HD) 2/6. Kelly battles with her feelings, Steff embarks Powell play against Patrick Campbell, Caught 8.30—9.00
on a dangerous quest with Finn, and Billy goes on Dawn Addams and Lord Kearton in a Garden Rescue 10.40
9.00 DI Ray duel of words and wit, refereed by Feast of Football 11.10

45/6 Series 2. Staying on Top. The team the run. The full box set is available to stream. Scrum V Highlights 11.35
Steff Lewis Gribben Gabe Garrick Hagon
Robert Robinson. First broadcast 1974.
begins surveillance on a surprising new Director Michael Goodwin; Producer Johnny Bump 12.40am Have I
Kelly Buket Komur Parrenster John Hollingworth Downes First shown on BBC2 (S) Got a Bit More News for
suspect. The pressure on Rachita increases Charlie Jay Lycurgo Jane Rebecca Humphries You 1.25—6.00 BBC News
when she’s given an ultimatum by the Finn Viola Prettejohn Mike Bekir Hunter 9.30 Face the Music
Superintendent and is the target of a vicious Lorraine Suzanne Ahmet Joseph Andrew Kazamia
Joseph Cooper invites viewers to BBC2 WALES
threat. Amid mounting protests from the public Frank Paul Bentall Lahro Jack Maddison 11.05pm Trump: a Second
Billy Ava Hinds-Johns Clarance Ben McGregor match their musical wits against
to name the murder suspect, Suzie takes matters Chance? — Panorama
Michael Robert James-Collier Clacy Ryan Pope Joyce Grenfell, Robin Ray and Brian 12.05—12.45am
into her own hands and a web of corruption is Karen T’nia Miller Maisy Ellie-Mae Siame Redhead. First broadcast 1975. The Bat Man of Mexico
uncovered. Concludes tomorrow 9pm. See p59. Terry Chris Reilly Malcolm Maanuv Thiara First shown on BBC2 (S)
Wrollen Michael Smiley Kofi D’Angelou Osei Kissiedu
DI Rachita Ray Parminder Nagra Joey Chapman Kiera Thompson
Wendy Sophie Stone Sgt Geof Christian Lee Smith BBC1 NI
Suzie Chapman Lauren Drummond Rochelle Kay Bridgeman
Gil Ellora Torchia Mrs Nolby Joanna Horton
10.00 Pluto: Back from the 7.00pm Hope Street:
Lou Kirkby John Vernon Frank Chapman Tony Van Silva Dead new series 7.45 If Walls
Pauline Dawn Butler Interpreter Johndeep More Jason Johnny Vegas Ciaran Joss Carter
Morgan Robert Lindsay Nurse May Richards Sabina Arthur Horizon examines how discoveries from Could Talk: new series.
Claire Doyle Angela Bull Child support worker Victoria Howell Local people share
Hilary Gamboll Victoria Moseley Ballistics officer Mustafa Chaudhry Janine Anita Dobson Dr Kallernam Shameem Ahmad the edge of the solar system transformed
Cecily Sue Johnston stories and memories
Lucy Chapman Tamla Kari Liaison officer Ross Berkeley Simpson
Writer/Director Ben Wheatley; Producer Alex Kazamia Repeated
what was known about Pluto, thanks of iconic buildings
Amy Chapman Heather Forster Caucasian woman Rebecca Peyton to the New Horizons space probe that 8.00 House of the Year:
1.50am 4seven Signed repeat Wednesday 3.20am C4 (S) (AD) (HD)
Jasmine Dhawan Jiya Samra Reporter Valerie Antwi the finalists gather to
Shabnam Ayesha Fateh Receptionist Paige Round See feature: page 22 took the first-ever close-up images of
hear host Laurence
Writer Sarah Deane More cast Sunday (S) (AD) (HD) the dwarf planet. It was once thought Llewelyn-Bowen
Ten questions with Parminder Nagra: page 8
10.00 Love Cheats to be geologically dead, but the pictures reveal which home has
3/4. The case of a woman who claimed to have showed Pluto to be an active world of triumphed. Last in series
10.00 ITV News at Ten MS and conned her partner into running up stunning complexity. From 2020. 8.30—9.00 EastEnders:
Weather, Regional News and Weather (S) (HD) huge debts to fund treatment, before falsely Director/Producer Alastair Duncan Nish becomes suspicious
accusing him of domestic violence. Signed repeat 2.55am (R) (S) (HD) of the Six 10.40
10.45 Pride of Britain Awards Series director Garfield Carrott; Series producer Thea Hagley
Panorama: Trump —
Carol Vorderman and Ashley Banjo introduce Repeated Wednesday 10pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Earth from Space A Second Chance?
the 25th anniversary edition of the annual 3/4. Colourful Planet. We think of 11.40 Faithless 12.05am
ceremony that honours the nation’s unsung 11.05 First Dates Earth as a blue planet, but satellite
Comedy Shorts 12.15
Bump 1.20—6.00 News
heroes. The event at London’s Grosvenor House Ep 3. Mancunian besties Megan and Ellena are on cameras reveal a kaleidoscope of
Hotel will feature inspiring stories of bravery and a double date with Liam and Dylan. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) colour. The astonishing colours of the BBC2 NI
heroism, with plenty of surprises and emotional 12.05am The Great British Bake Off: an Extra Slice aurora are towering vertical streaks 10.00—10.30pm Ar an
5/10. Jo Brand is joined by Alexander Armstrong, Natalie hundreds of kilometres high, while Sliabh: the kitchen of An
moments in store as stars of stage, screen and Cassidy and AJ Odudu. Shown last Thursday (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) Bóthar Pub undergoes
sport, as well as royalty, salute the ordinary 1.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Gordon visits phytoplankton blooms turn the ocean renovations 11.05 Alma’s
people who have done extraordinary things. the El Greco restaurant in Austin, Texas. (R) (S) (SL) (HD) into a work of art and trigger a feeding Not Normal 11.35 Live at
Executive producers Elen Moore and Simone Haywood 1.50 Harry’s Story: Stand Up to Cancer The story of frenzy. The whole series is on iPlayer. the Apollo 12.05am Red
Shown last Thursday (S) (AD) (HD) aerospace apprentice Harry. Shown 7.55pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) Producer Justin Anderson; Series producer Dwarf 12.35—12.45am
12.35am Home Shopping (HD) 1.55 Spontaneous HHH Black comedy horror Chloe Sarosh Repeated 2am (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Chronicles of Strangford
3.00 TikTok: Murder Gone Viral 1/3. Exploring crimes
linked to the fastest-growing social media platform. In
February 2022, online influencer Mahek Bukhari and
q starring Katherine Langford and Charlie Plummer.
Students at a high school suddenly explode.
Available to stream for 30 days. Review page 65.
12 midnight Nature and Us: a History
through Art 3/3. Art historian James Fox
UTV
10.45pm View from
explores how art reflects the way nature was
her 45-year-old mother Ansreen hatched a plan that Director Brian Duffield (2020, 15) (S) (SL) (HD)
swapped for progress in the first half of the Stormont: politics
resulted in a double murder. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 3.40 Everyone Else Burns 3/6 Series 2. The Order has 20th century. The series is on iPlayer. (R) (S) (HD) 11.40—12.35am DNA
3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD) no place of worship. Shown last Thursday (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 1.00am Frozen Planet Shown 7pm (S) (AD) (HD) Journey: actors James
5.05—6.00am Deal or No Deal Game show 4.05 Frasier Three episodes. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Earth from Space Shown 11pm (S) (AD)(HD) Nesbitt and Sarah Parish
presented by Stephen Mulhern. Shown 4pm (S) (SL) (HD) 5.20—5.45am Four in a Bed Shown 5pm (S) (SL) (HD) 2.55—3.55am Pluto: Back from the Dead delve into their family
Shown 10pm (S) (SL) (HD) histories. Last in series
ITV1 Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103 Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104
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The Hardacres 9.00pm Old wounds Ghostbusters II 8.00pm Stantz, Downton Abbey 5.30pm Mr Carson The Brokenwood Mysteries 8.00pm
are reopened for Ma and Mary Zeddemore, Venkman and Spengler and Robert deal with a tragedy Mike heads to a Mexican market
5.40am Milkshake! See page 64 7.00pm The Nine to Five with 6.00am Classic Emmerdale (S) (AD) 7.00 7.10am London’s Burning: 5/18 Series 10
9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) (HD) Stacey Dooley Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD) 8.05 A car crash leads to an unusual rescue (S) (AD)
1/5 Series 1. Five teens try the ultimate work Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Mystery of the 8.00 Doctors: double bill. A woman discovers
11.30 Storm Huntley (S) (HD) Blue Train. Poirot looks into the death of
experience in different industries, beginning she has Alzheimer’s, then Tasha assists an
12.45pm Friends Series 6. Phoebe is Ruth Kettering, who appears to have been elderly woman (S) 9.15 Classic Holby City:
mistaken for a porn star. (R) (S) (HD) in a Gordon Ramsay restaurant. (S) (AD) (HD) murdered on Le Train Bleu between Calais Meena uncovers disturbing news Repeated
1.10 The pals ponder what might have been if 7.30 2/5. The teenagers go to a care and Nice (S) (AD) (HD) 10.15 The Royal: 12/12 3am (S) (HD) 10.35 Classic Casualty: Dillon
their lives had taken a different turn. (R) (S) (HD) home for work experience. More tomorrow Series 4. Matron changes her plans (S) (AD) helps an autistic teenager (S) 11.40 The Bill:
1.35 Entertainment News (S) (HD) 7pm. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.20 Heartbeat: 16/24. Greengrass starts Zain attempts to cover his tracks (S)
1.40 5 News (S) (HD) Followed by New. The Catch Up (S) (HD) a devious plot; 12.30pm 17/24. A death in 12.40pm Classic EastEnders: double bill. Ian
custody causes problems for Mike (S) (AD)
1.45 Home and Away A heartbroken Eden 8.00 Ghostbusters II HHH is furious, then Honey is annoyed that Billy is

q Supernatural
surrenders. Shown last Friday 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD) comedy sequel starring 1.30pm Classic Emmerdale: double bill. checking up on her 1.55 London’s Burning:
Dawn discovers Scott informed on her, then 6/18 Series 10. Blue Watch rescues a familiar
2.15 A Deadly Engagement HH Bill Murray. An old client once again Katie is released from hospital (S) (AD) 2.30 face (S) (AD) 3.00 Soldier Soldier: 8/15
q Thriller starring Erin Boyes, Sarah-
Jane Redmond and Madison Smith.
Director Keegan Connor Tracy (2023) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
has problems with supernatural phenomena.
On iPlayer for 29 days. Review page 65.
Director Ivan Reitman (1989, PG) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
Classic Coronation Street: double bill. Charlie
misinterprets Zack’s gesture of support to
Shelley, then Audrey gets a shock (S) (AD)
Series 5. Brad Connor learns he may be HIV
positive (S) 4.10 Howards’ Way: 11/13 Series 6
Shown yesterday BBC1 Charles goes overboard (S) 5.30 The Upper
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 3.30 Endeavour: 5/6 Series 5. Quartet. Hand: 6/13 Series 1. Caroline and Charlie are
Wiganer Maria plans a go-karting treat for 9.40 Paranormal: the Village That The detective investigates an assassination the victims of mistaken identity (S)
her adrenaline-junkie wife Jill. (R) (S) (HD) Saw Aliens attempt at an international sporting event
3/4. Sian Eleri is shocked to discover reports Repeated 12 midnight (S) (AD) (HD) 6.05pm ’Allo ’Allo!
5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD) 17/26 Series 5. Going like a Bomb
of hundreds of UFO sightings. (S) (AD) (HD) 5.30pm Downton Abbey
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6.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly 10.10 4/4. The investigation concludes. Michelle and Crabtree hatch a plot to get
1/7 Series 1. April 1912: RMS Titanic has
Graeme is called in to help Kerry and The whole series is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD) sunk, taking with it Lord Grantham’s heir, the airmen back to England. (S)
David with a pack of six crazy cockers. 10.40 This Country James Crawley, and his son, Patrick. So 6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
Directors/Producers Michael Nuvoletta and who will be the new heir? (S) (AD) (HD) Series 4. Jubilee. Foggy feels the need to
Selina Chan (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1/6 Series 2. Kerry wants to give back
to her community. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Heartbeat do something for the Silver Jubilee. (S)
6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD) 7.20 Flower Power Cut. Clegg attends
11.10 2/6. Kerry receives threatening 18/24 Series 7. Aidensfield’s eternal
7.00 Traffic Cops letters. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD) bachelor Greengrass falls in love with the funeral of an old friend. (S)
A hunt begins for a van driver who 11.40 Bad Education an aristocratic lady poacher. (S) (AD) 8.00 New. The Brokenwood Mysteries
4 2/6
allegedly drove into pedestrians. 3/6 Series 4. The kids and teachers get a Series 10. Day of the Dead
Series director/producer Simon Meehan (R) (S) (HD)
8.00 Grace
taste of what life in prison is like. (S) (AD) (HD) 2/4 Series 2. Not Dead Enough. Grace A real dead body is found at a
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD) 12.10am 4/6. Stephen feels old. (S) (AD) (HD) finds himself in a race against time to Mexican “Day of the Dead” night market
8.00 Police Interceptors 12.40 BBC New Comedy Awards (S) (HD) establish that a woman was brutally in Brokenwood. See page 58. (S) (AD) (HD)
In Kettering, a wanted man abandons 1.10 This Country: two episodes (S) (AD) (HD) murdered by her husband. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 New Tricks
his car before running off into a park, 2.05 Bad Education: double bill (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Law & Order: UK 6/10 Series 8. Objects of Desire. Sandra
with Sandra giving chase on foot, Tony 3.05 Charlotte in Sunderland (S) (HD) is asked by a former partner to investigate
3.35—4.00am My Mate’s a Bad Date (S) (HD) 5/6 Series 5. Intent. Ronnie and Matt
using a drone, and handler Macca and struggle to find a motive for the killing of the death of an antiques dealer. (S) (AD)
his supreme sniffer dog Mac joining in. BBC3 Freeview 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) Freesat 107
Sky 115 (117 Wales; 121 Scotland) Virgin 107 (113 Scotland/Wales) David and Elaine Lerner, so they suspect 11.20 Murder in Mind
Directors/Producers Rachael Davies, Mike Parmenter
and James Warner Rptd Thursday 12.25am (S) (HD)
it’s a case of mistaken identity. (S) (AD) (HD) 6/7 Series 1. Neighbours. A man is driven
ITV2 6 11.00 6/6. Deal. How is 12-year-old Kaden to breaking point by his neighbours. (S)
9.00 The Hardacres involved in the shooting of a mother? As 12.40am The Missing: 1/8 Series 1. Emotional
4 4/6. Mary and Ma visit a place that 6.00am CITV (HD) 9.00 Totally Bonkers a victim of gang culture, silence is his only crime thriller starring James Nesbitt and
holds painful memories from their Guinness World Records: two editions (S) (HD) protection. By speaking out, he unleashes Frances O’Connor (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Passport
10.00 Love Bites: double bill (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
past, while Liza seeks to make amends a shattering chain of events. (S) (AD) (HD) to Freedom: 6/8. Zumkle redoubles his efforts
with Adella after getting her into trouble 12 noon Dress to Impress (S) (HD) 1.00pm 12 midnight Endeavour Shown 3.30pm (S) to get João reassigned (S) (HD) 3.00—4.00am
Supermarket Sweep (S) (HD) 2.00 Family (AD) (HD) 2.00—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD) Classic Holby City Shown 9.15am (HD)
at the tea party. See page 59. Fortunes (S) (HD) 3.00 Charmed (S) (HD)
Mary Hardacre Claire Cooper 4.00 Gilmore Girls: Rory’s father comes to ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 U&Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
Sam Hardacre Liam McMahon stay (S) (HD) 4.55 Dress to Impress (S) (HD) +1 Freesat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317 +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316
Ma Julie Graham
5.55pm FILM Harry Potter and the
Joe Hardacre
Liza Hardacre
Adam Little
Shannon Lavelle Half-Blood Prince HHHH The sixth in the ITV4 26 ITVBe 28

Harry Hardacre Zak Ford-Williams blockbuster fantasy adventure series, starring 6.00am Football League Legends (S) (HD) 7.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 7.25 Olivia Meets
Callum Saunders Taheen Modak Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma 6.10 Minder (S) (SL) (AD) 7.15 The Sweeney Her Match (S) (HD) 8.30 The Cabins (S) (HD)
Adella Fitzherbert Holly Sturton Watson. The Death Eaters announce the return (S) (SL) 8.20 Dempsey and Makepeace (S) (AD) 9.30 The Real Housewives of Cheshire (S)
Writer Liz Lake; Producer Alex Jones of their master, Lord Voldemort, with a series of 9.25 The Saint (S) 10.30 Giant Lobster (HD) 10.30 Olivia Meets Her Match (S) (HD)
Director Kieron J Walsh (S) (AD) (HD) attacks on London. As disaster looms, Professor Hunters (S) (HD) 11.30 BattleBots (S) (HD) 11.30 The Real Housewives of Potomac (S) (HD)
Dumbledore brings Horace Slughorn back to
10.00 Broadmoor Hogwarts so that Harry can learn from him the 12.30pm Dempsey and Makepeace (S) (AD) 12.30pm The Real Housewives of Beverly
2/4. A look at how staff care for and secrets of Voldemort’s power. (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 1.35 The Saint (S) 2.40 Giant Lobster Hills (S) (HD) 1.20 The Only Way Is Essex (S)
Hunters (S) (HD) 3.40 Minder (S) (AD) 4.50 (HD) 2.05 Dinner Date: dating show (S) (HD)
contain the hospital’s most dangerous 9.00 New. Big Brother A chance to catch
up with everything happening in the house. The Sweeney (S) 5.55 BattleBots (S) (HD) 3.10 The Big Bake (S) (HD) 4.05 The Real
patients, including an insight into what Housewives of Potomac (S) (HD) 5.00 New.
Expect tricky tasks, nail-biting nominations 6.55pm The Chase Celebrity Special
happened when Lee Rigby’s killer Gareth Malone, Scott Mills, Glenn Hoddle and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (S) (HD)
Michael Adebowale assaulted a nurse. and friendships being tested. (S) (HD)
10.00 New. Big Brother: Late and Live Louise Minchin take part in the quiz. (S) (HD) 6.00pm Making It Home with Kortney
Director/Producer Tom Harrad (S) (HD) 8.00 New. MotoGP Highlights Action and Dave Elizabeth and Michael ask the duo
AJ Odudu and Will Best present a companion
11.00 Motorway Cops: Catching show to Big Brother direct from the site of the from the Grand Prix of Thailand at the for help updating their property. (S) (HD)
Britain’s Speeders house, in front of a studio audience. (S) (HD) Buriram International Circuit. (S) (HD) 7.00 The Big Bake The teams create
11.05 New. Family Guy Series 22. Comedy 9.00 New. Junk and Disorderly Henry Cole dangerous doll cakes for the judges. (S) (HD)
In Newcastle, PCs Marc Crammond and and Sam Lovegrove try to make money from 8.00 James Martin’s Spanish Adventure
star Kevin James appears in the Griffin
Jan Simlesa pull over a speeding driver. house when Lois sells the family TV to pay autojumbles and auctions. Rptd Wed 8pm (S) (HD) Sampling food in San Sebastián. (S) (AD) (HD)
Directors Sam Knowles, Emma Fraser (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 FILM Van Helsing HHH Action fantasy 9.00 New. The Real Housewives of Atlanta
for Christmas presents. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight LIVE NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers 11.35 New. American Dad! Series 18. Hayley horror starring Hugh Jackman as monster- Sheree discovers a family secret. (S) (HD)
v New York Giants (kick-off 12.15am). (S) (HD) tries to find Steve so they can go to a Shaggy slayer Gabriel Van Helsing, sent to Transylvania 10.00 Totally Unbelievable How celebrity
3.30am Entertainment News (S) (HD) 3.40 concert, but the endeavour takes her and to aid a Gypsy princess in her battle against parents raise their children. (S) (HD)
House Busters (R) (S) (SL) 4.05 Wildlife SOS Steve on a multiversal adventure. (S) (AD) (HD) Count Dracula. Review p65. (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 11.00 My Mom, Your Dad: USA Yvonne
(R) (S) (SL) 4.30 Britain’s Great Cathedrals 12.05am Family Guy (S) (AD) (HD) 12.55 12.35am New. Motorsport UK: from Donington Orji introduces the dating show. (S) (HD)
with Tony Robinson (R) (S) (SL) (HD) American Dad! (S) (AD) (HD) 1.20 Bob’s Burgers Park (S) (HD) 1.30 Auto Mundial (S) (HD) 1.55 12 midnight The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
5.20—5.25am Entertainment News (S) (HD) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.05—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD) Driving Force (S) (HD) 2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 12.50—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105 ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 (132 Scotland)
+1 Freeview 38 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 305 +1 Freeview 29 (7am-2am) Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 315 +1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 318 Virgin 119 +1 Virgin 319
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9.00am NCIS 10.55 Entertainment News
11.00 NCIS 12 noon Law & Order
6.00pm NCIS Series 15. Triple bill. A Metro
PD cop’s disappearance is linked to a
decade-old murder case 7.00 A sailor is
kidnapped, and Special Agent Jacqueline
Sloane assists in the investigation 8.00 One
of Reeves’s friends is kidnapped by a man
who stole sensitive data from the US military
9.00 New. NCIS: Hawai’i Series 1. NCIS
agents Nick Torres and Jessica Knight travel
to Hawai’i 10.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit Series 7. Three episodes
12.55am Criminal Minds 2.50 Blindspot 3.35—
Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive Tales of the Unexpected 6.30pm Find It, Fix It, Flog It 8.00pm Simon 4.00am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera (AD)
and Kids 9.00pm Christmas is coming Elizabeth and Ray commit a crime and Henry have their eyes on a tractor 5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft 9.15 6.00am Backstage with the London 6.10am Great Continental Railway Journeys +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320
A Place in the Sun: Torrox Costa in Spain Philharmonic Orchestra 7.00 Queen and 8.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) 10.00
10.05 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are Béjart: Ballet for Life 8.20 The Joy of Narrow Escapes of World War II (AD) 11.00 5 Star 32
They Now? 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) Painting (AD) 8.55 Tales of the Unexpected World War Weird: murders during the Blitz 8.00am Dirty Home Rescue 9.00
1.05pm Car SOS: a 1924 Austin 7 Chummy (AD) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 12 noon Great Canal Journeys 1.00pm Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 11.00 Traffic
(AD) 2.05 Four in a Bed 4.50 The Dog House 11.00 Discovering: Dennis Hopper (AD) Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Bangers and Cash: Cops 2.00pm Police Interceptors (AD) 5.00
(AD) 5.50 Escape to the Château: DIY (AD) 12 noon Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 Restoring Classics (AD) 4.00 Narrow Escapes Shoplifters and Scammers: at War with the Law
6.55pm Car SOS The boys visit Somerset 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 of World War II (AD) 5.00 World War Weird 6.00pm Home and Away Mackenzie gets a
to help ex-soldier Ben, who sustained Laurie Lee: the Lost Interview (AD) 3.00 6.00pm Antiques Roadshow The team surprise housemate. Shown 1.45pm C5 (AD)
life-altering injuries in the line of duty. Can Portrait Artist of the Year 4.00 Classic visits Waltham Forest Town Hall, east London. 6.30 New. John attempts to introduce
they restore his Jeep Grand Cherokee? (AD) Albums: Metallica’s 1991 self-titled album 7.00 Guy Martin’s Battle of Britain Guy’s himself to Abigail. Rptd tomorrow 1.45pm C5 (AD)
7.55 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud meets 5.00 Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 training ramps up at the aerial combat school. 7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors Doctors
a couple planning to construct a black-clad 6.00pm Tales of the Unexpected A 8.00 RT CHOICE New series. Find It, Fix treat a man who was hurled over the bonnet
private hideaway in an Essex woodland, but contest attracts high levels of attention. (AD) It, Flog It 1/10 Series 9. Henry falls in love of a car in a bicycle accident. (AD)
a dangerous gas leak stalls progress. (AD) 6.30 A woman is drawn by a flyer for an anti- with a tractor and Simon thinks an industrial 8.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts
9.00 New. Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, ageing process known as the Gift of Beauty. (AD) trolley can become a table. See page 58. (AD) A 56-year-old man is brought in after being
Clive and Kids Ep 3. As Christmas looms, 7.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 9.00 Creating a fish tank from scrap and found unconscious at home.
Amanda and family face re-roofing Anty A disturbed man’s alternative identity drags uncovering a special petrol tank. 9.00 Ambulance: Code Red A man has a
John’s during a fearsome Dales winter, others into a perilous web, turning his 10.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring cardiac arrest at a karate club. (AD)
which follows a wet and stormy autumn. (AD) personal dream world into a nightmare. Classics The team takes on the restoration 10.00 999: Critical Condition A woman is
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of a 1992 Vauxhall Nova Merit Plus. (AD) rushed in after being thrown from her horse.
the royal family’s lives in Scotland, from Philharmonic Orchestra The orchestra’s 11.00 Abandoned Engineering An 11.00 Murdered for Revenge A murder
family barbecues and weekend hikes at performs Mahler’s Second Symphony at American desert canyon where fortunes victim whose phone revealed a suspect. (AD)
Balmoral, to university love affairs and London’s Royal Festival Hall for the opening were made and lives were lost. (AD) 12 midnight Accused: Guilty or Innocent?
ultimately the death of the Queen. (AD) concert of their 2023/2024 season. 12 midnight Great Continental Railway Journeys: 1.00am Skin A&E (AD) 2.00 Casualty 24/7: Every
11.05 24 Hours in A&E A nine-year-old boy 9.35 André Rieu: Happy Days Are Here a trip from Vienna to Trieste 1.00—3.00am Second Counts 2.50 GPs: behind Closed Doors
has a dangerously high heart rate, and doctors Again The Dutch violinist and his Johann Secrets of the London Underground (AD) 3.35—4.00am Home and Away (AD)
fear a 32-year-old man may have damaged Strauss Orchestra perform in Maastricht, U&Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129 5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 (129 Scotland)
his spine in a 30ft fall from scaffolding. (AD) featuring show tunes and joyous waltzes. +1 Sky 255 Virgin 329 Virgin 126 +1 Freesat 140 Sky 228 (229 Scot) Virgin 326
12.05am Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive 12.35am Cirque du Soleil: Mystery of Mystère
and Kids (AD) 1.10 A Royal Guide to Scotland (AD) 1.55 Alfie Boe: Storyteller (AD) 4.05 Cleo Laine:
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Unwrapped: Kate Quilton investigates kombucha (AD) National Treasures: the Art of Collecting (AD) 7.10am Gassed Up 8.00 Cops on the Rock 9.00am Entertainment News 9.15 Trucking
More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 (137 Scotland) Sky Arts Freeview 36 Freesat 143 Sky 130 (131 Scotland) (AD) 10.00 Extreme Salvage Squad Hell 10.15 Traffic Cops 11.15 Motorway Cops:
Virgin 147 +1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 (237 Scot) Virgin 347 Virgin 123 EE 350/HD 365 12 noon Storage Hunters UK 1.30pm Guy Catching Britain’s Speeders (AD)
Martin: the World’s Fastest Electric Car? 12.10pm FILM Day of the Evil Gun HH
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3.00 Top Gear: two editions (AD) 5.00 Rick Western starring Glenn Ford 2.15 FILM
6.00am Hollyoaks Shown last Tue/Wed (AD) 9.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Stein’s Long Weekends: double bill (AD) Showdown HHH Western starring Audie
6.55 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.00 Ramsay’s 10.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) 7.00pm Would I Lie to You? With Murphy (BW) 4.00 Trucking Hell 5.00 Traffic
Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL) 8.00 Don’t Tell 11.00 The Great House Giveaway panellists Lady Leshurr, Philippa Perry, Cops: on the Edge: focusing on young drivers
the Bride 9.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 10.00 The Alan Titchmarsh and Mike Wozniak. 6.00pm Police Interceptors Officers stop
12 noon Frasier (AD) 1.30pm Four in a Bed an uninsured driver with a violent past.
Big Bang Theory (AD) 11.00 Modern Family 2.00 A Place in the Sun: What Happened 7.40 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Jamelia, Susan Calman, Gareth Malone and 7.00 Barry Peach deals with a case
12 noon The Big Bang Theory (AD) Next? 3.00 Renovation Nation (AD) 4.00 involving dogs locked inside a hot car.
2.00pm The Goldbergs: two episodes (AD) Help! We Bought a Village 5.00 A Place in Paul Martin play a variety of trivia-based games.
8.20 With guests Samira Ahmed, Dom Joly, 8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s
3.00 Modern Family 4.00 Teen First Dates the Sun: looking for a property in Menorca Speeders PC Brian Camsell goes in pursuit
(AD) 5.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD) Angela Rippon and John Robins.
6.00pm A Place in the Sun: What 9.00 QI XL Sandi Toksvig hosts, with guests of a suspect refusing to stop and who goes
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 24/24 Happened Next? Craig Rowe catches up Sarah Millican, Cariad Lloyd and Alice Levine. off-road, speeding through residential areas.
Series 8. Sheldon presses Leonard and Penny with his first pair of house-hunters. 10.00 New. Will and Ralf Should Know 9.00 Warship: Life at Sea HMS
to choose a date for their wedding. (AD) 7.00 Location, Location, Location Ep 2 Better 4/4. Will Mellor and Ralf Little Northumberland receives intelligence that a
6.30 1/24 Series 9. Penny struggles with Jennifer from Belfast has hit a wall climbing push themselves to their limits on a mud Russian warship is heading towards Faslane.
Leonard’s confession. (AD) the property ladder, and Tony and Val are assault course and a day at a “Man Camp” 10.00 FILM Hurricane HH Second World
7.00 New. Hollyoaks The Osbornes are looking to relocate from London to Down. War drama starring Iwan Rheon, Milo Gibson
that causes a lot of discomfort. (AD)
racked with worry. Rptd tomorrow 6.30am (AD) 8.00 Yorkshire by the Sea 3/4. Fisherman and Stefanie Martini. English, Polish
11.00 World’s Most Dangerous Roads
7.30 New. Modern Family 11/22 Series 8 Darren heads into the North Sea from +subtitles. Review page 65.
Actor Will Mellor and comedian Keith Lemon
Jay, Claire and Mitch run into DeDe at a Staithes in search of lobster and crab. (AD) 12.10am Under the Dome 2.00 Trucking Hell
embark on a high-octane road trip in Albania.
family wedding. First shown on Sky Showcase 9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox for Stand Up 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News
12 midnight Mock the Week 12.40am Alan
8.00 New. Hot Yachts: Miami Nick hosts a to Cancer In a special episode for Stand Up Davies: As Yet Untitled 1.40 Would I Lie to You? 5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130
big event to promote his online channel. (AD) to Cancer, the stars react to the latest TV. (AD) 2.15 QI XL 3.05—4.00am Schitt’s Creek
9.00 New. Married at First Sight One
couple has to confront difficult truths. (AD)
10.00 Gogglebox The households’ instant
reactions to the past week’s TV shows. (AD) U&Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (112 Wales) Virgin HD 127 5 Select 46
10.20 New. Made in Chelsea The gang 11.05 FILM Independence Day HHHH U&Dave Ja Vu F’view 74 Sky 211 (212 Wales) Virgin 327
9.00am The Yorkshire Vet 3.00pm Murder,
heads off for a break by the coast. Sci-fi adventure starring Will Smith and Bill
11.30 Gogglebox From November 2020. (AD) Pullman. (AD) Shown yesterday 6.20pm Channel 4 Sky Mix 11 She Wrote (AD) 4.00 Columbo
6.00pm Ben Fogle in Winter Wonderland
12.35am Married at First Sight (SL) (AD) 1.55 1.50am Generation Z (AD) 2.55 Taskmaster (AD) 7.00am Nothing to Declare 9.00 Monkey A couple who hiked 4,000 miles to Alaska.
Made in Chelsea (SL) 2.50 Naked Attraction (AD) 4.00—5.00am 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 7.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
3.45 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD) 4.30 Life (AD) 10.00 Stop, Search, Seize (AD)
4seven F’view 49 F’sat 127 Sky 137 (138 Scot) Virgin 143 11.00 Highway Patrol (AD) 12 noon A family of hunter-gatherers in New Zealand.
Black-ish (AD) 5.20—6.00am The Goldbergs (AD)
Motorway Patrol 1.00pm Border Patrol 8.00 Tony Robinson’s History of Britain
E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 (136 Scot) Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 (236 Scot) Virgin 306
Quest 12 2.00 Monkey Life (AD) 3.00 Nothing to The lives of people from the Georgian era.
Declare (AD) 4.00 Star Trek: the Next 9.00 The Big Steam Adventure: Here We
E4 Extra F’view 31 F’sat 126 Sky 138 (139 Scot) Virgin 144 6.00am Chasing Classic Cars 8.00 American
Pickers 9.00 Aussie Gold Hunters (AD) 11.00 The Generation 5.00 Star Trek: Enterprise Go Again! John Sergeant, Peter Davison and
Really 17 Repair Shop 1.00pm The Yorkshire Auction House
2.00 Shed and Buried 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
6.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: the
crew join forces with Jem’Hadar soldiers
Paul “Piglet” Middleton visit the Isle of Wight.
10.00 Digging Up Britain’s Past Exploring
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home 5.00 Wheeler Dealers: questions from fans 7.00 Star Trek: Voyager: Janeway journeys British history through an archaeological dig.
Shopping 8.00 Salvage Hunters 10.00 A Place in 7.00pm Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars 8.00 through time 8.00 Hawaii Five-0: a school 11.00 Prisoner: Cell Block H Bea is
the Sun 12 noon Money for Nothing 2.00pm The Aussie Gold Hunters (AD) 9.00 New. Aussie
Gold Hunters: a major health scare, unreliable reunion ends in murder 9.00 The Equalizer: shanghaied in the middle of the night.
Repair Shop 3.00 Antiques Road Trip 5.00 The 12 midnight The women lift the barricade.
Yorkshire Auction House (AD) 7.00 Antiques Road machinery and the Victorian weather challenge double bill. McCall tries to find a mathematician,
Trip 9.00 New. The Yorkshire Auction House: the Poseidon Crew 10.00 Gem Hunters Down then Mel goes under cover as a volunteer for 1.05am Forged in Fire 3.35—4.00am Walking
digging through three generations of clutter (AD) Under (AD) 11.00 The Repair Shop a politician (AD) 11.00 Killer in My Village Tudor Britain: the history of the royal dynasty
10.00 The Yorkshire Auction House (AD) 12 midnight How Do They Do It?: double bill 12 midnight Murders That Shocked the Nation 5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138
11.00 Celebrity Help! My House Is Haunted (AD) 1.00am Wheeler Dealers 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It: (AD) 1.00am Nothing to Declare 2.00 Brit Cops:
1.00am Unexplained: Caught on Camera 2.00 in Leicestershire 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made Law & Disorder (AD) 3.00 Highway Patrol 4.00 FREEVIEW TV and film
Home Shopping 4.00—6.00am Salvage Hunters Quest Freeview 12 Freesat 150/HD 144 Sky 144 Virgin 137 Border Patrol 5.00—6.00am Highway Cops
channels continue overleaf
Really Freeview 17 Freesat 145 Sky 142 Virgin 128 +1 Freeview 70 Freesat 151 Sky 244 Virgin 337 Sky Mix Freeview 11 Freesat 141 Sky 151 Virgin 135
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 200 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 EE 313

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U&W Food Network PBS America
25 43 84
CHILDREN’S FILMS
Milkshake! on C5 Film4 14
5.40am Paw Patrol 5.50 Milkshake! 11.00am The Mouse That Roared
Monkey’s Amazing Adventures 6.00 HHH A tiny country declares war
Oggy Oggy 6.10 Peppa Pig: triple bill on America so that it will qualify
6.25 New. Daisy & Ollie 6.30 Odo
6.40 Tweedy & Fluff 6.45 Fireman for aid after its defeat. Review,
Sam 6.55 Thomas & Friends: All right. Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg (1959, U) (S)
Engines Go! 7.05 Peppa Pig: double bill 12.45pm Nothing but the Best
7.25 Paw Patrol 7.30 Pip and Posy HHHH Hilarious and scathing satire
7.40 New. The Adventures of about a social climber who is tutored
Paddington 7.55 Milo 8.10 Paw Patrol in the ways of the world by an
8.30 New. Reu and Harper’s Wonder
World 8.40 New series. Milkshake! Off indolent aristocrat. Alan Bates (1963, PG) (S)
Ambulance Australia 10.00pm Selena + Restaurant 10.00pm Hitler’s Gold 8.40pm 2.50 A Kid for Two Farthings
We Go! 8.45 Peppa Pig: double bill
Paramedics Dan and Matt Stephanie meets Selena The Führer’s financial plans 8.55 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom HHH Celia Johnson stars in this
9.10—9.15am Milkshake! Story Den delightful urban fairy tale set in
6.10am Inside the Ambulance 7.00 6.00am The Great British Bake Off 8.00am Grand Tours of Scotland
Property Brothers: Forever Homes 7.30 James Martin: Sweet 8.00 8.40 The 100 Days That Defined Full listings for Channel 5 are on p62 London’s East End in the harsh days
after the Second World War. (1955, U) (S)
(AD) 8.00 Tipping Point 11.00 DIY James Martin’s Christmas Feasts Modern History 9.40 WWII in
SOS: the Big Build 1.00pm Tipping 8.30 James Martin’s Favourite Color: Road to Victory 10.50 CBeebies 202 4.40 Sink the Bismarck! HHHH
Thoughtful and compelling Second
Point: double bill 3.00 Property Feasts 9.00 James Martin’s Hitler’s Gold 11.50 Afghanistan: the 6.00am Bing 6.10 Vegesaurs
Brothers: Forever Homes: double American Adventure 10.00 The Wounded Land 1.00pm Mussolini: World War drama featuring a first-
6.15 Teletubbies 6.25 Small Potatoes rate performance from Kenneth
bill (AD) 5.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food 11.00 the First Fascist 2.05 The 100 Days 6.30 Supertato 6.40 Roots and Fruits
Hairy Bikers’ Meals on Wheels That Defined Modern History 3.15 6.45 Tee and Mo 6.50 Bing 7.00 More. Review, p95. (1960, U) (S) (AD)
6.00pm DIY SOS: the Big
Build The team create a dedicated 12 noon The Great British Bake Off WWII in Color: Road to Victory Colourblocks 7.05 Hey Duggee 7.20 6.40pm Lion HHHH Gripping,
1.30pm James Martin: Sweet 2.00 4.20 Hitler’s Gold 5.20 Bluey 7.40 Go Jetters 7.50 Peter
dialysis room for a kidney patient. Rabbit 8.05 Octonauts: Above & drama about a man searching
James Martin’s Christmas Feasts Afghanistan: the Wounded Land for his family while remembering
7.00 New. MasterChef Australia: Beyond 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20
2.30 James Martin’s Favourite 6.30pm The 100 Days That Alphablocks 8.25 Love Monster 8.35 how he arrived alone in Kolkata
Dessert Masters The contestants Feasts 3.00 James Martin’s
celebrate all things chocolate. American Adventures 5.00 The
Defined Modern History 6/6 Justin’s House 9.00 Bing 9.05 Yakka when he was five years old. Film
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1991. Dee! 9.10 Love Monster 9.20 Dylan’s
Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food Playtime Adventures 9.30 Twirlywoos of the Day, right. Dev Patel (2016, PG) (S)
8.10 Sort Your Life Out with
Stacey Solomon Stacey helps 6.00pm Hairy Bikers’ Meals on 7.35 WWII in Color: Road to 9.45 Something Special: We’re All 9.00 Hunter Killer HHH
the Daniels family to declutter. (AD) Wheels 7.00 The Great British Victory 1/10. The German army Friends 10.05 Teletubbies 10.20 New.
Submarine captain Gerard Butler
Bake Off: Noel Fielding and Sandi prepares to capture the British. Maddie and Triggs 10.30 Yukee 10.35
9.30 Inside the Ambulance Tiny Wonders 10.40 Colourblocks and Admiral Gary Oldman shoot
Toksvig host 8.30 Mary Berry’s 8.40 Hitler’s Gold 1/4. The
A woman is threatening to jump Foolproof Cooking 9.00. Mary
10.45 Roots and Fruits 10.50 and shout their way through this
financial backing Hitler needed. Vegesaurs 11.00 Bluey 11.05 macho action thriller. (2018, 15) (S)
out of a first-floor window. Berry’s Quick Cooking 10.00 New Supertato 11.10 Hey Duggee 11.20
10.00 Ambulance Australia Selena + Restaurant: double bill. 9.40 Afghanistan: the Wounded I Can Do It, You Can Too 11.35 Teeny 11.20 Fresh HH Patchy
Selena Gomez steps up her game Land 1/4. How Afghanistan was Tiny Creatures 11.50 Our Family romcom-horror mash-up.
Television MONDAY

Paramedics go to a warehouse
where a forklift has rolled over. in Stephanie Izard’s kitchen, then divided in the 1960s. 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan (2022) (S)
Selena feels the pressure at Alta, Apple Tree House 12.30 Dog Squad
11.00 A stranger must be convinced 10.55 WWII in Color: Road to 12.40 Andy’s Safari Adventures 1.35—3.45am Insidious: the Last
Keith Corbin’s California restaurant
to perform life-saving CPR. 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Victory As 7.35pm. 1.00 Yakka Dee! 1.05 Numberblocks Key HHH Teasingly twisted ghost
12 midnight Bradford on Duty 12 midnight Guy’s Grocery Games: eight 12 midnight Hitler’s Gold 1.10 Alphablocks 1.15 Hey Duggee story that brings the horror
1.25am One Born Every Minute judges take on a challenge 1.00—3.00am 1.00—2.00am Grand Tours of 1.25 Love Monster 1.30 Yukee 1.40 franchise full circle. Lin Shaye (2018, 15) (S)
Colourblocks 1.45 Something Special
2.10—3.00am 21 Kids and Counting Halloween Baking Championship Scotland: visiting rural Perthshire 2.05 Teletubbies 2.20 Vida the Vet Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
U&W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 (133 Scotland) Food Network F’view 43 F’sat 148 Sky 140 PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only) 2.30 Mojo Swoptops 2.45 Supertato Sky 313 Virgin 428
Virgin 125 +1 Sky 232 (233 Scotland) Virgin 325 (141 Scot) Virgin 190 +1 F’sat 154 Sky 240 (241 Scot) Freesat 155 Sky 173 Virgin 187 2.50 Waffle the Wonder Dog 3.05 +1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.20 The
Rewind TV 95 HGTV 44 U&Eden 57 Game Catchers 3.30 New series. Big
Lizard 3.40 Hey Duggee 3.45 Peter
Talking 82
6.00am Unwind with Rewind 7.00 7.00am Building Alaska 8.00 9.00am Inside the Ambulance (AD) Rabbit 4.00 Andy’s Global Adventures
4.15 Mojo Swoptops 4.25 Bluey
Pictures TV
FILM At War with the Army HHH Escape to the Country 9.00 A 6.00pm Inside the Ambulance: six 4.40 Supertato 4.50 Vida the Vet
(BW) 9.00 Jason King 10.00 That’s Place in the Sun 10.00 Escape to editions. A woman whose legs have 6.00am The Westerner
5.00 Time for School 5.15 Dodge’s
My Dog 10.30 A Fine Romance the Country 11.00 A Place in the swollen 7.00 An HGV driver suffers Pup School 5.25 Sarah & Duck 5.35 TV western (S) 6.35 Operation
11.00 Watching 11.30 Trouble in Sun 12 noon My Lottery Dream dizzy spells 8.00 A man who stabbed JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45 Moon and Me Diplomat HH Watchable drama
Mind 12 noon Sherlock Holmes Home 2.00pm A Place in the Sun a police dog 9.00 A sick baby needs 6.10pm Clangers 6.20 In the Night about a surgeon forced to operate
(BW) 12.30pm Shine on Harvey 3.00 Escape to the Country 5.00 Garden... 6.50—7.00pm Bedtime Stories by smugglers. Guy Rolfe (1953, U) (S) 7.55
to get to hospital 10.00 Following
Moon 1.00 Space 1999 2.00 A Place in the Sun: three editions CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702 The Promise HH Sincere spiritual
crews during the festive period
FILM Carnival Story HH Drama 8.00 Escape to the Country 9.00 drama. Lesley Dudley (1952, U) (S) 8.55
with Anne Baxter 4.00 Whicker’s 11.00 Snow causes problems Passport to Treason H Dire British
World 5.00 Worzel Gummidge Down
New. Derelict Rescue: a run-down
barn becomes a heavenly home
12 midnight Anthony Bourdain: CBBC 201 mystery with a sub-Hitchcockian
Parts Unknown 2.00am Inside the
Under 5.30 That’s My Dog 6.00 10.00 New. Bargain Block: turning Ambulance 5.20—6.00am David 7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.05 plot. Rod Cameron (1956, U) (S) 10.30 In
Surgical Spirit 6.30 The Cuckoo a dilapidated home into a Nordic Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (AD) Danger Mouse 7.20 Dennis & Gnasher Suspicious Circumstances Drama. (S)
Waltz 7.00 The Beiderbecke Affair Unleashed! 7.30 Boy Girl Dog Cat 11.35 The Outer Limits TV sci-fi
8.00 Jason King 9.00 Mitch
paradise 11.00 New series. Scariest U&Eden Freeview 57 Freesat 160 Sky 166 Mouse Cheese 7.45 New. Newsround series. (S) 12.40pm Five Days HH
10.05 Drop the Dead Donkey 10.35 House in America: three scary Virgin 176 +1 Sky 266 Virgin 376 7.55 Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 Entertaining B-picture. (1954) (S) 2.25
Whose Line Is It Anyway? 11.05 homes in the north-east battle for a Odd Squad 8.25 Super Happy Magic
A Good Read with Mike Read
Surgical Spirit 11.35 Watching chance at a $150,000 makeover
(AD) 11.30 Flip or Flop Vegas
Blaze 64 Forest 8.35 Deadly 60 9.05 One Zoo
Three 9.30 Pickle Storm 9.50 Odd Classic stories. 3.00 The Saint
12.05am The Cuckoo Waltz 12.35 Squad 10.15 Game on Grandparents TV drama. (S) 4.05 The Passing
Sherlock Holmes (BW) 1.05 Shine on 12 midnight Bargain Mansions (AD) 6.00am Dickinson’s Real Deal 6.40
1.00am Building Alaska 2.00 Flip or Flop Pawn Stars 7.30 Auction Hunters 7.55 10.40 Horrible Histories: American Stranger HH Moody British drama
Harvey Moon 1.35 That’s My Dog presidents 11.05 Super Happy Magic
2.05 FILM Carnival Story HH 3.00—4.00am My Lottery Dream Home Storage Wars 8.55 Hardcore Pawn about an American army deserter.
10.15 UFOs: the Lost Evidence 11.10 Forest 11.20 Danger Mouse Review, right. (1954) (S) 5.20 Dixon of
4.00—6.00am Unwind with Rewind HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 149 Sky 158 Virgin 191 Weird Britain 12.10pm Mysteries from 11.30 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! Dock Green TV police drama. (S)
Rewind TV Freeview 95 Sky 190 +1 Sky 258 Virgin 391 Above 1.05 The UnXplained with 11.40 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
11.55 Andy’s Safari Adventures 6.00pm For the Love of Ada
William Shatner 2.05 Pawn Stars 3.05
Great TV 50 Challenge 48 Storage Wars 4.00 Ancient Aliens 12.10pm Go Jetters 12.30 Danger
Mouse 12.55 Waffle the Wonder Dog
Vintage TV sitcom. (S)
6.30 Out of Town Documentary. (S)
6.00 New. UFOs: the Lost Evidence
8.00am Diagnosis Murder: two 7.00am The Chase 10.00 Weakest 7.00 Pawn Stars 8.00 Dickinson’s Real 1.05 Supertato 1.15 Dennis & Gnasher 7.00 The Footage Detectives
episodes 10.00 Father Dowling Link 11.00 Pointless Celebrities: Deal 9.00 New. The Curse of Oak Unleashed! 1.40 Super Happy Magic Rare footage of Peter Sellers. (S)
Mysteries 11.00 Castle with Anthea Turner and Andy Island 10.00 New. World’s Greatest Forest 1.50 Pickle Storm 2.10 Boy Girl
Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 2.25 Jamie 8.00 Enemy at the Door
12 noon Hart to Hart 2.00pm Crane, Justin Fletcher and Gemma Treasure Mysteries 11.00 Great Escapes
with Morgan Freeman 12 midnight Johnson 2.50 What’s Cooking Omari? TV wartime drama. (S)
Father Dowling Mysteries 3.00 Hunt, Dave Benson-Phillips and 3.00 The Dengineers 3.30 Dennis 9.05 A Prayer for the Dying
Secrets in the Ice 1.00am UFOs: the
Diagnosis Murder 5.00 Murder, Gareth Jones, and Sally James and Lost Evidence 2.00 Weird Britain 3.00 & Gnasher Unleashed! 3.50 Danger HHH Fast-paced crime thriller in
She Wrote 7.00 M*A*S*H: four Geoffrey Hayes 12 noon The Chase Hardcore Pawn 3.25 Flipping Bangers Mouse 4.05 Ninja Express 4.15 Grizzy which a Catholic priest is unable
episodes 9.00 The Avengers: 1.00pm Family Fortunes (AD) 3.00 4.10—6.00am Ancient Aliens and the Lemmings 4.25 Boy Girl Dog to shop an IRA terrorist because
Steed joins forces with a Russian Catchphrase (AD) 4.00 Blockbusters Cat Mouse Cheese 4.35 New. Super
Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 161 Sky 164 Virgin 174 Happy Magic Forest 4.50 Odd Squad he has identified himself in the
spy 10.00 Randall and Hopkirk 5.00 Bullseye 7.00 Cash Trapped confessional. Review, right. (1987, 15) (S)
(Deceased): Jeannie meets a man 5.00 Total Dramarama 5.10 Sketchy
claiming to be the reincarnation of
8.00 The Chase: double bill of the
game show presented by Bradley
BBC Parliament 232 Comedy 5.15 Andy and the Band 5.30 11.15 A Good Read with Mike Read
Arthur and the Haunted Tree House Le Premier Pas by EW Hornung.
Marty 11.00 Return of the Saint: Walsh 10.00 Who Wants to Be a 6.00am Westminster Hall 9.00 Cabinet 6.00pm The Dengineers
a former psychiatric patient claims 12 midnight Doctor at Large
Millionaire?: a classic episode of Office Questions 10.00 Prime Minister’s 6.30—7.00pm New. Spooky Files
to have glimpsed a murder the award-winning quiz show Questions 10.35 Welsh First Minister’s
HHH Genial entry in the comedy
12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Randall CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701 series. Dirk Bogarde (1957, U) (S) 2.00am
presented by Chris Tarrant, in which Questions 11.35 Northern Ireland
and Hopkirk (Deceased) 3.00 Return of Assembly: Executive Office Questions Maigret TV drama. 3.50 The Body
contestants can win up to one
the Saint 3.50 Movie News 4.00 Highway million pounds (AD) 11.00 Bullseye 12.20pm House of Commons 1.20 ITV Kids on ITV2 Vanished HHH Decent mystery
to Heaven 4.50—5.00am Movie News
12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Senedd Cymru 2.20 Ten Minute Rule Bill tale that could do without the
ITV Kids shows also stream on ITVX
Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Sky 157 Millionaire? 1.00am The Crystal Maze: 2.30 Live Housing, Communities and comedy mugging. Anthony Hulme (1939) (S)
Virgin 170 +1 Sky 257 hosted by Richard O’Brien (AD) 2.00 Local Government Questions 3.30 Live 6.00am Teen Titans Go! 6.30 Mr 5.00 The Lloyd Bridges Show TV
The Chase 4.00 Who Wants to Be a House of Commons 11.00 Lords Questions Bean: the Animated Series 7.15 drama. 5.30—6.00am Dangerous
FREEVIEW channels Millionaire? 5.00—6.00am Bullseye 11.45—6.00am House of Lords Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Assignment TV adventure. (S)
7.45 Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! 8.10 What’s
continued from overleaf Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 142 BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201 New Scooby-Doo? 8.35—9.00am Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Sky 145 Virgin 139 Sky 504 Virgin 605 Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445
ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

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Great Movies 34 Sky Premiere FILM REVIEWS

9.00am Gone Daughter Gone HH 6.00am Restore Point HHH Count Dracula (Richard
Drama. (2020) 11.00 Accusations and Finely drawn Czech sci-fi detective Roxburgh). The CGI and
Lies HH A woman is accused of her flick. Andrea Mohylova, Matej Hadek (2023, 15)
husband’s murder. AnnaLynne McCord (2019) 8.05 As 10.10pm 10.20 As 6.05pm dialogue could have been
12.55pm Deadly Patient HH 12 noon As 8pm 2.05pm Bob better, but this is still good fun.
A patient mistakes a doctor’s Marley: One Love HH Clichéd but SLOAN FREER (US 2004, violence)
compassion for personal attraction. well performed biopic. Kingsley Ben-Adir,
Bree Williamson, Eddie Matos (2018) 3.00 Lashana Lynch (2024, 12) 4.05 The Radleys Hurricane HH 10.00pm-
10,000 Days HH Intriguing low- HHH Likeable horror comedy. Damian
budget sci-fi in which a comet strike Lewis, Kelly Macdonald, Harry Baxendale (2024) 12.10am 5 Action j
plunges Earth into a new ice age. 6.05pm Don’t Tell Mom the
John Schneider, Kasey Campbell (2014, 12) 5.00 Babysitter’s Dead HH Fitfully
WAR This film tells the story
Firequake HH Explosive but long- amusing comedy. Simone Joy Jones (2024, 15) of the Polish emigrants who
winded sci-fi thriller. Alexandra Paul (2014, 12) 8.00 Ghostbusters: Frozen flew Hurricanes for the RAF
7.05pm Lost Letter Mysteries: Empire HHHH The new after Germany invaded their
Freedom to Give TV mystery. generation of spook-chasers takes
9.00 The Last Witch Hunter on icy spectres. Paul Rudd (2024, 12)
homeland. The air sequences
HHH Immortal warrior Vin Diesel 10.10 The Book of Clarence veer between competent
attempts to save humanity from HHH LaKeith Stanfield’s conman and confused, betraying
bubonic plague. Rose Leslie (2015, 15) tries to pass himself off as a the modest budget, and the
11.15 The Road HHHH Sober messiah. Review p31. Omar Sy (2023, 15)
ground scenes are clichéd.
drama in which a man and his son 12.25am The Color Purple HHH
embark on a treacherous journey Musical version of Alice Walker’s But there’s a pleasant old-
across America. Viggo Mortensen (2009, 15) novel. Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P Henson (2023, 12) fashioned feel to it all, and
1.50am The Lover: A Deadly 3.00 Caddo Lake HHH Eerie rural its heart is in the right place.
Affair HH A night of passion turns
to obsession. Jamie Luner, Jason Brooks (2017)
mystery thriller. Review p31. (2024, 12)
4.45 Drive-away Dolls HHHH FILM Lion HHHH 6.40-9.00pm Film4 g DAVE ALDRIDGE (UK 2018, HD)
4.00—5.40am Deadly Switch HH OF THE
Creepy TV thriller. Hayley McLaughlin (2018)
Madcap crime comedy. Margaret Qualley,
Geraldine Viswanathan (2023, 15) DAY DRAMA Based on the memoir A Long Way Home Bronson HHH 11.00pm-
Great Movies Freeview 34 Sky 321 Virgin 425 Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401
by Saroo Brierley, Garth Davis’s affecting true- 12.55am Great Action z
+1 Sky 322 EE 501/HD 515 story drama unfolds across two time periods. In 1986, five-
year-old Saroo (played by the wonderful Sunny Pawar) is BIOPIC This eccentric, often
Great Action 42 Legend 41 separated from his brother at a railway station, falls asleep unsavoury movie from Nicolas
Winding Refn (Drive) concerns

MONDAY
8.00am Police Ten 7 9.00 8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger in an empty carriage and wakes up a thousand miles away in
Icetastrophe HH Gimmicky disaster 9.00 The A-Team 10.00 MacGyver Kolkata with no money and no means of identification. Twenty- the small-time Luton crook
movie. Victor Webster (2014) 10.50 War 11.00 The Monster Hunters HH five years on, having been adopted from an orphanage by who bulked up and changed
Machines 12 noon Wanted: Dead or Low-budget but well-paced sci-fi his name in the mid-1980s to
Alive 1.00pm King of Texas HH thriller. Tom Sizemore (2020, 15) 1.00pm an Australian couple (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham),
Ambitious but unpersuasive drama. The Land That Time Forgot HH the grown-up Saroo (now played by Dev Patel, above) become Britain’s most feared
Patrick Stewart (2002, 12) 3.10 The Texas Low-budget adventure. C Thomas Howell resolves to find his family. DAMON WISE (UK/Aus/US 2016, HD) prisoner. Tom Hardy gives
Rangers HHH Brisk western in (2009) 3.00 At the Earth’s Core a stunning performance
which an ex-con must round up his HH Chintzy adaptation of the Edgar The Mouse That Roared into service when a painting as moustached reprobate
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.

old outlaw pals. George Montgomery, Gale Rice Burroughs novel. Doug McClure,
Peter Cushing (1976, PG) 5.00 Star Trek HHH Sigourney Weaver’s boss Charles Bronson (now known

Television
Storm (1951) 4.55 Wanted: Dead or
Alive 5.55 Wild West Chronicles 6.00pm MacGyver TV thriller 11.00am-12.45pm Film4 y Peter MacNicol has been as Charles Salvador), who has
7.05pm Absolute Zero H Bargain- starring Richard Dean Anderson. restoring unleashes the spent most of his life in jail. DW
basement take on The Day after 7.00 The A-Team TV adventure. COMEDY Jack Arnold’s wry spirit of a medieval sorcerer. (UK/Cay 2008, violence, swearing)
Tomorrow. Jeff Fahey, Erika Eleniak (2005, 12) 8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger little movie sees a tiny country It lacks the novelty of the
9.00 Acts of Violence H Bruce TV action drama with Chuck Norris.
declaring war on America to original movie, but the Ophelia HH
Willis is on the case in this crime 9.00 First Kill HH Hayden
drama, solving a kidnapping with Christensen has to help a thief benefit from aid in defeat. special effects are bigger 11.05pm-12.45am BBC2
his beefcake friends’ help. (2018, 15) in order to save his son. (2017, 15) The idea is a lovely one, but and more spectacular, and (not in Wales, Scotland) j
11.00 Bronson HHH Tom Hardy 11.00 PoW: the Escape HH not even Peter Sellers in the cast is obviously having
stars in this stylised biopic of Gung ho Vietnam War adventure PERIOD ROMANCE Claire
Britain’s most violent and feared about a prisoner who vows to lead three roles can compensate bags of fun. JOHN FERGUSON McCarthy’s adaptation of
prisoner. Review, right. (2008, 18) his comrades to freedom. (1986, 15) for the longueurs of the film’s (US 1989, violence, swearing, HD) Lisa Klein’s novel integrates
12.55am Seattle Superstorm 12.45am SEAL Team VI: Journey second half. Jean Seberg is some feminist positivity into
HH Low-budget sci-fi thriller with into Darkness HH Earnest wasted in decorous support, A Prayer for the Dying
Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Daisy
committed performances. Esai Morales,
Ona Grauer (2012) 2.50 Cops Uncut
low-budget true-story action flick.
Jeremy Davis (2008, 15) 2.40—4.35am but would find fame with HHH 9.05-11.15pm Ridley’s Ophelia is a rebellious
3.50—4.50am War Machines The Golem HHH Absorbing and her next movie, Jean-Luc Talking Pictures TV j spirit caught up in the political
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited) gory period horror. Hani Furstenberg (2018, 15) Godard’s A Bout de Souffle.
CRIME Adapted from Jack intrigue around Hamlet
Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324 Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149 DAVID PARKINSON (UK 1959, HD)
Higgins’s novel, this thriller (George MacKay). The visuals
Great 52 Legend Xtra 69
The Passing Stranger follows a priest who can’t are atmospheric, but the
Christmas 6.00am As 5pm 8.00 HHH 4.05-5.20pm shop an IRA terrorist because script comes unstuck when
8.00am Merry Kissmas HH Slight Premonition HH A derivative plot he has identified himself in it tinkers with the original
and bad performances scupper this Talking Pictures TV play. DP (US 2018, violence, HD)
romcom. Karissa Staples (2015) 10.00 the confessional. Bob Hoskins
A Dream of Christmas HH Festive uneven blend of supenatural and
“what-if” tale. Nikki DeLoach (2016) 12 noon sci-fi thrills. Casper Van Dien (2004) 10.00 CRIME Bored with her life is miscast as the cleric, but Spontaneous HHH
running a roadside café, Mickey Rourke fares better as
Enchanted Christmas HH Old Andromeda 11.00 Category 7: The
End of the World 1.00pm Malibu Jill (Diane Cilento) falls for the terrorist. It’s shallow and
1.55-3.40am C4 j
flames are reunited. Alexa PenaVega (2017)
2.00pm Hope at Christmas HH Shark Attack H Freak tremors an American soldier (Lee melodramatic, but if you’re HORROR This twisted fantasy
Romancing Santa proves a good unleash a ravenous group of sharks.
Peta Wilson (2009) 3.00 Andromeda Patterson), who has deserted looking for a fast-paced is set at an American high
move. Scottie Thompson, Ryan Paevey (2018)
4.00 Her Magical Christmas HH 4.00 Knight Rider: TV drama his post and has teamed action movie, it does the job. school where students start
Romance. Jessica Lowndes, Brendan Penny (2017) 5.00 Earthfall H A rogue planet up with a gang of crooks. DAVID McGILLIVRAY (UK 1987, exploding — literally. Wry teen
6.00pm Marry Me at Christmas twists the Earth on its axis in this
low-budget disaster movie. Pressly London’s now lost docklands violence, swearing, sexual references.) Mara (Katherine Langford)
HH A wedding planner is swept off attempts to make sense of
Coker, Raffaello Degruttola, Jeff Doucette (2014) are the backdrop to this
her feet. Rachel Skarsten, Trevor Donovan (2017)
8.00 Christmas Bells Are 7.00pm Andromeda TV sci-fi rarely shown tale, which has Van Helsing HHH it all while finding romance
Ringing HH A freelance series starring Kevin Sorbo. a predictable plot but enough 10.00pm-12.35am ITV4 h with fellow free spirit Dylan
photographer enlists the help of an 8.00 Knight Rider TV drama. (Charlie Plummer). Blending
old childhood friend. Emilie Ullerup (2018) 9.00 Hitman: Redemption HHH
chemistry between the leads FANTASY Stephen Sommers
A typically tough Ron Perlman to add some sizzle. JAYNE a messy plot with survival
10.00 Love You like Christmas (The Mummy) directs this
HH Sweet but totally predictable heads an effective cast in this NELSON (UK 1954, BW) horror and political satire,
exciting, effects-driven romp.
romantic drama. Bonnie Somerville (2016) menacing thriller. Famke Janssen (2018, 15) it’s an entertaining cocktail.

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12 midnight 12 Pups of Christmas 11.05 Sniper: Special Ops HH II In the 19th-century, Gabriel
JAMES MOTTRAM (US 2020,
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Donny Boaz, Philip Boyd (2019) 2.00am
Steven Seagal rebels against his
orders to lead his team on a rescue HHH is dispatched by a Vatican
violence, swearing, drug abuse, HD)
Highway to Heaven 3.00—5.00am mission in Afghanistan. (2016, 15) 8.00-9.40pm BBC3 g organisation to Transylvania
A Christmas Reunion HH 1.00—3.00am Hitman: Films to stream from p30
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Border Patrol 9.00 Stargate Atlantis Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets (AD) Supergirl 9.00 Stargate Atlantis Up Appearances 8.55 Last of the 9.00 Father Brown (AD) 10.00
11.00 Big Cat Country 12 noon 8.10 True Blood 10.15 Britannia (AD) 11.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Summer Wine 10.00 Are You Being Unforgettable 11.00 Hudson & Rex
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Angeles 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 4.00 1.25 Billions (AD) 3.45 True Blood NCIS: Los Angeles 3.00 Hawaii 11.15 Last of the Summer Wine (AD) Death in Paradise (AD) 2.00 Murdoch
MacGyver 5.00 The Simpsons 5.55pm Britannia 5/10 Five-0 4.00 MacGyver 5.00 1.40pm Keeping Up Appearances Mysteries 4.00 Unforgettable
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (AD) 2.20 The Good Life 3.00 Dad’s 5.00 Hudson & Rex (AD)
6.00pm The Office US 17/22 Series 2. Harka sends Love
Army 3.40 Are You Being Served?
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4.20 Last of the Summer Wine
salesman of the year. and Veran betrays Amena. (AD) Series 1. The team members defend (AD) 5.40 Still Open All Hours Series 6. Holmes and Watson’s
6.30 18/22. Michael strikes up a 6.55 6/10. Philo and Brutus spike themselves against the Wraith. deadly conflict with Sherlock’s
peculiar new friendship. the water supply of a Roman 7.00 20/20. The Wraith closes in, 6.20pm Keeping Up Appearances former friend Michael intensifies
encampment. (AD) and the future looks bleak. Daddy gets engaged. when another victim surfaces.
7.00 The Simpsons The show’s
26th Halloween special. 7.55 Game of Thrones 6/10 8.00 SEAL Team 5/10 Series 7 7.00 Dad’s Army Mainwaring 7.00 The Mentalist 11/23 Series 1
7.30 Homer takes over as the Series 2. Joffrey’s rule prompts Tempers flare during a mission in sets his sights on Frazer’s savings. A convicted murderer asks Patrick
Grim Reaper, only to discover the people of King’s Landing to Malaysia, and Drew finally reveals 7.40 The platoon is assigned to to help prove him innocent in
Marge’s name is on his list. riot and Qhorin gives Jon a why he’s been so closed off. (AD) guard a vital telephone line. exchange for information about
chance to prove himself. (AD) 9.00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks 8.20 The Good Life Tom and Red John — the serial killer who
8.00 The Lord of the Rings:
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his enemies’ attempts to smoke him
out, Oz seeks to expand his reach
in the city, while Victor crosses
Tracey and Nelly Furtado join host
Greg Davies and regulars Noel
Fielding and Jamali Maddix. (AD)
9.00 Absolutely Fabulous Edina
and Patsy head for Provence. (AD)
8.00 Death in Paradise 3/8
Series 6. Humphrey and Martha’s
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starring Elijah Wood. Frodo and Sam paths with a former adversary. 9.55 The A to Z of Horror when the hotel owner is killed. (AD)
have a run-in with a burglar.
continue their quest to destroy 10.05 Gangs of London 6/9 Movies An alphabetical trip 9.00 Father Brown 7/10 Series 6
the all-powerful ring, bringing Series 1. Marian puts the pressure through the genre, featuring some 10.20 Inside No 9 A random act
them face to face with the of kindness brings a stranger into The sleuth uncovers a dark secret
on Sean to uncover Finn’s killer. of the most terror-inducing clips. (AD) when a contestant is murdered at a
artefact’s former owner Gollum. (W) Meanwhile, Elliot’s recuperation is the lives of Helen and her son.
10.55 The Walking Dead 3/22 ballroom dancing competition. (AD)
11.20 Last Week Tonight with interrupted by a new threat. (AD) Series 10. The threat of the 11.00 Blackadder the Third
Edmund gets caught up in the 10.00 Pretty Hard Cases 7/12
John Oliver Talk show in which 11.10 Succession 9/10 Series 4 Whisperers’ return leads to paranoia Series 2. Naz gets in deeper
the comedian takes a satirical look Amid rising tensions, Shiv tries to sweeping over Alexandria. French Revolution. (AD)
at news and pop culture topics with the Coyotes, earning him an
reposition herself within a new 12 midnight Warrior (AD) 1.00am 11.40 Not Going Out Lucy has
from the previous seven days. invite to Adeline’s party. (AD)
political landscape. (AD) A League of Their Own US Road to look after her god-daughter.
12.05am Veep (AD) 1.25 The Force: 12.30am I Hate Suzie (AD) 1.55 Trip (AD) 2.00 New series. The 12.20am Absolutely Fabulous (AD) 11.00 The Mentalist As 7pm.
Manchester 2.25 Road Wars 3.00 Game of Thrones (AD) 2.55 Lovecraft Overlap on Tour Rptd tomorrow 9pm 1.00 Bottom 1.35 Inside No 9 12 midnight Elementary 1.00am
Hawaii Five-0 4.00 MacGyver Country (AD) 4.05—6.00am 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 4.00 MacGyver 2.25 Blackadder the Third (AD) Justified 2.00—4.00am Murdoch
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6.00am Most Haunted 8.00 6.00am Sun, Sea and A&E 7.00 7.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry 8.00am Will & Grace (AD) 9.00 Young 6.00am Deadliest Catch 7.00 How It’s
Home Shopping 11.00 Merlin (AD) Paramedics 8.00 Border Patrol 8.00 Four Weddings (AD) 10.00 Merlin Rock (AD) 10.00 Vice Principals (AD) Made: Dream Cars: two episodes 8.00
12 noon Stargate Universe (AD) 9.00 Highway Patrol 10.00 Send (AD) 11.00 Motorway Patrol (AD) 12 noon 11.20 Looking 12.30pm Insecure (AD) Lone Star Law 9.00 Baggage Battles
1.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the Dogs 11.00 For Life (AD) Caught on Dashcam 1.00pm Border 1.45 Pen15 2.30 Vice Principals (AD) 10.00 How Do They Do It? 11.00
Security: America’s Front Line 2.00 3.40 Looking 5.00 Will & Grace (AD) Wheeler Dealers 1.00pm Alaska:
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SG-1 4.00 Star Trek: Enterprise Chicago Med 2.00 Chicago Fire 5.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder Dwight is named salesman of the year, Parker’s Trail (AD) 4.00 The Last
5.00 Stargate Universe (AD) 3.00 Caught on Dashcam 6.00pm The Real A&E: double bill (AD) then Michael strikes up a peculiar new Alaskans 5.00 Gold Divers
6.00pm Merlin 13/13 Series 5 4.00pm Nothing to Declare 7.00 Merlin: the wizard discovers the friendship 7.00 Young Rock (AD) 8.00 6.00pm How Do They Do It? 7.00
As a fierce battle plays out on Eight editions of the fly-on-the- new servant is a conman chasing a Will & Grace (AD) 9.00 Lucy Beaumont: Gold Rush: the Beets family implodes
precious jewel recently unearthed from Live from the Royal Court Theatre: a trying to get the Paradise Hill trommel
Camlann’s mighty plain, Merlin wall series following the lives of a tomb beneath Camelot (AD) 8.00 stand-up performance by the comedian running 9.00 New. Kindig Customs: a
comes face to face with destiny. (AD) customs and immigration officers Border Security: America’s Front Line 10.00 RT CHOICE The Franchise: unicorn project arrives, and a Ferrari 360
7.00 Star Trek: Deep Space at Australia’s biggest airports. 9.00 Day of the Dead: the survivors satirical comedy starring Himesh Patel Spider is in need of a new canvas top
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Nine 19/26 Series 3. Hijacked into 8.00 Chicago Fire 4/22 Series 10 department store (AD) 10.00 Motorway New. Last Week Tonight with John brings a beat-up Volvo 245 estate into the
a parallel universe, Sisko has to fill Kidd spreads her wings as a Patrol (AD) 11.00 Magnum P.I. (AD) Oliver 11.25 Veep: double bill (AD) workshop 11.00 Roadworthy Rescues
the shoes of the Terran rebel lieutenant, Chief Hawkins rides 12 midnight Merlin (AD) 1.00am The 12.40am New. Real Time with Bill 12 midnight Expedition Bigfoot
leader to fight the Klingon- with Ambulance 61 to learn more Cleaning Lady 2.00 A League of Their Maher 1.50 Silicon Valley 3.00 1.00am Kindig Customs (AD) 2.00
Cardassian alliance. about Brett, Casey takes a trip out Own (AD) 3.00 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo Moonbase 8 (AD) 4.00—5.00am Goblin Works Garage 3.00—5.00am
of town and a Ritter date night (AD) 4.00 Four Weddings (AD) 5.00— Wellington Paranormal (AD) Alaska: Homestead Rescue
8.00 Stargate SG-1 2/22
Series 5. Teal’c is forced to ends in an emergency. 6.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry Sky Comedy Sky 114 (115 Wales) Discovery Sky 125 (126 Scotland) Virgin 177
undergo a dangerous ritual to 9.00 The Cleaning Lady 12/12 Sky Replay Sky 152 Virgin 156 Virgin 112 EE 347/HD 362 EE 320/HD 325 +1 Sky 225 (226 Scot) Virgin 377
free his brainwashed mind. Series 3. Russo receives a warning
9.00 Stephen King’s It 2/2 from Sin Cara as Jorge gets news Sky Crime Comedy Central Discovery History
Conclusion of the two-part that could alter his alliances. 6.00am Highway Patrol 7.00 Highway 8.00am Most Ridiculous: Teen 6.00am Nasa’s Unexplained Files 7.00
adaptation of the best-selling 10.00 Fire Country 8/22 Series 1 Cops (AD) 8.00 Stop, Search, Seize Disasters 8.35 Most Ridiculous: Parties Wings of War 8.00 Greatest Events of
(AD) 9.00 Brit Cops: (AD) 10.00 9.00 Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party World War II 9.00 Secrets Underground
horror novel about seven friends Vince’s judgement is compromised Motorway Patrol 11.00 Murders That (AD) 10.00 Salvage Hunters 11.00
10.00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA
forced into a terrifying when a harrowing rescue Shocked the Nation (AD) 12 noon How I 11.00 New Girl 11.55 Last Man Salvage Hunters: the Restorers
confrontation with a supernatural involving two children triggers Caught the Killer (AD) 1.00pm Killer in Standing 12.20pm Friends (AD) 12 noon Combat Dealers 1.00pm
enemy. Tim Curry stars. (AD) emotional trauma from when his My Village 2.00 Murdered at First Sight 8.00pm New. Whose Line Is It Blowing Up History 2.00 Wings of War
daughter passed away. (AD) (AD) 3.00 World’s Most Evil Killers 4.00 3.00 Salvage Hunters 4.00 Combat
11.00 The Ark 7/12 Series 2 Britain’s Most Evil Killers 5.00 How I
Anyway? USA 9.00 New series. Rhod Dealers 5.00 Shed and Buried
After an attempted murder, the 11.00 FBI 13/19 Series 2. The Caught the Killer (AD) 6.00 Murders
Gilbert’s Growing Pains 10.00
6.00pm Secrets Underground (AD)
crew works together to find who’s team try to figure out a motive Impractical Jokers 10.30 Teachers
That Shocked the Nation (AD) 7.00 7.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files 8.00
responsible before it’s too late. 11.00 Teachers 11.30 South Park
when the son of a retired FBI World’s Most Evil Killers 8.00 Britain’s Cooper’s Treasure 9.00 Combat
12 midnight 8/12. The ship is Most Evil Killers 9.00 Forensics 10.00 12 midnight South Park 12.30am Dealers: the secrets of Second World
agent is kidnapped. (AD) Most Ridiculous: Crazy Kids 1.00 Most
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12 midnight The Good Doctor and the Candyman (AD) 12 midnight Ridiculous: Wild Weather 1.30 Dylan 11.00 Salvage Hunters: the Restorers
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Sky Football Highlights 10.00 The Football Show:
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elite winter athletes attempt a World Ape Rescue Centre Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 EE 421/HD 441 12 noon The Football Show 1.00pm
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WWE Superstars face-off inside the
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10.00 New. I’m Not a Monster: presenter explores the magic of
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League Cup Football 4.30 EFL Sky Cricket 3.15am Champions League Football:
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for the first time, attempting to 11.00 Uptown Otters Mia and Champions League Classics
Round-Up 6.45 Scottish Premiership Continued coverage of Pakistan v
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Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 EE 423/HD 443 Cricket 3.30am Best of the Women’s Boston Celtics v Milwaukee Bucks,
8.00am Food Factory 9.00 Air Crash 8.00am Yukon Vet 9.00 Fish Tank the Eastern Conference match
Investigation: Special Report 10.00 Kings 10.00 Alaska’s Grizzly Gauntlet 6.00am European Tour Golf 11.00 World T20: action from the 2016 final
Expedition Amazon 11.00 Lost 11.00 Animals Gone Wild 12 noon The PGA Tour Golf: the Zozo Championship (AD) 4.00 Test Cricket 5.00—6.00am from TD Garden (tip-off 11.30).
Treasures of Egypt (AD) 12 noon Car Incredible Dr Pol 1.00pm Yukon Vet 3.00pm LPGA Tour Golf 6.00 Roots: Best of the Women’s World Cup (AD) 2.00am Australian Football 2.30 Fight
SOS (AD) 1.00pm Inside Sydney 2.00 Wild Hunters 3.00 Man vs Shane Lowry (AD) 6.30 European Tour Week 3.00 UFC Fight Flashback (AD)
Airport (AD) 2.00 Air Crash Golf 7.00 PGA Tour Golf 8.00 PGA 5.00—6.00am Down the Clubhouse (AD)
Investigation 3.00 Drain the Oceans:
Octopus 4.00 Secrets of the Zoo:
Tampa 5.00 Monster Fish Tour Champions 9.00 PGA Tour Golf Sky NFL
10.00 European Tour Golf 10.30 Roots:
Secrets of the Civil War (AD) 4.00
Hitler’s Last Stand 5.00 Car SOS
6.00pm Snakes in the City: braving the
icy waters and hungry bears of Alaska Shane Lowry (AD) 11.00 PGA Tour Golf Sky 408 Virgin 517/HD 507 EE 426/HD 446 TNT Sports 4
12 midnight Roots: Annika Sorenstam 6.00am NFL Highlights 12 noon Good
6.00pm World War II: Secrets from in pursuit of a run of king salmon 7.00
Morning 2.00pm NFL Bitesize 2.30 Sky 421 Virgin 530 EE 411/HD 434
Above (AD) 7.00 Air Crash Yukon Vet: the team tries to get past a (AD) 12.30am Roots: Shane Lowry
Investigation (AD) 8.00 Plane Crash donkey protecting a mini horse 8.00 (AD) 1.00 European Tour Golf 1.30 49 Hours 2.45 NFL Bitesize 3.00 NFL 6.00am Italian Football 8.00 MLB
Re-created: United Airlines Flight 232, New. Zombie Animals: naturalist Dan Roots: Shane Lowry (AD) 2.00 PGA Highlights 3.30 NFL Bitesize 5.00 NFL Classic 12 noon NBA Classic 4.30pm NBA
which suffered a catastrophic failure to O’Neil explores the weird world of Tour Golf 3.00 Nick Dougherty’s Tee Highlights 6.00 Pro-Football Talk 8.00 6.00 NBA Classic 8.00 NBA
the tail-engine in 1989 9.00 Air Crash mind-controlling parasites 9.00 Deadly Time Tips (AD) 4.00 PGA Tour Golf NFL Bitesize 9.00 NFL Weekly Review 9.30 NBA Originals 11.00 Women’s
Investigation 10.00 Ice Road Rescue Dozen: double bill. India’s deadliest 5.00—6.00am PGA Tour Highlights 10.00 NFL Fantasy 11.00 NFL Highlights International One-Day Cricket
(AD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) creatures, then snake species native to 12 midnight LIVE NFL Coverage 12 midnight Test Cricket Highlights: India
1.00am Ultimate Airport Dubai 2.00 Africa 11.00 Snakes in the City: Simon of Pittsburgh Steelers v New York v New Zealand 1.00am MotoGP (AD)
Lords of War 2.30 Money Meltdown: has his hands full with a black mamba Sky Tennis Giants, the week eight match at 5.15—6.00am The Rugby Review (AD)
two editions 3.20 Food Factory 12 midnight When Sharks Attack Acrisure Stadium (kick-off 12.15am).
4.10—5.00am Trials of the Wild Sky 407 Virgin 537/HD 520 EE 425/HD 445
Nat Geographic Sky 129 (130 Scotland)
2.00am Yukon Vet 3.00 Secrets of the
Zoo: Tampa 4.00—5.00am Yukon Vet 6.00am LIVE Tennis Continued
4.00—6.00am NFL Bitesize (AD) Premier Sports
Virgin 183 +1 Sky 229 (230 Scot) Virgin 383 Nat Geo Wild Sky 165 Virgin 182 coverage of the WTA and ATP Tours.
2.30pm LIVE ATP Tennis Day Sky Sports Mix 7.30—10.30pm LIVE Spanish
Football Real Mallorca v Athletic
Sky History Animal Planet one of the Paris Masters, an ATP
1000 event at Accor Arena. Sky 416 Virgin 510 EE 429/HD 449 Bilbao (kick-off 8.00).
6.00am American Pickers 7.00 8.00am Extinct or Alive 9.00 Amanda 7.00 LIVE Tennis Further coverage 7.05—10.25am LIVE Women’s 11.30—2.30am LIVE NHL
Britain’s Most Historic Towns 8.00 The to the Rescue 10.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky from the WTA and ATP Tours. Big Bash League Cricket Tampa Bay Lightning v Nashville
UnXplained with William Shatner 10.00 Mountain Vet 12 noon Extinct or Alive 4.00—6.00am LIVE Tennis Coverage of Hobart Hurricanes v Predators (face-off 11.30).
Mountain Men: Alaska 11.00 Mountain 1.00pm Amanda to the Rescue 2.00 More from the WTA and ATP Tours. Sydney Thunder, a T20 match 2.00—5.00 LIVE NHL
Men 12 noon Secrets of Great British Jungle Shark 3.00 Deadliest Sharks Coverage continues until 2.30pm from Bellerive Oval, Hobart. Vegas Golden Knights v Calgary
Castles 2.00pm Storage Wars 4.00 4.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet Flames (face-off 2.00).
Pawn Stars 6.00 American Pickers 6.00pm Extinct or Alive 7.00 How Do
7.00 Forged in Fire 8.00 New Animals Do That? 8.00 Swimming with Sky Sports + Eurosport 1
American Pickers: Mike and Robbie
have high hopes for a sprawling family
Monsters with Steve Backshall: the
naturalist travels to the Pantanal Sky 412 Virgin 518/HD 508 EE 427/HD 447 Sky 413 Virgin 521 EE 412
Eurosport 2
farm in Ohio 9.00 New. Clash of wetland region in Brazil 9.00 Rugged
6.00am LIVE Tennis Coverage 6.00am Cyclo-Cross 7.00 Snooker Sky 414 Virgin 522 EE 413
Ancient Warriors: the Battle of Justice 10.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier: 6.00am British Superbikes 8.00
Sekigahara was a historical battle in from the WTA and ATP Tours. 9.00 Alpine Skiing 11.00 Triathlon
officers arrest an intoxicated and 12 noon Cyclo-Cross 1.00pm Snooker Alpine Skiing 9.00 Cyclo-Cross 10.00
Japan which was fought in 1600 belligerent driver (AD) 11.00 Insane 2.30pm LIVE ATP Tennis Day
3.00 Alpine Skiing 4.00 Cyclo-Cross Triathlon 11.00 World Superbikes
10.00 New. Ancient Superstructures Pools: off the Deep End one of the Paris Masters, an ATP
5.00 Triathlon 6.00 Archery 7.00 1.00pm Alpine Skiing 3.00 Australian
11.00 Lost Cities of the Trojans 12 midnight Monsters inside Me 1000 event at Accor Arena. Climbing Show 7.30 Trail Running Superbikes 4.00 Snooker 6.00
12 midnight Storage Wars 2.00am 1.00am Alaska: the Last Frontier (AD) 7.00 LIVE WTA Tennis Day one 8.30 Cardiff Half Marathon 9.00 Cyclo-Cross 7.00 British Superbikes
Hitler’s British Island 3.00 American 2.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet of the WTA Merida Open in Mexico. World Superbikes 11.00 Cyclo-Cross 9.00 Snooker 11.00 Alpine Skiing
Pickers 4.00—6.00am Pawn Stars 4.00—5.00am Extinct or Alive 4.00—6.00am LIVE Tennis 12 midnight Snooker 2.00am Motor 1.00am Ski Jumping 2.00 Triathlon
Sky History Sky 123 (124 Scotland) Virgin 131 Animal Planet Sky 162 (175 NI) Virgin 178 Action from the WTA and ATP Tours. Racing 3.00 Alpine Skiing 4.00 Cliff 3.00 World Superbikes 5.00—6.00am
EE 353/HD 368 +1 Sky 223 (224 Scot) Virgin 331 +1 Sky 262 (275 NI) Virgin 378 Coverage continues until 2.30pm Diving 5.00—6.00am Triathlon Cycling: the Tour of Lombardy

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Television TUESDAY

TASTE TEST
Nkosi, Toby, Chloe and Gaston
enter the MasterChef kitchen;
while Mary Berry (right) comes
to the rescue of nervous celebs

FOOD
MasterChef: the Professionals 8.00pm BBC1 (BBC2 in Wales) Catch-up via iPlayer
A new batch of professional chefs submit Inevitably, the four professionals are more Hungry for more? In new series Mary Berry’s
themselves to the critical gaze of Marcus Wareing, confident showcasing their own recipes, which Foolproof Dinners (7.30pm BBC2, Wed 7.30pm in
Monica Galetti and Gregg Wallace starting, as include a chicken liver parfait crepe cake and Wales) Mary teaches non-cooking celebrities to
always, with a skills test. Most do OK but one person cardamom panna cotta with white chocolate sticks. prepare lovely food. She starts with takeaway fan
really impresses Marcus: “That was a pleasure to “It’s divine,” enthuses Marcus about one dish, Alan Carr, who learns how to make an aubergine
watch,” he beams after they serve up a carrot although Gregg is less poetic. “That’s banging!” lasagne, honey mustard chicken, beef chow mein
schnitzel with butterbean houmous and zhoug. he grins. There’s another helping on Thursday. and an apricot pud. JANE RACKHAM

FOOD DRAMA PANEL SHOW DRAMA

The Great British Waterloo Road QI XL DI Ray
Bake Off 9.00pm BBC1 (BBC2 in Wales) 9.00pm (not Wales) BBC2 9.00pm ITV1 Catch up via ITVX
Catch up via iPlayer Catch up via iPlayer I doubt that even David
8.00pm C4 Catch up: C4 streaming
It’s Autumn week in the tent or, if
Admit it — we all wanted The panel show was once a mighty SERIES Mitchell’s Ludwig could
SERIES to see the vile Schuey get breed, mocked for its ubiquity on our FINALE help with the crime puzzle
you’re American, Fall week, which is FINALE his comeuppance. But TV screens — but now it’s an that DI Ray (Parminder
sadly appropriate for one baker, who
not by taking the rap for endangered species, with the likes Nagra) is attempting to solve. None
manages to drop part of their festival
a crime he didn’t commit, surely? Yet of Mock the Week on the scrapheap of the clues about the multiple
showstopper on the floor. The that’s where he’s ended up, and it and few new formats coming murders, the activities of the two
contestants start by making sweet seems his only chance of getting through. So what helps a show like local crime families or the trafficked
autumnal pies, including one with justice is with Kim Campbell (Angela QI keep chugging on at 21 series? girl seem to link up, while the frazzled
an unusual apple and poppyseed Griffin) fighting on his behalf. Hence Well, beyond the sterling fact- detective is also understandably
filling that gets the judges hunting for Waterloo Road’s former head turning checking efforts of the QI Elves, concerned that there’s a corrupt
toothpicks after tasting. up to ask some questions about the you have to say the “panel” officer on her team who has been
There’s no Hollywood handshake case. But how will current head Steve element (in other words, what making complaints about her “rash
for these efforts, despite several Savage (Jason Manford) react? people actually say) is still behaviour”.
good bakes, which prompts Noel Kim, incidentally, isn’t the only consistently funny. So this week, Kudos to any armchair detectives
Fielding to call for a stewards’ returnee making an appearance in it feels appropriate that this series who beat her to the answers in this
enquiry. However, Paul is so this finale. It’s also Preston’s birthday V episode is actually themed around series finale. But while Ray gets there
impressed by somebody’s and Noel’s plans for a secret party panellists Ed Byrne, Jimmy Carr in the end, an even bigger surprise is
showstopper he says he’s going to result in a couple of other familiar and Judi Love being “Vocal” — and seeing her let her hair down and smile
take it home with him. He’ll have to faces making their way back to the doing so with some style. for once. JR
fight Prue Leith for it, though. JR school. DAVID BROWN HUW FULLERTON Parminder Nagra: page 8

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ART
The Art Mysteries HISTORY ALSO ON
9.00pm Sky Arts Catch up via Now A History of Royal Scandals
9.00pm More4 Catch up via C4 streaming
TODAY
The Garden of Earthly Delights by
Hieronymus Bosch is that trippy If you’re hoping to learn shocking tittle-tattle about the modern
triptych we’ve all seen in posters and monarchy, you’ll have to wait a while. Professor Suzannah
reproductions. Painted in the 1490s, Lipscomb’s starting point as the series returns is a murder
it shows a fantastical scene, full of mystery that’s fascinated historians for centuries: the
cavorting nudes, giant strawberries disappearance of the princes from the Tower of London in 1483.
and a few sinister-looking owls. She also examines other royal cold cases, including that of King
“Everybody knows it; nobody William II, who died while hunting in the New Forest in 1100. The
understands it,” says Waldemar jury’s out whether this was an unfortunate accident or not. And
Januszczak. Apart from him, she talks to crime author Denise Mina about Mary, Queen of Scots’
obviously. He has cracked its true blood-stained weekend in Edinburgh in 1566. Mina’s descriptions
meaning and is as persuasive and are illuminating and evocative: Mary and her
engaging as always, dismantling the attractive young friends were “like the
art as skilfully as Guy Martin with a Spice Girls”; the queen thought her
motorbike engine or Paul Lewis with husband Darnley was “gorgeous
an Isa. But what he finds is not pretty. and long” but Mina thinks he was
DAVID BUTCHER “like Donald Trump Jr”. She
should get her own series. JR
DRAMA The One Show
7.00pm BBC1 (BBC2 Wales,
The Boy That Never Was not Scotland)
9pm, 10pm Alibi Catch up via Now Autumnwatch lives! Chris

TUESDAY
When an earthquake Packham (above) pops up on The
NEW strikes in Morocco, Irish One Show for three nights to
SERIES couple Robin (Toni celebrate this vibrant season.
O’Rourke) and Harry
(Colin Morgan) face the worst The Martin Lewis
situation imaginable. Their son Dillon Money Show Live
is buried under the rubble — and is 8.00pm ITV1
This edition examines the energy

Television
never found. Three years later, back
in Dublin, Harry spots his son at a price cap rise. Martin’s back on
railway station. Is it a hallucination? Thursday at 8pm to look at how
Then an old friend in Morocco (Simon the Budget will affect us all.
Callow being suitably theatrical) says
he, too, has seen the boy. HISTORY The Overlap on Tour
Based on Karen Perry’s novel, MYSTERY 9.00pm Sky Max
this four-part drama slowly unpicks What did Gary Neville, Roy Keane, Jamie
happen to Carragher and Ian Wright head to
the parents’ guilt over what the Princes in
happened and the secrets they’ve the home of Juventus, Turin.
the Tower?
kept from each other. JR

DOCUMENTARY
LIVE SPORT
BOOKS Eternal You
International Football
England Women
v South Africa
7pm (k/o 7.45pm) ITV4
The Lionesses line up for
a friendly in Coventry.
Wales Women v Slovakia
7pm (k/o 7.15pm) BBC1 Wales

Football: League Cup

Brentford v Sheffield
Wednesday
7.30pm (k/o 8pm) Sky Sports
Dark by Chris Main Event/Football
Can the Owls cause an upset?

Tennis: Paris Masters

2.30pm Sky Sports ME/Tennis
ATP event from Bercy.

SPORT HIGHLIGHTS
page 29
BOOKISH
nominee Sara Cox
Taj Atwal. is ready for FILM REVIEWS page 75
GETTY

KAY RIBEIRO a good read

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BBC1 Waterloo Road Richard Osman’s

6.00am Breakfast Roger Johnson, Nina Warhurst. (S) (HD) 9.00pm School House of Games
9.30 Morning Live Magazine show presented by reunion: some 6.00pm The host
Michelle Ackerley and Gethin Jones. (S) (HD) old friends drop sets more trivia
10.45 Crimewatch Caught How an international by to see Preston questions for his
network smuggling people in and out of the UK using (Noah Valentine) famous quizzers
a fleet of taxis and lorries was taken down. (S) (HD)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer Dion Dublin and
Jacqui Joseph follow the progress of properties in
Birmingham, Liverpool and Hertfordshire. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt Two teams shop for antiques 5.15pm Pointless 5.15pm Flog It!
in the Powys town of Builth Wells. (Revised rpt) (S) (AD) (HD) With Alexander Armstrong and Andi Oliver. (R) (S) (HD) Thomas Plant and David Fletcher head for Norwich
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) Cathedral, where they unearth a host of fascinating
2.00 Doctors Rob tries his best to help a friend 6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD) items, including an old astronomical map. (R) (S) (HD)
when their daughter goes missing. (S) (AD) (HD) 6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD)
2.30 Expert Witness A 3D-scanning expert uncovers 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
the evidence needed to convict a killer who threw two 7.00 The One Show Nick Pickard, Sian Lloyd, Ellie White and Jordan
suitcases containing human remains into a canal. (S) (HD) With Clara Amfo and Roman Kemp. (S) (HD) Banjo tackle more trivia-based challenges. (S) (HD)
3.00 Escape to the Country Ginny Buckley helps 7.30 EastEnders 6.30 Strictly It Takes Two
a couple move from a town in Surrey to the Norfolk/ Nish uses information to his advantage, and the Fleur East brings the latest backstage gossip. (S) (HD)
Suffolk border. Repeated Friday 6.30am BBC2 (S) (HD) residents of Albert Square join forces on a new issue. 2 BBC iPLAYER 6.45—9.15 Football Northern Ireland
3.45 Garden Rescue The team creates a garden Writer David Moor Cast Wednesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD) v Croatia in the Women’s Euro 2025 play-off semi-final
that also serves as a space of remembrance. (R) (S) (HD) 8.00 MasterChef: the Professionals second leg from Windsor Park, Belfast (kick-off 7.00)

4New
4.30—5.15 The Bidding Room Nigel Havers presents series. Marcus Wareing, Gregg Wallace
as dealers bid for items including a silver canteen and 7.00 Between the Covers
4New
and Monica Galetti return to put 32 ambitious series. 1/6 Series 8. Sara Cox welcomes
a mini sewing machine. Repeated tomorrow 7.15am BBC2 (S) (HD) chefs through their paces and whittle them down guests Adrian Edmondson, Alan Davies, Sara
to just one winner over the course of the series.
BBC2 In tonight’s heat, four hopefuls face the infamous
Pascoe and Taj Atwal as they share their favourite
6.30am Bargain Hunt Shown Mon 12.15pm BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD) books and review this week’s book club choice, All
skills tests. The first two contenders make a carrot the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. See p69.
Television TUESDAY

7.15 The Bidding Room Shown Monday 4.30pm BBC1 (S) (HD) schnitzel served with a white bean hummus and Director Tim van Someren; Producer Scott Jenkins (S) (HD)
8.00—9.00 Sign Zone Solar System 3/5. Brian Cox a Middle Eastern herb sauce for Monica, while the
looks at the weather on the solar system’s stormiest worlds. other two chefs produce choux-pastry beignets with 7.30 Mary’s Foolproof Dinners
The whole series is on iPlayer. Shown last Monday (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 BBC News (S) (HD)
lavender sugar and a whipped orange cream for
Marcus. All four must then prepare their two-course
4New series. 1/6. Mary Berry helps out some of
her famous friends with inspiring recipes that
12.15pm Politics Live Analysis and debate. (S) (HD) signature menu. Continues Thursday 8pm. guarantee success. Tonight, she comes to the aid of
1.00 Impossible Rick Edwards presents the quiz in A box set of previous series is on iPlayer. See p68. comedian Alan Carr, who hasn’t got a clue how to
which contestants compete for £10,000. (R) (S) (HD) Director Anthony Crumpton; Series editor Genevieve Welch (S) (AD) (HD) cook his favourite comfort foods. The whole series
1.45 The Tournament Eight contestants do battle is available on iPlayer from today. See page 68.
9.00 Waterloo Road Director Sarah Myland; Series producer Rose Wilkinson (S) (AD) (HD)

4
in the knockout quiz hosted by Alex Scott. (R) (S) (HD) 8/8 Series 14. A familiar face returns to restore
2.30 The Boss Susan Calman presents the quiz order at the school and protect a student in 8.00 Highland Cops
where one contestant becomes the Boss. (R) (S) (HD) trouble. Can Steve and Billy guard their secrets, or New series. 1/6 Series 2. The documentary series
3.15 Rome’s Invisible City Alexander Armstrong will they be found out? Meanwhile, Nicky and Donte’s following Police Scotland’s Highlands and Islands
looks at the underground treasures that made Rome relationship is put to the test and Preston faces an division returns. On the Isle of Skye, officers search
the powerhouse of the ancient world. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) important decision. A box set is on iPlayer. See p68. for a climber who has gone missing in the Cuillin
4.15—5.15 This Farming Life Helen and Graham Steve Savage Jason Manford Boz Osbourne Nathan Wood mountains. On Orkney, a warrant is issued to raid
Acreman face disaster when one of their cows gets Billy Savage Olly Rhodes Schumacher “Schuey” Weever Zak Sutcliffe a property where the residents are suspected of
Nicky Walters Kym Marsh Tonya Walters Summer Violet Bird dealing Class A drugs, while two Glencoe officers
a chronic contagious wasting disease. (R) (S) (HD) Donte Charles Adam Thomas Millie Adebayo Randi Agyare
Preston Walters Noah Valentine Caz Williams Lucy Begg
respond to a call about a cormorant trapped on the
ITV1 Joe Casey James Baxter Kelly Jo Rafferty Alicia Forde Ballachulish bridge. Series 1 is available on iPlayer.
6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD) Wendy Whitwell Jo Coffey Stacey “Stace” Neville Tillie Amartey Series producer David McConnell; Executive producers Vari Innes
Neil Guthrie Neil Fitzmaurice Noel McManus Liam Scholes and Mick McAvoy Shown Sunday 9pm BBC Scotland (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Lorraine Guests, gossip and more. (S) (HD) Nisha Saira Choudhry Mollie “Mog” Richardson Aabay Ali
10.00 This Morning Celebrity interviews, fashion Coral Walker Rachel Leskovac Dwayne Jackson Thapelo Ray 9.00 QI XL
and lifestyle advice. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD)
12.30pm Loose Women Forthright opinions. (S) (HD)
Amy Spratt
Valerie Chambers
Kim Campbell
Katherine Pearce
Shauna Shim
Angela Griffin
Aleena Qureshi
Lois Taylor-Brown
Portia Weever
Sonya Nisa
Miya Ocego
Maisey Robinson
4Sandi Toksvig gets vocal with Ed Byrne, Jimmy
Carr, Judi Love and Alan Davies. See page 68.
Director Ben Hardy; Producer Piers Fletcher (S) (HD)
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) Debs Rafferty Hollie-Jay Bowes Kai Sharif Adam Ali
2.00 Alan Carr’s Epic Game Show Alan dusts off Andrew Treneman Jamie Glover Samia Choudhry Priyasasha Kumari 9.45 Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
Mike Rutherford Ryan Clayton Shola Aku Chiamaka Ulebor 2/8 Series 1. Mel and her assistant Lou Sanders are
the rules to The Price Is Right and invites eight players DC Laura McCall Rosalyn Wright Judge Connie Hyde
to “come on down” to contestants’ row. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Writers Katie Douglas and Nasreen Ahmed joined by guests Richard Bacon, Jimmy Carr and
3.00—4.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars Comedian Series producer Lindsay Williams; Director Angela Griffin (S) (AD) (HD) Judi Love. Jimmy recalls an act of erotic vandalism
Tom Allen, broadcaster Melvin Odoom and Coronation while Judi recounts the demise of her pet goldfish.
10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) Director Toby Baker; Series producer Dominic Wells-Martin
Street star Patti Clare play for charity. Ben Shephard
hosts. (R) (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather (S) 10.40 Bram Stoker’s Dracula HHHH First shown on U&Dave (S) (HD)

Channel 4 qfrom
Horror. Fifteenth-century Romania: returning
the Crusades, Count Dracula discovers his
10.30 Newsnight With Victoria Derbyshire. (S) (HD)
11.00 Weather (S) (HD)
5.45am Countdown With Neil Delamere. (R) (S) (HD) wife Elisabeta has taken her own life, believing him to
6.25 Cheers Triple bill of the US sitcom. (R) (S) (HD) have been killed in battle. As a result, Dracula renounces 11.05 Have I Got News for You US
7.45 The King of Queens Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) his faith and becomes a vampire. Four centuries later, 7/10. Roy Wood Jr hosts the American version of
estate agent Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania the satirical quiz show, with regular team captains
9.10 Frasier Four episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) to sell the Count a London property, but when Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black. (S) (HD)
11.05 Come Dine with Me: the Professionals Chefs Dracula sees a picture of Harker’s fiancée Mina, he
from Honky Tonk, the Bear and Blacksmith, and Twenty thinks she is the reincarnation of his dead wife and 11.40 Al Pacino: Once upon a Time in
Seven compete in Devon. (R) (S) (HD) 12.05pm News (S) (HD) imprisons Harker in his castle while he travels to Hollywood
12.10 Renovation Nation Lucy and Seb roll up their England. On iPlayer for 30 days. Film of the Day: p75. The Oscar-winning actor looks back on his life and
sleeves at their Grade II-listed house. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Dracula Gary Oldman Lord Arthur Holmwood Cary Elwes career, and shares the stories behind some of his
1.10 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Simon O’Brien and Henry Mina Murray/Elisabeta Winona Ryder Quincey P Morris Bill Campbell greatest roles in an interview with Colin Paterson.
Cole upcycle a horse yoke and a hay trailer. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Professor Abraham Van Helsing Lucy Westenra Sadie Frost Shown last Friday Signed repeat tomorrow 12.35am (S) (AD) (HD)
Anthony Hopkins RM Renfield Tom Waits 12.40—3.10am Sign Zone 12.40 Celebrity Antiques
2.10 Countdown With Neil Delamere. (S) (HD) Jonathan Harker Keanu Reeves Dracula’s brides Monica Bellucci, Road Trip Crissy Rock takes on Scarlett Moffatt. (R) (S) (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun Shirley and Martyn search Doctor Jack Seward Richard E Grant Michaela Bercu, Florina Kendrick 1.40 Ludwig 5/6. The team investigates the suspicious
for a holiday home near Monpazier, France. (R) (S) (HD) Director Francis Ford Coppola (1992, 18) (S) (W) (HD) death of a headmaster. Shown last Wednesday BBC1 (S) (AD (HD)
4.00—5.00 The Great House Giveaway Accountant 12.40am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 2.40 Yulia Navalnaya: the Interview A conversation with
12.45—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD) the widow of Alexei Navalny. Shown last Monday (S) (AD) (HD)
Kate and builder Jonny meet for the first time as they
buy a house together at auction in Leeds. (R) (S) (HD) BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101 BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102
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7.00—7.30pm River City:
The Martin Lewis Public Enemies: Eternal You Eddie’s plan to leave town
Money Show Live Kendrick vs Drake 10.00pm How changes when he finds
8.00pm Jeanette 10.20pm Behind AI is allowing out a valuable possession
has gone missing
Kwakye joins the beef: hip-hop people to interact
Martin for more heavyweight with loved ones BBC
money-saving tips Kendrick Lamar who have died SCOTLAND
7.00pm The Seven
7.15 Sportscene:
Women’s Euro Qualifier
Play-off: Scotland v
Hungary at Easter Road
(kick-off 7.35) 9.45
4.00pm Deal or No Deal 5.00pm Four in a Bed 7.00pm Frozen Planet Growing Up Scottish
Stephen Mulhern hosts as contestant Donna Winnie and Ashley host the second visit of the 6/7. The Last Frontier. The focus shifts 10.00 Dead Man Running
tries to open the 22 red boxes in the right order. week at Hidden Horizon glamping in Clydebank. from animals to the human presence in 11.00—12 midnight
Signed repeat 5.10am (S) (HD) Signed repeat 5.20am (S) (HD) the polar regions. Most Arctic residents The Firm

5.00 The Chase 5.30 Help! We Bought a Village live in Siberia, out on the tundra or in STV
Julie, Charlie, Catherine and Anuj take part. (S) (HD) A couple from Sussex turn an animal shelter urban centres like Norilsk. In Antarctica, 10.40pm Scotland
into a cocktail lounge and the owners of a the research base at the South Pole is Tonight 11.05—11.40
6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD) French hamlet host an artisan market. (R) (S) (HD) cut off from the outside world for six On Assignment
5.10—6.00am Unwind
6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD) months of the year. More tomorrow
6.30 The Simpsons 7pm. The whole series is on iPlayer. ITV1 BORDER
7.30 Emmerdale Bart the Bad Guy. Bart accidentally sees a new Producer Dan Rees; Series producer Vanessa
SCOTLAND
The fight continues, Mack seizes an opportunity, superhero film before its release. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Berlowitz Repeated 12.30am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
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and will Tom escape the accusations? 8.00 Porridge
Mackenzie Boyd Lawrence Robb Charles Anderson Kevin Mathurin
7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD) Representing Border:
5/6 Series 2. Happy Release. Sent with Peter MacMahon
Tom King James Chase Chas Dingle Lucy Pargeter 7.55 Marcia’s Story: Stand Up to Cancer to the prison hospital, Fletch ends up
Aaron Dingle Danny Miller Claudette Anderson Flo Wilson
Marcia undergoes chemotherapy following a on a ward with Blanco. First shown
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Amy Barton Natalie Ann Jamieson Dawn Fletcher Olivia Bromley 7.00pm Match of the Day
Amelia Spencer Daisy Campbell Dotty Thomas Tilly Rue Foster successful operation to remove a tumour. in 1975. A box set is on iPlayer. Live: Wales v Slovakia in
Angelica King Rebecca Bakes Ella Forster Paula Lane Signed repeat 4am (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais the Women’s Euro 2025
April Windsor Amelia Flanagan Elliot Windsor Luca Hoyle Director/Producer Sydney Lotterby (R) (S)

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8.00 The Great British Bake Off play-off semi-final
Archie Breckle Kai Assi Eric Pollard Christopher Chittell

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Arthur Thomas Alfie Clarke Esther Spencer Florence Mae Dyson Series 15. It’s Autumn Week, and Paul 8.30 Hancock’s Half Hour Weatherman Walking
Bear Wolf Joshua Richards Eve Dingle Bella James Hollywood and Prue Leith cook up three Ep 2 Series 3. The Lawyer: the 9.30—10.00 Rookie Cops
Belle King Eden Taylor-Draper Evan Fletcher Malachi McKenzie
Billy Fletcher Jay Kontzle Frankie Robinson challenges suitable for cosy evenings in. The Crown v James S. Sid finds himself 10.40 Paranormal: the
contestants need to show their pastry prowess in court — and is none too pleased Village That Saw Aliens
Bob Hope Tony Audenshaw Eden Ratcliffe-Knights 11.10 FILM: Bram
Brenda Walker Lesley Dunlop Gabby Thomas Rosie Bentham with a sweet pie in the signature, before rustling to learn that his defence counsel Stoker’s Dracula
Cain Dingle Jeff Hordley Gail Loman Rachael Gill-Davis up a vegan version of a traditional northern is Hancock. First broadcast in 1957. 1.10—6.00am BBC News
Caleb Miligan William Ash Harry Sugden Adam Pryor
Carl Holliday Charlie Joyce Isaac Dingle Bobby Dunsmuir classic in the technical. For the showstopper, Writers Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
Cathy Hope Gabrielle Dowling Jacob Gallagher Joe-Warren Plant seasonal vegetables must be transformed into Director/Producer Duncan Wood (BW) (R) (S) BBC2 WALES
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Charity Dingle Emma Atkins Jai Sharma Christopher Bisson stunning celebration cakes. Simulcast with 9.00 She-Wolves: England’s
Writer Chris Gill More cast Thursday (S) (AD) (HD) 7.30 EastEnders
signing on 4seven. The Great British Bake Off: Early Queens 8.00 MasterChef: the
8.00 The Martin Lewis Money Show an Extra Slice is on Thursday 8pm. See p68. 2/3. Isabella and Margaret. Historian Professionals: new series
Series director Jeanette Goulbourn; Series producer Sophia Helen Castor explores the lives of 9.00 Waterloo Road
Live Reid Repeated tomorrow 7.45pm 4seven and with signing 10.00—10.30 Red Dwarf
New series. The financial wizard is back to offer tomorrow 12.05am C4 (S) (AD) (HD) Isabella of France and Margaret of
more hints on how to save money. Following the cut Anjou, two French-born queens of BBC1
to winter fuel payments for many pensioners, along
9.15 Into the Jungle with Ed Stafford England whose ambition and desire
6/6. The group face 48 hours without Ed’s help. NORTHERN
with October’s rise in the energy price cap, Martin for power caused outrage in medieval
Using everything they’ve learned to help navigate Britain. Isabella, wife of King Edward II
IRELAND
Lewis and Jeanette Kwakye examine the latest 10.40pm Have I Got a
the jungle, they must set up camp and ascend in the 14th century, was accused of
energy news to see how people may be affected. Bit More News for You:
Series editor Clare Miller; Executive producer Mike Blair (S) (HD) a 1,000ft waterfall, where Ed will be waiting for murder, while 100 years later Margaret, Charlie Brooker hosts
The Martin Lewis Money Show: Budget Special is Thursday 8pm them at the summit. Given the choice of walking who was married to Henry VI, was an extended episode of
or swimming, the group break up and take regarded as a destructively ambitious the current affairs quiz
9.00 DI Ray different routes to an ancient cave complex. 11.25 FILM: Bram

46/6 Series 2. Enemy Within. New evidence figure. First broadcast in 2012. Stoker’s Dracula HHHH
Tensions fray in a race against time to set up Director/Producer Lucy Swingler 1.25—6.00am BBC News
points to an inside job and Suzie takes drastic camp before darkness, but the morning brings Repeated 1.30am (R) (S) (HD)
action. Clive and Rachita decide to move forward an opportunity for the dads and kids to reflect.
with a risky plan as they aim to bring corruption Director Daniel Etheridge; Producer Richard D Cracknell
10.00 Eternal You: Storyville
in the highest ranks to light. See page 68.
Writer Maya Sondhi; Producer Roya Eslami; Directors Nicole
Volavka and Nirpal Bhogal Cast Sunday/Monday (S) (AD) (HD)
Repeated 3.55am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

10.20 Public Enemies: Kendrick vs

4Exploring the “digital afterlife”
business, whereby companies
use artifical-intelligence technology
Ten questions with Parminder Nagra: page 8 Drake to allow the bereaved to communicate
Using archival footage and interviews with those with deceased loved ones. This
10.00 ITV News at Ten who know them best, this documentary charts
Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD) documentary looks at the potential
the success of rappers Kendrick Lamar and psychological and ethical consequences
10.45 On Assignment Drake from childhood to their current rivalry. of this practice. Other episodes of
Reports on Ghana’s American population, the What started the rift, and how did it become Storyville are on iPlayer. See page 69.
conflict in Gaza and Mongolia’s eagle hunters. one of the top pop culture stories of 2024? Directors Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck
Directors/Producers Alice Anderson and Holly Snelling (S) (HD) Director Daniel Dempster; Producer Obe Joshua Producers Christian Beetz and
Repeated tomorrow 1.55am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD) Georg Tschurtschenthaler (S) (HD)
11.15 Alter Egos
Ordinary people reveal their extraordinary alter 11.20 Celebrity Gogglebox for Stand 11.30 Britain’s Outlaws:
egos. Former bad boy Fabian mentors teens, Up to Cancer Highwaymen, Pirates and
but worries how they’ll react to his other self. Celebrities join the series regulars to react to Rogues
Part of the Fresh Cuts strand. (S) (AD) (HD) the week’s television in this special episode. 3/3. Rogues’ Gallery. Sam Willis explores
Shown Sunday 10pm (AD) (HD) urban crime and corruption, examining
11.40 Black Magic with Trixy 12.25am Taskmaster 7/10. Rosie Jones feels badly the case of thief and serial escapee Jack
Magician Trixy explores London’s black culture let down by Jack Dee. Shown last Thursday (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) Sheppard, who was so notorious that
while also showcasing his dazzling magical 1.20 The Last Leg With guests Miriam Margolyes, Phil
Wang and Graham Coxon. Shown last Friday (S) (SL) (HD) almost a quarter of a million people
abilities. Part of the Fresh Cuts strand. (S) (AD) (HD) 2.15 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA A Georgia turned up to witness his hanging.
12 midnight Home Shopping (HD) restaurant plagued by mismanagement. (R) (S) (SL) (HD) Director/Producer Gerry Dawson
3.00am The Great Erection Deception: the Stiff 3.05 Generation Z 1/6. Zombie horror satire. Signed repeat 2.30am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
Nights Story The inside story of a multimillion-dollar See choice, p48. Shown Sunday 9pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 12.30am Frozen Planet Shown 7pm (S) (AD) (HD)
scam about a supposedly herbal equivalent of Viagra. 4.00 Marcia’s Story: Stand Up to Cancer Marcia 1.30 She-Wolves: England’s Early Queens
Shown last Monday (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) undergoes chemotherapy. Shown 7.55pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) Shown 9pm (S) (HD)
4.05 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD) 4.05 Frasier Triple bill of the US sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.30—3.30am Britain’s Outlaws:
5.10—6.00am Deal or No Deal Shown 4pm (S) (SL) (HD) 5.20—5.45am Four in a Bed Shown 5pm (S) (SL) (HD) Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues
Shown 11.30pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
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Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne Midsomer Murders 8.00pm Barnaby Jonathan Creek 8.00pm Jonathan
9.00pm With Bettina and Georg 10.50pm Exploring human sexuality and Troy probe a series of accidents has a few questions for Sylvester
5.25am Milkshake! See page 74 7.00pm The Nine to Five with 6.00am Classic Emmerdale (S) (AD) 7.00 7.10am London’s Burning: 6/18 Series 10
9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) (HD) Stacey Dooley Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD) 8.05 Blue Watch are called to rescue a familiar face
3/5 Series 1. Stacey takes the five teens for Agatha Christie’s Poirot: After the Funeral. (S) (AD) 8.00 Doctors: double bill. Tasha’s
11.30 Storm Huntley (S) (HD) A man is found dead after changing his will;
work experience in a call centre. (S) (AD) (HD) birthday ends in disaster, then Mac makes
12.45pm Friends Series 6. Carol and Ross 10.20 The Adventure of the Clapham Cook. an announcement 9.15 Classic Holby City:
spice up their marriage. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 7.30 4/5. The teenagers go to a trainer The dapper Belgian detective takes on a Bernie must fight for Serena Rptd 2.30am (S)
1.10 Chandler’s home-made gift for Monica factory to experience the manufacturing seemingly minor case after a respectable (HD) 10.35 Classic Casualty: Fin’s daughter
lands him in trouble. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) industry. More tomorrow 7pm. (S) (AD) (HD) woman reports that her cook has gone is taken seriously ill (S) 11.40 The Bill: Zain
1.35 Entertainment News (S) (HD) Followed by New. The Catch Up (S) (HD) missing (S) (AD) (HD) 11.25 The Royal: 1/12 panics when Honey’s fingerprints are found (S)
1.40 5 News (S) (HD) Series 5. Dr Ormerod returns to work (S) (AD) 12.40pm Classic EastEnders: double bill. Jane
8.00 Gavin & Stacey
1.45 Home and Away John attempts to 4/6 Series 3. Pete and Dawn prepare to 12.25pm Heartbeat: 18/24. Greengrass panics when Ian goes missing, then Jake is
introduce himself to Abigail, but she’s not in falls in love (S) (AD) 1.35 Classic Emmerdale: plagued by prank calls and visits 2.00 London’s
renew their wedding vows. (S) (AD) (HD)
the mood. Shown Mon 6.30pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD) double bill. Andy is distraught at the thought Burning: 7/18 Series 10. A fire that has
8.30 5/6. The Essex mob arrives at the of losing Katie, then Martin suspects the broken out at a house ends in tragedy (S) (AD)
2.15 Killer in the Cabin HH Thriller. beach in Barry on Bank Holiday Monday. Kings of employing illegal foreign workers 3.00 Soldier Soldier: 9/15 Series 5. Jeremy
q Grieving mother Hanna moves town
to start a new life, where she becomes
entangled in the lurid lives of others.
More tomorrow 8.05pm. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
(S) (AD) 2.40 Classic Coronation Street:
double bill. Charlie is planning a one-night
faces a dilemma (S) 4.10 Howards’ Way:
12/13 Series 6. Ken attempts to seduce Jan
Self-Fulfilment. Hypnotists in Las Vegas
stand on his stag do, then the revelations once more (S) 5.30 The Upper Hand: 7/13
Director Jose Montesinos (2022) (S) (W) (HD) from her hen night leave Shelley reeling (S) Series 1. Caroline helps Charlie’s daughter (S)
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun reveal the tricks of their trade. First shown (AD) 3.50 Endeavour: 6/6 Series 5. Icarus.
Glaswegian Andrea plans a celebration at the in 2000. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD) The disappearance of a teacher at a public 6.05pm ’Allo ’Allo!
18/26 Series 5. Money to Burn
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show bar she owns with her husband. (S) (HD) 9.50 Louis Theroux: Gambling in school tests Morse’s investigative skills, while
the probe into Oxford’s criminal underworld Fanny decides to bake a potato. (S)
5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD) Las Vegas continues. Repeated 12 midnight (S) (AD) (HD)
Exploring Vegas’s famous casino culture 6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
6.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly and meeting regulars John and Tim. From 5.50pm Downton Abbey Series 4. Who Made a Bit of a Splash
Graeme Hall meets an owner struggling 2007. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD) 2/7 Series 1. Everyone is anxious about in Wales Then? Compo and Clegg
to work from home because of his the arrival of Matthew Crawley, the heir gatecrash Foggy’s trip to Wales. (S)
disruptive dog, and a music teacher 10.50 Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne presumptive, and his mother. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.20 Greenfingers. The trio lament the
with a whippet-cross that constantly 1/6. Cara takes a deep-dive into the biggest lack of fresh vegetables available. (S)
interrupts her recitals. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) questions about human sexuality. (S) (HD) 7.00 Heartbeat
11.35 2/6. In Palm Springs, Cara parties 19/24 Series 7. A woman is admitted to 8.00 Jonathan Creek
6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)
at the biggest lesbian festival in the world. hospital after a series of burglaries, while 3/6 Series 2. The Scented Room
7.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly The whole series is on iPlayer. (S) (HD) Nick and Jo plan their new lives. (S) (AD) A priceless painting vanishes. (S) (AD)
Australia 12.20am RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (S) (HD) 8.00 Midsomer Murders 9.05 New Tricks
Graeme Hall meets Tracy, who got 1.30 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends (S) Series 4. Destroying Angel. When a 7/10 Series 8. The Gentleman Vanishes
labrador Rosa to keep her company and (AD) (HD) 2.20 Louis Theroux: Gambling in rich hotel owner dies, the beneficiaries A Whitehall figure warns the team to stop
help improve her social life. However, Las Vegas (S) (AD) (HD) 3.20 Charlotte in of his will begin falling victim to a series digging into a man’s disappearance. (S) (AD)
Rosa keeps scaring everyone away. The Sunderland (S) (HD) 3.50—4.00am of mysterious accidents. (S) (AD) 10.25 8/10. Only the Brave. The murder of
dog trainer also meets bulldog Frank, The Fast and the Farmer-ish (S) (HD) a biker-gang leader is reinvestigated. (S) (AD)
10.00 Law & Order: UK
who loves to eat all kinds of rubbish, and BBC3 Freeview 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) Freesat 107
Sky 115 (117 Wales; 121 Scotland) Virgin 107 (113 Scotland/Wales) 1/7 Series 6. Survivor’s Guilt. A key 11.50 Murder in Mind
terrorising border terrier Griffin. (S) (HD)
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)
witness is thought to have been the target 7/7 Series 1. Sleeper. A habitual
8.00 The Yorkshire Vet
ITV2 6 after a drive-by shooting, but Ronnie and
his team discover otherwise... (S) (AD) (HD)
sleepwalker is suspected of murder. (S)
1.05am The Missing: 2/8 Series 1. Tony’s
Ep 12 Series 19. Julian Norton helps a 6.00am CITV: children’s programmes (HD) 11.00 2/7. Immune. Ronnie and Sam are attempt to have the case reopened gathers
little French bulldog in need of life-saving 9.00 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records given just ten hours to locate a hostage momentum (S) (AD) (HD) 2.30 Classic Holby
(S) (HD) 10.00 Love Bites (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) following a bungled robbery. (S) (AD) (HD)
emergency surgery. Shona Searson City Shown 9.15am (HD) 3.30—4.00am
rushes to see a cow who’s just had a calf 12 noon Dress to Impress (S) (HD) 1.00pm 12 midnight Endeavour Shown 3.50pm (S) Birds of a Feather: 4/15 Series 6. Dorien
Supermarket Sweep (S) (HD) 2.00 Family (AD) (HD) 2.00—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD) develops serious psychological problems (S)
but is struggling with a seemingly Fortunes (S) (HD) 3.00 Charmed: Phoebe has
dislocated hip, and all the vets head out a premonition (S) (HD) 4.00 Gilmore Girls (S) ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 U&Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
together to enjoy some of James (HD) 4.55 Dress to Impress (S) (HD) +1 Freesat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317 +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316
Herriot’s favourite parts of Yorkshire. 5.55pm FILM Harry Potter and the
Directors/Producers Adam Caldow, Jacob Deathly Hallows: Part 1 HHH Fantasy
ITV4 26 ITVBe 28
Hesmondhalgh, Laura Blair and Tom Goddard (S) (HD) adventure starring Daniel Radcliffe and 6.00am The Best of the 70s (S) (HD) 6.15 7.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 7.25 Olivia Meets
9.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Emma Watson. With Lord Voldemort once Minder (S) (SL) (AD) 7.20 The Sweeney (S) (SL) Her Match (S) (HD) 8.30 The Cabins (S) (HD)
Wild again in the ascendant, teenage wizard Harry 8.25 Dempsey and Makepeace (S) (AD) 9.30 The Real Housewives of Cheshire (S) (HD)
Potter and friends Hermione and Ron are forced
Ep 3. The adventurer crosses the Irish to go on the run. Armed with items given to
9.25 The Saint (S) 10.30 Giant Lobster 10.30 Olivia Meets Her Match (S) (HD) 11.30
Sea to revisit his old friends Georg and Hunters (S) (HD) 11.30 BattleBots (S) (HD) The Real Housewives of Potomac (S) (HD)
them by headmaster Albus Dumbledore, they
Bettina, who live on a remote bogland 12.30pm Dempsey and Makepeace (S) (AD) 12.30pm The Real Housewives of Beverly
seek to destroy artefacts that contain the
in County Mayo. Ben rediscovers 1.40 The Saint (S) 2.45 Giant Lobster Hills (S) (HD) 1.20 The Only Way Is Essex (S)
secret of Voldemort’s power. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
Hunters (S) (HD) 3.45 Minder (S) (AD) 4.50 (HD) 2.05 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 3.10 The
the pair’s inspirational attitude and 9.00 New. Big Brother A catch-up with
The Sweeney (S) 5.55 BattleBots (S) (HD) Big Bake (S) (HD) 4.05 The Real Housewives
witnesses a pivotal gathering of everything that’s happened in the house.
Expect tricky tasks, nail-biting nominations 7.00pm LIVE International Football of Potomac (S) (HD) 5.00 New. The Real
like-minded individuals on their land. England v South Africa. Laura Woods Housewives of Beverly Hills. (S) (HD)
Series director/producer Sean McDonnell (S) (HD) and friendships being tested. (S) (HD)
10.00 New. Big Brother: Late and Live presents action from the women’s friendly at 6.00pm Making It Home with Kortney
10.00 Murder on the Patio: Who AJ Odudu and Will Best present a companion Coventry Building Society Arena (kick-off 7.45). and Dave Ted and Shannon ask Kortney and
Killed Billie Jo? show direct from the site of the Big Brother With analysis from Ian Wright and Karen Dave for help updating their house. (S) (HD)
Examining the unsolved case of Billie-Jo house, in front of a studio audience. (S) (HD) Carney, and commentary by Seb Hutchinson 7.00 The Big Bake Three teams of
11.05 Family Guy Series 14. Peter and his and Siobhan Chamberlain. (S) (HD) returning champions make bog bakes. (S) (HD)
Jenkins, a 13-year-old who was murdered
friends get stuck in an asylum while filming 10.10 FILM Mad Max 2 HHHH Futuristic 8.00 James Martin’s Spanish Adventure
on the patio of her seaside home in 1997. action adventure starring Mel Gibson. In the In the wine region of La Rioja. (S) (AD) (HD)
Director David Ward (R) (S) (HD)
their own horror movie. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.35 Series 18. Peter takes over as the coach aftermath of a Third World War, gangs battle for 9.00 New. The Real Housewives of Atlanta
12 midnight Police Interceptors (R) (S) (AD) of Quahog’s minor league baseball team and possession of petrol. Caught in the conflict is A star-studded wrap party is held as Kandi
(HD) 1.00am Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 Ben Fogle: becomes the face of social justice when he Max Rockatansky, a former cop and embittered and Todd’s film reaches completion. (S) (HD)
New Lives in the Wild (R) (S) (HD) 3.50 kneels during the national anthem. (S) (AD) (HD) road warrior. Review p75. (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 10.00 Botched A woman seeks help. (S) (HD)
Britain’s Great Cathedrals with Tony 12 midnight American Dad!: double bill (S) (AD) 12 midnight New. All Elite Wrestling: Rampage (S) 11.00 The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls’
Robinson (R) (S) (HD) 4.40 House Busters (HD) 12.55am Bob’s Burgers (S) (AD) (HD) (HD) 1.05am FILM Death Wish V H Crime thriller Trip The women arrive in Thailand. (S) (HD)
(R) (S) (SL) 5.05 Wildlife SOS (R) (S) (SL) 1.45 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records (S) starring Charles Bronson and Lesley-Anne Down 12.05am The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
5.30—5.40am Entertainment News (S) (HD) (HD) 2.10—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD) (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 12.50—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105 ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 (132 Scotland)
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6.00pm NCIS Series 15. Triple bill. McGee
investigates the murder of a petty officer
7.00 Gibbs investigates a potential
miscarriage of justice 8.00 A mysterious
voice leads a jogger to the scene of a murder
9.00 New. Law & Order: Special Victims
Unit Series 24. Benson tries to help the gang
member who attacked her, while Fin is tasked
with hiring new detectives First shown on Sky
Witness 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims
Unit Series 7. Three back-to-back episodes
12.55am Criminal Minds 2.50 Blindspot
A History of Royal Scandals: Murder The Art Mysteries 9.00pm Waldemar Guy Martin’s Lancaster Bomber 3.35—4.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera (AD)
9.00pm Suzannah Lipscomb Januszczak makes a new friend 7.00pm Guy gets behind the controls 5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft 9.15 A Place 6.00am Darbar: Music of India 7.00 The 6.10am Great Continental Railway Journeys: +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320
in the Sun 10.05 A New Life in the Sun: Where South Bank Show Originals 8.00 The Joy of Stockholm 7.10 Great British Railway
Are They Now? 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) Painting: double bill (AD) 9.00 Tales of the Journeys: double bill 8.00 Abandoned 5 Star 32
1.05pm Car SOS (AD) 2.05 Four in a Bed: Unexpected (AD) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Engineering (AD) 10.00 Narrow Escapes of 8.00am Dirty Home Rescue 9.00
five episodes 4.50 The Dog House (AD) Presents 11.00 Discovering: Sissy Spacek (AD) World War II (AD) 11.00 World War Weird Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun: two editions
5.50 Escape to the Château: DIY (AD) 12 noon Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 12 noon Great Canal Journeys 1.00pm 11.00 Traffic Cops 2.00pm Police
6.55pm Car SOS Fuzz Townshend and 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Bangers and Interceptors: triple bill (AD) 5.00 Shoplifters
Tim Shaw travel back in time with a 1986 Cleo Laine: the Unseen Home Movies (AD) Cash: Restoring Classics: double bill (AD) and Scammers: at War with the Law
Rover SD1 belonging to 58-year-old Darren, 3.00 Discovering: Alan Rickman: a profile of 4.00 Narrow Escapes of World War II (AD) 6.00pm Home and Away John introduces
whose ill health has taken its toll. (AD) the English actor (AD) 4.00 Classic Albums 5.00 The Buildings That Fought Hitler (AD) himself to Abigail. Shown 1.45pm C5 (AD)
7.55 Grand Designs Back in 2011, couple 5.00 Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 6.00pm Antiques Roadshow Fiona Bruce 6.30 New. Mali and Kirby bicker about being
Edward and Hazel set out to build an art deco 6.00pm Tales of the Unexpected A father’s presents highlights from the past year. in an art gallery. Repeated tomorrow 1.45pm C5 (AD)
lighthouse complex in north Devon. Kevin disabled daughter commits a terrible act. (AD) 7.00 Guy Martin’s Lancaster Bomber 7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors Doctors
McCloud returns to see if anything has been 6.30 The fate of a newlywed is sealed. (AD) The presenter trains in all seven crew treat a man suffering from agoraphobia. (AD)
salvaged from the gruelling enterprise. (AD) 7.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour The life positions on the iconic aircraft. 8.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts
9.00 RT CHOICE New series. A History of a boy is saved by a war veteran. 8.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics A junior doctor treats a man with sepsis.
of Royal Scandals Ep 1 Series 2. Suzannah 8.00 Art’s Wildest Movement: Mannerism Dave alerts the team to a 1979 Lotus Esprit 9.00 New. A&E: Crash Scene Emergency
Lipscomb looks at more royal rumours. She Waldemar Januszczak looks at the latter S3 — a thoroughbred classic. (AD) A professional MotoGP rider suffers an open
begins with four suspected murder cases stages of mannerism art and its history. 9.00 Bangers and Cash Derek heads to fracture on his foot. Repeated Thursday 11pm
spanning almost 1,000 years, including 9.00 RT CHOICE New. The Art Mysteries County Durham to look at a car collection. (AD) 10.00 999: Emergency Call Out A car has

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the disappearance of the princes from the Uncovering the secrets of the Garden of Earthly 10.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics crashed into a wall and ended up on its roof.
Tower of London in 1483. See page 69. (AD) Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. See page 69. A super-rare Renault Clio Williams 2. (AD) 11.00 Adults Only: Sex in the Future
10.00 Richard III: the King in the Car Park 9.30 Klimt and The Kiss Experts examine 11.00 Abandoned Engineering A real-life Technological development in sex toys. (AD)
The discovery of a skeleton under a Leicester Gustav Klimt’s early 20th-century painting. (AD) concrete jungle in America’s “Rust Belt”. (AD) 12 midnight Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?
car park in 2012 sparked headlines around the 10.45 The Art of Film with Ian Nathan 12 midnight Great Continental Railway Journeys A Suburban Nightmare 2.00am Casualty 24/7:
world. This programme follows the story, as The film critic looks at how a generation of 1.00—3.00am Secrets of the London Underground: Every Second Counts 2.50 GPs: behind Closed
a team of experts carry out scientific tests. immigrants invented Hollywood. double bill with Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway (AD) Doors (AD) 3.35—4.00am Home and Away (AD)
11.40 24 Hours in A&E When Becky, 59, is 11.45 The Life and Deaths of Christopher U&Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129 5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 (129 Scotland)
examined after a suspected stroke, the medics Lee A look at the English actors life and career. +1 Sky 255 Virgin 329 Virgin 126 +1 Freesat 140 Sky 228 (229 Scot) Virgin 326
become concerned about her brain. (AD) 1.45am The World in a Painting: a look at Vermeer’s
12.45am 999: on the Front Line: West Midlands work (AD) 3.00 Backstage: Ralph Fiennes in Straight
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Ambulance 1.50 A History of Royal Scandals: as Line Crazy 4.00 A Play in a Day 5.00—6.00am
9pm (AD) 2.55—3.55am 24 Hours in A&E (AD) National Treasures: the Art of Collecting (AD) 7.10am Gassed Up 8.00 Cops on the Rock 9.00am Trucking Hell 10.00 Traffic Cops:
More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 (137 Scotland) Sky Arts Freeview 36 Freesat 143 Sky 130 (131 Scotland) (AD) 10.00 Extreme Salvage Squad On the Edge 11.00 Police Interceptors
Virgin 147 +1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 (237 Scot) Virgin 347 Virgin 123 EE 350/HD 365 12 noon Storage Hunters UK 2.00pm 12 noon FILM The Four Musketeers HHH
Our Guy in China 3.00 Top Gear (AD) Swashbuckling comedy adventure starring
E4 13 4seven 49
5.00pm Rick Stein’s Long Weekends Oliver Reed 2.10pm FILM The Great
6.00am Hollyoaks Shown last Wed/yesterday (AD) 9.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The chef visits Bologna in northern Italy. (AD) Northfield Minnesota Raid HHH Western
6.55 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.00 Ramsay’s 10.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) 11.00 The 6.00 Markets, restaurants, cafés and bars in starring Cliff Robertson 4.00 Trucking Hell
Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL) 8.00 Married at Great House Giveaway: from Glossop the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. (AD) 5.00 Traffic Cops: on the Edge
First Sight (AD) 9.20 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.00 Would I Lie to You? With panellists 6.00pm Police Interceptors A suspected
12 noon Frasier (AD) 1.30pm Four in a Bed drunk driver nearly causes a calamity.
9.35 The Goldbergs (AD) 10.00 The Big Bang 2.00 A Place in the Sun: What Happened Next? Victoria Derbyshire, Rhod Gilbert, Rosie
Theory (AD) 11.00 Modern Family 12 noon The Jones and Jamali Maddix. Rob Brydon hosts. 7.00 Jon deals with a shoplifter
3.00 Renovation Nation (AD) 4.00 Help! We apprehended by members of the public.
Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00pm The Goldbergs Bought a Village 5.00 A Place in the Sun 7.40 Richard Osman’s House of Games
(AD) 3.00 Modern Family 4.00 Married at Jamelia, Susan Calman, Gareth Malone and 8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s
7.00 Jamie: Fast and Simple 4/5 Includes Paul Martin test their general knowledge. Speeders PC Martain Anderson hunts for a
First Sight (AD) 5.20 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts a creamy red pepper pasta dish and a big 8.20 With panellists Samira Ahmed, Dom van linked to organised crime.
5.35pm The Big Bang Theory 3/24 beef brisket. Shown Monday 8pm Channel 4 (AD) 9.00 Motorway: Hell on the Highway
Series 9. The guys’ science skills are tested. Joly, Angela Rippon and John Robins.
8.00 RT CHOICE New. The Great British 9.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You Cameras focus on disasters caused by
6.00 4/24. Sheldon looks back. Bake Off 6/10 Series 15. Autumn Week drivers making misjudgements at junctions.
6.30 5/24. The boys take up fencing. (AD) With host Kirsty Young, plus guests Bob
bakes. See p68. Simulcast with C4 (SL) (AD) Marshall-Andrews and Dr Phil Hammond. 10.00 FILM Where Eagles Dare HHHH
7.00 New. Hollyoaks Robbie makes a 9.15 Love Cheats 3/4. A woman who claimed 10.00 QI XL With Josh Widdicombe, Second World War action, starring Richard
promise. Repeated tomorrow 6.30am (AD) to have MS and conned her partner into Burton and Clint Eastwood as members of an
7.30 New. Modern Family 12/22 Series 8 Stephen K Amos and Cally Beaton.
funding treatment. Shown Monday 10pm C4 (AD) 11.00 Battle in the Box Jimmy Carr hosts, elite group of commandos who must enter a
Jay and Gloria deal with Joe’s gift-giving. 10.20 24 Hours in A&E Ep 1 Series 32 as Jamie Laing and Nabil Abdulrashid face Nazi stronghold to rescue an American officer.
8.00 New. Hot Yachts: Miami Dr Ian treats 15-year-old James, who has 1.10am Under the Dome 3.00 Trucking Heavy
Dr Toby decides who he wants to trust. (AD) Ellie Taylor and Jess Knappett. (AD)
been struck in the eye with an arrow. (AD) 12 midnight Mock the Week 12.40am Alan 3.55—4.00am Entertainment News
9.00 New. Married at First Sight 11.25 Generation Z 1/6. Zombie satire. When Davies: As Yet Untitled 1.40 Would I Lie to You? 5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130
The couples face Partner Swap Week. (AD) an army truck carrying a virus crashes outside 2.15 QI XL 3.05—4.00am Schitt’s Creek
10.00 New. Beyond Chelsea Cameras
follow three Made in Chelsea veterans.
a care home, the residents are infected.
See choice, p48. Shown Sunday 9pm C4 (AD)
U&Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (112 Wales) Virgin HD 127 5 Select 46
U&Dave Ja Vu F’view 74 Sky 211 (212 Wales) Virgin 327
11.05 First Dates Maria and her daughter 12.30am 2/6. Kelly battles with her feelings. 9.00am The Yorkshire Vet 3.00pm Murder,
Charlotte arrive for a double date. (AD) See choice, p58. Shown Monday 9pm C4 (AD)
12.10am Married at First Sight (SL) (AD) 1.15 1.35 The Great British Bake Off (AD) 2.55 Kirstie
Sky Mix 11 She Wrote (AD) 4.00 Columbo 5.30 Eggheads
6.00pm Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 2.20 Naked Attraction (AD) and Phil’s Love It or List It: Brilliant Builds (AD) 7.00am Nothing to Declare 9.00 Monkey Meeting a former fashion photographer who
3.10 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD) 3.55—4.55am Into the Jungle with Ed Stafford (AD) moved to a remote part of Texas.
4.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL)
Life (AD) 10.00 Stop, Search, Seize 11.00
4seven F’view 49 F’sat 127 Sky 137 (138 Scot) Virgin 143 Highway Patrol (AD) 12 noon Motorway Patrol 7.00 A former financier living in the
4.50—6.00am Black-ish (AD)
1.00pm Border Patrol 2.00 Monkey Life (AD) swamplands of the US state of Georgia.
E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 (136 Scot) Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 (236 Scot) Virgin 306
Quest 12 3.00 Nothing to Declare (AD) 4.00 Star 8.00 The Mighty Mississippi with Nick
Trek: the Next Generation 5.00 Primeval Knowles A helicopter ride along the
E4 Extra F’view 31 F’sat 126 Sky 138 (139 Scot) Virgin 144 6.00am Chasing Classic Cars 8.00 American
6.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Pickers 9.00 Aussie Gold Hunters (AD) 11.00 The northernmost stretch of the Mississippi River.
7.00 Star Trek: Voyager 8.00 Hawaii Five-0
Really 17 Repair Shop 1.00pm The Yorkshire Auction House
2.00 Shed and Buried 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 9.00 New. FBI: Most Wanted: the team head
9.00 The Lake Borgne surge barrier.
10.00 Digging Up Britain’s Past One of
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home 5.00 Wheeler Dealers (AD) 7.00 Salvage Hunters: to Washington to protect Ortiz’s former the best-preserved Roman sites in Britain.
Shopping 8.00 Salvage Hunters 10.00 A Place Classic Cars 8.00 Aussie Gold Hunters (AD) 9.00 informant after she is targeted by a hitman 11.00 Prisoner: Cell Block H Erica decides
in the Sun 12 noon Money for Nothing 2.00pm New. Shed and Buried: four editions. A collection of First shown on Sky Witness (AD) 10.00 New.
to have Bea brought back to Wentworth.
The Repair Shop 3.00 Antiques Road Trip 5.00 Japanese motorbikes 9.30 New. Unearthing more FBI: International: a man seeks sanctuary
vintage vehicles lying abandoned 10.00 A collection at Madrid’s US embassy First shown on Sky 12 midnight Margo’s campaign continues
The Yorkshire Auction House: double bill (AD) 1.00am Forged in Fire: double bill
7.00 Antiques Road Trip 9.00 New. The Bad Skin of vintage tractors and automobiles 10.30 Henry Witness (AD) 11.00 Killer in My Village
and Sam try to buy automobilia for a man cave 3.35—4.00am Walking Tudor Britain
Clinic: helping people with embarrassing conditions 12 midnight Murders That Shocked the Nation
in their private parts (AD) 10.00 Dr Pimple Popper (AD) 11.00 The Repair Shop 12 midnight How Do (AD) 1.00am Nothing to Declare: double bill (AD) 5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138
11.00 Celebrity Help! My House Is Haunted (AD) They Do It? 1.00am Wheeler Dealers (AD) 3.00 2.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder: Motorbike thefts
1.00am Unexplained: Caught on Camera 2.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made (AD) 3.00 Highway Patrol: double bill 4.00 FREEVIEW TV and film
Home Shopping 4.00—6.00am Salvage Hunters Quest Freeview 12 Freesat 150/HD 144 Sky 144 Virgin 137 Border Patrol 5.00—6.00am Highway Cops
channels continue overleaf
Really Freeview 17 Freesat 145 Sky 142 Virgin 128 +1 Freeview 70 Freesat 151 Sky 244 Virgin 337 Sky Mix Freeview 11 Freesat 141 Sky 151 Virgin 135
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 200 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 EE 313

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CHILDREN’S FILMS
Milkshake! on C5 Film4 14
5.25am Paw Patrol 5.45 Milkshake! 11.00am Pool of London HH
Monkey’s Amazing Adventures 6.00 A small-time smuggler gets in too
New. Oggy Oggy: searching for the deep after a gang of jewel thieves
pumpkin thief 6.10 Peppa Pig 6.25 offers him an enticing new
New. Daisy & Ollie: Daisy and Ollie are
enjoying a day out at the zoo 6.30 Odo opportunity. Bonar Colleano (1950, PG) (S)
6.40 Tweedy & Fluff 6.45 Fireman 12.45pm Gunfight at the OK
Sam 6.55 Thomas & Friends: All Corral HHHH Burt Lancaster and
Engines Go! 7.05 Peppa Pig 7.20 Paw Kirk Douglas play Wyatt Earp and
Patrol 7.30 Pip and Posy 7.40 New. Doc Holliday in this brilliant western
The Adventures of Paddington 7.55 with a mesmerising finale. (1957, PG) (S)
Sort Your Life Out with Nadiya’s Fast Flavours Military Masterminds Milo 8.10 Paw Patrol 8.30 New. Reu
& Harper’s Wonder World 8.40 New. 3.10 The Smallest Show on Earth
Stacey Soloman 8.10pm 9.30pm Stress-free recipes 6.35pm Colin Powell’s feats Milkshake! Off We Go! 8.45 Peppa Pig HHHH Bill Travers and Virginia
8.55 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom McKenna inherit a crumbling cinema
6.10am Inside the Ambulance 6.00am The Great British Bake Off 8.00am Grand Tours of Scotland 9.10—9.15am Milkshake! Story Den in a charming comedy whose
7.00 Property Brothers: Forever 7.30 James Martin: Sweet 8.00 8.40 Military Masterminds 9.50 Full listings for Channel 5 are on p72 cast alone makes it a must-see.
Homes (AD) 8.00 Tipping Point James Martin’s Favourite Feasts as 7.40pm 10.55 Hitler’s Gold Review, right. Peter Sellers (1957, U) (S)
11.00 DIY SOS: Veteran Street 9.00 James Martin’s American 11.55 as 9.50pm 1.00pm Mussolini:
CBeebies 202 4.50 The Blue Lamp HHHH
12 noon DIY SOS: the Big Build Adventure 10.00 The Hairy Bikers’ the First Fascist 2.10 Military This British crime classic perfectly
1.00pm Tipping Point 3.00 Comfort Food 11.00 Hairy Bikers’ Masterminds 3.20 as 7.40pm 6.00am Bing 6.10 Vegesaurs 6.15 captures the austere atmosphere
Property Brothers: Forever Homes (AD) Meals on Wheels 12 noon The 4.25 Hitler’s Gold 5.25 as 9.50pm Teletubbies; Small Potatoes 6.30 of postwar Britain. Jack Warner,
5.00 DIY SOS: Veteran Street Great British Bake Off 1.30pm 6.35pm Military Masterminds Supertato 6.40 Roots and Fruits 6.45 Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde (1949, PG) (S)
James Martin: Sweet 2.00 James Tee and Mo 6.50 Bing 7.00 Colourblocks
6.00pm DIY SOS: The Big Build 1/4. Exploring the lives of Moshe 7.05 Hey Duggee 7.20 Bluey 6.35pm Jumanji: Welcome to
Martin’s Favourite Feasts 3.00
The team help a family in Bristol. James Martin’s American Dayan, Erwin Rommel, Colin 7.40 Go Jetters 7.50 Peter Rabbit the Jungle HHHH Four teens
7.00 New. MasterChef Australia: Adventure: two episodes 5.00 The Powell and Isoroku Yamomoto. 8.05 Octonauts: Above & Beyond are sucked into a video game
8.15 Numberblocks 8.20 Alphablocks
Dessert Masters Creating a Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food 7.40 WWII in Colour: Road to 8.25 Love Monster 8.35 Justin’s and given new identities. Review,
movie-themed dessert. 6.00pm Hairy Bikers’ Meals on Victory 2/10. In September 1939 a House 9.00 Bing 9.05 Yakka Dee! 9.10 right. Dwayne Johnson (2017, 12) (S) (AD)
Wheels 7.00 The Great British German U-boat fires its first torpedo. Love Monster 9.20 Dylan’s Playtime
8.10 Sort Your Life Out with
Bake Off: a festival-themed round Adventures 9.30 Twirlywoos 9.45 9.00 Alita: Battle Angel HH
Stacey Solomon Coaching the 8.50 Hitler’s Gold 2/4. The Nazi Something Special: We’re All Friends Flashy live-action take on the
8.30 Mary Berry’s Quick Cooking:
Smith family through a declutter. (AD) Mary heads to Marrakesh to “economic miracle” that “solved” 10.05 Teletubbies 10.20 New. Maddie dystopian manga adventure.
9.30 Inside the Ambulance explore Moroccan cuisine 9.00 unemployment in Germany. and Triggs 10.30 Yukee 10.35 Tiny Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz (2018, 12) (S) (AD)
Wonders 10.40 Colourblocks 10.45
In Dudley, a man collapses two Mary Berry: Love to Cook 9.30 9.50 Afghanistan: the Roots and Fruits 10.50 Vegesaurs 10.55 11.25 Gemini Man HH Ageing
days before his wedding. Nadiya’s Fast Flavours: recipes Wounded Land 2/4. The events Bluey 11.05 Supertato 11.10 Hey Duggee assassin Will Smith is targeted by
10.00 Ambulance Australia An include a chicken and pink that followed the Soviet army 11.20 I Can Do It, You Can Too 11.35 a younger version of himself. Mary
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peppercorn pie, and simple, baked entering Afghanistan in 1979. Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.50 Our Family
ambulance bottleneck causes chaos. teriyaki noodles 10.00 Nadiya 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.10pm
Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen (2019, 12) (S) (AD)
11.00 A double stabbing. Bakes 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and 10.55 WWII in Colour: Road to Apple Tree House 12.25 Dog Squad 1.40—3.45am Antlers HHH
12 midnight Stacey Dooley: inside Dives: four episodes, including Guy Victory As 7.40pm. 12.40 Andy’s Safari Adventures 1.00 Two siblings encounter a local man
the Convent (AD) 1.15am One Born Fieri visiting an old-time bar in 12 midnight Hitler’s Gold Yakka Dee! 1.05 Numberblocks 1.10 possessed by a monstrous being in
Every Minute 2.05—3.00am Stacey Denver making tater tots 1.00—2.00am Grand Tours of Alphablocks 1.15 Hey Duggee 1.25 Love this atmospheric horror. Review,
Dooley: Face to Face with the Scotland: Paul Murton visits places Monster 1.30 Yukee 1.40 Colourblocks right. Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons (2021, 15) (S)
1.00—3.00am Halloween Baking
1.45 Something Special 2.05 Teletubbies
Bounty Hunters Championship connected to Robert Burns 2.20 Vida the Vet 2.30 Mojo Swoptops Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
U&W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 (133 Scotland) Food Network F’view 43 F’sat 148 Sky 140 PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only) 2.45 Supertato 2.50 Waffle the Wonder Sky 313 Virgin 428
Virgin 125 +1 Sky 232 (233 Scotland) Virgin 325 (141 Scot) Virgin 190 +1 F’sat 154 Sky 240 (241 Scot) Freesat 155 Sky 173 Virgin 187 Dog 3.05 Grace’s Amazing Machines +1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
3.20 The Game Catchers 3.30 New.
Rewind TV 95 HGTV 44 U&Eden 57 Big Lizard 3.40 Hey Duggee
3.45 Peter Rabbit 4.00 Andy’s Global
Talking 82
6.00am Unwind 7.30 FILM 7.00am Building Alaska 8.00 9.00am Inside the Ambulance (AD) Adventures 4.15 Mojo Swoptops 4.25
Bluey 4.40 Supertato 4.50 Vida the
Pictures TV
A Life at Stake HHH (BW) 9.00 Escape to the Country 9.00 A 6.00pm Inside the Ambulance: six Vet 5.00 Time for School 5.15 Dodge’s
Return of the Saint 10.00 That’s Place in the Sun 10.00 Escape to editions. Treating a pensioner whose Pup School 5.25 Sarah & Duck 5.35
6.00am Emergency HH Anaemic
My Dog 10.30 A Fine Romance the Country 11.00 A Place in the heart rate is erratic 7.00 Crews JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45 Moon and Me British drama. Glyn Houston (1962, 12) (S)
11.00 Watching 11.30 Time after Sun 12 noon My Lottery Dream attend a diabetic who has collapsed 6.10pm Clangers 6.20 In the Night 7.20 Blackout HH By-the-numbers
Time 12 noon Sherlock Holmes Home 2.00pm A Place in the Sun 8.00 A young mum with stomach Garden... 6.50—7.00pm CBeebies thriller about a counterfeiting ring.
(BW) 12.30pm Shine on Harvey 3.00 Escape to the Country 5.00 Bedtime Stories: with Natalie Dormer Maxwell Reed (1950, PG) (S) 8.45 The Big
pains 9.00 A 71-year-old with chest
Moon 1.00 Space 1999 2.00 FILM A Place in the Sun 8.00 Escape to CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702 Day HH Nicely arranged but fairly
pains 10.00 A man with abdominal
Touch of Evil 5Review p75 (BW) the Country 9.00 New. Backed by shallow social drama. Donald Pleasence
4.00 Whicker’s World 5.00 Worzel pain 11.00 A man hit by a firework (1960) (S) 10.00 The Gentleman
Gummidge Down Under 5.30
the Bros: Jonathan and Drew Scott 12 midnight Anthony Bourdain: Parts CBBC 201
Bandit HH Ralph Waite plays a
must decide whether to back an Unknown 2.00am Inside the Ambulance
That’s My Dog 6.00 Surgical Spirit overwhelmed investor 10.00 New 5.20—6.00am David Attenborough’s 7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.05 priest suspected of robbery in this
6.30 The Cuckoo Waltz 7.00 The Natural Curiosities (AD) Danger Mouse 7.20 Dennis & Gnasher drama. Review, right. (1981) (S) 12 noon
Beiderbecke Affair 8.00 Return of Divided by Design: Eilyn Jimenez Unleashed! 7.30 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Worzel Gummidge TV series. (S)
the Saint 9.00 Sapphire and Steel needs to maximise value in an U&Eden Freeview 57 Freesat 160 Sky 166 Cheese 7.45 New. Newsround 7.55 12.35pm Never Look Back HH
10.00 Drop the Dead Donkey iconic architect’s high-rise 11.00 Virgin 176 +1 Sky 266 Virgin 376 Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 Odd Competent courtroom drama with
10.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? New. Scariest House in America Squad 8.25 Super Happy Magic Forest
Rosamund John as a lawyer who
11.00 Surgical Spirit 11.30 Watching (AD) 11.30 Flip or Flop Vegas
12 midnight Bargain Mansions (AD)
Blaze 64 8.35 Deadly 60 9.05 One Zoo Three
9.30 Pickle Storm 9.50 Odd Squad defends her ex on a murder charge.
12 midnight The Cuckoo Waltz 10.15 Game on Grandparents 10.40 (1952) (S) 2.05 A Good Read with
12.30am Sherlock Holmes (BW) 1.00 1.00am Building Alaska 2.00 Flip or 6.00am Dickinson’s Real Deal 6.40 Pawn
Shine on Harvey Moon 1.30 That’s My Flop: double bill 3.00—4.00am My Stars 7.30 Auction Hunters 7.55 Storage Horrible Histories 11.05 Super Happy Mike Read The presenter reads The
Wars 8.55 Hardcore Pawn 10.15 UFOs: the Magic Forest 11.20 Danger Mouse Ides of March by EW Hornung. 2.45
Dog 2.00 FILM Touch of Evil 5 Lottery Dream Home: two editions
Lost Evidence 11.10 Weird Britain 12.10pm 11.30 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! Crow Hollow HH Routine murder
(BW) 4.00—6.00am Unwind HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 149 Sky 158 Virgin 191 World’s Greatest Treasure Mysteries 1.05 11.40 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese mystery. Donald Houston (1951, PG) (S) 4.10
Rewind TV Freeview 95 Sky 190 +1 Sky 258 Virgin 391 11.55 Andy’s Safari Adventures
The UnXplained with William Shatner 2.05 Lorna Doone HH Barbara Hale
Pawn Stars 3.05 Storage Wars 4.00 12.10pm Go Jetters 12.30 Danger
stars in a colourful adaptation of
Great TV 50 Challenge 48 Ancient Aliens: the Ultimate Evidence Mouse 12.55 Waffle the Wonder Dog
1.05 Supertato 1.15 Dennis & Gnasher RD Blackmore’s tale of romance and
5.00 Ancient Aliens 6.00 UFOs: Secret
8.00am Diagnosis Murder: two 7.00am The Chase 10.00 Weakest Alien Technology 7.00 Pawn Stars 8.00 Unleashed! 1.35 Super Happy Magic revolt. Review, right. (1951, U) (S) 5.55
episodes 10.00 Father Dowling Link 11.00 Pointless Celebrities: Dickinson’s Real Deal 9.00 New series Forest 1.50 Blue Peter 2.15 Hey You The Beverly Hillbillies TV sitcom.
Mysteries 11.00 Castle Alexander Armstrong and Richard Claw Hunters 10.00 When Big Things What If? 2.25 Jamie Johnson 2.50 6.30pm Colonel March of
Go Wrong 11.00 Adventure Gold Diggers What’s Cooking Omari? 3.00 The Scotland Yard TV mystery series. (S)
12 noon Hart to Hart 2.00pm Osman host a celebrity version of Dengineers 3.30 Dennis & Gnasher
Father Dowling Mysteries 3.00 the quiz show seeking the most 12 midnight Kings of Pain 1.00am UFOs: 7.05 Batman Caped capers. (S)
the Lost Evidence 2.00 Weird Britain Unleashed! 3.50 Danger Mouse
Diagnosis Murder 5.00 Murder, obscure answers to general 3.00 Hardcore Pawn 3.25 Flipping 4.05 Ninja Express 4.15 Grizzy and 7.35 Dangerous Assignment
She Wrote: double bill knowledge questions 12 noon The Bangers 4.10 Ancient Aliens: the Ultimate the Lemmings 4.25 Boy Girl Dog TV adventure series. (S)
7.00pm M*A*S*H 9.00 The Chase 1.00pm Family Fortunes (AD) Evidence 5.00—6.00am Ancient Aliens Cat Mouse Cheese 4.35 New. Super 8.05 Rumpole of the Bailey
Avengers 10.00 Randall and 3.00 Catchphrase (AD) 4.00 Happy Magic Forest 4.50 Odd Squad British TV courtroom drama.
Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 161 Sky 164 Virgin 174 5.00 Total Dramarama 5.13 Sketchy
Hopkirk (Deceased): a big-time crook Blockbusters 5.00 Bullseye: four 9.10 The Death of Adolf Hitler
Comedy 5.15 Andy and the Band 5.30
threatens Jeff 11.00 Return of the
Saint: Simon helps a successful pop
editions of the darts-based quiz
7.00pm Cash Trapped: quiz show
BBC Parliament 232 Arthur and the Haunted Tree House 1973 TV drama with Frank Finlay. (S)
6.00pm Horrible Histories: Scary 11.25 976-EVIL H Disastrous
singer whose ambitious record hosted by Bradley Walsh 8.00 The 6.00am Housing, Communities and Special 6.30 New. Spooky Files horror. Patrick O’Bryan, Sandy Dennis (1988, 18) (S)
producer is pushing her too hard Chase 9.00 The Chase 10.00 Who Local Government Questions 7.00 6.55—7.00pm Jamie Johnson FC
12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am 1.20am Night of the Demon
Wants to Be a Millionaire?: a classic House of Commons 9.30 Live Select
CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) Committees: coverage of select HHHH Scientist Dana Andrews
episode of the award-winning quiz
3.00 Return of the Saint 3.50 Movie committee proceedings 11.30 Live comes into conflict with a sinister
show presented by Chris Tarrant (AD)
News 4.00 Highway to Heaven
11.00 Bullseye: double bill Treasury Questions: queries to Rachel ITV Kids on ITV2 mystic in this superb chiller. (1957, PG) (S)
4.50—5.00am Movie News
12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Reeves, the chancellor of the exchequer, 3.25 Phantom Ship HH Creaky
ITV Kids shows also stream on ITVX
Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Sky 157 Millionaire? 1.00am The Crystal Maze: and her team of ministers 12.30pm mystery horror. Bela Lugosi (1935, U) (S)
Virgin 170 +1 Sky 257 hosted by Richard O’Brien 2.00 Live House of Commons 7.30 Live 6.00am Teen Titans Go! 6.30 Mr 4.45 The Eyes Short thriller.
The Chase 4.00 Who Wants to Be a House of Lords 10.00 Lords Questions Bean: the Animated Series 7.15 5.25—6.00am For the Love
FREEVIEW channels Millionaire? 5.00—6.00am Bullseye 10.45—6.00am House of Lords Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated of Ada Vintage TV sitcom. (S)
7.45 Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! 8.10 What’s
continued from overleaf Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 142 BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201 New Scooby-Doo? 8.35—9.00am Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Sky 145 Virgin 139 Sky 504 Virgin 605 Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445
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6.30am Celebrating Black Cinema
with Naomie Harris 7.30 As 5.45pm
True Lies HHHH 9.00-
11.00 Running Away HH 9.50 As 11.50pm 11.50 As 8pm 11.45pm Comedy Central j
Undemanding thriller. Holly Deveaux (2017) 2.00pm As 10pm 3.50 Bob Marley:
12.55pm Killer Ending HH Mystery One Love HH Clichéd but well ACTION COMEDY Arnold
thriller with some neat twists. Emmanuelle performed biopic. Kingsley Ben-Adir (2024, 12) Schwarzenegger stars as a
Vaugier (2018) 3.00 Disaster Zone: 5.45 The Book of Clarence HHH secret agent who always saves
Volcano in New York HH Daft Mischievous but muddled biblical
disaster movie. Costas Mandylor (2006) 5.00 satire. Review p31. LaKeith Stanfield (2023, 15)
the world in time to get home
Supercollider HH High-concept 8.00pm Ghostbusters: for dinner with his wife and
disaster thriller. Robin Dunne (2013, 15) Frozen Empire HHHH Hugely kid. There’s great support
7.05pm Lost Letter Mysteries: entertaining next chapter in the from Tom Arnold and a
Family Reunited TV drama starring franchise. Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon (2024, 12)
Eric Mabius and Kristin Booth. winning performance from
10.00 Don’t Tell Mom the
9.00 Tears of the Sun HH Babysitter’s Dead HH Amusing Jamie Lee Curtis. It’s wildly
A marine commander has to rescue comedy about a teen taking charge implausible and often
a doctor from civil war-torn Nigeria of her siblings. Simone Joy Jones (2024, 15) uncomfortably sexist but, on
in this action thriller. Bruce Willis (2003, 15) 11.50 The Radleys HHH Vampire a pure excitement level, James
11.30 Escobar HH Watchable parents struggle with their
enough biopic of the Colombian youngsters’ bloodlust in this likeable Cameron’s blockbuster is
drug lord, with an imposing Javier dark comedy. Damian Lewis (2024) unbeatable entertainment. AJ
Bardem in the title role. (2017, 15) 1.50am As 3.50pm 3.40 Freud’s (US 1994, violence, swearing, HD)
2.05am My Midwife is Murder Last Session HHH Convincingly
HH Secrets unravel in a thriller that played historical drama that imagines Mad Max 2 HHHH
sees a mum-to-be’s world shattered a deep chat between Sigmund Freud
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by a seemingly perfect midwife. Katie
Savoy (2018) 4.00—5.40am Her Son’s
and CS Lewis. Anthony Hopkins (2023, 12)
5.40 Zombie Town HH Amiable FILM Bram Stoker’s Dracula HHHH
Deadly Secret HH Predictably but patchy horror comedy based on OF THE 10.40pm-12.40am BBC1 ACTION ADVENTURE After
plotted TV movie. Olivia d’Abo (2018) an RL Stine story. Marlon Kazadi (2023, 12) DAY (starts 11.10pm in Wales; 11.25pm in N Ireland) z the low-budget nihilism of
Great Movies Freeview 34 Sky 321 Virgin 425 Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401 the original Mad Max, George
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legend is a supreme artistic achievement. Francis Ford this slick and exhilarating
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8.00am Police Ten 7 9.00 Bullet 8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00 poeticism of Bram Stoker’s novel, rather than the more as the charismatic road
for a Badman HHH Tough, lean The A-Team 10.00 MacGyver 11.00 exploitative bloodsucking elements. Winona Ryder is ethereal
western. Audie Murphy (1964, PG) 10.50 War Asteroid vs Earth H Enjoyably daft warrior, coming to the aid of
Machines 12 noon Wanted: Dead or sci-fi disaster thriller. Tia Carrere, Robert and enchanting as Mina Harker but Gary Oldman’s towering a peace-loving group being
Alive 1.00pm Battle of Rogue Davi (2014) 1.00pm Eagle’s Wing performance as the tired count who has overdosed on threatened by highway gangs
River HHH Entertaining B-western. HHH Intelligent western. Martin Sheen immortality holds centre stage, and burns itself into the that want their fuel. Miller
George Montgomery (1954, U) 2.30 Rage at (1978, PG) 3.00 Wild Horses HHH memory. ALAN JONES (US 1992, violence, swearing, a sex scene, nudity, HD)
Dawn HH Lethargic western. Randolph Fine western drama. Kenny Rogers, doesn’t take his foot off the
Scott (1955, U) 4.30 Wanted: Dead or Pam Dawber (1985, PG) 5.00 Star Trek
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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.

Alive 5.30 Wild West Chronicles 6.00pm MacGyver TV thriller. JOHN FERGUSON (Aus 1981, violence,
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6.00pm The Blitz on Hamburg 7.00 The A-Team TV adventure. swearing, a sex scene, nudity, HD)
The story of the 1943 bombing raids. 8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger Talking Pictures TV The sequence in which
7.10 Stormageddon HH projectionist Peter Sellers,
A super-computer goes rogue in
TV action drama with Chuck Norris.
9.00 The Power of One HHH DRAMA Originally known pianist Margaret Rutherford
Death Trench HHH
this low-budget eco-disaster movie. Stephen Dorff dons the boxing as The Bandit Priest, this TV and doorman Bernard Miles 11.25pm-1.15am
John Hennigan, Eve Mauro, Joseph Gatt (2015, 12)
9.00 The Hunter’s Prayer HHH
gloves in this solid period drama movie is based on the true relive the silent era’s glories Legend Xtra z
set in 1930s South Africa. (1991, 15)
Slick action thriller starring Sam 11.30 Assassination Games HH story of Father Bernard is a highlight. DP (UK 1957, BW) WARTIME HORROR A crack
Worthington as a junkie assassin Punchy thriller in which two killers Pagano, a Baltimore cleric Canadian tunneller is
with a conscience. Odeya Rush (2017, 15) reluctantly team up for a spot of whose fight against social Lorna Doone HH recruited to burrow into the
10.55 Contract to Kill H Action mayhem. Jean-Claude Van Damme (2011, 18)
injustice was sidetracked 4.10-5.55pm underground lab of a Nazi
nonsense with Steven Seagal taking 1.30am Odd Thomas HH Clunky
on Mexican drug cartels. (2016, 15) supernatural fantasy thriller. Anton when he was arrested for Talking Pictures TV y scientist in this familiar but
12.55am Supercollider HH Yelchin, Addison Timlin, Willem Dafoe (2013, 15) armed robbery. Ralph Waite fun horror. Rossif Sutherland
High-concept disaster thriller. Robin 3.25—5.10am Dracula — Prince of PERIOD DRAMA Yosemite
is shrewdly cast in the title (son of Donald) plays the
Dunne, Amy Bailey, Brendan Beiser (2013, 15) Darkness HHHH Tourists fall foul National Park stands in for
2.50 Cops Uncut: two editions of the dreaded count while travelling role, while Estelle Parsons lieutenant tackling zombie-
Exmoor in this engaging take
3.50—5.00am War Machines in Transylvania in this superior offers solid support. DAVID like German soldiers. Leo
Hammer horror. Christopher Lee (1965, 15) on RD Blackmore’s classic
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited) PARKINSON (US TVM 1981) Scherman’s brisk direction
Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324 Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149 novel, with Richard Greene as
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Christmas from the family of the local and gore. STEVE MORRISSEY
6.00am As 5pm 8.00 Malibu
Shark Attack H Freak tremors CRIME THRILLER Orson corrupt landlord. B-movie (Can 2017, violence, swearing)
8.00am The Least of These:
A Christmas Story HH Watchable unleash a group of ravenous sharks. Welles directs and stars in
comedy drama. Tayla Lynn (2018) 10.10 Peta Wilson (2009) 10.00 Andromeda this riveting drama, playing a
director Phil Karlson gives Antlers HHH
his movie a western spin with
The Christmas Cure HH Home is 11.00 Earthfall H A rogue planet
corrupt, corpulent cop whose 1.40-3.45am Film4 j
where the heart is in this sweet twists the Earth on its axis. Pressly Coker swashbuckling action. ADRIAN
romance. Brooke Nevin (2017) 12 noon Mr (2014) 1.00pm Mammoth HH involvement in a case on the TURNER (US 1951, edited for violence) HORROR Mixing the horror
Christmas HH Predictable romance. Daft B-movie comedy thriller in US/Mexico border could spell of An American Werewolf in

m Jumanji:
Sam Page (2017) 2.00pm Reunited at which a museum’s woolly mammoth Welcome to
doom for Charlton Heston’s London with a little Video
Christmas HH True-meaning-of- runs amok. Tom Skerritt (2007, 12) 3.00
Christmas tale. Nikki Deloach (2018) 4.00 Andromeda 4.00 Knight Rider 5.00 drug enforcement agent. the Jungle HHHH Nasty cannibalism, this stars
Deck the Heart HH A man must The 7 Adventures of Sinbad HH
Tacky update of the fantasy action
This is a complex and brilliant 6.35-9.00pm Film4 h Keri Russell as a teacher
host Christmas for his whole family. work, and proof once again who discovers that the father
6.00pm Fixing Up Christmas adventure. Patrick Muldoon (2010) ADVENTURE More than a
of Welles’s real cinematic of one of her students is
HH Winter heart-warmer. 7.00pm Andromeda TV sci-fi match for the 1995 film with
Natalie Dreyfuss, Marshall Williams (2021) series starring Kevin Sorbo. genius. TONY SLOMAN Robin Williams, this roaring transforming into a ravenous,
8.00 Switched for Christmas 8.00 Knight Rider TV drama. (US 1958, edited for violence, BW) flesh-eating wendigo. Director
HH Twin sisters swap places. (2017) 9.00 Bad Boys HHH Violent but return to the world of
Jumanji adds some clever Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart,
10.00 A Date by Christmas Eve strongly played prison drama with The Smallest Show on Out of the Furnace) summons
HH An app designer discovers she Sean Penn as a troubled teen. (1983, 18)
Earth HHHH contemporary twists. The
has magical powers. Vanessa Lengies (2019) 11.25 Death Trench HHH just enough shadowy dread
story follows four teenagers
12 midnight 3 Holiday Tails HH Well-mounted First World War 3.10-4.50pm Film4 y as they are sucked into the
for this to pass monster
A canine trio try to get their owner horror about a group of soldiers muster. AJ (US 2021, violence,
back with her ex. Julie Gonzalo (2011) who discover Nazi secrets in an COMEDY Flying the flag for game and given incongruous
enemy bunker. Review, right. (2017, 18) swearing, discriminatory language, HD)
2.00am Highway to Heaven fleapits everywhere, this avatars, played by Dwayne
3.00—5.00am A Christmas to 1.15—3.00am Sniper: Special Ops charming movie stars Bill Johnson, Karen Gillan, Jack
Savour HH Watchable winter HH Listless action movie starring Films to stream from p30
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among Robb Stark’s captives. (AD) guards a telephone line. boy is discovered in a forest.
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AJ continues his downward spiral Neville, Roy Keane, Jamie 8.20 The Good Life Tom Series 6. The president of the
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Neville, Roy Keane, Jamie 10.00 New. Last King of the 9.00 New series. The Boy That
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Carragher and Ian Wright visit 10.00 Bottom The bachelors
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10.00 Sweetpea 3/6. Rhiannon and goes after her next target, 10.40 Inside No 9 A look at the in Morocco, a couple spot a boy in
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Trek: the Next Generation Merlin: Arthur is determined to win Dwayne starts to worry about his dad’s 6.00pm How Do They Do It? 7.00
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Eight editions of the fly-on-the- merit, so Merlin and Gwen help him (AD) 9.00 Last Week Tonight with John New. Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with
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Bernard, Stubbs and William relationship continues to evolve Cops (AD) 8.00 Stop, Search, Seize 9.00 8.35 Most Ridiculous: Fashion Crimes Wings of War 8.00 Greatest Events of
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exploration of the fjords along 6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 7.00
Reload 6.15 Europa League Reload
6.00pm The Vietnam War League Cup Highlights 2.30 Scottish 6.30 Premier League Review (AD)
Patagonia’s Pacific coast. (AD) Premiership Round-Up 2.45 Scottish Highlights 10.00 The Football Show
Richard Nixon wins the presidency, 7.30 MotoGP (AD) 11.45 Sport in Focus
7.00 Monkey Life Orangutan Kai Premiership Highlights 3.15 League One 12 noon Soccerbox 1.00pm Highlights (AD) 12 noon Premier League Review
leading to promises of law and Highlights 3.30 Championship Highlights 5.00 Best Goals (AD) 6.00 Netbusters
order at home and peace overseas. struggles to cope without his mother. (AD) 1.00pm Champions League Goals
4.30 German Football 5.30 6.30 Premier League 100 7.00 Review Reload 1.15 Europa League Reload
7.30 Woolly monkey Enzo meets Championship Highlights 6.00 Beneath 8.00 Netbusters 8.30 Soccerbox 9.00
7.00 Edge of the Earth his new “baby sister”. 1.30 Champions League: Stories of the
Three whitewater kayakers cross the Surface 6.30 League Cup Highlights Review 10.00 Netbusters 10.30 Icons Finals (AD) 3.00 Champions League
8.00 Whale with Steve 7.30 LIVE League Cup Football (AD) 11.00 Premier League Years (AD) Magazine 3.30 Serie A: Full Impact
Ecuador’s Llanganates National 1.00am Premier League Retro 3.00
Park via the Chalupas River. (AD) Backshall The naturalist freedives Brentford v Sheffield Wednesday, 4.00 Premiership Rugby Union 8.00
the fourth-round tie at Gtech Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Best Goals The Rugby Review (AD) 8.45 MotoGP
with whales and dolphins. (AD) (AD) 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)

TUESDAY
8.05 Spector How Phil Spector Community Stadium (kick-off 8.00). Rewind 9.00 Badminton (AD) 9.15
gained a sinister reputation as his 9.00 Gladiators A look at life in 10.30 Scottish Premiership Round-Up Premier League Reload 9.30 The
Muddy Roots of Football 10.00 Premier
success brought paranoia. (AD) tropical forests, featuring a turf war
between jaguars and caimans. (AD)
10.45 Scottish Premiership Highlights
11.00 Beneath the Surface 11.30
Sky Cricket League Netbusters 10.30 NBA Action
9.00 Hijacked: Flight 73 The Championship Highlights 12 midnight Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 EE 422/HD 442 11.00 LIVE NBA Minnesota
hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in 10.00 Patagonia As 6pm. League Cup Highlights 12.30am Timberwolves v Dallas Mavericks,
1986, during which an airline 6.00am Nat Sciver Masterclass 6.10
11.00 Africa’s Claws and Jaws Classic League Cup 2.30 EFL Greatest the Western Conference match
Women’s Big Bash League Highlights
employee risked his life. (AD) The weapons at the disposal of Games (AD) 4.00 Championship from Target Centre (tip-off 11.30);
Review (AD) 5.00 Best Goals (AD) 7.05 LIVE Women’s Big Bash
11.00 Williams and Mansell: Africa’s predators, who never know League Cricket Sydney Sixers v 2.00am Golden State Warriors v
5.30—6.00am EFL Trophy Football (AD) New Orleans Pelicans from
Red Five The rise of Nigel Mansell where the next meal will come from, Adelaide Strikers, the T20 match
and the Williams F1 racing team but must be ready to find it. (AD) from North Sydney Oval. Chase Centre (tip-off 2.00).
as they sought to win the Formula Sky Golf 4.30 Inside the NBA

Television
12 midnight Monkeys and More: 10.25 Ace: in the Making 11.40 Women’s
Big Bash League Highlights 11.50 Best 5.30—6.00am NBA Originals
One Drivers’ Championship. (AD) Our Closest Relatives 1.00am Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 EE 423/HD 443
Waterworld Africa 2.00 as 8pm of the Women’s World T20 (AD)
12.50am Stasi FC 2.40 Endangered
(AD) 4.30 Premier League Legends: 3.00 Gladiators (AD) 4.00 Hope
6.00am Best of the Open Zone (AD)
7.00 The Best of the Hero Masterclass
12.15pm Best of the Women’s World
Cup (AD) 1.00 Women’s Big Bash
TNT Sports 3
Robert Pirès (AD) 5.00—6.00am for Wildlife 5.00—6.00am Dogs (AD) 7.30 Best of the Shot Centre (AD) League Highlights 2.00 Women’s Big Sky 417 Virgin 529 EE 410/HD 432
Discovering: Helen Mirren (AD) with Extraordinary Jobs (AD) 8.00 School of Golf (AD) 9.00 European Bash League Cricket 5.20 Women’s
Tour Golf 9.30 PGA Tour Golf 10.30 6.00am West Indies v England: Cricket
Sky Documentaries Sky 121 (122 Scotland) Sky Nature Sky 124 (125 Scotland) Big Bash League Highlights 5.30 Best
Classics (AD) 8.00 Premiership Women’s
Golf Academy (AD) 11.30 Fitness Show
Virgin 188 EE 352/HD 367 Virgin 189 EE 354/HD 369 (AD) 12 noon Short Game School (AD)
of the Women’s World T20 (AD)
Rugby Union 9.00 Premiership Rugby
6.00 Women’s Big Bash League
12.30pm Best of the Open Zone (AD) Union 2.00pm The Rugby Review (AD)
Nat Geographic Nat Geo Wild 1.30 European Tour Golf 2.00 PGA
Highlights 10.00 Test Highlights 11.00
Women’s Big Bash League Highlights 2.45 Fishing (AD) 3.45 Sign Up: into
Tour Golf 3.00 The Best of the Hero Football 4.30 Europa League Reload
8.00am Food Factory 9.00 Air Crash 8.00am Yukon Vet 9.00 Fish Tank 12 midnight Best of the Women’s World 4.45 MotoGP 7.00 Classic Premier
Masterclass (AD) 3.30 Best of the Shot T20 (AD) 1.00am The Hundred 4.45 Best
Investigation: Special Report 10.00 Kings 10.00 Alaska’s Grizzly Gauntlet Centre (AD) 4.00 The Best of the Hero League (AD) 8.30 Australian Football
Nazi Megastructures 11.00 Airport 11.00 Animals Gone Wild 12 noon The of the Women’s World Cup (AD) 5.00 Best 9.00 Test Cricket Highlights (AD) 11.00
Masterclass (AD) 4.30 Best of the Shot of the Women’s World T20 5.15—6.00am
Security: Colombia 12 noon Car SOS (AD) Incredible Dr Pol 1.00pm Yukon Vet Centre (AD) 5.00 School of Golf (AD) Triathlon (AD) 12 midnight Fight Week
1.00pm Inside Sydney Airport (AD) 2.00 2.00 Africa’s Wild Side 4.00 Secrets Best of the Women’s World Cup 12.30am UFC: the Ultimate Fighter
6.00 How the Ryder Cup Was Won
Air Crash Investigation 3.00 Draining of the Zoo: Tampa 5.00 Monster Fish (AD) 9.00 European Tour Golf 9.30 3.30 UFC Connected 4.00 UFC Fight
the North Sea: Submarines at War (AD)
4.00 Hitler’s Last Stand 5.00 Car SOS
6.00pm Snakes in the City: the
snake-catching team tackles a black
PGA Tour Golf 10.30 Fitness Show (AD)
11.00 Short Game School (AD) 11.30
Sky Sports + Flashback (AD) 5.00 Fight Week
5.30—6.00am Serie A: Full Impact (AD)
6.00pm World War II: Secrets from mamba 7.00 Yukon Vet: Dr Oakley and European Tour Golf 12 midnight Sky 412 Virgin 518/HD 508 EE 427/HD 447
Above: the untold story of the Battle the team track a tapir in the Costa PGA Tour Golf 1.00am Golf Academy
for Poland (AD) 7.00 Air Crash Rican rainforest 8.00 Extraordinary (AD) 2.00 Best of the Open Zone (AD) 6.00am LIVE Tennis Continued
WTA and ATP Tour coverage.
TNT Sports 4
Investigation 8.00 World War II: the Australia: double bill. How Australia’s 3.00 The Best of the Hero Masterclass
Apocalypse 10.00 Hitler the Junkie: creatures survive in diverse habitats, (AD) 3.30 Best of the Shot Centre 2.30pm LIVE ATP Tennis Day two Sky 421 Virgin 530 EE 411/HD 434
an exposé of the medications Adolf then high stakes battles between (AD) 4.00 School of Golf (AD) of the Paris Masters at Accor Arena. 6.00am NBA Classic 10.00 NBA
Hitler was taking 11.00 Air Crash predator and prey on the coast 10.00 5.00—6.00am Golf Academy (AD) 7.00 Sky Sports News Originals 11.00 Italian Football 1.00pm
Investigation: double bill (AD) Mexico Untamed: the wildlife of Mexico’s 7.30 German Football Major League Baseball 3.30 NBA
1.00am Ultimate Airport Dubai coast, rainforests and deserts 11.00 5.00 Major League Baseball 7.30
2.00 Lords of War 2.30 Money Snakes in the City: an unidentified Sky NFL 7.35 LIVE League Cup Football
Southampton v Stoke City at St
NBA 9.00 Major League Baseball
Meltdown 3.20 Food Factory 4.10 snake terrorizes a school 12 midnight 11.30 Champions League Magazine
Trials of the Wild 4.35—5.00am When Sharks Attack 2.00am Yukon Sky 408 Virgin 517/HD 507 EE 426/HD 446 Mary’s Stadium (kick-off 7.45). 12 midnight—6.00am Australian Football
Secrets of the Zoo: Keeper Tales Vet 3.00 Secrets of the Zoo: Tampa 6.00am Highlights 7.00 Weekly 10.30 LIVE WTA Tennis The
Nat Geographic Sky 129 (130 Scotland) 4.00—5.00am Yukon Vet Review 8.00 Highlights 10.00 Weekly Merida Open, day two at Yucatan
Virgin 183 +1 Sky 229 (230 Scot) Virgin 383 Nat Geo Wild Sky 165 Virgin 182 Review 11.00 Highlights 12 noon Good Country Club in Merida, Mexico. Premier Sports
Morning Football 2.00pm Bitesize 4.00—6.00am LIVE Tennis
3.00 Highlights 3.30 Bitesize 4.00 4.55—7.45pm LIVE German
Sky History Animal Planet Weekly Review 5.00 Bitesize
Coverage from the WTA and ATP
Tours, including the ATP Paris Football RB Leipzig v FC St Pauli
6.00am American Pickers 8.00 The 8.00am Extinct or Alive 9.00 How Do 6.00 Pro-Football Talk 8.00 Highlights Masters, WTA Hong Kong Open and in the German Cup (kick-off 5.00).
UnXplained with William Shatner 10.00 Animals Do That? 10.00 My Cat from 9.00 Kansas City Chiefs: the Franchise WTA Jiujiang Open. Coverage 11.30—2.30am LIVE NHL
Swamp People: Serpent Invasion 12 noon Hell (AD) 11.00 Lone Star Law 12 noon 9.30 Bitesize 10.00 Fantasy 11.00 Washington Capitals v New York
The Insiders 12 midnight Highlights continues until 12.30pm.
Secrets of Great British Castles 2.00pm Tanked 1.00pm Pit Bulls and Parolees
1.00am Weekly Review 2.00 Rangers (face-off 11.30).
Storage Wars 4.00 Pawn Stars 2.00 Guardians of Rescue 3.00 Growing 2.00—5.00 LIVE NHL
6.00pm American Pickers 7.00 Up 4.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet Pro-Football Talk 4.00 Highlights
5.00—6.00am Bitesize (AD) Eurosport 1 San Jose Sharks v Los Angeles
Forged in Fire 8.00 New. American 6.00pm Extinct or Alive: Forrest combs Kings (face-off 2.00).
Pickers: Robbie and Jersey get the Florida Everglades for a black Sky 413 Virgin 521 EE 412
exclusive access to a former race car panther 7.00 Amanda to the Rescue: Sky Tennis 6.00am Cyclo-Cross 7.00 Snooker
driver’s stockpile 9.00 New. Field of
Vampires: a plot in Poland containing
Amanda goes on a road trip to rescue a
blind boxer dog 8.00 Crikey! It’s the Sky 407 Virgin 537/HD 520 EE 425/HD 445
9.00 Freestyle Skiing: from Switzerland
10.00 LIVE Tour de France The
Eurosport 2
30 “deviant burials” 10.00 New. Great Irwins 10.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier:
6.00am LIVE Tennis WTA and route for the 2025 race is revealed. Sky 414 Virgin 522 EE 413
Escapes with Morgan Freeman: a daring Jane and Charlotte protect their herd
jailbreak orchestrated by Quawntay from bears (AD) 11.00 Swimming with ATP Tour action, including the ATP 12 noon Cyclo-Cross 1.00pm Snooker 6.00am British Superbikes 8.00 Alpine
Adams 11.00 Greatest Prison Escapes Monsters with Steve Backshall Paris Masters, WTA Hong Kong 3.00 Alpine Skiing 4.00 Tour de Skiing 9.00 Cyclo-Cross 10.00 Triathlon
with Billy Hayes 12 midnight Storage 12 midnight Rugged Justice Open and WTA Jiujiang Open. France 5.00 Trail Running 6.00 Motor 11.00 World Superbikes 1.00pm Freestyle
Racing 7.00 Cardiff Half Marathon Skiing 2.00 Motor Racing 4.00 Snooker
Wars 2.00am Curse of Skinwalker 1.00am Alaska: the Last Frontier (AD) 2.30pm LIVE ATP Tennis Day two 7.30 Climbing 8.00 Tour de France 6.00 Tour de France 7.00 British
Ranch 3.00 American Pickers 2.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet of the Paris Masters at Accor Arena.
4.00—6.00am Pawn Stars 4.00—5.00am Extinct or Alive 9.00 World Superbikes 11.00 Tour de Superbikes 9.00 Snooker 11.00 Motor
7.00pm—6.00am LIVE Tennis France 12 midnight Snooker 2.00am Racing 1.00am Ski Jumping 2.00 Tour
Sky History Sky 123 (124 Scotland) Virgin 131 Animal Planet Sky 162 (175 NI) Virgin 178 Coverage from the WTA and ATP Motor Racing 3.00 Ski Jumping 4.00 de France 3.00 World Superbikes
EE 353/HD 368 +1 Sky 223 (224 Scot) Virgin 331 +1 Sky 262 (275 NI) Virgin 378 Tours. Continues until 12.30pm. Archery 5.00—6.00am Triathlon 5.00—6.00am Tour de France

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Television WEDNESDAY

UNDER PRESSURE
Welsh Guards in
Helmand in 2009
keep watch for
Taliban insurgents

DOCUMENTARY were stationed in the region in 2009 and fought in is unforgettably harrowing.
what would become known as the British Army’s Their fight didn’t end after returning home.
Helmand: Tour of Duty bloodiest summer in half a century, tell their stories. Struggles with PTSD, breakdowns and stories of
9.00pm BBC2 Catch up via iPlayer Their accounts of the comrades they lost and lives forever changed are recalled with palpable
This documentary doesn’t delve into the politics, the injuries they sustained are hypnotic and hurt. Given that the Taliban regained control of
controversies and whys and wherefores of the disturbing. Several say they haven’t spoken about Afghanistan in 2021, the question left lingering is
war in Afghanistan. Instead, a decade on from the Helmand before, and likely won’t again. One is whether the sacrifice was in vain. As platoon
withdrawal of British troops from Helmand guardsman James Barber, whose recollection of sergeant Steve Peters asks: “What was it all for?”
Province, ten soldiers from the Welsh Guards, who almost drowning when a troop carrier overturned FRANCES TAYLOR See feature: page 24

FINANCE PROPERTY ART HISTORY

Politics Live: the Budget Location, Location, Portrait Artist of Witches: Truth
12.30pm BBC2 Catch up via iPlayer Location/Grand Designs the Year behind the Trials
There’s more at play today than the 8pm, 9pm C4 Catch up: C4 streaming 8.00pm Sky Arts Catch up via Now 8.00pm National Geographic
Government’s spending plans, for Grand Designs gives us a rather The series about capturing character Catch up via Disney+
when Rachel Reeves delivers the first special revisit. Kevin McCloud produces a lively, moving instalment. Limber up for tomorrow’s
budget for Keir Starmer’s Labour, rewinds the clock a quarter of a Although the rule book is frequently NEW supernatural shenanigans
she’ll also be trying to reset the century to visit Tim and Jules and torn to shreds, there are truisms that SERIES with a spooky trip back in
agenda following a difficult couple of their Newhaven build, which featured prevail. Judge Tai-Shan Schierenberg time to Halloween circa
months. First, there were the summer in the first ever episode. There’s a contends that all great portraiture is 1590. Just don’t expect pointy hats or
riots, then came Freebiegate, which reminder of their project — the prefab about making connections, and there broomsticks. This atmospheric series
was quickly followed by the exit of home that arrived on the back of a are some fitting examples tonight. combines cinematic re-creations with
Sue Gray — as far as honeymoon lorry — and of the design, time and Exuberant comedian Rosie Jones testimony from historical experts to
periods go, it’s been torrid. financial constraints they faced. wants to see the opposite of the thrillingly recount six of the world’s
The hope now will be that the Some things never change… Mona Lisa in depictions of her, while worst witch trials — starting in North
Chancellor can better outline Labour’s When Kevin finds them still living in dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson says, Berwick in the 16th century.
mission amid accusations of it being, the house today, will they have kept with a twinkle in his eye, “I expect When storms threaten to sink ships
up until this point at least, ill-defined. the sauna-style bathroom, bright them to be very flattering.” carrying King James VI of Scotland,
After the speech, Jo Coburn and her green walls and the gold leaf kitchen? The quiet hum of artists beavering blame is pinned on so-called witches
guests will no doubt give their verdict Before that at 8pm in Location, away throws up some masterful work. casting Satanic spells. This sparks the
on whether they feel manifesto Location, Location, Kirstie and Phil Rosie is so taken aback on seeing her King’s mission to hunt down, torture
pledges have been broken, especially are in Cambridgeshire helping two three portraits that she says she could and eliminate them. Local women
on the issue of National Insurance couples who are both keen to move cry. “Do,” says Stephen Mangan. “It’s must fight for their lives or be burnt
contributions. DAVID BROWN — yet stay close to home. FT really good for telly.” MARK BRAXTON at the stake. MICHAEL HOGAN

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 WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER
ARTS
Thomas Hardy Season ALSO ON
9.00pm BBC4 Catch up via iPlayer DRIVEN
Prince William
TODAY
If ever there was a writer to make us is on a mission
feel more appreciative of our lot, it’s
Thomas Hardy. In his books, fate
usually acts with a cruel hand, the
impression being that Hardy is never
happier than when putting characters
through misery. A prime example is
Tess Durbeyfield, a figure defined by
the awful things that happen to her,
though the 2008 version of Tess of
the D’Urbervilles, introduced by its
star Gemma Arterton at 10pm, could
have done with being a little less lush.
It’s preceded at 9pm by a 1978 profile
of the writer by The Lively Arts and a
reading of Hardy’s poems (9.55pm),
while Jude with Christopher Eccleston
airs tomorrow from 9pm. DB
The Repair Shop
DOCUMENTARY 8.00pm BBC1

WEDNESDAY
National Parks DOCUMENTARY
In a look-back at childhood items,
experts Julie Tatchell and
from Above Prince William: We Can End Homelessness Amanda Middleditch (above)
9pm More4 Catch up: C4 streaming restore Juliet King-Smith’s toy
9.00pm ITV1 Catch up via ITVX
The stunning wilds of Iceland are the rabbit, which used to sit in the
destination in the latest episode of this Anyone doubting the purpose of the royal family in the modern office of her author father Dick.
exploratory series starring some of world could have their theories challenged in this two-part
the world’s greatest national parks. documentary from Bafta-winner Leo Burley (The Real Mo Farah). Shop Smart, Save Money
As the camera soars over vast fields Concluding tomorrow, it follows the first 12 months of Prince 7.00pm Channel 5
William’s five-year Homewards programme targeting the Gaby Roslin and Ortis Deley put

Television
of lava flow, we touch down in
Vatnajokull National Park, an homelessness that’s becoming an epidemic across Britain. He exercise bikes through their paces
otherworldly glacial environment in tackles the issue of privilege early on and explains his mother’s with the help of fitness fanatics.
which scientists are planning for enduring influence on his social conscience.
future missions to Mars. Meanwhile, William also visits six locations across the UK where communities The Chelsea Detective
on the black sandy beaches of are collaborating to find solutions to the desperate situations in 8.00pm U&Drama
Snæfellsjokull National Park, we join which too many find themselves, while footballer Fara Williams and The detectives investigate the
a robust team of local fishermen as presenter Gail Porter are among the famous faces who discuss their stabbing of the young owner of a
they test their strength on some own first-hand experiences. GABRIEL TATE fruit and vegetable delivery firm.
legendary lifting stones dating back Neil Ansell’s viewpoint: page 11
to the 14th century. PAUL WHITELAW

QUIZ
LIVE SPORT
DRAMA Never Mind the
Football:
League Cup
Tottenham Hotspur v
Manchester City
7pm (k/o 8.15pm) Sky Sports
Main Event
Pep Guardiola’s men take on
the dangerous and
unpredictable Spurs.
SHUTTERSTOCK; ANDREW PARSONS/KENSINGTON PALACE/ITV

Baseball:
World Series
12 midnight TNT Sports 1
It’s game five. The sport’s
grandest prize is up for grabs.

Tennis: Paris Masters

12.30pm Sky Sports ME/Tennis
More indoor action from France.

GIVE US SPORT HIGHLIGHTS

A CLUE page 29
John (David
Mitchell) is FILM REVIEWS page 85
stumped...
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DAYTIME BBC1 1 BBC2 2

BBC1 Ludwig 9.00pm Helmand: Tour

6.00am Breakfast Roger Johnson, Nina Warhurst. (S) (HD) Living a lie: will of Duty 9.00pm
9.30 Morning Live Weekday magazine show, hosted John finally have to Sergeant Steven
by Michelle Ackerley and Gethin Jones. (S) (HD) tell his colleagues Peters on patrol
10.45 Crimewatch Caught A look at how police at the station during the brutal
dismantled an organised crime group that was using who he really is? Afghan conflict
trafficked women in brothels across Glasgow. (S) (HD)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer Featuring properties
in Norfolk, Swansea and Liverpool. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt Christina Trevanion hosts from
Shepton Mallet in Somerset. Rptd Thu 6.30am BBC2 (S) (AD) (HD) 5.15pm Pointless 5.15pm Flog It!
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) Quiz in which contestants attempt to give the least James Lewis and Elizabeth Talbot value antiques
2.00 Doctors Graham uses his newfound power obvious correct answers to questions. Alexander at Milestones Museum in Basingstoke. (R) (S) (HD)
against a fellow staff member, while Ruhma suspects Armstrong and Andi Oliver present. (R) (S) (HD)
a young couple of concealing a pregnancy. (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
2.30 Expert Witness Analysts search for evidence
6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD) Nick Pickard, Sian Lloyd, Ellie White and Jordan
Banjo tackle more trivia-based challenges. (S) (HD)
after a body is found inside a wheelie bin in a lake. (S) (HD) 6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD)
3.00 Escape to the Country A Hertfordshire couple 7.00 The One Show 6.30 Strictly It Takes Two
search for a home in High Weald. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Janette Manrara presents more backstage gossip
Presented by Clara Amfo and Vernon Kay. (S) (HD)
3.45 Garden Rescue Charlie Dimmock and Flo Headlam and behind-the-scenes action from Strictly. (S) (HD)
bring a taste of Greece to the West Midlands to remind 7.30 EastEnders
Suki prepares for the worst, Kojo helps a friend in 7.00 Lift: the Secret Genius of Modern Life
the owners of their Crete honeymoon. (R) (S) (HD)
need, and Kat struggles in the wake of recent events. 6/6 Series 2. Lifts transport the equivalent of the
4.30—5.15 The Bidding Room Items include a planet’s population every three days, but how do
pendant light, some napkin clips, a spinning wheel Suki Kaur Panesar Balvinder Sopal Martin Fowler James Bye
Kojo Asare Dayo Koleosho Sonia Fowler Natalie Cassidy they prevent us from plummeting to the ground?
and an exercise bike. Repeated tomorrow 7.15am BBC2 (S) (HD) Kat Mitchell Jessie Wallace Penny Branning Kitty Castledine Hannah Fry ventures into a 246m-high elevator
Chelsea Fox Zaraah Abrahams Nish Panesar Navin Chowdhry shaft to test everything from the brakes to her own
BBC2 Howie Danes Delroy Atkinson Callum Highway Tony Clay
Television WEDNESDAY

Junior Knight Micah Balfour Cindy Beale Michelle Collins fear of heights. She also discovers how 19th-century
6.30am Escape to the Country Hunting for a home
Honey Mitchell Emma Barton Sharon Watts Letitia Dean coalmines helped to make lifts safer and learns how
in Perth and Kinross. Shown Monday 3pm BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD) Jay Brown Jamie Borthwick Kim Fox Tameka Empson a PR stunt in the 1850s altered the modern skyline.
7.15 The Bidding Room Shown Tuesday 4.30pm BBC1 (S) (HD) Harvey Monroe Ross Boatman Zack Hudson James Farrar Series producer Eileen Inkson
8.00—9.00 Sign Zone Amazing Hotels: Life beyond Freddie Slater Bobby Brazier Billy Mitchell Perry Fenwick Executive producer Paul Overton (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
Barney Mitchell Lewis Bridgeman Reiss Colwell Jonny Freeman
the Lobby 7/7. Rob Rinder and Monica Galetti join the team
at Stanglwirt Hotel in Austria. Shown last Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)
Linda Carter Kellie Bright Gina Knight Francesca Henry 8.00 Digging for Britain
Writer Richard Davidson More cast Thursday (S) (AD) (HD) Alice Roberts explores the greatest archaeological
9.00 BBC News (S) (HD)
8.00 The Repair Shop discoveries of 2018, including a preserved prehistoric
11.15 Politics Live Featuring coverage and analysis village at the Black Loch of Myrton in Dumfries and
of Prime Minister’s Questions at Westminster. (S) (HD) A look back at the restoration of four items relating
to childhood. Ceramics conservator Kirsten Ramsay Galloway. She also follows archaeologists unearthing
12.30pm Politics Live: the Budget Jo Coburn a previously undiscovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery in
and woodwork expert Will Kirk join forces to tackle
4 presents live coverage of Chancellor Rachel
Reeves’s first Budget. See page 78. (S) (HD) Bunty’s miniature house that was originally part of a
model village. Kirsten also teams up with horologist
Lincolnshire, and the hunt for a lost Second World
War reconnaissance Spitfire in Norway. A box set
3.00 Impossible Quiz with Rick Edwards. (R) (S) (HD) Steve Fletcher to repair Loona’s Indian dancing doll, of previous episodes is available on iPlayer.
3.45 The Wonder of Animals Chris Packham finds while cobbler Dean Westmoreland mends a pair Director Karen Kirk (R) (S) (HD)
out what is beneath a snake’s skin. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) of suede shoes that evoke fond memories for Bev. 9.00 Helmand: Tour of Duty
4Acombat
4.15—5.15 This Farming Life In Northumberland Julie Tatchell and Amanda Middleditch revive Juliet’s decade on from the withdrawal of British
National Park, Emma’s six-month-old puppy Grey is toy rabbit, which used to sit in the office of her troops from Afghanistan, ten soldiers
introduced to sheep for the first time. (R) (S) (HD) father, the prolific children’s author Dick King-Smith. from the Welsh Guards who were deployed to the
A box set of previous episodes is on iPlayer. front line in Helmand Province in 2009 share their
ITV1 Directors Ben Borland and Ingo Nyakairu
raw, unfiltered stories in this documentary. During
6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD) Series producer Matt Baker (S) (AD) (HD)
their six-month tour of duty, their regiment faced
9.00 Lorraine Showbiz and style tips. (S) (HD) 9.00 Ludwig unprecedented casualties, losing a man at almost
10.00 This Morning Lifestyle advice, competitions
and star interviews. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD) 46/6. John considers whether to come clean
and disclose his true identity to the team.
every rank, while others suffered life-changing
injuries. Now, for the first time, the soldiers, their
12.15pm ITV News Special: the Chancellor’s Budget The whole series is on iPlayer. See page 79. wives and their mothers reflect on the realities of
Tom Bradby presents coverage of Chancellor Rachel John “Ludwig” Taylor David Mitchell Henry Betts-Taylor Dylan Hughes a life at war and life back at home. See page 78.
Reeves’s first Budget. (S) (HD) Followed by Weather (S) (HD) Lucy Betts-Taylor Anna Maxwell Martin Chief Constable Ziegler Ralph Ineson Director Hannah Lowes; Executive producers Gwenllian Hughes
DI Russell Carter Dipo Ola DCS Carol Shaw Dorothy Atkinson and Hamish Fergusson (S) (AD) (HD)
1.50 Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) Holly Pinder Sophie Willan Adam Josh Bolt
2.00 Alan Carr’s Epic Game Show The comedian DC Simon Evans Gerran Howell James Taylor David Mitchell See feature: page 24
hosts an updated version of Name That Tune, with DS Alice Finch Izuka Hoyle Police officer Raychel Addo
Writer Mark Brotherhood; Producer Georgie Fallon
10.20 Saving Lives at Sea A family are trapped
four contestants trying to identify songs. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Director Robert McKillop (S) (AD) (HD) in their car on a causeway. (Revised rpt) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00—4.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars Ben Smart TV: page 27
Shephard hosts, as Fern Britton, Iain Stirling and 10.30 Newsnight With Victoria Derbyshire. (S) (HD)
Mark-Francis Vandelli take on the supersized arcade 10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 11.00 Weather (S) (HD)
machine. (R) (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather (S) 10.40 Ghostbusters HHH 11.05 Unspun World with John Simpson
Channel 4
5.45am Countdown With Neil Delamere. (R) (S) (HD)
q Supernatural comedy. With New York under
attack from over a thousand ghosts, paranormal
The BBC’s world affairs editor and his guests reflect
on the week’s biggest global news stories. (S) (HD)
researcher Abby Yates assembles a fearless band
6.25 Cheers Three episodes of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD) of women for an epic battle to save their city. 11.35 A House through Time: Two Cities
7.45 The King of Queens Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) On iPlayer for 30 days. Film of the Day: page 85. at War
9.10 Frasier Four episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Abby Yates Melissa McCarthy Phyllis Adler Elizabeth Perkins 2/4 Series 5. In Berlin, an SS officer arrives in the
Erin Gilbert Kristen Wiig Ed Mulgrave Ed Begley Jr building, while the outbreak of war throws the lives
11.05 Come Dine with Me: the Professionals Jillian Holtzmann Kate McKinnon Rowan North Neil Casey
Professional chefs from Essex compete with vegan Patty Tolan Leslie Jones Rebecca Gorin Sigourney Weaver of two London residents into turmoil. Continues
menus. (R) (S) (HD) 12.05pm News (S) (HD) Harold Filmore Charles Dance Cabbie Dan Aykroyd tomorrow 9pm. The whole series is on iPlayer.
Hawkins Michael Kenneth Williams Desk clerk Annie Potts Shown last Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)
12.10 Renovation Nation Uncovering some potentially Agent Rorke Matt Walsh Uncle Bill Ernie Hudson
pricey problems in a Kent bedroom. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 12.35—3.35am Sign Zone 12.35 Al Pacino: Once upon
Kevin Chris Hemsworth Martin Heiss Bill Murray a Time in Hollywood The Oscar-winning actor looks back
1.10 Find It, Fix It, Flog It From High Wycombe, a Mayor Bradley Andy Garcia Famous rock star Ozzy Osbourne on his eventful life and career. Shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD)
town famed for furniture production. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Director Paul Feig (2016, 12) (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 1.35 Rick Stein’s Food Stories 4/6. The chef searches for
2.10 Countdown With guest Neil Delamere. (S) (HD) 12.30am Ambulance 2/6 Series 13. The service is placed the finest food in Lincolnshire and Suffolk. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
under pressure as crews are diverted to a fire. Narrated by 2.35 Pets Saving Lives: Our Lives Documentary looking
3.00 A Place in the Sun Two B&B owners are looking Christopher Eccleston. More tomorrow 9pm. A box set of at the crucial work of Search and Rescue Dog Association,
for a home away from home in Gran Canaria. (R) (S) (HD) previous episodes is on iPlayer. Shown last Thursday (S) (HD) Ireland North. Shown last Friday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00—5.00 The Great House Giveaway A couple 1.30 Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 3.05 Nadiya’s Cook Once, Eat Twice 5/6. Nadiya Hussain
1.35—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD) makes lamb sloppy joes with a mince sauce. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
team up with a stranger to buy a house for renovation
in the coastal town of Porthmadog, Gwynedd. (R) (S) (HD) BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101 BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102
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2.30pm Politics Scotland
Prince William: Grand Designs Tess of the 3.15—3.45 Expert Witness
We Can End 9.00pm Kevin D’Urbervilles 10.40 Sportscene:
Homelessness catches up with 10.15pm Hardy Premiership Highlights:
the latest action 11.55
9.00pm A new Jules and Tim to times: Gemma Debate Night: topical
project aimed at mark the show’s Arterton stars in debate on the big issues
tackling the crisis 25th anniversary the adaptation affecting Scotland and
beyond 12.55am
Ambulance 1.55 Weather
for the Week Ahead
2.00—6.00 BBC News

BBC
4.00pm Deal or No Deal 5.00pm Four in a Bed 7.00pm Frozen Planet SCOTLAND
Stephen Mulhern hosts as Gemma tries to open Jav and Sara host the third visit of the week in 7/7. On Thin Ice. David Attenborough 7.00pm The Seven 7.30
the 22 red boxes in the right order, taking on the Seaburn, Sunderland, where their guests are investigates what rising temperatures Open All Mics: updates
treated to an afternoon of glass blowing. will mean for the polar regions, and how on this evening’s football
infamous Banker for a life-changing cash prize. 10.00 River City: tempers
Signed repeat 5.10am (S) (HD) Signed repeat 5.20am (S) (HD) the impact could affect the rest of the flare when Sonny is
5.00 The Chase 5.30 Help! We Bought a Village planet. The whole series is on iPlayer. provoked by Jonathon
Repeated 1.15am (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 10.30 Debate Night
Bradley Walsh presents as Angie, Max, Rachel and A piggery is transformed into a new living space, 11.30—12 midnight
Ken take on one of the ruthless Chasers. (S) (HD) and a couple renovating a village in Italy deal 8.00 From Ice to Fire: Scottish Questions
with an invasion of scorpions. (R) (S) (HD) the Incredible Science of
6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD) Temperature STV
6.30 The Simpsons 3/3. Playing with Fire. Dr Helen 10.40pm Scotland
6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD) Screenless. Marge puts a screen-time limit on Tonight 11.05 Peston
Czerski explores the science of heat, 12 midnight Premiership
7.30 Emmerdale the rest of the family. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) looking at how it is the energy contained Rugby Unleashed
A face from Charity’s past returns, Nicola takes
7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD) within matter, with the power to 12.25—3.00am
action, and Cain is struggling with Moira’s plan. transform it from one state to another. Home Shopping
Writer Martin Fustes Cast Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Location, Location, Location 4.00—6.00 Unwind

WEDNESDAY
Series producer Peter Oxley; Executive producer
8.00 Coronation Street
Betsy jumps to conclusions when she catches
4 Ep 3. Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are
in Cambridgeshire, where single mother Ali
Jacqueline Smith Repeated 2.15am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

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sight of Lisa’s bruises, and Dev is told to make a and widower Nick met during the Covid lockdown.
The couple now have their first child together,
Haunted Man — The Lively Arts 10.45pm Representing

4Athedrama
big romantic gesture to Bernie. Adam voices documentary about Border: political news from
concern about Ken’s spending. Kit uses insider and want to upsize in the village of Stilton. Holyrood and Westminster
personal life and private
info to impress Daisy, while Ryan queries Carla’s Kirstie finds a dream house in a tight search area, 11.15—12.05am Peston
feelings of English novelist and poet
movements on the night of Joel’s murder. but the price calls for some tough negotiating.
Meanwhile, newlyweds Hannah and Hugo want
Thomas Hardy. This programme takes BBC1 WALES
Betsy Swain Sydney Martin Dee-Dee Bailey a look at the poetry he wrote after the 10.40pm BBC Wales Live
Dev Alahan Jimmi Harkishin Channique Sterling-Brown to move out of Hannah’s parents’ house and
Bernie Winter Jane Hazlegrove Damon Hay Ciaran Griffiths death of his first wife, Emma. Starring 11.10 FILM: Ghostbusters
into a place big enough for Hugo’s two children 1.00—6.00am BBC News
Adam Barlow Samuel Robertson Cassie Plummer Claire Sweeney Cyril Luckham and Billie Whitelaw.
to stay in when they visit. Will Phil be able to
Ken Barlow William Roache Craig Tinker Colson Smith First shown 1978. See page 79. BBC2 WALES
help them over the threshold? See page 78.

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Kit Green Jacob Roberts Gemma Winter-Brown Director Tristram Powell; Producer Bill Morton
Daisy Midgeley Charlotte Jordan Dolly-Rose Campbell Directors Adriana Bevir and Sasha Webb Repeated tomorrow 12.45am (R) (S) 7.00pm Between the
Ryan Connor Ryan Prescott Todd Grimshaw Gareth Pierce Producers Harriette Powell and Craig Reece (S) (HD) Covers: new series 7.30
Carla Connor Alison King Toyah Habeeb Georgia Taylor 9.55 Five to Eleven: Richard Pasco Mary’s Foolproof Dinners:
Aadi Alahan Adam Hussain Summer Spellman Harriet Bibby 9.00 Grand Designs Actor Richard Pasco reads some of new series 8.00—9.00
Kirk Sutherland Andrew Whyment Gail Rodwell
Nick Tilsley
Gus Deering
Ben Price Bobby Crawford
Chris Garner Doctor
Helen Worth
Jack Carroll
Leah Baskaran
4 Ep 6. To celebrate the show’s 25th
anniversary year, Kevin McCloud revisits
Thomas Hardy’s poems. First
broadcast 5 October 1990. (R) (S) (HD)
Highland Cops: new
series 11.05 Mel Giedroyc:
Unforgivable 11.50 Unspun
the site of the first ever Grand Designs project. World with John Simpson
Writers David Isaac and Ellen Taylor More cast Friday (S) (AD) (HD)
With their first child on the way, paragliding 10.00 Gemma Arterton 12.20—12.35am Coast
9.00 Prince William: We Can End Newhaven school-owners Tim and Jules wanted Remembers… Tess of the
Homelessness to build a new family home on the cliffs in just D’Urbervilles
41/2. Documentary following the launch of three months. Problems with the groundwork, Gemma Arterton reflects on the
Homewards, Prince William’s ambitious the erection of the timber frame kit, unexpected BBC adaptation from 2008. (S) (HD)
five-year project that aims to show it is possible costs and late-arriving materials swiftly put Christopher Eccleston Remembers… Jude
is tomorrow 9pm
to end homelessness across the UK. The first their plans in serious jeopardy. A quarter of a
episode shadows Prince William and his team century later, how has life been for Tim, Jules 10.15 Tess of the D’Urbervilles
as they explore solutions to the crisis, serve and the now grown-up Tiger? See page 78. 1/4. Dramatisation of Thomas Hardy’s
Christmas dinner at a homelessness shelter, and Director Manuela Jaramillo; Executive producers John Lonsdale classic novel. Gemma Arterton stars
and John Comerford Repeated tomorrow 11.20pm 4seven
meet people around the country who are either (Revised rpt) (S) (AD) (HD) as Tess, a peasant girl who goes to
without a home or on the brink of becoming work for the wealthy D’Urbervilles
homeless. More tomorrow 9pm. See page 79. 10.00 New Zealand’s Best Homes after her family falls on hard times,
Director Leo Burley with Phil Spencer and meets a new suitor. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
Producers Rajveer Sihota and James Dickinson (S) (AD) (HD) 3/6. Phil tours a clifftop masterpiece with 11.15 2/4. Tess returns home with her
Neil Ansell’s viewpoint: page 11 harbour views, a beautiful family home in baby, Sorrow, after being seduced by
10.00 ITV News at Ten Remuera and a Queenstown mountain retreat the manipulative Alec D’Urberville.
Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)
with an edge. All three homes have family at But when she finds work on a dairy
their core, built to adapt alongside life’s seasons. farm, she meets the kindly Angel Clare
10.45 Peston Director Matt McPhail; Series producer Lauren Lunjevich (S) (HD)
once again. First shown in 2008.
Political magazine show hosted by Robert 11.05 24 Hours in A&E Tess Durbeyfield Gemma Arterton
Peston, featuring major interviews with MPs, Angel Clare Eddie Redmayne
Chris, 55, is rushed into Queen’s Medical Centre Joan Durbeyfield Ruth Jones
topical guests and cultural figures, and in Nottingham after his leg is crushed by a lorry Parson Tringham Donald Sumpter
social-media perspectives from viewers. at work. Doctors are concerned that he may Mr Crick Trevor Cooper
Executive producer Andrew Dagnall (S) (HD) Mr Clare Kenneth Cranham
have developed a rare condition that could
John Durbeyfield Ian Puleston-Davies
11.40 Premiership Rugby Unleashed make amputation unavoidable. Izz Huett Jodie Whittaker
Action from the latest matches, featuring Bristol Director/Producer Becky Houlihan (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Marion Rebekah Staton
Bears v Northampton Saints, Gloucester v 12.05am The Great British Bake Off 6/10 Series 15 Retty Priddle Emily Beecham
Newcastle Falcons, Bath v Sale Sharks, Saracens It’s Autumn Week, and Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith Alec D’Urberville Hans Matheson
cook up three challenges suitable for cosy evenings in. Mrs Clare Jessica Turner
v Leicester Tigers and Exeter Chiefs v Harlequins. See choice, page 68. Shown Tuesday 8pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) Dramatised by David Nicholls; Producer David
Shown 7pm ITV4 (S) (HD) 1.15 The Simpsons Five Treehouse of Horror episodes Snodin; Director David Blair (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.05am Home Shopping (HD) of the animated series for Halloween. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 12.15am Novels That Shaped Our World
3.00 DNA Journey 1/4 Series 5. Hugh Bonneville and 3.20 Generation Z 2/6. Kelly battles with her 1/3. Examining the impact of women’s
John Bishop embark on a road trip to research their conflicted feelings. Shown Monday 9pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) voices in literary fiction. First shown in 2019.
family histories. John traces his roots back to Dublin and 4.15 Sunday Brunch Best Bits Highlights featuring Repeated tomorrow 11.45pm (R) (S) (HD)
Hugh uncovers ancestry in Ireland. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) actor and comedian Jason Sudeikis. (R) (S) (HD) 1.15 Frozen Planet Shown 7pm (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD) 4.30 Frasier Double bill of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.15—3.15am From Ice to Fire: the
5.10—6.00am Deal or No Deal Shown 4pm (S) (SL) (HD) 5.20—5.45am Four in a Bed Shown 5pm (S) (SL) (HD) Incredible Science of Temperature
Shown 8pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
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Shop Smart, Save Money 7.00pm BBC New Comedy Awards 10.00pm Heartbeat 7.00pm Nick prepares to The Chelsea Detective 8.00pm
Gaby and Ortis get on the saddle Head judge Babatunde Aleshe say his goodbyes in Aidensfield Max and Leyla investigate a stabbing
5.40am Milkshake! See page 84 7.00pm The Nine to Five with 6.00am Classic Emmerdale (S) (AD) 7.00 7.10am London’s Burning: 7/18 Series 10
9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) (HD) Stacey Dooley Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD) 8.05 Agatha A fire ends in tragedy (S) (AD) 8.00 Doctors:
11.30 Storm Huntley (S) (HD) 5/5 Series 1. The five teenagers head off Christie’s Poirot: Cards on the Table. A bridge double bill. Ben learns of Sarah’s accusations,
player is stabbed through the heart; 10.20 then Faith receives an offer 9.15 Classic Holby
12.45pm Friends Series 6. A fire leaves to work at Heathrow Airport. (S) (AD) (HD) The Third Floor Flat. After watching a theatre City: Nicky gets closer to Zav Repeated 3am (S)
Rachel and Phoebe homeless. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 7.35 1/5 Series 2. The work of zoo whodunnit, Poirot is disturbed by the sound (HD) 10.35 Classic Casualty: Harry discovers
1.10 Rachel longs for a date. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) keepers. More tomorrow 7pm. (S) (AD) (HD) of shots in his apartment building (S) (AD) (HD) a boatload of refugees (S) 11.40 The Bill:
1.35 Entertainment News (S) (HD) Followed by New. The Catch Up (S) (HD) 11.25 The Royal: 2/12 Series 5. Mr Rose Gina briefs the team about Honey’s death (S)
1.40 5 News (S) (HD) 8.05 Gavin & Stacey finds himself the centre of attention (S) (AD) 12.40pm Classic EastEnders: two episodes.
1.45 Home and Away Theo worries that 6/6 Series 3. Stacey breaks some 12.25pm Heartbeat: 19/24. Nick and Jo Gus tells Minty that he has to pay rent, then
Justin is still mad at him about Claudia’s car. plan their new lives (S) (AD) 1.35 Classic a karaoke night ends Dawn’s hopes 2.00
life-changing news to Gavin. (S) (AD) (HD) Emmerdale: double bill. Sadie prepares for London’s Burning: 8/18 Series 10. Blue Watch
Shown yesterday 6.30pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
8.35 Top Gear her wedding, then Tom, Jimmy and Carl try faces a tough challenge (S) (AD) 3.00 Soldier
2.15 The Murder In-Law HH Thriller. Soldier: 10/15 Series 5. Paddy says goodbye
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The team attempts to travel the length of to stop Matthew interfering with the big day
A woman learns her father-in-law (S) (AD) 2.40 Classic Coronation Street: to the Fusiliers (S) 4.10 Howards’ Way: 13/13
may have been killed by his wife. Vietnam in just eight days in this episode
from 2008. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (HD) double bill. Charlie tries to change Shelley’s Series 6. Leo comes to a decision (S) 5.30
Director Ashley Jones (2023) (S) (W) (HD) mind, then Status Quo pop into the Rovers The Upper Hand: 8/13 Series 1. Charlie
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 9.50 Cable Tied after a gig (S) (AD) 3.50 Midsomer Murders: changes the colour of Caroline’s car (S)
Television WEDNESDAY

Choir member Sean sings his first solo in Comedy. During a break-in, two burglars Series 8. Things That Go Bump in the Night
tribute to a departed friend. (R) (S) (HD) The murder of an undertaker leads Barnaby
6.05pm ’Allo ’Allo!
discover a man already tied up. (S) (HD) 19/26 Series 5. Puddings Can Go Off
5.00pm The Budget: How Much and Scott to a village where opinions are
10.00 New. BBC New Comedy Awards divided over a spiritualist church (S) (AD) René escapes exploding puddings. (S)
Will It Cost You? 5 News Special 5/7. The search for the best new stand-up 6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
Dan Walker and the team examine the talent in the UK continues. (S) (HD) 5.50pm Downton Abbey
3/7 Series 1. When Evelyn Napier arrives Series 4. The Bandit from Stoke-on-
Government’s budget. (S) (HD) Trent. An old friend arrives in town. (S)
10.30 Things You Should Have Done at Downton to go riding, Mary finds herself
6.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly 3/6. Chi is determined that the family attracted to his friend, Kemal Pamuk, an 7.20 Series 5. Full Steam Behind
Graeme Hall comes to the aid of owners will celebrate Pancake Day. (S) (AD) (HD) attaché at the Turkish embassy. (S) (AD) (HD) The trio take a steam train ride. (S)
with new puppies and also catches up with 11.00 4/6. Chi learns all about bills. 8.00 New. The Chelsea Detective
some owners from the past. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Heartbeat
The whole series is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)
20/24 Series 7. Greengrass wonders if 7/8 Series 2. A Crime of Passion 1/2. The
6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD) owner of a fruit and vegetable delivery
11.25 Cuckoo his house is haunted, while Nick, Jo and
7.00 Shop Smart, Save Money 1/7 Series 2. A mysterious stranger turns Katie prepare to leave Aidensfield. (S) (AD) company is found stabbed. (S) (AD) (HD)
6/12 Series 3. Gaby and Ortis put three up at the Thompsons’ house. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Shakespeare and Hathaway:
8.00 Midsomer Murders
exercise bikes through their paces with 11.55 2/7. Dylan decides to plan a party. Series 12. The Dogleg Murders. Barnaby Private Investigators
help from a trio of home-fitness fanatics. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD) is called out to the exclusive Whiteoaks 8/10 Series 2. In My Memory Lock’d
Georgie gives her guide to saving money 12.25am Top Gear (S) (HD) 1.40 BBC New Golf Club after one of its members is Frank and Luella must work out what
when it comes to buying furniture, and Comedy Awards 2.10 Things You Should Have found bludgeoned to death. (S) (AD) happened to an amnesiac. (S) (AD) (HD)
Jon finds out how much consumers Done (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00—4.00am Paranormal: 10.00 New Tricks
need to spend on a toaster in order to the Village That Saw Aliens (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Law & Order: UK
3/7 Series 6. Haunted. Brooks re-opens 9/10 Series 8. Half Life. A website prompts
produce the perfect slice of toast. BBC3 Freeview 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) Freesat 107 the team to reopen a murder case. (S) (AD)
Director Jess Matthews (S) (HD) Sky 115 (117 Wales; 121 Scotland) Virgin 107 (113 Scotland/Wales) a case after a criminal confesses to the
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD) murder of a teenage girl. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.20 Murder in Mind
8.00 Traffic Cops
ITV2 6 11.00 4/7. Trial. The team tries to bring a 1/8 Series 2. Passion. A woman becomes
criminal mastermind to justice. (S) (AD) (HD) obsessed with her married boss. (S)
ANPR cameras trigger an alert for a 6.00am CITV (HD) 9.00 Totally Bonkers
Guinness World Records (S) (HD) 10.00
12 midnight Agatha Christie’s Poirot: 12.40am The Missing: 3/8. An undercover
suspected disqualified driver with no Appointment with Death. The sleuth police officer comes forward (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
insurance, prompting three police units Love Bites: two editions (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
uncovers a wealth of suspects when an Passport to Freedom: 7/8. Aracy reluctantly
to give chase. Officers arrest a man 12 noon Dress to Impress (S) (HD) 1.00pm aristocrat’s wife is stabbed to death (S) (AD) enlists Zumkle (S) (HD) 3.00—4.00am
following intelligence that links his vehicle Celebrity Supermarket Sweep (S) (AD) (HD) (HD) 2.00—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD) Classic Holby City Shown 9.15am (HD)
2.00 Family Fortunes (S) (HD) 3.00 Charmed
to suspected child protection concerns. (S) (HD) 4.00 Gilmore Girls (S) (HD) 4.55 ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 U&Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
Series director/producer Simon Meehan (S) (HD)
Dress to Impress (S) (AD) (HD) 5.55 In for a +1 Freesat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317 +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316
9.00 Police: Night Shift 999 Penny: Stephen Mulhern hosts (S) (AD) (HD)
Officers are called to an incident where 6.25pm FILM Harry Potter and the
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a member of the public has been Deathly Hallows: Part 2 5 Fantasy 6.00am World of Sport (S) (HD) 6.15 Minder 7.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 7.25 Olivia Meets
assaulted after he asked a man to stop adventure, the final part of JK Rowling’s (S) (SL) (AD) 7.20 The Sweeney (S) (SL) Her Match (S) (HD) 8.30 The Cabins (S) (HD)
vandalising a park. Elsewhere, the roads epic saga, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma 8.25 Dempsey and Makepeace (S) (AD) 9.30 The Real Housewives of Cheshire (S) (HD)
policing unit are on the lookout for a Watson and Rupert Grint. Harry continues 9.30 The Saint (S) 10.35 Giant Lobster 10.30 Olivia Meets Her Match (S) (HD) 11.30
his search for the magical horcruxes, the key Hunters (S) (HD) 11.30 BattleBots (S) (HD) The Real Housewives of Potomac (S) (HD)
driver who has failed to stop for officers. to the evil Lord Voldemort’s immortality.
Directors/Producers Greg Ashcroft, Simon Bowyer 12.30pm Dempsey and Makepeace (S) (AD) 12.30pm The Real Housewives of Beverly
Acting on information from the goblin
and Mark Stanton (S) (HD) 1.35 The Saint (S) 2.40 Giant Lobster Hills (S) (HD) 1.20 The Only Way Is Essex (S)
Griphook, Harry is led to the vault of
Hunters (S) (HD) 3.40 Minder (S) (AD) 4.50 (HD) 2.05 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 3.10 The
10.00 Inside the Force 24/7 Voldemort’s ally Bellatrix Lestrange before
The Sweeney (S) 5.55 BattleBots (S) (HD) Big Bake (S) (HD) 4.05 The Real Housewives
In Middlesbrough, officers rush to the returning to Hogwarts for a final confrontation
7.00pm New. Premiership Rugby Unleashed of Potomac (S) (HD) 5.00 New. The Real
scene of a suspected burglary, but they with his archenemy. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
9.00 New. Big Brother A chance to catch Action from the latest matches. Repeated Housewives of Beverly Hills (S) (HD)
discover a huge cannabis farm with tens 11.40pm ITV1 (12 midnight in Scotland) (S) (HD) 6.00pm Making It Home with Kortney
up with the latest from the house. (S) (HD)
of thousands of pounds worth of plants. 10.00 New. Big Brother: Late and Live 8.00 Junk and Disorderly Henry Cole and and Dave Josh and Rita need help. (S) (HD)
Series director Helen White (R) (S) (HD) Sam Lovegrove attempt to make money 7.00 The Big Bake The teams create cakes
Companion show to this year’s series
11.05 Cause of Death with AJ Odudu and Will Best. (S) (HD) from autojumbles and auctions. (S) (HD) featuring daring demons. (S) (HD)
The team investigates the death of a 11.05 Family Guy Series 20. Quagmire 9.00 FILM The Client HHHH Thriller 8.00 James Martin’s Spanish Adventure
pretends Brian is his pet when he meets an based on the novel by John Grisham, A vast food market in Bilbao. (S) (AD) (HD)
26-year-old man who was rushed to starring Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones 9.00 New. Billie and Greg: the Family
hospital following seizures. avid dog lover. Chris helps Stewie retrieve
his stolen Halloween candy. (S) (AD) (HD) and Brad Renfro. A little-league lawyer finds Diaries Billie and Greg throw a barbecue
Series director/producer Annaliese Edwards (R) (S) (HD) herself up against the full might of the legal to take their mind off things. (S) (HD)
11.35 Series 18. Stewie builds a DNA-altering
12.05am Traffic Cops (R) (S) (HD) 1.00 machine that will allow him to remain establishment. Review p85. (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 10.00 The Only Way Is Essex Sammy
Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 Doctors of War: Saving smart and clever for ever. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.35 River Monsters Investigating reports surprises Liv by asking her on a date. (S) (HD)
Lives (R) (S) (HD) 4.15 The Wonderful World of 12 midnight American Dad!: double bill (S) (AD) of attacks by sharks in fresh water. (S) (HD) 11.00 The Real Housewives of Melbourne
Chocolate (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 5.00 House Busters (HD) 12.50am Bob’s Burgers: double bill (S) (AD) 12.05am New. League Cup Football (S) (HD) Kyla’s honesty is questioned. (S) (HD)
(R) (S) (SL) 5.30 Wildlife SOS (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 1.40 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 1.00 New. All Elite Wrestling: Collision (S) (HD) 12.05am The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
5.55—6.00am Entertainment News (S) (HD) (S) (HD) 2.10—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 12.55—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105 ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 (132 Scotland)
+1 Freeview 38 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 305 +1 Freeview 29 (7am-2am) Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 315 +1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 318 Virgin 119 +1 Virgin 319

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9.00am NCIS 9.55 Entertainment News
10.00 NCIS 12 noon Law & Order 6.00pm
NCIS: triple bill. Series 15. The agents search
for an arms dealer 7.00 A senator’s son is
attacked and left in critical condition 8.00
Torres and Bishop dismantle a drug-running
operation 9.00 New. Criminal Minds Series 10
The team establishes a link between murders
in Maryland First shown on Sky Witness 10.00
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: triple bill.
Series 7. A boy is stabbed 11.00 Series 12. The
team uncovers evidence of a paedophile ring
12 midnight Series 7. A girl is kidnapped on her
way home 12.55am Criminal Minds 2.50 Blindspot
National Parks from Above 9.00pm Portrait Artist of the Year 8.00pm Canal Boat Diaries 8.00pm Robbie 3.30—4.00am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera
The scenery at Thingvellir in Iceland Comedian Rosie Jones takes a seat is on the Shropshire Union Canal 5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
8.55am Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures 6.00am George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker 6.10am Great British Railway Journeys +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320
9.15 A Place in the Sun: Lanzarote 7.50 The Joy of Painting (AD) 9.00 Tales of 8.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD)
10.05 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are the Unexpected (AD) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock 10.00 Narrow Escapes of World War II (AD) 5 Star 32
They Now? 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) Presents 11.00 Discovering: Alan Rickman (AD) 11.00 The Buildings That Fought Hitler (AD) 8.00am Dirty Home Rescue 9.00 Bargain-
1.05pm Car SOS (AD) 2.05 Four in a Bed 12 noon Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 12 noon Great Canal Journeys 1.00pm Loving Brits in the Sun 11.00 Traffic Cops
4.50 The Dog House (AD) 5.50 Escape to 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Bangers and Cash: 2.00pm Police Interceptors (AD) 5.00
the Château: DIY: Debbie and Nigel start The Art of Architecture 3.00 The Art of Film Restoring Classics (AD) 4.00 Narrow Shoplifters and Scammers: at War with the Law
landscaping their five-acre grounds (AD) with Ian Nathan 4.00 Classic Albums (AD) Escapes of World War II (AD) 5.00 The 6.00pm Home and Away Mali and Kirby
6.55pm Car SOS The boys take on one of 5.00 Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 Buildings That Fought Hitler (AD) bicker about his opportunity to be represented
the worst cars they have ever seen — a rusty 6.00pm Tales of the Unexpected 6.00pm Antiques Roadshow Fiona Bruce in an art gallery. Shown 1.45pm Channel 5 (AD)
1965 Mustang which has been cherished by A parrot lays an unusual egg. (AD) and the team visit Durham Cathedral. 6.30 New. Xander is acting suspicious while
76-year-old caretaker John for 40 years. (AD) 6.30 A man contemplates murdering his wife 7.00 Speed with Guy Martin: F1 Challenge working at Salt. Repeated Thu 1.45pm C5 (AD)
7.55 The Dog House A Liverpool family so he can get his hands on her trust fund. (AD) The racer joins a Formula One pit crew. 7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors A young
decide which one of a litter of ten German 7.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 8.00 Canal Boat Diaries Battling through woman suffering from abdominal pains. (AD)
shepherd puppies to take home with them, A mugging jogs the memory of an amnesiac. blanket weed on the Shropshire Union Canal. 8.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts
and a Yorkshire terrier with a big attitude 8.00 RT CHOICE New. Portrait Artist of 8.30 Robbie Cumming finds himself A woman who suffers from kidney failure is

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tries to win over a couple. (AD) the Year With celebrity sitters Rosie Jones, stuck in the mud in Woodseaves Cutting. admitted with a heart condition.
9.00 RT CHOICE New. National Parks Linton Kwesi Johnson and Andy Cole. See p78. 9.00 Great Canal Journeys Exploring the 9.00 999: Emergency Call Out
from Above Ep 2. A look at Iceland’s three 9.00 Dickens: Phantoms and Fictions lost route between London and the sea. A stolen car crashes on a residential street.
national parks — Vatnajokull National Park, Exploring Charles Dickens’s supernatural tales, 10.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring 10.00 A&E after Dark An ambulance crew
Snaefellsjokull National Park and Thingvellir delving into his eerie and atmospheric worlds Classics The team purchases a 1950s Austin brings in a patient who is acting aggressively.
National Park. See page 79. (AD) through actor readings and archive footage. Westminster rally car to restore. (AD) 11.00 Ambulance: Code Red The emergency
10.00 24 Hours in A&E Betting shop owner 10.00 Lily and Lolly: the Forgotten Yeats 11.00 Abandoned Engineering Eerie ruins responders deal with a man in cardiac arrest. (AD)
Les lost control of his car on a country road Sisters Imelda May explores the story of WB hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas. (AD) 12 midnight Killer at the Crime Scene 1.00am
on his way to work and is rushed into St Yeats’s sisters Susan “Lily” Yeats and Elizabeth 12 midnight Great Continental Railway Journeys: Sleeping with My Murderer (AD) 2.00 Casualty 24/7:
George’s for emergency surgery. (AD) “Lolly” Yeats, who played a significant role in Athens to Thessaloniki 1.00—3.00am Secrets of Every Second Counts 2.50 GPs: behind Closed
11.05 Emergency Helicopter Medics The the revival of Irish literature in the 1920s. (AD) the London Underground: double bill (AD) Doors (AD) 3.35—4.00am Home and Away (AD)
heli-medics race to Linda when she suffers 11.30 The Great Songwriters Mike Scott of U&Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129 5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 (129 Scotland)
a heart attack, and motocross rider Alex is in the Waterboys talks about his life in music. +1 Sky 255 Virgin 329 Virgin 126 +1 Freesat 140 Sky 228 (229 Scot) Virgin 326
a bad way after he is hit by another bike. (AD) 12.30am Electric Lady Studios: a Jimi Hendrix Vision
12.10am 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 2.20 Emergency 2.15 Eric Clapton: Planes, Trains and Eric 4.00
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Helicopter Medics (AD) 3.25—3.50am Food Laurie Lee: The Lost Interview (AD) 5.00—6.00am
Unwrapped: investigating fizzy sweets (AD) National Treasures: the Art of Collecting (AD) 7.10am Gassed Up 8.00 Cops on the Rock 9.00am Trucking Hell 10.00 Traffic Cops:
More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 (137 Scotland) Sky Arts Freeview 36 Freesat 143 Sky 130 (131 Scotland) (AD) 10.00 Extreme Salvage Squad On the Edge 11.00 Police Interceptors
Virgin 147 +1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 (237 Scot) Virgin 347 Virgin 123 EE 350/HD 365 12 noon Storage Hunters UK 2.00pm Our 12.05pm FILM Pork Chop Hill HHHH
Guy in China 3.00 Top Gear (AD) 5.00 Rick War drama starring Gregory Peck (BW)
E4 13 4seven 49
Stein’s Long Weekends: double bill (AD) 2.10 FILM Ten Seconds to Hell HH Drama
6.00am Hollyoaks Shown Monday/Tuesday 7pm 9.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 7.00pm Would I Lie to You? Rob Brydon starring Jeff Chandler (BW) 4.00 Trucking
(AD) 6.55 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.00 10.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It: upcycling a horse hosts, with Raj Bisram, Deborah Frances- Hell 5.00 Traffic Cops: On the Edge
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL) yoke (AD) 11.00 The Great House Giveaway White, Stephen Mulhern and Jenny Ryan. 6.00pm Police Interceptors A roadside
8.00 Married at First Sight (AD) 9.00 The 7.40 Richard Osman’s House of Games dispute has spiralled out of control.
12 noon Frasier (AD) 1.30pm Four in a Bed 7.00 Damien Stevens draws his stun gun.
Goldbergs (AD) 10.00 The Big Bang Theory 2.00 A Place in the Sun 3.00 Renovation Jamelia, Susan Calman, Gareth Malone and
(AD) 11.00 Modern Family: double bill Paul Martin take on trivia-based games. 8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s
Nation (AD) 4.00 Help! We Bought a Village Speeders PC Will Hunter pursues a car
12 noon The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00pm 5.00 A Place in the Sun: double bill 8.20 With guests Samira Ahmed, Dom Joly,
Angela Rippon and John Robins. suspected of having cloned plates.
The Goldbergs (AD) 3.00 Modern Family 7.45pm The Great British Bake Off 9.00 Terror at 30,000 Feet The story of a
9.00 QI XL Jason Manford, Jimmy Carr and
4.00 Married at First Sight (AD) 5.00 The 6/10 Series 15. It’s Autumn Week, and Paul Victoria Coren Mitchell join Alan Davies and 2010 Airbus 380 flight from London to Sydney.
Big Bang Theory: four episodes (AD) Hollywood and Prue Leith cook up three 10.00 Doomsday: Caught on Camera Two
Sandi Toksvig for an extended edition.
7.00pm New. Hollyoaks Abe turns to an challenges suitable for cosy evenings in. 10.00 QI With guests Jo Brand, John Sessions families in the Bahamas try to survive one of
unlikely source for relationship advice. (AD) See choice, p68. Shown yesterday 8pm C4 (AD) and Dara O Briain. Stephen Fry hosts. the strongest hurricanes on record and a
7.30 New. Modern Family 13/22 Series 8 9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox for Stand Up 10.40 Have I Got News for Boris: a terrifying twister threatens an entire town.
Phil feels empowered. First shown on Sky Showcase to Cancer Ep 7. In a special episode for Special Tribute The 64th series concludes 11.00 World’s Most Dangerous Prisoners
8.00 New. Hot Yachts: Miami Vika’s new Stand Up to Cancer, the households react to with a show dedicated to Boris Johnson. Tyler Davis Bingham’s life, from petty
man needs a day charter, and when boss the latest TV shows. Shown last Friday C4 (AD) 11.15 Battle in the Box Jamie Laing, Nabil criminal to becoming the leader of the white
Katya finds out she’s horrified. (AD) 10.00 Love Cheats 3/4. The case of a Abdulrashid, Ellie Taylor and Jess Knappett supremacist gang the Aryan Brotherhood.
9.00 New. Married at First Sight woman who claimed to have MS and conned continue their battle to escape the box. (AD) 12 midnight Under the Dome 1.55am Trucking
Anonymous letters compel every couple her partner into running up huge debts to 12.15am Mock the Week 1.00 Alan Davies: Hell 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News
to face their problems head-on. (AD) fund treatment. Shown Monday 10pm C4 (AD) As Yet Untitled 2.00 Would I Lie to You? 5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130
10.05 New. Will You Marry Me? Marcela 11.05 FILM Moonage Daydream HHHH 2.40 QI XL 3.30—4.00am Schitt’s Creek
is terrified about confessing her deepest
feelings to her best friend, Piero. (AD)
Documentary that tells the story of David
Bowie’s life and career, from his start in
U&Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (112 Wales) Virgin HD 127 5 Select 46
U&Dave Ja Vu F’view 74 Sky 211 (212 Wales) Virgin 327
11.10 Gogglebox Strictly Come Dancing and 1960s London to his death in 2016. Review 9.00am The Yorkshire Vet: six editions (AD)
The Great British Bake Off are appraised. (AD) page 45. (AD) Shown Saturday 10.10pm C4
12.15am Married at First Sight (SL) (AD) 1.20 Will 1.55am Public Enemies: Kendrick vs Drake
Sky Mix 11 3.00pm Murder, She Wrote (AD) 4.00
Columbo: Peter Falk stars 5.30 Eggheads
You Marry Me? (SL) (AD) 2.20 Beyond Chelsea 3.00 Taskmaster (AD) 4.00—5.00am 7.00am Nothing to Declare 9.00 Monkey 6.00pm Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
(SL) 3.15 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD) 4.05 Into the Jungle with Ed Stafford (AD) A former fighter pilot living in the Himalayas.
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA: a bistro in
Life (AD) 10.00 Stop, Search, Seize 11.00
4seven F’view 49 F’sat 127 Sky 137 (138 Scot) Virgin 143 Highway Patrol (AD) 12 noon Motorway Patrol 7.00 A former taxi driver from Florida, who
Chicago (SL) 4.55—6.00am Black-ish (AD)
1.00pm Border Patrol 2.00 Monkey Life now farms in a remote part of the Philippines.
E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 (136 Scot) Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 (236 Scot) Virgin 306
Quest 12 (AD) 3.00 Nothing to Declare (AD) 4.00 Star 8.00 Your Kitchen: 60 Years of Fads
Trek: the Next Generation 5.00 Primeval and Gadgets Charting the transformation
E4 Extra F’view 31 F’sat 126 Sky 138 (139 Scot) Virgin 144 6.00am Chasing Classic Cars 8.00 American
6.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Quark
Pickers 9.00 Aussie Gold Hunters 11.00 The of the British kitchen since the 1950s.
sells his body parts to pay off his debts 7.00
Really 17 Repair Shop 1.00pm The Yorkshire Auction House
2.00 Shed and Buried 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Star Trek: Voyager: the stranded crews band
9.00 Inside Windsor Castle: a Royal
Residence Queen Elizabeth II’s lockdown
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home 5.00 Wheeler Dealers (AD) 7.00 Salvage together 8.00 RT CHOICE New. Portrait routine during the Covid pandemic.
Shopping 8.00 Salvage Hunters 10.00 A Place in Hunters: Classic Cars 8.00 Aussie Gold Hunters: Artist of the Year See page 78. 9.00 New. 10.00 HMS Invincible: Digging Up Britain’s
the Sun 12 noon Money for Nothing 2.00pm The machinery breakdowns cause tensions to rise in The Rookie: Nolan is forced to spend a week Past The history of the Royal Navy ship.
Repair Shop 3.00 Antiques Road Trip 5.00 The the Poseidon Crew (AD) 9.00 New series. in solitary confinement First shown on Sky
Yorkshire Auction House (AD) 7.00 Antiques Road Salvage Hunters: Drew and Al buy from heritage Witness (AD) 10.00 Rob and Romesh vs NBA
11.00 Prisoner: Cell Block H Double bill.
Trip 9.00 New. 1000-lb Sisters: double bill. Dr Smith sellers, snapping up a curved oak settle made in 1.05am Forged in Fire 3.35—4.00am Walking
Basketball (AD) 11.00 Killer in My Village Tudor Britain: the history of the royal dynasty
holds an all-sibling weigh-in, then four friends battle 1810 10.00 The Repair Shop: two editions 12 midnight Murders That Shocked the Nation:
morbid obesity (AD) 11.00 Celebrity Help! My 12 midnight How Do They Do It? 1.00am the crimes of murderer George Joseph Smith (AD) 5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138
House Is Haunted: with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Wheeler Dealers (AD) 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 1.00am Nothing to Declare 2.00 Brit Cops: Law
1.00am Unexplained: Caught on Camera 2.00 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made: double bill & Disorder (AD) 3.00 Highway Patrol 4.00 FREEVIEW TV and film
Home Shopping 4.00—6.00am Salvage Hunters Quest Freeview 12 Freesat 150/HD 144 Sky 144 Virgin 137 Border Patrol 5.00—6.00am Highway Cops
channels continue overleaf
Really Freeview 17 Freesat 145 Sky 142 Virgin 128 +1 Freeview 70 Freesat 151 Sky 244 Virgin 337 Sky Mix Freeview 11 Freesat 141 Sky 151 Virgin 135
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 200 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 EE 313
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CHILDREN’S FILMS
Milkshake! on C5 Film4 14
5.40am Paw Patrol 5.50 Milkshake! 11.00am Hangman’s Knot HHH
Monkey’s Amazing Adventures Confederate officer Randolph Scott
6.00 New. Oggy Oggy 6.10 Peppa Pig doesn’t know the US Civil War is over
6.25 New. Daisy & Ollie 6.30 Odo
6.40 Tweedy & Fluff 6.45 Fireman Sam in director Roy Huggins’s tense
6.55 Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! western. Review, right. (1952, PG) (S)
7.05 Peppa Pig 7.20 Paw Patrol 12.40pm The Sheriff of Fractured
7.30 Pip and Posy 7.40 New. The Jaw HHHH Timid Kenneth More
Adventures of Paddington 7.55 New. becomes the law-keeper of a tough
Milo 8.10 Paw Patrol 8.30 New. Reu town in the West in this amusing
& Harper’s Wonder World 8.40 New. comedy western. (1958, PG) (S) (AD)
DIY SOS: the Big Build Jamie Oliver: Together WWII in Colour: Road to Milkshake! Off We Go! 8.45 Peppa Pig
2.55 Outcast of the Islands HH
8.55 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom
6.00pm The team in Telford 9.00pm Shoulder of lamb Victory 7.40pm Suez Canal 9.10—9.15am Milkshake! Story Den Offbeat drama in which a
Full listings for Channel 5 are on p82 discredited merchant befriends a
6.10am Inside the Ambulance 6.00am The Great British Bake Off 8.00am Grand Tours of Scotland ship’s captain. Trevor Howard (1951, PG) (S)
7.00 Property Brothers: Forever 7.30 James Martin: Sweet 8.00 8.40 Military Masterminds 9.50
Homes 8.00 Tipping Point 11.00 James Martin’s American Adventure WWII in Colour: Road to Victory 10.55 CBeebies 202 5.00 The Enemy Below HHHH
DIY SOS: the Big Build 12 noon As 10.00 The Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Hitler’s Gold 11.55 Afghanistan: the Robert Mitchum is outstanding in
6pm 1.00pm Tipping Point 4.00 Food 11.00 Hairy Bikers’ Meals on Wounded Land 1.00pm The Korean
6.00am Bing 6.10 Vegesaurs 6.15 this Second World War U-boat
Teletubbies 6.25 Small Potatoes drama. Review, right. (1957, PG) (S)
Property Brothers: Forever Homes Wheels 12 noon The Great British War 2.10 Military Masterminds 6.30 Supertato 6.40 Roots and Fruits
5.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build Bake Off 1.30pm James Martin: 3.20 WWII in Colour: Road to 6.45 Tee and Mo 6.50 Bing 7.00 7.00pm Men in Black HHHH
6.00pm DIY SOS: Million Sweet 2.00 James Martin’s American Victory 4.20 Hitler’s Gold 5.20 Colourblocks 7.05 Hey Duggee This sci-fi comedy sees Tommy
Adventure: three episodes 5.00 Afghanistan: the Wounded Land 7.20 Bluey 7.40 Go Jetters 7.50 Lee Jones recruit Will Smith into
Pound Build for Children in The Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food Peter Rabbit 8.05 Octonauts: Above
Need Reconstructing a centre for 6.35pm Military Masterminds & Beyond 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20 a secret organisation that
6.00pm Hairy Bikers’ Meals on
disabled children in Peterborough. Wheels 7.00 The Great British 2/4. Exploring the lives of leaders Alphablocks 8.25 Love Monster 8.35 regulates alien activity. (1997, PG) (S) (AD)
7.00 New. MasterChef Australia: Bake Off: the bakers’ knowledge of who combined military corps. Justin’s House 9.00 Bing 9.05 Yakka
9.00 Legion HHH Angels and
Dee! 9.10 Love Monster 9.20 Dylan’s
Dessert Masters The contestants pastry is tested. The Signature 7.40 WWII in Colour: Road to Playtime Adventures 9.30 Twirlywoos demons battle for humankind’s
enter a Christmas wonderland. challenge is a savoury take on a Victory 3/10. Churchill realises 9.45 Something Special: We’re All future in this supernatural hokum.
French classic, and there is a the importance of the Suez Canal. Friends 10.05 Teletubbies Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson (2010, 15) (S)
8.10 Sort Your Life Out with Moroccan Technical 8.30 Mary 10.20 New. Maddie and Triggs
Stacey Solomon Stacey helps Berry’s Quick Cooking: Mary helps 8.50 Hitler’s Gold 3/4. How the 10.30 Yukee 10.35 Tiny Wonders 10.55 Die Hard 5
the Clark family to declutter. (AD) in the kitchen of Royal Navy Nazis’ finances were affected by 10.40 Colourblocks 10.45 Roots and Gripping, no-holds-barred action
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9.30 Inside the Ambulance destroyer HMS Defender 9.00 preparing for war in Europe. Fruits 10.50 Vegesaurs 11.00 Bluey
thriller in which a lone cop takes
11.05 Supertato 11.10 Hey Duggee
A patient with a chronic cough. Jamie Oliver: Together: two 9.50 Afghanistan: the 11.20 I Can Do It, You Can Too 11.35 on a band of ruthless terrorists
10.00 Ambulance Australia
editions. Jamie makes a celebration Wounded Land 3/4. The Soviet Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.50 Our Family inside a newly constructed
meal, then cooks a summery feast army leaves Afghanistan, but the 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm skyscraper. Bruce Willis (1988, 15) (S) (AD)
Sydney’s annual City2Surf. 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives:
11.00 The helicopter crew rushes war continues between Apple Tree House 12.30 Dog Squad
four episodes. Guy Fieri visits a Mujahideen commanders. 12.40 Andy’s Safari Adventures 1.35—3.25am Race with the
to save a cyclist with head injuries. burger joint and a Cuban restaurant 1.00 Yakka Dee! 1.05 Numberblocks Devil HHH Peter Fonda attempts
12 midnight Inside the Ambulance: in Chicago, a legendary chilli 10.55 WWII in Colour: Road to 1.10 Alphablocks 1.15 Hey Duggee to escape the shadow of Easy Rider
a man hurts his back 12.30am restaurant in California and a Victory As 7.40pm. 1.25 Love Monster 1.30 Yukee 1.40 with this watchable Wicker Man-like
One Born Every Minute 1.35 corner bar in Denver 12 midnight Hitler’s Gold 1.00— Colourblocks 1.45 Something Special horror thriller. Review, right. (1975, 15) (S)
Stacey Dooley: inside the Convent 2.00am Grand Tours of Scotland 2.05 Teletubbies 2.20 Vida the Vet
1.00—3.00am Outrageous Pumpkins
2.30 Mojo Swoptops 2.45 Supertato Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
U&W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 (133 Scotland) Food Network F’view 43 F’sat 148 Sky 140 PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only) 2.50 Waffle the Wonder Dog 3.05 Sky 313 Virgin 428
Virgin 125 +1 Sky 232 (233 Scotland) Virgin 325 (141 Scot) Virgin 190 +1 F’sat 154 Sky 240 (241 Scot) Freesat 155 Sky 173 Virgin 187 Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.20 The +1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
Game Catchers 3.30 New. Big Lizard
Rewind TV 95 HGTV 44 U&Eden 57 3.40 Hey Duggee 3.45 Peter Rabbit
4.00 Andy’s Global Adventures
Talking 82
6.00am Unwind with Rewind 7.00 7.00am Building Alaska 8.00 9.00am Restoration Workshop 4.15 Mojo Swoptops 4.25 Bluey
4.40 Supertato 4.50 Vida the Vet
Pictures TV
FILM Incident on a Dark Street HH Escape to the Country 9.00 6.00pm Restoration Workshop
5.00 Time for School 5.15 Dodge’s 6.00am Burke’s Law TV drama.
9.00 Jason King 10.00 That’s My A Place in the Sun 10.00 Escape to 9.00 Dr Christian Will See You Now: Pup School 5.25 Sarah & Duck 5.35
Dog 10.30 A Fine Romance 11.00 the Country 11.00 A Place in the triple bill. A bride-to-be with an 7.05 Big Ben Calling HH Short,
JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45 Moon and Me
Watching 11.30 Trouble in Mind Sun 12 noon My Lottery Dream impulse control disorder 10.00 A revue-style musical about a pirate
6.10pm Clangers 6.20 In the Night
12 noon Sherlock Holmes (BW) Home 2.00pm A Place in the Sun woman is desperate to get pregnant Garden... 6.50—7.00pm CBeebies radio station. Leslie French (1935, U) (S) 7.55
12.30pm Shine on Harvey Moon 3.00 Escape to the Country 5.00 11.00 A man with psoriasis may Bedtime Stories: with Josh Widdicombe Undercover Girl HH Familiar crime
1.00 Space 1999 2.00 FILM A Place in the Sun: three editions have an even bigger problem CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702
drama about a photographer who
Sasquatch H 4.00 Whicker’s World 8.00 Escape to the Country 9.00 12 midnight Anthony Bourdain: Parts believes a nightclub owner killed his
5.00 Worzel Gummidge Down Unknown 2.00am Dr Christian Will See brother-in-law. Paul Carpenter (1957, PG) (S)
Under 5.30 That’s My Dog
Good Bones 10.00 New series
Good Bones Better Yard: Karen E
You Now 4.35 Restoration Workshop: CBBC 201 9.15 The Ghost Camera HH
6.00pm Surgical Spirit: Sheila gets transforming a helicopter exhaust unit Ragged British crime mystery that
Laine rescues an overgrown, 5.20—6.00am David Attenborough’s 7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.10 Danger
on her high horse 6.30 The Cuckoo Mouse 7.20 Dennis & Gnasher sees John Mills accused of murder.
vermin-filled lawn for an expectant Natural Curiosities (AD) Review, right. Henry Kendall (1933, U) (S)
Waltz 7.00 The Beiderbecke Affair Unleashed! 7.30 Boy Girl Dog Cat
8.00 Jason King 9.00 Mitch
young couple 11.00 New. Scariest U&Eden Freeview 57 Freesat 160 Sky 166 Mouse Cheese 7.45 New. Newsround 10.35 Paul Temple’s Triumph HH
10.05 Drop the Dead Donkey House in America: three scary Virgin 176 +1 Sky 266 Virgin 376 7.55 Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 Splendidly hammy caper with John
10.35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? homes in the spooky South vie for Odd Squad 8.25 Super Happy Magic Bentley as the author and amateur
11.05 Surgical Spirit 11.35 Watching a chance at a $150,000 makeover Blaze 64 Forest 8.35 Deadly 60 9.05 One Zoo detective. Dinah Sheridan (1950, U) (S)
12.05am The Cuckoo Waltz (AD) 11.30 Flip or Flop Vegas Three 9.30 Pickle Storm 9.50 Odd 12.20pm Rogue’s Yarn HH Derek
12.35 Sherlock Holmes (BW) 1.05 12 midnight Bargain Mansions (AD) 6.00am Dickinson’s Real Deal 6.40 Squad 10.15 Game on Grandparents Bond’s scheming adulterer comes up
Shine on Harvey Moon 1.35 That’s My 1.00am Building Alaska 2.00 Flip or Flop Pawn Stars 7.30 Auction Hunters 7.55 10.40 Horrible Histories 11.10 Super
Storage Wars 8.55 Hardcore Pawn Happy Magic Forest 11.20 Danger Mouse with the perfect crime. Nicole Maurey
Dog 2.05 FILM Sasquatch H 3.00—4.00am My Lottery Dream Home (1956, U) (S) 1.55 The Brothers British
10.15 UFOs: Secret Alien Technology 11.30 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed!
4.00—6.00am Unwind with Rewind HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 149 Sky 158 Virgin 191 11.10 The Proof Is Out There 12.10pm 11.45 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese TV drama starring Jean Anderson. (S)
Rewind TV Freeview 95 Sky 190 +1 Sky 258 Virgin 391 World’s Greatest Treasure Mysteries 11.55 Andy’s Safari Adventures 3.05 Rage at Dawn HH Handsome
1.05 The UnXplained 2.05 Pawn Stars 12.10pm Go Jetters 12.35 Danger if slow-moving western with
Great TV 50 Challenge 48 3.05 Storage Wars 4.00 Ancient Mouse 12.55 Waffle the Wonder Dog Randolph Scott out to trap the outlaw
Aliens 6.00 UFOs: the White House 1.05 Supertato 1.15 Dennis & Gnasher Reno brothers. (1955, U) (S) 4.50 The
8.00am Diagnosis Murder: two 7.00am The Chase 10.00 Weakest Files 7.00 Pawn Stars 8.00 Unleashed! 1.40 Super Happy Magic Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
episodes 10.00 Father Dowling Link 11.00 Pointless Celebrities Dickinson’s Real Deal 9.00 New. The Forest 1.50 Pickle Storm 2.10 Boy Girl TV western. (S) 5.25 The Adventures
Mysteries 11.00 Castle 12 noon The Chase 1.00pm Family UnXplained 10.00 New. Monsterquest Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 2.25 Jamie of Jim Bowie TV western. (S)
12 noon Hart to Hart 2.00pm Fortunes: four episodes of the 11.00 My Paranormal Nightmare Johnson 2.55 What’s Cooking Omari?
12 midnight Haunted Hospitals 3.00 The Dengineers 3.30 Dennis 5.55 26 Men TV western drama.
Father Dowling Mysteries 3.00 game show hosted by Les Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 3.55 Danger 6.25pm The Texan TV western. (S)
1.00am UFOs: Secret Alien Technology
Diagnosis Murder 5.00 Murder, (AD) 3.00 Catchphrase: double bill. 2.00 Weird Britain 3.00 Hardcore Mouse 4.05 Ninja Express 4.15 Grizzy 7.00 Z Cars TV police drama. (S)
She Wrote: two episodes. A friend Contestants try to win prizes by Pawn 3.25 Flipping Bangers and the Lemmings 4.25 Boy Girl Dog 8.05 The Human Jungle
of Seth’s becomes a suspect, then deducing everyday figures of 4.10—6.00am Ancient Aliens Cat Mouse Cheese 4.35 New. Super TV drama starring Herbert Lom. (S)
Jessica invents a board game 7.00 speech from visual clues, with Roy Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 161 Sky 164 Virgin 174
Happy Magic Forest 4.50 Odd Squad
M*A*S*H 9.00 The Avengers: Mrs Walker (AD) 4.00 Blockbusters: 5.05 Total Dramarama 5.15 Grizzy 9.05 Maigret TV drama.
Peel is kidnapped by a film producer and the Lemmings 5.20 Andy and the 11.00 Smokescreen HHH Peter
10.00 Randall and Hopkirk
double bill of the quiz hosted by
Bob Holness 5.00 Bullseye: four
BBC Parliament 232 Band 5.35 One Zoo Three 6.00 New. Vaughan’s performance as an
Jamie Johnson FC: Jay struggles to insurance investigator makes this
(Deceased): Jeff stumbles across a editions of the darts-based quiz 6.00am Treasury Questions 7.00 settle in 6.30 New. Spooky Files
kidnap plot 11.00 Return of the 7.00 Cash Trapped 8.00 The House of Commons 9.30 Live Select
Brighton-set thriller worth
6.55—7.00pm Our Black History Heroes watching. Review, right. (1964, PG) (S)
Saint: Simon exposes an embezzler Chase: double bill of the quiz hosted Committees 11.30 Live Scotland Office
12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Randall CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701 12.30am Maigret TV drama. (S)
by Bradley Walsh 10.00 Who Questions 12 noon Live Prime
and Hopkirk (Deceased) 3.00 Return of Wants to Be a Millionaire? (AD) Minister’s Questions 12.35pm Live 1.35 Sex Education TV drama. 2.05
the Saint 3.50 Movie News 4.00 Highway 11.00 Bullseye: double bill Budget Statement and Debate 7.30 ITV Kids on ITV2 Gloria HHHH A woman goes on
to Heaven 4.50—5.00am Movie News Live House of Lords 10.00 Prime the run with a boy when his parents
12 midnight Who Wants to Be a ITV Kids shows also stream on ITVX
Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Sky 157 Millionaire? 1.00am The Crystal Maze Minister’s Questions 10.35 Lords are killed by the Mafia in this terrific
Virgin 170 +1 Sky 257 (AD) 2.00 The Chase: double bill Questions: questions to government 6.15am Teen Titans Go! 6.30 Mr Bean: thriller. Gena Rowlands (1980, 15) (S) 4.30
4.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ministers 11.20—6.00am House of the Animated Series 7.15 Scooby-Doo! Decoy TV drama. (S) 5.00—6.00am
FREEVIEW channels 5.00—6.00am Bullseye: double bill Lords: business in the House of Lords Mystery Incorporated 7.45 Be Cool, Thunderbirds TV puppet sci-fi.
Scooby-Doo! 8.10 What’s New
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9.00am Hidden Truth: Lies Will 7.30am Bob Marley: One Love and her rebellious young
Surface HH Passable murder HH Clichéd but well performed client. JF (US 1994, violence, swearing)
mystery. Sarah Lind (2016) 11.00 True biopic. Kingsley Ben-Adir (2024, 12) 9.20
Justice HH Mystery thriller. Katherine The Radleys HHH Likeable dark
McNamara (2024) 12.55pm Too Close to comedy. Damian Lewis, Kelly Macdonald (2024) Hitman: Agent 47 HH
Home: The Baby Kidnapper HH 11.20 As 10pm 1.35pm As 8pm 9.00-11.05pm
A new mother faces danger from
someone in her past. Linsey Godfrey, Alicia
3.40 Don’t Tell Mom the
Babysitter’s Dead HH Fitfully
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Leigh Willis (2018) 3.00 Turbulence HH amusing remake of the 1991 comedy. ACTION The second
An FBI agent is faced with a tough Simone Joy Jones, Nicole Richie (2024, 15)
decision. Dina Meyer (2016) 5.00 Miami 5.30pm The Color Purple HHH
adaptation from the hit video
Magma HH Hokey made-for-TV All-singin’, all-dancin’ musical version game stars Rupert Friend as
disaster movie. Rachel Hunter (2011) of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize- an assassin who helps a young
7.05pm Lost Letter Mysteries winning novel. Fantasia Barrino (2023, 12) woman (Hannah Ware) take
for Christmas Comedy drama. 8.00 Ghostbusters: Frozen down a terrorist organisation.
9.00 Hitman: Agent 47 HH Empire HHHH The new
Confusing, chaotic thriller sequel generation of spook chasers takes Lacking in both subtlety and
based on the video game. Review, on icy spectres. Paul Rudd (2024, 12) humour, the film wades
right. Rupert Friend, Hannah Wareo (2015, 15) 10.00 The Book of Clarence HHH through the confusing plot,
11.05 Hitman: Redemption HHH A conman tries to pass himself off with care taken only in the
A typically tough Ron Perlman as a messiah in this biblical satire.
heads a classy cast in this Review p31. LaKeith Stanfield (2023, 15) action scenes. Better than
menacing thriller. Famke Janssen (2018, 15) 12.15am As 7.30am 2.05 its 2007 predecessor, but
1.20am I Am Wrath HH Explosive Drive-away Dolls HHHH Madcap only just. VICTORIA LUXFORD
but predictable revenge thriller. John crime comedy from Ethan Coen. (US/Ger/Sing 2015, violence, swearing)
Travolta, Christopher Meloni (2016, 15) 3.20 Wild Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan (2023, 15)
3.50 Restore Point HHH Finely FILM Ghostbusters HHH 10.40pm-12.30am
West Chronicles 4.00—5.40am The
Lease HH Far-fetched, twist-packed drawn Czech sci-fi detective flick. OF THE BBC1 (starts 11.10pm in Wales; not in Scotland) h Smokescreen HHH
psychological thriller. Haylie Duff (2017) Andrea Mohylova, Matej Hadek (2023, 15) DAY 11.00pm-12.30am
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+1 Sky 322 EE 501/HD 515 this all-women reboot of the beloved spook-chasing series is
at least as good as its predecessor, 1989’s Ghostbusters II THRILLER This above-
Great Action 42 Legend 41
(review p65). Following the pattern of the original film, this average 1960s programme
8.00am Police Ten 7 9.10 Snipers 8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00 re-teams Bridesmaids stars Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy filler stars Peter Vaughan
10.20 War Machines 11.30 Wild The A-Team 10.00 MacGyver 11.00 as New York scientists who start a “Metaphysical Examination” (who would go on to play
West Chronicles 12 noon Wanted: Solar Attack HH Routine sci-fi business with their oddball colleague Kate McKinnon. The Grouty in TV’s Porridge) as
Dead or Alive 1.00pm Gunfighters adventure. Mark Dacascos, Louis Gossett Jr (2005)
HH Western. A gunslinger who wants 1.00pm Brothers of the Frontier three are on fine form, but it’s Leslie Jones (rounding out the a dogged, penny-pinching
to retire is reluctantly forced to HH Watchable pioneer adventure. Ghostbuster team) and Chris Hemsworth (as their secretary) insurance-claims inspector
change his mind. Randolph Scott (1947, PG) Joey Lawrence (1996) 3.00 Memoirs who get the biggest laughs. CALUM BAKER (US 2016, swearing, HD) who suspects there is more
2.55 Bite the Bullet HHH of an Invisible Man HHH Breezy to a blazing car wreck than
Gripping allegorical drama about a comic thriller with impressive special
The Ghost Camera HH receives a rare showing today.
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.

700-mile horse race. Gene Hackman (1975, PG) effects. Review, right. Chevy Chase, meets the eye. Director Jim
Daryl Hannah (1992, PG) 5.00 Star Trek 9.15-10.35am While Carpenter ensures that O’Connolly keeps the action

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7.05pm San Andreas Mega Quake 6.00pm MacGyver TV adventure Talking Pictures TV y the action whips along at a moving swiftly and engagingly
H Chaotic, mockbusting disaster starring Richard Dean Anderson. cracking pace, he doesn’t along. DP (UK 1964, BW)
movie. Joseph Michael Harris (2019) 7.00 The A-Team TV adventure. MYSTERY Ida Lupino and quite master the tone. Chevy
9.00 Trigger Point HH A student
joins a protest group whose former
8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
TV action drama with Chuck Norris.
John Mills make the most Chase, the innocent man Johnny Handsome HH
members turn up dead in this murky 9.00 Night Hunter HH Moody
of their roles in this popular who inadvertently becomes 1.00-3.00am Legend Xtra j
conspiracy thriller. Jordan Hinson (2015) serial-killer thriller that follows the “quota quickie”, which also invisible, looks at home with
10.55 I Am Wrath HH Explosive efforts of a cop and a vigilante to gave an early credit (as editor) CRIME Director Walter Hill’s
the comic elements but is
but predictable revenge thriller track a murderer. Henry Cavill (2018, 15) to a young David Lean. downbeat glob of nastiness
less convincing as an action
about an ex-special agent on the 10.55 The Guest HHHH shoehorns numerous genres
trail of his wife’s killer. John Travolta (2016, 15) A seemingly charming soldier is Unfortunately, much of the hero. JOHN FERGUSON (US 1992) together with some success.
12.55am Icetastrophe HH taken in by his fallen comrade’s action is dominated by Henry
A meteor makes temperatures family. Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe (2014, 15) Kendall as the amateur sleuth The Enemy Below HHHH Mickey Rourke invests nil
expression or thought into
plummet in this gimmicky disaster 12.55am The Shed HH seeking to use photographic 5.00-7.00pm Film4 g his role as a disfigured
movie. Victor Webster, Jennifer Spence (2014) Bloodthirsty, box-ticking horror. Jay Jay
2.45 Cops Uncut: double bill Warren, Cody Kostro (2019, 15) 2.50—4.50am evidence to prove Mills WAR DRAMA Based on a criminal who’s given a new
3.45—4.50am The Blitz on London Open 24 Hours HH Blood-soaked innocent of murder. DAVID real story, this is a stunning face in a prison hospital.
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited) slasher movie. Vanessa Grasse (2018, 18) PARKINSON (UK 1933, BW)
Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324 Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149 drama about a German Saved from failure by a few
Hangman’s Knot HHH U-boat and the US destroyer well-staged action sequences,
Great 52 Legend Xtra 69
11.00am-12.40pm Film4 g stalking it. Curt Jurgens and this rancid movie also
Christmas 6.00am As 5pm 8.00 Mammoth Robert Mitchum turn in fine features a sleazy turn from
HH Daft B-movie comedy thriller in WESTERN Roy Huggins, performances as the skippers, Ellen Barkin. ALAN JONES
8.00am A Christmas Cupcake HH
Feel-good comedy drama. Cindy Busby which a museum’s woolly mammoth creator of television series while the special effects won (US 1989, violence, swearing, brief nudity)
(2018) 10.00 The Perfect Christmas runs amok in a small town. Tom Skerritt including The Fugitive, also an Oscar. But it’s Dick Powell’s
Village HH Corny fantasy comedy (2007, 12) 10.00 Andromeda 11.00
wrote and directed this fine direction that stands out — Race with the Devil HHH
The 7 Adventures of Sinbad HH
with a Groundhog Day theme. Caitlin
Thompson (2018) 12 noon Hearts of A wealthy descendant of the feature. Randolph Scott plays his taut handling of the 1.35-3.25am Film4 j
Christmas HH A nurse locks horns legendary sailor is given a series of an officer leading a group action is a fine achievement. THRILLER Easy Rider was
with her finance manager. Emilie Ullerup, impossible tasks. Patrick Muldoon (2010)
1.00pm Stormageddon HH of Confederate soldiers who TONY SLOMAN (US 1957, HD) both a triumph and curse for
Kristoffer Polaha (2016) 2.00pm
Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane A super-computer goes rogue in this steal a Union gold shipment, star Peter Fonda, who found
HH Emotional drama. Alicia Witt (2018) low-budget eco-disaster movie. John unaware that the Civil War The Client HHHH himself typecast after it.
4.00 Coming Home for Christmas Hennigan (2015, 12) 3.00 Andromeda
4.00 Knight Rider 5.00 Charro! H
has been over for a month. 9.00-11.35pm ITV4 j This film contains all the
HH Romance. Danica McKellar (2017)
Elvis Presley stars in this bungled, They take refuge in a THRILLER Susan Sarandon road-movie elements of
6.00pm It’s Beginning to Look
a Lot like Christmas HH Fun would-be “serious” western. (1969, PG) stagecoach station, and a stars here as the little-league Fonda’s countercultural
festive romcom. Tricia Helfer (2019) 7.00pm Andromeda TV sci-fi tense chamber piece unfolds. classic, but this time the bad
8.00 Christmas in Evergreen: series starring Kevin Sorbo. lawyer who takes on the case
BRIAN BAXTER (US 1952, HD) guys are Satanists. Director
Letters to Santa Fantasy drama. 8.00 Knight Rider TV drama. of a boy (Brad Renfro) who
10.00 The Mistletoe Promise HH 9.00 Johnny Handsome HH has witnessed a Mob-related Jack Starrett keeps it moving
Romance blooms for two people Mickey Rourke plays a disfigured Memoirs of an Invisible along, and the always
Man HHH suicide. Sarandon soon finds
who hate Christmas. Jaime King (2016) criminal who’s given a new face. watchable Warren Oates
herself up against Tommy
12 midnight Christmas Getaway Review, right. (1989, 15) 3.00-5.00pm Legend g Lee Jones’s ruthless federal
co-stars. ADRIAN TURNER
HH Appealing romantic comedy. 10.55 Quatermass and the Pit
(US 1975, violence, swearing, HD)
Bridget Regan, Travis Van Winkle (2017) 2.00am HHH Inventive sci-fi in which a COMEDY THRILLER attorney. Director Joel
Highway to Heaven 3.00—5.00am spaceship is found in the London Director John Carpenter Schumacher presents a
A Gift to Remember HH Amiable Underground. Andrew Keir (1967, 12) Films to stream from p30
romance. Ali Liebert, Peter Porte (2017) 1.00—3.00am As 9pm returned to the mainstream believable relationship
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The Simpsons 10.00pm Gangs of London 9.00pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks Absolutely Fabulous 9.00pm Hightown 10.00pm Frankie
Homer tries to comfort Lisa Marian wants the killer found 9.00pm Mel B plays captain Eddie is reunited with Saffy receives a sinister warning
6.00am Sky News Breakfast 8.00 6.00am Richard E Grant’s Hotel 6.00am Stargate SG-1 8.00 7.35am The Fosters 8.35 Keeping 7.10am Murdoch Mysteries
Border Patrol 9.00 Stargate Atlantis Secrets (AD) 8.10 True Blood 10.15 Supergirl 9.00 Stargate Atlantis Up Appearances 9.15 Last of the 9.00 Father Brown (AD) 10.00
11.00 Big Cat Country 12 noon Britannia (AD) 12.15pm Game of 11.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Summer Wine 9.55 Are You Being Unforgettable 11.00 Hudson & Rex
Supergirl 1.00pm NCIS: Los Thrones (AD) 1.20 Billions: double (AD) 12 noon Supergirl 1.00pm Served? 10.35 Still Open All Hours (AD) 12 noon The Mentalist
Angeles 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 4.00 bill (AD) 3.35 True Blood NCIS: Los Angeles 3.00 Hawaii 11.10 Last of the Summer Wine (AD) 1.00pm Death in Paradise (AD)
MacGyver 5.00 The Simpsons 5.55pm Britannia 9/10 Series 2 Five-0 4.00 MacGyver 5.00 DC’s 1.05pm Keeping Up Appearances 2.00 Murdoch Mysteries 4.00
Legends of Tomorrow (AD) 1.40 The Good Life 2.20 Still Unforgettable 5.00 Hudson & Rex:
6.00pm The Office US 21/22 Divis is given one last chance to
try and prove himself. (AD) 6.00pm Stargate Atlantis Open All Hours 3.00 Dad’s Army Sidney draws closer to the truth (AD)
Series 2. Michael takes over 3.40 Are You Being Served? 4.20
conflict resolution duties. 6.55 10/10. Druid brothers Veran 3/20 Series 2. Teyla and 6.00pm Elementary 1/13 Series 7
Last of the Summer Wine (AD)
6.30 22/22. Dunder-Mifflin and Harka finally face each other Sheppard are taken captive.
5.40 Still Open All Hours Holmes and Watson work as
hosts a charity casino night. in a dramatic challenge. (AD) 7.00 4/20. The mission to rescue consultants for Scotland Yard in
7.55 Game of Thrones 8/10 McKay from the Wraith goes awry. 6.20pm Keeping Up Appearances London, where a model has been
7.00 The Simpsons Bart’s toys Hyacinth attends a christening.
take up arms against him. Series 2. Robb Stark discovers 8.00 The 00s: Cinema’s the victim of an acid attack.
7.30 Homer learns he is a robot. he has been betrayed by one of Greatest Decade Examining the 7.00 Dad’s Army The last-ever 7.00 The Mentalist 13/23 Series 1
his closest friends. (AD) merits of films from the 2000s. (AD) episode of the wartime comedy. Patrick uncovers an art-forgery
8.00 New. Portrait Artist of the 7.40 First episode of the comedy
Year Ep 4. With Andy Cole, Linton 9.00 Gangs of London 6/9 9.00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks ring while investigating the death

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on Sean to uncover Finn’s killer. Julian Clary and Sister 8.20 The Good Life Barbara killed for interrupting a theft.
9.00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks Meanwhile, Elliot’s recuperation is Bliss join host Greg Davies and tries her hand at public speaking. 8.00 Death in Paradise 5/8
4 Ep 3 Series 4. With Mel B,
Alex James, Julian Clary and
interrupted by a new threat. (AD)
10.05 The Wire 8/12 Series 2
regulars Noel Fielding and Jamali
Maddix, with Mel B standing in
9.00 Absolutely Fabulous
Eddie and Patsy return to chaos.
Series 6. A man is murdered out
at sea, and as the investigation
Sister Bliss. See page 79. as captain. See page 79.
McNulty’s failure to reconcile with deepens, Humphrey takes the
10.00 Bottom Flatmates Richie
10.00 The Simpsons Lisa asks his wife causes him to return to his 10.00 The Walking Dead 6/22 and Eddie go camping. (AD)
inquiry all the way to London. (AD)
Sideshow Bob to help find a killer. old drinking and womanising habits, Series 10. Carol and Daryl go on a
10.30 Lisa is traumatised at 9.00 New. CSI: Vegas 5/10
while falling further into depression. mission together, while Siddiq 10.40 Inside No 9 The guests Series 3. When a mechanic is
Krustyland Horror Night. struggles to solve a mystery. arrive for Rebecca and Jeremy’s
11.15 I Hate Suzie 7/8 Series 1 murdered, the team investigates
11.00 The Overlap on Tour Naomi and Suzie attend director 11.00 The Overlap on Tour engagement party. (AD) whether the perpetrator was
Ep 1 Series 2. Gary Neville, Roy Hal Holloway’s press night. (AD) Ep 1 Series 2. Gary Neville, Roy 11.20 Blackadder the Third human or a humanoid robot. (AD)
Keane, Jamie Carragher and Ian 12 midnight 8/8. Finally coming Keane, Jamie Carragher and Edmund tries to find a rich bride 10.00 New. Hightown 5/10
Wright head to Turin. to terms with her situation, Suzie Ian Wright head to Turin. for Prince George. (AD)
Series 2. Jackie and Ray both
12 midnight The Walking Dead: Daryl takes control of her life. (AD) 12 midnight The Walking Dead: Daryl 12 midnight Absolutely Fabulous realise a distressing truth.
Dixon — the Book of Carol 1.05am 12.50am My Brilliant Friend: Dixon — the Book of Carol 1.05am 1.00am Bottom (AD) 1.40 Inside
Brassic (AD) 2.05 Road Wars 3.00 double bill 2.50 Game of Thrones Brassic (AD) 2.00 Banshee 3.05 No 9 (AD) 2.20 Blackadder the Third 11.10 The Mentalist As 7pm.
Hawaii Five-0 4.00 MacGyver (AD) 3.55—6.00am Richard E Hawaii Five-0 4.00 MacGyver (AD) 2.50—4.00am The Real McCoy: 12.10am Elementary 1.10 Justified
5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol Grant’s Hotel Secrets (AD) 5.00—6.00am Highway Patrol double bill of the sketch show 2.20—4.00am Murdoch Mysteries
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6.00am Most Haunted 8.00 6.00am Sun, Sea and A&E 7.00 7.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry 8.00 8.00am Will & Grace (AD) 9.00 Young 6.00am Deadliest Catch 7.00 How It’s
Home Shopping 11.00 Star Trek: Paramedics Australia 8.00 Border Four Weddings (AD) 10.00 Merlin (AD) Rock (AD) 10.00 Vice Principals (AD) Made: Dream Cars 8.00 Lone Star Law
the Next Generation 12 noon Patrol 9.00 Highway Patrol 10.00 11.00 Motorway Patrol (AD) 12 noon 11.20 Looking 12.35pm Insecure (AD) 9.00 Mike Brewer’s World of Cars (AD)
Stargate Universe (AD) 1.00pm UK Border Force (AD) 11.00 For Life Caught on Dashcam 1.00pm Border 1.50 Betty 2.25 Vice Principals (AD) 10.00 How Do They Do It? 11.00
Security: America’s Front Line 2.00 3.45 Looking 5.00 Will & Grace (AD) Wheeler Dealers 1.00pm Alaska:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.00 (AD) 12 noon Coroner 1.00pm
Most Haunted 4.00 The Good Doctor 6.00 The Office US 7.00 Young Rock Homestead Rescue 3.00 Gold Rush:
Primeval 3.00 Stargate SG-1 4.00 Chicago Med 2.00 Chicago Fire 5.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder 6.00 (AD) 8.00 Will & Grace: double bill. Parker’s Trail 4.00 The Last Alaskans
Stargate Universe (AD) 5.00 Star 3.00 Caught on Dashcam The Real A&E (AD) 7.00 Merlin: Morgana A client asks Grace to design his 5.00 Gold Divers
Trek: the Next Generation 4.00pm Nothing to Declare wonders if she has magic powers, but restaurant, but with one condition — she 6.00pm How Do They Do It? 7.00
6.00pm Primeval 2/6 Series 1 Eight back-to-back editions of the Gaius insists she remain ignorant of her must first fire Karen, then Karen is Gold Rush 8.00 Wheeler Dealers: Mike
potential for her own good (AD) 8.00 showered with gifts on Valentine’s Day gambles on a Ford P100 imported from
Cutter investigates an invasion of fly-on-the-wall documentary on Border Security: America’s Front Line (AD) 9.00 Entourage: double bill. South Africa 9.00 Jade Fever: double
giant spiders on the Underground. the world of national security at 9.00 Day of the Dead: the survivors Amanda pushes Vince for an answer, bill. Events at a large jade mining chain
7.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Australia’s biggest airports. seek any refuge — ultimately taking help then Ari becomes jealous of a former and tourist shop in remote Jade City,
Nine 21/26 Series 3. Garak has to from mysterious armed strangers (AD) fraternity brother 10.10 New. The then the crew members scramble to get
8.00 Chicago Fire 7/22 Series 10 10.00 Motorway Patrol (AD) 11.00 Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: their heavy equipment up a mountain
prove his loyalty as the threat of Gallo clashes with the new Magnum P.I. (AD) 12 midnight Merlin American chat show 11.10 Sex and the (AD) 10.00 Scrap Kings 11.00
intergalactic war looms. lieutenant temporarily filling in for (AD) 1.00am The Russell Howard Hour City 12.30am Silicon Valley 1.45 Roadworthy Rescues 12 midnight
8.00 Stargate SG-1 4/22 Series 5 Casey. Severide closes in on a 2.00 A League of Their Own (AD) 3.00 Dan Soder: Son of a Gary 2.55 Expedition Bigfoot 1.00am Jade Fever
Teal’c, Carter and Daniel return to dangerous and deadly arsonist. Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (AD) 4.00 Moonbase 8 (AD) 3.55—5.00am (AD) 2.00 Scrap Kings 3.00—5.00am
Four Weddings (AD) 5.00—6.00am Flatbush Misdemeanors (AD) Alaska: Homestead Rescue
Stargate Command, where they 9.00 Blue Bloods 9/18 Series 14
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series of robberies on his college
9.00 The Crazies HHHH Sky Crime Comedy Central Discovery History
q Horror starring Timothy campus. Erin becomes suspicious
Olyphant. The water supply of an overworked attorney. 6.00am Highway Patrol 7.00 Highway 8.00am Michael McIntyre’s Big Show 6.00am Nasa’s Unexplained Files 7.00
of a small Iowa town is 10.00 Departure 2/6 Series 3 Cops (AD) 8.00 Stop, Search, Seize 9.00 Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party Wings of War (AD) 8.00 Greatest
9.00 Brit Cops (AD) 10.00 Motorway 10.00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA Events of World War II 9.00 Secrets
contaminated by a mysterious With signs of life onboard the Patrol 11.00 Murders That Shocked the Underground (AD) 10.00 Salvage
11.00 New Girl 12 noon Friends (AD)
chemical spill that turns those vessel, the race for recovery Nation (AD) 12 noon How I Caught the Hunters 11.00 Salvage Hunters: the
who come into contact with it into 8.00pm New. Whose Line Is It
continues along with evidence Killer (AD) 1.00pm Killer in My Village Anyway? USA: two editions 9.00 Restorers 12 noon Combat Dealers
zombie-like killers. It falls to gathering. Survivors start 2.00 Murdered at First Sight (AD) 3.00 Jason Manford Live at the Manchester (AD) 1.00pm Blowing Up History
Sheriff David Dutton to get to the experiencing flashbacks. (AD) World’s Most Evil Killers 4.00 Britain’s 2.00 Wings of War (AD) 3.00 Salvage
Apollo 10.00 Michael McIntyre’s Big Hunters 4.00 Combat Dealers
bottom of the situation. (W) Most Evil Killers 5.00 How I Caught the
11.00 FBI 15/19 Series 2. The Killer (AD) 6.00 Murders That Shocked
Show 11.00 New. Ugly Americans 5.00 Shed and Buried: two editions
11.00 Stephen King’s It 1/2 team must figure out who is the Nation (AD) 7.00 World’s Most Evil
11.30 Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains
6.00pm Secrets Underground (AD)
Adaptation of the best-selling behind the hijacking of a truck Killers 8.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers 12.30am Dara O Briain Talks Funny: 7.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files 8.00
horror novel about seven friends 9.00 Monster in the Shadows (AD) Live in London 1.30 Most Ridiculous: Cooper’s Treasure 9.00 Combat
filled with rifles. (AD) Full Throttle 2.00 Most Ridiculous:
forced into a confrontation with a 10.00 Forensics 11.00 The Clown and Dealers (AD) 10.00 Salvage Hunters
12 midnight Chicago PD 1.00am the Candyman (AD) 12 midnight How I Bonkers Beasts 2.30 Nigel Ng: the 11.00 Salvage Hunters: the Restorers
supernatural enemy. (AD) The Rookie: Feds (AD) 2.00 FBI: Caught the Killer 1.00am Killer in My Haiyaa Special 3.40 New. The Daily 12 midnight Shed and Buried 1.00am
1.00am Monstrous 1.45 The Most Wanted (AD) 3.00 Transplant Village 3.00 Ireland’s Most Evil Killers Show 4.05 Beavis and Butt-Head Combat Dealers 2.00 Salvage Hunters
Leftovers 4.00 Wynonna Earp (AD) 4.00 Stop, Search, Seize (AD) (AD) 4.00 UK Border Force (AD) 4.15—5.00am Friends (AD) 3.00 Cooper’s Treasure 4.00—5.00am
5.00—6.00am Primeval 5.00—6.00am UK Border Force 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol Comedy Central Sky 112 (113 Wales) Salvage Hunters: the Restorers
Sky Sci-Fi Sky 139 (140 Scotland) Virgin 122 Sky Witness Sky 107 Virgin 110 Sky Crime Sky 122 (123 Scotland) Virgin 121 Virgin 132 EE 345/HD 360 Discovery History Sky 174 Virgin 181
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coverage from the WTA and ATP Premier League Netbusters 7.00
Tours, including the ATP Paris Wrestling 9.30 Ariel Helwani Meets
Masters, WTA Hong Kong Open 10.30 International One-Day Cricket
11.30 Premier League Stories (AD)
and WTA Jiujiang Open. 12 noon Italian Football 2.00pm
12.30pm LIVE ATP Tennis Serie A: Full Impact 2.30 Premier
Day three of the Paris Masters. League Reload 2.45 Champions League:
7.00 LIVE League Cup Football Stories of the Finals (AD) 3.45 Brothers
Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester in Football (AD) 5.30 Champions
Dave Not Coming Back Africa’s Claws and Jaws City, a fourth-round tie at Tottenham League Magazine 6.00 Serie A: Full
10.00pm A recovery attempt 11.00pm An Egyptian cobra Hotspur Stadium (kick-off 8.15). Impact 6.30 TNT Sports Reload (AD)
11.00—6.00am LIVE Tennis WTA 7.00 Premier League Netbusters
6.00am The 2010s 7.00 6.00am Great Blue Wild 7.00 and ATP Tour coverage, including 7.30 LIVE Italian Football
Discovering: Vanessa Redgrave (AD) Monkey Life 8.00 Hope for Wildlife the ATP Paris Masters, WTA Hong Juventus v Parma, the Serie A match
8.00 The Directors 9.00 The 9.00 Dogs with Extraordinary Jobs Kong Open and WTA Jiujiang Open. from Allianz Stadium (kick-off 7.45).
Vietnam War 10.00 Edge of the (AD) 10.00 Ocean Parks 11.00 Big Coverage continues until 10am. League Cup 7.25pm Sky 9.45 The Muddy Roots of Football:
Earth (AD) 11.05 Spector (AD) Cat Country 12 noon Patagonia (AD) a profile of an amateur Romanian
12 noon Obama: in Pursuit of a 1.00pm Monkey Life 2.00 Hope for
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More Perfect Union (AD) 2.00pm Wildlife 3.00 Dogs with Extraordinary Sky Football Rutter takes on Liverpool a pitch from a nearby village
Pantani: the Accidental Death of a Jobs (AD) 4.00 Ocean Parks 5.00 Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 EE 421/HD 441 10.15 Sign Up: into Football
Cyclist 4.00 The Directors 5.00
Discovering: Vanessa Redgrave (AD)
Africa’s Claws and Jaws (AD) 6.00am Classic Play-Offs 8.30 Best Sky Premier League 11.00 Premier League Stories (AD)
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President Nixon begins Games 10.00 Championship Retro 6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 7.00 12 midnight LIVE Major League
enemies to allies in the Andes. (AD) Highlights 10.00 Football Show 12 noon Baseball World Series, game five.
withdrawing American troops. 12 noon League Cup Football 2.00pm
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7.00 Edge of the Earth Two marmosets are discovered. Highlights 4.00 League Cup Football Premier League 100: Michael Owen 4.30 What Went Down (AD)
professional daredevils attempt to 4.30 Scottish Premiership Round-Up 5.30 Review 6.30 Stories 7.00 Soccer 5.45—6.00am What I Wore (AD)
7.30 Jeremy’s patience is tested Special 10.15 Stories 10.45 Greatest
accomplish the first individual free 4.45 Scottish Premiership Highlights
by Bryan the chimp’s outbursts. Games 11.00 Years 1.00am Retro 3.00

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on Kyrgyzstan’s Pik Slesova. (AD) 8.00 Africa’s Hidden Kingdoms League One Highlights 6.00 League Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Best Goals
(AD) 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)
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The wonders of Africa’s most Two Highlights 6.15 1983: When
8.05 Spector Phil Spector Aberdeen Ruled Europe (AD) Sky 411 Virgin 528 EE 409/HD 431
amazing landscapes. (AD)
assembles his legal defence team
as he professes his innocence. (AD) 9.00 Waterworld Africa
7.15 LIVE Scottish Premiership
Football Aberdeen v Rangers
Sky Cricket 6.00am World Rally: a look back at the
World Rally Championship in Italy (AD)
Southern Africa is gripped by at Pittodrie (kick-off 8.00). Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 EE 422/HD 442 7.00 MotoGP: the Grand Prix of
9.00 Chimp Crazy Tonia drought. At times like this, water Thailand 11.15 Premier League Reload:
10.30 Ibrox 125 11.00 League Cup 6.00am Best of the Women’s World Cup the weekend’s action 11.30 Fishing (AD)
struggles to let go and dreams of becomes critical to survival and Football 11.30 League One Highlights
opening her own island sanctuary (AD) 6.15 Women’s Big Bash Highlights 12.30pm World Rally (AD) 3.30
wetlands become magnets for life. 11.45 Championship Highlights 8.05 LIVE Women’s Big Bash
where she can live among MotoGP: action from the Grand Prix of
12 midnight League Cup Highlights League Cricket Brisbane Heat v Thailand 4.30 Wrestling 6.30 Pool:
chimpanzees. Last in series. (AD) 10.00 Patagonia As 6pm. 12.30am Classic League Cup Final (AD)
Melbourne Renegades. action from the last 16 of Group B of the
10.00 Dave Not Coming Back 11.00 Africa’s Claws and Jaws 2.30 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Ultimate Pool Pairs Cup 8.00 NBA
Championship Season Review (AD) 11.25 Ashes Memories (AD) 12 noon
The story of two divers’ Examining the snakes, spiders and 5.00 Best League Cup Goals(AD) Best of the Women’s World T20 (AD) 11.00 LIVE NBA Indiana Pacers v
dangerous mission to retrieve a scorpions of Africa. (AD) 5.30—6.00am EFL Trophy Football (AD) 1.00pm Women’s Big Bash League Boston Celtics, the Eastern
Cricket 5.30 Ashes Memories (AD) Conference match from Gainbridge

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2.50 My Icon: Chris Hughton (AD) Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 EE 423/HD 443 the Women’s World T20 (AD) 1.00am from Juventus v Parma 3.30 Pool
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Kings 10.00 Alaska’s Grizzly Gauntlet
Nazi Megastructures 11.00 Airport Champions 12.30am European Tour 9.00 Highlights 12 noon Good Morning RFC 7.00 Premiership Rugby Union
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Security: Colombia 12 noon Car SOS Golf 1.00 European Challenge Tour Golf Football 2.00pm Kansas City Chiefs: the 12 noon The Rugby Review (AD)
Incredible Dr Pol 1.00pm Yukon Vet
(AD) 1.00pm Inside Sydney Airport 1.30 One Shot Away 2.00—6.00am Franchise 2.30 Highlights 3.00 Bitesize 12.45pm Badminton (AD) 1.00
2.00 America’s Mighty Northwest
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3.00 Plane Crash Re-created 4.00 the Franchise 4.30 Bitesize 5.00 Saracens v Gloucester-Hartpury RFC
Monster Fish: in search of giant carp
Weekly Review 6.00 Pro-Football Talk 2.00 Premiership Rugby Union 7.00
Hitler’s Last Stand 5.00 Car SOS
6.00pm World War II: Secrets from
6.00pm Snakes in the City: a spitting
cobra takes aim at snake catcher
Sky Tennis 8.00 Jaguars Weekly UK 8.30 Bitesize
9.00 One Jets Drive 9.45 Bitesize 10.00
Test Cricket: a look back at the Second
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series. Witches: Truth behind the Trials: filly is causing trouble 8.00 Legends of 6.00am LIVE Tennis Continued WWE Raw highlights 10.00 The Rugby
coverage from the WTA and ATP 2.00 Pro-Football Talk 4.00 Weekly Review: a review of all the action from
re-creating witch trials from Europe and Venom: following the fastest, longest Review 5.00—6.00am Bitesize (AD)
America, beginning with the story of venomous snake in Africa, the mamba Tours, including the ATP Paris matchweek six of Premiership Rugby
Scotland’s first major witch trials. See 9.00 Ten Deadliest Snakes with Nigel Masters, WTA Hong Kong Open (AD) 10.45 Badminton: a round-up of
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Dive 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD)
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Lords of War 2.30 Money Meltdown Deadliest 11.00 Snakes in the City
3.20 Food Factory 4.10—5.00am a hard-court tournament. 6.00am LIVE Tennis WTA and ATP. 1.30am International One-Day Cricket
12 midnight When Sharks Attack
Secrets of the Zoo: Keeper Tales 2.00am Yukon Vet 3.00 Secrets of the 8.00—6.00am LIVE Tennis 12.30pm LIVE ATP Tennis 2.30 Test Cricket: India v New Zealand
Coverage from the WTA and ATP Day three of the Paris Masters. (AD) 4.30 Down the Clubhouse (AD)
Nat Geographic Sky 129 (130 Scotland) Zoo: Tampa 4.00—5.00am Yukon Vet
Tours, including the ATP Paris 5.30—6.00am TNT Sports Reload (AD)
Virgin 183 +1 Sky 229 (230 Scot) Virgin 383 Nat Geo Wild Sky 165 Virgin 182 7.00 EFL Build-Up
Masters, WTA Hong Kong Open and 7.25 LIVE League Cup Football
Sky History Animal Planet WTA Jiujiang Open. Coverage
continues until 12.30pm.
Brighton & Hove Albion v
Liverpool (kick-off 7.30).
TNT Sports 4
6.00am American Pickers 8.00 The 8.00am Animal Cribs 9.00 Dodo 11.00 LIVE WTA Tennis Day three Sky 421 Virgin 530 EE 411/HD 434
UnXplained with William Shatner 10.00
Swamp People: Serpent Invasion 12 noon
Heroes 10.00 Dogs 101 11.00 Alaska:
Homestead Rescue 12 noon Animal
Eurosport 1 of the Merida Open in Mexico.
4.00—6.00am LIVE Tennis
6.00am MLB Classic (AD)
1.00pm Major League Baseball 3.30
Secrets of the Lost Liners 2.00pm Cribs (AD) 1.00pm Dodo Heroes 2.00 Sky 413 Virgin 521 EE 412 Action from the WTA and ATP Tours. NBA 6.30 Australian Football: Macarthur
Storage Wars 4.00 Pawn Stars Coyote Peterson: Brave the Wild 3.00 FC v Newcastle Jets; Adelaide United v
Tanked 4.00 Bad Dog! 5.00 Alaska: 6.00am Tour de France 7.00 Snooker: Coverage continues until 12.30pm.
6.00pm American Pickers 7.00 Central Coast Mariners; Melbourne City
Forged in Fire: making a steel crossbow Homestead Rescue 6.00 Animal Cribs the Wuhan Open 9.00 Motor Racing
11.00 Archery 12 noon Alpine Skiing v Melbourne Victory; Perth Glory v
8.00 New. Pawn Stars: Chum and
Santos check out an ancient Chinese
7.00 Dodo Heroes (AD) 8.00 Isle of
Jaws: Blood Brothers: the mating and 1.00pm Snooker: the Saudi Masters Eurosport 2 Wellington Phoenix; Auckland FC v
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cannon 9.00 New. Curse of Skinwalker rearing grounds of great white sharks
meeting from Chur, Switzerland 4.00 Sky 414 Virgin 522 EE 413 Western Sydney Wanderers
Ranch: the team makes a shocking (AD) 9.00 Deadliest Sharks: a profile of 12 midnight Fight Week 12.30am UFC:
discovery inside the rocky Mesa 10.00 the oceanic white tip shark 10.00 Alaska: Trail Running: a review of the World 6.00am British Superbikes 8.00
Series final in the Swiss Alps 5.00 Freestyle Skiing 9.00 Tour de France the Ultimate Fighter 3.15 Fishing (AD) 4.15
New. Beyond Skinwalker Ranch: the Last Frontier: the Kilchers expand a Surfing 5.15 What I Wore 5.30—6.00am
investigator Katie Paige rejoins Andy road with the help of a detonation Motor Racing 7.00 Archery: the World 10.00 Cyclo-Cross 11.00 World Superbikes
Cup from Mexico 8.00 Cyclo-Cross: the 1.00pm Alpine Skiing 2.00 Motor Premier League Legends (AD)
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Sharon D Clarke
as the
enigmatic Ellis

DRAMA investigations at a different police station, her task she’s compassionate and commanding, both vital
Ellis 8.00pm Channel 5 Catch up via My 5 being to solve a mystery and then move on. qualities in this opening investigation involving an
DCI Ellis (Sharon D Clarke) may be a But a major part of the job is winning over the 18-year-old swimmer who’s been found dead.
NEW no-nonsense copper, but she also has a defensive and biased local officers — and when Clarke, meanwhile, is well cast as this enigmatic
SERIES kind of Mary Poppins Syndrome, in that you’re a black, female officer who’s forever being drifter detective, who never even reveals her
each episode of this confident new disregarded, this is no mean feat. However, anyone first name. It’s a lead role that’s long overdue.
crime drama sees her parachuted into failing who dismisses Ellis is a fool to themselves, as DAVID BROWN See feature: page 18

FOOD HISTORY ENTERTAINMENT DRAMA

MasterChef: the A House through Time: Taskmaster Sweetpea
Professionals Two Cities at War 9.00pm C4 9.00pm Sky Atlantic
8.00pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer 9.00pm BBC2 Catch up via C4 streaming All episodes available via Now
The second quartet of professional Catch up via iPlayer Over the last nine years (and 18 So far, Rhiannon’s killings have been
chefs arrive in the MasterChef With rationing and nightly bombings, series) of making Taskmaster, spur-of-the-moment things, but now
kitchen, nervously waiting to hear the war is really hitting Londoners creator Alex Horne has often been she’s taken her former school bully
what sadistic culinary skills test hard including, of course, those living asked who his dream contestant turned glamorous estate agent
Monica Galetti and Marcus Wareing in Montagu Mansions. Their stories would be. And the answer, every Julia prisoner in her own home. What
have set for them. One challenge and experiences aren’t the same, time? Veteran comedian (and on earth is her plan? And if she
sounds suspiciously simple: to make but David Olusoga weaves them presumably, Horne’s idol), Jack Dee. dispatches her like the others, how
a cheeseburger. Anyone imagining together to form a fascinating You can only imagine how chuffed will she get away with it?
that they’ll just have to slap a quarter picture of the period. he must have been when Dee finally There are no answers to either
pounder on the grill and melt a slice One, a conscientious objector, signed on this year. But could that of those questions just yet but there’s
of cheese over it, can think again. embarks on an unexpected career reverence be clouding his evidence that Rhiannon (Ella Purnell)
They’ve got an array of different while another fights the Italians in the judgement? This week, fellow is learning how to assert herself. She
meats, ingredients and seasonings to Libyan desert and receives the competitor Emma Sidi is quick to squares up to her condescending
choose from because the judges military cross for bravery. Meanwhile call favouritism — and there may be boss at the paper, embarrasses an
want them to be as creative as an SS officer living in Pfalzburger some evidence of Horne’s unknown “man spreader” on the
possible. However, there’s always the Strasse, Berlin, is working to stamp impartiality wavering as the teams bus and forcefully insists Craig looks
chance to redeem themselves by out freemasons, another becomes take on tasks involving barrels, at her.
dishing up two perfect courses that the victim of the Nazi’s T4 euthanasia “special glasses” and weird noises. Perhaps it’s wicked to hope for
will get them a place in Friday’s programme and a third faces death in Time for the Taskmaster ombudsman a death every episode, but without
quarter final. JANE RACKHAM an Estonian forest. JR to step in. HUW FULLERTON one it’s just not as thrilling. JR

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Everyone Else Burns FRIGHT NIGHT
The horror stars
ALSO ON
10.00pm C4
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over the years
TODAY
Forget making the earth move.
Ructions in the Lewis household lead
to David (Simon Bird) and Fiona (Kate
O’Flynn) moving their two single beds
even further apart this episode.
They reach this stalemate via an
absurdist chain of repressed
dalliances. A broken VCR player
brings Maude (Sian Clifford) to
David’s door, with her hoping he’ll be
able to fix her spools (a request that’s
given humorous heft by Clifford’s
elongated enunciation). Elsewhere
Fiona pays Andrew (Kadiff Kirwan)
a platonic (or so she says) visit as he
prepares to take on Elder Samson
(Arsher Ali) to lead the church.
FRANCES TAYLOR See page 146 The Chelsea Detective
8.00pm U&Drama

THURSSDAY
FILM Max and Layla (Adrian Scarborough
and Vanessa Emme, above) wrap
The Omen DOCUMENTARY up for the last time this series.
11.05pm BBC2 Catch up via iPlayer
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
q “It’s all for you, Damien!”
Released in 1976 during the
“religious horror” boom that drove
9.00pm Sky Arts Catch up via Now
To mark Hammer Film Productions’ 90th birthday, Sky comes up
Ambulance
9.00pm BBC1
The realities of life in London are
trumps with this “horrible” history. A bat-flutter through the years
movie fans into a Satanic panic, this takes in the quirky origins, vibrant high points and key personnel. shown through the eyes of its
supernatural chiller more than The actors who made Hammer resound, Christopher Lee and Peter emergency services.

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matches the mood and menace of Cushing, are justly celebrated, but director Benjamin Field is more
contemporaries like The Exorcist and interested in the team effort. So we also learn about the vital
Prince William:
Rosemary’s Baby. It’s the unnerving contributions of, for example, cinematographer Jack Asher, who
We Can End Homelessness
tale of Gregory Peck’s American 9.00pm ITV1
“painted with light”. And the “monsters” of the title is a double-edged
ambassador, whose young son starts The Prince of Wales catches up
sword: the film goes very dark when we learn of real-life horrors from
to show devilish tendencies. A spate with his Homewards teams across
the studio’s tawdry era.
of sequels dissolved into drivel, but the UK and unveils plans for a
Like Hammer’s heyday, the doc is made with care and affection,
recent reboot The First Omen housing project in Cornwall.
with blood-red captions and labs strewn with candelabras. It boasts
(Disney+) is worth a watch. When it See Viewpoint: page 11
exemplary research and a roll-call to die for. MARK BRAXTON See p144
comes to all-out terror, though, little
matches the original. JOSH WINNING

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LIVE SPORT
FILM i Enys Men
Jude 9.20pmBBC4 Catch up via iPlayer 11.15pm Film4 Cricket: Men’s ODI
West Indies v England
q The second half of this evening’s viewing on BBC4 is devoted Catch up via C4 streaming
6pm Discovery+
to Thomas Hardy, beginning with Christopher Eccleston
Remembers Jude (9pm), followed by Michael Winterbottom’s 1996
adaptation of Hardy’s final novel, Jude the Obscure, starring
q This 2022 feature is the second
from Cornish filmmaker Mark
Jenkin (Bait), and another cleverly
England’s tour begins at the Sir
Vivian Richards Stadium in North
Eccleston himself. The tale of an ambitious Sound, Antigua and Barbuda.

cousin (played by Kate Winslet), it is an

Golf: Aramco Team Series
immersive if bleak drama with attractive 10am Sky Sports Golf
performances and impeccable costumes. Live action from the Ladies
TOM FOLLEY European Golf Tour at the Riyadh
Golf Club in Saudi Arabia.

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New York Jets v
Houston Texans
11pm (k/o 12.15am) Sky Sports
FILM Main Event/NFL
REVIEWS Coverage of the week nine match
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a box of ephemera. Repeated tomorrow 7.15am BBC2 (S) (HD) Lauren Branning Jacqueline Jossa Arthur Fowler Rocco Brenner salt marsh lamb. He visits the location where Dylan
Peter Beale Thomas Law Ernie Moon Cody Briffett
BBC2 Priya Nandra-Hart Sophie Khan Levy Bert Moon Elliot Briffett Thomas wrote Under Milk Wood, then heads on to
Teddy Mitchell Roland Manookian Lexi Pearce Isabella Brown Bristol to sample jerk chicken. In the West Country,
6.30am Bargain Hunt Christina Trevanion presents Jack Branning Scott Maslen Raymond Dawkins he meets a pioneer of the organic food movement,
from Shepton Mallet. Shown yesterday 12.15pm BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD) Phil Mitchell Steve McFadden Michael Jose Pomares Calixte a famous female cheesemaker, and chef Mark Hix,
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7.15 The Bidding Room Bidding for napkin clips, an Felix Baker Matthew Morrison Davinder “Nugget” Gulati
Mo Harris Laila Morse Juhaim Rasul Choudhury who cooks him pollock, cockles and seashore veg.
exercise bike and a light. Shown yesterday 4.30pm BBC1 (S) (HD) Director Colin Steele; Executive producer Matt Bennett (S) (AD) (HD)
Bernadette Taylor Clair Norris Amy Mitchell Ellie Dadd
8.00—9.00 Sign Zone Gardeners’ World Monty Don Denise Fox Diane Parish Ricky Mitchell Frankie Day Your RT Books: page 130
plants an early flowering clematis along a shady wall and Eve Unwin Heather Peace Ollie Carter Harry Farr
plants out two types of garlic. Shown last Friday BBC2 (S) (AD) (HD) Anna Knight Molly Rainford Janet Mitchell Grace 8.00 The Warship: Tour of Duty
9.00 BBC News (S) (HD) Alfie Moon Shane Richie Pearl Fox Arayah Harris-Buckle 3/6. The Enemy Within. After a break in Cyprus,
George Knight Colin Salmon Tommy Moon Sonny Kendall HMS Queen Elizabeth heads back to sea, but after
12.15pm Politics Live Analysis and debate. (S) (HD) Johnny Carter Charlie Suff Denzel Danes Jaden Ladega
Kathy Beale Gillian Taylforth Will Mitchell Freddie Phillips passing through the Suez Canal, it emerges that a
1.00 Impossible Rick Edwards presents. (R) (S) (HD)
Ravi Gulati Aaron Thiara Lily Slater Lillia Turner sailor has contracted Covid-19. One week later, the
1.45 The Tournament Alex Scott hosts. (R) (S) (HD) Elaine Peacock Harriet Thorpe Bianca Jackson Patsy Palmer virus is almost out of control with 400 members
2.30 The Boss Quiz with Susan Calman. (R) (S) (HD) Stacey Slater Lacey Turner DCI Arthurs Ian Burfield of staff in isolation. The whole series is on iPlayer.
3.15 Super Smart Animals Liz Bonnin searches Patrick Trueman Rudolph Walker Director Chris Terrill; Executive producers Christine Hall and
Writer Richard Davidson This week’s episodes directed by Vito Bruno Alan Clements (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
for some of the planet’s brainiest beasts. (R) (S) (HD) More cast Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)
4.15—5.15 This Farming Life In Armadale, at the 9.00 A House through Time: Two Cities
northernmost tip of the Scottish mainland, Storm 8.00 MasterChef: the Professionals at War
Ciara is wreaking havoc for farmer Joyce. (R) (S) (HD)
4 In this week’s second heat, another four chefs
face the daunting skills test. Monica Galetti asks 43/4 Series 5. It’s 1940 and for Londoners, the
threat of invasion by Germany has become very
ITV1 two hopefuls to produce popcorn clams, a mussel
real. Montagu Mansions resident Timothy Corsellis
6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD) fritter and a Bloody Mary mayonnaise, while Marcus
starts training as an RAF pilot, but as David Olusoga
9.00 Lorraine Fashion, food and chat. (S) (HD) Wareing provides the other two with a vast selection
discovers, comes to regret his decision when he
of ingredients to make the perfect cheeseburger.
10.00 This Morning Celebrity interviews, cookery faces the prospect of bombing innocent civilians.
All four then have a chance to showcase their flair
and lifestyle advice. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD) Meanwhile, his older sister Mary gets involved in
and creativity with their two-course signature menu.
12.30pm Loose Women Heated debates. (S) (HD) supporting victims of the bombing in Stepney. The
The competitors who most impress Monica, Marcus
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) whole series is available on iPlayer. See page 88.
and fellow judge Gregg Wallace will go through to the Director Edmund Moriarty; Series producer Tim Dunn (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 Alan Carr’s Epic Game Show Alan revives the quarter-final. Continues tomorrow 8pm. A box set of
game show Strike It Lucky, as three pairs of players previous series is on iPlayer. See page 88. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Red Dwarf
navigate their way across a sea of screens, banking 5/6 Series 3. Timeslides. Photos offer gateways to
prizes and dodging the infamous hotspots. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Ambulance the past, giving Lister a chance to change his life.
3/6 Series 13. The documentary series following the Arnold Rimmer Chris Barrie Holly Hattie Hayridge
3.00—4.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars Judge
work of ambulance crews across London continues. Dave Lister Craig Charles Young Lister Emile Charles
Rinder, Josie Gibson and Greg Rutherford take on Cat Danny John-Jules Young Rimmer Simon Gaffney
each other and the giant machine in a bid to win Crewmates Shyr-Nai and James are dispatched to
help an elderly patient who has been discovered on Kryten Robert Llewellyn
£20,000 for their chosen charity. Ben Shephard Writers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor; Director Ed Bye (R) (S) (HD)
hosts. (R) (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather (S) the floor by a neighbour. Call handler Nicole receives
a report of an elderly woman who has been hit by 10.30 Newsnight Headline analysis. (S) (HD)
Channel 4 a bus. Plus an insight into the impact of hoax calls
11.00 Weather (S) (HD)
5.45am Countdown With Neil Delamere. (R) (S) (HD) on the ambulance network. Christopher Eccleston
6.25 Cheers Three episodes of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)
narrates. A box set of previous episodes is on iPlayer. 11.05 The Omen HHHH
q Horror. When the wife of the US ambassador to
Series director Aodh Breathnach
7.45 The King of Queens Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Series producer Tasha McLintock (S) (HD)
Britain has a stillborn child, it is substituted with
9.10 Frasier Four episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) a baby whose mother died in childbirth. Five years
11.05 Come Dine with Me: the Professionals later, a series of mysterious deaths lead the couple
A round of dinners in Edinburgh, serving up Asian 10.40 Question Time to suspect that their son has supernatural powers.
street food, a French Caribbean menu and traditional Fiona Bruce presents the topical debate from On iPlayer for 30 days. Film of the Day: page 95.
Scottish hospitality. (R) (S) (HD) 12.05pm News (S) (HD) Guildford, Surrey. Also available live at 8pm on iPlayer. Robert Thorn Gregory Peck Mrs Baylock Billie Whitelaw
Executive producer Nicolai Gentchev; Editor Daniel Maxwell (S) (HD) Katherine Thorn Lee Remick Damien Harvey Stephens
12.10 Renovation Nation In Somerset, Sarah wants Have Your Say: tweet with #bbcqt Jennings David Warner Bugenhagen Leo McKern
to create a magical bedroom for her boys. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Director Richard Donner (1976, 15) (S) (W) (HD)
1.10 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Items tackled include tree 11.40 Newscast
A panel of BBC journalists hosts a political round-up, 12.50—3.50am Sign Zone 12.50 Michael Mosley: Just
stumps, a doll’s house and a yarn spinner. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) One Thing 2/2. The doctor explores the cognitive benefits
delivering serious analysis and light-hearted gossip. of learning new skills. Shown last Monday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
2.10 Countdown With guest Neil Delamere. (S) (HD) The podcast is available via BBC Sounds (S) (HD) 1.20 Nadiya’s Cook Once, Eat Twice 6/6. Nadiya Hussain
3.00 A Place in the Sun Craig Rowe helps Maria 12.10am Pets Saving Lives: Our Lives Following the work makes a savoury peanut chicken traybake. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
and Paul find a property in Andalusia that feels of canines and their handlers at Search and Rescue Dog 1.50 The Cleaner 4/6. Wicky heads to a lighthouse where
like a home away from home. (R) (S) (HD) Association, Ireland North. Shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD) the keeper’s mate has died. Shown last Friday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00—5.00 The Great House Giveaway Strangers 12.40 Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 2.20 Trump: the Criminal Conspiracy Case The legal fight
12.45—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD) over the 2020 US election. Shown last Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)
Mike and Manaswi are given the opportunity to buy
a Victorian property in Leicester. (R) (S) (HD) BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101 BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102
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SCOTLAND
11.15am Bargain Hunt
Emmerdale Taskmaster Jude 9.20pm 12 noon—1.00pm First
7.00pm With 9.00pm Hat’s Christopher Minister’s Questions
things strained, entertainment: Eccleston plays 7.00—7.30 River City:
tempers flare when Sonny
Jimmy and Nicola Emma Sidi rises the lead role is provoked by Jonathon
have a Halloween to the challenge in a 1996 film of
heart-to-heart as the climax nears the Hardy novel BBC
SCOTLAND
7.00pm This Farming
Life 8.00 The
Entertainment Mix
8.30 Landward
9.00 The Nine 10.00
4.00pm Deal or No Deal 5.00pm Four in a Bed 7.00pm Life of a Mountain: Stevens and McCarthy
Join Stephen Mulhern as Mike gets his chance Gary and Chris host the week’s final visit at The a Year on Blencathra 10.25 The Four Rules
to take on the Banker, but will he choose to take Grays Hotel in Blackpool. Repeated 5.20am (S) (HD) Terry Abraham explores Blencathra of the Poker Kings
11.25—12 midnight
an offer in exchange for what’s in his box? in the Lake District, often described
Signed repeat 5.05am (S) (HD)
5.30 Help! We Bought a Village Limmy’s Show
A couple from Essex battle the rain to fix their as “the people’s mountain”. Stunning
5.00 The Chase leaky roof and another couple find fascinating images capture the landscape in its STV
Charlotte, Nilpa, Mike and Ethan take on one of animal skeletons in their ceiling. (R) (S) (HD) changing moods, as fell runner Steve 5.05—6.00am Unwind:
Birkinshaw, mountaineer Alan Hinkes, a relaxing sequence
the ruthless Chasers in the hope of winning a
potential prize pot of thousands of pounds. (S) (HD) 6.30 The Simpsons comedian Ed Byrne and broadcaster ITV1 BORDER
Treehouse of Horror XXVIII. Halloween stories. Stuart Maconie share their thoughts
6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD) Shown yesterday 1.40am (S) (AD) (HD) on the mountain. First broadcast in
SCOTLAND
10.45pm Representing
6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD) 7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD) 2017. Watch now on iPlayer. Border: political news
Director/Producer Terry Abraham with Peter MacMahon
7.00 Emmerdale 8.00 The Great British Bake Off: an Signed repeat 2.40am (R) (S) (HD) 11.15 On Assignment
It’s Halloween, and while Nicola and Jimmy’s Extra Slice 8.00 How the Celts Saved 11.45 Premiership
Rugby Unleashed
relationship is troubled, Tom is under pressure. 6/10. Jo Brand is joined by Carol Vorderman, Iain Britain 12.05—12.30am
Nicola King Nicola Wheeler Moses Dingle Arthur Cockroft Stirling and Leomie Anderson to leaf through 1/2. A New Civilisation. Dan Snow The Way We Were

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Jimmy King Nick Miles Nate Robinson Jurell Carter the events of Autumn Week and discuss who
John Sugden Oliver Farnworth Noah Dingle Jack Downham heads back to the Dark Ages to learn ITV1 WALES
Johnny Woodfield Jack Jennings Paddy Dingle Dominic Brunt
the judges rooted for. Tom Allen inspects bakes how the country’s cultural heritage
brought in by the studio audience and Jo takes 10.45pm Face to Face:
Kerry Wyatt Laura Norton Rhona Goskirk Zoe Henry was saved by the Irish after Roman with Martyn Joseph
Kim Tate Claire King Rodney Blackstock Patrick Mower a look at viewers’ home baking pictures. Britain’s collapse. With much of the 11.15 The Chase Celebrity
Kyle Winchester Huey Quinn Ruby Fox-Miligan Beth Cordingly Director Toby Baker; Producer Sophie Le Good
Special: with Danny
Laurel Thomas Charlotte Bellamy Ryan Stocks James Moore Repeated 10.15pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD) country falling under Anglo-Saxon
John-Jules, Yinka
Leo Goskirk Harvey Rogerson Sam Dingle James Hooton rule in the fifth century AD, Ireland Bokinni, Tom Bosworth
Leyla Harding Roxy Shahidi Sarah Sugden Katie Hill 9.00 Taskmaster embraced Christianity and turned and Eamonn Holmes
Liam Cavanagh Jonny McPherson
Lydia Dingle
Mandy Dingle
Karen Blick
Lisa Riley
Suzy Merton Martelle Edinborough
Thomas Tate
Tracy Robinson
Bertie Brotherton
Amy Walsh
48/10. Jack Dee performs some air cycling
and Rosie Jones wails like a cat. Meanwhile,
into a cultural hotbed. From 2009.
Director/Producer Steven Clarke (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.05—12.30am
Fishlock’s Choice:
Manpreet Sharma Rebecca Sarker Vanessa Woodfield Michelle Hardwick Babatunde Aleshe resorts to phoning a friend, Trevor Fishlock heads
Andy Zaltzman dirties Alex Horne’s carefully 9.00 Christopher Eccleston for an air museum to

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Marlon Dingle Mark Charnock Victoria Sugden Isabel Hodgins track down a volunteer
Mary Goskirk Louise Jameson Vinny Dingle Bradley Johnson ironed trousers and Emma Sidi reveals an Remembers... Jude
Matty Barton Ash Palmisciano Wendy Posner Susan Cookson unexpected belief about socks. A box set of Actor Christopher Eccleston looks
Moira Dingle Natalie J Robb Will Taylor Dean Andrews back on the 1996 film Jude. (S) (HD)
Writer Liam Johnson This week’s episodes produced by Laura
previous series is available to stream. See p88.
Shaw and Sophie Roper, directed by Matt Hilton and Atem Kuol Series director Andy Devonshire; Series producer Andy Cartwright
Repeated 12.25am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD) 9.20 Jude HHHH
q Period
More cast Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD)
drama based on Thomas
8.00 The Martin Lewis Money Show: 10.00 Everyone Else Burns Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure.
Budget Special
Following the first Labour Budget since 2010,
44/6 Series 2. As the congregation prepares
to vote for a new leader, Rachel sides with
A rural stonemason in 19th-century
England has dreams of attending
the financial journalist provides an analysis of Aaron, Joshua campaigns for his dad and Fiona university, but his ambitions are
what it means for people’s personal finances. In helps Andrew to write his election speech. thwarted by an ill-timed affair and his
addition to answering viewers’ questions, Martin is A box set is available to stream. See page 89. obsession with his beautiful cousin.
David Simon Bird Joshua Ali Khan
joined by a panel of experts who will help navigate Fiona Kate O’Flynn Andrew Kadiff Kirwan On iPlayer for 12 months. Review p95.
the complexities of the new financial landscape. Rachel Amy James-Kelly Heather Olivia Marcus Jude Fawley Christopher Eccleston
Aaron Harry Connor Dillon Dillon Mapletoft Sue Bridehead Kate Winslet
Executive producer Mike Blair (S) (HD)
Elder Samson Arsher Ali Abijah Al Roberts Phillotson Liam Cunningham
9.00 Prince William: We Can End Elder Raab Bill Blackwood Melissa Morgana Robinson Arabella Rachel Griffiths
Maude Sian Clifford Oliver Oliver Taylor Aunt Drusilla June Whitfield
Homelessness Little Jude Ross Colvin Turnbull
Julia Soph Galustian Jebediah Paddy Young
2/2. Checking in with members of the Homewards Writers Oliver Taylor and Dillon Mapletoft; Director Jamie Jay Johnson;
Jude as a boy James Daley
team across the country, Prince William draws Producer Olly Cambridge Rptd Friday 4.15am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD) Farmer Troutham Berwick Kaler
on the guidance of people with lived experience Stonemason Sean McKenzie
The view from Simon Bird’s sofa: page 146 Director Michael Winterbottom (1996, 15) (S)
of homelessness. Plans are also unveiled to build
an ambitious supported housing project on land 10.30 Celebrity Gogglebox 11.15 The Bookworm
in Cornwall, forming a blueprint that Prince 3/6. Famous faces review shows including Griff Rhys Jones visits Dorset to find
William hopes will inspire other landowners and Love Island, Bake Off: the Professionals, The out why Thomas Hardy’s wife tried to
developers elsewhere in the UK. (S) (AD) (HD) Supervet, MILF Manor, Under Paris, The ban his last novel, Jude the Obscure.
Neil Ansell’s viewpoint: page 11 Motorway Hotel and Countdown. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) First broadcast in 1996. (R) (S) (HD)
10.00 ITV News at Ten 11.35 Night Coppers 11.45 Novels That Shaped Our
Early in the shift, two partygoers ask PC Jack
Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD) World
if he can help them find their weed. Meanwhile,
1/3. A Woman’s Place. Examining the
10.45 The Mummy HH seasoned cops Matt and Emma reminisce about
impact of literary fiction from three
qAction horror fantasy. When two soldiers of
fortune inadvertently unearth the tomb of an
some of the worst insults they’ve received, and
PCs Amelia and Craig attend a mass brawl.
Directors/Producers Benedict Adams, Joss Cubitt, Tom Power
different perspectives — the empire,
class experience and, in this first film,
ancient Egyptian princess in the Iraqi desert, an
and Steven Prior Repeated Friday 10pm 4seven (R) (S) (AD) (HD) women’s voices, both as authors and
evil supernatural power is unleashed that could
12.35am Significant Other HH Sci-fi mystery drama characters. First shown in 2019.
bring about the end of the world. Review p95.
Nick Morton
Ahmanet
Tom Cruise Jenny Halsey
Sofia Boutella Chris Vail
Annabelle Wallis
Jake Johnson
q starring Maika Monroe and Jake Lacy. A couple
decide to take a backpacking trip through the
Pacific Northwest and soon realise they are not alone.
Director Sarah Barclay; Producers Sarah Barclay
and John Mullen Shown yesterday 12.15am (S) (HD)
12.45am Thomas Hardy: a Haunted Man
Henry Jekyll Russell Crowe Colonel Greenway Courtney B Vance Available to stream for 30 days. Review page 95.
Director Alex Kurtzman (2017, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
— The Lively Arts A profile of novelist and
Directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen (2022, 15) (S) (HD) poet Thomas Hardy. Starring Cyril Luckham.
12.30am Home Shopping (HD) 2.00 The Simpsons Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD) First shown in 1978. Shown yesterday 9pm (S)
3.00 Ninja Warrior UK 3/8 Series 4. Harry Judd and Dan 3.15 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The chef 1.40 Thailand: Earth’s Tropical Paradise
Powell tackle the course. Shown Sat 4pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) helps a Mexican restaurant in Philadelphia. (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 2/3. Exploring the forests, plains and
3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD) 4.05 Frasier Three episodes. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) cities of central Thailand. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
5.05—6.00am Deal or No Deal Shown 4pm (S) (SL) (HD) 5.20—5.45am Four in a Bed Shown 5pm (S) (SL) (HD) 2.40—3.40am Life of a Mountain: a Year
ITV1 Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103 Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104 on Blencathra Shown 7pm (S) (SL) (HD)
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 303 +1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 304 BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108
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Ellis 8.00pm Tenacious cop DCI Ellis The Nine to Five with Stacey Dooley Vera 8.00pm DCI Stanhope is baffled Last of the Summer Wine 6.40pm
faces doubt and resistance 7.00pm The host looks at construction by a forensic psychologist’s murder Foggy, Compo and Clegg are flagging
6.00am Milkshake! See page 94 7.00pm The Nine to Five with 6.00am Classic Emmerdale (S) (AD) 7.00 7.10am London’s Burning: 8/18 Series 10
9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) (HD) Stacey Dooley Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD) 8.05 Agatha Carol takes romance a step further (S) (AD)
2/5 Series 2. Five teenagers work at a Christie’s Poirot: Halloween Party. A guest at 8.00 Doctors: double bill. Ron bails out an
11.30 Storm Huntley (S) (HD) a village Halloween party boasts of having old friend, then Nathan finds out why Sarah
12.45pm Friends Series 6. Joey auditions construction companies. (S) (AD) (HD) witnessed a murder years previously — and seems so anxious 9.15 Classic Holby City:
for a major TV show role. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 7.30 3/5. Stacey takes five teenagers to a later meets a grisly end; 10.20 Triangle at Serena and Ric battle to save a familiar
1.10 Ross prepares to meet Elizabeth’s salad farm. More tomorrow 7pm. (S) (AD) (HD) Rhodes. The flirtatious wife of an English patient Repeated 3am (S) (HD) 10.35 Classic
dad for the first time. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) Followed by New. The Catch Up (S) (HD) officer is poisoned to death on the Greek Casualty: Duffy’s dream turns sour 11.40 The
1.35 Entertainment News (S) (HD) 8.00 Top Gear island of Rhodes (S) (AD) (HD) 11.25 The Bill: a student at Rod’s school is stabbed (S)
1.40 5 News (S) (HD) The presenters try to find the perfect car for Royal: 3/12 Series 5. A nightclub owner’s 12.40pm Classic EastEnders: double bill.
wife is suspected of poisoning him (S) (AD) Minty and Garry come to blows, then Shirley
1.45 Home and Away Perri announces to 17-year-olds. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (HD)
Tane that he’s decided not to go to court. 12.25pm Heartbeat: 20/24. Nick, Jo and finds Heather’s body 2.00 London’s Burning:
Shown yesterday 6.30pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 New. RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Katie prepare to leave Aidensfield (S) (AD) 9/18 Series 10. Blue Watch rescue a man
6/10 Series 6. Jon Lee and Rachel Stevens 1.35 Classic Emmerdale: double bill. Adam trapped in an industrial chimney (S) (AD) 3.00
2.15 Saved by My Stalker HH Thriller receives a threatening phone call, then the Soldier Soldier: 11/15 Series 5. Marsha hits
q starring Lexi Minetree. In the wake play the Snatch Game, and Amanda
Holden joins this week’s judging panel. arrival of Katie’s ex-boyfriend complicates the bottle; 4.10 12/15. The Fusiliers prepare
of a car accident, Chloe’s life is saved Repeated tomorrow BBC1 (S) (HD) A new series of matters between her and Andy (S) (AD) to leave for Africa (S) 5.35 The Upper Hand:
by two paramedics — one of whom Drag Race Down Under starts tomorrow 9pm 2.40 Classic Coronation Street: double bill. 9/13 Series 1. Caroline’s husband visits (S)
becomes dangerously obsessed with her. Lifelong Status Quo fan Les gets a shock,
Director Dave Thomas (2023) (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 10.15 New. Ginger’s House then Leanne almost lets the cat out of the
6.05pm ’Allo ’Allo!
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4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 3/6. Danny Beard pops over to Ginger’s bag when she takes Janice for dinner (S) (AD) 20/26 Series 5. Landmines for London
Tracey and Neil gear up for the opening of House for a cuppa and a chat. (HD) 3.50 Midsomer Murders: Series 8. Dead in René and the resistance attempt to
their new bar in three weeks. (R) (S) (HD) the Water. A body is found in a river (S) (AD) smuggle the airmen back to England. (S)
10.30 Dinosaur
5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD) 4/6. At the hen do, Nina asks for Lee’s help. 5.50pm Downton Abbey 6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
10.55 5/6. Nina promises to keep the 4/7 Series 1. The fair arrives in the village Series 5. The Flag and Its Snag
6.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly events of the hen party a secret. and Mrs Hughes unexpectedly becomes Foggy is determined to plant a flag. (S)
Graeme revisits Kelly and her staffie 11.25 6/6. Evie’s wedding is in jeopardy. the centre of speculation when she meets 7.20 The Flag and Further Snags
Reggie, who needed help with his Can Nina help her sister and save the day a former suitor who makes her question Foggy’s dream is realised. (S)
constant biting as a puppy. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) while trying to sort out her own future? her position at Downton. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 New. The Chelsea Detective
6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD) The whole series is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD) 8/8 Series 2. A Crime of Passion 2/2
7.00 Heartbeat
7.00 Kate Humble’s Devon and 11.55 Charlotte in Sunderland 21/24 Series 7. Blaketon is abducted by Investigations reveal that Kai had broken into
Cornwall 1/10 Series 2. Charlotte juggles motherhood an old Army friend whose experiences in Jack’s house to steal his drugs. (S) (AD) (HD)
Starting at Porlock Weir, Kate enjoys an and running her business. (S) (HD) a PoW camp have taken their toll. (S) (AD) 9.00 Father Brown
11-mile walk in Exmoor along the South 12.25am 2/10. Charlotte dedicates a tattoo 8.00 Vera 9/15 Series 5. The Lepidopterist’s
West Coast Path, regarded as one of the to Nana Jean. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (HD) 1/4 Series 9. Blind Spot. The detective Companion. The sleuthing priest
most beautiful such paths in the world. 12.55 as 8pm 2.00 BBC New Comedy Awards must complete a murder victim’s research discovers a shocking secret. (S) (AD) (HD)
Series director Alexis Girardet (R) (S) (HD) (S) (HD) 2.30 This Is Gay (S) (HD) 2.45—4.00am into an old criminal case to find out who 10.00 New Tricks
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD) RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (S) (SL) (HD) may have wanted her dead. (S) (AD) (HD) 10/10 Series 8. Tiger Tiger. The team
8.00 New series. Ellis BBC3 Freeview 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) Freesat 107 re-examines a zookeeper’s death. (S) (AD)
10.00 Law & Order: UK
4 1/3. Drama starring Sharon D Sky 115 (117 Wales; 121 Scotland) Virgin 107 (113 Scotland/Wales)
5/7 Series 6. Line Up. The team explores 11.20 Murder in Mind
Clarke. DCI Ellis and assistant
DS Harper are sent to help troubled ITV2 6 internet footage of a murder. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 6/7. Dawn Till Dusk. The team
2/8 Series 2. Disposal. An unassuming
bin man turns to murder. (S)
investigations, beginning with the death 6.00am CITV (HD) 9.00 Totally Bonkers attempts to juggle three cases over the
Guinness World Records (S) (HD) 10.00 12.40am The Missing: 4/8 Series 1. The case
of 18-year-old Rowan Edwards. See p88. course of a single day. (S) (AD) (HD) is thrown into disarray by a murder (S) (AD) (HD)
DCI Ellis Sharon D Clarke Love Bites: two editions (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Agatha Christie’s Poirot: 2.00 Passport to Freedom: 8/8. Aracy and
DS Chet Harper Andrew Gower 12 noon Dress to Impress (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm
ACC Alison Leighton Allison Harding Halloween Party. Shown 8.05am (S) (AD) (HD) João rush to help Jews (S) (HD) 3.00—4.00am
Celebrity Supermarket Sweep (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD) Classic Holby City Shown 9.15am (HD)
Maggie Bradley Freya Hannan-Mills 2.00 Family Fortunes (S) (HD) 3.00 Charmed
Linda Bradley Kaye Wragg (S) (HD) 4.00 Gilmore Girls (S) (HD) 4.55 ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 U&Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
Stephen Mason Michael Wildman Dress to Impress (S) (AD) (HD) 5.50 Scared +1 Freesat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317 +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316
Charles “Carlos” Braine Brian Markey Shrekless: the ogre celebrates Halloween (S) (HD)
DCI Jim Belmont Chris Reilly 6.25pm FILM Fantastic Beasts and
ITV4 26 ITVBe 28
Rowan Edwards Daire Scully Where to Find Them 5 Fantasy
Louise Edwards Catherine Walker 6.00am World of Sport (S) (HD) 6.15 Minder 7.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 7.25 Olivia Meets
adventure inspired by the book by JK (S) (SL) (AD) 7.15 The Sweeney (S) (SL) (HD) Her Match (S) (HD) 8.30 The Cabins (S) (HD)
Michael Edwards Wayne Foskett Rowling, starring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine
Eric Mercer Tom McKay 8.25 Dempsey and Makepeace (S) (AD) 9.30 The Real Housewives of Cheshire (S)
Aaron Kelly Conor Sánchez Waterston, Dan Fogler and Colin Farrell. 9.25 The Saint (S) 10.30 Giant Lobster (HD) 10.30 Olivia Marries Her Match (S) (HD)
Magizoologist Newt Scamander and his Hunters (S) (HD) 11.30 BattleBots (S) (HD) 11.30 The Real Housewives of Potomac (S) (HD)
Writers Siân Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, Paul Logue; Producer
group of friends must capture an escaped
Chris Martin; Director Nick Hurran (S) (AD) (HD) 12.30pm Dempsey and Makepeace (S) (AD) 12.30pm The Real Housewives of Beverly
magical menagerie before Manhattan
See feature: page 16 wizardry is outlawed. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
1.35 The Saint (S) 2.40 Giant Lobster Hills (S) (HD) 1.20 The Only Way Is Essex (S)
Hunters (S) (HD) 3.40 Minder (S) (AD) 4.45 (HD) 2.05 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 3.10 The
10.00 Murder on the Doorstep: 9.00 New. Big Brother A chance to catch
The Sweeney (S) 5.50 BattleBots (S) (HD) Big Bake (S) (HD) 4.05 The Real Housewives
Who Killed Alistair Wilson? up with everything from the house. (S) (HD)
10.00 New. Big Brother: Late and Live 6.55pm The Chase Celebrity Special of Potomac (S) (HD) 5.00 New. The Real
An investigation into the mysterious With I’m a Celebrity... veterans AJ Pritchard, Housewives of Beverly Hills (S) (HD)
Companion show to this year’s series,
circumstances of the unsolved murder of with AJ Odudu and Will Best. (S) (HD) Hollie Arnold, Giovanna Fletcher and Russell 6.00pm Making It Home with Kortney
Scottish banker Alistair Wilson in 2004. 11.05 Family Guy Series 21. While at Watson. Hosted by Bradley Walsh. (S) (HD) and Dave Kortney and Dave help a newlywed
Director/Producer Mark Alden (R) (S) (HD) lunch with Bonnie, Elle and Donna, Lois 8.00 New. Cycling Day one of the London couple transform their home. (S) (HD)
11.30 Killer at the Crime Scene recollects a date with Peter that ended in 3 Day event, as champions of the road and 7.00 The Big Bake Colossal cakes. (S) (HD)
disappointment when he didn’t have sex track continue the Olympic legacy. (HD) 8.00 James Martin’s Spanish Adventure
The forensic evidence that brought 9.00 FILM Van Helsing HHH Action A family who live off grid. (S) (AD) (HD)
serial killer Peter Tobin to justice. with her afterwards. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.35 Series 9. Halloween arrives, and Peter fantasy horror starring Hugh Jackman. 9.00 The Real Housewives of Orange
Director/Producer Erin Scott (R) (S) (HD) Dispatched to aid a Gypsy princess in her County Shannon prepares for a fiesta party
joins forces with Joe to play a series of
12.25am Police Interceptors (R) (S) (HD) 1.20 painful pranks on his friends and neighbours. battle against Count Dracula, Van Helsing while dealing with bad publicity. (S) (HD)
Casino (S) (HD) 3.20 The Chocolate Challenge Meg has high hopes for her first festively discovers that his foe is using other monsters 10.00 Botched by Nature Helping a woman
with the Hairy Bikers (R) (S) (HD) 4.15 The themed high-school party. (S) (AD) (HD) in his work. Review page 65. (S) (AD) (W) (HD) who has pectus excavatum. (S) (AD) (HD)
Wonderful World of Chocolate: a Christmas- 12 midnight American Dad! (S) (AD) (HD) 11.35 FILM Hellboy HHH Horror action 11.00 Kavos Weekender New guests give
themed edition (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 4.55 House 12.50am Bob’s Burgers (S) (AD) (HD) 1.40 The adventure with Ron Perlman. (S) (AD) (W) (HD) Lucy and Jaegia a spring in their step. (S) (HD)
Busters (R) (S) (SL) 5.20 Wildlife SOS (R) (S) (SL) Stand Up Sketch Show: with Dane Baptiste and 1.40am Minder: Arthur’s search for a car gets him 12 midnight—1.00am The Only Way Is Essex: the
5.50—6.00am Entertainment News (S) (HD) Suzi Ruffell (S) (HD) 2.05—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD) arrested (S) (SL) (AD) 2.35—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD) gang needs a change of scenery (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105 ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 (132 Scotland)
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9.00am NCIS 10.55 Entertainment News
11.00 NCIS 12 noon Law & Order 6.00pm
NCIS: triple bill. Series 15. A JAG lawyer is
found dead 7.00 A student witnesses a
hit-and-run 8.00 Gibbs and his team are
forced to work with Tobias Fornell 9.00
New. Blue Bloods Series 5. Danny and Baez
investigate the murder of a celebrity chef
First shown on Sky Atlantic 10.00 Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit: triple bill. Series 7. A
woman’s claim of rape is brought into doubt
11.00 A lawyer is found dead 12 midnight
A student is raped and murdered 12.55am
Criminal Minds: double bill 2.50 Blindspot:
the FBI team reunites to deal with a new crisis
Secrets of China’s Forbidden City Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Bangers and Cash 8.00pm Derek 3.35—4.00am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera
9.00pm The history of the palace Monsters 9.00pm The film company picks up a famous 1956 Siva Tourer 5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
8.55am Kirstie’s Vintage Gems 9.15 A Place 6.00am Classic FM’s Rising Stars with 6.10am Great British Railway Journeys +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320
in the Sun: on the island of Gran Canaria Julian Lloyd Webber 2021 7.00 Punchdrunk: 8.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD)
10.05 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are behind the Mask (AD) 8.00 The Joy of 10.00 Narrow Escapes of World War II (AD) 5 Star 32
They Now? 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) Painting (AD) 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected 11.00 The Buildings That Fought Hitler (AD) 8.00am Dirty Home Rescue 9.00 Bargain-
1.05pm Car SOS: a 1953 Riley RMF (AD) (AD) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 12 noon Great Canal Journeys 1.00pm Loving Brits in the Sun 11.00 Traffic Cops
2.05 Four in a Bed 4.50 The Dog House (AD) 11.00 Discovering: Harrison Ford Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Bangers and Cash: 2.00pm Police Interceptors (AD) 5.00
5.50 Escape to the Château: DIY (AD) 12 noon Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 Restoring Classics: double bill (AD) 4.00 Shoplifters and Scammers: at War with the Law
6.55pm Car SOS The boys pick up a 1978 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 Narrow Escapes of World War II (AD) 5.00 6.00pm Home and Away Perri announces
JCB digger belonging to former carpenter Discovering: David Bowie (AD) 3.00 Discovering: The Buildings That Fought Hitler (AD) to Tane that he has decided not to go to
Kev, who suffered two heart attacks and is Meryl Streep 4.00 Classic Albums 5.00 6.00pm Antiques Roadshow From court. Shown 1.45pm Channel 5 (AD)
unable to look after his pride and joy. (AD) Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 Waltham Forest Town Hall in east London. 6.30 New. Tane’s anxiety increases as
7.55 Grand Designs Steph Wilson and her 6.00pm Tales of the Unexpected 7.00 Speed with Guy Martin Attempting the Harper continues to miss his calls.
husband build a contemporary, cantilevered Two villains plan to rob an old man. (AD) British record for outright speed on a bicycle. Repeated tomorrow 1.45pm Channel 5 (AD)
farmhouse on farmlands once owned by her 6.30 An unhappy man decides to give 8.00 New. Bangers and Cash Derek picks 7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors Cancer
grandfather in Herefordshire. (AD) up on his boring marriage. (AD) up a 1956 Siva Tourer, a vehicle that was comes under the spotlight in this episode.
9.00 Secrets of China’s Forbidden City 7.00 Portrait Artist of the Year With Rosie made famous in Doctor Who. (AD) 8.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts
The world’s largest palace, China’s Forbidden Jones, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Andy Cole. 9.00 Dave’s in Lincolnshire picking up a 1935 A woman struggles to breathe.
City, home to the emperors for 600 years, is 8.00 Classic Movies: the Story of The Riley Falcon — a good-looking saloon car. (AD) 9.00 A&E after Dark NHS staff treat a man

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full of secrets. Unique access to conservation Third Man A look at cinematic masterpieces, 10.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring with puncture wounds from a dog attack.
work uncovers new details about past rulers, beginning with Carol Reed’s film noir. (AD) Classics A rare Reliant Scimitar GTC and 10.00 999: Critical Condition A one-punch
including trade with Europe. (AD) 9.00 RT CHOICE New. Hammer: Heroes, a Honda CBR superbike are restored. (AD) attack leaves a man with a brain injury.
10.00 24 Hours in A&E Cyclist Sam, 13, is Legends and Monsters Charting the history 11.00 Abandoned Engineering A fairy-tale 11.00 A&E: Crash Scene Emergency
rushed to St George’s after falling on her of the film production company. See p89. castle where one of the strangest events of A MotoGP rider suffers a fracture on his foot.
head during a race. Meanwhile, 76-year-old 11.00 FILM The Plague of the Zombies the Second World War took place. (AD) 12 midnight Skin A&E (AD) 1.00am Junior Doctors
Margaret has lost feeling down one side of HHHH Hammer horror with André Morell. 12 midnight Great Continental Railway Journeys Down Under (AD) 2.00 Casualty 24/7: Every
her body, and may have had a stroke. (AD) Sir James Forbes, a professor of medicine, 1.00—3.00am Secrets of the London Second Counts 2.50 GPs: behind Closed Doors
11.05 The Emergency Ward Doctor Emma arrives in a 19th-century Cornish village to Underground: two back-to-back editions (AD) (AD) 3.35—4.00am Home and Away (AD)
calls in back-up to save a woman clinging to investigate a series of strange deaths. (W) U&Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129 5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 (129 Scotland)
life after a high-speed crash. (AD) 12.45am Comedy Legends 1.45 Discovering +1 Sky 255 Virgin 329 Virgin 126 +1 Freesat 140 Sky 228 (229 Scot) Virgin 326
12.10am Emergency Helicopter Medics: a man Film: Horror Special 3.15 Alice Walker: Beauty in
has a quad-bike accident (AD) 1.15 24 Hours in Truth 4.30 Inside Art: Picasso/Ingres at the
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A&E (AD) 2.20 The Emergency Ward (AD) National Gallery 5.00—6.00am National
3.25—3.50am Food Unwrapped (AD) Treasures: the Art of Collecting (AD) 7.10am Gassed Up 8.00 Cops on the Rock 9.00am Entertainment News 9.15 Car Pound
More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 (137 Scotland) Sky Arts Freeview 36 Freesat 143 Sky 130 (131 Scotland) (AD) 10.00 Extreme Salvage Squad Cops 9.40 Trucking Hell 10.40 Traffic Cops:
Virgin 147 +1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 (237 Scot) Virgin 347 Virgin 123 EE 350/HD 365 12 noon Storage Hunters UK 2.00pm Our On the Edge 11.40 Police Interceptors
Guy in China 3.00 Top Gear: double bill (AD) 12.35pm FILM The Bounty Hunter HHH
E4 13 4seven 49
5.00pm Rick Stein’s Long Weekends Rick Western starring Randolph Scott 2.15 FILM
6.00am Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 6.55 9.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA explores Thessaloniki, a city of many identities. The Gunfighter HHHH Western starring
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL) 10.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It: in High Wycombe 6.00 The chef samples the unique cuisine of Gregory Peck and Millard Mitchell (BW)
8.00 Married at First Sight (AD) 9.05 The (AD) 11.00 The Great House Giveaway Palermo on the northern coast of Sicily. (AD) 4.00 Trucking Hell 5.00 Traffic Cops
Goldbergs (AD) 10.00 The Big Bang Theory: 7.00 Would I Lie to You? With Jo Brand, 6.00pm Police Interceptors Kev makes an
12 noon Frasier (AD) 1.30pm Four in a Bed intriguing discovery in an airing cupboard.
double bill (AD) 11.00 Modern Family 2.00 A Place in the Sun 3.00 Renovation Sam Quek, Bobby Seagull and Joe Thomas.
7.40 Richard Osman’s House of Games 7.00 PC Damo Stevens takes on an arsonist
12 noon The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00pm Nation (AD) 4.00 Help! We Bought a Village intent on bringing Darlington to a standstill.
The Goldbergs (AD) 3.00 Modern Family 5.00 A Place in the Sun: double bill Jamelia, Susan Calman, Gareth Malone and
Paul Martin take part in trivia-based games. 8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s
4.00 Married at First Sight (AD) 5.05 The 7.00pm Little Trains and Big Names with Speeders Sgt Dave Roberts races to a
Big Bang Theory: five episodes (AD) 8.20 With guests Samira Ahmed, Dom Joly,
Pete Waterman James May shows Pete how Angela Rippon and John Robins. serious crash between a car and a cyclist.
7.30pm New. Modern Family 14/22 to repair toy trains. Shown Saturday 7.10pm C4 (AD) 9.00 QI XL Deirdre O’Kane, Richard Osman 9.00 New. Trucking Heavy Driver Alex has
Series 8. Gloria gives Claire a birthday 8.00 Abandoned Railways from Above and David Mitchell take part in the quiz. been tasked with moving not one, but two
experience she will find it hard to forget. 6/6. An abandoned line in the Scottish 10.00 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of crushers. But on the backstreets of Bolton,
8.00 New. Hot Yachts: Miami Katya reveals Borders that connected Carlisle and Crisps 1/11 Series 3. Gaz meets his long-lost his skills are put under serious pressure.
Vika’s deceit to her husband. Vika’s absence Edinburgh. Shown Saturday 8.10pm Channel 4 (AD) brother and Louise chokes on her lunch. 10.00 Outback Truckers Boe Vella takes
jeopardises Katya’s swimwear launch. (AD) 9.00 The Great British Bake Off 6/10. The 10.40 2/11. Gaz spices up his sex life with on fire and flood in the Top End.
9.00 New. Married at First Sight The bakers celebrate the produce of the season Donna, while Janet tries to avoid smoking. 11.00 Extreme Tow Truckers Truckworks
homestays get under way. Rptd 12.35am (AD) in Autumn Week. See choice, p68. (AD) 11.15 Will and Ralf Should Know Better rush to reopen a major truck route to a mine.
10.00 New. MAFS UK: It’s Official! With 10.15 The Great British Bake Off: an Extra 4/4. Will Mellor and Ralf Little push themselves 12 midnight Under the Dome 1.55am Trucking
Chloe Burrows Chloe dissects all the drama Slice 6/10. With Carol Vorderman, Iain Stirling to their limits on a mud assault course. (AD) Hell 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News
from the week and gives her view on events. and Leomie Anderson. Shown 8pm C4 (AD) 12.15am Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled 1.15 Would I 5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130
10.35 Open House: the Great Sex 11.20 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud Lie to You? 1.55 QI XL 3.00—4.00am Schitt’s Creek
Experiment Nicolle and Ben arrive at the
retreat keen to spice up their relationship. (AD)
celebrates the 25th anniversary of the show
by making a special revisit to the first project
U&Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (112 Wales) Virgin HD 127 5 Select 46
U&Dave Ja Vu F’view 74 Sky 211 (212 Wales) Virgin 327
11.35 Gogglebox Shows including Michael from 1999 in the East Sussex coastal town of 9.00am FILM The Wizard of Oz 5
McIntyre’s The Wheel are appraised. (AD) Newhaven. See choice, page 78. (AD) Musical starring Judy Garland (AD) 11.05
12.35am Married at First Sight (SL) (AD) 1.40 12.25am Taskmaster (AD) 1.30 Celebrity Gogglebox
Sky Mix 11
The Yorkshire Vet (AD) 3.00pm Murder, She
Rick and Morty (AD) 2.05 New. Mike Tyson (AD) 2.35 Public Enemies: Kendrick vs Drake 3.35— 7.00am Nothing to Declare 9.00 Monkey Wrote (AD) 4.00 Columbo 5.30 Eggheads
Mysteries 2.35 First Dates (SL) (AD) 3.25 Below 4.40am Into the Jungle with Ed Stafford (AD) 6.00pm Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
Deck: Mediterranean (AD) 4.15 Black-ish (AD)
Life (AD) 10.00 Stop, Search, Seize 11.00
4seven F’view 49 F’sat 127 Sky 137 (138 Scot) Virgin 143 Highway Patrol (AD) 12 noon Motorway An Englishman who bought an island.
5.05—6.00am Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 7.00 Life in the Namibian desert.
Patrol 1.00pm Border Patrol 2.00 Monkey
E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 (136 Scot) Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 (236 Scot) Virgin 306
Quest 12 Life (AD) 3.00 Nothing to Declare 4.00 Star 8.00 Secrets of the Royal Palaces
A look at tales of palace duty.
Trek: the Next Generation 5.00 Primeval
E4 Extra F’view 31 F’sat 126 Sky 138 (139 Scot) Virgin 144 6.00am Chasing Classic Cars 8.00 American
6.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Odo 9.00 Sophie: the King’s Secret Weapon?
Pickers 9.00 Aussie Gold Hunters (AD) 11.00 The The Duchess’s role in the royal family.
returns to his homeworld 7.00 Star Trek:
Really 17 Repair Shop 1.00pm The Yorkshire Auction House
2.00 Shed and Buried 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Voyager: the ship is attracted towards a black 10.00 Digging Up Britain’s Past A dig that
5.00 Wheeler Dealers (AD) 7.00 Salvage Hunters: hole 8.00 Hawaii Five-0: the team uncovers could shed light on the Pendle Witch trials.
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea (AD) 7.00 Home 11.00 Prisoner: Cell Block H Vera goes on
Shopping 8.00 Salvage Hunters 10.00 A Place in Classic Cars 8.00 Aussie Gold Hunters (AD) 9.00 a terrorist plot 9.00 Forensics: Catching the
the Sun 12 noon Money for Nothing 2.00pm The New. Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic: Ant has found Killer: double bill. The body of a 16-year-old a date with Terry — still unaware of the bet.
Repair Shop 3.00 Antiques Road Trip 5.00 The an iconic VW Campervan that’s been abandoned girl is found in a field, then how DNA and the 12 midnight Bea hopes to get released.
Yorkshire Auction House (AD) 7.00 Antiques Road mid-restoration. What it’s like to be... page 9 exhumation of a body solved a 30-year-old 1.05am Forged in Fire: three editions
Trip: double bill. David Harper and Izzie Balmer 10.00 New series. The Autumn Nations Rugby 3.35—4.00am Walking Tudor Britain: the trail of
triple murder (AD) 11.00 Killer in My Village history’s most fascinating dynasty
rummage for antiques in central Scotland, then Show 11.00 New. Lomu: the Lost Tapes 12 midnight Murders That Shocked the Nation:
search for items in Edinburgh 9.00 The Repair 12.30am How Do They Do It? 1.00 Wheeler the life of murderer Donald Neilson (AD) 1.00am 5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138
Shop 11.00 Celebrity Help! My House Is Haunted Dealers: double bill (AD) 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Nothing to Declare (AD) 2.00 Brit Cops: Law &
1.00am Unexplained: Caught on Camera 2.00 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made: two editions Disorder (AD) 3.00 Highway Patrol 4.00 Border FREEVIEW TV and film
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Milkshake! on C5 Film4 14
6.00am Oggy Oggy 6.10 Peppa Pig 11.00am Sink the Bismarck!
6.25 New. Daisy & Ollie 6.30 Odo HHHH Compelling Second World
6.40 Tweedy & Fluff 6.45 Fireman War drama featuring a first-rate
Sam 6.55 Thomas & Friends: All
Engines Go! 7.05 Peppa Pig 7.15 Paw performance from Kenneth More.
Patrol 7.30 Pip and Posy 7.35 New. Review, right. Dana Wynter (1960, U) (S) (AD)
The Adventures of Paddington 7.55 1.05pm Miracle on 34th Street
New. Milo 8.10 Rubble & Crew 8.30 HHH Richard Attenborough
New. Reu & Harper’s Wonder World twinkles as a department-store
8.40 New. Milkshake! Off We Go!: Jen Santa who believes he really is
is at Waterloo station 8.45 Peppa Pig
8.55 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom
Father Christmas. (1994, U) (S) (AD)
Psychopath with Piers Tom Kerridge Secrets of Afghanistan: the Wounded 3.20 It Came from beneath the
9.10—9.15am Milkshake! Story Den
Morgan 9.10pm Paris Bennett the Pub Kitchen 9.00pm Land 9.45pm US soldiers Sea HHH Lively monster movie,
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with effects by Ray Harryhausen.
6.10am Inside the Ambulance 6.00am The Great British Bake Off 8.00am Beautiful Serengeti 8.30 Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue (1955, U) (S)
7.00 Property Brothers: Forever 7.30 James Martin: Sweet 8.00 Military Masterminds 9.40 WWII CBeebies 202
5.00 Dead of Night 5
Homes 8.00 Tipping Point 11.00 James Martin’s American Adventure in Colour: Road to Victory 10.50
DIY SOS: the Big Build 1.00pm 10.00 The Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Hitler’s Gold 11.50 Afghanistan: the 6.00am Bing 6.05 Vegesaurs An architect’s nightmares become
Tipping Point 3.00 Property Food 11.00 Hairy Bikers’ Meals on Wounded Land 1.00pm The Korean
6.10 Teletubbies 6.25 Small Potatoes terrifyingly real in this compelling
6.30 Supertato 6.35 Roots and Fruits portmanteau horror from Ealing.
Brothers: Forever Homes: double Wheels 12 noon The Great British War 2.05 Military Masterminds 6.45 Tee and Mo 6.50 Bing 7.00 Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver (1945, PG) (S)
bill (AD) 5.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build Bake Off 1.30pm James Martin: 3.15 WWII in Colour: Road to Colourblocks 7.05 Hey Duggee 7.20
6.00pm DIY SOS: the Big Build Sweet 2.00 James Martin’s American Victory 4.20 Hitler’s Gold 5.20 Bluey 7.35 Go Jetters 7.50 Peter 7.10pm Men in Black 2 HH
Adventure: three episodes 5.00 Afghanistan: the Wounded Land Rabbit 8.00 Octonauts: Above & Thinly plotted sci-fi sequel that’s
The team transforms the home of a The Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food Beyond 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20
police officer injured in the 2017 6.30pm Military Masterminds Alphablocks 8.25 Love Monster 8.35 bolstered by some flashy special
6.00pm Hairy Bikers’ Meals on
Westminster Bridge terrorist attack. Wheels 7.00 The Great British 3/4. How military leaders have used Justin’s House 9.00 Bing 9.05 Yakka effects and sharp humour.
7.00 New. MasterChef Australia: Bake Off: the series 10 semi-final deception tactics to achieve victory. Dee! 9.10 Love Monster 9.20 Dylan’s Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith (2002, PG) (S) (AD)
Playtime Adventures 9.30 Twirlywoos
Dessert Masters It’s the semi-final. 8.30 Mary Berry’s Quick Cooking: 7.35 WWII in Colour: Road to 9.45 Something Special 10.05 9.00 Scream HHH Ghostface
8.10 New. Don’t Hate Your Mary heads into London’s West Victory 4/10. Hitler must deliver Teletubbies 10.20 New. Maddie and returns to terrorise a fresh set of
End, learning the art of high-speed a knockout blow to regain the Triggs 10.30 Yukee 10.35 Tiny teens in this bold if overfamiliar
House with the Property wok cooking in Chinatown Wonders 10.40 Colourblocks 10.45
Brothers Johnny and Jacqui’s initiative against Stalin. fifth entry in the knowing slasher
9.00 New. Tom Kerridge Secrets Roots and Fruits 10.50 Vegesaurs
dated kitchen is causing issues. of the Pub Kitchen: Tom shares his 8.45 Hitler’s Gold 4/4. As the 11.00 Bluey 11.05 Supertato series. Neve Campbell (2022, 18) (S) (AD)
9.10 Psychopath with Piers love for the heat of the pub kitchen Second World War ended, the 11.15 Hey Duggee 11.20 Halloween 11.15 i Enys Men HHHH Bold
hunt for the Nazi criminals began. in the CBeebies House 11.35 Teeny
9.30 Tom Kerridge More Sunday
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Morgan Paris Bennett murdered Tiny Creatures 11.50 Our Family horror that follows a naturalist’s
his sister when he was just 13. Lunch: Tom pays homage to the 9.45 Afghanistan: the 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm strange experiences studying
10.10 Ambulance Australia
South of France 10.00 Tom Wounded Land 4/4. How an Apple Tree House 12.30 Dog Squad flowers on a deserted island.
Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes: The international coalition tried to bring 12.40 Andy’s Safari Adventures 1.00 Review, right. Mary Woodvine (2022, 15) (S)
Crews respond to a bike crash. chef demonstrates special recipes Yakka Dee! 1.05 Alphablocks 1.15 Hey
peace to Afghanistan post 9/11.
11.10 Paramedic Laura’s first shift. for the weekend then how to spice Duggee 1.25 Love Monster 1.30 Yukee 1.15—4.00am After Blue HHH
12.10am One Born Every Minute up traditional lamb chops with a 10.55 WWII in Colour: Road to 1.40 Colourblocks 1.45 Something Trippy French fantasy set on a planet
1.20 The Undateables at Christmas North African twist 11.00 Diners, Victory As 7.35pm. Special: We’re All Friends 2.05 where only women can survive.
(AD) 2.10 Date Night 2.35—3.00am 12 midnight Hitler’s Gold Teletubbies 2.20 Vida the Vet 2.30 Review, right. Paula Luna (2021, 18)
Drive-Ins and Dives: four episodes Mojo Swoptops 2.45 Supertato 2.50
Inside the Ambulance 1.00—3.00am Outrageous Pumpkins 1.00—2.00am Beautiful Serengeti Waffle the Wonder Dog 3.00 Grace’s Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
U&W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 (133 Scotland) Food Network F’view 43 F’sat 148 Sky 140 PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only) Amazing Machines 3.15 Small Potatoes Sky 313 Virgin 428
Virgin 125 +1 Sky 232 (233 Scotland) Virgin 325 (141 Scot) Virgin 190 +1 F’sat 154 Sky 240 (241 Scot) Freesat 155 Sky 173 Virgin 187 3.20 The Game Catchers 3.30 +1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
New. Big Lizard 3.35 Hey Duggee
Rewind TV 95 HGTV 44 U&Eden 57 3.45 Peter Rabbit 4.00 Andy’s Global
Adventures 4.15 Mojo Swoptops 4.25
Talking 82
6.00am Unwind with Rewind 7.15 7.00am Building Alaska 8.00 Escape 9.00am Abandoned Engineering (AD) Bluey 4.40 Supertato 4.50 Vida the
Vet 5.00 Time for School 5.15 Dodge’s
Pictures TV
FILM The Bat HH 9.00 Return of to the Country 9.00 A Place in the 6.00pm Abandoned Engineering: Pup School 5.25 Sarah & Duck 5.35
the Saint 10.00 That’s My Dog 10.30 Sun 10.00 Escape to the Country six editions. An industrial ruin in the JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45 Moon and Me
6.00am The Avenging Hand H
A Fine Romance 11.00 Watching 11.00 A Place in the Sun 12 noon Florida Everglades 7.00 A theatre Gangster Noah Beery jets across the
6.10pm Clangers 6.20 In the Night
11.30 Time after Time 12 noon My Lottery Dream Home 2.00pm A in Ohio 8.00 Houska Castle in Garden... 6.50—7.00pm CBeebies Atlantic and back in this feeble
Sherlock Holmes (BW) 12.30pm Place in the Sun 3.00 Escape to the Prague 9.00 A mysterious concrete Bedtime Stories: with Shauna Shim pre-noir thriller. (1936) (S) 7.20 Night
Shine on Harvey Moon 1.00 Space Was Our Friend HH Dowdy drama
Country 5.00 A Place in the Sun giant in Bulgaria 10.00 A Soviet CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702
1999 2.00 FILM The Little Shop of 8.00 Escape to the Country: Nicki fortress 11.00 A group of rusting
starring Michael Gough as a man
Horrors HHH Review p95 (BW) who returns from the dead. (1951, PG) (S)
3.30 Whicker’s World 4.30 FILM
Chapman helps a couple hunting for
a home in Derbyshire 9.00 Tough
ships stranded in a desert (AD)
12 midnight Anthony Bourdain: Parts
CBBC 201 8.35 Flannelfoot HH Workmanlike
Carnival of Souls HHHH (BW) 6.00 Love with Hilary Farr 10.00 Flip or Unknown 2.00am Abandoned 7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.05 British thriller about the hunt for a
Surgical Spirit 6.30 The Cuckoo Danger Mouse 7.20 Dennis & Gnasher cat burglar. Ronald Howard (1953, PG) (S) 10.15
Flop Vegas: double bill. Aubrey and Engineering (AD) 5.20—6.00am David Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard HH
Waltz 7.00 Mysterious Tales 7.10 Bristol take a chance on a disastrous Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (AD) Unleashed! 7.30 Boy Girl Dog Cat
FILM The Brain That Wouldn’t Die Mouse Cheese 7.45 New. Newsround Nice little mystery with Mary Clare
H (BW) 8.50 Mysterious Tales 9.00 townhouse, then Aubrey flips a ranch U&Eden Freeview 57 Freesat 160 Sky 166 7.55 Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 as the no-nonsense detective. (1939) (S)
Sapphire and Steel 10.00 FILM into a family home 11.00 New Virgin 176 +1 Sky 266 Virgin 376 Odd Squad 8.25 Super Happy Magic 11.30 Faces in the Dark HH
The Monster Club HHH Horror Scariest House in America: Retta Forest 8.35 Deadly 60 9.05 One Zoo Tension-free thriller about a blind
anthology starring Vincent Price tours spooky properties nominated
by their haunted homeowners (AD)
Blaze 64 Three 9.30 Pickle Storm 9.50 Odd
Squad 10.15 Game on Grandparents
man in jeopardy. John Gregson (1960, PG) (S)
12 midnight FILM Night of the Living 10.40 Horrible Histories 11.05 Super 1.15pm Captain Pirate HHH
Dead 5 Horror (BW) 2.00am 12 midnight Bargain Mansions (AD) 6.00am Dickinson’s Real Deal 6.40 Pawn Swashbuckling sequel in which
Happy Magic Forest 11.20 Danger Mouse
FILM House on Haunted Hill HHH (BW) 1.00am Building Alaska 2.00 Flip or Flop Stars 7.30 Auction Hunters 7.55 Storage
11.30 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! retired pirate Louis Hayward must
3.30 FILM Drive-in Massacre HH 3.00—4.00am My Lottery Dream Home Wars 8.55 Hardcore Pawn 10.15 UFOs:
11.40 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese return to the high seas. (1952, U) (S)
the White House Files 11.10 Proof Is Out
5.00—6.00am Unwind with Rewind HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 149 Sky 158 Virgin 191 There 12.10pm World’s Greatest Treasure 11.55 Andy’s Safari Adventures 3.00 Crown Court Courtroom
Rewind TV Freeview 95 Sky 190 +1 Sky 258 Virgin 391 Mysteries 1.05 The UnXplained 2.05 12.10pm Go Jetters 12.30 Danger drama TV series. (S) 4.30 Enemy at
Pawn Stars 3.05 Storage Wars 4.00 Mouse 12.55 Waffle the Wonder Dog the Door TV drama. (S) 5.35 Grand
Great TV 50 Challenge 48 Ancient Aliens: the Ultimate Evidence 1.05 Supertato 1.15 Dennis & Gnasher
Unleashed! 1.35 Super Happy Magic
National Night HHH Improbable
5.00 Ancient Aliens 6.00 UFOs: Secret but nimbly plotted thriller. Review,
8.00am Diagnosis Murder: two 7.00am The Chase 10.00 Weakest Missions Exposed 7.00 Pawn Stars 8.00 Forest 1.50 Pickle Storm 2.10 Boy Girl right. Nigel Patrick, Moira Lister (1953, PG)
episodes 10.00 Father Dowling Link 11.00 Pointless Celebrities: an Dickinson’s Real Deal 9.00 New. Ancient Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 2.25 Operation
Aliens 10.00 New. Proof Is Out There Ouch! 2.50 What’s Cooking Omari? 7.25pm Boy with a Flute
Mysteries 11.00 Castle edition focusing on the subject of Short film about a woman (Ursula
11.00 Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies 3.00 The Dengineers 3.30 Dennis
12 noon Hart to Hart 2.00pm history, with Kate Williams, Adam & Gnasher Unleashed! 3.50 Danger Jeans) whose painting is stolen. (S)
Father Dowling Mysteries 3.00 Hart-Davis, Janina Ramirez, Andrew 12 midnight Ghost inside My Child 1.35am
Paranormal Cops 2.00 Proof Is Out Mouse 4.05 Ninja Express 4.15 Grizzy 8.00 The Brothers British TV
Diagnosis Murder 5.00 Murder, Graham-Dixon, Ben Willbond, and the Lemmings 4.25 Boy Girl Dog
There 3.00 Hardcore Pawn 3.25 Flipping drama series with Richard Easton. (S)
She Wrote 7.00 M*A*S*H: four Laurence Rickard, Lars Tharp and Bangers 4.10 Ancient Aliens: the Ultimate Cat Mouse Cheese 4.50 Odd Squad
episodes 9.00 The Avengers: Tim Wonnacott 12 noon The Chase 5.00 Total Dramarama 5.15 Grizzy 9.05 Van der Valk TV drama. (S)
Evidence 5.00—6.00am Ancient Aliens
Steed is invited to a party on a 1.00pm Family Fortunes (AD) 3.00 and the Lemmings 5.30 Andy and 11.15 And Then There Were None
Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 161 Sky 164 Virgin 174 the Band 5.45 New series. Bro’s HHHH Stylish Agatha Christie
remote island, but realises that one Catchphrase (AD) 4.00 Blockbusters:
of the guests is trying to kill the in Control: Adam and Joe have to mystery about ten guests on a
others 10.00 Randall and Hopkirk
double bill 5.00 Bullseye 7.00
Cash Trapped: quiz hosted by
BBC Parliament 232 escape Callum’s Halloween House remote island being picked off one
6.00pm New. Jamie Johnson FC: Alex by one. Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston (1945, U) (S)
(Deceased): Jeannie is kidnapped Bradley Walsh 8.00 The Chase: 6.00am Scotland Office Questions considers his future 6.30 New. Spooky
11.00 Return of the Saint: Simon double bill. Sadie, Aaron, Jamie 6.30 Prime Minister’s Questions 7.05 1.05am Boris Karloff: the Man
Files 6.55—7.00pm Malory Towers
tangles with drug smugglers and Mary pit their wits against the House of Commons 9.30 Live Business behind the Monster The life of the
12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Randall CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701 horror movie icon. 3.10 The Legend
Chaser, then Matt, Isabelle, Lou and and Trade Questions 10.30 Live
and Hopkirk (Deceased) 3.00 Return of Sam take part 10.00 Who Wants to Commons Business Questions 11.30 of the 7 Golden Vampires HHH
the Saint 3.50 Movie News 4.00 Highway Be a Millionaire? (AD) 11.00 Bullseye Live Budget Debate: 5.30pm Scottish ITV Kids on ITV2 Hammer updates its traditional
to Heaven 4.50—5.00am Movie News First Minister’s Questions 6.15 Lords vampire formula for this entertaining
12 midnight Who Wants to Be a ITV Kids shows also stream on ITVX
Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Sky 157 Millionaire? 1.00am The Crystal Maze Questions 7.00 House of Lords kung fu horror. Peter Cushing (1974, 15) (S)
Virgin 170 +1 Sky 257 (AD) 2.00 The Chase: double bill 2.15am Business and Trade Questions 6.15am Teen Titans Go! 6.30 Mr Bean: 4.55 Celebrity Playhouse: Bourbon
4.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 3.15 Commons Business Questions the Animated Series 7.15 Scooby-Doo! Street TV drama. 5.25—6.00am
FREEVIEW channels 5.00—6.00am Bullseye: two editions 4.15—6.00am House of Commons Mystery Incorporated 7.45 Be Cool, Sherlock Holmes TV mystery. (S)
Scooby-Doo! 8.10 What’s New
continued from overleaf Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 142 BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201 Scooby-Doo? 8.35—9.00am Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Sky 145 Virgin 139 Sky 504 Virgin 605 Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445
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9.00am Time of Death HH Routine 6.00am Don’t Tell Mom the of a literary classic.
murder thriller. Kathleen Robertson (2013) Babysitter’s Dead HH Fitfully ADRIAN TURNER (UK 1996,
11.00 In Bed with a Killer HH amusing comedy. Simone Joy Jones (2024, 15)
Predictable thriller. Jennifer Taylor (2019) 7.45 The Color Purple HHH violence, sex scenes, nudity, col/BW)
12.55pm Deadly Sibling Rivalry All-singin’, all-dancin’ musical version
HH Overwrought TV movie. Charisma of Alice Walker’s novel. Fantasia Barrino, The Mummy HH 10.45pm-
Carpenter (2011) 3.00 Black Widow HH Taraji P Henson (2023, 12) 10.15 As 10pm 12.30am ITV1 (not Border
By-the-numbers thriller. Elizabeth Berkley, 12.30pm As 8pm 2.40 Zombie
Alicia Coppola (2007) 4.55 San Andreas Town HH Amiable horror comedy. Scotland or Wales) j
Mega Quake H Chaotic disaster Marlon Kazadi (2023, 12) 4.25 Lisa
movie. Joseph Michael Harris (2019) Frankenstein HHH Gleefully camp ACTION The first film in
7.00pm The Cable Guy HHH romantic horror. Kathryn Newton (2024, 15) Universal’s proposed Dark
Dark satirical comedy in which a 6.05pm The Radleys HHH Universe franchise tanked at
cable repairman becomes obsessed Damian Lewis and Kelly Macdonald the box office and put an end
with a customer. Jim Carrey (1996, 12) are the vampire parents struggling
to the series. It begins with
9.00 Carrie 5 Landmark with their youngsters’ bloodlust. (2024)
horror about a telekinetic teenager 8.00 Ghostbusters: Frozen Dr Jekyll (Russell Crowe)
bullied at school and tormented Empire HHHH The new sending an archaeologist to
at home. Review, right. (1976, 18) generation of spook chasers takes investigate an Egyptian tomb,
11.10 Morgan HHH Brutal but on icy spectres. Paul Rudd (2024, 12)
which turns out to be a prison
watchable sci-fi thriller in which a 10.00 The Book of Clarence
synthetic human turns against her HHH LaKeith Stanfield’s conman for a mummified princess
creators. Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy (2016, 15) tries to pass himself off as a (Sofia Boutella). Tom Cruise
1.10am Predestination HHH messiah. Review p31. (2023, 15) is miscast as the soldier
Ethan Hawke stars in this imaginative 12.15am As 6.05pm 2.10 As 6am caught up in the ensuing
4.00 Caddo Lake HHH Eerie rural
sci-fi thriller. Sarah Snook (2014, 15) 3.20
Wild West Chronicles 4.00—5.40am mystery thriller produced by M Night FILM The Omen HHHH horror. AJ (US 2017, violence, HD)
The Neighbourhood Nightmare Shyamalan. Review p31. Dylan O’Brien OF THE 11.05pm-12.50am BBC2 j
HH TV-movie thriller. Julie McNiven (2018) (2024, 12) 5.45 Sky Cinema Preview DAY p Enys Men HHHH
Great Movies Freeview 34 Sky 321 Virgin 425 Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401 HORROR A perfectly unsettling Halloween watch, 11.15pm-1.15am Film4 j
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Great Action 42 Legend 41
Peck and Lee Remick are the upstanding couple whose Mark Jenkin (Bait) writes,
8.00am Police Ten 7 9.00 Fire 8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00 stillborn child is switched with a baby whose mother died in directs and edits this wilfully
Twister HH Low-budget disaster The A-Team 10.00 MacGyver 11.00 childbirth. Five years later, a series of mysterious deaths lead retro psychedelic feature.
movie. Casper Van Dien (2015, 15) 10.50 The Day of the Triffids HH Uneven the boy’s parents to suspect that their son has supernatural Wildlife Trust volunteer Mary
Battle Honours 12 noon Wanted: sci-fi horror. Howard Keel (1962, 15) 1.00pm
Dead or Alive 1.00pm Two Rode The Curse of the Werewolf HH powers. A tale of terror blown to biblical epic proportions, this Woodvine follows a rigid
Together HHH Slow-moving Tame Hammer horror. Oliver Reed (1961, 12) carries its premise with great uneasiness and there are some routine as the sole inhabitant
but well-cast John Ford western. 3.00 Frankenstein Created remarkably imaginative deaths. ALAN JONES (US 1976, violence, HD) of a remote island. But she
James Stewart, Richard Widmark (1961, PG) Woman HHH Peter Cushing stars in eventually starts to suffer
3.20 Kentucky Rifle HH Creaky this fine horror. (1966, 12) 5.00 Star Trek
Sink the Bismarck! stars Nigel Patrick as a hallucinations. Full of folk
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.

B-western. Chill Wills, Lance Fuller (1955, U) 6.00pm MacGyver TV thriller.

HHHH racehorse owner whose horror tropes, this is as

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5.10 Wanted: Dead or Alive 7.00 The A-Team TV drama.
6.10pm Wild West Chronicles 8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger 11.00am-1.05pm Film4 y friends stand by him after his challenging as it is beguiling.
TV western series with Jack Elliott. TV action drama with Chuck Norris. wife (Moira Lister) is killed DP (UK 2022, swearing, upsetting
7.10 Earthtastrophe HH 9.00 The Box HH Stylish thriller WAR DRAMA Too many during a drunken squabble. scenes, a sex scene, nudity, HD)
Low-budget disaster movie with Cameron Diaz and James postwar films were smug in The plot strains credibility, but
in which the world is sucked
through a wormhole. Brian Krause (2016)
Marsden as a couple given a chilling
get-rich-quick proposition. (2008, 12)
their approach, but Lewis the cat-and-mouse game with Significant Other HH
9.00 Ghosts of Mars HH 11.15 Jeepers Creepers HHHH Gilbert’s fine film captures detective Michael Hordern 12.35-2.00am C4 j
Spirits rise from the dead in John Riveting horror about a brother the complexities of the proves engaging. DP (UK 1953, BW)
Carpenter’s sci-fi action horror. and sister who disturb an ancient MYSTERY This genre-
Second World War. It shines a
Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge (2001, 15)
11.05 Cell HHH A mysterious
demon’s lair. Gina Phillips, Justin Long (2001, 15) light on the unsung back-room Carrie 5 9.00- bending sci-fi is a film of two
1.05am The Howling HHHH Joe mismatched halves. Jake
cellphone signal triggers global Dante has huge fun turning werewolf planners as much as on the 11.10pm Great Movies z Lacy and Maika Monroe play
mayhem. John Cusack, Samuel L Jackson (2014, 15) clichés on their head in a horror combatants, and a restrained
1.10am Earthstorm H Daft and movie that both gore fans and film HORROR Brian De Palma’s a hiking couple who discover
Kenneth More is first-rate as
derivative sci-fi thriller. Stephen Baldwin, buffs can enjoy. Dee Wallace (1981, 18) modern gothic fairy tale stars they are not alone in the
Amy Price-Francis (2006) 3.05 Cops Uncut 2.55—4.50am Dr Terror’s House director of operations at the
Sissy Spacek as a telekinetic Pacific Northwest wilderness.
4.05—4.50am Battle of Kursk of Horrors HHH Entertaining Admiralty. DAVID PARKINSON
Cinderella, who turns her The film’s first half is all
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited) fright anthology. Peter Cushing (1964, PG) (UK 1960, BW, HD)
Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324 Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149 school prom into a bloody dreary relationship drama,
The Little Shop of Horrors massacre after a macabre but lovers of gonzo gore will
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vicious teens. Despite its humdrum bickering to goofy
8.00am Christmas in the Air HH HH A super-computer goes rogue in much-copied plot and even schlock horror. DAVE GOLDER
Enjoyable romance. Catherine Bell (2017) this low-budget eco-disaster movie. HORROR COMEDY This more copied climax, (US 2022, violence, swearing, HD)
10.00 Grounded for Christmas John Hennigan, Eve Mauro, Joseph Gatt (2015, 12) riotous no-budget film from De Palma’s movie remains
HH Snowy romantic comedy. Julianna 10.00 Andromeda 11.00 Charro! H
cult director Roger Corman a transfixing experience. AJ
After Blue HHH
Elvis Presley stars in this bungled,
Guill (2019) 12 noon Holiday Road Trip
HH A chalk-and-cheese duo go on a would-be “serious” western about a was reportedly shot in three (US 1976, violence, swearing, nudity) 1.15-4.00am Film4 z
publicity tour with a dog. Ashley Scott (2013) gunfighter battling to clear his name. days on a leftover set. SCI-FI This alluringly odd
2.00pm Christmas at Graceland Ina Balin (1969, PG) 1.00pm Shark Season
H Three kayakers are tormented Jonathan Haze plays the Jude HHHH French fantasy is a surreal
HH Sugary tale with a country-
music twist. Kellie Pickler (2018) 4.00 by a malevolent great white shark. florist’s apprentice who 9.20-11.15pm BBC4 j blend of sci-fi, body horror
Christmas in the Smokies HH Michael Madsen (2020, 15) 3.00 Andromeda breeds a carnivorous plant PERIOD DRAMA Continuing and psychedelic western. On
Wholesome romance. Sarah Lancaster (2015) 4.00 Knight Rider 5.00 Delete
that starts terrorising the the BBC’s two nights of a planet populated by women,
6.00pm Once upon a Christmas 7.00pm Andromeda TV sci-fi
HH A princess makes a break for series starring Kevin Sorbo. neighbourhood. Look out programming dedicated to teenager Roxy (Paula-Luna
the outside world. Briana Evigan (2015) 8.00 Knight Rider TV drama. for a young Jack Nicholson, Thomas Hardy (see p79) is Breitenfelder) is sent on a
8.00 Christmas with a Crown 9.00 Highlander HHH An who’s hilarious as a mission to apprehend a killer
HH A successful woman returns to immortal swordsman duels through this magnificent and suitably
masochistic dental patient. AJ distressing adaptation of who goes by the name of
her hometown to revive her family’s the centuries in this cult mix of sci-fi
Christmas festival. Lisa Durupt (2020) and horror. Christopher Lambert (1986, 15) (US 1960, some violence, BW) his final novel. Christopher Kate Bush (Agata Buzek). A
10.00 Royal New Year’s Eve HH 11.15 Howl HHH An able cast Eccleston, who introduces throbbing synth score nicely
Light-hearted tale of a designer carry this familiar but stylish horror, Grand National Night complements the VHS-era
the film at 9pm, achieves
who falls for a prince. Jessy Schram (2017) in which werewolves pick off train HHH 5.35-7.10pm visuals. KEVIN HARLEY (Fr 2021,
a masterfully haunted look
12 midnight A Christmas
Coincidence HH Romantic drama.
passengers. Ed Speleers (2015, 18)
1.10—3.00am The Midnight Man
Talking Pictures TV g in the title role, while Kate
violence, sexual references, nudity, HD)
Kimberly Sustad (2018) 2.00am Highway to HH Occasionally menacing horror CRIME DRAMA Adapted Winslet is perfect as the fiery
Heaven 3.00—5.00am A Joyous about a deadly board game. Gabrielle Films to stream from p30
Christmas HH Romance. (2017) Haugh, Lin Shaye, Robert Englund (2016, 15) from Dorothy and Campbell cousin whom Jude loves.
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Basketball 8.00pm Hoops struggles to prove herself Kirsty practice their dance and Lee visit a spooky house tries working from home
6.00am Sky News Breakfast 8.00 6.00am Richard E Grant’s Hotel 6.00am Stargate SG-1 8.00 7.10am The Fosters 8.35 Keeping 7.10am Murdoch Mysteries 9.00
Border Patrol 9.00 Stargate Secrets (AD) 7.05 Fish Town 8.10 Supergirl 9.00 Stargate Atlantis Up Appearances 9.15 Last of the Father Brown (AD) 10.00
Atlantis 11.00 Big Cat Country True Blood 10.20 Britannia (AD) 11.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Summer Wine 9.55 Are You Being Unforgettable 11.00 Hudson & Rex
12 noon Supergirl 1.00pm NCIS: 12.25pm Game of Thrones (AD) (AD) 12 noon Supergirl 1.00pm Served? 10.35 Still Open All Hours (AD) 12 noon The Mentalist 1.00pm
Los Angeles 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 1.30 Billions (AD) 3.55 True Blood NCIS: Los Angeles 3.00 Hawaii 11.15 Last of the Summer Wine (AD) Death in Paradise (AD) 2.00 Murdoch
4.00 MacGyver 5.00 The Simpsons 5.55pm Britannia 1/8 Series 3 Five-0 4.00 MacGyver 5.00 DC’s 1.10pm Keeping Up Appearances Mysteries 4.00 Unforgettable
6.00pm The Office US 1/25 In the wilds of Britannia, Cait Legends of Tomorrow (AD) 1.50 The Good Life 2.30 Still 5.00 Hudson & Rex (AD)
Series 3. Michael lets slip that considers her next move, while 6.00pm Stargate Atlantis Open All Hours 3.10 Dad’s Army 6.00pm Elementary 2/13 Series 7
one of his colleagues is gay. Ania and Willa broker a meeting 5/20 Series 2. The team discovers (BW) 3.50 Are You Being Served? Holmes tries to solve an attack in
6.30 2/25. Michael and Dwight between Veran and Aulus. (AD) a planet untouched by the Wraith. 4.30 Last of the Summer Wine the US from his home in London.
6.55 2/8. Aulus struggles to (AD) 5.50 Still Open All Hours
meet Jan at a convention. 7.00 6/20. McKay discovers a 7.00 The Mentalist 14/23
7.00 The Simpsons A snack remain in control now that potent source of energy. 6.25pm Keeping Up Series 1. The CBI team is called in
turns the citizens into zombies. Hemple is on the scene. (AD) Appearances Hyacinth spots a to investigate the fatal shooting of
8.00 Rob and Romesh vs NBA
7.30 Lisa reluctantly asks 7.55 Game of Thrones 9/10 Basketball 2/4 Series 2. Rob strange man in Elizabeth’s house. a powerful businessman’s
Sideshow Bob to help find a killer. Series 2. Tyrion defends King’s Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan 7.00 Dad’s Army First episode adulterous wife at a luxury resort.
8.00 Rob and Romesh vs NBA Landing against a naval assault in learn about the sport. (AD) of the classic comedy. (BW) 8.00 Death in Paradise 6/8
Basketball 2/4 Series 2. Rob a battle that will determine the 7.40 Mainwaring tries to get Series 6. The discovery of a
fate of the seven kingdoms. (AD) 9.00 Mr Bigstuff 5/6. Lee takes
Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan drastic action when he finds his equipment for the platoon. (BW) second body in London leaves
learn about the sport. (AD) 9.00 New. Sweetpea 4/6 past has caught up with him. 8.20 The Good Life Margo the detectives with two murders
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4 Rhiannon sets out to prove garage, Rhiannon sets out to that their wedding fund is empty.
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was, until a revelation changes 9.00 7/8. The team reopen a
10.00 New. Brassic 6/7 Series 6 everything. See page 88. Ashley decides it’s time to up his a spooky country house. seven-year-old murder case after
Ashley decides it’s time to up his game after being physically a tourist provides an alibi for the
game after being physically 10.05 The Penguin 6/8. Despite humiliated by some local youths.
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10.40 A teacher becomes the 10.00 Father Brown 2/15
reach in the city. Victor crosses victim of his own generosity. (AD) Series 3. The priest investigates
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Buzzcocks 1.00am Entourage found dead in a locked room after
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the prince to a duel. (AD) seeing an Egyptian mummy. (AD)
12 midnight Never Mind the Shiv tries to reposition herself Daryl Dixon — the Book of Carol 5/6
Buzzcocks 1.00am Veep: double within a new political landscape. (AD) Series 2. Carol’s lies come to 12 midnight Not Going Out: double 11.00 The Mentalist As 7pm.
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 The Cleaner
9.30pm BBC1
Full series via iPlayer
Wicky (Greg Davies) pitches up,
as he so often does these days, at
a fusty old English mansion, where
there’s blood on the front steps
that needs removing, thanks to an
unfortunate estate agent having
fallen out of a window. Wicky’s van,
meanwhile, has developed a
problem. The officious housekeeper
(Sharon Rooney) says the resident
chauffeur/mechanic can take care
of that, leaving Wicky free to work
his magic with the pressure washer,
so long as he doesn’t disturb the
lady of the manor… but if you think
there’s something off about the
way the housekeeper talks, you’re
Television FRIDAY

onto something.
It’s an ambitious episode that
feels as if it’s constantly on the MIND YOUR MANOR
verge of collapsing in on itself, and Housekeeper Mrs
which puts Wicky in a tight spot… Barton (Sharon
but then he puts on a top hat and Rooney) has a job for
hatches a plan. JACK SEALE Wicky (Greg Davies)

DOCUMENTARY FOOD TRAVEL ENTERTAINMENT

Secrets of the Lost MasterChef: Susan Calman’s Have I Got News for You
Mines: Our Lives the Professionals Grand Day Out 9.00pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer
7.30pm BBC1 Full series via iPlayer 8.00pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer 8.00pm Channel 5 The prestigious title of “most prolific
Pals Ioan Lord and Al Tansey may For a professional chef, being told Catch up via My5 Have I Got News For You guest
have a specific interest in exploring that a food critic is sitting in your Susan Calman pops on her cagoule presenter” is in play once again.
abandoned metal mines in the hills of restaurant about to pass judgement and woolly hat (essential for Alexander Armstrong has a strong
mid-Wales, but their enthusiasm will on your cooking must be incredibly summer holidays in the UK) to relive lead with 41 appearances. Yet this
resonate with anyone who enjoys a nerve-racking. So imagine the her childhood. She’s travelling week’s host, the ever-dependable
fringe hobby. Mind you, their pastime prospect of not one but three around Winnie-the-Pooh country Jo Brand, is not too far behind
features more in the way of danger formidable critics waiting to in the South Downs of Sussex and with tonight’s 29th time on the
than, say, metal detecting or Morris pass their opinion on your work. Hampshire, where she spots a topical throne.
dancing. Explorations of these That should really strike terror working windmill that reminds her Joining Ian Hislop and Paul Merton
underground mazes involve into the heart of even the most of Camberwick Green’s Windy Miller, as guest panellists this week are
mole-like crawls and ill-lit abseils, but confident chef. and takes a joyful ride on a steam- comedian Nabil Abdulrashid and
the rewards are great for those with Having survived an invention test operated carousel that gives her parliamentary sketch writer for The
a passion for history. using stout as their star ingredient, sore cheeks because she’s smiling Times, Tom Peck. The news, as ever,
One highlight is the pair finding a the remaining pros in this round have so much as well as playing marbles. remains unpredictable, yet expect
mining wagon abandoned in a tunnel 75 minutes to make and serve two But it’s seeing the door to Piglet’s insights and jokes on the tail end of
in the 1880s along with prints in the perfect courses to Jay Rayner, house while walking around the two political campaigns: the
mud made by hobnail boots during William Sitwell and Leyla Kazim. magical Hundred Acre Wood Conservative leadership contest,
the same period. Who needs a Tardis Meanwhile, Monica, Marcus and that makes her bounce about like ending this weekend, and next week’s
when you can time travel with a hard Gregg prowl the kitchen in hungry Tigger. She even wins a game of American presidential election.
hat and head torch? DAVID BROWN anticipation. JANE RACKHAM Pooh Sticks. JR STEPHEN KELLY

98 RadioTimes 26 October–1 November 2024

 FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER
DRAMA
Hotel Portofino WAR-TORN
Kit Harington and
ALSO ON
9.00pm U&Drama All episodes on U Alicia Vikander TODAY
There are so many twists
SERIES in the final episode of this
FINALE sunny drama, you might
need a restful Italian
holiday yourself after watching it.
The only thing that’s not a surprise is
that Bella’s husband really is a deeply
unpleasant bounder. He’s up
“indecently early” to go to Genoa to
make a complaint against Danioli. In
fact, he’s doing nothing of the sort…
as we discover. Love is blossoming all
over the hotel, there are a few
departures (well, it is a hotel) and,
because a second series is on its way,
many loose ends are neatly tied up,
while others are left undone. JR

POLITICS The Last Leg

The VP Choice: 10.00pm C4
Adam Hills (above), Josh
Vance vs Walz Widdicombe and Alex Brooker are
9.30pm PBS America joined this week by broadcaster
Catch up via Freeview Play

FRIDAY
Carol Vorderman and satirical
Against the odds, the vice-presidential FILM writer Armando Iannucci.
debate between JD Vance and Tim Testament of Youth
Walz was the most civilised moment 11.05pm BBC2 Catch up via iPlayer Gogglebox
in a rowdy US election campaign. 9.00pm C4
It was quite the surprise, given that
q James Kent’s 2014 biopic of Vera Brittain is a brutal coming-
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vented spleen. But, at those podiums,
that gained her worldwide attention. And Kit Harington took a break RuPaul’s Drag Race
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the human beings behind the political
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Vance and former teacher Walz — into the make-up room as this
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4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 1/8 Series 4. Queens from Australia and (S) (AD) 3.50 Midsomer Murders: Series 8 mounts between Caroline and Michael (S)
Gill takes a coach load of customers on a trip New Zealand enter the werkroom. A box Orchis Fatalis. A rare orchid is smuggled
to Tarifa on the Iberian Peninsula. (R) (S) (HD) set of previous episodes is on iPlayer. (S) (HD) illegally into Midsomer Malham (S) (AD) 6.05pm ’Allo ’Allo!
21/26 Series 5. Flight to Geneva. René’s
5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD) 10.00 Suits 5.50pm Downton Abbey plans to elope with Yvette go awry. (S)
1/16 Series 3. Edward Darby insists that 5/7 Series 1. Isobel and Violet are rivals as
6.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly 6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
Television FRIDAY

Harvey handles a case which puts him on the village flower show approaches, while
Graeme Hall deals with a disruptive a collision course with Jessica. (S) (AD) (HD) Mary meets a potential suitor. (S) (AD) (HD) Series 5. Deep in the Heart of Yorkshire
German shepherd puppy, and revisits a 10.45 2/16. Harvey channels all his Sid and Wally come under suspicion. (S)
clingy weimaraner. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Heartbeat 7.20 Earnshaw Strikes Back. Foggy
energies into the Ava Hessington case. 22/24 Series 7. Blaketon becomes very
6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD) A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD) upsets Compo by criticising folklore. (S)
secretive when his car goes missing and
7.00 Air Fryers: Do You Know 11.25 Fleabag is involved in an accident. (S) (AD) 8.00 Father Brown
What You’re Missing? 1/6 Series 1. Fleabag tries to work out what 10/15 Series 5. The Alchemist’s Secret
8.00 Doc Martin The priest investigates a 300-year-old
Alexis Conran compares different makes she should be doing with her life. (S) (AD) (HD) 5/8 Series 9. Wild West Country. Martin
and models of air fryers, exploring the 11.50 2/6. Fleabag attempts to rekindle a secret hidden in a university. (S) (AD) (HD)
looks into a shooting, and a secret bidder
available accessories, while famous romance to distract her from the mayhem buys the Crab and Lobster pub. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Hotel Portofino
faces share anecdotes and helpful tips
for using the gadget. Plus a number of
of her life. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.20am Angels of the North: double bill (S)
9.00 6/8. Equilibrium. PC Penhale
investigates a case of vandalism and
4 6/6 Series 1. Denouements. The
mystery of the missing heirloom
differently priced makes undergo testing. (HD) 1.20 Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne (S) earns a free surfing lesson. (S) (AD) (HD) is resolved. See page 99. (S) (AD) (HD)
Producers Nadya Mahdi, Melanie Howe, Craig (HD) 2.05 Fleabag: double bill (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Law & Order: UK 10.15 New Tricks
Chambers, Simon Harries and Luke Rufo (R) (S) (HD) 3.00—3.55am Cuckoo (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 1/10 Series 9. A Death in the Family
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD) BBC3 Freeview 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) Freesat 107 7/7 Series 6. Fault Lines. The stabbing
of a police lab technician unsettles the Jack announces he is quitting. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 New series. Susan Calman’s Sky 115 (117 Wales; 121 Scotland) Virgin 107 (113 Scotland/Wales)
team in an unexpected way. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.35 Murder in Mind
Grand Day Out ITV2 6 11.00 1/6 Series 7. Tracks. A suicidal man 3/8 Series 2. Rage. A bachelor succumbs
4 Ep 1 Series 8. Back behind the
wheel of her beloved campervan,
the comedian takes a trip to the home
6.00am CITV: children’s programmes (HD)
9.00 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records
causes a train crash and kills 15 people by
driving onto a railway crossing. (S) (AD) (HD)
to road rage in a moment of madness. (S)
12.55am The Missing: 5/8. Tony takes
(S) (HD) 10.00 Love Bites (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The matters into his own hands (S) (AD) (HD)
of childhood favourite Winnie the Pooh. Labours of Hercules. The quest to find a 2.20 Classic Holby City Shown 9.20am (HD)
En route, she gets a chance to explore 12 noon Dress to Impress (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm missing maid leads to a personal showdown 3.20—4.00am Birds of a Feather: 5/15
everything the surrounding area of the Celebrity Supermarket Sweep (S) (AD) (HD) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD) Series 6. Dorien’s self-esteem is boosted (S)
2.00 Family Fortunes (S) (HD) 3.00 Charmed:
South Downs has to offer. There’s some the sisters battle an evil sea hag (S) (HD) ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 U&Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
surprising history, picture-postcard 4.00 Gilmore Girls: Emily decorates Rory’s +1 Freesat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317 +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316
scenery and a healthy dose of nostalgia bedroom (S) (HD) 4.55 Dress to Impress (S)
— all topped off with a trip to the (AD) (HD) 5.55 In for a Penny (S) (AD) (HD) ITV4 26 ITVBe 28
Hundred Acre Wood. See page 98. 6.25pm FILM Fantastic Beasts: the 6.00am The Derby through the Years (S) (HD) 7.00am Unwind (S) (HD) 7.25 Olivia Marries
Director Katie Greaves (S) (HD) Crimes of Grindelwald HHHH Fantasy 6.15 Minder (S) (SL) (AD) 7.20 The Sweeney Her Match (S) (HD) 8.30 The Cabins (S) (HD)
9.00 Holidaying in the 70s: Wish adventure sequel starring Eddie Redmayne. (S) (SL) (HD) 8.25 Dempsey and Makepeace 9.30 The Real Housewives of Cheshire (S)
Newt Scamander is tasked with tracking (S) (AD) 9.25 The Saint (S) 10.30 Giant (HD) 10.30 Olivia Marries Her Match (S) (HD)
You Were Here down a dangerously powerful young wizard
An exploration of how people holidayed Lobster Hunters (S) (HD) 11.30 BattleBots: 11.30 The Real Housewives of Potomac (S) (HD)
who has fled to Paris. Meanwhile, dark wizard Uppercut takes on Sawblaze (S) (HD)
in the 1970s, ranging from the advent Gellert Grindelwald has escaped custody and 12.25pm The Real Housewives of Beverly
12.30pm Dempsey and Makepeace (S) (AD) Hills (S) (HD) 1.15 The Only Way Is Essex (S)
of the jumbo jet to the popularity of is in search of followers. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
1.35 The Saint (S) 2.40 Giant Lobster (HD) 2.10 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 3.10 The
Benidorm, and the creation of popular 9.00 New. Big Brother A chance to catch
up with everything that’s happened in the Hunters (S) (HD) 3.40 Minder (S) (AD) 4.50 Big Bake (S) (HD) 4.10 The Real Housewives
guidebook brand Lonely Planet. The Sweeney (S) 5.55 BattleBots (S) (HD) of Potomac (S) (HD) 5.00 New. The Real
Director/Producer Elliot Kew (R) (S) (HD) house. Expect tricky tasks, nominations
and friendships being tested. (S) (HD) 6.55pm The Chase Celebrity Special With Housewives of Beverly Hills (S) (HD)
10.00 1988: Most Shocking Moments 10.15 New. Big Brother: Late and Live Julia Goulding, Oz Clarke, Laura Hamilton 6.00pm Making It Home with Kortney
Controversies, scandals and surprises in AJ Odudu and Will Best present a companion and Mr Motivator. Bradley Walsh hosts. (S) (HD) and Dave Kortney and Dave help Bill and
TV, film, music and politics, including show direct from the site of the Big Brother 8.00 New. Cycling Day two of the London Olinka make over their home. (S) (HD)
house, in front of a studio audience. (S) (HD) 3 Day track cycling event. (HD) 7.00 The Big Bake The baking teams are
Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic
11.05 Family Guy Series 18. Peter discovers 9.00 FILM Pitch Black HHHH Sci-fi thriller tasked with turning teatime on its head. (S) (HD)
Verses igniting a religious firestorm and starring Radha Mitchell. When a transport 8.00 James Martin’s Spanish Adventure
a new passion for rocking out to the hits of
Ian Paisley daring to heckle the Pope. Van Halen, but his head-banging causes a car ship crashes on a seemingly deserted planet, From Santiago de Compostela. (S) (AD) (HD)
Series producer John Piper (R) (S) (HD) things seem bad enough for the few survivors. 9.00 Botched Helping a woman whose breasts
accident and he ends up in a coma. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.05am Million Pound Motorhomes (R) (S) 11.35 Peter is told by his boss to work from But with this desolate world plunged into were affected by a childhood operation. (S) (HD)
(HD) 1.05 Casino (S) (HD) 3.05 Portillo’s home due to his excessive sweating, while darkness by an eclipse, their nightmare is 10.00 A patient seeks a new nose. (S) (AD) (HD)
Andalucia (R) (S) (HD) 3.50 Britain’s Great Stewie and Chris cause thousands of dollars only just beginning. Review p105. (S) (W) (HD) 10.55 My Mom, Your Dad: USA Single
Cathedrals with Tony Robinson: featuring in damage at an electronics store. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.10 New. All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite parents seek a second chance at love. (S) (HD)
York Minster (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 4.40 House 12 midnight American Dad! (S) (AD) (HD) 12.55am Hard-hitting action from the USA. (S) (HD) 11.55 The Only Way Is Essex Gemma
Busters (R) (S) (SL) 5.05 Wildlife SOS (R) (S) (SL) Bob’s Burgers (S) (AD) (HD) 1.45 The Stand Up 1.10am The Sweeney: the duo track down burglars attempts to make peace with Bobby. (S) (HD)
5.30—5.40am Entertainment News (S) (HD) Sketch Show (S) (HD) 2.10—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD) (S) (SL) 2.05—3.00am Minder (S) (SL) (AD) 12.45—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105 ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 (132 Scotland)
+1 Freeview 38 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 305 +1 Freeview 29 (7am-2am) Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 315 +1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 318 Virgin 119 +1 Virgin 319
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More4 18 Sky Arts 36 U&Yesterday 27 5 USA 21
9.00am NCIS 10.55 Entertainment News
11.00 NCIS 12 noon Law & Order: six editions
6.00pm NCIS Series 15. Four editions. The
team makes a deal with a convicted murderer
7.00 Gibbs and the team work to clear the
name of a retired marine 8.00 A possible
murder weapon appears on television 9.00
A body is discovered on the roof of the NCIS
headquarters 10.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit Series 7. Triple bill. A student’s
body is found in a red-light district 11.00
Fin’s son is suspected of murder 12 midnight
A sex offender kidnaps two children
12.55am Criminal Minds 2.50 Blindspot
The Château Murders 9.00pm Céline Angelheaded Hipster: the Songs Sue Perkins: along the US-Mexico 3.35—4.00am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera
finds herself taken off the case of Marc Bolan and T Rex 9.00pm Border 8.00pm El Paso in Texas 5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
8.55am Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures 9.15 6.00am Rumpelstiltskin: BalletLORENT 6.10am Great British Railway Journeys +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320
A Place in the Sun: viewing properties in 7.30 The Joy of Painting (AD) 9.00 Tales of 8.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD)
Málaga 10.05 A New Life in the Sun: Where the Unexpected (AD) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock 10.00 Narrow Escapes of World War II (AD) 5 Star 32
Are They Now? 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) Presents 11.00 Discovering: Meryl Streep 11.00 The Buildings That Fought Hitler (AD) 8.00am Dirty Home Rescue 9.00
1.05pm Car SOS (AD) 2.05 Four in a Bed: 12 noon Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 12 noon Great Canal Journeys 1.00pm Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 11.00 Traffic
five editions 4.50 The Dog House (AD) 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Bangers and Cash: Cops 2.00pm Police Interceptors (AD) 5.00
5.50 Escape to the Château: DIY (AD) 2.00 FILM A Woman of Paris HHHH Silent Restoring Classics: double bill (AD) 4.00 Shoplifters and Scammers: at War with the Law
6.55pm Car SOS In Cambridgeshire, Fuzz drama written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Narrow Escapes of World War II (AD) 5.00 6.00pm Home and Away Bree tells Dana
Townshend and Tim Shaw try to restore a Mk.1 Review p105 (BW) (W) 3.45 Classic Albums The Buildings That Fought Hitler (AD) that she was out of line for questioning her
Toyota MR2, but soon discover there’s more 4.50 Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 6.00pm Antiques Roadshow Fiona Bruce authority. Shown 1.45pm Channel 5 (AD)
to this little sports car than meets the eye. (AD) 5.50 Tales of the Unexpected: double bill (AD) visits Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. 6.30 New. Bree suffers in secret and Tane
7.55 Grand Designs The aspirational 6.25pm Tales of the Unexpected A young 7.00 Speed with Guy Martin The world settles into his new role as a dad. (AD)
self-build show follows former RAF pilot Jon man discovers that a window in a peaceful record for riding a motorcycle on water. 7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors Dr Cordell
and GP Gill to build a New Zealand-style hunting lodge leads to a strange world. (AD) 8.00 Sue Perkins: along the US-Mexico carries out a series of tests on David, a patient
house clad in wood and stone on the slopes 7.00 Tina Turner: One Last Time: Live at Border Sue visits the city of Juarez, which who is having problems with his memory. (AD)
of the Malvern hills in Worcestershire. (AD) Wembley Stadium A 2000 concert by the adjoins El Paso on the other side of the border. 8.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts
9.00 New. The Château Murders 8/9 singer, with a selection of career-spanning 9.20 Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes Paramedics bring in 30-year-old Dean, who
Series 2. Céline attacks William, who is only hits, plus covers of Sittin’ on the Dock of the The actor tries out landscape painting. has been involved in a motorbike collision
too happy to call the police and reveal to her Bay and I Heard It through the Grapevine. 9.50 Robson meets Rosie Ramsey. and may have serious spinal injuries.
superiors that she hid his connection to 9.00 Angelheaded Hipster: the Songs of 10.20 Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics 9.00 FILM RoboCop HHHH Sci-fi action
Esther Smith. French +subtitles. Marc Bolan and T Rex Celebrating the The team take Derek’s advice when he sniffs thriller remake starring Joel Kinnaman,
10.00 24 Hours in A&E On a busy evening band and their frontman, featuring archival out the last remaining Hillman GT. (AD) Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton. (AD)

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at the height of summer, 18-year-old student performances as well as interviews with 11.20 Abandoned Engineering The facility 11.20 FILM Van Wilder H Teen comedy
George is brought to Resus after a fight at Bolan himself, Elton John and Ringo Starr. that held apartheid’s greatest critic. (AD) starring Ryan Reynolds and Tara Reid.
a party. He is behaving erratically but blood 10.50 Chuck Berry: the King of Rock n’ 12.20am Great Continental Railway Journeys: 1.15am Police Interceptors (AD) 2.15 Casualty
tests show only a small trace of alcohol. (AD) Roll Documentary about the legendary Barcelona to Majorca 1.20—3.00am Secrets of 24/7: Every Second Counts 3.05 GPs: behind
11.00 Erin, 61, collapsed at home after musician, who died in 2017 at the age of 90. the London Underground: double bill (AD) Closed Doors 3.55—4.00am Entertainment News
suffering a severe ear infection for several Contributors include Keith Richards, Steven U&Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129 5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 (129 Scotland)
weeks. At St George’s she’s given intravenous Van Zandt, Joe Perry and Nils Lofgren. +1 Sky 255 Virgin 329 Virgin 126 +1 Freesat 140 Sky 228 (229 Scot) Virgin 326
morphine and sent for a scan. (AD) 12.45am Buddy Holly: Rave On 2.00 Classic
12.05am Emergency Helicopter Medics (AD) Albums 3.00 Greatest Guitar Riffs (AD) 4.00 Isle
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1.10 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 3.20—3.50am Food of Wight Festival Greatest Hits 5.00—6.00am
Unwrapped: researching the juiciness of limes (AD) National Treasures: the Art of Collecting (AD) 7.10am Gassed Up 8.00 Cops on the Rock 9.00am Entertainment News 9.10 Car
More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 (137 Scotland) Sky Arts Freeview 36 Freesat 143 Sky 130 (131 Scotland) (AD) 10.00 Extreme Salvage Squad Pound Cops 9.40 Trucking Hell 10.40
Virgin 147 +1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 (237 Scot) Virgin 347 Virgin 123 EE 350/HD 365 12 noon Storage Hunters UK 2.00pm Traffic Cops 11.40 Police Interceptors
Our Guy in Latvia 3.00 Top Gear (AD) 12.40pm FILM The Kid from Texas HH
E4 13 4seven 49
5.00pm Rick Stein: from Venice to Western starring Audie Murphy 2.20 FILM
6.00am Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 6.55 9.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA: Istanbul A gastronomic road trip through Seven Men from Now HHHH Western
Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen in Philadelphia 10.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It the former Byzantine Empire. (AD) starring Randolph Scott and Gail Russell
Nightmares USA (SL) 8.00 Married at First (AD) 11.00 The Great House Giveaway 6.00 The chef crosses the Adriatic Sea. (AD) 4.00 Trucking Hell 5.00 Traffic Cops
Sight (AD) 9.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 10.00 7.00 Would I Lie to You? A festive edition. 6.00pm Police Interceptors Kev and Steve
12 noon Frasier (AD) 1.30pm Four in a Bed go on the hunt for suspected heroin dealers.
The Big Bang Theory (AD) 11.00 Modern Family 2.00 A Place in the Sun 3.00 Renovation 7.40 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Jamelia, Susan Calman, Gareth Malone and 7.00 Justin Moffitt and Paul Faulkner chase
12 noon The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00pm Nation (AD) 4.00 Help! We Bought a Village down a gang of suspected car thieves.
The Goldbergs (AD) 3.00 Modern Family: 5.00 A Place in the Sun: double bill Paul Martin test their general knowledge.
8.20 With guests Samira Ahmed, Dom Joly, 8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s
double bill 4.00 Married at First Sight (AD) 7.00pm Jamie: Fast and Simple 4/5 Speeders PC Brian Camsell pulls over a car
5.00 The Big Bang Theory: double bill (AD) Angela Rippon and John Robins
Jamie Oliver sets out to make a satisfyingly 9.00 QI XL Extended edition, with Jo with suspected cloned number plates.
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 16/24 creamy red pepper pasta dish that’s packed Brand, Graham Linehan and Jimmy Carr. 9.00 Police: Night Shift 999 Sgt Gladwin
Series 9. Bernadette shares some news. full of flavour. Shown Monday 8pm Channel 4 (AD) 10.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You stops a car that is being driven dangerously.
6.30 17/24. The gang finally celebrates 8.00 The Great British Bake Off: an Richard Ayoade hosts an extended episode, 10.00 Motorway: Hell on the Highway
Sheldon’s birthday after nine years together. Extra Slice 6/10. Jo Brand is joined by with Mick Lynch and Roisin Conaty. Cameras focus on disasters caused by
7.00 16/17 Series 1. The group throws a Carol Vorderman, Iain Stirling and Leomie 11.00 RT CHOICE New series. Mike 1/8 drivers making misjudgements at junctions.
surprise birthday party for Leonard. (AD) Anderson. Shown yesterday 8pm Channel 4 (AD) 11.00 Terror at 30,000 Feet The story of
Biopic about Mike Tyson, starring Trevante
7.30 New. Modern Family 15/22 Series 8 9.00 24 Hours in A&E Chris, 55, is rushed Qantas Flight 32, the engine of which exploded
Rhodes as the champion boxer.
Phil gets a surprise when he meets his future into Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham in 2010, told by those who were on board.
11.35 New. 2/8. Trainer Cus D’Amato tries
stepbrother. First shown on Sky Showcase after his leg is crushed by a lorry at work. (AD) 12 midnight Under the Dome 1.55am Trucking
to teach a 13-year-old Mike. See page 99.
8.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 10.00 Night Coppers PC Jack is called to Hell 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News
12.15am Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled 1.20 Would
The chef tries to transform six-month-old help a woman who has been spiked in a I Lie to You? at Christmas 2.00 Have I Got a Bit 5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130
gastropub Bask 46 in New Jersey. nightclub and PCs Amelia and Craig attend a More News for You 3.00—4.00am Schitt’s Creek
9.00 FILM Men in Black: International mass brawl outside a pub. (AD) 5 Select 46
HH Sci-fi action comedy starring Chris U&Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (112 Wales) Virgin HD 127
11.05 Gogglebox Ep 8. Instant reactions to U&Dave Ja Vu F’view 74 Sky 211 (212 Wales) Virgin 327
Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. (AD) the past week’s TV shows. Shown 9pm C4 (AD) 9.00am Entertainment News 9.10 The
11.15 FILM Snatched HHH Action comedy
starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn.
12.05am Celebrity Gogglebox for Stand Up to
Cancer (AD) 1.10 Celebrity Gogglebox (AD) 2.15
Sky Mix 11 Yorkshire Vet 3.00pm Murder, She Wrote
(AD) 4.00 Columbo 5.30 Eggheads
1.00am Naked Attraction (AD) 3.00 Gogglebox Generation Z: double bill (AD) 4.15—4.45am 7.00am Nothing to Declare 9.00 Monkey 6.00pm Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
(SL) (AD) 3.55 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 4.20 Everyone Else Burns: David is blackmailed (AD) Ben journeys to the wilderness of Alaska.
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL)
Life (AD) 10.00 Stop, Search, Seize 11.00
4seven F’view 49 F’sat 127 Sky 137 (138 Scot) Virgin 143 Highway Patrol (AD) 12 noon Motorway 7.00 Ben meets 72-year-old twin brothers
5.10—6.00am Black-ish: two episodes (AD)
Patrol 1.00pm Border Patrol 2.00 Monkey who live in the canyons of Utah.
E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 (136 Scot) Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 (236 Scot) Virgin 306
Quest 12 Life (AD) 3.00 Nothing to Declare (AD) 4.00 8.00 Bradley Walsh: My Comedy Heroes
Star Trek: the Next Generation 5.00 Primeval The actor celebrates his favourite comedians
E4 Extra F’view 31 F’sat 126 Sky 138 (139 Scot) Virgin 144 6.00am Chasing Classic Cars 8.00 American
Pickers 9.00 Aussie Gold Hunters (AD) 11.00 The
6.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 7.00 and comedy shows, beginning with sitcoms.
Star Trek: Voyager: Paris and Janeway go
Really 17 Repair Shop 1.00pm The Yorkshire Auction House
2.00 Shed and Buried 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It back in time 8.00 Hawaii Five-0: double bill.
9.30 Man about the House: 50 Years of
Laughs A celebration of the 1970s sitcom
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea (AD) 7.00 5.00 Wheeler Dealers: two editions (AD) Catherine receives a dramatic blast from the about a man sharing a flat with two women.
Home Shopping 8.00 Salvage Hunters 10.00 7.00pm Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars 8.00 past, then SWAT captain Lou Grover faces a 11.00 Prisoner: Cell Block H Vera makes
A Place in the Sun 12 noon Money for Nothing Aussie Gold Hunters: after a frustrating day, the dilemma 10.00 S.W.A.T.: Hondo gets a shot a decision about her relationship with Terry.
2.00pm The Repair Shop 3.00 Antiques Road Ferals hit a gold hot streak (AD) 9.00 New series. at proving he is worthy of the top spot (AD)
Trip 5.00 The Yorkshire Auction House (AD) Yorkshire Air 999: the team fly to the Yorkshire 11.00 Killer in My Village: a horrific murder 12 midnight Terry moves into Vera’s flat.
7.00pm Antiques Road Trip 9.00 New series. Dales to rescue a rock climber with serious injuries 1.00am Forged in Fire 3.35—4.00am Walking
carried out by an estranged wife and her lover Tudor Britain: history’s most fascinating dynasty
Paranormal: Caught on Camera 11.00 New series. 10.00 Ambulance 11.00 The Repair Shop 12 midnight Murders That Shocked the Nation:
Ghosts Off Grid: investigating Fort la Reine 12 midnight How Do They Do It?: double bill Fred Dinenage examines the case of John Christie 5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138
12 midnight Celebrity Help! My House Is Haunted 1.00am Wheeler Dealers: two editions (AD) 3.00 (AD) 1.00am Nothing to Declare (AD) 2.00 Brit
1.00am Unexplained: Caught on Camera 2.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 3.00 Highway Patrol FREEVIEW TV and film
Home Shopping 4.00—6.00am Salvage Hunters Quest Freeview 12 Freesat 150/HD 144 Sky 144 Virgin 137 4.00 Border Patrol 5.00—6.00am Highway Cops
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Really Freeview 17 Freesat 145 Sky 142 Virgin 128 +1 Freeview 70 Freesat 151 Sky 244 Virgin 337 Sky Mix Freeview 11 Freesat 141 Sky 151 Virgin 135
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 200 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 EE 313

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CHILDREN’S FILMS
Milkshake! on C5 Film4 14
6.00am Oggy Oggy 6.10 Peppa Pig 11.00am A Kid for Two Farthings
6.25 Daisy & Ollie 6.30 Odo 6.40 HHH Celia Johnson stars in a
Tweedy & Fluff 6.45 Fireman Sam delightful urban fairy tale set in
6.55 Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!
7.05 Peppa Pig 7.20 Paw Patrol London’s East End in the days after
7.30 Pip and Posy 7.40 The the Second World War. (1955, U) (S)
Adventures of Paddington 7.55 Milo 12.50pm Gift Horse HH
8.10 Paw Patrol 8.30 New. Reu & Watchable Second World War naval
Harper’s Wonder World 8.40 New. drama starring Trevor Howard as a
Milkshake! Off We Go! 8.45 Peppa Pig gung-ho captain. Review, right.
8.55 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom
9.05—9.15am Milkshake! Story Den Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts (1951, PG) (S)
Gavin & Stacey 11.10pm Rachel Khoo’s Chocolate The VP Choice: Vance vs 2.55 The Iron Petticoat HHHH
The 2008 Christmas special Special 5.00pm Festive treats Walz 9.30pm JD Vance Full listings for Channel 5 are on p102 Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope
are a winning combination in this
6.10am Inside the Ambulance 8.00 6.00am The Pioneer Woman 7.00 8.00am Military Masterminds 9.20 CBeebies 202 well-scripted comedy. Review,
Tipping Point 11.00 DIY SOS: the Big Christmas at Bobby’s 8.00 12 Chefs WWII in Colour: Road to Victory right. James Robertson Justice (1956, U) (S)
Build 1.00pm Tipping Point 4.00 of Christmas 9.00 The Great Food 10.30 The Windermere Children: in 6.00am Bing 6.10 Vegesaurs
Truck Race 10.00 Rachel Khoo’s Their Own Words 11.50 New. The 6.15 Teletubbies 6.25 Small Potatoes 4.45 The Man from Laramie
Property Brothers: Forever Homes 6.30 Supertato 6.40 Roots and Fruits HHHH Exciting western from
5.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build Chocolate Special 11.00 The Great VP Choice: Vance vs Walz 1.00pm 6.45 Tee and Mo 6.50 Bing 7.00
British Bake Off 12 noon Ainsley’s Beautiful Serengeti 1.30 Military director Anthony Mann, with
6.00pm DIY SOS: the Big Build Colourblocks 7.05 Hey Duggee 7.20 James Stewart seeking the man
Christmas Good Mood Food 1.00pm Masterminds 2.35 WWII in Colour: Bluey 7.40 Go Jetters 7.50 Peter
The team travels to Durham. River Cottage 2.00 Christmas at Road to Victory 3.45 The Windermere Rabbit 8.05 Octonauts: Above & responsible for supplying the guns
Bobby’s 3.00 The Great Food Truck Children: in Their Own Words 4.55 Beyond 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20 that killed his brother. (1955, U) (S)
7.00 New. MasterChef
Race 4.00 The Pioneer Woman 5.00 The VP Choice: Vance vs Walz Alphablocks 8.25 Love Monster 6.50pm Men in Black 3 HHHH
Australia: Dessert Masters The 8.35 Justin’s House 9.00 Bing 9.05
final three chefs battle it out in a Rachel Khoo’s Chocolate Special 6.05pm Military Masterminds Yakka Dee! 9.10 Love Monster 9.20 Action-packed sci-fi comedy
service challenge. Last in series. 6.00pm Ainsley’s Christmas Good 4/4. How Mao Zedong and Fidel Dylan’s Playtime Adventures 9.30 sequel that sees agent Will Smith
Mood Food 7.00 The Great British Castro used guerrilla warfare. Twirlywoos 9.45 Something Special: travel back in time to prevent
8.10 Inside the Ambulance: Bake Off: festive favourites by Mary We’re All Friends 10.05 Teletubbies
Coast and Country Paramedics Berry and Paul Hollywood 8.00 7.10 WWII in Colour: Road to 10.20 New. Maddie and Triggs
partner Tommy Lee Jones from
in Oxford treat a woman suffering Christmas at Bobby’s: Bobby Flay Victory 5/10. Britain prepares for 10.30 Yukee 10.35 Tiny Wonders being killed. Josh Brolin (2012, PG) (S) (AD)
from a mystery illness. (AD) welcomes an array of chefs, food an initial assault on Europe. 10.40 Colourblocks 10.45 Roots and 9.00 Flight HHH Denzel
fanatics and friends into his kitchen Fruits 10.50 Vegesaurs 10.55 Bluey
9.10 999 Rescue Squad The 8.15 The Windermere Children: 11.05 Supertato 11.10 Hey Duggee Washington gives a blistering
9.00 Gok Wan’s Easy Asian in Their Own Words Rehabilitating 11.20 Postman Pat: SDS 11.35 Teeny performance in this thriller about
crew deals with a suspected acid Christmas: Gok shares his recipes
attack on the streets of Bradford. child survivors of the Holocaust. Tiny Creatures 11.50 Our Family an airline pilot addicted to booze
for a Christmas Day feast 10.00 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm
10.10 A police chase ends with a Ainsley’s Christmas Good Mood Food: 9.30 The VP Choice: Vance vs and drugs. Don Cheadle (2012, 15) (S)
My First Festivals 12.30 Dog Squad
crash and five trapped teens.
11.10 Gavin & Stacey The couple
Ainsley and friends enjoy some
festive fun 11.00 Beat Bobby Flay: 4 Walz The race to become
Vice President. See page 99.
12.40 Andy’s Safari Adventures 1.00
Yakka Dee! 1.10 Numberblocks 1.15 My
Petsaurus 1.20 Hey Duggee 1.25 Love
11.45—3.25am The Godfather
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make an announcement. (AD) Holiday Throwdown: Bobby’s friends 10.40 WWII in Colour: Road to winning crime drama about a
attempt a Thanksgiving classic Monster 1.35 Yukee 1.40 Colourblocks
12.30am Outnumbered: Christmas 12 midnight Guy’s Grocery Games
Victory As 7.20pm. 1.45 Something Special: We’re All Mafia family is one of the all-time
special from 2012 (AD) 1.20 1.00am The Great Food Truck Race: 12 midnight The Windermere Friends 2.05 Teletubbies 2.20 Vida high water marks of American
Million Dollar Wedding Planner festive ingredients 2.00—3.00am Children: in Their Own Words the Vet 2.35 Mojo Swoptops 2.45 cinema. Marlon Brando, Al Pacino (1972, 15) (S) (AD)
Supertato 2.55 Waffle the Wonder Dog
2.20—3.00am Inside the Ambulance Christmas Cookie Challenge 1.15—2.00am Beautiful Serengeti 3.05 Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.20 Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
U&W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 (133 Scotland) Food Network F’view 43 F’sat 148 Sky 140 PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only) Small Potatoes 3.25 The Game Catchers Sky 313 Virgin 428
Virgin 125 +1 Sky 232 (233 Scotland) Virgin 325 (141 Scot) Virgin 190 +1 F’sat 154 Sky 240 (241 Scot) Freesat 155 Sky 173 Virgin 187 3.30 New. Big Lizard: a rockfall traps +1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
Dad, Cosima and Big Lizard 3.40 Hey
Rewind TV 95 HGTV 44 U&Eden 57 Duggee 3.45 Peter Rabbit 4.00 Andy’s
Global Adventures 4.15 Mojo Swoptops
Talking 82
6.00am Unwind with Rewind 6.30 7.00am Building Alaska 8.00 9.00am Secrets of the Railways 4.25 Bluey 4.40 Supertato 4.50 Vida
the Vet 5.00 New. Time for School 5.15
Pictures TV
Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars 7.00 Escape to the Country 9.00 (AD) 11.00 The Architecture the
Dodge’s Pup School 5.25 Sarah & Duck:
FILM The Inspector General HHH A Place in the Sun 10.00 Escape to Railways Built (AD) 3.00pm Secrets John’s yellow ball is too bouncy 5.35
6.00am Tinker HHH Postwar
9.00 Jason King 10.00 A Fine the Country 11.00 A Place in the of the Railways: double bill (AD) 5.00 JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45 Moon and Me documentary drama about a young
Romance 10.30 Watching 11.00 Sun 12 noon My Lottery Dream The Architecture the Railways Built: 6.10pm Clangers 6.20 In the Night boy sent down the mines. Derek Smith
Time after Time 11.30 Sherlock Home 2.00pm A Place in the Sun four back-to-back editions, with Tim Garden... 6.50—7.00pm CBeebies (1949, U) (S) 7.15 Dusty Ermine HH
Holmes (BW) 12 noon Shine On 3.00 Escape to the Country 5.00 Dunn (AD) 9.00 Hornby: a Model Bedtime Stories: with Floella Benjamin Spirited crime drama about a forger
Harvey Moon 1.00pm Space 1999 A Place in the Sun: triple bill 8.00 World: three editions (AD) CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702 whose attempt to go straight is
2.00 FILM Cyrano de Bergerac Derelict Rescue: church pastors 12 midnight Anthony Bourdain: Parts thwarted. Jane Baxter (1936, U) (S) 8.55
HHH Review p105. 4.10 Auto Unknown: double bill 2.00am Secrets The Other Love HH Over-egged
Rewind 4.30 On the Scent of
Jock and Shirley set out to turn a
run-down barn into a heavenly
of the Railways: double bill (AD) 3.45 CBBC 201 tear-jerker. Barbara Stanwyck (1947, PG) (S)
Baskerville Hound 5.00 Worzel The Architecture the Railways Built (AD)
7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.10 Danger 10.45 Inn for Trouble HH Movie
home 9.00 The Great Pottery 5.20—6.00am David Attenborough’s spin-off from TV sitcom The Larkins.
Gummidge Down Under 5.30 That’s Throw Down: it is Garden Week in Natural Curiosities: the electric eel (AD) Mouse 7.20 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed!
My Dog 6.00 Surgical Spirit 6.30 7.30 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese Peggy Mount (1960, U) (S) 12.30pm The
the pottery (AD) 10.00 The Great U&Eden Freeview 57 Freesat 160 Sky 166 7.45 New. Newsround 7.55 Grizzy Four Just Men TV drama. (S) 1.05
The Cuckoo Waltz 7.00 The
Beiderbecke Tapes 8.30 Jason King British Sewing Bee: Joe Lycett Virgin 176 +1 Sky 266 Virgin 376 and the Lemmings: double bill 8.10 Those British Faces: a Tribute to
9.30 Hammer House of Horror challenges the contestants to make Odd Squad 8.25 Super Happy Magic Alastair Sim Profile of the actor. (S)
10.30 Thriller 11.45 Chelmsford 123 garments from recycled materials
11.30 My Lottery Dream Home
Blaze 64 Forest 8.35 Deadly 60 9.05 One Zoo
Three 9.30 Pickle Storm 9.50 Odd
1.50 Time without Pity HHH
12.15am FILM Mesmerised HH 2.00 Squad 10.15 Game on Grandparents
Provocative thriller in which Michael
A Fine Romance 2.30 Watching 3.00 12 midnight Bargain Mansions (AD) 6.00am Dickinson’s Real Deal 6.40 Redgrave tries to save his son from
1.00am Building Alaska 2.00 Flip or Flop Pawn Stars 7.30 Auction Hunters 7.55 10.40 Horrible Histories 11.10 Super
Time after Time 3.30 Sherlock Holmes Happy Magic Forest 11.20 Danger Mouse the gallows. Ann Todd (1957, PG) (S) 3.35
3.00—4.00am My Lottery Dream Home Storage Wars 8.55 Hardcore Pawn
(BW) 4.00 Hammer House of Horror
10.15 UFOs: Secret Missions Exposed 11.35 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! Cash on Demand HHHH Excellent
5.00—5.30am Unwind with Rewind HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 149 Sky 158 Virgin 191 thriller with Peter Cushing as a bank
11.10 The Proof Is Out There 12.10pm 11.45 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
Rewind TV Freeview 95 Sky 190 +1 Sky 258 Virgin 391 World’s Greatest Treasure Mysteries 1.05 11.55 Andy’s Safari Adventures manager, who meets his match in
The UnXplained with William Shatner 12.10pm Go Jetters 12.35 Danger cunning insurance investigator
Great TV 50 Challenge 48 2.05 Pawn Stars 3.05 Storage Wars Mouse 1.00 Waffle the Wonder Dog Andre Morell. (1961, PG) (S) 5.15 She’s
4.00 Ancient Aliens 6.00 Top Secret 1.10 Supertato 1.15 Dennis & Gnasher My Darling HH Creaky romantic
8.00am Diagnosis Murder: two 7.00am The Chase 10.00 Weakest UFO Projects Declassified 7.00 Pawn Unleashed! 1.40 Super Happy Magic drama about a woman who marries
episodes 10.00 Father Dowling Link 11.00 Pointless Celebrities: Stars 8.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 9.00 Forest 1.50 Pickle Storm 2.15 Boy Girl
Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 2.25 Operation a wealthy benefactor. Peggy Simpson,(1937)
Mysteries 10.00 11.00 Castle an edition focusing on the subject The Mark of the Bell Witch 10.55 Royal
Autopsy 11.55 Weird Britain Ouch! 2.55 Deadly 60: Our Planet 6.35pm Look at Life Documentary.
12 noon Hart to Hart 2.00pm of Halloween, with Ruth Madoc, Matters 3.00 The Dengineers 6.55 Jigsaw HHH Satisfying
Father Dowling Mysteries 3.00 Russell Grant, Jedward, Louie 12.50am Alien Files: Unsealed
1.10 UFOs: Secret Missions Exposed 3.25 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! murder mystery set in Brighton and
Diagnosis Murder 5.00 Murder, Spence, Rory McGrath, Linda 2.00 The Proof Is Out There 3.00 3.50 Danger Mouse 4.05 Ninja starring Jack Warner. (1962, PG) (S)
She Wrote: double bill. Jessica is Lusardi and Chico 12 noon The Hardcore Pawn 3.25 Flipping Bangers Express 4.15 Grizzy and the Lemmings
kidnapped, then Jessica investigates 9.05 The World of Hammer
Chase 1.00pm Family Fortunes (AD) 4.10—6.00am Ancient Aliens 4.35 New. Super Happy Magic Forest
A look at the theme of glamour. (S)
foul play in Ireland 7.00 M*A*S*H 3.00 Catchphrase: double bill with 4.45 Odd Squad 5.00 New. Blue Peter
Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 161 Sky 164 Virgin 174 5.30 New. My Life: Grace and the Storm 9.50 Hammer House of Mystery
9.00 The Avengers: a plot is afoot Roy Walker (AD) 4.00 Blockbusters
to kill the prime minister 10.00 5.00 Bullseye: four editions 6.00pm New. The Dumping Ground: and Suspense A family is trapped
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): 7.00pm Cash Trapped 8.00
BBC Parliament 232 Chelsey looks for a clone to take her by impenetrable walls. (S)
Jeff encounters a beautiful blonde The Chase: double bill of the quiz
place 6.30 New. Spooky Files: creatures 11.25 Ravenous HHHH Hilarious
6.00am Westminster Hall 9.00 Select from another dimension enter Sunny
11.00 Return of the Saint: a hosted by Bradley Walsh 10.00 Committees 2.00pm House of Lords:
and disturbing period chiller about
Valley 6.50—7.00pm Phoenix Rise cannibalism at a US Army outpost.
penniless woman is haunted by killers Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: proceedings in the House of Lords
12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Randall CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701 Review, right. Robert Carlyle (1999, 18) (S)
a classic episode of the quiz show 6.00pm Select Committees: recorded
and Hopkirk (Deceased) 3.00 Return of presented by Chris Tarrant, in which coverage of select committee proceedings 1.25am The Caller H Curious,
the Saint 3.50 Movie News 4.00 Highway contestants can win up to one 9.00 Scottish First Minister’s ITV Kids on ITV2 virtually unseen suspense drama.
to Heaven 4.50—5.00am Movie News
million pounds (AD) 11.00 Bullseye Questions: questions in the Scottish (1987, 18) (S) 3.25 Vote for Huggett HH
ITV Kids shows also stream on ITVX Comedy with the endearing family.
Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Sky 157 12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Parliament to John Swinney, the first
Virgin 170 +1 Sky 257 Millionaire? 1.00am The Crystal Maze minister, on Thursday 31 October 6.15am Teen Titans Go! 6.30 Mr Bean: Jack Warner (1948, U) (S) 5.05 Bashful
2.00 The Chase 4.00 Who Wants to Be 9.45—6.00am Scottish Parliament: the Animated Series: triple bill 7.15 Ballerina Comedy. 5.30—6.00am
FREEVIEW channels a Millionaire? 5.00—6.00am Bullseye highlights from the Scottish Parliament Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Time to Remember TV clips. (S)
7.45 Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! 8.10 What’s
continued from overleaf Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 142 BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201 New Scooby-Doo? 8.35—9.00am Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Sky 145 Virgin 139 Sky 504 Virgin 605 Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445
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9.00am A Wedding to Die For 6.00am Restore Point HHH Johnny’s wife, June Carter
HH Routine but entertaining thriller. Finely drawn Czech sci-fi detective Cash, playing his (and Kris’s)
Christa B Allen (2019) 10.55 Killing Your flick. Andrea Mohylova (2023, 15) 7.55 Caddo
Daughter HH Convoluted mystery Lake HHH Eerie mystery thriller. mother. TS (US TVM 1986)
thriller. Allison Paige (2019) 1.00pm Killer
Assistant HH Enjoyable if
Review p31. (2024, 12) 9.45 As 4.15pm
11.50 As 8pm 2.00pm As 10pm Pitch Black HHHH
predictable crime drama. Arianne Zucker 4.15 Zombie Town HH Amiable 9.00-11.10pm ITV4 j
(2016) 3.00 Collision Course HH but patchy family horror comedy
Disaster movie. Tia Carrere, David Chokachi, based on an RL Stine story. Marlon SCI-FI David Twohy’s visually
Dee Wallace (2012) 5.00 Shockwave HH Kazadi, Madi Monroe, Dan Aykroyd (2023, 12) stunning movie offered
Low-budget but well-crafted disaster 5.55pm Ghostbusters: Frozen Fast and Furious star Vin
movie. Stacey Oristano, Rib Hillis (2017) Empire HHHH Hugely entertaining
6.50pm Street Fighter H next chapter in the franchise. (2024, 12) Diesel his breakthrough role.
Laughably cartoonish action 8.00 p Lee HHH Wartime biopic He plays a convict whose
adventure. Jean-Claude Van Damme (1994, 12) of photographer Lee Miller, starring transport ship is downed on
9.00 Mile 22 HH A CIA agent is Kate Winslet. Review p30. (2023, 15) a strange planet with three
attacked from all sides as he tries 10.00 The Book of Clarence HHH suns, lorded over by flesh-
to transport a valuable asset to an A conman tries to pass himself off
airbase. Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan (2018, 18) as a messiah. Review p31. (2023, 15) hungry beasts eager to feast.
11.05 Hitman HH Flashy but 12.15am Don’t Tell Mom the The first half sports a brilliant
insubstantial action crime thriller Babysitter’s Dead HH Fitfully desert surrealism, while the
about a genetically engineered amusing comedy. Simone Joy Jones, Nicole
contract killer. Timothy Olyphant (2007, 15) second is loaded with tension
Richie (2024, 15) 2.00 Drive-away Dolls
1.05am Brothers in Arms HH HHHH Madcap crime comedy from and gore. ALAN JONES
Uneven action drama. Jai Courtney, Ethan Coen that sees two women (Aus/US 1999, violence, swearing)
Nat Wolff (2019, 15) 3.20 Wild West
Chronicles 4.00—5.40am Cradle
head out on a road trip. Margaret Qualley,
Geraldine Viswanathan (2023, 15) 3.40 As
FILM Testament of Youth HHHH Out of Sight HHHH
Swapping HH Is it really their baby? 7.55am 5.35 The Radleys HHH OF THE 11.05pm-1.05am BBC2 h 9.00-11.20pm Legend j
Amanda Clayton, Brandon Barash (2017) Likeable dark comedy. Damian Lewis (2024) DAY
Great Movies Freeview 34 Sky 321 Virgin 425 Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401 BIOPIC The futility of war is explored from a female CRIME CAPER George
+1 Sky 322 EE 501/HD 515 perspective in this moving film based on the memoir by Vera Clooney and Jennifer Lopez
Brittain. Alicia Vikander stars as Brittain, whose dream of are perfect for this sizzling
Great Action 42 Legend 41
becoming a writer is crushed by the outbreak of the First World movie. The plot finds the
8.00am Police Ten 7 9.00 8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger War. When her fiancé (Kit Harington, above) joins the fight, she stars on opposite sides of the
Gunfighters HH A gunslinger signs up as a voluntary aid detachment nurse. The feature

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9.00 The A-Team 10.00 MacGyver law and fighting their instant
would like to retire, but is forced to 11.00 The Gambler: the Adventure debut of James Kent is beautifully shot and features dazzling
change his mind. Randolph Scott (1947, PG) Continues: western sequel attraction when robber
10.55 Total War 12 noon Wanted: mini-series starring Kenny Rogers support, including Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson and Clooney escapes from prison
Dead or Alive 1.00pm Badland HH 3.00pm Boot Hill HH Quirky Dominic West. But it’s the hugely engaging Vikander who and US Marshal Lopez vows
Episodic western. Kevin Makely (2019) 3.25 spaghetti western for fans of likeable makes it so watchable. STEPHEN CARTY (UK/Den 2014, violence, HD)
The Last Days of Frank and Jesse to bring him to justice. Steven
double act Terence Hill and Bud
James HHH Compulsively watchable Soderbergh directs his
Spencer. (1969, PG) 5.00 Star Trek Gift Horse HH prevents him declaring his
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.

western. Review, right. Johnny Cash (1986) suspenseful, sophisticated

6.00pm MacGyver TV thriller 12.50-2.55pm Film4 g love. José Ferrer is a

Television
5.40pm Wanted: Dead or Alive starring Richard Dean Anderson. film with a keen visual style. AJ
TV detective thriller. dignified, moving Cyrano,
7.00 The A-Team TV adventure. WAR Packed with stock (US 1998, violence, swearing, a sex scene)
7.00 Global Meltdown HH a part he had played on
8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger situations, this watchable
Thriller that sees the Earth’s crust
TV action drama with Chuck Norris. Broadway and which here Ravenous HHHH
break apart and survivors search naval drama starts in 1940 on won him an Oscar for best
for a safe haven. Michael Paré (2017) 9.00 Out of Sight HHHH Crime 11.25pm-1.25am
the broken-down tub handed
9.00 Out of Reach HH Former caper with George Clooney and
Jennifer Lopez. Review, right. (1998, 15) to captain Trevor Howard as
actor. Michael Gordon directs Talking Pictures TV z
government agent Steven Seagal in journeyman fashion.
must save his Polish penpal from a 11.20 Blind Fury HHH A blind part of a 50-destroyer loan ROBYN KARNEY (US 1950, BW) BLACK COMEDY HORROR
sex trafficker. Ida Nowakowska (2004, 15) Vietnam War veteran comes to the made to Britain by neutral Director Antonia Bird’s
10.55 Ghosts of Mars HH Spirits
rise from the dead in a Martian
aid of the son of an old army buddy.
Rutger Hauer, Terrance O’Quinn, Brandon Call (1990, 18)
America. Director Compton The Iron Petticoat HHHH stunning mix of gore and
mining town in John Carpenter’s 1.05am Wheels of Terror HH
Bennett stages the action with 2.55-4.45pm Film4 y Carry On-style banter is a
sci-fi action horror. Ice Cube (2001, 15) Mediocre Dirty Dozen-style wartime efficiency but no urgency, film you’ll either love or hate.
12.55am Earthtastrophe HH Low- action drama. Bruce Davison, David Carradine though the decent cast brings ROMCOM An updated take Inspired by the tragic Donner
budget disaster movie. Brian Krause (2016) (1986, 15) 3.05—5.00am Dr Jekyll & life to the characters on the on Ninotchka, this is a sheer Pass disaster of 1846-7, the
2.45 Cops Uncut 3.15 Cops Uncut Sister Hyde HHH Bizarre bisexual bridge and below deck. DAVID joy thanks to the fantastic
3.45—5.00am The Blitz on Cologne take on the split personality classic. film stars Robert Carlyle
PARKINSON (UK 1951, BW, HD) chemistry between Katharine as a starved cannibal who
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited) Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick (1971, 15)
Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324 Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149
Hepburn, as a Russian sets about devouring the
A Woman of Paris HHHH aviatrix, and Bob Hope, inhabitants of a mountain
Great 52 Legend Xtra 69 2.00-3.45pm Sky Arts y as an American serviceman. outpost. Guy Pearce is
Christmas 6.00am Delete 8.00 Shark Season SILENT DRAMA Charles
The clever screenplay comes brilliant as the army captain
8.00am Christmas with a Prince: H Cheap and cheesy thriller in which courtesy of Hollywood attempting to stop him. AJ
Chaplin’s rags-to-riches tale
Becoming Royal HH Good-natured three kayakers are tormented by a
marked a breakthrough in veteran Ben Hecht, and it (US/UK 1999, violence, swearing)
sequel. (2019) 10.00 Forever malevolent Great White shark. Michael was filmed in England by
Christmas HH A TV producer falls Madsen, Paige McGarvin (2020, 15) 10.00 romantic realism. Chaplin
underrated Doctor in the The Lighthouse 5
Andromeda 11.00 Delete 1.00pm
for the star of her reality show. Chelsea
Hobbs (2018) 12 noon All I Want for The Shape of Things to Come H
makes a brief appearance as
House director Ralph Thomas. 1.05-2.55am C4 j
a railway porter and devotes
Christmas HH Predictable comedy. Cheap Star Wars cash-in based on TONY SLOMAN (UK 1956, HD) HORROR Robert Eggers
Melissa Sagemiller (2013) 2.00pm Crashing the HG Wells novel, starring an most of his energies to
Through the Snow HH Romance. erratic Jack Palance. Carol Lynley (1979, PG) directing his favoured (The Northman) directs
3.00 Andromeda 4.00 Knight The Last Days of Frank this eerie psychological
Amy Acker (2021) 4.00 Christmas in actress, Edna Purviance.
Paris HH Romance about a model Rider 5.00 Delete: sci-fi thriller
She plays a country girl who
and Jesse James HHH two-hander, with Willem
and a French playboy. Rebecca Dalton (2019) starring Seth Green and Erin Karpluk 3.25-5.40pm Great Action
7.00pm Andromeda TV sci-fi retains her illusions about Dafoe and Robert Pattinson
6.00pm Rocky Mountain
Christmas HH A broken-hearted series starring Kevin Sorbo. love, despite being seduced WESTERN This compulsively tending a lighthouse on a
woman takes refuge at her uncle’s 8.00 Knight Rider TV drama. by the big city and a suave watchable TV movie casts remote New England island
ranch. Kristoffer Polaha, Lindy Booth (2017) 9.00 The Wall HHH Tense Adolphe Menjou. TOM in the 1890s. Dafoe sets a
8.00 Christmas with a Prince: single-location thriller about an Johnny Cash and his fellow
HUTCHINSON (US 1923, BW, HD) Nashville “outlaw” Kris punishing work schedule
The Royal Baby HH Things get American soldier in Iraq who finds
complicated for Dr Tasha. (2022) himself in a cat-and-mouse game Kristofferson as the Old West’s for Pattinson, while also
10.00 The Christmas Dance HH with an enemy sniper. Aaron Cyrano de Bergerac HHH most notorious brothers. remaining curiously protective
A woman needs to rediscover her Taylor-Johnson, John Cena, Laith Nakli (2017, 15) 2.00-4.10pm Rewind TV y Both stars are a little old for of the light itself. EMMA
holiday spirit. Kristen Vaganos (2021) 10.50 Prince of Darkness HH SIMMONDS (US/Bra 2019, violence,
12.05am Christmas Manger Donald Pleasence heads the cast as PERIOD DRAMA This is a the roles, but they play well
swearing, sex scenes, nudity, BW, HD)
HH Predictable and schmaltzy a priest in this mechanical satanic respectful screen translation together, though the screen
faith-based drama. Andrea Logan White, horror meditation from Halloween
director John Carpenter. (1987, 15) of Edmond Rostand’s classic is hijacked by Willie Nelson
Steve J Young (2018) 2.00am Highway to Films to stream from p30
Heaven 3.00—5.00am As 6pm 1.00—3.00am The Wall As 9pm about the French officer as a Confederate general.
whose oversized nose Stranger casting comes with Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and more
Great Christmas F’view 52 Sky 319 Virgin 424 Legend Xtra F’view 69 F’sat 138 Sky 317
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Michael is in trouble with Jan is consumed by her anger 10.10pm John wants to expand Clive and Dr Fraud look into a socialite’s death
6.00am Sky News Breakfast 8.00 6.00am Fish Town 8.05 True 6.00am Stargate SG-1 8.00 7.25am The Fosters 8.30 Keeping 7.10am Murdoch Mysteries
Border Patrol 9.00 Stargate Atlantis Blood 10.05 Britannia (AD) Supergirl 9.00 Stargate Atlantis Up Appearances 9.10 Last of the 9.00 Father Brown (AD) 10.00
11.00 Big Cat Country 12 noon 12.05pm Game of Thrones (AD) 11.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Summer Wine 9.50 Are You Being Unforgettable 11.00 Hudson & Rex
Supergirl 1.00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1.10 Billions (AD) 3.30 True Blood (AD) 12 noon Supergirl 1.00pm Served? 10.25 Still Open All Hours (AD) 12 noon The Mentalist 1.00pm
3.00 Hawaii Five-0 4.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 3.00 Hawaii 11.00 Last of the Summer Wine Death in Paradise (AD) 2.00 Murdoch
MacGyver 5.00 The Simpsons 5.40pm Britannia 3/8 Series 3 Five-0 4.00 MacGyver 5.00 1.00pm Keeping Up Appearances Mysteries 4.00 Unforgettable
Aulus follows Hemple’s guidance DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (AD) 1.40 The Good Life 2.20 Still 5.00 Hudson & Rex (AD)
6.00pm The Office US 3/25 to return to the Underworld. (AD)
Series 3. Michael lands in trouble 6.00pm Stargate Atlantis 7/20 Open All Hours 3.00 Dad’s Army 6.00pm Elementary 3/13 Series 7
6.40 4/8. Lucius is recognised as (BW) 3.40 Are You Being Served?
when he declares it is Movie Monday. a deserter by a Roman Escort Series 2. Beckett tries to return all Holmes takes extreme measures
Wraiths to human form, but 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine to ensure he can return to New
6.30 4/25. Michael tries grief after a tip-off from prisoners. (AD)
Sheppard’s life is put at risk. 5.40 Still Open All Hours York and Watson helps the police
counselling after learning about
the death of his old boss. 7.40 Game of Thrones 10/10 7.00 8/20. The team is mystified 6.20pm Keeping Up deal with a sinister murder case.
Series 2. Daenerys enters the when Sheppard starts displaying Appearances Hyacinth’s wealthy
7.00 The Simpsons With the 7.00 The Mentalist 15/23 Series 1
mysterious House of the Undying, physical strength and reflexes. acquaintance asks for a lift. When a socialite is killed by a
voices of Tony Blair and JK Rowling. and Jon proves his worth. (AD)
7.30 Homer is humiliated as he is 8.00 A League of Their Own: 7.00 Dad’s Army Mainwaring poisoned cocktail, the detectives
filmed fleeing from a wild bear. 9.00 I Hate Suzie 7/8 Series 1 US Road Trip 2.0 1/7 Series 2 tries to get some equipment. (BW) are led to an all-female country
Naomi and Suzie attend Hal The gang goes on another 7.40 Mainwaring puts the defence club where the members seem to
8.00 A League of Their Own: Holloway’s press night, where they American adventure, competing in be hiding something.
US Road Trip 2.0 1/7 Series 2 of the realm before pride. (BW)
cross paths with Carter’s wife. (AD) challenges from LA to New York. (AD) 8.00 Father Brown 2/15 Series 3
The gang goes on another 9.40 8/8. Finally coming to terms 8.20 The Good Life Tom and
American adventure, competing in 9.00 The Walking Dead: Daryl Barbara get creative with nettles. The priest investigates when
with her situation, Suzie decides Dixon — the Book of Carol 5/6 the new wife of Sir Raleigh is
challenges from LA to New York. (AD) to take control of her life. (AD) 9.00 Not Going Out Lucy is forced
Series 2. Carol’s lies come to a found dead in a locked room after
9.00 The Walking Dead: Daryl 10.25 Sweetpea 4/6. With Julia head. Starring Norman Reedus. to look after her god-daughter. seeing an Egyptian mummy. (AD)
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sets out to prove she’s not the 3/8 Series 2. John prepares to Series 12. The team investigates
head. Starring Norman Reedus. loser she once was, until a 10.20 Inside No 9 A girl’s birthday the murder of former children’s
relaunch LDT and sets his sights
10.10 Formula One The Sao Paulo revelation changes everything. on more clubs on Oxford Street. party takes a sinister turn. (AD) home resident Vincent Petit. (AD)
Grand Prix sprint qualifying session. 11.30 Gangs of London 7/9 11.00 An understudy dreams of 10.15 7/8 Series 8. DJ Dezzie
11.10 Never Mind the Buzzcocks taking over the lead role in a
11.10 Never Mind the Buzzcocks Series 1. The truth about Finn’s Ep 3 Series 4. Alex James, Julian Dixon is shot dead during his
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Clary and Sister Bliss take part,
James, Julian Clary and Sister Bliss. is forced to confront the deadly with Mel B standing in as captain. 11.40 The Fast Show Dr Fraud Marie while his fellow
consequences of his actions. (AD) gives Clive a month to live. (AD) broadcasters take a break. (AD)
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Sex and the City 2.30 Road Wars 12.35am The Wire 1.45 American 1.10 The Walking Dead 3.00 12.20am Not Going Out 1.35 11.15 The Mentalist As 7pm.
3.00 Hawaii Five-0 4.00 MacGyver Rust (AD) 2.55 Game of Thrones Hawaii Five-0 4.00 MacGyver Inside No 9: double bill (AD) 12.15am Elementary 1.10 Justified
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11.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation Border Patrol 9.00 Highway Patrol (AD) 11.00 Motorway Patrol (AD) 12 noon 11.20 Looking 12.35pm Insecure (AD) How Do They Do It? 8.00 Building off
12 noon Stargate Universe (AD) 10.00 UK Border Force (AD) 11.00 For Caught on Dashcam 1.00pm Border 1.45 Betty 2.20 Vice Principals (AD) the Grid 9.00 Fast ’n’ Loud (AD) 10.00
Security: Canada’s Front Line (AD) 2.00 3.40 Looking 5.00 Will & Grace (AD) How Do They Do It? 11.00 Wheeler
1.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Life (AD) 12 noon Coroner 1.00pm Most Haunted 4.00 The Good Doctor 6.00pm The Office US 7.00 Young Dealers 1.00pm Alaska: Homestead
2.00 Primeval 3.00 Stargate SG-1 Chicago Med 2.00 Chicago Fire 5.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) Rock (AD) 8.00 Will & Grace (AD) 8.30 Rescue 3.00 Gold Rush: White Water
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Star Trek: the Next Generation Eight editions of the fly-on-the- Real A&E (AD) 7.00 Merlin: Uther falls congressman provides Selina with an 6.00pm Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with
6.00pm Primeval 4/6 Series 1 for a lady who is hiding a dark secret (AD) excellent networking opportunity, then Freddy and Juan: in California, Freddy
wall documentary accessing the 8.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Selina is forced to clarify her stance on and Juan rescue their first-ever hard
Helen refuses to answer Lester’s world of national security at Line: double bill. An American learns abortion after the president announces rock operation (AD) 8.00 Wheeler
questions about the anomalies Australia’s biggest airports. (AD) about Canada’s drug laws, then a Chinese he is against it (AD) New. The Tonight Dealers: Mike surprises Elvis with a
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7.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Gallo, Violet and Ritter debut their Motorway Patrol (AD) 10.30 Motorway Frances finds out that Robert has a new Expedition Bigfoot (AD) 10.00 New
Nine 23/26 Series 3. Quark is microbrewery business, Brett Patrol (AD) 11.00 Magnum P.I. (AD) woman, then Frances and Robert try to Expedition X (AD) 11.00 Roadworthy
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Echo (AD) 4.00 Four Weddings (AD) 3.50—5.00am Silicon Valley 4.00—5.00am Blowing Up History
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Cassandra develops telekinetic Victims Unit 11/13 Series 25 Sky Comedy Sky 114 (115 Wales) Discovery Sky 125 (126 Scotland) Virgin 177
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own future and that of the team. help on the day of her wedding and
9.00 The Leftovers 3/10 Series 2 Rollins pitches in on her day off. Sky Crime Comedy Central Discovery History
Tom helps rescue a Guilty Remnant 10.00 Law & Order: Organized 6.00am Highway Patrol 7.00 Highway 8.00am Most Ridiculous: Furry Friends 7.00am Ultimate Warfare 8.00
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9.00 Brit Cops: Rapid Response (AD) 9.00 Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party Secrets Underground (AD) 10.00
cult uncovers new problems. (AD) to keep his rank in the farm’s inner 10.00 Motorway Patrol 11.00 Murders 10.00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA Salvage Hunters 11.00 Salvage
10.00 4/10. An earthquake hits circle when his biggest ally is That Shocked the Nation (AD) 12 noon 11.00 New Girl 12 noon Friends (AD) Hunters: the Restorers 12 noon
and Kevin goes missing, however questioned, as the team discovers How I Caught the Killer (AD) 1.00pm 8.00pm New. Whose Line Is It Combat Dealers (AD) 1.00pm Blowing
when he returns he has no memory the identity of their top target. Killer in My Village 2.00 Murdered at Anyway? USA: double bill of the Up History 2.00 Ultimate Warfare
and a mystery to solve. (AD) First Sight (AD) 3.00 World’s Most Evil improvisation show 9.00 Lee Evans 3.00 Salvage Hunters 4.00 Combat
11.00 FBI 16/19 Series 2 Killers 4.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers Live: the Different Planet Tour: the Dealers 5.00 Shed and Buried
11.00 The Ark Ep 9 Series 2 A father kidnaps a billionaire’s 5.00 How I Caught the Killer (AD) comedian concludes his 1996 UK tour 6.00pm Mysteries at the Museum:
Captain Garnet must attempt daughter and holds her hostage in 6.00pm Murders That Shocked the Nation with a gig in London’s West End investigating a bizarre plague 7.00
diplomacy with an enemy of the a safe room until his own missing (AD) 7.00 World’s Most Evil Killers 8.00 10.30 Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains: Nasa’s Unexplained Files 8.00 Cooper’s
GSA, the Eastern Federation. child is returned to him. (AD) John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise 10.05 with Dara O Briain, Susie Dent and Treasure 9.00 Combat Dealers (AD)
12 midnight Ep 9. Garnet and Ian Britain’s Most Evil Killers 11.05 Forensics: Layton Williams 11.30 Whose Line Is It 10.00 Salvage Hunters 11.00 Salvage
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the Tale of the Tapes 4.00 The 12 noon Patagonia (AD) 1.00pm Big Bash League Cricket Melbourne 11.45 The Pioneers
Directors 5.00 Discovering: Monkey Life 2.00 Hope for Wildlife Renegades v Perth Scorchers. guard Donovan Mitchell
Richard Dreyfuss: the life and career 12 midnight LIVE Major League
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President Nixon to resign Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 EE 420/HD 440 Fantasy Show 5.30—6.00am Badminton
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ancient woodlands, which are 6.00am Classic Play-Offs 9.00 EFL Legends (AD) 8.00 Best Goals 9.00
Tonka’s fate becomes clearer, Tonia
struggles to let go and dreams of
home to miraculous creatures. (AD) Greatest Games 10.00 Classic League Cup
(AD) 12 noon German Football 1.00pm
100 Club (AD) 10.00 Total Football
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her own where she can live Hsiao-Ning loses a tooth. Scottish Premiership Highlights 1.30 Preview 7.30 The Big Interview 8.00
7.30 A decision must be made Championship Highlights 2.30 League Cup 6.00am LIVE MotoGP The Grand
among chimpanzees. (AD) Fantasy Show 8.30 Soccerbox 9.00
Prix of Malaysia first practice session.
when Hsiao-Ning comes of age. Highlights 3.30 German Football 4.30 Preview 9.30 The Big Interview 10.00
8.00 Charlie Hustle and the Scottish Premiership Round-Up 4.45 Icons (AD) 11.00 Years 1.00am Retro 8.15 The Autumn Nations Rugby
Matter of Pete Rose Charting 8.00 Wildlife ER A kangaroo Scottish Premiership Highlights 5.00 3.00 Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Best Show 9.15 Bristol Bisons: Pride on
the former baseball player and needs round-the-clock care and German Football 6.00 League Cup Goals (AD) 5.30—6.00am 100 Club the Pitch (AD) 10.15 Reload 10.30
manager’s career, including his rise Karina tackles the turtle waiting list. 7.00 LIVE Championship Football Fishing (AD) 11.30 Pool 1.00pm
to fame and his ban from gambling. Luton Town v West Bromwich Albion. Reload (AD) 1.30 In My Blood 2.00
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Games (AD) 12 midnight Classic League 6.00 LIVE Wrestling Action with
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Minnesota town in 2018 when she bunnies injured in a dog attack. 4.00 Championship Season Review League Cricket Continued coverage the WWE SmackDown Superstars.
killed her husband David and went (AD) 5.00 Best League Cup Goals of Adelaide Strikers v Sydney Thunder. 8.00 Test Cricket Highlights: India
10.00 Patagonia As 6pm. 5.30—6.00am EFL Trophy Football v New Zealand 9.00 Champions
on the run from the authorities. 8.00 Big Bash League Cricket
10.50 Six years later, Lois Riess 11.00 Africa’s Claws and Jaws League Magazine 9.30 UFC
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attempts to explain her actions The seldom-seen snakes and lizards
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history and a gambling addiction. 12 midnight Jaguar Journals Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 EE 423/HD 443 and Moto3 second practice sessions;
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12.40am Crazy, Not Insane 3.00 1.00am Shark Squad 2.00 Wildlife 6.00am European Challenge Tour Golf Cup (AD) 12 noon Women’s Big Bash
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Shaun Gayle (AD) 5.00—6.00am Hope for Wildlife 5.00—6.00am Away 7.30 European Challenge Tour T20 (AD) 4.00 Women’s Big Bash
Golf 8.00 PGA Tour Champions qualifying sessions (start 4.50).
Discovering: Richard Dreyfuss (AD) Dogs with Extraordinary Jobs (AD) League 9.00 Pushing Boundaries
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Golf Day two of the fifth stage of
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Nat Geographic Nat Geo Wild Day two of the Grand Final in Majorca.
Bash League Cricket Brisbane
Heat v Hobart Hurricanes. 6.00am Premier League Netbusters
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European Tour Golf 11.00 PGA 3.45 Women’s World T20 (AD) 8.00 Italian Football 10.00 Premier
Investigation: Special Report 10.00 Nazi Kings 10.00 Alaska’s Grizzly Gauntlet 3.55—6.00am LIVE Women’s
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(AD) 12 noon Car SOS (AD) 1.00pm Incredible Dr Pol 1.00pm Yukon Vet 12.05am Best of the Sky Zone (AD) Big Bash League Cricket Melbourne Autumn Nations Rugby Show 12 noon
Inside Sydney Airport (AD) 2.00 Air 2.00 Austria’s Wild Heritage: double 1.00 PGA Tour Golf 2.00 Best of the Renegades v Perth Scorchers. International T20 Cricket 2.00pm
Crash Investigation (AD) 3.00 Lost Nukes bill 4.00 Secrets of the Zoo: Tampa Hero Masterclass (AD) 2.30 Best of International One-Day Cricket 5.00 The
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4.00 Hitler’s Last Stand 5.00 Car SOS 6.00pm Snakes in the City: cobras Championship Official Film 2018 (AD) Sky NFL Reload (AD) 6.00 Autumn Nations Rugby
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work carried out at the military base Costa Rica 8.00 Hostile Planet: Africa Jaguars Weekly UK 9.00 Highlights Reload 11.45 International Rugby League
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Witches: Truth behind the Trials 2.00 WTA and ATP Tour coverage. 4.30 Gameday 5.00 Bitesize 6.00 Coverage continues until 12 noon.
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1.00am Monster Fish: the Mongolian Unbuttoned 8.00 49 Hours 8.15
3.20 Food Factory 4.10—5.00am terror trout 2.00 Yukon Vet 3.00 Day five of the Paris Masters.
Secrets of the Zoo: Keeper Tales Secrets of the Zoo: Tampa 6.00—4.00am LIVE Tennis
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Flipping Bangers 8.00 The UnXplained Heroes (AD) 10.00 Dogs 101 11.00 11.00am—4.00pm LIVE Sky Sports + England: Cricket Classics (AD) 5.00 NBA
Action 5.30 NBA on Fire (AD) 6.00
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People: Serpent Invasion 12 noon Animal Cribs 1.00pm Dodo Heroes the Grand Final from Majorca. Sky 412 Virgin 518/HD 508 EE 427/HD 447
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Secrets of the Lost Liners 2.00pm 2.00 From Wags to Riches 3.00 Pit 7.20—9.30 LIVE German 6.00am LIVE Tennis WTA and ATP.
Storage Wars 4.00 Pawn Stars Bulls and Parolees 4.00 Bad Dog! 11.00 LIVE NBA Cleveland Cavaliers
Football Bayer Leverkusen v 2.30pm LIVE ATP Tennis v Orlando Magic (tip-off 11.00);
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Forged in Fire 8.00 Britain’s Most 6.00pm Animal Cribs 7.00 Dodo 1.30am Minnesota Timberwolves v
Historic Towns: Professor Alice Roberts 4.35—6.00am LIVE International 5.00 Sports Centre Denver Nuggets (tip-off 1.30).
Heroes 8.00 I’m Alive: tales of survival,
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Dr Jacques Vallée, who is best known 9.00 I Was Prey: a man who found a 4.00—6.00am Sky Sports News
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10.00 Alaskan Bush People: the elder Eurosport 1 Premier Sports
alien life 10.00 Weird Britain Brown brothers prepare for their second Sky 413 Virgin 521 EE 412 Sky F1
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Warriors 3.00 Britain’s Most Historic Bad Dog! 3.00 Alaska: Homestead The women’s race in the 2.00—4.00pm LIVE São Paulo 7.30—10.30 LIVE Spanish Football
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Sky History Sky 123 (124 Scotland) Virgin 131 Animal Planet Sky 162 (175 NI) Virgin 178 1.55—3.15 LIVE Cyclo-Cross 6.00—8.30 LIVE São Paulo 11.00—2.00am LIVE NHL New
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HE 2000 US election was one of the
most intense, contentious and bizarre
in the country’s history – remembered DEVASTATION
for a result that was only decided after a President George W
furious court battle over “hanging chads” on Bush and Mississippi
Florida’s ballot papers. It was a consequential resident Patrick Wright
survey the wreckage in
election for several reasons. The most significant the wake of Hurricane
being, as I explore in my Radio 4 documentary, Katrina in 2005
the way its outcome pushed us further towards
severe climate change.
At one point during the primaries, it did look
as though that White House race would produce
a champion of the environment with radical
policies to cut planet-heating emissions.
The Democratic candidate, vice-president Al
Gore, was a long-standing supporter of the need
to reduce pollution. Normally you’d expect the
candidate for the Republican party, with all its
links to Big Oil, to be more lukewarm on the
climate, but not that year. The Republican front-
runner in the primaries was John McCain and,
unlike his party colleagues, he was passionate
about the environment.
Hopes were raised round the world that
whichever candidate won would lead a global
charge to cut emissions. The stakes were very
high, and the planet – as well as the USA – was
the prize. In the end it was neither of the envi-
ronmental champions who clawed their way to
Washington, but Texan oil man George W Bush.
Scientists were dismayed. The former UK
Chief Scientist, Professor Sir David King, says
McCain or Gore would have boosted renewa-
bles, cut fossil fuels, shown international leader-

‘Al Gore must be

TIPPING POINT
Can the US learn from the election in 2000 and vote
haunted by what for the future of our planet, asks Roger Harrabin
might have been’
ship and made our current emissions targets to have asked voters: “Would you be more or less all too familiar. Again, we see one candidate
much less daunting. “If McCain had got in, we’d likely to vote for John McCain… if you knew he expressing concern about the heating climate,
be in a very different place. This was a tragedy.” had fathered an illegitimate black child?” The and another calling climate change a scam.
So how did McCain slip so fatefully in the Bush campaign denied involvement, but it Look more closely and you’ll see Democratic
primaries? Well, one crucial element of that story seemed to influence some voters, and Bush candidate Kamala Harris is no green angel. To
can be traced back to Mother Teresa’s orphanage forged on to become the Republican candidate attract fossil fuel supporters, she reversed a plan
in Bangladesh. In 1991, McCain’s wife visited, – and later president – by a paper-thin margin. to ban fracking, and she wants to continue seek-
brought home two sick girls, and later Bush pulled the US out of the climate treaty ing fossil fuels. But she favours investment in
adopted one called Bridget. “She’s a and boosted production of oil and gas. Gore, renewables and will surely keep the US within
wonderful child,” McCain said. “We love meanwhile, was criticised by green support- the global process to cut emissions.
her.” That little girl grew up and in ers for not having actively campaigned on Some of President Biden’s green policies are
2000 joined her adopted father on the climate, for fear of losing votes. His caution locked in, but former president Trump has
Republican primaries campaign. may have been misguided as an inde- promised to “Drill, baby, drill” in his first day if
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Then the dirty tricks began. pendent Green Party candidate, he gets into office. With Florida in the news once
Bush supporters harnessed Ralph Nader, captured green votes more following devastation from Hurricanes
a technique known as the likely to have gone to Gore. The Helene and Milton, scientists warn the Earth
push poll where campaign- LOSING former VP must be haunted by can’t take more delay.
ers phone voters to OUT what might have been.
Democratic
research levels of support. candidate
With this year’s American Roger Harrabin is a freelance environment journalist
In this case they’re said Al Gore election looming, this sounds and Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
in 2006

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charismatic frontman of the Doors.
The tallest tale has Morrison faking
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Jim Morrison DAVID McGILLIVRAY introduces this Halloween special
as “a trilogy of terror” (with two
episodes to come). While some of
DOCUMENTARY ON THE RUN? the stories supplied by listeners
Lord Lucan has are chilling, there are just as many
The Lucan Obsession Monday–Friday 1.45pm Radio 4 not been seen smiles, particularly when his first
An unscrewed lightbulb. A lead pipe. A frenzied attack in a in 50 years
guest is the comedian Stewart Lee
Belgravia basement that left the nanny, Sandra Rivett, dead. and there’s a weird query on
A bloodied Lady Lucan escaped to a pub and Lord Lucan went sharing dreams with Rick Astley.
missing. You might think you’re familiar with the 1974 case, Lee declares from the start that
but 50 years is a long time, points out historian Alex von he doesn’t believe in ghosts —
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In this bitesize series she considers the myth that end about seeing his recently
has clouded the truth, while hearing accounts from deceased mother… AJ
eyewitnesses and investigators. FIONA HUGHES

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The Archers
Sunday—Friday 7.00pm Radio 4
Lilian (Sunny Ormonde, above) has
to remind Justin of his promise to
MUSIC turn over a new leaf when he looks
to turn a situation to his advantage.
Radio 2 in Concert Thursday 7.00pm Radio 2 Yet, as Halloween nears, he
There’s a good reason why the Cure have endured the fickle struggles to keep his promise. Brad
world of pop music for almost 50 years and gone from wrestles with his dilemma — having
supporting Wire to headlining at Glastonbury four times been sworn to secrecy, he fears the
(the most recent being in 2019), and that’s beautiful, lyrical consequences if he spills the beans
songwriting. Forget the goth label. As singer/songwriter and and the disaster that may unfold if
the band’s constant member Robert Smith says, “It’s only he doesn’t. There’s excitement at
people that aren’t goths that think the Cure are a goth the Bull as they await someone
band.” An audience at the BBC’s Radio Theatre are who could improve their fortunes,
treated to songs old and new. Black eyeliner and but the changes may not be
attire are not obligatory. ANNA JONES welcomed. DAVID CRAWFORD

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rescue of a football team from a Hollywood blockbuster. Dan Brumm, the and crow you hear has been captured by Brumm’s
flooded underground caves in man responsible for the audio side of Bluey — recorder and he’s frequently seen monopolising
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SPORT CONVERSATION DOCUMENTARY DRAMA

Crossways Wisdom of Age Kill List The Margate Murders
National treasure Ian Wright The title tells it all. Former National A murder-for-hire website on the What a winning combination —
is paired with recently retired Geographic journalist Stacy Raine dark web targeting ordinary a quality cast led by Joanne
women’s pro Steph Houghton for holds conversations with mature citizens around the world may Froggatt and Sheridan Smith turn
a weekly half-hour chinwag about people and encourages them to sound like the stuff of Hollywood in convincingly real performances
the women’s footie scene, from share their stories. It’s the quality fiction, but Carl Miller’s in a police procedural drama that
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game, and settle into a more benefit from transcriptions being contact and convince intended gripping from start to finish and
relaxed dynamic as episodes made available but, other than that victims when the authorities prove begs the question, whose narrative
progress. EMMA SIMMONDS it’s very good. ANNA JONES slow to react. JEREMY ASPINALL can be believed? Superb. AJ

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WITH JUST DAYS left to go in what is
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Crime Next Door: the The English Disease candidates in the American presidential race
Salisbury Poisonings Less a history of football violence
have been avoiding the TV and radio
networks, and can’t be bothered with the
A neatly timed release from BBC and hooliganism in the 1980s
papers. Instead they’ve been seeking out the
Local as the public inquiry into the than a series from writer Sam
company of highly influential podcasters,
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transported Wiltshire journalists Marie Lennon if not on the terraces. An untold She was not asked anything difficult about
to Brisbane and Andy Howard break down all story, offering lessons that need the US border or the economy.
the key moments. AJ to be heeded. JA Donald Trump, meanwhile, had a conver-
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and discover the natural power of doing nothing 8/8. Ian Smith presents the topical comedy 11.00 Fighting Talk Panel game.
from the animal kingdom, and find out why panel game, with the two teams comprising was the last chance to save the Earth’s 12.00 5 Live Sport
humans are so bad at it. They learn that it’s only Alasdair Beckett-King, Susie McCabe, climate, and how history may have gone Steve Crossman is joined by Alan
through boredom that the “Default Mode Geoff Norcott and Amy Hoggart. differently if Al Gore had become president of Shearer, Steph Houghton, Phil Jones
Network” can be accessed. Repeated from yesterday Rptd from yesterday Rptd Monday 11pm Radio 4 Extra the USA. Using archive materials from the and Statman Dave for build-up to
6.00 News and Papers 1.00 News time and fresh interviews with key players, the today’s 3.00pm Premier League
butterfly effect of dirty tricks on a global crisis commentary on Manchester United
6.07 Ramblings 1.10 Any Questions? v Brentford. And at 5.00 Sports
Alex Forsyth chairs the political forum from can now be heard. With contributions from
3/7. Horticulturist and broadcaster Alan Report, followed at 5.30 by live
Sunderland Minster where an audience respected scientists, journalists and activists.
Titchmarsh takes Clare Balding for a favourite Producer Helen Lennard Premier League commentary on
walk across Tennyson Down on the Isle of canvasses the opinions of four leading See feature: page 108 Everton v Fulham.
Wight, taking in views of the famous Needles. figures. Repeated from yesterday 7.30pnm 6-0-6 Football phone-in.
A keen walker, Alan splits his time between 9.00 The Moral Maze
2.00 Any Answers? 1/8. Michael Buerk is joined by Inaya Folarin
9.00 Stephen Nolan Topical show.

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the mainland and the Isle of Wight, and has a Phone-in responding to Any Questions? 10.00 5 Live Boxing
lot to share with Clare about this place that Iman, Carmody Grey, Ash Sarkar and Anne Commentary on Jack Catterall v
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he loves. Having grown up in a family that PHONE: 0370 010 0444 Lines open from 12.30pm McElvoy. Repeated from Wednesday Regis Prograis, from Manchester.
took regular Sunday walks, he developed an EMAIL: [email protected] 10.00 News 12.00 Headliners with
affinity for the natural world from an early age. 2.45 The Archers 10.15 The Food Programme Nihal Arthanayake
Repeated from Thursday Repeated from yesterday Terra Madre. Dan Saladino reports from 1.00am BST Lisa McCormick
6.30 Farming Today This Week 3.00 Breaking the Rules: Snares Turin on the biennial Terra Madre food
BBC 5 Sports Extra
News about food, farming and the countryside.
7.00 Today 4 Psychological drama set in a remote
Exmoor valley by Clare Bayley. Skye
and Kezia hope to start a radical new life in
conference and festival, 20 years after the
event was founded in harness with the Slow
Food movement pioneered in Italy.
DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
Presented by Mishal Husain and Justin Webb. F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0131 Virgin 908
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament an eco community set up by their friend Repeated from yesterday
7.25, 8.25 Sports News Tobias. But Tobias may not really be the 11.00 Call Jonathan Pie 5.45am—2.00pm Test Match
visionary environmentalist he claims to be. Special Day three of the Third
7.48 Thought for the Day 1/2. The American Dream. In the first of two Test between Pakistan and England.
With the Rev Dr Rob Marshall. Skye Rebecca Banatvala Tobias Rupert Hill US election specials, Pie tackles the thorny 3.00—5.00 Rugby Union
9.00 Saturday Live Kezia Sarah Kameela Impey Fiona Jenny Platt issue of democracy and is quickly derailed. As An English Premiership match.
Producer/Director Nadia Molinari he takes his usual “balanced” approach to the
Weekend entertainment show presented by 6.25—7.35 Formula One The
Nikki Bedi and Jon Kay, with guests including 4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour US presidential candidates, Jules dangles a juicy Mexico City Grand Prix third practice.
former RAF pilot Liz McConaghy. Plus the Anita Rani presents a round-up of highlights. carrot. There’s a big job in the offing — if only he
Inheritance Tracks of writer and broadcaster 5.00 Saturday PM can stop ranting about one of the candidates. Talksport
Adrian Chiles. Producer Ben Mitchell News round-up presented by Caroline Wyatt. Jonathan Pie Tom Walker Sam Aqib Khan
Jules Lucy Pearman Roger Nick Revell 1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
10.00 Curious Cases 5.30 Political Thinking with Nick Producer Alison Vernon-Smith F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
4/13. In the Groove. Hannah Fry and Dara O Robinson Repeated Friday 10pm Radio 4 Extra 6.00am GameDay Breakfast
Briain investigate the science of rhythm, 8/14. Nick Robinson interviews major 10.00 GameDay Warm Up
political figures about their lives and careers. 11.30 Brain of Britain
discovering why some people are better at 8/17. General knowledge contest with Russell 12.00 Championship Football
staying in the groove than others. They look Producer Daniel Kraemer Bristol City v Leeds (k-o 12.30pm).
Davies, with contestants from St Helens,
at how rhythm has been used to treat 6.00 Six o’Clock News 2.30pm GameDay Live
Leeds, Oldham and Chesterfield. Rptd from Sun 5.30 The GameDay Phone-In
patients with Parkinson’s disease and to help 6.15 Loose Ends
children with their language and social skills. Stuart Maconie presents the show from the 12.00 News and Weather 7.30 The Rory Jennings Show
They also learn how some are better than 12.15—12.45am Open Book 9.00 Fight Night Boxing news.
Stratford upon Avon Literary Festival where 12.00 A Talksport Special
others at staying in the groove as Hannah he is joined by American classical actor John Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts present a
special edition exploring AI and the novel, 1.00am BST Extra Time
learns a basic beat from Skunk Anansie Douglas Thompson, RSC stalwart Harriet 5.00 GMT Early Sports Breakfast
drummer Mark Richardson. All episodes Walter and comedian and Friday Night recorded at the Southbank Centre’s London
Literature Festival. Novelists Naomi Alderman,
available on BBC Sounds. Producer Marijke Peters Dinner creator Robert Popper. There is also
music from Emily Burns and Wes Finch. Adam Thirlwell and Julianne Pachico join
Talksport 2
10.30 Soul Music
3/5. Lovely Day. Personal reflections on Producer Jessica Treen Repeated Thursday 9pm Elizabeth and Johny on stage to discuss DAB+ talksport.co.uk
Lovely Day by Bill Withers, a deceptively simple 7.00 Profile depictions of AI in their fiction —and what AI 5.00am—12.15pm Test Cricket
song that has become a mantra for some people. An insight into a person making the headlines. might mean for fiction. Repeated from Sunday India v New Zealand on day three
Producer Maggie Ayre Repeated Wednesday 9pm Producer Simon Watts Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm 1.00 BST as BBC World Service of the Second Test.
12.15—2.30 Championship Football

Clocks go back one hour at 2am

BBC Radio 4 Extra BBC World Service Watford v Blackburn (kick-off 12.30).
2.30—5.00 Premier League
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra about a spoilt girl who discovers a secret world of DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Football Manchester City v
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0126 Virgin 910 wonders. With Helen Worth and others. From 1975 Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906 Southampton (kick-off 3.00).
6.30 Ramble Book Comedian and podcaster Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin 5.00—7.30 Premiership Rugby
6.00am The Secret Garden as 5pm Adam Buxton reads from his 2020 memoir Union Commentary on Saracens
7.30 Ramble Book as 6.30pm recalling his childhood and detailing his time spent 5.00am The Newsroom 5.30 World Football v Leicester Tigers (kick-off 5.30).
8.45 Tales from a Long Room as 1.45pm caring for his father until his death from cancer. 5.50 More or Less 6.00 Weekend 9.00 News 4.00am—12 noon GMT Test
9.00 The Men from the Ministry as 8pm Abridged by Ben Lewis. From 2020 (1—5/5) 9.05 BBC OS Conversations 9.30 Pick of the Cricket India v New Zealand, day
9.30 The Morecambe and Wise Show as 2.30pm 7.45 Tales From a Long Room as 1.45pm World 9.50 Over to You 10.00 News 10.05 four of the Second Test.
10.00 Billy Bragg’s Changing Times as 9pm 8.00 The Men from the Ministry 1975 civil Sports Hour: Caroline Barker talks to amputee
11.00 The Secret Garden as 5pm service comedy starring Richard Murdoch baseball player Parker Byrd 11.00 The Newsroom
12.30pm Ramble Book as 6.30pm 8.30 The Morecambe and Wise Show as 2.30pm 11.30 Unspun World with John Simpson 12.00 LBC
1.45 Tales from a Long Room Robin Bailey reads 9.00 Billy Bragg’s Changing Times The singer/ News 12.05pm The Forum: a look at insomnia
Peter Tinniswood’s radio adaptation of his own 97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
songwriter shares stories of moments where and the hold it can have over the imagination
1980 TV series featuring a collection of cricket- musicians were inspired to protest, perform and 1.00 Newshour 2.00 Sportsworld 6.00 The F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0123 Virgin 919
themed tales, here with I Was There. A personal preach of an alternative way. From 2019 (1/3) Newsroom 6.30 World Football: how Ellen Wille’s 7.00am Matthew Wright 10.00
recollection of cricket’s “day of infamy”. Despite 10.00 CHOICE: A Tribute to Steve Brown, with 1986 speech changed the future of women’s Matt Frei 12.00 Ali Miraj 3.00pm
improving weather, why was play abandoned? (5/5) Harry Hill A celebration of TV and radio composer, football 6.50 Sporting Witness 7.00 News 7.05 Vanessa Feltz 6.00 Natasha
2.00 The Men from the Ministry as 8pm record producer and comedian Steve Brown, The Inquiry 7.30 Happy News 8.00 News 8.05 Devon 9.00 Daniel Barnett
2.30 The Morecambe and Wise Show 1966 who died in February, at 69, and whose CV includes The Arts Hour 9.00 Newshour 10.05 The 10.00 Nick Abbot 1.00am BST
comedy starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Spitting Image and Knowing Me, Knowing You... Documentary: Caught at the Helm: the story of Clive Bull 4.00 GMT Ian Payne
3.00 Billy Bragg’s Changing Times as 9pm with Alan Partridge. With input by Steve Coogan, refugees and other migrants ensnared in Greece’s
4.00 Spine Chillers Anna Massey (1937—2011) Jan Ravens, Barbara Dickson and Lenny Henry legal crossfire 10.30 This Is Africa: DJ Edu’s pan- Times Radio
stars in Colin Haydn Evans’s Figures. The past of 12.00 BST The Exorcist Robert Glenister stars African music show 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30
Ann’s new house turns out to be part of her future in Robert Forrest’s adaptation of William Peter Assignment 12.00 News 12.05am BBC OS DAB thetimes.co.uk/radio
— thanks to a long-locked upstairs room. With Blain Blatty’s blockbuster 1971 horror novel in which a Conversations 12.50 Sporting Witness 1.00 News 6.00am Rosie Wright and Calum
Fairman, Jill Lidstone and others. From 1984 priest is called to help a 12-year-old girl who 1.05 People Fixing the World 1.30 BST Happy Macdonald 10.00 Geoff Norcott
4.40 A Short History of Vampires appears to be possessed by a demonic force. News 1.00 GMT News 1.05 GMT The Inquiry 1.00pm Alexis Conran 4.00
Natalie Haynes introduces Bram Stoker’s 1914 With Alexandra Mathie, Lydia Wilson, Teresa 1.30 GMT The Fifth Floor 2.00 GMT The Ayesha Hazarika 7.00 The Best of
tale Dracula’s Guest. Abridged by Justine Willett Gallagher, Karl Johnson and others (1/2) Newsroom 2.30 GMT Health Check 3.00 GMT Times Podcasts 8.00 The Story
and read by Dan Stevens. From 2011 1.00am GMT as 5pm 2.30 GMT as 6.30pm News 3.05 GMT The Forum 4.00 GMT News 8.30 Highlights 10.00 Darryl
5.00 The Secret Garden Dramatisation by John 3.45 GMT as 1.45pm 4.00 GMT as 8pm 4.05 GMT From Our Own Correspondent 4.30 Morris 1.00am The Story 1.30
Richmond of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel 4.30 GMT as 2.30pm 5.00 GMT as 9pm GMT Trending 4.50 GMT Sporting Witness BST The Best of Times Radio
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TODAY’S CHOICES BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 3
97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1 90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
7.45 Sunday Feature: The Lost Writings of
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901 Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903 Mina Loy
6.00am Chillout Anthems 7.00 Sam News and weather 7.00am, 8.00 and 12 noon A key figure of the European and American
and Danni 10.00 Anthems 11.00 Radio 6.30am Breakfast With Mark Forrest. modernist avant-garde, London-born Mina Loy
1 00s 12.00 Radio 1 10s 1.00pm Emil
Franchi 4.00 Life Hacks 6.00 Official 9.00 Sunday Morning (1882—1966) was a ground-breaking writer of
Chart: First Look 7.00 Chillest Show With Sarah Walker, whose eclectic playlist includes poetry, novels, essays, plays and prose. Sandeep
9.00 Indie Show 11.00 BBC Introducing a quirky arrangement of Henry Purcell for Parmar (of the University of Liverpool) explores the
12.00 Future Soul 1.30am UK R&B Mix saxophone quartet, an ethereal dance inspired by life of Loy through the words of several versions of
2.00 Interview 2.15 Playlists 2.30 Hildegard of Bingen, and Sao Paulo guitarist Plínio an autobiography which she wrote and rewrote
Six Degrees from Jamie and Spencer Fernandes and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason in a between the 1920s and the 1950s but never really
SUNDAY

3.00 Chill Mix 3.30 Live Lounge Extra collaboration evoking the heart of South America. managed to complete. Producer Mohini Patel
4.00 Anthems 5.00 Dean McCullough 8.00 Drama on 3: The Age of Anxiety
12.00 Private Passions
Another chance to hear an edition in which Michael Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of WH Auden’s
BBC Radio 2 Berkeley welcomes Dundee-born stage and screen long poem, which was written at the peak of
actor Brian Cox. First broadcast October 2023. (R) his powers and is claimed by many to be his
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
1.30pm Music Map masterwork. Four characters, all single, lonely and
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902 adrift, spend an evening together in a New York
6.00am Good Morning Sunday Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores classical pieces in the
context of their history, legacy and connections to bar on All Hallows’ Eve. Auden takes them on a
Jason Mohammad presents solo. fantastic voyage into memory and myth, in search
other works. She continues with Haydn’s ever popular
9.00 Love Songs with Michael Trumpet Concerto in E flat, H VIIe 1, composed in of a way to solve the problems that have created
Ball With listeners’ dedications. 1796 and first performed publicly in 1800. this age of anxiety. First broadcast November 2022.
11.00 Paddy McGuinness Auden Julian Bleach Rosetta Genevieve Gaunt
3.00 Choral Evensong Quant Jonjo O’Neill Emble Luke Thallon
Radio

Between the Ears: A Young 1.00pm Elaine Paige on Sunday From the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge, with Malin John Light
Girl’s Guide to Horror 3.00 Sounds of the 70s members of the Rodolfus Choral Course. Recorded Produce/Director Fiona McAlpine (R)
with Johnnie Walker on 9 August. Introit: Os justi meditabitur (Bruckner). 9.40 New Generation Artists
7.15pm Radio 3 The veteran disc jockey presents Responses: Clucas. Psalms 114, 115 (Tonus peregrinus,
Between the Ears consistently Saint-Saëns Introduction et rondo capriccioso, Op 28
his final show. For the occasion, Buck). First Lesson: Hosea 14, vv1—7. Canticles: Kelly in C. María Dueñas (violin), Julian Quentin (piano)
pushes audio boundaries but Johnnie revisits an interview with Second Lesson: 2 Timothy 4, vv1—8. Anthem: Laudate Rob Luft Daylight Saving Time
this is a truly extraordinary David Bowie in 2004. Dominum (Arnold). Prayer Anthem: A Blessing (Cheryl Rob Luft (electric guitar), Scott Flanigan
piece of work from the poet 5.00 Shaun Keaveny Frances Hoad). Hymn: God Moves in a Mysterious Way (Hammond organ), Tom McCredie (bass guitar),
Sitting in for Rob Beckett. (London New). Voluntary: Toccata (James Macmillan). Joe Wright (tenor sax), Jay Davis (drums)
Joelle Taylor and producer Repeated from Wednesday
7.00 Tony Blackburn’s Golden 10.00 Night Tracks With Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Faith Lawrence. Taylor recites Hour Pop and soul classics. 4.00 Jazz Record Requests With Alyn Shipton.
a poem as if it is the production 11.30 Unclassified
8.00 Sound of Philadelphia — 5.00 The Early Music Show With Elizabeth Alker, here featuring propulsive, synth-
notes for a film, as she guides Live To mark the 30th anniversary of the British ensemble led textures from Danish duo Svaneborg Kardyb,
4
us through her memories of the In a concert from 19 October La Serenissima, Hannah French chats to its founder Remorae’s electronic take on an Appalachian folk
at the the Royal Albert Hall, and director, violinist Adrian Chandler. She also pays song, and country music guitar aesthetics fused
art deco cinema in Rawtenstall, tribute to Brighton Early Music Festival director and
Chris Cameron conducts the BBC with ambient sensibilities in the music of New York
Lancashire, where her mother Concert Orchestra in a celebration soprano Deborah Roberts — who died last month, trio SUSS. First broadcast in July. (R)
worked, and the horror films of 1970s “Philly soul” hits from at 72 — and looks ahead to the London International
Festival of Early Music (13—16 November). 12.30am Through the Night
she saw there — Carrie, The Philadelphia International Records, With John Shea, who begins a concert featuring Bruckner’s
Exorcist and Alien. Her language marked by by funk influences and 6.00 Words and Music Ninth Symphony, recorded in October at Berwaldhallen
string and horn arrangements and A Halloween edition, with Tim McInnerny and Ayesha in Stockholm. Mozart Piano Concerto No 25 in C, K503
is so evocative and engaging. spearheaded by the songwriting Antoine reading the thoughts of philosopher Mark Mozart Piano Sonata No 6 in D, K284 (3rd mvt: Tema con
This is a truly magical ode to and producing talents of studio Fisher (from his book Ghosts of My Life), a ghost variazioni) Bruckner Symphony No 9 in D minor Francesco
puberty, femininity, fear of and duo Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff story from the BBC Domesday project, an evocation Piemontesi (piano), Swedish RSO, conductor Jukka-Pekka
Saraste 2.04 Bruckner Ave Maria; Christus factus est;
desire for change, and to the (If You Don’t Know Me by Now, Me of mosquitos in Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes’s Horns, Locus iste 2.17 Mozart Divertimento in E flat, K166 2.31
and Mrs Jones, Love Train, When The Terrors of the Night by Elizabethan writer Gretry Le jugement de Midas (excerpts) 3.07 Schubert Six
power of cinema to make deep Thomas Nashe and, among others, Mary Karr’s poem
Will I See You Again, Don’t Leave Me moments musicaux, D780 3.37 Rangstrom Suite No 1 for
connections. It’s a proper radio This Way) and Thom Bell (Didn’t I Field of Skulls. Featuring music by Ligeti, Mozart, Violin and Piano (In modo antico’) 3.46 Grainger Colonial
ballad. Please don’t miss it. (Blow Your Mind This Time), I’ll Be Beethoven and Purcell, plus highlights of film scores Song 3.53 Pezel Four intradas for brass 4.00 Gade
Around, Could It Be I’m Falling in by Mica Levi (Under the Skin) and Paul Giovanni At Sunset, Op 46 4.08 Rameau Air pour Zéphire (Suite:
ANNA JONES
(The Wicker Man). First broadcast October 2020. (R) Les Indes galantes); Musette en rondeau (Suite in E minor,
Love, You Make Me Feel Brand RCT2); Air pour borée et la rose (Suite: Les Indes galantes);
New). Featuring singers Beverley 7.15 Between the Ears: A Young Girl’s Le rappel des oiseaux (Suite in E minor, RCT2) 4.14 Fauré
Sound of Philadelphia — Knight, Andrew Roachford, Omar Guide to Horror Elégie, Op 24 4.21 Sweelinck Six Variations on Mein junges
Live Lye-Fook and Tony Momrelle.
4 Poet Joelle Taylor returns to her native Leben hat ein End 4.31 Telemann Concerto in B flat for
Presented by Lenny Henry. Rawtenstall and visits the the cinema where three oboes, TWV44:43 4.40 Chopin Mazurkas, Op 59
8.00pm Radio 2 See Friday 2am 4.50 Brahms Drei Gesänge, Op 42 5.01 Wolf Italian
her mother worked, to celebrate the horror films
After northern soul and disco 10.00 Radio 2 Unwinds Serenade 5.08 Le Camus Délices des étés, frais et
that turned her into a writer. Featuring new poetry sombres bocages (Air à deux et trois parties) Roux Pièce de
Proms in the past two years with Angela Griffin that evokes the projection box, the usherettes, clavessin Lambert Goûtons un doux repos 5.17 Beethoven
- the Royal Albert Hall pulsates to 12.00 Phil Williams memories of being a child in front of the big Romance in G, Op 40 5.25 Bach Orchestral Suite No 1
the sound of another shimmering 3.00am Alternative Sounds of screen and the ghosts that haunted the building. in C, BWV1066 5.47 Haydn Piano Sonata in D, H XVI 33
the 90s with Dermot O’Leary Producer Faith Lawrence 6.02 Dvorak String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American) (R)
pop/dance movement as Lenny 4.00 Owain Wyn Evans
Henry presents a concert to Greatest Hits Classic FM
mark 50 years of the black- BBC 6 Music DAB greatesthitsradio.co.uk Regional variations on FM 99.9—101.9 FM DAB+ classicfm.com
owned soul music label, DAB bbc.co.uk/6music 6.00am Jenny Powell 9.00 Richard Allinson: with Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
Philadelphia International hits of the 1970s, 80s and 90s (and the occasional 1960s 7.00am Classic FM Breakfast with Tim Lihoreau
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909 Including at 9.00 the Classic FM Hall of Fame Hour.
Records. Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us 6.00am Amy Lamé classic) 1.00pm The Album Show with Simon Mayo: LPs
of the 1970s, 80s and 90s 4.00 Weekend Anthems 10.00 Aled Jones With a Choral Classic after 11.00.
Now, Don’t Leave Me This Way, 8.00 Radcliffe and Maconie
10.00 Cerys Matthews From Glasgow, 5.00 The UK Pop 40 7.00 Boogie and Arlene 10.00 1.00pm Joanna Gosling Music and features,
Love Train, Me and Mrs Jones, a Celtic New Year special with Ian Rankin, Andy Crane 1.00am Music Marathon 4.00 Alex Lester including Sunday Symphony — this week exploring
and When Will I See You Again Lorna McNee and Kelly Macdonald. Britten’s A Simple Symphony — and after 2.00
were all “Sound of Philadelphia” 1.00pm Guy Garvey BBC Asian Network Stop the Clock, featuring Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei.
Plus Hall of Fame 3 at 3, with three pieces of music
4.00 Iggy Pop Personal picks.
hits, with Beverley Knight 6.00 Now Playing @6Music A Laura DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork from the Classic FM Hall of Fame chart.
among the stars performing Marling playlist. See tomorrow 10.30am Freeview 709 Freesat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912 4.00 Stephen Mangan Including after 5.00 the
8.00 Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone 6.00am Throwback Bollywood Mix 7.00 R&B Classical A to Z, this week focusing on the letter “M”
them tonight, accompanied by for conductor Marin Alsop, who features in an LSO
10.00 Dream Time 12.00 Guy Anthems 8.00 Breakfast 10.00 Throwbacks 11.00
the ever versatile BBC Concert Garvey 3.00am Jukebox Bollywood 12.00 Celebrates 1.00pm Punjabi 3.00 recording of the overture to Bernstein’s Candide.
Orchestra. SIMON O’HAGAN 4.00 The BBC Introducing Mixtape Nadia Ali 5.00 Kan D Man 7.00 Pritt 9.00 Bollywood 7.00 Relaxing Evenings With Zeb Soanes.
5.00 Nathan Shepherd 10.00 Global Beats 11.00 One More Chai 11.30 House 10.00 Calm Classics Ritula Shah with a soothing
Party Mix 12.00 Punjabi 1.00am Bobby Friction playlist tailored for late-night listening.
THIS WEEK’S Boom Radio 3.00 News Presents 4.00 Celebrates 5.00 Mashups 1.00am Bill Overton 4.00 Hannah Scott-Joynt
HIGHLIGHTS See p109
Jim
DAB+ boomradio.co.uk Absolute Radio Magic Classical
6.00am Dave Jamieson 8.00 Rod DAB absoluteradio.co.uk DAB+ magicradio.co.uk
5.00pm Boom Rock (online Whiting 10.00 Rob Jones 12.00
only at boomradiouk.com) Vintage Charts 2.00pm Simon Bates 8.00am Jason Manford 11.00 Sarah Champion 8.00am Hannah Cox 10.00 Simon Mayo 12.00 YolanDa
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4.00 Les Ross 6.00 Paul Robey 2.00pm Rock ’n’ Roll Football with Jay Lawrence 6.00 Brown 3.00pm Jack Pepper 7.00 Darren Reddick 9.00
The mystery of Jim Morrison’s 8.00 Ricky Ross 9.00 Easy Hour Request Show with Claire Sturgess 8.00 Sunday Night Sunday Screentime 10.00 Mindfulness Music 1.00am
death in 1971 is revisited. 10.00 Bill Bingham 12.00 Night Music Music Club 10.00 The Skin Show 12.00 Dan Noble Night Music 4.00 Hits of John Williams 5.00 In the Park

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BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 5 Live
92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4 10.00 Desert Island Discs 5.00 Witness History 693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW) 13/15. Steven Spielberg’s conversation with Rameses II’s Mummy Makeover. In 1976 F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sky 0104 (FM) 0130 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW) Lauren Laverne from December 2022. the mummy of Rameses II was flown from Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
News 5.30am, 6.00 and hourly to 11.00, 1.00pm, Producer Paula McGinley Repeated Friday 9am (R) Egypt to Paris for a makeover. Receptionist Sky 0131 Virgin 908
then hourly to 12 midnight 10.45 More Wow Anne-Marie Goulden recalls the story. News and sport bulletin every half-hour
Weather 6.57am, 7.57, 12.57pm, 5.57, 9.59, 12.15am First broadcast on BBC World Service Times vary during live sports coverage
Shipping Forecasts 5.20am, 5.54pm, 12.48am 3/5. Mind-Bending Discoveries. Jo Marchant
continues her search for people with awe-filled 5.10 The Verb 5.00am Newscast
5.30am News Briefing lives, joining Michael Wright for a shed 6/7. Ian McMillan’s cabaret of the word, With Adam Fleming and friends.
5.43 Bells on Sunday workshop in his garden. Producer Eliza Lomas (R) featuring the best poetry, new writing and 6.00 5 Live Science
The morning bells from St Martin’s Church in performance. With guests Wendy Cope, Theresa Dr Chris Smith and the Naked
Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. 11.00 The Archers Scientist team with the latest science.

SUNDAY
Omnibus edition. Available on BBC Sounds Lola and Susie Dent. Producer Jessica Treen
5.45 In Touch 7.00 Sunday Breakfast
News, for people who are blind or partially since midnight yesterday. 6.00 Six o’Clock News Chris Warburton and Amy Irons with
sighted, with Peter White. Repeated from Tuesday 12.15pm Profile Repeated from yesterday 7pm 6.15 Pick of the Week a detailed look at the headlines.
6.00 News Summary 12.30 Just a Minute With Iszi Lawrence. Producer Anthony McKee 10.00 Colin Murray
6/6. Sue Perkins puts Desiree Burch, Glenn 7.00 The Archers Topical and sports discussion, with
6.05 Thinking Allowed
4Justin
Moore, Lucy Porter and Gyles Brandreth to spots an opportunity, and studio guests.
8/10. Laurie Taylor talks to Jana Costas 12.00 5 Live Sport
from the European University Viadrin in the 60-second test. Repeated from Monday Kenton gets his hopes up.
Repeated tomorrow 10pm BBC Radio 4 Extra For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm Steve Crossman with sports news
Frankfurt about the unseen cleaners beyond and build-up to the 2.00pm
1.00 The World This Weekend Ambridge Diary: page 109
the shiny surface of Potsdamer Platz, a Premier League commentary on
designer micro-city within Berlin’s city centre. News and analysis with Jonny Dymond. 7.15 Reclusion West Ham United v Manchester
Repeated from Tuesday 1.30 Singing in Gaza Will Self meditates on his withdrawal from United. Plus updates from Crystal
6.35 On Your Farm Tim Whewell explores how children in Gaza city life and the meaning of reclusion. Palace v Tottenham Hotspur. From

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are learning to sing and play instruments. 7.45 Just One Thing with Michael Mosley 4.00 there’s build-up to the 4.30
Caz Graham is at a Staffordshire farm where commentary on Arsenal v Liverpool.
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EMAIL: [email protected] the cost of having everything was more than lover of ghost stories and weird folklore, as 10.00 Jim White and Simon
he was willing to pay. In the first episode, a they try to explain real-life tales of the Jordan Sporting insight.
1.00 The World at One visit to Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant makes 1.00pm Hawksbee and Baker
Presented by Sarah Montague. paranormal. See choice: p109.
Stuart question his entire existence. Producers Danny Robins and Simon Barnard Paul Hawksbee and Charlie Baker
1.45 The Lucan Obsession Producer Lauren Mackay 11.30 Today in Parliament serve up sports news and more.
2/10. Death in Belgravia. Alex von Repeated next Tuesday on Radio 4 Extra (R) 4.00 Talksport Drive with Andy
Tunzelmann finds out how the murky evidence 7.00 The Archers 12.00 News and Weather Goldstein and Darren Bent.
about the night of Sandra Rivett’s death Fallon’s suspicions are raised, and 12.30—12.45am Book of the Week: 7.00 League Cup Football
drives the obsession with the Lucan case. Every Kind of People Repeated from 11.45am Commentary on Brentford v
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Ghost Story By Kate Summerscale (2/5) 12.00 News 12.05pm Outlook 12.50 Witness
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F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901 Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903 Northern Sinfonia at the Glasshouse in
7.00am Greg James 10.30 Rickie, News and weather as Monday Gateshead, with Palmer conducting.
Melvin and Charlie 12.00 Live 6.30am Breakfast With Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Lounge 1.00pm Matt and Mollie 7.00 Classical Mixtape
3.30 Vick, Katie and Jamie 6.00 9.30 Essential Classics With Ian Skelly. 7.30 Radio 3 in Concert
WEDNESDAY

New Music Show with Jack Saunders

7.00 Live Lounge 8.00 Future Pop
10.00 Power Down Playlist 11.00
1.00pm Classical Live
Elizabeth Alker introduces more performances
from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, plus further
4 In celebration of 25 years of the BBC New
Generation Artists scheme, this year’s Oxford
International Song Festival mounted a special
Benji B 1.00am Dance Presents highlights from the recent Oxford International day of concerts given by current and former
2.00 Anthems 4.00 Pop Anthems Song Festival’s New Generation Artists day. members. Introduced by Ian Skelly and recorded
5.00 Dean McCullough
Elgar Polonia, Op 76 on 17 October at the Holywell Music Room.
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Olari Elts Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Kathryn
BBC Radio 2 Ian Venables Flying Crooked, Op 28 No 1 Rudge (mezzo), Santiago Sánchez (tenor),
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2 Britten Le roi s’en va-t’en chasse James Atkinson (baritone), Sholto Kynoch
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902 Loewe Erlkönig, Op 1 No 3 and Michael Pandya (pianos)
James Newby (baritone), Natalie Burch (piano) Schubert Der Tanz, D826; Seligkeit, D433
6.30am Zoe Ball Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 76 No 3 (Emperor) Mahler Hans und Grethe (Lieder und Gesänge
Chat, music, texts and top guests, Arod Quartet aus der Jugenzeit)
today with Hugh Grant, who stars 2.00 Eleanor Alberga Symphony No 1 (Strata) Schubert Auf dem Wazzer su singen, D774
in Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’s BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Thomas Kemp Loewe Erlkönig, Op 1 No 3
upcoming horror thriller Heretic, Schubert Die Forelle, D550; Nacht und Träume, D827; Finzi The Dance Continued (A Young Man’s
in cinemas from Friday. Marie, D658; A den Mond, D193; A die Musik, D547 Exhortation)
9.30 Vernon Kay
Radio

Pilgrim Music, chat and features, including

Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Michael Pandya (piano) Browne To Gratiana Dancing and Singing
3.00 Choral Evensong Holst Persephone
2.15pm Radio 4 at 10.30 the Ten to the Top music From St Luke’s Church in Chelsea. Recorded on 14 Bizet Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe
“Of all the tales told on these quiz and at 11.40 Tracks of My October. Introit: Afferentur regi (Bruckner). Responses: Ginastera Arrorro and Gato (Cinco canciones
islands, few are as strange as Years, with Bryan Ferry sharing David Trendell. Office Hymn: Love Divine (Airedale). populares argentinas)
that of William Palmer.” These two more records of personal Psalms 147—50 (Stanford). First Lesson: Baruch 5, Brahms Waltzes, Op 39 (selection)
significance: a 1966 hit by Junior vv1—9. Canticles: Stanford in C. Second Lesson: Mark 1, C Schumann Walzer
words will be so familiar to Walker and the All Stars and a 1970 R Schumann Seit ich ihn gesehen (Frauenliebe
vv1—11. Anthem: Ecce sacerdos magnus (Bruckner).
devotees of the seven series of LP track by Neil Young. Hymn: The Day Thou Gavest (Joldwynds). Voluntary: und leben, Op 42); Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen
Pilgrim, as will the sense of loss 12.00 Tina Daheley Symphony No 4 in E flat (Scherzo) (Bruckner, arr (Dichterliebe, Op 48; Tanzlied (Vier Duette, Op 78)
felt when it was announced that Topical discussion. Plus music. Jeffcoat and Summerly). Director of music Jeremy Brahms Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op 52
2.00pm DJ Spoony Summerly. Organist Rupert Jeffcoat. Rptd Sun 3pm See also Thursday and Friday 1pm
Palmer’s time had come after
4.00 Sara Cox 4.00 Composer of the Week: Liszt 9.45 The Essay: Classical Deceptions
12 years. The ever-wandering 3/5. The Lost Haydn Sonatas. Phil Hebblethwaite
immortal was not to be 7.00 Jo Whiley 3/5. Saint. Donald Macleod explores Liszt’s midlife
pivot towards his faith. A series of wake-up calls explores the discovery of six lost Haydn sonatas,
eradicated from the schedules, 9.00 The Folk Show with which turned out to probably not be written by
Mark Radcliffe force the composer to change his life direction.
however, and fans will be Exchanging his concert garb for a cassock and Haydn at all.
10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
delighted by this two-parter, Rhythm Nation taking minor liturgical orders, he becomes an abbé. 10.00 Night Tracks With Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
neatly timed around Halloween. Salve regina Collegium Vocale Gent, conductor 11.30 ’Round Midnight
12.00 Ellie Brennan Reinbert de Leeuw
Set in an English autumn where Sitting in for OJ Borg with chat, With Rebecca Vasmant, including the Flowers
Magnificat (Dante Symphony, S109) Women of the feature, with Tara Lily identifying another influence.
the Moon cycle has stopped music, texts, calls and features,
Berlin Radio Chorus, Berlin Philharmonic 12.30am Through the Night With John Shea.
including Midnight Mastermind
and none of the leaves are — in which listeners challenge Ellie
Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim Strauss Variations on a Bavarian Folksong; Arabischer
falling, Palmer (Paul Hilton) Les morts, Oraison, S516 Tanz Sommer; Piano Quartet in G minor Schumann
in a specialist subject — and the Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 47 Daniel Dodds (violin),
must do battle against a rogue Glasgow Singers, BBC Scottish Symphony
Midnight Caller. Dominik Fischer (viola), Alexander Kionke (cello), Claire
Orchestra, conductor Ilan Volkov
fairy (Holli Dempsey) if the 3.00am Dance Sounds of the 90s Huangci (piano) 1.35 Huber Cello Sonata No 4 in B flat,
with Vernon Kay A Halloween- St François d’Assise — La prédication aux oiseaux
natural order is to be restored Op 130 2.01 Liszt, arr Raff Ouvertüre zu Johann
themed playlist, including Sneaker (Légendes, S175) Deutsches Symphonie- Gottfried von Herders Der entfesselte Prometheus
and he is joined by human Pimps, Cassius and Sonique. (R) Orchester Berlin, conductor Gerd Albrecht 2.18 Schumann, arr Liszt Widmung, Op 25 No 1
helper Vass (Toby Jones), 4.00 Owain Wyn Evans Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude (Les 2.22 Strauss Träumerei am Kamin (Intermezzo)
harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S173) (excerpt) 2.31 Rachmaninov Six moments musicaux, Op 16
whose life he saved almost 50
years ago. Welcome back, BBC 6 Music Claudio Arrau (piano)
Resurrexit (Christus, S3)
3.01 Haydn Symphony No 103 in E flat (Drum Roll)
3.31 Gesualdo Miserere 3.42 Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
Pilgrim. ANNA JONES DAB bbc.co.uk/6music Franziska Hirzel (soprano), Birgit Remmert (alto), (vers for two pianos) 3.55 A Scarlatti Toccata No 7 (La
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Radio 3 in Concert 10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs Bonn, conductor Roman Kofman Gipps Seascape, Op 53 4.31 Brahms Scherzo in C minor
7.30pm Radio 3 Featuring a live session by American 5.00 In Tune (F-A-E Sonata) 4.37 Vivaldi Concerto in F for violin,
singer/songwriter John Grant. two oboes, two horns, bassoon and cello, RV571 4.47
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Dvorak Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op 72 No 2 4.53
predisposition of its presenters 4.00 Huw Stephens La Marca to perform works featured on his new Ibert Trois pièces brèves 5.01 Kutev Pastoral for flute
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to constantly plug the Radio 3 Bernard Herrmann’s iconic music for Alfred
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guitarists, sopranos and trumpet Groovers With Gideon Coe. From 2022. 7.00 Jackie Brambles 10.00 Andy Crane including at 9.00 the Classic Hall of Fame Hour.
players. Accordingly, the 2.00 The Hospice by Robert 10.00 Joanna Gosling Classical favourites and
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Oxford International Song features, including at 10.30 the Famous Five quiz —
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5.00 Nathan Shepherd
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the BBC’s undoubted cultural Boom Radio 12.00 Asian Network News Presents 1.00am DJ
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on dance. Both Schumanns, David Hamilton 2.00pm Roger Day

Clara and Robert, get a look in, 4.00 Nicky Horne 6.00 Jane 6.00am Ben Burrell: hard rock, indie pop and everything 7.00am Charles Nove 10.00 Penny Smith: popular
Markham 8.00 The Easy Hour 9.00 in between 10.00 Sophie K 1.00pm Emil Franchi classical works and features 1.00pm More Music
and there’s even a Brahms More Music 10.00 Diana Luke 12.00 4.00 Bush 7.00 Danielle Perry: mainstream and indie Afternoon 7.00 Mindfulness Music 1.00am Night
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Producer Natasha Shallice Times vary during live sports coverage

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5.43 Prayer for the Day 9.00 Soul Music
A chance to pause for reflection and EMAIL: [email protected] 5.00am Wake Up to Money
3/5. Lovely Day was released in 1977. Its
contemplation with the Rev Dr Rosa Hunt. 2.00 The Archers Repeated from yesterday 7pm Financial news and fiscal matters.
simple blissful melody masks profound lyrics
5.45 Farming Today 2.15 Drama: Pilgrim 6.00 5 Live Breakfast With Rick
which on closer examination offer hope and Edwards and Clare McDonnell.
4
News about food, farming and the countryside. New series. 1/2. Belle Meadow Fayre. solace to many fans of the song. Some of
6.00 Today 9.00 Nicky Campbell Phone-in.
Dark fantasy drama by Sebastian them share their stories here of what it
With Emma Barnett and Jonny Dymond. 11.00 Naga Munchetty
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6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News Greyfolk are angry when Old Johnny John shy, insecure young man with a stutter who a look ahead to the Autumn Budget.
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament John goes missing from the Belle Meadow founded an organisation for children like him 12.30pm The Budget
7.48 Thought for the Day Fayre, Pilgrim is tasked with finding him and who struggled with speaking in public. As a Live coverage as Chancellor of the
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9.00 More or Less Kara. Continues tomorrow 2.15pm. bedroom. Often it was the only way he could the Autumn Budget. Plus reaction
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statistics used in everyday life. 2.00 Matt Chorley
Producer Richard Vadon Repeated Friday 4.30pm Clemira Sirine Saba The Girl Agnes Dromgoole childhood because of his stutter and invited
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the facts and speaking to those who are And, what can history teach us about what with build-up to the 7.45 live
Available on BBC Sounds since last currently shaping our AI futures. In the last of commentary on Newcastle United v
Wednesday. might happen next? Editor Sam Bonham
the current series, they ask whether AI will Chelsea. Plus updates from across
Producer Lucy Proctor; Editor Richard Vadon 10.00 The World Tonight tonight’s other matches and, from
Repeated Thursday 10.30am on BBC World Service end up controlling the world’s money. Presented by James Coomarasamy.
Producer Elizabeth Ann Duffy 9.30, second-half commentary on
10.00 Woman’s Hour 10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Blue Hour Tottenham Hotspur v Man City (full
4.00 The Media Show commentary on Sports Extra).
Nuala McGovern presents the magazine show Ros Atkins and Katie Razzall present the 3/10. By Paula Hawkins. On an isolated
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Adrian Goldberg investigates the secondary unveils a web of secrets and lies. Read by
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Maccabees guitarist Felix White shares his discover a new blog written by teenage girls
11.45 Book of the Week: Every Kind love of baseball. Ivo Graham finds out what fourth round of the League Cup.
of People about their toxic influencer mothers and
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The pressure piles on Harrison, while Producer Jon Holmes 10.00 Jim White and Simon
Abridged by Jill Waters. Henry makes a friend. Jordan Danny Murphy guests.
For details see Monday Repeated 12.30am For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm
11.30 Today in Parliament 1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs
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Marina and the Diamonds — about her poetry at Amex Stadium (kick-off 7.30).
good-looking, Alex also comes across collection, Eat The World. Every Kind of People Repeated from 11.45am 10.00 The Sports Bar
accusations of racism, obsession and violence. Producer Mark Crossan 1.00 as BBC World Service 1.00am Extra Time
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Vick, Katie and Jamie 6.00 New
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Ria Lina, although the definition Presented by Jo Whiley. Under one’s Breath; Spring Rebecca Vasman with new and classic jazz,
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limp and floppy is a little too BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sakari Oramo
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Gala Flagello Vitality BBC Symphony Orchestra,
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Including at 3.30 the nostalgic conductor Matthew Lynch anniversary of the release of Autobahn — the
With its otherworldly synths music half-hour Wonder Years 2.30 Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor
landmark fourth album of Düsseldorf electronic
and hypnotic motorik beats, feature, with one track each from BBCSO, conductor Delyana Lazarova
pioneers Kraftwerk. She’s joined by Sherard Ingram
Kraftwerk’s Autobahn will successive years. Today’s playlist Fasch Trio Sonata in D Collegium Marianum,
director Jana Semeradova (flute) — aka DJ Stingray 313 and associate of Detroit
always sound futuristic. So it is starts in 1978 and includes Bronski electro duo Drexciya — to revisit the LP and explore
Beat, Wham!, ABC and more. Victoria Missa Laetatus sum a 12
astonishing that this seminal Cantor Lontano, conductor Marco Mencoboni how it changed the dial on how we think about
4.00 Sara Cox All requests. 3.30 Mozart String Quartet in C, K465 sound. There’s an archive session from 1975 and
album, the German band’s
7.00 Michelle Visage (Dissonance) Engegard Quartet an interview with former Kraftwerk percussionist
fourth, turns 50 this month. To Including at 8.30 a “very demure, Wolfgang Flür (now 77), who explains how the band’s
mark the anniversary, Jennifer very mindful”-themed edition of 4.00 Composer of the Week: Liszt fascination with speed and cars shaped their
Handbag Hits, including Steps, 5/5. Wanderer. This final instalment looks at how perception of sound. Sherard Ingram discusses the
Lucy Allen dusts off a 1975 live Hungarian-born, French-raised Liszt grappled
session from the BBC archives, Bucks Fizz and Victoria Beckham. album’s impact on Detroit’s techno scene. Plus a
with nationalism and rootlessness and became a
9.00 The Good Groove car-related playlist that includes Yeah You.
as well as an interview with cultural chameleon, projecting different identities
with DJ Spoony as suited him. Presented by Donald Macleod. 11.30 ’Round Midnight
drummer Wolfgang Flür on how
11.00 The Rock Show Consolation in E, S172 No 1 Daniel Barenboim (piano) Rebecca Vasmant showcases the full spectrum of
a fascination with speed and with Shaun Keaveny jazz, tonight featuring Stuttgart-born DJ Rainer
Kennst du das Land, S275 (Mignons Lied)
cars shaped the album’s sound. The BBC podcast host and former Barbara Bonney (soprano), Antonio Pappano (piano) Trüby with a guest mix of German jazz fusion and
Autobahn is also an important 6 Music broadcaster takes over Hungarian Rhapsody No 15 in A minor (Rakoczy krautrock to mark today’s 50th anniversary of
precursor to techno, and this from Johnnie Walker. March) (excerpt) Arcadi Volodos (piano) Kraftwerk’s album Autobahn.
programme explores the 12.00 Romesh Ranganathan: Enfant, si j’etais roi, S283; Im Rhein, im schönen 12.30am Through the Night
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and Detroit; that the album was British Groups Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este (Années de pèlerinage, fahrenden Gesellen Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor
a hit in a city famous for its car 4/4. In this final instalment Johnny troisième année) Bertrand Chamayou (piano) Liviu Holender (baritone), Romanian National Radio
Marr singles out UK bands that he Orchestra, conductor Sascha Goetzel 1.54 R Strauss
industry and a melting pot for Wiegenlied, S198 Khatia Buniatishvili (piano) Die Göttin im Putzzimmer 2.00 Smetana Piano Trio in
really rates. He also looks at some of Liszt, orch Doppler Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in
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associated with guitars. C sharp minor Vienna Philharmonic, Piano Sonata No 3 in F minor, Op 5 3.44 Marín No piense
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motorway-inspired music from Anthems Playlist 5.00 In Tune 3.59 D Scarlatti Keyboard Sonata in E minor, Kk81 (arr
Yeah You and country music The comedian, actor and Comic Relief Sean Rafferty invites Dreamers’ Circus to perform. for recorder and harpsichord) 4.07 J Strauss (son)
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Vanessa, when questioned 4.00 Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s
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2pm Akylah Rodriguez 6.00 6am Kofi Smiles 10.00 Gemma
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Current job listeners than I’ve ever had, which we have to have all these radios Babs Michel; Thu: Upload; 6.00 Sport 7.00 Mon: Arzu
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2020 of the Social media — yes or no? “I don’t I was aged about ten and caught Babs Michel 7.00 Mon: Amir Thu: Upload; Fri: Sile Sibanda
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Greatest Hits. “It’s show what’s going on in the studio.” Alan Beswick, and I was gripped.” Jersey
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hopefully good company. It’s one I interviewed Justin Timberlake, Wright would have to be No 1 — for Saturday 6am Darcy Kelly 10.00 Jim
of those shows when people aren’t Beyoncé, Annie Lennox and Sting 6am Caroline Martin 10.00 Delbridge 2pm Tim Pryor
his warmth, humour, creativity. I
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necessarily actively listening, so it’s — all within the space of a don’t know any radio broadcaster 6.00 Upload 8.00 Introducing 10.00—1am BST Jo Good
just about being there with a friendly fortnight. That was amazing.” who hasn’t been influenced by him. 10.00—1am BSTJo Good Sunday
voice, keeping it light and upbeat. Worst moments “There was the He succeeded in moving with the Sunday 6am Laura Price 10.00 Jim
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Mayo. Both incredible broadcasters.”
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Ambition/Dream job “Just to
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media studies at Manchester and we just carried on. But oh dear..” keep growing the show. But if Price 2pm Mike Vitti Mon: Danny Parkinson
University and, while still studying, Off air “I live with my husband in TV was to bring back The Big 6.00 Mon/Fri: Sport; Tue: 6.00 Mon: James Dundon;
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find your voice, make your mistakes.” tour at the one in California. I plan Fri: Kevin Philemon 8.00 Thu: Late Show; Fri: Jo Good
Secret skills “Friends tell me I’m Introducing 9.30 Wed: Mums
On graduating, he joined north-west to visit all six of the world’s Disney a bit of a Martin Lewis. I’m very without Makeup 10.00—1am
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station Wish FM, then after five resorts next year – California, Florida, good with money-saving ideas!” The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good Saturday
years moved to Signal 1 in Stoke, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Paris.” SIMON O’HAGAN 6am Allison Ferns 10.00
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Thordis Fridriksson 2pm John 8.00 Thu: Introducing 10.00—
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3.30 The Afternoon Show Wednesday

Face behind the voice Andy Goulding Greatest Hits Radio An update on the arts and
culture scene across Scotland.
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER:
LOCAL NEWS as Monday
4.00 Drivetime 6.00am Good Morning
Age 49 Greatest Hits. “I now have more My mum would shout at him, ‘Do
Breaking down the day’s Scotland
Current job listeners than I’ve ever had, which we have to have all these radios talking points with comment The latest news from home
Presenter since I could only ever have dreamt of.” on?’ There was also the moment and opinion, plus sport, and abroad. With travel
2020 of the Social media — yes or no? “I don’t I was aged about ten and caught travel and weather. reports every 15 minutes,
afternoon show really like Twitter/X but it’s useful as a late-night phone-in on Red Rose 6.00 Get It On... business updates at 7.45 and
(1pm—4pm) on a news source. I use Instagram to radio with a presenter called with Bryan Burnett 8.45, weather reports at 7.29
LOCAL

Greatest Hits. “It’s show what’s going on in the studio.” Alan Beswick, and I was gripped.” Bryan presents a selection of and 7.59, and sports reports at
essential music chosen by 7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35.
about providing great tunes and Best moments “At Signal Favourite broadcasters “Steve
listeners. To get a song played FM only from 11.30
hopefully good company. It’s one I interviewed Justin Timberlake, Wright would have to be No 1 — for on the radio, text 80295. 9.00 Mornings
of those shows when people aren’t Beyoncé, Annie Lennox and Sting his warmth, humour, creativity. I Email: [email protected] Stephen Jardine gets to the
necessarily actively listening, so it’s — all within the space of a don’t know any radio broadcaster 8.00 Vic Galloway heart of the news and offers
just about being there with a friendly fortnight. That was amazing.” who hasn’t been influenced by him. Vic introduces new releases listeners the opportunity
voice, keeping it light and upbeat. Worst moments “There was the He succeeded in moving with the from Scotland’s alternative to have their say.
Being on the radio in the afternoon time I interviewed the model Elle times without actually changing too artists, and classic album Radio Scotland Extra
is perfect for me. I’ve done breakfast Macpherson and the first thing I cuts alongside live session 11.30 Scottish Questions
much. I’d have to add my Greatest
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tracks. Text 80295. MPs have their opportunity to

shows in the past, and it’s great did was call her Claudia. I guess I Hits colleagues Ken Bruce and Simon Repeated Wednesday 10.30pm
question the Scottish
not having to get up so early.” was thinking Claudia Schiffer! Credit Mayo. Both incredible broadcasters.” Email: [email protected]
Secretary and his team.
CV Born in St Helens, he read to Elle Macpherson, she didn’t react Ambition/Dream job “Just to 10.00 Iain Anderson
Iain invites listeners to end the 12.00 Lunchtime Live
media studies at Manchester and we just carried on. But oh dear..” keep growing the show. But if
day in the company of the News updates from Scotland
University and, while still studying, Off air “I live with my husband in TV was to bring back The Big and beyond, plus lunchtime
songwriting masters of
landed work presenting weekend Stirchley in Birmingham. I’m hugely Breakfast, I’d love to present it! sport, travel and weather.
country, folk, blues and soul.
overnights at Radio Aire in Leeds. into Disney theme parks. For my I used to think it was more like 1.30pm The Afternoon Show
12 midnight—6.00am
“It was a great way to begin — to 50th I’ll be going on a backstage a radio show than a TV show.” Michelle McManus presents a
as Radio 5 Live
find your voice, make your mistakes.” tour at the one in California. I plan Secret skills “Friends tell me I’m Scottish arts, entertainment
On graduating, he joined north-west to visit all six of the world’s Disney a bit of a Martin Lewis. I’m very Tuesday and music round-up.
station Wish FM, then after five resorts next year – California, Florida, good with money-saving ideas!” NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER: 3.30 The Afternoon Show
LOCAL NEWS as Monday An update on the arts and
years moved to Signal 1 in Stoke, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Paris.” SIMON O’HAGAN
where he spent another five years. 6.00am Good Morning culture scene across Scotland.
First radio memory “Terry Wogan!
Scotland 4.00 Drivetime
After that it was Mercia in Coventry, My dad was a big music fan, and Listen at The latest news from home Breaking down the day’s
BRMB in Birmingham, and finally there were radios on in every room. hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits/ and abroad. With travel talking points with comment
reports every 15 minutes, and opinion, plus sport,
business updates at 7.45 and travel and weather.
Clocks go back one hour at 2am on Saturday night

Saturday FM only until 8.00 6.30 The Common Struggle 7.00 Classical Now 8.45, weather reports at 7.29
7.00 Take the Floor of Paul Robeson Celebrating Scotland’s 6.00 Sportsound
and 7.59, and sports reports at
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER
Gary Innes presents the very Mezzo Andrea Baker takes a classical world, Jamie Comprehensive coverage of
hourly 8.00am to 12 noon, 6.00pm, 7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35.
7.00, 9.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12 midnight best in traditional music look at the life of Paul Robeson MacDougall highlights the Scottish sport including live
9.00 Mornings and exclusive commentary,
NEWS HEADLINES 2.00pm, 5.00 including a band session from and the unique relationship the work of the BBC Scottish Kaye Adams gets to the heart as well as breaking news,
6.30am Out of Doors the Crynoch Ceilidh Band and Americanbass-baritoneconcert Symphony Orchestra in of the news and offers listeners interviews, analysis and
Mark Stephen and Rachel a chat with special guests. artist and stage and film actor concert and other Scottish
Email: [email protected] the opportunity to have their discussion. Text 80295.
Stewart present stories shared with the miners and the artists and ensembles. say on the day’s stories. @BBCSportsound on social media
from the great outdoors in Radio Scotland Extra Scottish working class. 9.00 Iain Anderson
7.00—8.00 Sportsound 12.00 Lunchtime Live 10.30 Vic Galloway
Scotland and beyond. 7.00 New Every Sunday Iain invites listeners to end the Vic introduces new releases
Email: [email protected] Comprehensive coverage of News updates from Scotland
An act of worship with the Rev day in the company of the and beyond, plus lunchtime from Scotland’s alternative
8.00 Good Morning Scotland Scottish sport including live Tom Boyle, Parish Priest of songwriting masters of sport, travel and weather. artists, and classic album cuts
The latest news from home and exclusive commentary, St Mary’s in Greenock. country, folk, blues and soul. alongside live session tracks.
and abroad, along with regular as well as breaking news, 1.30pm The Afternoon Show Repeated from Monday 8pm
7.30 Playback 11.00—6.00am as Radio 5 Live Michelle McManus presents a
sport, travel and weather. interviews, analysis and
Victoria Lumsden presents Scottish arts, entertainment 12.30am—6.00
discussion. Text 80295.
10.00 Shereen @BBCSportsound on social media highlights from the week that Monday and music round-up. as Radio 5 Live
Shereen Nanjiani and guests was on BBC Radio Scotland. NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER
9.00 Piping Sounds hourly 6.00am to 8.00, 10.00 to 5.00pm, 3.30 The Afternoon Show Thursday
offer a unique take on the 8.00 Sunday Morning
Playing pipe music from 7.00, 8.00, 10.00, 11.00 An update on the arts and
things getting Scotland talking Scotland and around the world. Zara Janjua presents two LOCAL NEWSDumfries, Aberdeen,
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER:
this Saturday morning. culture scene across Scotland. LOCAL NEWS as Monday
hours music and conversation Inverness, Selkirk: 6.30am, 7.30,
10.00 Billy Sloan with a faith and ethical 8.30, 12.30pm, 4.30, 5.30; 4.00 Drivetime 6.00am Good Morning
11.30 Breaking the News A varied selection of music Orkney: 7.30am, 12 noon, 6.00pm;
perspective, looking back at Breaking down the day’s Scotland
Des Clarke hosts the award- from the rich history of
Shetland: 12.30pm, 5.30, 6.00
the week’s events to ask what talking points with comment The latest news from home
winning comedy news quiz. Scotland’s — and the rest of the 6.00am Good Morning
Repeated from yesterday they say about people’s and opinion, plus sport, and abroad. With travel
world’s — rock and pop. values and beliefs. Scotland travel and weather. reports every 15 minutes,
12.00 Off the Ball The latest news from home business updates at 7.45 and
Football forum that claims to 1.00am BST—6.00 GMT 10.00 The Sunday Show 6.00 Get It On...
as Radio 5 Live and abroad. With travel 8.45, weather reports at 7.29
be the most petty and ill- Martin Geissler and Fiona with Bryan Burnett
reports every 15 minutes, and 7.59, and sports reports at
informed football show on Stalker discuss the big issues Bryan presents a selection of
Sunday business updates at 7.45 and 7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35.
radio, with light-hearted of the week and talk to some essential music chosen by
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER
8.45, weather reports at 7.29 listeners. To get a song played 9.00 Mornings
features and competitions. hourly 6.00am to 9.00, 11.00, 12 noon,
of the people behind the and 7.59, and sports reports at
political headlines. on the radio, text 80295. Stephen Jardine gets to the
Presented by Stuart Cosgrove 2.00pm, 5.00, hourly 7.00 to 11.00 7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35. Email: [email protected] heart of the news and offers
and Tam Cowan. Text 80295. 6.00am The Last 11.45 Sportsound listeners the opportunity to
Email: [email protected] 9.00 Mornings 8.00 Another Country with
Lumberjack Comprehensive coverage of Kaye Adams gets to the heart have their say.
Ricky Ross
2.00pm Sportsound The story of Sam Martinez, Scottish sport including live of the news and offers listeners Ricky Ross enters the musical 12.00 Lunchtime Live
Comprehensive coverage of who travelled from Belize to and exclusive commentary, the opportunity to have their landscape of Americana and News updates from Scotland
Scottish sport including live help Britain in the war effort. as well as breaking news, say on the day’s stories. alternative country. Featuring and beyond, plus lunchtime
and exclusive commentary, During the Second World War, interviews, analysis and
12.00 Lunchtime Live new and classic tracks, with sport, travel and weather.
as well as breaking news, almost 900 forestry workers discussion. Text 80295.
@BBCSportsound on social media News updates from Scotland Ricky taking a closer look at 1.30pm The Afternoon Show
interviews, analysis and came to Scotland from British the stories behind the songs.
discussion. Text 80295. Honduras, now known as 5.30pm Your Requests with and beyond, plus lunchtime Michelle McManus presents a
@BBCSportsound on social media Belize. Until recently, their Gary Innes sport, travel and weather. 10.00 Roddy Hart Scottish arts, entertainment
story was largely forgotten. Gary shares listeners’ 1.30pm The Afternoon Show An inviting mix of new music and music round-up.
5.30 Sportsound Extra Time
In 2016, aged 106, Sam messages and dedications Michelle McManus presents a and back-catalogue selections. 3.30 The Afternoon Show
Fans react to the day’s big
football stories. Text 80295. Martinez shared his and plays favourite Scottish Scottish arts, entertainment 12 midnight—6.00am An update on the arts and
Email: [email protected] memories just before he died. music requests. and music round-up. as Radio 5 Live culture scene across Scotland.
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Frequencies
4.00 Drivetime Local programmes 1.00pm SpeakGaelic Dimàirt 8.30 SpeakGaelic National
Breaking down the day’s A bheil sibhse ag ionnsachadh 9.00 Feasgar an-diugh
talking points with comment ORKNEY 7.30am Aithris na Maidne BBC Radio 1* FM 97.7–99.7
Gàidhlig? Ma tha, is ann
and opinion, plus sport, Naidheachdan ionadail, 10.25—11.25 Naoi gu Deich BBC Radio 2* FM 88.1–90.1
Weekdays dhuibhse a tha am podcast seo.
nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta BBC Radio 3* FM 90.3–92.3
travel and weather. 1.30 An Litir Bheag Diardaoin BBC Radio 4 FM 94.6–96.1,
7.30am—8.00 Around gach madainn.
6.00 Get It On... Orkney: round-up of local Litir Bheag na seachdain sa le 7.30am Aithris na Maidne 103.5–104.9, LW 198
with Bryan Burnett 9.00 Naoi gu Deich BBC Radio 5 Live MW 693, 909
news, events and weather Ruairidh MacIlleathain. Naidheachdan ionadail,
Bryan presents a selection of Taghadh bho Naoi gu Deich na BBC Radio Scotland
6.00pm—7.00 Mon: Orkney 1.35 SpeakGaelic seachdain seo. nàiseanta is eadar- FM 92.5–94.7
essential music chosen by Podcast do luchd- ath-chraoladh aig 10.25pm nàiseanta gach madainn.
Sport: with Adam Harcus; BBC Radio Scotland Extra
listeners. To get a song played ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig MW 810
Tue: Orkney Irish Country: 9.00 Naoi gu Deich

LOCAL
on the radio, text 80295. 10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir
with Colin Kirkness; Wed: ceangailte ris an t-sreath Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail Taghadh bho Naoi gu Deich BBC Radio nan Gaidheal
Email: [email protected] FM 103.5–104.9 (carries R4 in
Orkney Life Stories: musical SpeakGaelic air BBC Alba. agus tha i feitheamh ribh le na seachdain seo.
8.00 Travelling Folk ath-chraoladh aig 10.25pml some parts)
memories; Thu: Orkney Music 1.55 Litir do Luchd- taghadh ciùil. Classic FM 99.9–101.9
Anna Massie presents a Scene: with Leah Seator and ionnsachaidh 12.00 Feasgar an-diugh 10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir Talksport MW 1053, 1089
selection of folk and roots Marcus Cordock; Fri: Friday Litir do Luchd-ionnsachaidh le Naidheachdan, còmhradh, Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail Above stations also on Freeview
music from around the world. Requests with Cameron Stout: Ruairidh MacIlleathain. spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà. agus tha i feitheamh ribh le (*not Sat 4pm—1am, Sun 4pm—
10.00 Natasha Raskin Sharp weekly dedication programme taghadh ciùil. 12 midnight, weekdays 5pm—
2.00 Gleus Fuinn, còisirean ath-chraoladh aig 9pml
Natasha presents an eclectic featuring music requests and ath-chraoladh a’maireach aig 10am 12 midnight), plus satellite, cable,
mix of music, as well as paying special greetings agus òrain bho shaoghal ceòl 1.30pm Caithream Ciùil internet and DAB (Radio
clasaigeach agus eile. Ceòl Gàidhealach ’s Ceilteach 12.00 Feasgar an-diugh Scotland Extra service only).
tribute to a “Late Great” and Phone: 01856 873939 Naidheachdan, còmhradh,
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spinning the globe for the Email: [email protected] 3.00 Dèanamaid Adhradh
agaibhse gach feasgar. spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà.
Out of This World feature. SHETLAND Tasglann Seirbheis Ghàidhlig. ath-chraoladh aig 9pm
12 midnight—6.00am Weekdays 3.30—4.00 Rogha is Tagha 3.30 Spòrscast A còmhradh 1.30pm Caithream Ciùil
as Radio 5 Live Taghadh à prògraman na ri measgachadh de dhaoine ’s Ceòl Gàidhealach ’s Ceilteach Local
5.30pm Good Evening iad ag innis mun phàirt a tha
seachdain air a thoirt thugaibh agus fiosrachadh air na tha Argyll FM 106.5, 107.1, 107.7
Friday Shetland: news and features spòrs a cluich nam beatha. (Campbeltown)
le Anna Nic na Ceardaich. dol agaibhse gach feasgar.
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER: 6.00—7.00 Mon: Jazz and ath-chraoladh aig 9.30pm 4.00 Oran Annad BBC Cumbria FM 95.6 (Carlisle),
LOCAL NEWS as Monday World Sounds: with Jeff 3.30 Crùnluath 96.1 (Morecambe Bay), 95.2
9.00 Dèanamaid Adhradh Tha Gillebrìde MacIlleMhaoil a’ Catrìona NicNèill le taghadh
Merryfield and Joy Duncan; (Kendal), 104.1 (Whitehaven/
6.00am Good Morning Tasglann Seirbheis adhraidh toirtaithnedhanah-òranaichean de cheòl na pìoba. Keswick), 104.2 (Windermere),
Scotland Tue: Retro Radio: Neil à tasglann a’ BhBC. a th’ air a bhith a’ cruthachadh MW 756 (Carlisle),
The latest news from home Robertson takes a musical òrain ùra ann an Gàidhlig. 5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair 837 (Barrow-in-Furness)
and abroad. With travel drive through the decades; 9.30—10.00 Rogha is Tagha ath-chraoladh a’maireach aig 7pm 5.30 Siubhal gu Capital 106.1 (Glasgow),
reports every 15 minutes, Wed: Shetland’s Heartbeat: Taghadh à prògraman na Seachd le Pluto 105.7 (Edinburgh)
5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair
business updates at 7.45 and Ross Cowper-Fraser takes a seachdain air a thoirt thugaibh Naidheachdan nàiseanta is Central FM 103.1 (Stirling/
look at Shetland’s health; le Anna Nic na Ceardaich. 7.00 Spòrscast Falkirk/Clackmannanshire)
8.45, weather reports at 7.29 ionadail o Dhiluain gu Dihaoine. A còmhradh ri Clyde 1 FM 102.3 (Rothesay),
and 7.59, and sports reports at Thu: Pitt Lane Sessions: Diluain 102.5 (Glasgow), 103.3 (Firth of
Adam Guest with live music 5.30 Siubhal gu Seachd le measgachadh de dhaoine ’s
7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35. 7.30am Aithris na Maidne Pluto Ceòl, fealla-dhà agus sùil iad ag innis mun phàirt a tha Clyde), 97 (Vale of Leven)
and lightsome chat; Fri: Give Forth 1 FM 97.3, 97.6
9.00 Mornings Naidheachdan ionadail, air spòrs ionadail, nàiseanta spòrs a cluich nam beatha.
Us a Tune: all-request show (Edinburgh), 102.2 (Penicuik)
Stephen Jardine gets to the Phone: 01595 694747 nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta agus eadar-nàiseanta. 7.30 Mo Chuairt Chiùil Greatest Hits Radio FM 96.4
heart of the news and offers Email: [email protected] gach madainn. 7.00 Rapal Orain ùra gu leòr. Sealladh air mar a tha ceòl (Carlisle), 96.8 (Selkirk),

Clocks go back one hour at 2am on Saturday night

listeners the opportunity to POST DEALAIN: [email protected] mar phàirt mhòr nar beatha. 97 (Dumfries), 102.2
Radio nan 9.00 Naoi gu Deich
have their say. FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050 ath-chraoladha’maireachaig3.30pm (Workington), 102.3 (Berwick),
Gaidheal Taghadh bho Naoi gu 102.5 (Penrith), 103.1 (Peebles),
12.00 Lunchtime Live Deich na seachdain seo. 9.00 Feasgar an-diugh 9.00 Feasgar an-diugh 103.4 (Eyemouth/Whitehaven),
Mar Radio Alba ach:
News updates from Scotland ath-chraoladh aig 10.25pm
10.25—11.25 Naoi gu Deich DAB (North East Scotland)
and beyond, plus lunchtime Disathairne 10.25—11.25 Naoi gu Deich
10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir Heart FM 100 (Vale of Leven),
sport, travel and weather. Diciadain Dihaoine 101.1 (Edinburgh/Rosneath),
9.00am Spòrs na Seachdain Tha i beachdail, tha i
7.30am Aithris na Maidne 100.3 (Glasgow), 103.3 (Penicuik)
1.30pm Breaking the News Spòrs ionadail, nàiseanta agus beòthail agus tha i feitheamh 7.30am Aithris na Maidne Heartland FM 97.5 (Pitlochry/
Des Clarke hosts the award- bho air feadh an t-saoghail ribh le taghadh ciùil. Naidheachdan ionadail,
9.00 Naoi gu Deich Aberfeldy), 107.3 (Crieff)
winning comedy news quiz. còmhla ri Iain Moireasdan. nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta Isles FM 103 (Western Isles)
12.00 Feasgar an-diugh Taghadh bho Naoi gu Deich
Repeated tomorrow POST DEALAIN: [email protected] gach madainn. Kingdom FM 105.4 (St
FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050 Naidheachdan, còmhradh, na seachdain seo.
2.00 The Afternoon Show 9.00 Naoi gu Deich ath-chraoladh aig 12.00 Andrews), 106.3 (The East Neuk),
spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà. 95.2 (West Fife), 96.1 (Central &
Nicola Meighan presents ideas 10.00 Fàilt’ air an Dùthaich ath-chraoladh aig 9pm Taghadh bho Naoi gu Deich na 10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir East Fife), 96.6 (Kirkcaldy)
for fun things to do in the days Deagh thaghadh de cheòl seachdain seo.
1.30pm Caithream Ciùil Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail Mearns FM 105.1 (Portlethen),
ahead and a soundtrack to dùthchail sean agus ùr le ath-chraoladh aig 10.25pm
Ceòl Gàidhealach ’s Ceilteach agus tha i feitheamh ribh le 105.7 (Stonehaven),
kickstart the weekend. Marie NicMhathain. 10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir 106.2 (Inverbervie),
agus fiosrachadh air na tha dol taghadh ciùil.
4.00 Drivetime 11.00 Tiompan 107.3 (Laurencekirk)
agaibhse gach feasgar. 12.00 Feasgar an-diugh 12.00 Feasgar an-diugh MFR FM 96.6 (Speyside),
Breaking down the day’s Ceòl Ceilteach, clàran ùra agus POST DEALAIN: [email protected] Naidheachdan, còmhradh, Naidheachdan, còmhradh, 96.7 (Fraserburgh/Wick),
talking points with comment fios mu cò tha cluich càite le 3.30 Na Dorsan-Sgeulachd spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà. spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà. 97.4 (Highlands/Moray/
and opinion, plus sport, Mairead NicIllinnein. Baile Ghabhsainn ath-chraoladh aig 9pm Aberdeenshire),
travel and weather. 1.30pm Caithream Ciùil 102.5 (Caithness), 102.8 (Keith)
12.00—1.00pm Oran Annad A’ comharrachadh ceud 1.30pm Caithream Ciùil Ceòl Gàidhealach ’s Ceilteach
Tha Gillebrìde MacIlleMhaoil a’ Nation FM 96.3 (Glasgow),
6.00 Grant Stott’s Vinyl bliadhna bho stèidhicheadh Ceòl Gàidhealach ’s Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air na tha 106.9 (Helensburgh),
Collective toirt aithne dha na bailtean Ghabhsainn ’s agus fiosrachadh air na tha dol dol agaibhse gach feasgar. 103 (Dumbarton)
Grant celebrates the vinyl h-òranaichean a th’ air a Mhealboist a Leòdhas. agaibhse gach feasgar. Nevis FM 96.6 (Fort William),
revival with classic records and bhith a’ cruthachadh òrain ath-chraoladh Diciadain aig 8pm 3.30 Mo Chuairt Chiùil 97 (Glencoe), 102.4 (Loch Leven),
3.30 SpeakGaelic Sealladh air mar a tha ceòl
new releases, playing album ùra ann an Gàidhlig. 4.00 Fàilt’ air an Dùthaich A bheil sibhse ag ionnsachadh
102.3 (Skye & Mallaig)
tracks from his own collection mar phàirt mhòr nar beatha. Northsound 1
Didòmhnaich Cluinnidh sibh measgachadh Gàidhlig? Ma tha, is ann FM 96.9 (Aberdeen), 97.6
and hearing the stories about de cheòl dùthchail sean agus dhuibhse a tha am podcast seo. 5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair (Balgownie), 103 (Peterhead)
listeners’ cherished LPs. 9.00am Dèanamaid
Adhradh Tasglann ùr bho Glen Campbell. ath-chraoladh aig 8.30pm 5.30 Rogha is Tagha Oban FM 103.3
8.00 BBC Introducing in 5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair 4.00 Gleus Taghadh à prògraman na Original FM 106 (Aberdeen)
Seirbheis Ghàidhlig. SIBC FM 96.2 (Bressay),
Scotland ath-chraoladh aig 3pm Naidheachdan nàiseanta is Fuinn, còisirean agus òrain seachdainairathoirtthugaibh
102.2 (Shetland)
Phoebe I-H and Stephanie ionadail o Dhiluain gu Dihaoine. bho shaoghal ceòl le Anna Nic na Ceardaich.
9.30 Alleluia Prògram Skye 106.2, 102.7
Cheape present unsigned, clasaigeach agus eile. 6.00 Na Dùrachdan (Skye/Lochalsh)
spioradail le laoidhean. 5.30 Siubhal gu Seachd le
undiscovered and under-the- Ceòl, òrain is fealla-dhà Smooth Radio
10.00 Clàraidhean Polly Pluto Ceòl, fealla-dhà agus sùil 5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair
radar music from Scotland. còmhlariCalumDòmhnallach FM 105.2 (Glasgow)
Hitchcock Sgeulachd mu na air spòrs ionadail, nàiseanta Naidheachdan nàiseanta is Tay FM MW 102.8 (Dundee),
10.00 Ashley Storrie agus eadar-nàiseanta. ionadailoDhiluainguDihaoine. agus Muireall Urchardan.
chlàr an Ameireaganach 96.4 (Perth)
The comedian kicks off the POST DEALAIN: [email protected] 9.00 Mac Ille Mhicheil Wave FM 102 (Dundee)
Polly Hitchcock sna h-eileanan 5.30 Siubhal gu
weekend with a hand-picked FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050
Cuiridh Iain Mac’illeMhìcheil Waves Radio FM 101.2
anns na 50an. Seachd le Pluto
playlist, lively chat and listener 7.00 Cruinn agus aoighean an deireadh (Peterhead/Fraserburgh)
interaction, with the help of 10.30 Crùnluath 7.00 Oran Annad West FM 96.7 (Ayrshire),
Ceòl, amaideas ’s na beachdan seachdain air a chasan.
sidekick “Silent Paul”. Catrìona NicNèill le taghadh de agaibh air cuspairean a’ là 8.00 Na Dorsan-Sgeulachd 97.5 (Girvan), 106.7 (Rothesay)
cheòl na pìoba. Baile Ghabhsainn 11.00 Tiompan West Sound FM 97 (Dumfries),
1.00am—6.30 as Radio 5 Live ath-chraoladh Diardaoin aig 3.30pm airson ur cuir ann a sunnd Ceòl Ceilteach, clàran ùra 103 (Kirkcudbright),
BBC Radio Scotland airson na seachdain. A’ comharrachadh ceud 96.5 (Stranraer)
12.00 Naoi gu Deich bliadhna bho stèidhicheadh agus fios mu cò tha cluich
40 Pacific Quay
9.00 Feasgar an-diugh càite le Mairead NicIllinnein. Wester Ross FM 96.8 (North
Glasgow G51 1DA Taghadh bho Naoi gu bailtean Ghabhsainn ’s West Scotland), 102.2 (Ullapool),
bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Deich na seachdain seo. 10.25—11.25 Naoi gu Deich Mhealboist a Leòdhas. 12.00—1.00am Naoi gu Deich 106 (Gairloch), 106.6 (Loch Ewe)

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 RADIO in your area BBC Radio Ulster

6.30 Pipes and Drums 3.05 The Afternoon Show

Face behind the voice Andy Goulding Greatest Hits Radio Mark Wilson presents music
from the local piping scene,
Popular music, including
classic tracks, new releases
highlighting the pick of all and live performances.
Age 49 Greatest Hits. “I now have more My mum would shout at him, ‘Do grades, with the odd piece of Plus some real-life stories
Current job listeners than I’ve ever had, which we have to have all these radios Scottish dance music thrown and conversations.
Presenter since I could only ever have dreamt of.” on?’ There was also the moment in for good measure. 4.00 Evening Extra
2020 of the Social media — yes or no? “I don’t I was aged about ten and caught 7.05 Classical Connections A look back at the day’s events,
afternoon show really like Twitter/X but it’s useful as a late-night phone-in on Red Rose with John Toal with Richard Morgan, Tara
a news source. I use Instagram to The host presents an evening Mills and Declan Harvey.
(1pm—4pm) on radio with a presenter called
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of popular classical music. Plus Featuring news on the

Greatest Hits. “It’s show what’s going on in the studio.” Alan Beswick, and I was gripped.” news, reviews and interviews half-hour, plus regular sport,
about providing great tunes and Best moments “At Signal Favourite broadcasters “Steve with local and touring traffic and weather reports,
hopefully good company. It’s one I interviewed Justin Timberlake, Wright would have to be No 1 — for performers. With news at 8.00. and the latest agri-business.
of those shows when people aren’t Beyoncé, Annie Lennox and Sting his warmth, humour, creativity. I 9.05 John Kerr Country 6.05 Vinny and Cate
necessarily actively listening, so it’s — all within the space of a don’t know any radio broadcaster John plays contemporary Monday teatime music and
just about being there with a friendly fortnight. That was amazing.” who hasn’t been influenced by him. American country hits and craic, presented by Vinny
voice, keeping it light and upbeat. Worst moments “There was the talks with some of the biggest Hurrell and Cate Conway.
He succeeded in moving with the names in the business. Genres Including news at 7.00.
Being on the radio in the afternoon time I interviewed the model Elle times without actually changing too covered include Nashville-pop,
is perfect for me. I’ve done breakfast Macpherson and the first thing I much. I’d have to add my Greatest 7.30 Blas
Americana, Appalachian and
Radio

Fearghal Mag Uiginn le súil siar

shows in the past, and it’s great did was call her Claudia. I guess I Hits colleagues Ken Bruce and Simon Red Dirt/Texas.
ar aicsean spóirt dheireadh na
not having to get up so early.” was thinking Claudia Schiffer! Credit Mayo. Both incredible broadcasters.” 10.05 Sunday Club with seachtaine.
CV Born in St Helens, he read to Elle Macpherson, she didn’t react Ambition/Dream job “Just to Ralph McLean Fearghal Mag Uiginn looks
media studies at Manchester and we just carried on. But oh dear..” keep growing the show. But if A late-night selection of music back at the weekend’s
University and, while still studying, Off air “I live with my husband in designed to soothe away the sporting action.
TV was to bring back The Big problems of the past week.
landed work presenting weekend Stirchley in Birmingham. I’m hugely Breakfast, I’d love to present it! Including news at 11.00.
8.05 The Ralph McLean
overnights at Radio Aire in Leeds. into Disney theme parks. For my I used to think it was more like Dedications to: The Sunday Club, Show
“It was a great way to begin — to 50th I’ll be going on a backstage BBC Radio Ulster, Broadcast House, Classic rock, soul, blues, pop,
a radio show than a TV show.” Belfast BT2 8HQ gospel, reggae and funk both
find your voice, make your mistakes.” tour at the one in California. I plan Secret skills “Friends tell me I’m old and new, from home and
12.00 as Radio 5 Live
On graduating, he joined north-west to visit all six of the world’s Disney a bit of a Martin Lewis. I’m very abroad featuring live
station Wish FM, then after five resorts next year – California, Florida, good with money-saving ideas!” Monday performance, interviews and
years moved to Signal 1 in Stoke, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Paris.” SIMON O’HAGAN RADIO ULSTER NEWS: more. With news at 9.00.
where he spent another five years. half-hourly 6.30am to 9.30, hourly 10.00
First radio memory “Terry Wogan! to 11.00pm, plus 4.30pm, 5.30, 11.55 10.05 The Late Show with
After that it was Mercia in Coventry, My dad was a big music fan, and Listen at Eve Blair
6.30am Good Morning Chilled-out music, including a
BRMB in Birmingham, and finally there were radios on in every room. hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits/ Ulster selection of easy listening
With Sarah Brett and Joel melodies both old and new,
Taggart, including travel together with material by the
Clocks go back one hour at 2am on Saturday night

Saturday 1.20 Assume Nothing: Sunday 1.05pm Sunday with updates and analysis of
A Belfast Haunting Brian D’Arcy Artist of the Week.
RADIO ULSTER NEWS: RADIO ULSTER NEWS:
finance and business news, Email: [email protected]
hourly 7.00am to 11.00pm, then 11.55 4/8. Reggie Chamberlain- hourly 7.00am to 11.00pm, then 11.55 Brian delves into his wide plus agri-business in Farm
King continues his experience of music to bring 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
7.05am Kerry McLean Gate and a Thought for the
investigation. When an old 7.05am Kerry McLean listeners some tracks just right
Music, chat and requests. Day at 7.20. Tuesday
friend tells Reggie a The host presents music, chat for a Sunday afternoon, along Email: [email protected]
Text: 81771 and requests to ease her RADIO ULSTER NEWS:see Monday
Email: [email protected] frightening ghost story of her with some reflections to make 9.00 The Nolan Show
own, it provides an unexpected listeners into the morning. them think, laugh or cry. 6.30am Good Morning Ulster
8.05 Your Place and Mine Including Thought for the Day Breaking news and hard-
breakthrough — a chance to Write to: Sunday with Brian D’Arcy,
hitting topical debate with With Sarah Brett and Chris
People, places and stories that reach out to the family. at 7.55 and news at 8.00. BBC Radio Ulster, Ormeau Avenue, Buckler, including regular
make Northern Ireland unique, Repeated Thursday 9.15pm Text: 81771 Belfast BT2 8HQ Stephen Nolan. Including news
and travel at 10.00. news, travel and sport updates
with Anne Marie McAleese. Email: [email protected]
2.05 Countryside
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9.05 Gardeners’ Corner debate the week’s religious Ireland’s rural community, Email: [email protected]
The weekly programme for Robert Semple. Private 10.30 The Connor
Detective Howard Dick must and ethical news and explore hosted by Nicola Weir. Phillips Show 9.00 The Nolan Show
keen horticulturists. the world of culture and ideas. Including essential livestock
Presented by David Maxwell. go under cover in disguise to Music and mischief, with fun Breaking news and hard-
Phone: 03030 80 55 55 talk to the only suspect of the Including news at 9.00. and weather reports. features such as Does My hitting topical debate with
robbery — Mike Rotchburns. Phone: 0289 033 8355 Head In, Useless Superpowers,
10.05 Consumer Fight Back Email: [email protected] 3.05 The Culture Café Stephen Nolan. Listeners can
WithPatrickMcBrearty,Caroline From the page to the stage, Guess the Guest and Taylor share their views by phone,
with Holly Hamilton Curran and Charlotte McCurry. 9.55 Appeals Sifts. Including news at 11.00.
Holly and her team make Marie-Louise Kerr hosts the text or email. Including news
Repeated Thursday 9.30pm An appeal on behalf of essential cultural conversation. Phone: 03030 805555 and travel at 10.00.
things better for consumers. the NSPCC, the charity Text: 81771
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Email: [email protected] 2.05 Sportsound 4.05 Kaz Hawkins Got Email: [email protected]
Michael McNamee presents working to prevent abuse, Text: 81771
11.05 Saturday with help rebuild children’s lives the Blues 12.05pm Talkback Email: [email protected]
coverage of the Irish New series. Singer Kaz
John Toal Premiership, with live and support families. William Crawley and the team 10.30 The Connor
The presenter invites tales of Repeated tomorrow 2.55pm Hawkins returns for a new present news and invite Phillips Show
commentary and reports.
family and community life. series in which she shares listeners’ on-air reactions to Mid-morning music and
6.05 The House Party with 10.05 Morning Service some of her favourite blues
Plus recipes, craic and music. the breaking stories of the day, mischief, with fun features
Phil Taggart This week’s service is a Parish records old and new. With
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house and funk to techno. Father Timothy Bartlett. 5.05 Sounds Sacred Email: [email protected] Including news at 11.00.
1.05pm Assume Nothing: Phone: 03030 805555
Including news at 7.00. Richard Yarr introduces bbc.co.uk/talkback
A Belfast Haunting 10.45 Thought for the Week Text: 81771
popular, sacred music by local
3/8. Reggie Chamberlain- 8.05 Folk Club Audrey Carville presents 1.30 Hugo Duncan Email: [email protected]
and internationally acclaimed
King continues his Folk and traditional music a selection of clips from Country music, plus the 12.05pm Talkback
investigation into the performers. He also plays
from Ireland and beyond. last week’s Thought for opportunity for listeners to William Crawley and the
apparently haunted west listeners’ requests and
Presented by musician and the Day feature. submit requests. Including Talkback team present news
Belfast house. He learns that a provides news of music events news and travel at 2.00.
composer Neil Martin. 11.05 Sunday with Steven across Northern Ireland. and invite listeners’ on-air
local priest visited the house Phone: 03030 80 55 55
10.05 Saturday Club with Rainey Text: 81771 reactions to the breaking
on a number of occasions, so 6.05 Kintra stories of the day, from
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The host plays a selection of current affairs, interviews, politics and health to
try to learn more. Meanwhile, team present stories, news, On behalf of the NSPCC, the consumer issues and
it’s documented that another tracks from the 1960s, 70s and discussion and analysis — music and banter from charity working to prevent
80s. Including news at 11.00. including an essential guide to education. With news at 1.00.
religious group offered Ulster-Scots communities at abuse, help rebuild children’s Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771 the Sunday newspapers.
assistance to the family. home and abroad. lives and support families. Email: [email protected]
Repeated Thursday 9.05pm 12.00 BST as Radio 5 Live Including news at 12.00. Email: [email protected] Repeated from yesterday 9.55am bbc.co.uk/talkback

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Frequencies
1.30 Hugo Duncan 3.05 The Afternoon Show 1.30 Hugo Duncan 10.05 The Late Show with 7.05 A Century of Stories National
Country music, plus the An eclectic mix of popular Country music, plus the Eve Blair A concert recorded at the
opportunity for listeners to music, including classic tracks, opportunity for listeners to Chilled-out music, including a Waterfront Hall in Belfast in BBC Radio 1
submit requests. Including new releases and live submit requests. Including selection of easy listening September to mark 100 years FM 97.9—99.7
news and travel at 2.00. performances. Plus some real- news and travel at 2.00. melodies both old and new, of BBC Northern Ireland, while BBC Radio 2
Phone: 03030 80 55 55 life stories and conversations. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 together with material by the also celebrating Belfast2024 FM 88.3—90.1
Text: 81771 Text: 81771 Artist of the Week. and Belfast’s City of Music BBC Radio 3
4.00 Evening Extra Email: [email protected] FM 90.5—92.3
3.05 The Afternoon Show A look back at the day’s events, 3.05 The Afternoon Show Unesco status. The event
Popular music, including with Richard Morgan, Tara Popular music, including 12.00 as Radio 5 Live features Tony Hadley, Clannad, BBC Radio 4
classic tracks, new releases Mills and Declan Harvey. classic tracks, new releases Peter Cunnah, Katharine 93.2 (Ballycastle),
Friday

LOCAL
and live performances. Featuring news on the and live performances. Plus Timoney and St Kieran’s Choir. 93.2 (Carnmoney Hill),
4.00 Evening Extra half-hour, plus regular sport, some real-life stories and RADIO ULSTER NEWS: 9.05 The Stephen 94 (Limavady),
A look back at the day’s events, traffic and weather reports, conversations. half-hourly 6.30am to 9.30, hourly
McCauley Show 94.9 (Londonderry),
10.00 to 11.00pm, plus 4.30pm, 11.55
with Richard Morgan, Tara and the latest agri-business. 4.00 Evening Extra Alternative music from punk 95.6 (Brougher Mountain),
Mills and Declan Harvey. A look back at the day’s events, 6.30am Good Morning Ulster to electronica from home and
6.05 Vinny and Cate With Chris Buckler and Joel 96 (Belfast),
6.05 Vinny and Cate Teatime music and craic, with with Richard Morgan, Tara abroad, live performances, 103.5 (Larne),
Mills and Declan Harvey. Taggart, including regular interviews and more.
Teatime music and craic, with Vinny Hurrell and Cate Conway. news, travel and sport updates 103.9 (Rostrevor Forest/
Vinny Hurrell and Cate Conway. Including news at 7.00. 6.05 Vinny and Cate and analysis of finance and 10.05 The Mickey Bradley Kilkeel),
Including news at 7.00. 7.30 Blas Teatime music and craic, with business news and Thought Record Show 104.6 (Camlough),
Caint agus comhrá faoi Vinny Hurrell and Cate Conway. for the Day at 7.20. Mickey Bradley invites
7.30 Blas (R4 FM cannot be heard in

Radio
Na himeachtaí ealaíne agus imeachtaí an tsaoil mhóir agus 7.05 The Mystery Mix Tape Email: [email protected] listeners to sample another
selection of his extensive
some parts of N Ireland)
cultúir ar gá iad a fheiceáil shaol an ghnáthlae. with Vinny and Cate 9.00 The Nolan Show LW 198
agus a chluinstin. Máire Bhreathnach has all the Vinny Hurrell and Cate Breaking news and hard- vintage and new rock and pop
singles. With news at 11.00. BBC Radio 5 Live
Dáithí O Muirí keeps listeners latest news on local and Conway challenge listeners — hitting topical debate with
up-to-date with all that’s international events and the and each other — to search Stephen Nolan. Listeners can
Text: 81771 MW 693, 909
Email: [email protected] BBC Radio Foyle
happening in the arts. issues of the day. through the music memory share their views by phone,
banks to correctly identify the text or email. Including news 12.00 as Radio 5 Live FM 93.1
8.05 The Ralph McLean Show 8.05 Ralph McLean: Country BBC Northern Ireland BBC Radio Ulster
From the sounds of Nashville year in question. and travel at 10.00.
Classic rock, soul, blues, pop, Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Broadcasting House FM 92.7—95.4
gospel, reggae and funk both to new bluegrass, Ralph takes 7.30 Blas Text: 81771 Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HQ
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leo agus ábhair níos troime. 10.30 The Connor
performance, interviews and offering a selection of classic RTE 2FM 90.4—92.2, 97
A youthful view of lifestyle Phillips Show RADIO FOYLE
more. Including news at 9.00. tracks, live performance and RTE Raidió na Gaeltachta
issues, travel, sport, beauty, Mid-morning music and
timeless Americana along the 92.6—94.4, 102.7
10.05 The Late Show with fashion, cookery and more. mischief, with fun features As Radio Ulster except:
way. Including news at 9.00. RTE Lyric FM 97.8—99.6,
Eve Blair With Caoimhe Ní Chathail. such as Does My Head In, Saturday
Chilled-out music, including a 9.55 Wah Yan Jee Sing Guess the Guest and Taylor 92.2, 95.2, 96.7, 102.2
selection of easy listening Local information on health 8.05 Blas Ceoil Sifts. Including news at 11.00. 7.30pm—10.00 United
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Artist of the Week. Eve Blair chur le do dheireadh Park as the Cardiff Blues face Talksport MW 1053,

Clocks go back one hour at 2am on Saturday night

Email: [email protected]
Chilled-out music, including a seachtaine. Ceol traidisiúnta, 11.30 Mobile Disco with Ulster Rugby (kick-off 7.35).
fréamh agus dúchasach, le Connor Phillips 1089
12.00 as Radio 5 Live selection of easy listening Weekdays Absolute MW 1215
melodies both old and new, heisiúintí úra, sonraí gigeanna Connor Phillips introduces RADIO FOYLE NEWS: 8.30am,
agus seisiúin bheo. 30 minutes of anthems to help Today FM FM 105.5
Wednesday together with material by the hourly 9.00 to 3.00pm (not 1.00)

RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday Artist of the Week. New releases, gig guide round off the working week. 6.30am Good Morning Ulster
Email: [email protected] details and live acoustic 12.05pm Talkback With Mon: Sarah Brett and All the above stations are
6.30am Good Morning Ulster sessions to keep listeners in also broadcast via
With Sarah Brett and Chris 12.00 as Radio 5 Live William Crawley and the team Joel Taggart; Tue—Thu: Sarah
touch with the best in present news and invite Brett and Chris Buckler; Fri: Freeview, satellite, cable,
Buckler, including regular traditional, roots and folk
news, travel and sport updates Thursday listeners’ on-air reactions to Chris Buckler and Joel Taggart. digital radio and the
music. With Aine Uí Bhreisleáin. the breaking stories of the day.
and analysis of finance and RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday 8.00—9.00 North West Today internet.
business news and Thought 9.05 Assume Nothing: Including news at 1.00. A round-up of news, sport and
6.30am Good Morning Ulster A Belfast Haunting Phone: 03030 80 55 55
for the Day at 7.20. With Sarah Brett and Chris Email: [email protected] weather across the north-west
Email: [email protected] 3/8. Reggie Chamberlain- bbc.co.uk/talkback of Northern Ireland.
Buckler including regular King continues his
9.00 The Nolan Show news, travel and sport updates investigation into the 1.30 Hugo Duncan 12.05pm The Mark
Breaking news and hard- and analysis of finance and apparently haunted west Country music, plus the Patterson Show
hitting topical debate with business news and Thought Belfast house. He learns that a opportunity for listeners to Issues affecting the daily lives
Stephen Nolan. Including for the Day at 7.20. submit requests. Including of people in the north-west. Local
Email: [email protected]
local priest visited the house
news and travel at 10.00. on a number of occasions, so news and travel at 2.00. Cool FM 97.4
Phone: 03030 80 55 55 1.00 North West at One
9.00 The Nolan Show Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771 visits a nearby monastery to Text: 81771 The day’s local, national and Music, news and sport
Email: [email protected] Breaking news and hard- try to learn more. Meanwhile, international news stories. Downtown FM 102.3
hitting topical debate with it’s documented that another 3.05 The Ticket
10.30 The Connor Stephen Nolan. Listeners can Kathy Clugston previews 1.10—1.30 20 Minutes with (Ballymena), 96.6
Phillips Show religious group offered (Omagh/Enniskillen),
share their views by phone, upcoming cultural attractions. Mark Patterson
assistance to the family.
Music and mischief, with fun text or email. Including news Repeated from Saturday 1.05pm A snapshot of life in the north- 97.1 (Larne), 96.4
features such as Does My 4.00 Evening Extra west of Northern Ireland.
and travel at 10.00. 9.15 4/8. Reggie A look back at the day’s events,
(Limavady), 102.4
Head In, Useless Superpowers, Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Chamberlain-King continues 3.05—4.00 Sean Coyle (Londonderry), 103.4
Guess the Guest and Taylor Text: 81771 with Richard Morgan, Tara
Email: [email protected]
his investigation into the Mills and Declan Harvey. Music and chat. (Newcastle), 103.1 (south
Sifts. Including news at 11.00. apparently haunted west
Phone: 03030 805555 Featuring news on the half- Mon: 8.05pm—10.00 Caschlár Newry), MW 1026
10.30 The Connor Belfast house. When an old
Text: 81771
Phillips Show hour, plus regular sport, An-réimse ceoil ó phop go (Belfast) Music, news
Email: [email protected] friend tells Reggie a traffic and weather reports, fréamh á chur le chéile agus á Q FM 96.7 (Belfast),
Music and mischief, with fun frightening ghost story of her
12.05pm Talkback features such as Does My and the latest agri-business. chur i láthair ag Brian Mullen. 102.5 (Bangor), 102.5
own, it provides an unexpected Brian Mullen presents music,
William Crawley and the team Head In, Useless Superpowers, 5.30 Red Lines (Carrickfergus), 102.9
breakthrough — a chance to including pop, blues and soul.
present news and invite Guess the Guest and Taylor Mark Carruthers details the (North West), 97.2 (North
reach out to the family. Including news at 9.00.
listeners’ on-air reactions to Sifts. Including news at 11.00. Repeated from Saturday 1.20pm inside story of what’s going on Coast), 97.6 (Ballycastle),
the breaking stories of the day. Phone: 03030 805555 in Northern Ireland politics, Fri: 7.05pm 107.0 (Mid Antrim),
Including news at 1.00. Text: 81771 9.30 The Girl with the Dead with occasional forays among
Email: [email protected] Long Legs A Century of Stories 107.6 (Larne),
Phone: 03030 80 55 55 the big beasts of Stormont,
Email: [email protected]
12.05pm Talkback 2/5. Film noir parody by Westminster, Dáil Eireann,
Fri: 7.30—10.00 106.0 (Mid Ulster),
bbc.co.uk/talkback Robert Semple. Private Foyle Sportsound 107.2 (Dungannon),
William Crawley and the team Holyrood, Brussels and
1.30 Hugo Duncan present news and invite Detective Howard Dick must Derry City v Shelbourne in the 106.3 (Maghera),
Washington, DC. Last in series.
Country music, plus the listeners’ on-air reactions to go under cover in disguise to Irish Premier division, played 101.2 (Tyrone/Fermanagh),
opportunity for listeners to talk to the only suspect of the 6.05 ATL Introducing at Ryan McBride Brandywell
the breaking stories of the day. Gemma Bradley serves up 102.1 (Enniskillen),
submit requests. Including Including news at 1.00. robbery — Mike Rotchburns. Stadium (kick-off 7.45).
WithPatrickMcBrearty,Caroline new Irish musical talent, from 100.5 (Newry & Mourne),
news and travel at 2.00. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 BBC Radio Foyle, 8 Northland Road
Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Email: [email protected] Curran and Charlotte McCurry. indie-rock to hip-hop with live Londonderry BT48 7GD 101.1 (Kilkeel),
Text: 81771 bbc.co.uk/talkback Repeated from Saturday 1.30pm music and interviews. Tel: 02871 266 522 101.1 (Newcastle)
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 RADIO in your area BBC Radio Wales

2.00pm Nathan Sussex 7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast

Face behind the voice Andy Goulding Greatest Hits Radio Sitting in for Behnaz Akhgar.
5.00 Radio Wales Drive
News, sport, travel and
weather, with Catrin Heledd
Everything you need to know and James Williams.
Age 49 Greatest Hits. “I now have more My mum would shout at him, ‘Do as you head home, with 9.00 Wynne Evans
Current job listeners than I’ve ever had, which we have to have all these radios Claire Summers. Music and chat.
Presenter since I could only ever have dreamt of.” on?’ There was also the moment 6.30 The Idea 12.00 The Phone-in
2020 of the Social media — yes or no? “I don’t I was aged about ten and caught Author, gardener and naturalist Be part of the nation’s
afternoon show really like Twitter/X but it’s useful as a late-night phone-in on Red Rose Carwyn Graves, botanist Chris conversation, with Oliver Hides.
(1pm—4pm) on a news source. I use Instagram to radio with a presenter called Thorogood and poet Fiona
LOCAL

2.00pm Behnaz Akhgar

Greatest Hits. “It’s show what’s going on in the studio.” Alan Beswick, and I was gripped.” Sampson discuss how people Celebrity guests, expert advice,
affect and are affected by the and music quiz Backtracks.
about providing great tunes and Best moments “At Signal Favourite broadcasters “Steve places they live or travel in.
hopefully good company. It’s one I interviewed Justin Timberlake, Wright would have to be No 1 — for Repeated tomorrow 6.30am 5.00 Radio Wales Drive
of those shows when people aren’t Beyoncé, Annie Lennox and Sting his warmth, humour, creativity. I 7.00 Radio Wales Sport Everything you need to know as
necessarily actively listening, so it’s — all within the space of a don’t know any radio broadcaster Commentary on Wales v youheadhome,withWyreDavies.
just about being there with a friendly fortnight. That was amazing.” who hasn’t been influenced by him. Slovakia, the Women’s Euro 6.30 Kiri’s Comedy Club
voice, keeping it light and upbeat. Worst moments “There was the He succeeded in moving with the 2025 play-off semi-final Kiri Pritchard-McLean
second-leg match at Cardiff meets stars of the Welsh
Being on the radio in the afternoon time I interviewed the model Elle times without actually changing too stand-up scene.
City Stadium (kick-off 7.15).
is perfect for me. I’ve done breakfast Macpherson and the first thing I much. I’d have to add my Greatest
Radio

10.00 Eleri Siôn 7.00 Aleighcia Scott

shows in the past, and it’s great did was call her Claudia. I guess I Hits colleagues Ken Bruce and Simon The reggae artist presents hits
Eleri brightens your night
not having to get up so early.” was thinking Claudia Schiffer! Credit Mayo. Both incredible broadcasters.” with music and chat. from the 1960s to present day.
CV Born in St Helens, he read to Elle Macpherson, she didn’t react Ambition/Dream job “Just to 10.00 Eleri Siôn
12.00 Relax with Radio Wales
media studies at Manchester and we just carried on. But oh dear..” keep growing the show. But if Classicandcontemporarytunes. Music and chat.
University and, while still studying, Off air “I live with my husband in TV was to bring back The Big 1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live 12.00 Relax with Radio Wales
landed work presenting weekend Stirchley in Birmingham. I’m hugely Breakfast, I’d love to present it! Classicandcontemporarytunes.
overnights at Radio Aire in Leeds. into Disney theme parks. For my I used to think it was more like Wednesday 1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live
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years moved to Signal 1 in Stoke, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Paris.” SIMON O’HAGAN 6.30 The Idea Radio Wales
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Carwyn Graves, botanist Chris 6.30 All Things Considered
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BRMB in Birmingham, and finally there were radios on in every room. hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits/ Sampson discuss how people tackling the issues of the day in
affect and are affected by the a thought-provoking manner.
places they live or travel in. Repeated from Sunday 9am
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Three speakers share their A service led by the Rev Julia the Silent Twin 7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast 7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 2.00pm,
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WEATHER: after most news bulletins communication. based in north Wales. programme maker Jessica weather, with Catrin Heledd weather, with Catrin Heledd
HILL FORECAST: 6.59am Repeated from last Tuesday This edition includes My Gunasekara about the and James Williams. and Oliver Hides.
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Bartholomew, URC minister Mohammad.
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Tuesday 6.30 Radio Wales Arts Show
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sporting action with analysis. Arts and culture from Wales.
guest reviewers. NEWS: hourly 6.00am to 10.00pm Rural affairs programme for
6.05am Wake Up with (not 9.00pm) 7.00 Elin Fflur’s 70s Playlist
5.30 Call Rob Phillips 9.00 All Things Considered Radio Wales WEATHER: after most news bulletins those working and living in the
Have a say on the day’s Welsh countryside. Party classics from the 1970s
Religious affairs programme, Music to start the day. and big Welsh anthems.
sporting action. tackling the issues of the day in 6.05am Wake Up with Repeated from Sunday 7am
6.30 Sing it Loud!: Radio Wales Repeated tomorrow 6.30am 8.00 Elin Fflur’s 80s Playlist
7.00 Bethan Elfyn a thought-provoking manner.
Repeated Friday 6.30am 40 Years of the National Music to start the day. 7.00 Bronwen Lewis Party classics from the 1980s
Featuring the Wales Mix and a Youth Choir of Wales
guest DJ Takeover. Email: [email protected] 6.30 June Gibbons: New and classic country music and big Welsh anthems.
Lisa Angharad celebrates the the Silent Twin from Wales and the world.
10.00 BBC Introducing with 9.30 Owen Money’s Solid 9.00 Elin Fflur’s 90s Playlist
40th anniversary of the choir.
Adam Walton Gold Sunday Repeated from yesterday 6am June Gibbons chats with 10.00 Eleri Siôn Party classics from the 1990s
New Welsh music. Classic hits and dedications. programme maker Jessica Eleri brightens your night-time and big Welsh anthems.
7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast Gunasekara about the with great music and chat.
1.00am BST—6.00 GMT 12.00 Bronwen Lewis on News, sport, travel and 10.00 Friday Night H
Sunday experience of creating 12.00 Relax with Radio Wales The Steps singer kicks off the
as Radio 5 Live weather, with Catrin Heledd their podcast June, Voice
Music and guests. and James Williams. Classicandcontemporarytunes. weekend with music and chat.
of a Silent Twin.
Sunday 3.00pm Lynn Bowles 9.00 Wynne Evans Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm 1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live 12.00 The Party Playlist
NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 6.00pm Music, entertainment, and Music and chat. with H
WEATHER: after most news bulletins guests for Sunday afternoon. 7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast Thursday The Steps singer presents his
HILL FORECAST: 6.58am 12.00 The Phone-in News, sport, travel and NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday ultimate party playlist.
6.00am Sing it Loud!: 5.00 Roy Noble Be part of the conversation, weather, with Catrin Heledd
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40 Years of the National Email: [email protected] Radio Wales BBC Wales, 3 Central Square,
Youth Choir of Wales 2.00pm Nathan Sussex 9.00 Wynne Evans
7.00 Iconic: the Rise of the Music to start the day. Cardiff CF10 1FT
Lisa Angharad celebrates the Sitting in for Behnaz Akhgar. Music and chat. 03703 500 700
40th anniversary of the choir, Women in Red 6.30 Country Focus (weekdays 9.30am to 5.30pm)
meetingchoristersandtutorsas 3/3. Jess Fishlock explores 5.00 Radio Wales Drive 12.00 The Phone-in Rural affairs programme for (landline calls charged at a
they prepare for a tour of Wales. the history of Wales’s women’s Everything you need to know Be part of the nation’s those working and living in the maximum of 8p per minute)
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Sadwrn 4.30 Caniadaeth y Cysegr 7.00 Dros Frecwast 7.00 Mirain Iwerydd 1.00pm Dros Ginio National
Amrywiaeth o emynau Y newyddion diweddaraf yng Cerddoriaeth newydd Cymru. Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd, BBC Radio 1 97.6—99.8
5.30am Richard Rees yng nghwmni’r Hybarch Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda 8.30 Rhestr Chwarae Mirain gan godi’r pynciau a gofyn y BBC Radio 2 88—90.2
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth ar Eileen Davies. Kate Crockett a Dylan Ebenezer. Rhestr chwarae wedi’i churadu cwestiynau sy’n bwysig i chi. BBC Radio 3 90.2—92.4
gyfer bore Sadwrn. Darlledwyd am 7.30am EBOST: [email protected] BBC Radio 4 92.4—94.6,
9.00 Aled Hughes gan Mirain Iwerydd. Ffôn: 03703 500 500
5.00 Dei Tomos 103.5—105, LW 198
7.00 Galwad Cynnar Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth, 9.00 Caryl BBC Radio 5 Live MW 693,
Sgyrsiau am Gymru, ei a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar 2.00 Tudur Owen
Gerallt Pennant a’i westeion Cerddoriaeth a hwyl gyda’r 909, 990
phobl a’i diwylliant. feddwl pawb. Lot o fwydro, ’chydig o
yn trafod natur, bywyd gwyllt hwyr gyda Caryl Parry Jones. Radio Cymru 92.4—96.1, 96.8,
Ail-ddarlledir Mawrth am 6pm sylwedd, dim swmp. 103.5—105
a chadwraeth. 11.00 Bore Cothi
EBOST: [email protected] 6.00 Beti a’i Phobol 12.00 gweler World Service 5.00 Post Prynhawn Radio Cymru 2 This station
Croeso cynnes dros baned

LOCAL
Beti George yn sgwrsio Newyddion y dydd yng only broadcasts on Freeview,
8.00 Dros Frecwast gyda Shân Cothi. Iau satellite television, digital radio
Y newyddion diweddaraf yng gydag un o bobl Cymru. Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda
1.00pm Dros Ginio and the internet
Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda Ail-ddarlledir Iau am 6pm
5.30am John Hardy Liam Evans yn cyflwyno. BBC Radio Wales 93.9—95.9,
Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd,
Dylan Jones. 7.00 Ambell i Gân Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth 6.00 Lauren Moore 103.7, 103.9
gan godi’r pynciau a gofyn y BBC Radio Wales Extra
8.30 Ar y Marc Gwenan Gibbard sy’n cyflwyno ben bore, gyda bwletinau CerddoriaethargyfernosWener
cwestiynau sy’n bwysig i chi. MW 1125 (mid-Wales)
Dylan Jones a’r criw yn trafod cyfoeth ac amrywiaeth EBOST: [email protected] newyddion, chwaraeon, yng nghwmni Lauren Moore.
cerddoriaeth werin Cymru. Classic FM 99.9—101.9
pob math o bethau’n Ffôn: 03703 500 500 tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y 9.00 Ffion Emyr Talksport MW 1053, 1089
Ail-ddarlledir Mercher am 6pm bwletin amaeth dyddiol, yn
ymwneud â phêl-droed. 2.00 Ifan Jones Evans Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth Absolute MW 1197, 1242, 1260
8.00 Ar Eich Cais Digon o gerddoriaeth, ogystal â golwg ar y papurau. yng nghwmni Ffion Emyr. The above stations also broadcast
9.00 Tudur Owen Rhys Meirion yn darllen via Freeview, satellite, cable,
Lot o fwydro, ’chydig o chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn ogystal 7.00 Dros Frecwast 12.00 gweler World Service

Radio
cyfarchion ac yn digital radio and the internet.
sylwedd, dim swmp. â chystadleuaeth neu ddwy. Y newyddion diweddaraf yng Radio Cymru: 03703 500 500
chwarae ceisiadau. Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda
11.00 Y Sioe Sadwrn 5.00 Post Prynhawn (Codir prisiau daearyddol Local
9.00 John ac Alun Newyddion y dydd yng GwenllianGriggaDylanEbenezer. safonol am alwadau o ffonau
Cerddoriaeth ac adloniant Cerddoriaeth a sgwrsio i sefydlog a symudol) BBC stations:
gyda Shelley Rees a Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda 9.00 Aled Hughes Bristol 94.9 (Bristol), 103.6
gloi’r penwythnos. Rhif Testun: 67500
Rhydian Bowen Phillips. Nia Thomas yn cyflwyno. Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth, (Codir tal yn unol a chyfradd (Severn), 104.6 (Bath)
12.00 gweler World Service EBOST: [email protected] a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar Gloucestershire 104.7
costau eich rhwydwaith)
2.00pm Chwaraeon Post Prynhawn, BBC Radio Cymru (Churchdown Hill), 95 (Stroud),
Canolfan y BBC, Bryn Meirion feddwl pawb. Ebost: [email protected]
Radio Cymru Llun Gwefan: bbc.co.uk/radiocymru 95.8 (Cirencester), MW 1413
Bangor, LL57 2BY 11.00 Bore Cothi
Sylwebaethau byw, yn ogystal Hereford and Worcester 94.7
â chanlyniadau a’r newyddion 5.30am John Hardy 6.00 Dei Tomos Croeso cynnes dros baned Radio Cymru 2 (Hereford), 104 (Worcester & Gt
chwaraeon diweddaraf. Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth Sgyrsiau am Gymru, ei gyda Shân Cothi. Malvern), 104.6 (Kidderminster),
fel Radio Cymru ac eithrio: MW 738, 1584 (Tenbury Wells)
5.30 Marc Griffiths ben bore, gyda bwletinau phobl a’i diwylliant. 1.00pm Dros Ginio Somerset 95.5, MW 1566
newyddion, chwaraeon, Darlledwyd Sul am 5pm
Cymysgedd o’r hen a’r newydd EBOST: [email protected]
Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd, Sadwrn Wiltshire 104.3 (west Wiltshire),
i ddiddanu ar nos Sadwrn, gan tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y gan godi’r pynciau a gofyn y 104.9 (Marlborough), 103.5
bwletin amaeth dyddiol, yn 7.00 Chwaraeon Radio Cymru 7.00—9.00am Sioe Frecwast: (Salisbury), 103.6 (Swindon)
gynnwys llwyth o geisiadau. cwestiynau sy’n bwysig i chi. cerddoriaeth ac adloniant
EBOST: [email protected] ogystal â golwg ar y papurau. Ail gymal rownd gynderfynol y EBOST: [email protected] Independent stations:
gemau ailgyfle Cymru v Ffôn: 03703 500 500 gyda Daniel Glyn Bay Radio 102.1 (Swansea)
9.00 Ffion Emyr 7.00 Dros Frecwast Bridge FM 106.3 (Bridgend/
Slofacia i gyrraedd Ewro 2025. 2.00 Ifan Jones Evans 2.00pm Traciau Tawel Noson
Tair awr o gerddoriaeth a Y newyddion diweddaraf yng Vale of Glamorgan)
Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda 9.30 Caryl Digon o gerddoriaeth, Tân Gwyllt: rhestr chwarae o Capital 103.2 (Cardiff), 97.4
chwmnïaeth yng nghwmni
Kate Crockett a Dylan Ebenezer. Cerddoriaeth a hwyl gyda’r chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn ogystal ganeuon tawel ar gyfer eich (Newport), 96.3 (north Wales
Ffion Emyr.
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hwyr gyda Caryl Parry Jones. â chystadleuaeth neu ddwy. Coast), 103.4 (Cheshire/north east
12.00 BST gweler World Service 9.00 Aled Hughes Tân Gwyllt Wales), 97.1 (Wirral), 103
Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth, 12.00 gweler World Service 5.00 Post Prynhawn (Anglesey) Music, news
Sul Newyddion y dydd yng 3.00 Parti’r Penwythnos: Carmarthenshire 97.1
a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar
Mercher Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda tiwns trwy’r dydd, drwy’r (Carmarthenshire), 97.5
feddwl pawb. (Llanelli/Carmarthen Town)
5.30am Linda Griffiths Dafydd Morgan yn cyflwyno. penwythnos
DechreuwcheichdyddSulynsain 11.00 Bore Cothi 5.30am John Hardy EBOST: [email protected] Chester’s Dee 106.3
5.00—5.30 Nôl i’r 90au Freeradio 103.1 (Shropshire),
dewis cerddorol Linda Griffiths. Croeso cynnes dros baned Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth Post Prynhawn, BBC Radio Cymru
gyda Shân Cothi. Sul 97.2 (Wolverhampton) Music,
ben bore, gyda bwletinau Canolfan y BBC, Bryn Meirion
news, 97.6 (Hereford), 96.7
7.00 Troi’r Tir newyddion, chwaraeon, Bangor, LL57 2BY
Y straeon diweddaraf o fyd 1.00pm Dros Ginio 7.00am Sioe Frecwast: (Kidderminster), 102.8
Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd, tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y 6.00 Beti a’i Phobol cerddoriaeth ac adloniant (Worcester) Music
amaeth a bywyd cefn gwlad bwletin amaeth dyddiol, yn Heart 88 (Wrexham), 103 (Bath/
gan godi’r pynciau a gofyn y Beti George yn sgwrsio gydag gyda Mirain Iwerydd
gyda Terwyn Davies. ogystal â golwg ar y papurau. Weston Super-Mare), 96.3
cwestiynau sy’n bwysig i chi. un o bobl Cymru.
7.30 Caniadaeth y Cysegr Darlledwyd Sul am 6pm 10.00 Traciau Radio Cymru 2: (Bristol), 102.2 (west Wiltshire),
EBOST: [email protected] 7.00 Dros Frecwast 102.4 (Gloucester/ Cheltenham),
Amrywiaeth o emynau yng tiwns trwy’r dydd yn parhau ar
2.00 Ifan Jones Evans Y newyddion diweddaraf yng 7.00 Huw Stephens Radio Cymru 2 102.6 (Somerset), 97.2 (Swindon),
nghwmni’r Hybarch Eileen Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda Cerddoriaeth newydd ac 105.2 (Abergavenny/
Davies. Ail-ddarlledir am 4.30pm Digon o gerddoriaeth, 6.00pm Traciau Tawel Noson Carmarthenshire), 105.4 (Cardiff),
chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn ogystal Kate Crockett a Dylan Ebenezer. ambell berl anghyfarwydd.
8.00 Bore Sul Tân Gwyllt: rhestr chwarae o 105.9 (Aberdare), 105.7 (Colwyn
â chystadleuaeth neu ddwy. 9.00 Aled Hughes 8.30 Rhestr Chwarae Huw ganeuon tawel ar gyfer eich Bay), 105.9 (Newport), 105.7
Trin a thrafod papurau’r Sul, Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth, Rhestr chwarae wedi’i churadu (Pembrokeshire), 106 (Swansea/
cerddoriaeth a sgyrsiau 5.00 Post Prynhawn anifeiliaid anwes ar Noson
a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar gan Huw Stephens. Carmarthen), 106.1 (Ebbw Vale),
hamddenol. Newyddion y dydd yng Tân Gwyllt 106.2 (Fishguard), 106.9 (Mold/
Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda feddwl pawb. 9.00 Caryl Flint), 107.2 (Caernarfon/
10.00 Swyn y Sul 7.00—9.00 Parti’r
Nia Thomas yn cyflwyno. 11.00 Bore Cothi Cerddoriaeth a hwyl gyda’r Penwythnos: tiwns trwy’r Anglesey), 107.3 (Rhyl/Prestatyn)
Y soprano Elin Manahan Croeso cynnes dros baned hwyr gyda Caryl Parry Jones. Greatest Hits Radio
Thomas yn dewis 6.00 Cofio dydd, drwy’r penwythnos 96.4 (Swansea), 100.8 (Porlock),
Archif, atgof a chân yng gyda Shân Cothi. 12.00 gweler World Service Llun—Iau 102 (Salisbury), 102.4 (west
cerddoriaeth ar gyfer bore Sul.
nghwmni John Hardy. 1.00pm Dros Ginio Somerset), 107.2 (Bristol), 107.4
12.00 Yr Oedfa Darlledwyd Sul am 1pm Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd, Gwener 7.00—9.00am Sioe Frecwast: (Telford/Wrekin), 107.5 (west
Oedfa Adferiad dan arweiniad gan godi’r pynciau a gofyn y cerddoriaeth ac adloniant Wiltshire), 107.5 (Gloucestershire),
7.00 Rhys Mwyn 107.7 (Weston-Super-Mare/
Rhys Powys. cwestiynau sy’n bwysig i chi. 5.30am John Hardy gyda Rhydian Bowen Phillips
ClasuroncollogasgliadMrMwyn, north Somerset/Swindon),
12.30pm Bwrw Golwg EBOST: [email protected] Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth 9.30—10.00 Iau: Nôl i’r 90au
a gwesteion yn hel atgofion. 107.9 (Bath)
John Roberts a’i westeion yn Ffôn: 03703 500 500 ben bore, gyda bwletinau GTFM 107.9 Pontypridd,
8.30 Rhestr Chwarae Rhys newyddion, chwaraeon, 10.00—2.00pm Lisa Gwilym:
trafod materion moesol a 2.00 Ifan Jones Evans 100.7/107.1 Cynon Valley
Rhestr chwarae wedi’i tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y Lisa Gwilym yn chwarae Kiss 101 (Severn Estuary), 97.2
chrefyddol. Digon o gerddoriaeth, eich hoff fiwsig
churadu gan Rhys Mwyn. bwletin amaeth dyddiol, yn (Bristol) Dance music, news
1.00 Cofio chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn ogystal Nation Radio 106.8 (Cardiff),
9.00 Caryl â chystadleuaeth neu ddwy. ogystal â golwg ar y papurau. 5.00—7.00pm
Archif, atgof a chân yng 107.3 (Swansea) Music, news
Cerddoriaeth a hwyl gyda’r 7.00 Dros Frecwast Traciau Radio Cymru 2 Pembrokeshire 102.5, 107.5
nghwmni John Hardy. 5.00 Post Prynhawn
Ail-ddarlledir Llun am 6pm hwyr gyda Caryl Parry Jones. Y newyddion diweddaraf 7.00 Mawrth: Georgia Ruth (Fishguard/Tenby)
Newyddion y dydd yng Radio Cardiff 98.7
2.00 Ffion Dafis 12.00 gweler World Service Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda yng Nghymru a thu hwnt, 9.00—9.30 Mawrth: Rhestr Radio Tircoed 106.5 (West
Ffion Dafis a’i gwesteion yn Nia Thomas yn cyflwyno. gyda Dafydd Morgan Chwarae Georgia Swansea) Music, news
trafod y byd celfyddydol yn ei Mawrth EBOST: [email protected] a Gwenllian Grigg. Scarlet FM 97.5 (Llanelli)
Post Prynhawn, BBC Radio Cymru
Gwener Smooth 100.4 (north-west
holl amrywiaeth, a hynny yng 5.30am John Hardy Canolfan y BBC, Bryn Meirion
9.00 Trystan ac Emma
7.00—9.00am Sioe Frecwast: England); MW 1359 (south
Nghymru a thu hwnt. Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth Bangor, LL57 2BY Cerddoriaeth ac adloniant Wales), 1305 (Gwent), 1260
gyda Trystan Ellis-Morris ac cerddoriaeth ac adloniant
4.00 Dwyieithrwydd dros ben bore, gyda bwletinau 6.00 Ambell i Gân (north Wales/Cheshire/Bristol),
Emma Walford. gyda Lisa Angharad 774 (Gloucester), 1161 (Swindon),
y Dwr Ifor ap Glyn yn cyflwyno newyddion, chwaraeon, Gwenan Gibbard sy’n cyflwyno
11.00—2.00pm Dom James 936 (West Wiltshire)
hanes rhai o’r bobl sy wedi tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y cyfoeth ac amrywiaeth 11.00 Bore Cothi Sunshine 106.2 (Hereford), 107.8
adfywio’r Wyddeleg yn ninas bwletin amaeth dyddiol, yn cerddoriaeth werin Cymru. Croeso cynnes dros baned 5.00—6.00 Miwsig (Leominster), 107 (Monmouth),
Belfast. Ail-ddarllediad ogystal â golwg ar y papurau. Darlledwyd Sul am 7pm gyda Shân Cothi. y Siarter Iaith MW 855 (south Shropshire)

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Rick Stein’s Food Stories

Thursday 7.00pm BBC2

HE DAY BEFORE our interview,

Rick Stein was a guest on Gyles
Brandreth’s Rosebud podcast when
the TV presenter and author
recalled a motto imparted by his
headmaster some 66 years earlier.
“Gyles’s headmaster told him, ‘A busy person is a
happy person’, which I feel is the case. As long as
you keep busy, you keep active, you keep the
brain working,” says Stein, who turns 78 in
January and is, without doubt, still living his
career to the full.
Next year, the restaurateur and TV chef cele-
brates 50 years in the hospitality business. In
1975 he and his ex-wife Jill opened the doors of
The Seafood Restaurant on Padstow quayside in
north Cornwall, which is still going strong.
From teasing his
Moreover, after being hit by £1.2 million losses
in 2022, last year Stein’s empire returned to
grandchildren to
profit and is now entering a new era of expan- travelling the world
sion with plans to open its first restaurant in
central London. in search of great
“We’re not imminently opening, but we are
looking. Seriously looking,” says Stein, adding cuisine, Rick Stein
that with his three sons Jack, Edward and Char-
lie running the business alongside managing reveals his recipe for
director Ian Fitzgerald he feels “no need to
retire” because he’s focusing predominantly on
a long and happy life
the tasks he enjoys the most. “I tend to try and
keep away from any meaningful decisions,” he
says. “I’m now just really involved in quality
control and new recipes.”
There are more than 100 of those in his latest
book, Rick Stein’s Food Stories. Accompanied by

NAUGHTY’
a primetime TV series, which began on BBC2 in
September, it celebrates modern British food
and sees Stein tasting the UK’s best culinary
offerings while also meeting the people behind
the plates. It served, Stein says, as a reminder of
why he keeps doing what he’s doing. “I ask
myself sometimes, ‘Why am I doing cookery
books if you can get any recipe on the internet?’ not trying to hide from the realities of life [but] to the family a baby boy called Dylan, who
The answer is, because the recipes I get are you want to talk to people about what they love arrived this summer.
either my own or somebody else’s with good to talk about and what brings friendship. Food Stein “quite likes” being a grandad. “[I’m]
stories behind them.” is a leveller.” a bit naughty,” he admits, likening himself to
Food, it’s often said, brings people together, Next in the Stein pipeline is a “book on Christ- a character from a David Walliams or Roald
and at a time when social cohesion is under mas”, which sparks a conversation about his end Dahl story. “When my oldest grandchild Hugh,
strain, Stein adds that he hopes the book will of year plans with “Sas” – his was tiny, he heard some noise upstairs in our
do its bit for helping heal Britain’s second wife and former publicist pub, The Cornish Arms, and I said, ‘Oh, well,
divisions. “I really do. If you’re Sarah Burns, 57. The couple that’s our ghosts’, and Kate [Stein’s daughter-
talking about food, you’re not talk- alternate Christmases in-law] got really pissed off at me! I replied,
ing about killing people. It’s as between Padstow and ‘Well, it’s nice to give kids little frights if they’re
simple as that. Sydney, where he runs two well looked after.’”

T
“Wherever I go in the world, restaurants. This year,
RICHARD GRASSIE; ALAMY

most recently Mexico, [when they ’re in the UK HE CHUCKLES CONTINUE when Stein
you’re talking about food] spending time with agrees that having a wife who is 20
you don’t find yourself their six grand- years his junior keeps him youthful.
talking about anything children, includ- “Yes, definitely! She has a joke at my
unpleasant going on AUSSIE RULES ing the most expense, because I had an uncle called Charlie
there in Mexico. You’re Stein with his recent addition, who, as he got towards the end of his life, got a
Australian wife
Sarah Burns
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bit boring and stuck in his ways. Now, if I say tively healthy: “I swim virtually every day and I SWEETPEA
something a bit boring, she says, ‘All right, Char- walk quite a lot.” But does he ever watch his own CJ SKUSE
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A colourful shrub can give it a boost, says Joe Swift

AUTUMN IS ONE of the most throughout summer, but I prefer this one, with
spectacular times of the year its soft green leaves, as the autumnal transfor-
in the garden, and just one or mation is extreme: it turns a combination of
two choice shrubs in a small fiery red, orange and purple. It naturally grows
space will put on a wonderful to around 6m but can easily be pruned back
display. I like to let leaves lie hard every spring.
on the ground for a few days, like a beautiful, The stag’s horn sumach (Rhus typhina) has
fleeting, natural art installation! been in and out of favour over the years, but
Most shrubs flowered back in the spring and I always love to see one in full autumnal attire,
played a supporting role through summer before spotted over a garden wall from the street. Its
becoming the stars of the show again. This is the huge, architectural, drooping leaves turn an
ideal time to plant them, so if you see one – or intense orange red and are held on hairy stems,
some – you fancy in a garden centre or nursery, but it does sucker, so grow it only if you have
you can pop them in right now. room to let it spread.
Purples, browns, fiery reds and intense One can’t talk about autumn colour without
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coppers and golden yellows, and you can’t go a huge range out there for all sizes of garden,
wrong – they’ll always look great together. and they’ll all deliver at this time of year.
The burning bush (Euonymus alatus) is a Although some shrubs require dappled CRIMSON TIDE
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The smoke bush (Cotinus obovatus) is another
great choice. Many cotinus have purple leaves Joe Swift is a presenter on BBC2’s Gardeners’ World

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S ONE TRAVELS up the east of the

USA, it’s safe to say that things
become more liberal as you go.
From the humid conservatism
of Florida, via the political
swamp of Washington DC,
through the anything-goes (as long as you can
afford it) of New York, and the liberal academia
of leafy Massachusetts… until you reach
Vermont, where both conformity, and the coun-
try itself, are almost on their way out.
Perhaps that’s why Tim Burton – hardly a
name synonymous with fitting in – chose to
return here instead of opting for a sound stage in
order to film the exterior scenes of Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to, well,
Beetlejuice. It was in Vermont, just outside the
small town of East Corinth, that the original was
filmed, too – including the cartoon-like gothic

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The original film has such a cult following that
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VERMONSTER
decoration, and the other an abstract art piece
taken from the vicinity of a cemetery.
I have come here to understand what attracted
the director to the state, and why it gives its visi-
tors a wholly alternative take on Americana.

The Green Mountain State is famously friendly, so

‘An eerie shade of what drew Tim Burton to film his comedy horror sequel
American Gothic Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in the land of Ben & Jerry?
hangs over the town’
After a five-hour drive from Boston, through across a long queue – my first clue to the Burl- themselves to this clientele, where a high stand-
increasingly green, hilly vistas, I arrive at the ington Bagel Bakery, whose sesame seed and ard of fare comes garnished with a dash of
state capital, Burlington. This isn’t the American cream cheese bagels become a fixture of the next hippiedom, and something almost equalling
city of your imagination, all skyscrapers, steam- few mornings. In an attempt to blow away the Canadian-level friendliness (we are,
ing manholes and traffic chaos. Instead, espe- cobwebs, I join Captain Tom Peterson for a after all, an hour from the border).
cially in the heat of a lazy summer day, it has the scenic lake cruise (cruiselakechamplain.com), No visit to Vermont would be
air of somewhere like Stratford-upon-Avon or as we take in flora, fauna, flotsam and jetsam of complete without two things: an
York. Perched on the edge of Lake Champlain, the idyllic lake from the deck of his 36-foot cabin outdoor sport and some very specific
it’s a township built for quality of life, with the cruiser. I finish my day in the Pizzeria Verita ice cream. After a 30-mile drive up
outdoors, gastronomy, and culture all given a Italian restaurant, (pizzeriaverita.com) some winding mountain roads – and
serious crack of the whip. followed by a nightcap at The Wallflower Collec- back down the other side – I jump
Most importantly though, this is a state tive – a buzzy NYC-esque hipster bar with into a kayak. Four miles, a scenic river
known for its breweries. I happen prices to match. paddle, and 18 mosquito bites later,
to be in town on the weekend On to Montpelier. Still it’s time to replenish those calories at
of the Vermont Brewers recovering from flash what is probably the closest real life
Festival. I savour an floods, this is anytown can get you to Willy Wonka’s factory
appropriately sensible America with a twist. It (benjerry.com). Waterbury is where
number of samples as appears to be inhab- Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield
a spectacular sunset ited by those who decided to give the ice cream business
embraces the lake- have sought the a whirl, and a tour of their factory
side location. alternative life – tells their story. The company’s USP encapsu-
A wander down ar tists and free lates the Vermont outlook: community-minded,
the historic Church thinkers. The idealistic but with a sense of fun and anti-estab-
CULT CLASSIC lishment spirit.
Street Marketplace Beetlejuice Beetlejuice restaurants, cafes
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the following morn- stars Winona Ryder and an excellent I end my visit in East Corinth, the sky moody
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Ninth (ever since I bunked off
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in 1972). Like David Mitchell’s
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missing twin – I didn’t empathize
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Enigma Code just in time to miss pleasure! But I have one quibble, It has been helmed for the past 20 years by Stephen Sackur
only the vital first five minutes of which applies equally to so much – in my view, the finest political interviewer of his generation –
my favourite programme... TV drama. The rooms of people’s who says on his X [Twitter] feed that he regrets the end of its
Caroline Male houses in real life are well lit. The “independent, rigorous, deeply researched journalism”. He has
Bewdley, Worcestershire pervasive penumbra in TV led an excellent team including Zeinab Badawi, Sarah Montague,
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amusing with some well-played, (RT, 5 October) featured photos displaying her body doesn’t change the core
really oddball characters and it of David Beckham and Harry proudly and message that how you
must surely be ripe for a second Kane. I thought you might like to unashamedly in look is all-important;
series and even more. know that they both went to the episode two (14 rather it is a cynical
Wayne Stainthorpe same secondary school, in Nevin October). What a marketing ploy.
Porthcawl, Bridgend Drive, Chingford, now part of the performer. To see her If you also consider
London Borough of Waltham play a tragic figure in the obscene amount
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a sweatshirt from a vendor on the Chingford include Doug Insole, Sherwood, and then product consumes,
streets of Vancouver in who became the president comedy, shows just I’m so glad that in my
September 1998, and of the MCC. how versatile she is. childhood we had
there it is, in Ludwig, Steve Williams Susie Walker a dolls’ hospital!
26 years later, Welwyn Garden City, Exeter, Devon Linda Banks
looking as stylish SNAP! Hertfordshire Bournemouth, Dorset
A favourite
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Maxwell Martin… turned up ALMA IS Barbie’s Dirty Secrets (11 October FAREWELL, JOHNNIE
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Jane Spencer Mum. But hats off to it’s a doll! Little girls should not be latterly on Sounds of the 70s, that
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 VIEW FROM MY SOFA

SIMON
BIRD
The Inbetweeners’ star says
being subversive in middle
age is a pain in the back
What’s the view from your sofa?
I wish I knew. My wife and I tend
to watch TV in bed, hunched over my tiny
laptop, sharing a set of primitive, fraying
earphones, so we don’t wake the kids
[Bird has an eight- and six-year-old
with author Lisa Owens]. It’s a bleak
and tragic image.

Which perhaps answers the second

question: who controls the TV remote?
It depends on who wins the daily and
increasingly violent fight between my
son and daughter. My daughter has the
advantage in terms of height and reach,
but my son’s not afraid to play dirty, so it’s
impossible to call. We try and find stuff
the whole family would like – I’m talking
Bluey, Gladiators, Race across the World,
all the classics.

What have you enjoyed watching

recently on the laptop? Did that inspire you to start acting? It sounds edgy to set it inside a bizarre
At the risk of sounding full centrist dad I don’t think so. I never had ambitions
DOWN TIME Christian sect, but the comic challenges
and quasi-nostalgic, emotionally to be an actor. I joined Footlights at the Lewis family face are universal. Me
manipulative sports documentaries like university for a laugh. We took a show to and Kate O’Flynn are parents struggling
The Last Dance and 99. My wife and I are the Edinburgh Fringe, and Iain Morris, to adapt to a rapidly changing world and
also in pretty deep with Couples Therapy who created The Inbetweeners, saw it our kids are dealing with overbearing
on iPlayer. It’s a documentary following and started paying me and Joe Thomas RADIO parents. On one level it’s a Manchester
couples through relationship counselling. £25 a week to write jokes for his XFM We gave the kids family in a puritanical cult, on another
We identify with opposing members of radio show. When we finished university, internet radios for level it’s very relatable.
each couple, and the rush of satisfaction we set up shop in his office and refused their birthdays. My
when the therapist sides with my to leave. Two years later, we bullied him six-year-old son You’ve played a teenager in two sitcoms.
member of the couple gives me a into letting us be in The Inbetweeners. has set his alarm How does it feel to finally play your age?
spring in my step for days to Bloomberg and I did suddenly grow up, I guess, playing
Did you ever worry about being listens to stocks a father. I’ve just turned 40 and almost
Any TV turn-offs? pigeonholed after The Inbetweeners? and shares. My immediately pulled a muscle in my back.
I find it hard to watch comedy now, partly Robert Popper was a script editor on the taste is 6 Music. When I tell anyone over 40 I hurt my back
because it feels like a busman’s holiday, series, then put me in for Friday Night they just say, “Welcome to the world”.
but primarily because I’m at heart an Dinner. It was pure nepotism, and meant
intensely competitive and jealous I moved on quite quickly. But people still The Christian press love the show.
person, and if it’s good I want to be in it. shout Inbetweeners lines at me in the Has anyone been offended?
street. If I’m walking my kids, they do MUSIC No one has complained. No one Jewish
What was your biggest TV influence? check themselves a bit before screaming I’ve just complained about Friday Night Dinner.
The Office. It felt like an unprecedented briefcase w****r at me. But that won’t discovered And I actually think this is the most
comedy that didn’t rely on punchlines stop to the day I die, and nor should it. Waxahatchee, traditional series I’ve done. It’s a
or farcical plots, just satirising the way who plays traditional family sitcom wrapped
people talk and behave in the real world. Everyone Else Burns is a departure swampy inside something subversive.
I found that electrifying as a teenager. for you — and for sitcoms. Puritanical Americana. STEPHEN ARMSTRONG
There was a time I could have recited Christian cults preparing for the Check out Right
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