West Country Life Western Daily Press 28 September 2013

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Making the everyday remarkable PETE THE STREET

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PEOPLE

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Lizzie Lane reckons she’s been here before; while Martin Hesp talks burkas

Meet the Pete the Street – the artist who sees potential art on the streets where he lives

BARRINGTON COURT Photographer Fran Stothard was intrigued by art on display in south Somerset

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PEOPLE

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FOOD

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ABSOLUTE CORKERS

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HOMES & SHOPPING

Paul Childs is determined to save an historic vessel, with help from a football crowd

Chris Rundle on offal; Mark Taylor eat outs in Bristol; plus cooking with leftovers

Ned Halley says you can get a decent bottle of wine for £5 – honestly, he’s not kidding

Create a more relaxed home; plus, what we’ll all be buying after fashion week

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BOOKS

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TRAVEL

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WALKS

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WEST COUNTRY TENS

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GARDENING

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ANTIQUES

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TELEVISION

Rick Stein became a household name as a chef, but he wanted to be a journalist

Emma Wilson climbs aboard the ship that was christened by the Duchess of Cambridge

Sue Gearing takes to the Somerset Levels; while Martin Hesp in on Dartmoor

In the first in a regular series, Richard Bache finds some unusually named pubs Alan Down has his ten top tips on planting bulbs; plus, a Mid West garden on show

From £400 for a letter opener to £30,000 for an E-Type Jagular. What could you afford?

Corrie actress Catherine Tyldesley has a chat; while AdamPostans gets critical

TV guide Puzzles & Poem Horoscope Where in the West Cover by Steve Roberts

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The gladioli are highlighted by strong early evening autumn sunshine at Hestercombe Gardens, near Taunton

PICTURE: FRAN STOTHARD

Rural rambles

Roger Evans Next Friday I take 10 calves to market.

This is good because at one time I thought the best-case scenario for selling calves would be four months. But they will TB-restricted calves going into a TB-restricted market.

While I will be glad to see them go, because it will free up precious space, I don’t expect to get much money for them. The buyers that are there know they will be cheap and will gather like vultures. The only plus among all the negatives will be that I haven’t had to slaughter them.

Usually these calves are an important part of our income; all I will be doing now will be getting rid of them.

We’ve got this big field. It’s our biggest field, it’s 45 acres. Well it’s big to me anyway because it’s only five acres less than the whole farm I started with. So it’s big and it’s sort of squarish and it slopes two ways and no matter where you stand, you cannot see the hedge on the opposite side.

There’s a frequently used public footpath crosses through the middle of it and if the ground is bare and walkers cannot see the tracks of previous walkers, they often lose their sense of direction and get lost in the middle, and up at the wrong end, and have to walk the boundary until they find their next style. In a way it has several horizons, which is important information as this story unfolds.

This year we have 11 acres of kale growing on it, (it was supposed to be 10, but there you go), and the rest is in stubble turnips. The kale is about as high as where I used to have a waist and the turnips are just over the tops of your wellies.

It’s the time of year when we have a lot of dry cows, cows not milking before they have their next calf. It’s an important time, they build up their bodily reserves, get their feet off the concrete, it’s a sort of bovine chill-out time.

So we take cows home to calve and we dry cows off, so there’s a constant ebb and flow of cows in and out of this field, but there’s mostly 35 to 40 cows there. They eat the turnips behind an electric fence, they can have as much they will eat but we need to have some control lest they waste them and we don’t want them to eat the kale yet, because that’s for the winter.

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obvious reasons. I’m trying to set the scene here, it ends up with two electric fences about 100 yards apart with cows and walkers down the middle between the two.

Now cows will confound you and sometimes calve in the turnip field. That’s no big deal, you usually just push the calf gently in to the trailer and the mum will follow in behind. But calves like to confound you as well. If born outside they will sometimes secrete themselves in some long grass or in a clump of nettles and be desperately difficult to find. It’s a bit like photos you see of baby deer curled up in grass; it must be some primeval instinct aimed at keeping them safe from wolves and the like. I’m sure I’ve told you this story before, but years ago a calf went missing out of a pen, so we assumed it had got out and hidden itself in this way, in the nettles around the sheds or in the bottom of a hedgerow.

We looked for it, on and off for four days.

With the passing of each day our searches became more urgent until we thought the calf would be looking for us because it would be hungry. On the fourth day a Land Rover trundles up to the yard driven by a friend of mine who keeps beef suckler cows. He says he had a cow that had had a dead calf, he was desperate to foster one on to her, came on our yard, there was no one about, so he helped himself to one, how much did he owe us?

Didn’t mind him taking the calf, but a phone call would have helped.

Anyway, this cow calves in the turnips and we note that cow and calf are both fine so we go to fetch them home next morning and the cow is still fine but there’s no sign of the calf. If you remember, the calf has 45 acres to hide itself in. It’s dilemma time: the cow needs milking, so we take her home and go about four times a day to catch the calf. Sometimes we see it, chase it, but it disappears over the horizon, but by the time we get over the horizon, it’s flopped down and we can’t find it. Sometimes we go and there’s no sign of it.

In the meantime the calf is doing fine – some of the cows in the field will be starting to get ready to calve, there will be some milk in their udders, they will be getting hormonal, they don’t mind suckling a passing calf.

As any dairy farmer will tell you, this is not ideal, but we are doing our best. So the calf is flourishing, getting bigger and faster by the day and it is five days before we catch it, and that involves an intrepid leap out of a moving truck. It will go to market at the end of next week – let someone else chase it.

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Columnists

Lizzie Lane Have you ever visited a place and felt you had been there before?

Martin Hesp Michael Eavis said to me recently: ‘Are you a real journalist?’

It’s happened to me a few times, though one particular place I thought familiar might surprise you.

Before you jump to conclusions, no, I do not claim to have been Cleopatra in a former life.

Neither do I get shivers down the spine when doing the tourist thing around Pisa, St Paul’s or Hampton Court Palace. I drink in their atmosphere, appreciate their architecture and history and I even imagine myself wearing a wide skirt and a low cut, tight-fitting bodice.

Note the word “imagine”. I can tell the difference between imagine and déjà vu. Imagining me in historical circumstances is not the same thing as the feeling of familiarity.

It was a vegetable patch that did it for me.

Yes, you read it right. A vegetable patch, more particularly an overgrown vegetable patch, verdant with dark green leaves and a very prominent row of bean sticks complete with scarlet runner beans.

To the rear of those gardens divided by a narrow path and a low wooden fence were a row of cottages.

I do realise that there are myriad scenes like this throughout the British Isles, not just the West Country. I mean, every cottage dweller used to grow onions, carrots, cabbages and green beans.

The particular row that drew me up short was located in a village between Bath and Bristol. I don’t know what it was about that row of runner beans, but they and the gardens were terribly familiar.

OK, I must have seen rows of runner beans and cabbages throughout my life, but none that pulled me up like that. The memory seemed to go way back to when women wore bonnets and long skirts and men wore ‘York’s fastened just below the knees so the hems of their trousers were held up out of muddy fields.

Could it really be that in a past life I’d lived in one of those cottages? That I’d planted and reaped the rewards of a row of beans? More to the point, do I believe in reincarnation?

I don’t know. I’m not even sure I fit the mould on that particular question. Everyone I’ve ever heard or seen interviewed on the subject professes to have been somebody famous like King Arthur, Napoleon or Elizabeth I. If my familiar scene is anything to go by, I was a humble old gardener living in a two up two down, possibly with a cat for company and a passion for runner beans.

It was that time of the month for us ladies who lunch so I asked Dee for her thoughts on the subject of reincarnation. Dee is of a

He looked me up and down as he came out with his question. I burst out laughing, but could equally have looked the Glastonbury Festival founder up and down and asked if he was a real farmer.

The point being that the man with the bald head, long beard, smart suit jacket, short shorts and training boots did not look like everyone’s idea of a typical West Country agrarian.

When I told him that lots of people say I’m too scruffy to be a “real” journalist, Michael started laughing too. And from that moment we got along very well – so much so that he invited me to visit Worthy Farm so that I can write a big feature based on his extraordinary life and times. I hope to be doing it soon and

certain age and therefore the worldliest wise of our lunchtime bunch. She has forthright views on most subjects and is very open minded.

She wasn’t sure but said that if she could have been somebody else, she quite fancied being Jane Austen. She liked the thought of being a spinster writer of romance (she must have had a vivid imagination), and liked the dresses. She also mentioned that an added bonus would be seeing men with horse-riding thighs wearing tight britches.

Catherine declared that she did believe in reincarnation and would obviously have been somebody famous and glamorous in a past life such as Catherine the Great, Empress of all the Russia’s.

Dee suggested it might have something to do with Catherine’s love life, (the empress, not my friend with the top of the range BMW and four by four in the garage). “It’s a well known fact that Catherine the Great never went to bed without a man beside her; preferably a hussar with well-developed thighs.”

What is it with Dee and thighs?

Mary declared herself to have an open mind on the subject because nothing could be proved either way.

“Mind you,” she added. “I wasn’t lucky in the marriage stakes living with one man and all those sheep. I wonder whether that goes back to one of my ancestors. If so, who?”

I suggested Bo Peep.

A Christmas Wish, a new title from Lizzie Lane, comes out on October 24

COLUMNISTS ONLINE You can enjoy the best of Lizzie Lane and Martin Hesp’s Saturday essays – and our other writers – on the Western Daily Press website westerndailypress.co.uk/wcl

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believe the results will make a fascinating read.

Anyway, keeping up appearances is a subject this column seems to visit often – not because I am in any way narcissistic, but because the whole thing confuses me more the older I get, rather than less. What, for example, is a “real” journalist supposed to look like? How, indeed, should farmers dress? And who cares?

Well, as we see in the news, a great many people do. Recently we’ve been treated to acres of column inches on the subject of the burka – an obsession about personal appearance There is so much about this particular subject that I do not understand, I feel I may as well be a Martian visiting from the next door planet. The thought that anyone should believe it right for half the population to cover every inch of their bodies is a concept so alien to me, that I find it frightening.

It’s difficult for any mere mortal to know what God thinks, but I don’t reckon he’s sitting up there decreeing: “I gave those little humans arms, legs and other bits that are so repellent, or perhaps so appealing, they must be covered up.”

However, I think we can assume God is fairly OK with the idea of evolution, seeing he created it – and it does seem that one day we’ll have invented so many machines and things to do stuff for us we won’t need bodies at all.

When the futuristic time arrives that sees humans reduced to nothing more than talking heads living forever inside glass jars full of allsustaining liquid, we will be able to forget about these ridiculous bits of cloth with which we adorn our tubular frames.

In the meantime, one of the things I don’t understand about the burka row is the apparent disappearance of an edict many of us grew up with, which starts with the words: “When in Rome...”

When I go to a country where any trace of nudity (I am talking semi-bareness, as in Mr Eavis’s naked legs) is frowned upon, I cover up. When we see our female foreign news correspondents reporting from certain countries, they appear wearing head scarves.

So if the “when in Rome” rule is correct flowing one way, why isn’t it equally righteous flowing the other? I’m obviously a bit of a country bumpkin in such matters, but I don’t understand why we can’t say: “No, we don’t do that in our country. Dressing like that is unacceptable here.” Of course, I do understand the precepts of what is called a multinational society – and I welcome the idea that people can live here and say: “This is my ethnic culture – this is what my people do.” As long as it fits within the overall bounds and parameters of the greater community.

That Martian visiting from the next planet would be confused. I can imagine him saying: “You mean Nation A is called a multinational society so people can go there and demand to carry on whatever rules and cultures they like – while Nation B is a closed society where visitors and everyone else must behave in a certain tightly prescribed way? How does that work? When the people of B go to A they can take their beliefs with them – but when A goes to B they can’t?”

It’s all daft. And what I believe is that the human obsession over personal appearance is the daftest of the lot. It’s what makes us much closer to cavemen than to those futuristic body-less beings living in jars.

Until I find my jar I ought to try and find out what a real journalist is meant to look like.

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People Tina Rowe

The streets of Bath are busy with ambulances, street cleaners, police, traffic wardens – and an artist.

Peter Brown admits that he can’t curb his passion for painting. Pavement life and the every-day street scene are his addiction. He is a man who knows every nook and cranny of the city he has painted for more than 20 years.

Pete the Street, as he is known, moves among the street furniture, the phone boxes, even watching as the traffic lights change their colour, red, amber and green; all have potential to appear on the canvas that captures the city’s heartbeat.

He has an international reputation, but carries it lightly, admitting that as a teenage art student his ambition was to get an HGV licence, and take to the road in a very different manner. He and his easel and silvery tin of oil paints and brushes make a compact workforce, easily merging into the street scene while he is on the move, whether in Bath, Edinburgh, India or, more recently, Barcelona.

And this man of the street was naturally drawn to depict the streets of London after the riots. He arrived the day after a weekend of disturbances, when the sound of police horses could still be heard on neighbouring roads.

“I have to say I was inspired by what I saw,” he says. “You got a real taste of what the community spirit there is like. Although of course it had been a pretty horrible situation you could see that the community really was quite strong and wanted to rebuild it and it was great to be there.”

He also loves Victorian seaside towns. “And discovering communities with little shops. I am painting Widcombe [part of Bath] at the moment, where there is a little parade of shops with a lovely atmosphere. I go round and I can’t help record. I don’t think, ‘is someone going to buy this?’ Last time it snowed I went a bit mental, because I wanted to get all of it, and you can’t, you only have a limited amount of time.”

He enjoys the city when it is veiled by mist and invigorated by rain, capturing railings, worn steps, canal banks and the thoroughfares that draw in the world.

Water reflects the light, bringing drab surfaces to life, but Peter also loves the dark. “I am a miserable bugger, very English,” he smiles.

He starts by homing in on detail, and says: “I can paint for about an hour in the rain, and get as much as I can of the idea.” A large oil sketch will take two to three hours to complete.

Peter and his wife, Lisa, have five children, and children’s laughter fills their house. Life at home must be as engaging as the streets outside, his happy family framing his success.

In his studio the light falls on his prolific output. Who knows where the Bath stone walls will bring warmth in the future? His work is in collections including the National Library of Wales and the RAC Club, as well as Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery and Holburne Museum.

On November 20 an exhibition of 150 of his oil sketches opens in London, his ninth solo show to be held at Messum’s Cork Street gallery. Next year the Victoria Art Gallery will hold a major exhibition of his work.

“The exhibition in November will be my biggest one yet,” he says. “It has been two years in the making and includes a lot of the south coast and London.”

Peter admits that he is not always left to carry out his contemplative work in peace, saying wryly: “Sometimes in Trafalgar Square a painter can feel less welcome than the pigeons”. The variety of activities that take place, including the square’s popularity as a film backdrop, can lead to artists being asked to move to the sidelines.

In the 1990s while painting in Queen’s Square, Bath, one business contacted police to have Peter removed from the pavement outside its office, without making any initial attempt to let him know it was not happy to have an artist working nearby.

In India it was very different. People crowded round, full of curiosity. “A very different experience, I really enjoyed,” he says. “The streets are very narrow, yet you can set up anywhere and so much is going on. A moped went by carrying six people.”

Peter came back from India with more than 40 completed paintings, the bright light of Udairpur radiating from the white walls, the heat and bustle palpable.

In his book, My Indian Travels, published

by Messum Fine Art, he recalls how he was once painting outside a small workshop. “The wife of the man was delighted to have me right on the doorstep. There were absolutely no territorial concerns here. It made me think back to Queen’s Square. Here the subjects of my painting came and went, the grandfather and grandson chatting on the doorstep, the cow that pushed me out of its way, much to the amusement of two giggling girls in the window above. The street seller with the blue coat.”

Peter grew up in Oare, near Newbury, and first came to Bath in 1986 to study for a Diploma in Art Foundation Studies at Bath College of Higher Education, where David Atkinson was head of the foundation course, and David Cobb his painting tutor.

Recently, while painting in London’s Highbury Fields, he heard a voice call his name and turned to see Atkinson. “I hadn’t seen him since 1986!” he says. “I put him in the painting.”

Although Peter enjoyed painting as a teenager he says: “I was the worst in the class at A level, and there were only five of us. I got on the foundation course, but my ambition was to get an HGV licence and take to the road. I didn’t think I was going to make any money from painting.”

Nonetheless he won a commendation in painting as well as his diploma at Bath, and went on to take a BA (Hons) in fine art at Manchester Polytechnic. He returned to the city in 1995, and although he admits he first found the experience of painting in public unnerving he soon began to enjoy the human contact, and if passers-by want to engage him in conversation that is fine.

“Talking with people isn’t a problem because sometimes you need a pause, sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees.”

Today, whatever the weather, he is likely to be back on the street, in Bath or elsewhere.

“To get better I need to work, and that’s what we all want to do. I just plod on,” he says.

For more information about Peter’s art, including books and catalogues of his work visit www.peterbrownneac.com

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Picture essay Fran Stothard

Make the Most, art exhibition, Barrington Court, Somerset Somerset Art Weeks Festival runs until October 6, offering a rich and varied compendium of creative expression in studios and venues around the county.

This biennial arts festival grows in appeal every year, it seems, and this year sees over 400 artists showing their work in more than 100 unique venues across Somerset. You’ll find exhibitions, installations and events, in a vast range of crafts, skills and media, from Priddy and Buckland Dinham all the way down to Chard, Dulverton and Porlock.

One of the highlights this year attracted Western Daily Press photographer Fran Stothard to Barrington Court, near Ilminster in South Somerset. It is the Make the Most event, for which the National Trust property has been dramatically transformed by five internationally renowned artists and makers, using locally sourced supplies of paper, willow, leather, stone and wood.

Laura Ellen Bacon’s vast willow installation, Fran’s main picture above, fills the house’s Old Kitchen while Maeve Clancy’s expansive paperwork in the Great Hall tells the detailed history of the house and garden.

Miss Bacon said: “The work is made of relatively frail layers of willow that hang in the space, each layer made of willow that is curled and knotted, formed and tied.

“These small knots and curls of willow accumulate and accumulate until the space is entirely full, filled with a fog of layers that can be walked within and viewed in detail.

“The lines of the willow have an energy like a drawing. Perhaps if the daylight could cast light on marks in the atmosphere left over time, this is how the marks would look.” www.somersetartworks.org.uk/artweeks13

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minutes to know Aggie MacKenzie Aggie MacKenzie, 57, used to work for MI6 before becoming a household name with the series How Clean Is Your House? in 2002. She talks about the second series of ITV’s Storage Hoarders, her most memorable case, and why hanging on to personal items can cost a fortune Is the latest run of Storage Hoarders all set at storage centres?

No, the trouble with storage centres is visually they all end up looking the same, so we’ve extended it to people who’ve got excess stuff in barns and garages and sheds, and we come flying in and help them out.

What sort of items have been stored?

For some people it’s stuff built up from past lives, parents or after a divorce. It’s got such a weight to it emotionally, they don’t know how they’re going to get rid of it – but why would you want to hang on to past life stuff that’s weighing you down? People say it’s got sentimental value attached to it, but actually, if it’s been locked up for the past 10 years, you can’t be that attached to it. It’s all in people’s heads.

It must cost a lot to keep this stuff tucked away Yes, that’s the other thing. Quite a few people have said, “We’ve tried to sort this out, but every time we come to the storage unit, we open the door and say, “Oh my God. I can’t face this”. We shut the door again and think we’ll just carry on paying the money for the unit,” – which is mad, really.

What’s the most memorable case you dealt with?

It was one of our contributors, Frank, who’s in his 90s now. He worked for the UK government; he lived in Hong Kong, and 27 years ago the whole family came back to the UK; his children were teenagers and they were going to go to school here. Because they had a fully furnished house in the UK, they didn’t need any of this stuff from Hong Kong, so they just had it all packed up and put it into storage.

Anyway, 27 years later, and £45,000 later, it was time for him to think, “I can’t leave my children with all this stuff ”. So they unpacked everything and the antiques expert said, “In total, this stuff is only worth about £500...”

Has the popularity of shows like Bargain Hunt and online auction sites made people hoard more over the years?

Yes, definitely. There’s feelings of “Might be worth something one day” and “What will happen if I get rid of it?” Then people get completely stuck and stuff controls their lives, instead of them controlling the stuff.

Did you get the urge to help with any spring cleaning while filming the series?

Funnily enough, the other day we were at this guy’s house and there was stuff everywhere; he was addicted to car boot sales. So he pulled out this beautiful, German-made kettle, but it was completely covered in gunk. I said, “You could get money for this. It wouldn’t take much to clean it. Leave it with me.” I saw him yesterday and presented him with the kettle, and he said, “Oh my God. It looks amazing.”

It must be a cathartic and lucrative experience for some Without exception everyone says that doing the cleansing has been amazing, and that they have made money from selling their stuff too.

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People Tina Rowe

He has single-handedly saved historic and priceless naval war heroes, but today Paul Childs will launch a public appeal to help restore one of the most courageous of them all.

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The Bridgwater-based engineer has acquired Motor Torpedo Boat 219, the only vessel left in the world to have taken part in the Battle of the Atlantic.

In February 1942 she was part of the Channel Dash of Royal Navy ships that attacked the German battle cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisneau and Prinz Eugen as they sneaked through the Channel to evade bombing in Brest. Just three months later 219 and other Coastal Forces 6th Flotilla vessels battled in the Dover Straits, sinking the German destroyer Seeadlerand the Kreigsmarineswerft Iltis.

During both battles 219 was under the command of Temporary Lieutenant Mark ArnoldForster RNVR, who received a DSC for his gallantry, and went on to become a journalist, writing the book The World At War, which accompanied the acclaimed 1970s BBC series of the same name.

After the war many Coastal Forces craft were used for target towing, then scrapped and abandoned. Few survive. Number 219, built by Vospers of Portchester, was converted into a houseboat and until recently was in use in Chelsea, unrecognisable as the gallant little warrior of old.

Enter Paul, restorer and enthusiast extraordinaire. His pedigree is impeccable.

After leaving school at the age of 16, with no qualifications, he got his first job in a car body shop, went to work for BAE Systems and discovered a talent for restoration.

By the age of 28 he had left to set up his own business, then learned to fly and bought and

restored a Bucker Jungmann biplane. Coastal Forces craft are his passion. He and his wife, Rhian, bought and restored the Vospers-built Fast Patrol Boat P 1041 Gay Archer, acquiring the vessel for just £1 but then selling their house and possessions to fund her restoration back to seaworthiness and stock configuration. All the work has been carried out at Watchet Harbour Marina over the last eight years and Gay Archer is berthed there as an impressive floating museum to Coastal Forces.

When Motor Torpedo Boat 219 arrives in Watchet she will join Gay Archer and three other historic vessels all on public display either as museums or under restoration.

Motor Anti-Submarine Boat 27, being restored and funded by Paul and Rhian’s sons, Simon and Owen, was a lead pilot for the American landing craft for the Omaha Beach landings on D Day. It seems almost incredible that she survived that day, let alone the next 69 years. Earlier in the war she had been used to defend the English Channel against German U-boats and operated as an air sea rescue launch.

“If the Americans knew about her they would pay millions for her,” says Paul.

Number 27, built by the British Powerboat Company at Hythe in 1941, was stripped to a bare hull in the 1980s, and also used as a houseboat. She too will have a complete wartime restoration, requiring new decks, original design wheelhouse, stern gear, engines, artillery and a total refit below decks.

“She is currently coated outside in fibre-

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glass, which will need completely stripping to allow the wood to breathe,” says Paul. He and his family camped near the vessel when she was still a houseboat, hunting for parts that had long disappeared into the mud. Their treasure hunt produced pieces of original bronze pipe work which will eventually be placed back in their rightful place.

The two other vessels at Watchet are Derby class Army co-operations boats Hyperion and Humorist. Hyperion notably took King George VI over to Gold and Sword Beach on D Day plus 10, and both ships were involved in the transportation of German officers from Alderney to Guernsey following the surrender of the Channel Islands.

The boats attract admiration from many visitors to Watchet, including veterans of the coastal service. Paul was particularly touched when one of his old teachers from Gordano School, who had served on Gay Archer’s sister ship, Gay Dancer, wrote to congratulate him on his efforts.

Today, at Bristol City Football Club’s home game against Colchester United, Paul will make a public appeal for donations to help restore 219. Air Cadets will be at the ground to emphasise the theme of the passing of precious relics from one generation of servicemen and women to the next.

Paul says: “We would like to add 219 to our flotilla in the West Country so the public can come on board, see her and find out about the history of Coastal Forces and their exploits; but we haven’t got the funds to do it on our own. We have already spent around £250,000 to

get this far in our efforts to build the core collection.

“219’s owner, Ruth Ivo, has kindly donated the boat to our museum. The National Historic Ships Society have also agreed to help, but most heritage bodies either don’t have an emergency fund we can access in time or will only support ships already on the Historic Fleet. As MTB219 is currently a houseboat she’s not presently eligible for Fleet status.

“She is the only surviving vessel of her type and still bears the scars of war damage, including bullet holes in the forward saloon. Her hull is reasonably sound and we want to reconstruct her bridge back to how it was during service. About 95 per cent of the original interior remains authentic, so she’s on the National Historic Ships Register, but not yet part of the Historic Fleet.

“The first stage, including getting her down to Bridgwater, will have cost around £10,000; and we have organised that; stage two will cost around £6,000, and the final restoration stage around £20,000. I am hoping to raise that £20,000, and doing so will help show a good track record of public support for a future Lottery application. I will be explaining to a football crowd of 21,000 that this is about their grandfathers and grandmothers, fathers and mothers, their heritage. If everyone each gave £1, it would be fantastic.

“The boat is now at Tilbury. In around three weeks we plan to bring her first to Bridgwater for work on her hull, and then next year to Watchet for her final fit-out. Not only will she be a living memorial and tribute to the unsung

heroes of Coastal Forces, but she will make an excellent complement to the restored Vospers type 1 MTB102 in Lowestoft and the type 3 flush deck Gay Archer; all built of doublediagonal Honduras Mahogany. It will perfectly illustrate the progression of Vosper design and build from the First World War through the Second World War to the disbanding of Coastal Forces in 1957.

“A wooden lifting cradle is being constructed around the boat within the barge on which she lies, and the current inadequate metal cradle will then be removed. Once secure she will be craned out of the barge onto a lorry.

The journey through London to the M4 will take place at night so that roads can be closed as she is nearly 18ft wide.”

The boat will be given a temporary land “berth” in the private car park at Durleigh Design in Bridgwater, where initial restoration will take place. Next year she should make the journey to Combwich, be put into the River Parrett and towed to Watchet for the final stages of restoration by more volunteer labour.

And as floating museums the vessels eventually will be able to travel to meet their public, with Bristol and Cardiff among future ports of call.

For more information visit www.p1041.org. To contact Paul write to Watchet Warships CIC, 39 Bayford Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 4QW or email gay.archer41@gmail.com telephone 07980 029938 or twitter: @WatchetWarships

Paul Childs on the deck of his great passion, the last petrol powered torpedo boat, HMS Gay Archer, which is moored at Watchet harbour. Inset top: Gay Archer in her prime. Right: another of Paul’s sea war veterans

West Country voices heard this week Steve Ashley The folk singer, who played his home town of Cheltenham on Thursday, talks about inspiration, seeing Buddy Holly – and living the rock’n’roll dream on tour in America in the Seventies Thursday’s gig was my first in Cheltenham since 2009 Before that it was my 60th birthday celebration at the Bacon Theatre with the guys from Fairport Convention and Phil Beer from Show of Hands. I’ve got so many new songs to sing, I’ve tried one or two and I’ve been encouraged.

I take on topics that not everybody would agree on political matters for instance. A lot of things I’m saying people wouldn’t hear on the nine o’clock news. What happened in Iraq was so dreadful for this country and also for Iraq and one of my new songs deals with that.

I touch on the quirky changes in the weather too. English people always talk about the weather. Some say it’s because we are an island race.

My albums for the Peace Movement in the 1980s were an important turning point for me. Politics was always part of the mix, but in this case the songs reflected my active involvement in the campaign.

I’m not solely a political songwriter.

I write about the world around me, what I see, what I know and the little things. There are a lot of funny songs too. I made one album called the Family Album which was about the experiences of different members of the family.

One song is about a trip to the seaside with the family and talks about how everyone is squished into the car and someone has sat on the sandwiches.

When I was young I saw Buddy Holly at Finsbury Park. I was very lucky as I was one of the few people did. That was really inspiring but I didn’t really think too much of it.

I trained as a graphic designer at college in London and spent three years at The Observer, a bit of time at the TV Times and then I went into showbusiness.

Before I moved to Cheltenham in 1975, I went to the States in the Seventies and did quite a long tour. I look back and it’s hard to believe I did it. I was supporting singersongwriters [the likes of Gene Clark, Chris Hillman, Leon Redbone and Tracy Nelson] and I did New York, Washington, Texas, Dallas.

My first record did well here and my record company did a deal with Motown. It was weird coming home again after being in limos and that kind of thing. It was very rock’n’roll. They would pick us up at the airport in stretched limos, take us to posh hotels and suddenly I saw this life on another level.

I was meant to go back and do another one but it collapsed. The deal with Motown collapsed for everyone connected with the label so I was back here playing in a pub I pick up inspiration wherever I go. In a way it never stops. While we’re having this conversation, the things and scenes around us are very inspiring.

I’m extremely grateful to everyone who’s helped with my biography. Especially to Dave Thompson for putting it together. It draws to a conclusion two months of questions and answers through emails and phone calls across the Atlantic, and excavations into some very dark and dusty memory banks.

I still need the freedom to explore other musical forms. I often include elements of jazz, rock or blues, or whatever suits the song.

The lyrical content is crucial and these days most of the songs are political to a greater or lesser degree. I write about what I feel and what I see in the everyday lives of people living in Britain in these weird and crazy times.

Fire and Wine – an Armchair Guide to Steve Ashley, by Dave Thompson, who has worked with David Bowie and U2, is available now.

Jonathan Whiley and FolkRadio.co.uk

PICTURES: STEVE ROBERTS

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Food Chris Rundle

‘So did you eat much offal while you were young?’ my daughter asked as she ate her steak and chips. Her question was directed at my sister and I. We both provided the same reply: of course.

Not only did we eat a lot of it – as everyone else did at that time – but we actually looked forward to it.

Our mother did a mean liver and onions and then there were the kidneys: another, if occasional treat – though as I mentioned that I noticed a slight hesitation in the operation to transfer the next piece of steak from plate to mouth. And there was stuffed lamb’s heart.

My daughter’s nose wrinkled. “But did it look like heart?” she inquired.

Well, yes, we said. Heart does tend to look like heart, even after you’ve cooked it.

The problem with my daughter is that, as a nurse, organs to her are simply viewed as functioning parts of the body, rather than food.

So when I mentioned that we frequently ate sheep’s brains with some fried bacon for breakfast it was almost too much.

But the tipping point came when we turned to the subject of tripe which my mother, God bless her, enjoyed as a solitary treat because no one else could face it. My daughter put down her knife and fork. Even for someone with an eclectic diet such as hers the thought of all this was getting too much.

As, indeed, the tripe had been for me.

Cooked classically in milk with onions it may well have been nutritious and tasty. But to paraphrase Mark Twain, people who liked that kind of food would probably find that was the kind of food they liked.

It wasn’t until many years later that I discovered there were far better ways of cooking the stuff and I became a convert. What changed me was my very first bowl of tripes à la mode de Caen, that great Normandy classic.

I hadn’t intended eating it when we turned up at the restaurant, but it was served to a chap at the next table and the aromatic steam coming off the dish after ten hours slow cooking in cider was all too much. My resistance melted and I was soon contemplating my own serving, surround by steamed baby potatoes and topped with a somewhat superfluous sprinkling of parsley.

The invention of the dish is credited to Brother Benoit, who was the cook at the Abbaye aux Hommes in Caen in about the 10th century. One of his converts – in the culinary sense – was William the Conqueror, who came from Falaise, just south of Caen.

He was in the habit of accompanying his tripe with a glass of apple juice, though manifestly failed to convince his English subjects of the merits of Norman cuisine – indeed his attempts to introduce it may well have sparked the British dislike of “foreign” food which lasted until we all started going on package holidays and found pizza, paella and moussaka not half as bad as we had imagined.

Since I became a fan it has to be tripe for lunch as soon as I arrive in Normandy, where one or two great interpretations of the dish stick in my memory. One was served up for

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Sunday lunch at Port-en-Bessin, near Bayeux, and came with a bowl of fantastically good frites and the other was at the much-missed Café du Canada in Hermanville-sur-mer, near Ouistreham.

I was there on a shopping trip with a friend and tripes à la mode de Caen was the plat du jour. My friend said he had never eaten it but he would have a crack – and thoroughly enjoyed it. The bonus came when we turned out to be the last two customers for lunch and the chef came out and inquired whether we’d like another serving each to help him finish it up. We didn’t need asking twice.

The dish is normally prepared in a tripière, a shallow earthenware dish which has the lid sealed on with a flour and water paste during cooking, though since it’s unlikely you will have one lying around any heavy casserole will do – though the seal should still be applied.

If you still feel you can’t go as far as the tripe I offer two more classic offal recipes – both of which should be served on chunky slices of toast – as consolation prizes.

Tripes a la mode de Caen Ingredients for four Kilo of tripe, one calf ’s foot – get the butcher to chop it lengthways into four for you – 200g unsmoked bacon lardons, 200g onions and 400g carrots, sliced, one large bouquet garni of thyme, parsley and bay leaf, one clove, small glass of Cognac, 700ml strong cider, salt and pepper.

Method

Preheat the oven to 210C gas mark 6. Rinse the tripe carefully and cut into squares with scissors. Peel and chop onions. Place the onions in the bottom of the casserole then top with a layer of bacon. Season well. Continue with layers of tripe, calves foot and carrots, finishing with a layer of tripe. Add the Cognac, cider (and a little water if necessary to top up) and the clove and tuck the bouquet garni in the centre. Cover and seal and cook for at least six hours and preferably ten. Serve with steamed potatoes.

Calf’s liver with onions and creme fraiche Ingredients for four Four large slices of calf ’s liver, 200g Spanish onions, sliced very finely, 75g unsalted butter, two generous tablespoons crème fraiche, sea salt, freshly-ground black pepper.

Method

Lay the liver slices on kitchen paper for 15 minutes. Melt half the butter in a frying pan and gently cook the onions until they become translucent. Remove and reserve. Increase the heat slightly, add the remaining butter and heat until it sizzles. Season the liver generously and fry for no more than a minute each side. Remove to a warm dish. Return the onions to the pan, stir in any cooking juices, add the crème fraiche and buddle down for a minute, check seasoning then pour over the liver and serve on rounds of toast.

Devilled kidneys Ingredients for four Eight lamb kidneys, skinned, tablespoon English mustard powder, teaspoon each sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper, three ounces (75g) butter, two tablespoons port.

Method

Split the kidneys, using a sharp knife to cut in towards the core, but leave the two halves just attached. Use two cocktail sticks to keep each one perfectly flat. Make light cut in them then toss them in the mixed mustard, salt and pepper. Heat the butter in a large frying pan until sizzling, add the kidneys, cook for a minute on each side then turn the heat down and cook gently for another four minutes, turning occasionally. Remove the kidneys, drain off any excess fat. Return the kidneys to the pan, add the port and bubble down for a minute or two. Serve on thick slices of toast or fried bread with a little of the cooking liquid drizzled over.

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Eating out Mark Taylor

The new edition of The Good Food Guide features more Bristol entries than before.

A number of Bristol restaurants have also made their debut appearance in the prestigious guide this year.

Wilks in the Redland area has entered the 2014 guide with the highest score for a Bristol new entry – a considerable achievement for a restaurant barely open a year.

Not that its instant recognition from the guide’s inspectors comes as a huge surprise – after all, owner/chef James Wilkins arrived in Bristol with a stellar CV and a career that has seen him work in some of the best Michelinstar kitchens in England and France, including the world-famous three-Michelin-star restaurant, Michel Bras, in Laguiole.

With such an impressive CV, his arrival in Bristol to run a small neighbourhood restaurant is akin to a Chelsea striker suddenly playing in the Bristol & Avon Premier Division.

Wilkins and his partner, Christine Vayssade, took over what for years had been Stephen and Judy Markwick’s Culinaria restaurant and, although they have retained many of the regulars, they have quickly gained a following of their own.

With its grey and black interior, black bamboo table coverings and cruet sets from Clifton’s Village Pottery, it’s a contemporary, stylish space, with new banquette seating and arresting portraits by Gloucestershire artist Charlotte McLaughlin.

There is a good value early dinner menu served until 6.45pm with two courses for £16, or three for £19, but there were too many distractions on the a la carte menu this time.

I started with tian of Dartmouth crab (£9), a delicate dish displaying great technical skill.

The super-fresh crabmeat was inside a ball created with thin, precise slices of mango, the sweetness of which worked beautifully with the crab. It was accompanied by quinoa and a scattering of courgette and borage flowers.

Very few chefs put grouse on the menu due to the high price, but Wilkins has, admirably, kept the cost down and, at a bargainous £24, it was simply too tempting to resist. The young bird from Yorkshire was jointed and served on the rare side, as it should be, and the full-on gaminess was a perfect match for the tart blackcurrants, fruity crème de cassis sauce, bitter Russian kale and earthy girolle mushrooms. It was autumn on a plate.

To finish, a light, fluffy mousse flavoured with lemon gem flowers (£6) was accompanied by poached black figs and a refreshing yoghurt and cardamom sorbet, which provided a Middle Eastern edge.

With its highly accomplished cooking of seasonal ingredients, Wilks has already established itself as one of the city’s foremost dining experiences in its first year of opening.

BEARING FRUIT Duncan Small picks Lord Lambourne apples at Charlton Orchards, near Taunton. Charlton Orchards’ 40 acres of trees provide 33 varieties of apples which they make into fruit juice and sell at the farm and West markets

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Venue Wilks, 1-3 Chandos Road, Bristol, BS6 6PG. Contact 0117 9737999 Price range Lunch: one course with soft drink – £12; a la carte: mains up to £20 Part of the Hungry Horse chain, the Lodekka stands on the Bath Road site, in Brislington, Bristol, where the city’s iconic Lodekka buses were built 60 years ago.

The pub’s links with these green and cream low-height double deckers are mapped out on a wall near the bar. It explains that 5,217 Lodekkas were built at the Brislington works between 1949 and 1968, although they were

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still in service as recently as 1983, when they were withdrawn.

The retro bus theme even extends to one wall being used as a screen to show old films.

When I visited, they were showing On The Buses, which was amusing and quirky although wall-to-ceiling projections of Olive and Blakey might be enough to put you off your dinner.

The Lodekka has opened at a time when many local pubs have closed, or are struggling for survival and it’s clearly trying its best to become a place for the local community, with its weekly quiz and poker nights. It also created 40 jobs and the staff were quick, friendly and well-drilled.

The huge menu is basically the same as in any other Hungry Horse and it certainly appeals to all tastes and budgets.

There are the “famous” big plate specials, such as The Full Monty Mixed Grill (£9.49) and

Duck at Wilks, top; and inside The Lodekka, above the Smothered 9oz Steak Sizzler for the same price. Other options include burgers, hot dogs, pizzas, jackets, burritos and a large section of “favourites” – everything from £3.99 sausages, mash, peas and gravy to British beef and ale pie (£5.89).

I went for the beef madras curry (£5.99).

Served in a shiny metal balti dish, the curry was marked with four out of five on the handy spice-o-meter in the corner of the laminated menu. It certainly lived up to its rating and its lip-tingling spiciness soon brought me out into a gentle sweat. The curry had plenty of tender, bite-size chunks of beef and was accompanied by steaming hot pilau rice, a poppadom and small dishes of mango chutney and onion and tomato salad. OK, it probably wasn’t cooked from scratch on the premises by trained Indian chefs, but at £5.99 for a substantial meal, who’s arguing?

I finished with syrup sponge pudding and custard (£2.49), which reminded me of those tinned Heinz steamed puddings my mum used to boil in a saucepan in the 1970s.

Just like Lodekka – and On the Buses – it was a delicious reminder of the past.

Venue The Lodekka, Tramway Road, Brislington, Bristol, BS4 3DS Contact 0117 9712975 Price range Mains: under £10

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Food Andy Welch

How often do you come home hungry, only to stare blankly into the fridge?

It’s a common dilemma: cupboards full of food, yet nothing to eat. But now help is at hand.

For TV chef Rachel Allen, the solution lies in knowing what to do with the random leftovers you have lying around.

It’s the theme for her new Good Food series Rachel Allen’s Everyday Kitchen, and accompanying book Rachel’s Everyday Kitchen: Simple, Delicious Family Food.

“It’s for that time when you look in the fridge, see a bit a bacon that needs eating up, or some leftover chicken, and can’t work out what to make,” says the Dublin-born chef.

“It was my sister who gave me this idea, about making recipes for leftovers, essentially.

I knew it was the right thing to do when, at Christmas, we had our traditional conversation about what to do with all the leftover ham, turkey and veg.”

The recipes she’s put together aren’t necessarily concerned with thrift – although if you start using your leftovers and planning meals more carefully you will automatically save money. They are more about making delicious meals with the food you already have at home.

“It’s really thinking like my grandparents did,” says Allen, 41, who’s also been a regular guest on the BBC’s Saturday Kitchen.

“Everything was accounted for. And yes, we do waste so much food. My mum was the best soup-maker, so there are some lovely soup recipes in the series. Whatever didn’t get eaten went back in the fridge to be turned into a soup or a casserole the following day.”

There are some more creative and unexpected recipes in there too, she says – “it’s not all making shepherd’s pie from leftover lamb and so on”.

“There are delicious fresh and exciting things in there too, like the chicken, fennel and orange salad, or tartiflette, which comes from the Haute-Savoie region of France.

“It’s traditionally made with roast potatoes and the Reblochon cheese they make in the area, but this is my husband Isaac’s recipe from Christmas time. He just uses whatever leftover cheese and ham there is, and spare roast potatoes.”

Comfort food Rosa Mashiter Somebody told me the other day that autumn starts on September 1, but I am not sure that I really believe that. Next week when we slip into October is, to me, the real start of autumn when we can begin to really enjoy those seasonal comfort food ingredients such as those delicious field mushrooms that burst with flavour, runner beans, fennel, kohl rabi followed closely and with luck by the first crop of Brussels sprouts followed closely by the brilliant orange of pumpkins for Hallowe’en.

It is the time of year when a Sunday morning walk in the golden tinged autumnal sunshine produces in most of us a great appetite for our Sunday lunch, made even better by knowing that afterwards you can sit with your feet up in front of the fire.

Pot roasting has always been one of my favourite ways of cooking, probably because I do most of it in my slow cooker – thereby leaving myself the time to do, or not do as the case me be, other things.

Traditional pot roasting is one of the most

pastries, two years before The Great British Bake Off hit screens in 2010, sparking a baking frenzy.

“It’s extraordinary how much baking is happening,” she says. “I’ll be in an elevator or walking around town and someone will turn around and say, ‘I made your so-and-so cake for my office’s bake Friday’, or for their child’s school, so I’m very pleased about that, and that people are trying the recipes for themselves.

“I’d love to say I had a gut feeling and knew the baking boom was coming, but it was by accident.

“As for this series, it’s about good oldfashioned kitchen know-how and I hope as many people try out these recipes too.”

On that note, here is one recipe to get going with.

Duck spring rolls with pak choi Ingredients (Makes 8) 150g cooked duck meat, shredded (preferably meat from a whole roasted duck, but two breasts, pan-fried skin-side down for five minutes then roasted at 180C for 10 minutes will do); 50g spring onions, trimmed and thinly shredded; 100g grated carrot; 2tblspns chopped coriander; 3tblspns plum sauce, plus extra to serve; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 8 sheets of spring roll pastry (25cm); 150ml sunflower or rapeseed oil; 500g pak choi, stems and leaves cut into 8cm lengths; 25g sesame seeds, toasted; 15ml sesame oil

Method

Cooking with leftovers needn’t be about basic food such as Shephard’s pie – TV chef Rachel Allen has put together a book featuring a range of imaginative recipes such as duck spring rolls with pak choi It does sound delicious, although the idea of “spare” roast potatoes sounds a little odd – those delicious, crispy carb nuggets are normally the first things to go.

Of course, there’s also some baking involved – Allen’s Bake! series and book basked in the joys of making your own breads, cakes and

delicious ways of cooking meat or poultry – this method of cooking a joint or whole bird with vegetables and flavourings and just a glass or two of wine, cider or stock is not new, our mothers and grandmothers cooked in this way all the time.

Pot-roasted lamb with fennel and haricot beans Ingredients (Serves 4) 2 heads of fennel; a little olive oil; 5 shallots; 2 sprigs rosemary; 1 x 1kg boned and rolled shoulder of lamb; 3 cloves garlic; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 150ml white wine or stock; 400g tin haricot beans, drained

Method

Discard the rough green shoots from the fennel and trim the base, then halve the bulbs and then slice. Peel and slice the shallots and the garlic.

Heat a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in a flameproof casserole and add the shallots and fennel, and sauté over a gentle heat for ten minutes or so, adding the rosemary half way through.

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In a bowl, mix together the shredded duck with the spring onions, carrot, coriander and plum sauce, seasoning with salt and pepper to taste.

Lay a sheet of spring roll pastry flat on a board. Add a heaped tablespoon of the duck mixture to the pastry and spread out in a line parallel to the end closest to you, leaving a margin of about 3cm from the edge, and a gap of about 5cm on the other edges.

Brush a little water on the edges, then fold in the sides, over the filling. Brush with a water again, then roll up the pastry away from you, making sure you do it quite tightly. Repeat with the remaining mixture and pastry.

Place a large frying pan on a high heat and pour in the oil.

When the oil’s hot, add the spring rolls – or as many as will fit comfortably in a single layer – and fry, turning to cook all sides, for eight to ten minutes or until golden brown.

Remove from the pan and drain on kitchen paper.

For the pak choi, bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil. Add the pak choi stems and cook for one to two minutes or until just tender, then stir in the leaves and drain immediately. Place in a serving dish, then sprinkle over the toasted sesame seeds and sesame oil.

Serve the spring rolls with the pak choi and extra plum sauce on the side.

Meanwhile using a sharp pointed knife make incisions all over the lamb and slide in the slivers of garlic. Brush the lamb with a little more olive oil and then season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Heat a frying pan, and brown the lamb on all sides, then place on top of the fennel and shallots, pour the wine over the top and about 120ml water around it, bring the liquid to the boil, then cover the casserole, lower the heat and allow to simmer for about an hour, adding a little water as necessary. Remove the lamb from the casserole and keep warm in a moderate oven, covering with foil.

Add the haricot beans to the casserole dish and cook for a further ten to 15 minutes until the beans have heated through. uncovered for a couple of minutes.

Serve the lamb sliced, with the vegetable mixture spooned over the top.

Watering hole The Ship Inn, Shaftesbury Ned Halley A beautiful paradox of a pub in a commanding location with an unusual food policy There’s not many like the Ship. It’s a gothic fantasy built about 1700, perched at the top of a plummeting lane called Tout Street at the old western approach to the Saxon town of Shaftesbury. Currently festooned with colourful hanging baskets and draped with banners advertising Sky Sports on the pub telly, it presents a paradoxical picture.

Last time I visited the Ship, it was part of the considerable estate of Hall & Woodhouse, the Dorset regional brewer known for Badger beers. Now it is a freehouse, with ales on the day including 6d Best and IPA from the Sixpenny brewery at Sixpenny Handley, not far away on Cranborne Chase. There’s Butcombe besides, and the ciders were Thatchers Cheddar Valley and Stowford Press.

Suitably enough, the Ship is now a “wet” pub, which means it doesn’t do food. But you are welcome, according to the website, to bring your own with you, or to order takeaways from nearby restaurants, to eat in the pub. Restaurants which will deliver include an Italian and an Indian, and there are others doing burgers, kebabs and pizzas. The pub provides the tableware. It sounds brilliant.

The Ship Inn is housed in charming building While the Ship features wide-screen sports coverage, pub games and an “awesome” jukebox, its principal attraction is of a less-transient kind. This is a most beautiful building.

You enter through a little side door and pass directly into a dark, beamed bar area. To the immediate right is a large window table, partitioned from the entryway by a spere – a panelled part wall incorporating a bench seat on the table side. To the left of the entry door is the snug bar, with wainscoting, wall benches and just two tables. There’s a splendid fireplace at the end, next to the stone-mullioned window looking out on to the romantic masonry of the exterior.

There are plenty of tables in the main room of the pub, a handsome panelled salon, and further seating outdoors to the side of the building, where you get a dramatic view across the Blackmore Vale from this commanding position.

During the week the pub opens at 3pm and stays open through to the evening. It opens earlier at weekends and has been known to remain open quite late into the night. There is said to be a ghost.

The Ship Inn, 24 Bleke Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8JZ. Tel 01747 853219.

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Absolute Corkers Ned Halley

Is the £5 bottle of wine an endangered species?

You might think so, but you’re wrong.

The average price we pay per bottle in the shops is still only a few pence above a fiver.

Putting it another way, half the wine we drink at home has cost us £5 or less.

Wine itself is cheaper today, in real terms, than it has ever been. But there’s a catch. In Britain, it is heavily taxed. The greater part of the retail price of a £5 bottle of still wine is tax: £2 excise duty plus 80p in VAT. Out of the £2.20 remaining has to come the cost of the wine, all its packaging and transport and the profit for the retailer, distributor and, lest we forget, the producer.

The upshot is that a lot of wine at or under £5 isn’t very good. Most of the bad stuff, to my way of thinking, is accounted for by discounted brands from Australia, South Africa and the USA, much of it shipped in bulk and bottled here in the UK. New World plonk far outsells anything from Europe. Big marketing budgets – which include the substantial costs of funding discounts in the supermarkets – have won Australia and the US first and second place as suppliers to Britain, substantially ahead of France, Italy and Spain.

I am mystified by this, because the Continental wine nations do produce plenty of excellent wines at the budget end of the market.

They win hands down on quality and diversity, and certainly have price advantages over competitors who must ship their wine, in bulk or bottle, from the far side of the world.

Tasting hundreds of wines priced at around a fiver for the new edition of my annual guide, The Best Wines in the Supermarkets, I have found dozens of true bargains from Europe, and very, very few decent buys from farther afield. The message is, if you’re the average shopper paying the average price, do seek out wines that are above average for taste and quality.

Here are some £4 to £5 supermarket favourites from the new book. You might notice that two of the chains feature more strongly than the rest for true bargains. It seems striking to me that they are respectively Asda and Waitrose.

Red wines Asda Wine Selection Côtes du Rhône 2012 £4. I could scarcely believe the price at the time of tasting this wine, but it is still current. This sunny southern French red delivers pure, convincing joy. By regional giant Cellier des Dauphins, it’s pale but not wan in colour, has a proper berry-pepper nose and cheery, healthy, spicy-fresh authentic fruit.

Asda Wine Selection Corbières 2012 £5. This is fantastically good, from a Mediterranean AC not always known for excellence. It’s inky, deeply intense, blackberry-pure and balanced, finishing perfectly clean. The price looks like a misprint and I reckon this will improve for a year or two.

Sainsbury’s Winemakers’ Selection Portuguese Red £4.99. This relishably typical Portuguese non-vintage red is brightly fruity with brambly ripeness and spicy suggestions of clove and cinnamon; a natural match for sardines or other oily fish as well as poultry, it’s from the indigenous baga grape plus other varieties used in port-making.

Tesco Beaujolais £4.79. The brilliant 2011 vintage of this own-label classic has been replaced with this non-vintage blend which presumably includes wine from the difficult 2012 harvest. But it is still a deliciously perky and juicy

red refresher best enjoyed cool, and terrific value.

Three Houses GSM Spanish Red Morrisons £4.49.

GSM stands for constituent grapes grenache, syrah and mourvèdre, all used to good effect in this purple, spicy-sweet, briary and balanced non-vintage cheapie from Valencia. Great value and a good chilli match.

Tesco Valpolicella 2012 £4.99. Once a flagship name for the Italian wine industry, Valpolicella has had decades in the doldrums, marooned in the ocean of Aussie merlot and shiraz. But the once-chic wine of Verona is back, and even at the budget end of the market, looking good. This cherry-perfumed, plumfresh red has a wholesome nutty sweetness, crisp finish and just 11 per cent alcohol.

Waitrose Soft and Juicy Chilean Red £4.99. This is my favourite from Waitrose’s new bargain own-label range, delivering genuine sunshine flavours from merlot and cabernet sauvignon grapes, elegantly balanced, with easy weight but comfortably concentrated, satisfying and clean-finishing.

Cuvée Chasseur 2012 Waitrose £4.99. Crafty Carcassonne blend of perpetual wonder is juicy and briary with a note of regional spicyherbaceous “garrigue” and plump ripeness besides; from legendary local winemaker Alain Grignon. Outstanding value.

White wines Asda Wine Selection Marsanne 2012 £4.50. This alluringly coloured lovely fruit-salad ensemble from the Foncalieu co-operative in France’s Languedoc region balances fresh, tangy zest with glorious orchard-exotic white fruits to miraculous effect at a ridiculously low price.

Asda Wine Selection South African Chenin Blanc 2012 £5. Credit where it’s due. This Cape dry white has fresh green appeal and a trace of lushness; really well made. South African chenin blanc is a wine to watch.

Tesco Simply Soave Classico 2012 £4.79. An eager, zesty nose on a softer-than-expected ripely orchardy example of this classic white wine of Verona is followed up with a lick of blanchedalmond richness; charming, and cheap.

Cuvée Pêcheur 2012 Waitrose £4.95. A summer wine from ugni blanc grapes grown in Gascony, southwest France, where much of the harvest goes into distilling for Armagnac brandy. This one is brassica-brisk with crisp white-fruit freshness and an urgent tanginess.

It stands out from the crowd, especially at the price. Just 11.5 per cent alcohol.

Waitrose Aromatic and Citrus Spanish Dry White 2012 £4.99. A cumbersome name maybe, but a simply delicious brisk and breezy wine from a cunning blend of airen and verdejo grapes; the effect is electric, a proper exciting Atlanticfresh style at a giveaway price.

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Marks & Spencer hardly specialises in wines at a fiver, but Popolino Rosso 2012 at £4.99 makes the honourable exception. From Sicily, it is busily briary and juicy with a convincing grip of tannin and a fleeting ripe sweetness that charms in just the same way that its endearing name does.

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Iain and Jane Awty check this year’s harvest of Madeleine Angevine grapes at Oatley Vineyard near Bridgwater, which they plan to harvest tomorrow. Read more about how their made their winemaking dream come true in next week’s West Country Life

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Homes Gabrielle Fagan You’ll need: ■ Strong wood glue ■ Four 12-bottle wine crates ■ Two sheets of 30mm MDF measuring 505mm x 175mm, and one sheet measuring 505mm x 1460mm (or however wide you want it to fit your space) ■ Eight 50mm castors ■ 32 x 1cm screws for the castors ■ Drill with 2mm and 4mm drill bit ■ 12 x 6cm screws ■ Paint, preferably eggshell ■ Roller and small paintbrush

Method Make the two end supports for the desk. Glue the long sides of two wine crates together to make one support, and repeat with the other two for the second support.

Make sure the glue gets a good fix by piling some heavy books inside the top crate to press it downwards onto the lower one.

Place the large sheet of MDF on the floor.

Position one small piece of MDF at either end of the large piece and align the edges. Glue the small pieces in place using plenty of glue. Now position the end supports on top of each of these small sheets of MDF, ensuring the interiors of the crates are facing inwards. Glue these in place.

This is the basic construction of the desk upside down.

Position four castors on the corners of the base of each end support and screw them on.

Using the 2mm drill bit, drill small holes into the wood through the holes in the castor plates for the screws to go into.

Now switch to the 4mm drill bit and drill six holes through the top wine crates into the MDF (one at each corner and two in the middle for strength). This is for the 6cm screws, to fix the base to the desk top. Position the screw against the drill bit when you fix the bit into the drill.

Make the length of the drill bit slightly shorter than the screw, so that you don’t drill too deeply and go right through the desk top.

Screw together.

Once the glue fixing the wine crates together is dry, flip the desk over. Finally, paint the desk using a roller.

The photo key box project, featured in Home Made Simple: Stylish, Practical Makes For Living And Giving by Joanna Gosling

Fabric cable lights

The small things can make life stressful – like dull corners that seem to attract clutter.

“If you can wire a plug, then you can make one of these brilliant lights very easily, and they’re so versatile and useful,” says Gosling.

“Make the cable as long as you like and, with a couple of hooks on the ceiling, you can fix them to light up anywhere in a room. You can position them high or low, as you want.”

Ensure finished light and bulbs are not positioned near anything flammable, such as fabrics or upholstery.

Instead of just daydreaming about having a calm, perfect-place-for-everything home, journalist and mother-of-three Joanna Gosling decided to put her thinking cap on.

She came up with some simple-to-follow projects, all of which now feature in her new book Home Made Simple: Stylish, Practical Makes For Living And Giving. She shows how, with a little effort and some basic DIY, you can create and furnish a well-equipped corner for sorting household finances (or enjoying hobbies), funky lights, and even conjure an attractive home for those misplaced keys.

“I love making things for the home because it saves money, you can make nicer things than you can buy, and there’s the bonus of the ‘I made it’ satisfaction every time you look at it,” Gosling enthuses.

All the materials used in her projects are inexpensive – old wine boxes are transformed into a desk, storage and a key box, for instance. “As, like most people, I don’t have enough time to sit and spend hours crafting something perfectly, my mantra is ‘minimum

effort, maximum return’,” she says. “I’ve worked out the quickest, simplest way to do things that are useful, decorative and bring character to rooms.”

Follow three of her projects for a bright, business-like corner in your home...

Photo key box “Giving your keys a home where you can stash and retrieve them in an instant is pretty good for stress levels,” says Gosling.

“This is a lovely place also to display photos and remind yourself of happy memories and, when closed, it doesn’t look like a key box, which is good for security.”

You’ll need: ■ Three-bottle wine box with a sliding lid.

Source from wine merchants who often sell these cheaply as gift packaging, or search for them online

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■ Emulsion or eggshell paint ■ Drill ■ Eight 1.2mm x 17mm screw hooks ■ Bradawl ■ Photos or images for the front ■ Spray acrylic sealant (optional); doublesided tape

Method Remove the rope handle, if your box has one.

Leave the unfinished pale wood as it is or paint.

If you’re going to hang it, drill four small holes in the corners of the box for screwing it onto the wall. Mark drill points 4cm up (or down) and in from the sides. Use a pencil to mark evenly spaced dots where the screw hooks for the keys should go. Do a row of three, then a row of two, then another row of three, and stagger the hooks so that the keys don’t bunch on top of each other.

Pierce each hole using a bradawl and screw in the hooks. The back of the box is thin wood, so screw the hook through until the point is just poking through the back.

Choose photos with a sealed finish, or use an acrylic sealant, to go on the front. Fix to lid with double-sided tape.

Wine crate desk “I love this desk. It’s such a practical design, with its internal storage, big surface area and castors, which make it easy to move around,” says Gosling. “It’s a perfect work space for anything, from writing to crafting. “My version is a combination of wine crates and cheap MDF. It means it’s not entirely free to construct, but it’s still far cheaper than buying anything even remotely as stylish.”

Add matching storage with painted wine boxes, and glue household pegs on the sides so you can clip on paperwork or photos.

You’ll need: ■ Switched metal lamp holder ■ Fabric-covered three-core cable – measure the length you need (historiclighting.co.uk has a good range of colours) ■ Cable stripper and small screwdriver ■ Three-pin plug ■ Bulb (make sure it is compatible with the lamp holder – screw or bayonet) ■ Screw hooks to suspend the light from the ceiling

Method Unscrew the top and bottom of the lamp holder to separate. Feed the top of the lamp holder onto the cable.

Strip a short section of the cable to reveal the core, then strip a little of each wire (take care not to expose too much). Wire the cable to the bottom of the lamp holder – with a three-core cable, which includes live, neutral and earth wires, there will be a point in the side of the fitting to connect the earth wire to. The live and neutral wires can safely be connected to either of the other points.

Make sure you connect the wires to the correct points – double-check the correct wiring by doing an internet image search on “how to wire a plug”.

Screw the two parts of the lamp holder together.

Strip the wires at the other end of the cable and connect to the plug.

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Shopping Lisa Haynes

The Beckhams partied together in matching black tuxes at London Fashion Week.

Meanwhile, Cate Blanchett provided the Hollywood glamour and One Direction’s Harry Styles proved himself to be a front-row regular.

Yes, this year’s London Fashion Week well and truly found its (designer-clad) feet on the global style map.

As well as being a celebrity stomping ground, the five-day event was a stylish peek ahead into the emerging trends for next year’s spring and summer season. With designers showcasing similar concepts, it’s highly likely the catwalk looks on show will make their way on to a high street near you next spring.

So take your front row seat for a look-back at the themes that wowed the fashion pack...

Think pink If you thought blush pink was a flash-in-thepan trend for autumn, think again. Once again, pink proved to be a catwalk showstopper shade, adding a feminine touch to countless runways.

To reiterate the point, designers often styled their pink hues top-to-toe with matching shoes.

Takes on the look varied from stark and structured at J. JS Lee, who accessorised models with eye-popping pink pouts, through to elegant and ladylike at Somerset’s Temperley, who paraded jacquard long dresses with rose florals against blush backdrops.

Other catwalk hits included Burberry’s peony pink lace, Whistles’ powder pink separates and Richard Nicoll’s bubblegum pink layers. Invest now to maximise your pink potential.

Petal power A spring season isn’t complete without perennial florals but for spring 2014 designers have cultivated a crafty look with 3D buds.

Lifelike blooms were achieved with tactile handcrafted petals for a super-natural twist on traditional prints.

John Rocha created a dreamy look, with red blossoms appliqued onto white sheer georgette fabric, topped off with a matching hat for a top-to-toe floral fandango. Matthew Williamson adopted a fresher approach, with lemon yellow daisy blooms used as statement panels on separates, including a jacket and skirt where the blooms became gradually more pronounced towards the hemline. Meet fashion’s way of making your limbs look blooming marvellous.

Offbeat prints Prints have moved on from magic eye-esque graphics to downright quirky, with designs that require a second look.

On first glance, Holly Fulton’s pieces looked like pretty florals, but up close they were bold fish prints – some pieces in goldfish tangerine and others in stark monochrome.

House of Holland toughened up beautiful pastel florals with tattoo prints, inspired by the tattoo parlours of LA’s Venice Beach.

Glitz glory No need to reserve your sparkle for Christmas, if the spring catwalks are anything to go by.

Embellishment dazzled the front row with lashings of opulence on dresses, skirts and even overcoats. This is texture with the wow factor.

Mary Katrantzou’s eveningwear was decorated with Swarovski Crystal to create a 3D effect on structured dresses. Burberry Prorsum contrasted bling stones against sugary pastel lace to give it a daytime luxe look. The brand took the step of allowing its catwalk fans to shop the runway online now (until September 30), where the gem-embellished lace trench can be yours – for £3,995! Nobody said designer sparkle came cheap...

Sheer chic Play peekaboo with spring 2014’s sheer fabrics, which designers used to create exaggerated hemlines and transparent panels.

Sheer mesh and tulle inserts instantly modernise a silhouette, breaking up the proportions.

Richard Nicoll experimented with “summer layering”, using transparent fabrics both over and under minimalist pieces to give outfits a sci-fi, contemporary look.

Jasper Conran’s elegant white separates were punctuated with bold mesh panels that looked like modern-day stripes. Next spring is looking decidedly see-through.

Lace ladies

Holly Fulton’s goldfish print on the catwalk during London Fashion Week – will we all be wearing something similar come next spring?

Say hello to the fabric of spring 2014, lace.

Move on from gothic autumnal blacks with fresh whites, pastels and even teal.

Every season there’s a twist on the traditional Burberry trench, and this season it was lace, with the theme continuing with separates in mouth-watering powdery pale lavenders and mint greens.

Erdem’s ethereal designs came in just two colours – black or white – and combined the most delicate lace with floaty chiffon trains for a ghostly feel. House of Holland’s use of lace was a little less traditional, appearing as teal trims on silk slips and teamed with denim to create contrast sleeves and hems. Leave conventions behind and think outside the lace box for spring.

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House of Holland’s tattoo prints, above; Burberry Prorsum’s lace trench, top, all yours for £3,995

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Your guide to Bristol Shopping Quarter’s 5Pointz 18 Nelson Street, Broadmead. BS1 2LE Telephone 0117 945 0555 Exclusive streetwear clothing, leading the way in urban fashion in Bristol. Selling hoodies, trainers, baseball caps, jumpers, jackets, shorts, t-shirts, jeans denims and tops.

Urban cool at its best.

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Craft & More

54 Union Street, Broadmead. BS1 2DL

Top floor, The Galleries. BS1 3XD

2-4 Fairfax Street, Broadmead. BS1 3DB

108 Broadmead. BS1 3DN Telephone 0117 329 5586

Café Mocha serves delicious food to eat in or take away including a variety of excellent breakfasts, bacon baguettes, paninis, jacket potatoes, salads and a range of hot drinks.

Monday to Saturday 8am until 5:30pm.

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Take a break in this great little café located opposite the Post Office.

Offers breakfasts, sandwiches, paninis, baguettes and a wide selection of hot and cold drinks, all extremely good value for money.

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Get inspired and let your creative juices run wild at Craft & More! Spread over three floors and fi lled with thousands of affordable products, for dozens of art and craft activities.

Lots of fun ideas for kids.

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independent stores Additional stores on pages 20 & 21 Paul Richards Greyhound Walk, The Galleries. BS1 3XA Telephone 0117 929 8749 This long-established shop is a must visit place for that special occasion. Located in Greyhound Walk, Paul Richards sells a huge range of ties, waistcoats, cravats and jewellery (including cufflinks).

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Miss Diva Brigstowe Street, Cabot Circus.

Telephone 0117 927 2259 Miss Diva takes the latest shoe trends direct from the fashion catwalk.

Specialising in party and evening wear, ladies hand and clutch bags and accessories. Well worth a visit.

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Art Original

48. Kick

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Barber Brown

49. La Grotta

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Book Extra

50. Lily B’s

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Boulangerie

51. Luggage & Bags

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Bristol Tailoring

52. Luke

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Bristol Ticket Shop

53. Made in Britain

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Cabot News

54. Matana

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Café Amore

55. Model Eyebrows

10. Chop

56. Nails Galore

11. Coco

57. Phone Tech Communications

12. Colonel Mustard

58. Private Moments

13. Dress 4 Less

59. Utopia

14. Greetings Galore

60. Vitamin-shop

15. Herbs & Acupuncture 16. Hot Dog Deli 17. Ifix Mobiles Bristol 18. Koolmami 20. Nails Deluxe

Greyhound Walk, The Galleries. BS1 3XD Telephone 0117 929 0368

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Get In-Line Skateshop Top floor, The Galleries. BS1 3DX Telephone 0117 927 6303

Luggage and Case Store 59 Union Street, Broadmead.

BS1 2DU. Telephone 0117 922 1916

A great destination store, selling the best brands in skates, rollers & scooters.

All types of skates, including ice, in-line, quad & roller derby.

Also everything you need to make your skates or scooters from scratch.

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21. Paper Scissors Stone 22. Parsons The Jewellers 23. Pepenero

Mimmo is one of the longest running traditional barbers in Bristol with a range of unique products only available in store.

Mimmo boasts many repeat customers who return for the great customer service.

24. Solo 25. Sonyx 26. The Print Shop 27. Victoria’s Hair Extensions 28. Waffle On…

Stores featured on September 13th 29. AZUZA Coffee Shop 30. Blue Dot 31. Café Casa 32. Clearance Centre

Luggage and Case store is Bristol’s leading independent luggage and handbag shop.

Stockist of Radley, Tula and Kipling bags, Samsonite and Antler luggage as well as Hidesign briefcases.

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33. Coco Accessorise 34. Cococheno 35. Dulay 36. EK Hair 37. Excelsior!

38. Famous Memorabilia 39. Fone Styles 40. Gaddis 41. Garment Quarter

Dream Cupcakes

Fone Exchange

Kiosk, Broadmead. BS1 3DX

Top floor, The Galleries. BS1 3XD

43. Hair & Beauty Bank

Telephone 0117 316 9884

44. Jack Weng

A cupcake and dessert bar providing handmade luxury sweets, treats and cakes. With over 22 varieties of cupcakes,15 varieties of milkshakes, waffles, crepes, shortbread, tea and coffee and coke floats.

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Fone Exchange offers a wide selection of mobile phone accessories.

They buy, sell and part-exchange mobile phones and are specialists of all mobile repairs.

Also provide an unlocking service.

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Your guide to Bristol Shopping Quarter’s Peckish 61 Union Street, Broadmead. BS1 2DU Telephone 0117 929 8588 A new funky takeaway sandwich shop located in the heart of the city centre offering a wide choice of freshly-made hot and cold sandwiches, breakfast rolls, soups, cakes and pastries.

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Red Dress 91 Broadmead. BS1 3DT

Feminine, flirty, fun and contemporary style for fashion aware women, offering the must have looks for this season. A great range of clothes, all at great prices.

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Silver Scene

Soup and Sandwich

50 Bond Street, Broadmead. BS1 3LZ

Greyhound Walk, The Galleries

St James Arcade, Broadmead. BS1 3JD

3 Fairfax Street, Broadmead. BS1 3DB

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Rikaxxe specialises in acoustic and electric guitars of which they have a huge selection together with amplifiers and everything guitarrelated. Expert advice offered.

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Sairaz salon is a long established local business offering threading, henna/ mendhi patterns, facials, make up (bridal/party) pedicure, manicure, hair cuts/styles, Indian head massage and more.

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An independent designer and retailer of quality handmade sterling silver jewellery.

Offers beautiful, unique items which make lovely gift s.

Well worth a visit to fi nd that something special.

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This long-established café is worth seeking out. Offers all day breakfasts, jacket potatoes, as well as a variety of soups, sandwiches and hot and cold drinks.

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independent stores Additional stores on pages 18 & 19 USA Nails 108 The Horsefair, Broadmead. BS1 3JX Telephone 0117 922 7672 Professional waxing and manicures for ladies and men.

Appointments accepted but walkins are also welcome.

Keep your nails looking great with a visit to USA Nails.

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Top Nails Glass Walk, Cabot Circus. BS1 3BX Telephone 0117 929 9939 Professional nail care for ladies and gentlemen.

Appointments and walk-ins welcome.

With a great range of designs on offer, Top Nails offers something for everyone.

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47. Kemps

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Art Original

48. Kick

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Barber Brown

49. La Grotta

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Book Extra

50. Lily B’s

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Boulangerie

51. Luggage & Bags

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Bristol Tailoring

52. Luke

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Bristol Ticket Shop

53. Made in Britain

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Cabot News

54. Matana

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Café Amore

55. Model Eyebrows

10. Chop

56. Nails Galore

11. Coco

57. Phone Tech Communications

12. Colonel Mustard

58. Private Moments

13. Dress 4 Less

59. Utopia

14. Greetings Galore

60. Vitamin-shop

15. Herbs & Acupuncture 16. Hot Dog Deli 17. Ifix Mobiles Bristol 18. Koolmami 20. Nails Deluxe

8 -10 Bond Street, Broadmead. BS1 3LU Telephone 0117 302 0161

21. Paper Scissors Stone 22. Parsons The Jewellers 23. Pepenero

A visit to The Puppet Tree is a unique and magical experience.

As well as a giant talking tree, there’s one of the widest ranges of puppets in the country, suitable for all ages and at affordable prices.

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The Dragons Gallery

24. Solo 25. Sonyx 26. The Print Shop 27. Victoria’s Hair Extensions 28. Waffle On…

Stores featured on September 13th 29. AZUZA Coffee Shop 30. Blue Dot

St James Arcade, Broadmead. BS1 3JA

31. Café Casa

Telephone 07881 853 290

32. Clearance Centre

As well as selling a huge range of crystals from as little as 60p, fossils, tarot cards & gifts, The Dragons Gallery also has a private room where you can enjoy tarot reading and reiki, all for just £20 a session.

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Star Nails

The Copper Kitchen

38 The Horsefair, Broadmead. BS1 3JE

Kiosk, Broadmead. BS1 3DX

33. Coco Accessorise 34. Cococheno 35. Dulay 36. EK Hair 37. Excelsior!

38. Famous Memorabilia 39. Fone Styles 40. Gaddis 41. Garment Quarter 42. Goldtrader 43. Hair & Beauty Bank

Telephone 0117 930 0899

44. Jack Weng

Pop in to Star Nails for a manicure and the latest fashion in nail art and nail accessories.

Appointments not always necessary.

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 28 2013 21

Books Jackie Butler

In 1973, Oxford graduate Rick Stein was an enthusiastic, if somewhat naive, student reporter.

The chef who put Cornwall on the map was all set to start a job on a local paper. Then he got a letter that was to lead him in a wildly different direction.

“The Conservative government under Edward Heath had introduced a three-day working week to conserve dwindling coal stocks during the miners’ strike. In my little world that meant the editor, who had held out the promise that he would give me work as a sub-editor, wrote and told me the job was no more,” says Rick. “It was then a simple decision for me: I wouldn’t become a journalist.

I’d open a nightclub in Padstow instead.”

It was called the Purple Tiger and, just a few years later, it had opened doors the partyloving public schoolboy could never have imagined.

“I did fancy having a go at journalism. It would have been a very different life and I’m not sure how well I was cut out for it,” confesses the erstwhile newshound. “I remember I was sent to talk to a young woman who had been caught in an undergraduate’s room and she begged me not to name her because her parents would be so upset. When I told this to the editor, he asked if her parents were famous... ‘There’s a real world out there, Ricky,’ he told me.”

It might not be the juiciest of tales from his memoir Under A Mackerel Sky, which was published earlier this month. But it highlights his ability to dust himself down after a setback, as well as his willingness to take a gamble on an idea. No entrepreneur worth his salt got anywhere without embracing a risk or two.

In places the book’s highly entertaining and well crafted 300-odd pages do, indeed, boast all the drama and intrigue of a contemporary fictional bestseller. There’s relatively little about food in there.

“I’ve said all that before, haven’t I?” muses Rick, who acknowledges that it was another endeavour that was fraught with peril. “In a lot of ways it would have been easier to write a novel. There’s so much I couldn’t put in because it would paint people in a hurtful way; it’s hard to write without being nasty about

anybody. I’m waiting for the phone to ring...

I’m beginning to think I’ve become too thickskinned and lost all my sensitivity.”

Always looking for a challenge, it was something to get his teeth into.

“I simply like writing; I’ve always enjoyed doing the intros for my recipes and trying to personalise them as much as I can by talking about the time and place where I’ve found them. But I thought I’d like to write something longer and my publisher had always said that if I was ever thinking of an autobiography to let them know.”

There’s no doubt that he had a deep and rich vein of experiences to plunder. Headlines from a national serialisation in the Daily Mail recently, understandably, honed in on the suicide of his bipolar father, Eric; the affair with his Australian second wife Sas, that ended his marriage to Jill, and the two women’s uncomfortable encounter in the restaurant, bloodsoaked fist fights and the customer who almost killed him.

“All that has been out in the public arena before,” he says. For the household name who rose to fame and fortune as one of Britain’s best known and loved chefs, against the early odds, he regards his autobiography, above all, as a love letter to Cornwall, warts and all.

“It has been the most influential place in my life; some of the stuff about Padstow has been a bit tough, but I gave it to one of the locals to read and said please tell me if it’s going to upset anyone,” says Rick. “The nightclub was hell on earth and it certainly wasn’t fun, but we can look back on it with a certain amount of amusement.”

Cornwall has always been his rock, from his earliest memories of happy times with his parents, brothers and sisters at the family’s holiday home.

It is ever present as the book rolls through schooldays, adolescence, discovering music and girls; university; the tragedy of his father’s illness and death; his far-flung travels; romance; married life, the birth of sons Edward, Jack and Charles; not forgetting his constant passion for good food, the gradual learning of his skills in the kitchen, including

a spell at Cornwall College. And it documents his fortuitous breakthrough into TV, via Keith Floyd (who once worked for the Western Daily Press) and the West Country-based Denham Productions, only to be frequently upstaged by his feisty little wire-haired Jack Russell terrier, the late and much-missed Chalky.

It was at home in Padstow that Rick trawled his memory banks to pen the book.

He has always sung the praises of the county at every opportunity and ten years ago he was awarded an OBE for his services to West Country tourism.

These days, at the age of 66, he juggles his time between his cottage in Padstow, the home of his second wife, Sas, and her children, in Australia, and the lands he explores – the most recent being India – in search of culinary delights to share with us.

He is still very much involved in the running of the Stein empire – The Seafood Restaurant, St Petroc’s Bistro, Rick Stein’s Café and Stein’s Fish and Chips, the Seafood School, not to mention the nearby Cornish Arms pub and some luxury holiday accommodation. It remains a partnership between himself and Jill, beyond their divorce, and it has some 360 employees, many of them bona fide locals. The name is now synonymous with the small north coast fishing town which became a trailblazer for the county’s reputation as an all-year-round foodie destination.

“Padstow has changed a lot; it was quite a tough place in the old days. People who don’t want things to change don’t appreciate how communities adapt to survive,” he says.

Rick doesn’t cook in the restaurant kitchens any more – he leaves that to his middle son, Jack, who has firmly seized the baton. Charlie is in the wine business in London, while Edward is a fast-emerging sculptor.

“I occasionally hang around and irritate the chefs,” he laughs.

But he does still enjoy rustling up tasty culinary delights. Many chefs will opt for the simplicity of scrambled eggs if they are catering for themselves. Not so, Rick, who has found a way to enjoy an indulgent gourmet meal, without piling on unwanted pounds.

“I do have to watch what I eat at home because when I’m away I eat out all the time,” he says. “So, when I’m on my own, I go for often quite rich meals in very tiny helpings – 20 grams of the most delicious cheese with gorgeous chutney and a little wafer; 50 grams of Dover sole in an exquisite butter sauce.

“I got the idea when I did my French barge series; they say French women don’t get fat and that’s why – lots of small portions.”

Under a Mackerel Sky by Rick Stein, is published by Ebury Press, priced £20, and available now

Rick Stein’s life could have taken a very different turn if he had continued on his path to become a journalist, a subject he talks about in his new book Under A Mackerel Sky

Books reviews Police by Jo Nesbo is published in hardback by Harvill Sacker, priced £18.99 (ebook £8.10)

The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks is published in hardback by Sphere, priced £16.99 (ebook £8.49)

Policeman Harry Hole is flawed in many ways, but he’s all the more perfect because of it. In his latest case, the most unusual of detectives is once again drawn into Oslo’s seedier side, the Norwegian capital under attack from a serial killer. But this isn’t your run-of-the-mill serial killer, this one likes killing policemen at the scenes of previous unsolved murders.

Jo Nesbo keeps everything hanging in the balance here, just the way his fans like it.

Retired haberdasher Ira Levinson, who lost his beloved wife Ruth nine years ago, has had a major car accident and wonders if he will survive the bitter North Carolina snow. College student Sophia Danko has just had a nasty altercation with her ex-boyfriend Brian, when Luke Collins, a bullrider, comes to her aid. The surprising story of each couple is told and intertwined, back and forth, over 50 years; you won’t be leaving this page-turner.

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The Autobiography: Recipe For Life by Mary Berry is published in hardback

by Michael Joseph, priced £20 (ebook £9.99) Many celebrity autobiographies are criticised for being a little thin on the ground. There’s no danger of that in celebrated home cook Mary Berry’s life story, Recipe For Life. There are idyllic descriptions of her childhood, as well as flashes of the steely determination and matter of fact attitude that has kept 78-year-old Berry on top for so many years.

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Travel Emma Wilson

If it’s good enough for royalty, it’s good enough for me. And the latest addition to the Princess cruise fleet is no exception.

Christened by the Duchess of Cambridge back in June, the Royal Princess, a sleek, upmarket vessel, has earned itself almost as many column inches as the country’s would-be future queen.

Keen to find out what all the fuss was about, my husband and I eagerly joined the ship on her maiden season through the Mediterranean.

There are echoes of the Duchess throughout ship – from the huge portrait of her hanging near reception, to sumptuous finishing touches fit for a member of the Windsor clan.

Many describe cruise ships as floating hotels, but the Royal Princess is very different: it’s a huge floating holiday complex, catering for 3,600 passengers. The ship is very calm, and very spacious. In fact, I got lost several times while trying to find a bar, or a restaurant!

My husband and I are both keen travellers and enjoy being independent, so we were both a little reserved about going on a cruise.

Would it be full of old people? Would we feel trapped? Would we get bored?

But we were put at ease as soon as we saw our room. With floor-to-ceiling windows, a balcony, and enough space for my “cruise wardrobe” (which consisted of most of the maternity range at several high street shops), we were more than happy with our place to unwind after a hard day’s cruising.

We didn’t have to worry about the age issue either. Yes, there were some older passengers, but families and younger couples were the staple on the Royal Princess. It wasn’t noisy, either. The children were really well-behaved (more so than my husband), and while they could happily splash around in a top deck swimming pool, we could escape to an exclusive adults-only area. The Retreat is the perfect place to laze in the sun while sipping a cocktail or two, and the pool area – The Sanctuary – is

great for a leisurely dip. Thanks to a good selection of port excursions, we had plenty to keep us occupied throughout the journey. We would dock for the whole day, giving us a chance to do lots of sightseeing.

Naples was our first port of call in Italy, and an air-conditioned minibus whisked us from the dock to Sorrento, about an hour’s drive away. The Amalfi Coast looked stunning as we climbed the hills, and whizzed past olive and lemon trees. There was a lot to cram in on excursion days, as we wanted to see as much as we could. Trips usually lasted around eight hours, but it was worth it, especially in Rome.

We had our own personal tour guide (and private air-conditioned coach), and the group we were in consisted of 15 people, so it was a great size to sightsee at a relaxed pace.

The royal treatment continued from ship to port, as we queue-jumped at the Colosseum, avoided the long lines at the Vatican Museum, and got our own rosary beads for our tour around St Peter’s Basilica.

Our tour guides were great fun too. Nicole at Pompeii wanted to show us all “the dead bodies“, while Marco in Rome reminded me a little of Peter Capaldi (without the Malcolm Tucker obscenities). However, he did pour scorn on the Hollywood blockbuster Gladiator: “At no point did the gladiators fight against many soldiers – they fought one-on-one.” So, consider yourself told, Ridley Scott.

After each day trip, we were exhausted.

However, it was easy to forget our achy feet and sunburnt skin as we relaxed in the onboard spa – the dark, quiet and soothing Lotus.

We had access to The Enclave at the spa, which is available to guests for a supplement. A huge hydrotherapy pool fills the room, with a sauna and steam room hidden behind vast, dark marble walls.

The quality of food had also been a concern, but we needn’t have worried. Upon docking in

Travel news Full steam ahead for National Cruise Week Cruising may be the fastest growing sector of the travel industry – with more than 1.7 million Britons taking a cruise every year – but that doesn’t mean the big cruise companies are happy just floating along; they are working hard to keep their customers keen.

We are currently in National Cruise Week, which ends tomorrow, and this is the prime example of this, with most companies slashing prices and promoting great special offers for trips in 2014.

One operator, Hurtigruten, reckons passengers could save over £3,000 with an early discount of 30 per cent on Antarctica voyages in 2014. Another, Holland America, has savings of up to £1,500 on both European and Far East cruises.

Andrew Davies, of Telford-based agency Go-

Cruise, urges people to make the most of these fantastic early bookings – particularly families who are confined to certain dates of school holidays, or those who want to be away for Christmas and new year. He points out that in 2013, many cruise companies offered big discounts to fill ships up ahead of their departure: “But my hunch is that supply and demand in cruising is gradually finding a balance. So while some discounts were massive this year, the margin will come down in 2014.”

It may be strange thinking ahead like this, when the popular belief for many holidaymakers is now that “late deals” always mean better value. But with cruises, it clearly isn’t the case.

Director of Cruise Nation, Stephen Boardman, agrees: “If you see an offer in Cruise Week where the price looks good, I’d advise you to book now. The major cruise lines have said the growth in capacity is slowing.”

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Why skiers should go to extra lengths to check their facts

Check you don’t lose out on your skiing trip

Take care when you plan a ski holiday this winter, because the chances of running out of snow may be greater than you realise.

According to guidebook Where To Ski And Snowboard 2014, many resorts claim their marked ski runs are longer than they actually are – with some exaggerations boasting an extra 34 per cent. As a prime example, France’s Three Valleys region claims 600km (373 miles) of piste, when it actually has only 493 km. Val d’Isere, another British favourite, claims 300km of pistes – and actually has only 232km.

Clearly, some resorts grossly overstate true figures.

It’s not all bad news though, resorts with accurate figures include Kitzbuhel, LechZurs, St Anton-Stuben and Saalbach.

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every port, fresh food is delivered to the ship.

The on-board steak house, Crown Grill, was very impressive. Huge hunks of beef were on display, showing us exactly what we were about to devour.

The Winemaker’s Dinner, held in the Symphony dining room, was another treat. We were tucked away in a private dining room, surrounded by hundreds of bottles of expensive wine. Hosted by Diletta Frescobaldi, part of the famous Italian winemaking family, we were treated to a seven-course meal, paired with some of the Frescobaldi Super Tuscan wines. They are exclusively available on board the Royal Princess, and if you’re feeling especially flush, or you’ve just won the lottery, because each bottle costs roughly around $300.

As well as the main dining rooms, Symphony and Concerto, there are plenty of other restaurants to choose from on the ship, making it a lot easier to avoid eating the same thing every night.

Sabatini’s is a great Italian, where I gorged on lobster and tiramisu, while Alfredo’s is perfect for a quick Neapolitan pizza and a few glasses of wine. The chef was trained in Naples, and was very keen to stress that he followed traditional recipes.

There are also plenty of bars dotted around the Atrium. Our favourite bar was Vines, with its brilliant wine list and endless canapes.

Tray after tray of food was brought out, and I was appreciative of my elasticated maternity trousers.

Entertainment is also held on the ground floor of the Atrium; we saw gymnasts defy gravity, heard orchestras perform and even took part in some salsa dancing. While walking across the Atrium, I was grabbed by one of the dancers, and found my husband skulking at the bar when I’d finished. It’s certainly not boring!

When we first looked at our itinerary for the trip, I thought we’d be a frazzled, claustrophobic mess when we docked at our final port, Barcelona. That couldn’t have been further from the truth. I was stress free, relaxed and not very enthusiastic about leaving the ship.

Every member of staff went out of their way to really make our trip special. It especially broke my heart that I wouldn’t have a turndown service at home, with petit fours delivered to our room nightly.

Despite our sea legs (we were rocking for days after landing at Heathrow), and the extra pounds we’d put on (“I’m preparing for winter,” I told my midwife), it was an unforgettable experience. It is pricey, yes, but, if you’re going to be sailed around the Med, sipping fine wines, eating fabulous food and chocolate crockery, it’s totally worth it.

Travel take-off

Italian trip Citalia (0843 770 4443) offers four nights’ B&B at three-star hotel from £335, saving £132 per couple, ex-Bristol by Easyjet Nov 2. Same operator offers seven nights’ B&B at four-star hotel on Lake Como from Oct 3 from £529, saving £296 per couple, incl Easyjet flights exGatwick.

Beach break On The Beach (0871 474 3000) offers seven nights’ self-catering from Oct 11 at three-star Paphiessa Hotel & Apartments, Paphos from £243, with return flights.

Closer to home Goodwood Hotel, near Chichester, (01243 775537) has an autumn package from £145 per room per night, including English breakfast.

Guests staying two nights receive dining allocation for two in The Richmond Arms restaurant for lunch or dinner stay (to the value of £30 per person). Offer valid until end December, excl Christmas.

Cruising along P&O Cruises (0843 373 0111) offers 13 nights on Oriana ex-Southampton Oct 7 from £799 to Lisbon, Seville, Lanzarote, Tenerife, La Palma and Madeira. P&O also offers 11 nights on Oceana from Oct 11, ex-Southampton to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malaga, Casablanca, Cadiz and La Corunna from £699.

Emma Wilson was a guest of Princess Cruises (www.princess.com; 0843 373 0333). The Royal Princess will be visiting Scandinavia and Russia for an 11-night trip from May 12-23, 2014, from £1,245 per person (based on two adults sharing an inside stateroom). Fare includes all accommodation, all main meals and on-board entertainment, and return flights from a London airport. All offers are subject to availability

An early 2013 ‘feelgood’ factor pushed up hotel prices

UK is the perfect place for adventure travel

Warm weather and the count-down to the birth of Prince George didn’t only produce a general “feelgood” factor across the UK earlier this year, it also boosted the tourist industry.

According to the Hotel Price Index (HPI) from leading online accommodation booking website Hotels.com, there was a rise in short break bookings across the country in the first half of 2013 It shows guests paid an average £103 per room per night in the first six months of 2013, a 2 per cent rise on the first half of 2012, with prices increasing in 33 of 45 UK destinations covered in the report. One of the biggest rises – a 14 per cent jump to £63 per room per night – was seen in Leicester, following the discovery of the bones of Richard III.

You don’t have to travel thousands of miles for the trip of a lifetime.

According to Lonely Planet’s team of globetrotters, adventures can be enjoyed much closer to home.

New book 1000 Ultimate Adventures rates Scotland as one of the top destinations for experiential travel.

It features in 20 of the 100 top ten lists, with Corryvreckan Whirlpool rated as one of the “Wildest Swims in the World” and The West Highland Way recommended as one of the “Best Treks with Killer Views”.

City slickers will also be pleased to see London’s Thames Path features as one of the planet’s top ten city hikes. Available now, the book is priced £15.99.

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Walks Sue Gearing

Shapwick.

Outline The ancient Somerset Levels in the shadow of Glastonbury Tor set the scene for this flat, quiet and interesting circle in the company of swans, herons and many other birds, taking in a nature reserve, canal, fishing lakes, and the site of the Neolithic Sweet Track. There is refreshment where you park and a pub en route. Take your binoculars and if you stay ‘til sunset you may catch the spectacular murmuration (roosting display) of millions of starlings.

Map OS Explorer 141, Cheddar Gorge & Mendip Hills West, grid ref: 425 414 Distance 6.1 miles, 3 hours walking This flat walk to the west of Glastonbury starts by following the footpath through a peat shed! It progresses across the Someset Levels where the timeless peace, bird life, big skies and open vistas make for great walking. It sets out from the Avalon Marshes Visitor Centre, calls in at Oxenpill and then, after the pub, it follows the old railway and canal across Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve, with a detour to see where the 600 year old Sweet Trail was unearthed – the earliest walkway in Britain. Dogs must be kept on a lead in the Reserve. There are several footbridges and stiles to cross. A word of warning – after a lot of rain, some of the walking will be very wet as it crosses the low former marshland.

Park For free at Avalon Marshes Visitor Centre which is on the North-South road from Westhay to Shapwick. There are toilets and refreshment as well as a craft centre and Natural England offices. There are plans to revive this area and in time to enhance and bring back the fascinating peat moors exhibition centre and other visitor facilities. If you can’t park here for any reason go on towards Shapwick a short way and park by the bridge over the canal at the entrance to Shapwick Heath Reserve.

Start Turn right out of the Visitor Centre along the road and after a few yards turn right into Magnolia Peat Products yard and straight through the shed (don’t worry about the noisy dogs). Once through, cross a footbridge and on to cross another bridge by an abandoned brick cottage. Carry on, cross another bridge.

1 Fishing lakes Walk between fishing lakes made in a former peat workings. Reach a parking area and turn left and you may be lucky to see someone landing a carp along here, as I was. Turn right through a gate and at the end keep straight on, over a stile. Continue on to reach a track and turn right. At the end of the field, turn left (don’t continue ahead on the track). Cross a footbridge and maintain direction, over another footbridge and then turn left down the full length of the field to a gate and concrete bridge over a rhyne. Head up the field to the top far corner and on to a drove.

2 Drove Turn left and reach a Tarmac lane where you go right, passing peat works, and it leads to the road from Westhay to Oxenpill.

3 Road Cross and turn right a few yards, taking the footpath left just past a brick house. Follow the track, past sheds, into a field and straight on down the full length of another field to a kissing gate and footbridge in the far left corner, to bring you out on a quiet lane, the Meareway.

4 Meareway Turn right past pretty cottages. Soon over on the left are views to the Mendip Hills across the sites of the early Lake Villages, although

nothing is left. The Neolithic people exploited the reed swamps of the Levels for their natural resources and settled. There was Glastonbury Lake village and two other lake villages as well as various settlements and hill forts built on the natural “islands” of slightly raised land.

5 Meare Follow the lane all the way to the Oxenpill end of Meare and bend right to reach the main road again. There is a choice here. The field route is best unless the weather is really wet and the ground saturated. For this, cross and and turn right along the pavement for a couple of minutes. Ignore one footpath left, pass two residential roads and then go left by a large No. 13 to a gate into field signed as a public footpath. Go down the left side of the field, through a gate to a farm and immediately take the gate left (unsigned). Head straight down the field and over a stile at the far end. Go ahead on a grassy and then hard track, and continue all the way to a sharp left bend. Go ahead over a stile by a gate. For the other route, turn left along the pavement. Cross and soon go right down Millbatch. Leave houses and continue on the narrow lane to a sharp right bend. Go left over stile by gate.

far left corner of the field, where you turn left over a footbridge, go along the rhyne a short way and over another stile on to Ashcott Road.

7 Ashcott Road Turn right, soon passing more peat works and continue for just over half a mile. Over left are glimpses of Glastonbury Tor. Pass the friendly Railway Inn, one of few pubs on the Levels.

Carry on for a few more minutes. Cross the canal and come to Ashcott Corner and Ham Wall National Nature Reserve.

8 Ashcott Corner Turn right through the car park and on to the old railway line alongside the Glastonbury Canal. This will be provide a great opportunity for bird viewing and there are several good benches for picnics, quiet reflection or birding – overlooking the canal, or open water and rushes further on.. After about 1.5 miles Reach a turning left with a sign to the Decoy Hide and Neolithic Sweet Track.

6 Gate Once over the stile by the gate, go across the field bearing slightly right. Cross a footbridge and go right following the arrow. Go over a concrete bridge and continue on. Go over a stile by a gate and then straight ahead in the field heading towards peat works. Aim for the

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9 Sweet Track This is a small detour and you don’t actually see much, if anything of the Sweet Track, but it is an option and brings you back on the old railway line. So, go down left and then follow the Sweet Track sign right along a realistic if rather springy wooden looking boardwalk – actually made from plastic. Reach a horseshoe shaped bench on the right and an information board about the Sweet and Post Tracks. A vestige of the track can be seen here, on the left of the track, where a water pipe keeps the area damp. The Sweet Track ancient causeway was built in either 3807 or 3806 BC and was the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe until the 2009 discovery of a 6,000year-old route in Plumstead, London. It is now known that the Sweet Track was predominantly built over the course of an earlier structure, the Post Track. The track extended across the now largely drained marsh between what was then an island at Westhay and a ridge of high ground at Shapwick, a distance close to 2,000 metres and was part of a network crossing the Levels. Some of the track is stored at the British Museum. Follow the boardwalk on, bend right and return to the old railway line. Turn left and come out of the Reserve on to Station Road. Cross the canal right and return to the Visitor Centre a few minutes away.

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Walks Martin Hesp

When I was a lad everyone knew the old folk song about Uncle Tom Cobley and All. A few could even remember the long list of names which feature in every chorus. But when I mentioned the world famous ballad to some youngsters the other day after attending Widecombe Fair, every one of them gave me a blank and withering look.

It seems the youth of today no longer know about the Spreyton farmer who really did exist or Tom Pearce’s unfortunate grey mare which was expected to carry Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawk – along with Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all – to the celebrated annual event.

All along, down along, out along, lee...

That is where they travelled on their journey – at least, it was before the Mr Pearce’s hapless mare “took sick and died”. And, ever since singing the old West Country song at primary school 50 years ago, I have wanted to visit that mythical place – which is why this week our walk retraces the much-put upon mare’s hoof-prints all along, down along, out along, lee.

I attended Widecombe Fair last week to work on a story about Dartmoor farmers and tourism operators who are forming a partnership with counterparts from an area in Switzerland – and must say that it is undoubtedly one of the most pleasant events I’ve attended on journalistic duties this summer.

But it was while working on another newspaper story that I ended up walking all along, up along, out along lee. I say “up” rather than “down”, because this walk takes us away from Widecombe, rather than towards it.

Which is what I was doing recently in the company of Dr Kevin Bishop, chief executive of Dartmoor National Park Authority. Kevin had invited me on a big U-shaped hike to learn all about the modern challenges facing a national park, and our walk took us from the hills above Widecombe village, north all the way to Grimspound, around Headland Warren to the Warren Inn, then south around Soussons Down to eventually terminate at Postbridge.

So in our case it wasn’t, alas, a circular route – but you could easily make it so if you were to swing left near Soussons Farm and head east to eventually cross Blackaton Down.

If you start at Widecombe – like so many lowland farmers who would have been heading away from the ancient fair all those years ago herding cattle or sheep in front of them – you’ll take the route we followed up over a ridge called Kingshead which looms north west of the village.

Take the Wooder-Natsworthy lane out of the heart of the picturesque community, then turn left up the track that ascends to the farmstead at Kingshead, and you will be on the right road. Because this takes you up to the vast, wide and almost empty acres of Hamel Down which is crossed north-to-south by the Two Moors Way. It’s this track that we follow due north – climbing gently all the while until we reach the great curving summit crowned by the beacon. This wild and empty place might seem like an odd place in which to find relics of the biggest war ever fought, but the traces of the Second World War are there in the form of a few rotting wooden posts and a commemoration stone.

The few gaunt and weathered poles are what remain of a huge number that were planted here by local defence forces in the early 1940s when it was feared the great breadth of the down would make it an ideal landing place for enemy gliders full of troops. Fortunately for

several dozen local sheep and the entire population of South West England, that never happened – but a plane did visit the place, albeit with tragic results...

On 22 March 1941 a bomber from 49 squadron was returning to RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire when it hit the big hill in conditions of poor visibility. A memorial to the downed bomber was later erected to commemorate four crewmen who died.

Past this lonesome stone, we stroll to eventually descend north-west past Hameldown Tor to the ancient village of Grimspound, where we met the national park’s senior archaeologist, Jane Marchand. She told me that the area is recognised as having the most important Bronze Age remains anywhere in Europe. “Altogether we have 22,000 sites on our historic environment record – from the Second World War anti-aircraft poles you saw to the kist on Whitehorse Hill.

“That’s a huge resource which has to be managed – it’s about making sure the archaeology gets looked after,” said Jane as we looked at the remains of the mysterious village which draws many thousands of visitors each year. “Nowadays we live in the valleys and vales and so have obscured the ancient history in those places – but these areas have not been exploited in later periods and up here on Dartmoor we’re lucky because it’s granite and tough.

“People find it difficult to get their heads around that – there were probably lots of places like Grimspound across lowland Devon, but we’ve lost those. Which makes what we have up here so incredibly important.”

From Grimspound we skirted Hookney Tor to pass by the fabulous old Headland Warren Farm and cross west over the hillside which gave the place its name. Up here the world looks an empty place – but looks can be deceptive. As you walk west over the hill and into the shallow valley under Birch Tor, more and more ruins and workings become evident.

Indeed, back in the 19th century there were any number of tin mines up here 1,400 feet above sea level – the two main workings being at Birch Tor and Vitifer Mines, but with the Golden Dagger, East Vitifer, Headland, Bushdown, King’s Oven, Water Hill and West Vitifer all burrowing away somewhere in the vicinity.

There’s not much of this extraordinary industry left now, except for a few low walls where once the miner’s humble cottages stood, and other lowly ruins advertising the whereabouts of various long-gone structures linked to this damp and backbreaking industry.

On our walk we were heading for lunch at the Warren House Inn – which sits on the Moretonhampstead road directly above the card-shaped enclosures – and as we proceeded towards it I tried to picture the days when it was the hub of the remote mining community, home to a thousand brawls and celebrations, witness to laughter and tears and to the sad reality born upon hard-working, hard-playing men for whom tomorrow was just another awful, musclewrenching day.

Not only was extracting tin from these hills dark, damp and danger-

The vast, empty acres of Hamel Down, where once it was feared enemy gliders full of troops might land during the Second World War ous, it was also horribly unhealthy because the men were wet-through from morning, noon ’til night. But there’s no actual record of violent deaths occurring in the mines – although there was one lucky escape. It happened when men working one of the deepest tunnels were concerned about water backing up somewhere in the rock.

They took the trouble to come up for their “crib” or morning snack, and no sooner had they done so the wall burst under the weight of the flood. Had they still been down below they would have drowned.

After lunch at the excellent Warren Inn we returned to the Vitifer Mine valley, but this time headed south downstream to pass what’s left of the Golden Dagger Mine before entering the pine forests that cover Soussons Down.

Walking south all the time, our track took us through the trees and around the contours, past Soussons Farm, to eventually deposit us on the lane at a place called Ephraim’s Pinch. Who Ephraim was, and why he got pinched, I have not idea – but I do

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know we walked a few hundred metres west along the lane, only to leave it again by taking the track that heads directly onwards toward the setting sun or, more locally, to the ancient farm at Pizwell.

After this, the farm track took us west again – so that new we were in the low valley created by a young East Dart River. After a mile or so, close to the grounds of the Lydgate House Hotel, we found a tiny footpath in the lefthand bank of the lane and followed it down to the riverside where it turns upstream to soon reach the popular hamlet of Postbridge.

This was the end of our ten-mile hike but, as I say, you might prefer to follow a route that takes you back east to Widecombe In The Moor. Whichever option you take, you will have enjoyed a fabulous walk in the very heartland of Dartmoor.

Fact file Basic walk – from Widecombe In The Moor north over Hamel Down to Grimspound, then west over Headland Warren to Warren Inn, proceding south past Soussons Down to Postbridge. Distance and going: 10 miles, easy going, not too steep but could be muddy in places

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West Country Life Tens Richard Bache

Few institutions match the humble pub for its unique contribution to the British way of life.

A pint or two with friends at the King’s Head, the Queen’s Arms or the Prince of Waterloo is rarely less than a regal treat. But the latent romantic in me can’t help but feel the pleasure of imbibing at somewhere with a more evocative name is somehow greater than at a hostelry with a more mundane moniker.

Who, after all, couldn’t help but be transported to a happier place with the notion of a drink at The Muddled Man? West Chinnock in South Somerset is far from my own corner of the West Country and I have, regrettably, never visited what is almost certainly my favourite pub name discovered while researching this topic.

What a splendid image it presents, though, of a chap who has enjoyed the one – or maybe more – glasses of cider too many. Now that I’m belatedly aware of The Muddled Man’s existence, I’ll be profoundly disappointed in myself if I haven’t found an excuse to visit before the end of the year. The only conceivable problem I can see for some is that it might be tricky indeed to persuade a sceptical spouse that you were only popping for a quick half at somewhere named The Muddled Man...

Over the years I have visited Black Lions, White Lions, Red Lions and Golden Lions but the wittily named Dandy Lion in Bradford on Avon is clearly king of the jungle among the multi-coloured big cats of the West. The Wiltshire pub’s contribution to literature goes beyond its sparkling name. It has long hosted a poetry group that has published anthologies no doubt inspired by creative sessions in the bar. The rakish lion on the Wadworth pub’s traditional sign is also a splendid example of the pub signwriter’s art.

Talking of rakes and felines – the Cat and Custard Pot in Shipton Moyne was a haunt of the teenage Prince Harry. The Gloucestershire village is only a couple of miles from Highgrove and when princes William and Harry were growing up both were regulars there and at the nearby and nearly-as-splendidly-named Rattlebone Inn across the Wiltshire border in Sherston. Inevitably, the Cat and Custard Pot attracted a crowd of creatures every bit as ill-equipped to resist temptation as the custard-loving cat or fun-loving Harry – hordes of tabloid reporters after an exclusive on any royal misbehaviour... The pub’s name actually originates from the book Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks’s Hunt by 19th-century chronicler of country life R S Surtees.

It sounds like a gigantic beast that might have terrified rural Somerset but the Knatchbull, of The Knatchbull Arms fame, is actually the surname of the local landed gentry (Nicholas Knatchbull, a direct descendent of the 19th-century Knatchbulls of whom the pub is named, was murdered by the IRA in 1979 along with his grandfather Lord Mountbatten). This pub at Stoke St Michael, north east of Shepton Mallet, has a story as rich as any in the West Country. In late 1941 or early 1942 – in conditions of secrecy so great that the story didn’t escape Somerset until a newspaper report of 1956 – it hosted the biggest gathering of top Allied generals during the whole war.

US Generals Dwight D Eisenhower, later, of course, US president, Omar Bradley, George Patten, Douglas MacArthur and Britain’s Field Marshall Montgomery were among the dignitaries at the gathering at the anonymous Somerset pub. Landlord at the time Bert Bryant served sandwiches and tea to the highranking officers after the village had been cordoned off in a massive security operation.

Bert recognised Field Marshall Wavell, who

had just been replaced as commander-in-chief in the Middle East and North Africa by Montgomery. It is thought that the strategies that led to the famous victory at El Alamein may have been discussed at the gathering.

The Butt of Sherry is located in the Wiltshire town of Mere, near where the borders of Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset converge.

The inn reportedly got its name in 1848 when a widow and her son set up as spirit dealers. Mere, perhaps as a result of being near the crossroads of the A303 and A350 rather than being anywhere near the sea, has retained its reputation as a place for the import of alcohol, being home to the celebrated wine merchant Yapp Brothers.

The Strawberry Special in Draycott, near Cheddar, gets its name from the train that transported the Cheddar Valley’s justly famous crops of strawberries to bigger markets. The locomotives are long gone, but the former track bed has been restored as the Strawberry Line – a popular cycle path.

The pub remains a personal favourite, being the first place your correspondent – as a callow teenager of about 15 – managed to convince a landlord to serve him a pint after a cricket match against Draycott. I’m sure staff are much more careful about checking the ID of underage drinkers these days! While pubs named after fruits are not that unusual – I can easily think of West Country pubs with apples, pears, rhubarb or oranges in their name and perennial Bristol gay-scene favourite The Pineapple – vegetables are a rarer phenomenon. Bristol once had the Artichoke in Lewins Mead, but it was rather unceremoniously dugup by bulldozers four years ago and is nevertheless rather trumped in the name stakes by the Bunch of Carrots roughly half-way between Hereford and the mighty Weston’s Cider producing country of Much Marcle in the village of Hampton Bishop.

The Flemish Weaver in the Wiltshire town of Corsham might evoke images of Belgium’s excellent brewing industry. However, it is actually named after weavers who fled persecution in Flanders and contributed to the Wiltshire town’s rich wool industry. There is a similarly named pub in Salford, Manchester, another centre of the cloth trade.

The Quicksilver Mail in Yeovil is thought to be the only pub with its name in the country.

It is believed – like a great many pubs – to have got its name from its position as a coaching house. The original Quicksilver Mail was the London to Falmouth Royal Mail Coach that ran between 1835 and 1857. The encyclopaedic History of Yeovil’s pubs website – run by author Bob Osborn – reports on more than 130 past and present pubs in the South Somerset town. It records that the Quicksilver Mail was the only Royal Mail coach to be named, rather than numbered.

The building home to The Corner Cupboard in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, has a history dating back to 1550 and is near historic Sudeley Castle. The name refers to some of the interior furnishing and is relatively, compared to the history of the building, recent. It became an inn about 1872. There are reports of it being haunted by a 12-year-old girl and strangely there is a bust of Victorian Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli above the front door.

How did we do? Do you know quirkier West Country pub names or have suggestions for future West Country Life Tens? Email richard.bache@b-nm.co.uk

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In the first in a regular series – West Country Life Tens – that celebrate the best snapshots of life in the region, Richard Bache picks ten quirky pub names that really whet his whistle. This list is unashamedly rural in focus, but there was a near-miss from Bristol. The Giant Goram in Lawrence Weston is an estate pub named after a mythical giant that stomped around Blaise Castle. Legend has it that Goram and another giant called Vincent – perhaps brothers – both had a thing for the same woman, named Avona.

The tale, if you believe it, has it that the two giants cleaved the Avon Gorge in a bid to win Avona’s heart. Send us your favourite odd pub names – and your own West Country Life Tens in any category that takes your fancy.

Email ideas and comments to richard.bache@ b-nm.co.uk

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Gardening Alan Down

Spring-flowering bulbs can be planted from now through to December.

Autumn is nature’s natural planting time and provides a fantastic way to add early colour to your garden, patio or balcony every spring.

By selecting a range of spring flowering bulbs it is possible to have blooms from January to June. The first to emerge are the snowdrops. Next come crocus, dwarf narcissi and the first early tulips. Alliums will flower from mid-May until far into July so making the right choice lets you enjoy wonderful colour for six months of the year.

Here are my top ten tips for planting spring bulbs:

1. Planting Before planting, loosen the soil thoroughly and work in some compost into. Then dig a hole and arrange the bulbs in an upright position in the hole. Small bulbs can be put in any way up.

2. When to plant Spring-flowering bulbs can be planted from now on into December, but try to plant them before freezing weather sets in. Tulips can be planted latest of all.

3. Planting depth The general rule of thumb for the planting depth is to plant a bulb twice as deep as the bulb is tall. For large bulbs such as daffodils, tulips and hyacinths plant about 10-20cms deep. For smaller bulbs, such as snowdrops and crocus, plant about 5-10cms deep.

4. Planting distance

excess water can escape easily. Then put potting soil into the container until it reaches the right planting depth for the bulbs. Arrange the bulbs on top of this soil and add more potting soil until it reaches just below the rim of the pot. Bulbs in pots and containers can actually be planted more closely together.

8. Protect for bulbs and containers Flower bulbs can tolerate cold winter temperatures, but don’t plant them too closely to the side of the pot because this is the very the place where frost can penetrate. If a very hard frost is forecast, you could wrap the pots with an insulating material such as bubble wrap or place them in a sheltered spot.

Terracotta pots can crack during the winter if surplus water cannot drain away and this is due to the expansion of the soil inside them during freezing weather. You can prevent this problem by planting the flower bulbs in a plastic pot that can be placed inside the terracotta pot.

9. Planting in layers You can plant flower bulbs in layers (also known as the sandwich or lasagne system) in your garden as well as in pots and containers.

Bulbs that flower latest in the season (such as tulips) are planted in the lowest layer.

Bulbs that flower earlier – such as crocus or grape hyacinths – are planted above.

Planting in layers will have no adverse effects on the bulbs. They will simply flower one after another in the same spot. So the same pot or container will provide flowers for many more weeks.

Large bulbs need more space between them than small ones. Plant large bulbs at an average of 12cms apart and small bulbs at an average of 5-7cms apart. The spacing interval also depends on the visual effect you want to achieve. For a casual, natural-looking effect plant the bulbs at random distances apart. If you want a solidcolour floral carpet effect; plant all the bulbs at the same distance apart.

5. Soil type and drainage Sandy soils drain off rainwater fairly quickly. Clay soils tend to retain moisture longer. Because bulbs don’t like soggy conditions, you may want to take extra precautions if you have a clay soil. Do this by mixing sand or compost in or sprinkle some potting grit into the planting holes before putting the bulbs into them.

6. Water Water the bulbs immediately after planting. This encourages them to produce roots.

7. Flower bulbs in pots and containers Planting flower bulbs in pots and containers is easy to do. Choose a pot or container with drainage holes. Place a few broken pot pieces over these holes. This way,

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10. Enjoying your bulbs again next year Many bulbs can be left in the soil after flowering. Just leave them alone and let the leaves wither back on their own. Next year, these same bulbs can produce another beautiful display, but you will have to help them along by providing fertiliser.

Apply this fertiliser (either organic or inorganic) when the shoots emerge from the soil and repeat the procedure immediately after flowering.

Alan’s gardening tips for the weekend ■ Plant winter onion sets and banana shallots for the first crops of next summer.

■ Gladioli corms of the non-hardy type (the majority) should be lifted, dried off and stored in a frost free place. The small corms that form around the base are probably best discarded as they can take several years to reach flowering size.

■ Take cuttings of pelargoniums, fuchsias and other tender plants.

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Garden visits chanting with winter “hoar” frost on them.

■ Check summer cuttings of fuchsias, pelargoniums and other tender perennials for roots. If well rooted, pot them on into 9cm (3.5”) pots filled with good potting compost. If not, leave the potting until spring. There is still time to root more.

■ Create a cottage garden effect by sowing easy to grow hardy annuals. Calendula and Love-In-A-Mist (Nigella) look good together.

Cor nflower, Larkspur and Clarkia will give some height to the middle and back of a border and are good cut-flowers too. All can be sown directly into well-prepared soil where you want them to flower and don’t need to be raised in trays and transplanted.

■ Lift, divide and replant the youngest bits of herbaceous perennials that have finished flowering. Most perennials benefit from dividing every two to three years. Improve soil and water in well to get them re-established.

■ Sow fallow areas of your vegetable patch with quick growing “green manure” crop.

This will improve the soil structure and reduce nutrients being washed out of your soil by the winter rains. Choose from winter tares, grazing rye and field beans. Dig it all into the soil before they come into flower.

■ Start feeding birds again (if you ever stopped).

■ Get compost containers ready for the autumn clean up. Construct extra or perhaps purchase new ones before the leaves start to fall. Shredders are very useful and can turn most trimmings and modest prunings into useful mulching material.

Ask Alan QUESTION I have grown chilli peppers in my greenhouse. There are lots of fruit but they are all green. Will they turn red and could I bring them indoors to ripen on a windowsill? From R Baker ANSWER They should ripen in your unheated greenhouse if the fruits are fully grown. Chilli will stand quite low temperatures and I have had them ripen right into the middle of winter in my own unheated greenhouse.

Alan’s Plant of the Week – Liriope muscari You could be forgiven for thinking that Liriope is a grass but its common name of lily grass gives away its true identity. This is a tough and easy-to-grow evergreen plant from the lily family and a very useful plant for shady places in the garden.

At this time of the year showy purple blooms on stiff spikes are held aloft above the dark foliage and can be remarkably eye catching. We grow many Liriope and even have a white flowered variety called Traebert White.

What’s on

The American Midwest will be coming to this year’s Malvern Autumn Show thanks to two Gloucestershire students who have built a garden as part of the show’s Edible Gardens section to promote Rockford in Illinois, known as “the city of gardens”, as a tourist destination.

But rather than the usual carrots and cabbages their plot will feature maize, barley and sugar beet.

Steve, from the Forest of Dean, explained that the design is based on a grid to reflect both the layout of streets in the city and the agriculture that surrounds it.

“We did research into the city and what’s around it, the field patterns and crop patterns.

You don’t have to travel far and you’re in far mland.”

Steel sculptures and benches will hint at the city’s industrial background and represent one of its iconic landmarks, a stadium known as The Big Orange Box. A concrete path running through the garden will give a big city feel and the river will be shown by a water feature with a narrow part echoing the original ford crossing.

Rockford, about 80 miles from Chicago, is known for its forests and Steve and Jake, who comes from Kemerton, are planning to include woodland in the design.

There will be hazel and also some elm, a tree that used to be common around the city. “It will be a symbolic reflection back to that,” explained Steve.

The pair, who are in their third year studying Landscape Architecture at the University of Gloucestershire, won a competition run at the university by the Rockford Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. Among the judges were Cheltenham-based designer Chris Beardshaw and the final stages of the contest saw the entrants producing videos about their gardens, which were later broadcast by a TV station in Rockford.

The Malvern Autumn Show takes place today and tomorrow at The Three Counties Showground, Malvern. for tickets call 01684 584924 or go to www.threecounties.co.uk

For Good Advice & Excellent Home Grown Plants visit your local nursery!

Cleeve Nursery

138 Main Road, Cleeve, BS49 4PW 01934 832134 www.cleevenursery.co.uk

Southern Spinal Injuries Trust Day at Yeo Valley Mark Diacono, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s River Cottage head gardener gives an inspired talk on Grow Your Own at Holt Farm, Blagdon, in aid of this vital local charity to support Horatio’s Garden at Salisbury Hospital. This is an all-day event on Friday, October 4, in a fabulous place with an inspiring speaker. Details and tickets from www.ssit.org.uk

Royal Horticultural Society - planting demonstration of containers for a colourful display

Felicity Down will share her vast experience of which varieties of flowering, foliage and bulbs do best.

The event is on Monday October 14, at 7pm.

Tickets cost £5 for RHS members, £7 nonmembers. Apply to Cleeve Nursery for tickets for this only event by calling 01934 832134.

Picture guide Plant bulbs from now until December to get wonderful spring displays of daffodils, main image top; from left, alliums, tulips and crocus can be planted now too; Alan has tips on growing chilli peppers; Alan’s plant of the week is Liriope muscari, also known as lily grass WCL-E01-S2

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Antiques Costume drama

glass, playing cards and chess pieces will be going under the hammer. November is also shaping up well, say the auctioneers, with exceptional quality textiles, including stump work, needlepoint, samplers and straw work.

There will also be militaria, guns and ephemera – and large quantities of bullion coins have already been consigned.

Further entries of jewellery, silver, bijouterie and postable items suitable as seasonal gifts will be welcomed as an addition to the good selection of whisky and other festive drink being offered in December.

For more details about buying or selling at Stroud Auction Rooms ring 01453 873800, email info@stroudauctions.com or visit the website www. stroudauctions.co.uk

Tamlyns Tamlyns of Bridgwater have been asked to sell a huge private collection of vintage and theatrical costume; originally intended for their next collectors’ sale, auctioneer Claire Rawle has decided that because of the sheer volume and assortment it should form the basis of a specialist sale. A date has been set for December 10.

The collection includes both ladies’ and gents’ costume from the 1940s to the 1980s – and everything from dresses, suits, coats, jackets, shirts, ties, scarves, hats, skirts will be included.

There will also be some earlier costume and textiles and entries from other vendors will be welcome. So if you have any costume, linen, lace or textiles that you would like to enter into the sale, contact the auctioneers on 01278 445251.

Royal appointment The Chippenham Auction Rooms Royal Worcester is still highly sought after and is believed to be the second oldest remaining English porcelain brand still in existence today. When it comes up for auction there is a lot of demand.

Ask The Chippenham Auction Rooms, who have a collection of early 20th century Royal Worcester in their antiques and collectables sale on Saturday, October 5.

The collection has items signed by painters and artists including E T Baker, A Shuck, Ricketts, H Davis, K Blake, H Stinton and others, including the famous J A S Stinton.

John Stinton (1854–1956) was best known for his Highland Cattle scenes. The family tradition of working with Royal Worcester started with Henry Stinton, who was employed from 1805 at the Grainger family’s factory at St Martin’s Gate in Worcester and would later become part of the ‘Royal Worcester’ group.

John Stinton (Senior) born in 1829, was Henry Stinton’s son and started his apprenticeship at the Grainger factory when eleven years old, remaining there until his retirement in 1895.

The top estimate for this is £13,316 and interest has already been registered. “It really is a special collection,” said auctioneer Gordon Brockman. “We have had a lot of good porcelain recently but this is the best this year.”

The auction will take place at the salerooms at The Old Laundry, Ivy Road in the centre of Chippenham. For information on the sale www.chippenhamauctionplease visit rooms.co.uk or call 01249 444544.

Variety performance Stroud Auction Rooms Things are buzzing at Stroud Auction Rooms.

Hot on the heels of what the auctioneers describe as “an amazingly good August sale” – historically the most difficult month of the year for auctions – came the September blockbuster which hit the £200,000 mark.

But jubilant owner and auctioneer Nick Bowkett points out that while there were the obvious stars of the show – the top selling lot was a collection of 17th and 18th century Russian cutlery decorated with clear and white amber, which made £6,500 – the bulk of the sale was made up of fairly modestly priced general items.

“We had some 300 vendors and they certainly didn’t all have thousand pound items,” said Mr Bowkett. “Good quality books, clocks, watches, coins and ephemera valued between £40 and £150 did exceptionally well.”

Silver and jewellery with any merit at all made extremely good prices well over the scrap prices paid by jewellers and gold-buying shops. Pretty 9ct gold rings were selling well and doing 30 or 40 per cent better than a few months ago, the auctioneers report.

Small silver objects were in great demand, with guilloche or enamel items attracting a lot of attention. A nice silver letter opener in the form of a sword (bought at a car boot for £30) realised £420, while a dressing table set sold for £340 and three silver spirit labels by Hester Bateman and family made £600.

Much of the success achieved at Stroud Auctions is down to the knowledge and painstaking research of the specialist valuers.

Many hours were spent researching the topselling Russian cutlery but the auctioneer could find no others coming onto the market over the past few years. Even top researcher Richard Cole, with 2,000 reference books at his disposal, could find nothing similar. Valuation was made more difficult because the cutlery was so damaged. But Mr Bowkett and his team made sure they catalogued the lot correctly with excellent on-line images, and their attention to detail paid off, with the cutlery attracting attention from across the globe.

Quality furniture was so in demand that most trade buyers were out-bid, with private individuals buying many of the top lots. A Shapland and Petter cabinet sold for £1,400 – probably the highest price achieved at auction for a piece of this type – while the £1,600 paid for a Chippendale chair was exceptional as it had some damage.

A very rare 19th century French artist’s lay figurine was a surprising result at £1,050 as previously only much larger examples had realised such prices. The arts and crafts enamelled copper plaque by George Edward Hunt, which sold for £1,600, is also thought to be a record.

The specialist stamp section produced some very satisfactory results. The highlight was an extensive collection of British line engraved stamps, which realised £2,000.

The hard-working staff at Stroud Auctions have no time to rest on their laurels as they are already preparing for the October sale when some exceptional Asian Art, tribal, ceramics,

Sporting chance Greenslade Taylor Hunt

Buyers from around the country are expected to attend Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s biannual West Country Sporting Sale on Friday, October 4, featuring taxidermy, top, a Beswick group of a lady in hunt dress riding a dapple grey horse, and a silver presentation hunting horn by H Phillips, of London 1930. Inset: a silver letter opener realised more than £400 with Stroud Auction Rooms

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Buyers from around the country are expected to attend Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s biannual West Country Sporting Sale on Friday, October 4.

The well-established and well-regarded sale will feature in the region of 600 lots encompassing a diverse selection of field sports, team sports and sporting art.

Works by principal artists will include hunting and sporting prints by Lionel Edwards, Cecil Aldin and Snaffles. In addition there will be an array of watercolours and oils.

The sale will commence at 10.30am with the sale of sporting books. A large range of fishing rods, reels and accessories will be featured.

Taxidermy continues to prove popular with collectors and an extensive selection will be on sale – the largest the auctioneers have ever had. This is made up of a nucleus of three collections including a pair of snowy owls, birds of prey, game and sea birds. There are stag heads and fox masks too, plus an enormous assortment of mounted antlers.

Other sections of hunting interest will include hats, boots and coats, hunting horns and buttons as well as whips and sticks. Leather goods will also be on sale, including hunting flasks and sandwich tins.

There is a large entry of Beswick horses, including famous racehorses, plus a variety of hunting groups and fox hounds in the silver, jewellery, ceramics and decorative section.

The sale will be on view today at The Octagon Salerooms, East Reach,Taunton, from 9am-12.30pm. Viewing will also take place on Tuesday, October 1, and Wednesday, October 2, from 9am-5pm. It will be a busy

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Antiques FROM PAGE 33 week for the auctioneers as the customary monthly sale takes place on Thursday, October 3, from 10.30am. After the conclusion of this auction visitors will be able to view the lots for the sporting sale from 3pm-5pm.

For further details on the West Country Sporting Sale, contact the saleroom manager, Stuart Triggol, on 01823 332525.

Legends of the road Charterhouse The Charterhouse September classic car and motorcycle auction turned up some fascinating rarities – from barn-sorted wrecks through to concours-winning vehicles.

Auctioneer Matthew Whitney said: “The auction was held at The Royal Bath and West Showground on Monday, September 9, which was immediately after the massive Beaulieu auto jumble. With over 300 people turning up, there were several who had stayed on after Beaulieu and made visiting Charterhouse part of their buying trip as we had hoped!”

In the auction, it was two Devon barns which yielded some interesting vehicles.

There were nearly 40 motorcycles, in varying degrees of disrepair, which made them all the more appealing to bidders. In addition, there were a couple of car restoration projects, but it was a circa 1919 Austin tractor which took top honours in the barn when it sold for £14,000.

The rest of the vehicles in the barn totalled just under £40,000.

Elsewhere in the auction, a brace of Jaguar E Type 2+2 coupes sold for £30,000 and £22,000, a 1927 Bean 18/50hp tourer realised £18,000, a 2002 Aston Martin DB7 Volante, with some paint damage, realised £16,800, a 1967 Vanden Plas Princess with Prime Ministerial connections made £11,200 and a 1961 Austin Healey Frog Eye Sprite reached £9,000. In the sub £5,000 bracket, there was also plenty of choice, with a Fiat Panda converted into a Walls Ice Cream Moke at £4,000, a 1978 MG Midget realising £3,700 and a 1996 Mini limited edition Equinox getting to £3,600.

This auction now pushes the Charterhouse classic car department through the £1,000,000 bracket of sales this year, with just one further auction to come in 2013.

Charterhouse is now accepting entries for its auction of classic cars and motorcycles on Sunday, November 3, at The Royal Bath & West Showground. For further information regarding this auction, or to arrange a home visit, please contact Matthew Whitney, Associate Partner at Charterhouse, The Long Street Salerooms, Sherborne, Dorset 01935 812277 or via email on info@charterhouse-auctions.co.uk

Small is beautiful Moore Allen & Innocent

The Charterhouse September classic car and motorcycle auction turned up some fascinating rarities – from barn-sorted wrecks through to concours-winning vehicles. Pictured, top to bottom, are: one of two Jaguar E Types, this 1967 model selling for £30,000; a 1961 Frog Eye Sprite, which sold for £9,000; a circa 1919 Austin tractor, which realised £14,000; and a Fiat Panda converted into a Walls Ice Cream Moke, which sold for £4,000.

Pictured right, main image: this circa 1957 wedding dress, designed by Sir Cecil Beaton for his niece, achieved a bid of £500 with Moore Allen & Innocent, , after attracting interest from collectors

All eyes were on a collection of early 19th century miniature portraits at Moore Allen & Innocent’s antiques auction in Cirencester earlier this month.

The smallest of the collection of five miniatures featured a solitary eye in clouds, with a lock of hair to the reverse. Other, more traditional, portraits included a young boy in a blue shirt in a 9ct gold frame, and the photograph from which the painted study had been taken, also as a miniature. The other portraits were of a gentleman in a brown coat, with a lock of hair to the reverse, and a young lady in a pearl choker.

With three determined bidders chasing the lot, it exceeded expectations to make £2,300 – the top lot price of the day. The winning bid was more than enough to bump a Jaguar sports car into second place. The 1998 four litre XK8, with 129,000 miles on the clock, was sold for £1,550.

A pair of 1930s oak haberdasher’s cabinets

by Dudley & Co Ltd, Showcase Manufacturers of Holloway, London attracted the thirdhighest hammer price, at £1,450.

It is expected that the glazed cabinets with pigeonholes, which are too big for the average home, will find their way to a clothes shop wanting to create a vintage vibe. And on the subject of vintage clothing, a circa 1957 wedding dress designed by Sir Cecil Beaton for his

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niece achieved a bid of £500, after attracting interest from collectors. Sir Cecil, who is now better known for his photographs of celebrities and socialites in the pre-war and post-war years, designed sets and costumes for Broadway plays, noticeably My Fair Lady, and went on to design the costumes for the 1964 film of the same name, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, for which he was presented an Academy Award.

And from wedding dresses to dress swords, a Victorian regimental officer’s blade attracted a winning bid of £400, after three phone bidders did battle, attracted by its age. Victorian dress swords are far rarer than those from the George V and VI periods – and the inscription, which read: “Presented to John Crawford Esq, Lieut of The 31st Lanarkshire Rifles, by a few friends of the Volunteer Movement, Feb 1860.”

Stampede for Lenkiewicz Plymouth Auction Rooms A bidding frenzy at a packed Plymouth Auction Rooms earlier this month saw scores of Robert Lenkiewicz paintings, prints, sketches and other works sell for more than £50,000 – with one iconic painting going for £15,000.

Fred The Dog, depicting a reclining man, was one of the last works completed by the mercurial painter before his death in 2002.

Other highlights included the sale of the Lenkiewicz oil on canvas Lisa Stokes, which went for £9,000, and a watercolour, The Bishop, which sold for £3,700. There was also huge interest in a collection of five Fred Yates pictures, sold by a south-east Cornwall man whose family knew the artist, which made £9,250. Among the Fred Yates works was the oval oil on board Someone Offered Me A Banana which sold for £2,800.

Auctioneer and valuer Paul Keen said: “There was fantastic interest in the sale, particularly the Lenkiewicz lots.”

Simpson’s Dali favourite Hansons Auctioneers A Salvador Dali sketch drawn for Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, while they lunched together in New York was set to go under the hammer yesterday.

The pencil sketch, drawn on a correspondence card from the St Regis Hotel in New York, was completed by Salvador Dali for the Duchess in 1958. The 85cm x 135cm sketch depicts a hastily drawn sketch of a man on a charging horse and is signed “Affectueusement (fondly) Dali”. It is expected to sell for between £1,200 and £1,500.

The artist and Simpson had a long friendship. They worked together in the 1930s when Dali designed a lobster print for the Elsa Schiaparelli gown that she wore for a famous Vogue photo shoot. Dali and his wife Gala famously lived at the St Regis every autumn and winter for a decade and regularly entertained high-profile guests at the luxurious hotel. Dali threw wild, lavish parties in the hotel’s marbled gallery and second-floor salons.

The sketch will go under the hammer at the Autumn Fine Art Sale at Hansons Auction House in Etwall, Derbyshire.

Creative talents on show South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts The annual exhibition of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts is a showcase of some of the best fine and applied art work in the West Country today.

This year it’s being staged in the heart of Exeter at the Gloss Gallery, just a short walk from the Princesshay shopping precinct and opposite the Barnfield Theatre.

The exhibition is at, 1 Barnfield Crescent, Exeter, from Saturday, October 5 to Saturday November 2. southwestacademy.org.uk

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All eyes were on a collection of early 19th century miniature portraits, pictured top right, at Moore Allen & Innocent’s antiques auction in Cirencester earlier this month. Also pictured above, this 1998 four litre Jaguar XK8, with 129,000 miles on the clock, was sold for £1,550, and a circa 1957 wedding dress designed by Sir Cecil Beaton for his niece achieved a bid of £500, after attracting interest from collectors

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This red and gold cloth fragment, which measures 6½n by 5½in, is, according to auctioneers, a standard of the future Henry VII, during the pivotal and bloody fight between the houses of Lancaster and York at Bosworth Field in 1485

Historic standard Hansons Auctioneers A 500-year-old piece of the battle flag which flew on the field where King Richard III was slain is going up for auction.

The red and gold cloth fragment, which measures 6½in by 5½in, was, according to auctioneers, a standard of the future Henry VII, during the pivotal and bloody fight between the houses of Lancaster and York which took place at Bosworth Field in 1485.

Hansons Auctioneers said the piece has strong provenance and is expected to make between £3,000 and £5,000 when it goes under the hammer today.

Auctioneer Charles Hanson said the fragment was part of a far larger flag carried by Sir Robert Harcourt who was standard bearer to Henry Tudor during the fight. Henry’s forces slew Richard, ending the Wars of the Roses and marking the beginning of the Tudor dynasty which ruled England until 1603.

International interest in King Richard has boomed after human remains uncovered in an old friary beneath a Leicester car park in 2012 were earlier this year confirmed by experts as being those of the late monarch – the last of the Yorkist line, who reigned from 1483 until his death in battle.

Mr Hanson said: “This is an incredible find from one of the most important battles ever fought on British soil.”

He said the flag fragment had been one of three decaying parts originally hung above the tomb of Sir Robert, Knight of The Bath, where he had been laid to rest after his death in 1490.

Sir Robert’s tomb in St Michael’s Church in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, is also decorated with the Lancastrian red rose.

Mr Hanson added the material’s provenance was “very good” as it had been in the keeping of the same family in Northamptonshire since at least 1847, when it had been mounted in a frame for safe-keeping.

“The fragment had been passed around over the years as an amusing after-dinner thought,” he said.

“Our vendors are obviously aware of its social value today since the imagination of what happened at the Battle of Bosworth will keep historians debating for years to come.

“I am just delighted such a fundamental accessory to that 1485 battle has been unearthed only months after finding King Richard III in a Leicester car park.

“As an auctioneer, I thrive on the social relevance such bygone artifacts had on society. If only this fragment could talk I am sure it could tell us so much. Of course we now know where Richard was laid to rest and I hope this fragment find will be purchased by a museum or private collector who may place it on public display.”

He said given the current interest in the Yorkist king internationally, the fragment may fetch “considerably more” than its estimate when it is auctioned in Derbyshire.

Currently, Richard is set to be laid to rest in a tomb being designed for Leicester Cathedral.

A legal challenge by a small group of his distant relatives wants him buried at York.

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Television Adam Postans So that’s it. Auditions done and dusted.

We’ve seen every act we’re going to see this year (bands manufactured from solo rejects thrown together at the last minute aside, of course), which leaves one miserable, life-sapping thought.

Somewhere among the overwhelmingly drab, desperate and talentless bunch through to Bootcamp this weekend is the X Factor winner.

And all ITV has to do now is drag out this baloney until Christmas.

It’s an inevitability made even less palatable by the fact that no matter what happens from hereon in, this series has already written itself off after just four weeks of pointless new two-phase room/arena auditions.

The regrettable fallout is that the only potential comedy act left standing, in the timehonoured tradition of Wagner and Chico – a role so crucial to the success or failure of the live shows (for failure, see Rylan Clark) – is reggae, reggae Souli Roots.

And she’s no Goldie Cheung, I can tell you.

Anyone else remotely mould-breaking, amusing or entertaining has been snuffed out, canned, forgotten.

The blame begins and ends with the judges who’ve been taking it all way too seriously.

The panel’s only job is to help make an enjoyable Saturday night television programme.

Instead, they’ve turned the show’s tenth anniversary into a black-armband wake.

Take the arena audience, for instance – 4,000 people who are encouraged to express themselves by booing, cheering, applauding or chanting: “Off ! Off ! Off ! Off !” when the need arises.

But this is the hypocritical, schizophrenic X Factor, remember.

So last Sunday, as the crowd vocally disagreed with the judges’ decision to send a young hopeful packing, Sharon Osbourne turned round and rudely retorted: “Oh, how dare you. Hush now. Behave yourselves,” while Louis Walsh snapped: “Shut up.”

That pair aren’t even the worst offenders when it comes to sucking the joy out of the occasion.

Chief cheer-douser is Gary Barlow who opened his account on Saturday night immediately after giving a resounding “no” to a pair of annoying no-hopers going by the name Duplex, who are “one person cut in half ”, or two people if I had my way and a circular saw to hand.

“It’s the same thing,” he moaned, puffing out his cheeks. “It’s like a shortcut to fame.”

What the hell did he think X Factor was?

A quite extraordinary comment that demonstrates he simply doesn’t understand the show or share its sense of fun that has somehow got lost over the years. He’d fit in far better on BBC1’s joyless energy vacuum The Voice.

Barlow was also at the centre of the latest case of vile trickery by the panel and the producers of driving a wedge between best friends in the name of public entertainment.

The latest victims were a trio called the Daisy Chains, so called because: “If one of the links is broken, we don’t work,” a strongerthan-oak bond that lasted little over a nanosecond after failed solo artist Gary Barlow told Hannah Sheares: “You have the potential to go far, but on your own.”

A tearful break-up ensued, with hilarious consequences.

There’s a collective responsibility on all four judges, however, that not even Nicole Scherzinger, the only decent one among them, can shirk.

It was she who invited auditionee Joseph Whelan’s five-year-old son into the room last weekend to sit with her and watch his dad audition, which I found deeply uncomfortable and crudely cynical.

Whelan is actually part of the show’s biggest problem now, one that’s made it a sitting duck for the welcome return of Strictly Come Dancing.

He is but one of a bombardment of

umpteen X Factor flops from previous years who’ve returned to haunt us.

Aside from building a bonfire of acoustic guitars, it’s the most urgent change required – a lifetime ban for any previous contestant.

Because the bottom of the talent barrel has long since been scraped.

It’s either time to change the barrel or opt for the more merciful course of action.

Take the X Factor out the back and put both barrels to its head.

It’s done and dusted.

screen shots ■ A minute’s silence, flags at half mast and a bugle call of The Last Post are in order.

Please try to maintain a stiff upper lip and stay strong when I say it’s the final ever series of Peter Andre: My Life (say it ain’t so!) which took a whopping 43 seconds before anyone even mentioned his kids, who he loves by the way, beating the previous record by 42.5 seconds.

So, what’s our likeable dimwit been up to?

Well, in chronological order from episode one, he’s got a hair-care range out, ladies’ perfume, he loves his kids, a calendar, he still loves his kids, and he’s the new host of ITV’s 60 Minute Makeover, which ITV2 spent 60 minutes plugging on Monday night.

But he also took time out to offer some inspirational words to a children’s music workshop: “When I was six I already knew that one day I was going to be on stage. I kept entering talent contests and lost all of them.

“Now, how did I go from losing every single competition to winning?”

You answered the phone in early 2004 to hear the words: “Fancy two weeks in the Australian jungle, Pete?”

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■ Richard Osman out-funnying Sarah Millican on her BBC2 show.

■ This Morning wheeling out a clip of Stuart Little as part of Hugh Laurie’s career highlights VT. ■ The insane but addictive Naked and Afraid, on Discovery.

■ Dave channel’s hilarious, meticulously researched internet version of TV Burp, Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish.

■ The One Show’s haunting sight of 9,000 body silhouettes sketched out on Arromanches beach in Normandy, one for every troop killed in the D-Day landings.

■ Edie Falco choking back the tears in a moving tribute to The Sopranos legend and costar James Gandolfini at the Emmy Awards, on 5USA ■ And BBC2’s The Wrong Mans with James Corden and Mathew Baynton, who’s best known for Horrible Histories. As is James Corden. Only in his case, it’s called Horne and Corden.

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PICTURE: THAMES/SYCO

Has the X Factor has its day? Is the end of Peter Andre’s My Life show such a bad thing? At least Adam’s now looking forward to Strictly Come Dancing – a reality TV show he can actually enjoy

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■ Chef Tom Kerridge had quite the unusual ingredient for his fruit fool dessert on BBC2’s Proper Pub Food...

“I’m going to stick my plums into the butter mix.”

Just the bill, please.

■ This Morning’s Phillip Schofield to Girls Aloud foghorn Kimberley Walsh: “What’s the next chapter of your life? Will you still sing?”

Don’t give her ideas, Schofe!

■ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D? I couldn’t give a M.O.N.K.E.Y.S. ■ Downton Abbey’s back! More on this when something actually happens in it. (Next update: September 2014.)

■ Women Behind Bars With Trevor McDonald? Preferable to Dennis Nilsen, I suppose.

■ BBC1’s 9pm Sunday night alternative to Downton, By Any Means, is an absolute stinker which I’m planning to sink my teeth into soon. In the meantime, avoid. By any means.

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Catherine Tyldesley’s character Eva is about to start a romance with Jason (played by Ryan Thomas) in Coronation Street, following his fling with her on-screen mother Stella, played by Michelle Collins

Soap actress Catherine Tyldesley is winding down after a weekend of celebrating.

She threw a lavish 30th birthday party attended by all her family and friends, including her Coronation Street co-stars and some former colleagues from her brief stint in Emmerdale (she played a prison officer in 2010).

“It really was the best night of my life. It was an old-fashioned Hollywood, glitz, glam, camp extravaganza!” she says, giggling.

In common with her Corrie character, Eva Price, Tyldesley admits she’s “a girly girl” who “likes to get dressed up”.

It’s more than two years since ditzy, highmaintenance Eva tottered on to the cobbles after her mum Stella (Michelle Collins) took over as the landlady of the Rovers Return.

Since then, the Price family have become a powerful force in Weatherfield – but it was recently announced that Collins and Sue Johnston, who plays Eva’s grandmother Gloria, will be leaving next year. John Michie, who played Stella’s murdering boyfriend Karl Munro, has already left.

“It’s all change at the moment,” says Tyldes-

ley. “It’s the end of an era. Michelle’s leaving, Sue’s going, and John’s gone. It’s going to be horrible, because I’ve grown so close to them.

I’m definitely hoping that we’re able to stay in touch, and both of them [Collins and Johnston] have said they’d love to come back, so I’d be gutted if either of them got killed off !”

The actress, who was born in Salford, Greater Manchester, and trained at Birmingham School of Acting, admits that she was worried at first that her character would be given the boot too.

But her future in the soap is secure and she has a juicy storyline on the horizon as Eva is about to embark on a passionate romance – with Jason Grimshaw (Ryan Thomas), who Stella had a fling with.

“Originally, when they told me they were going to put Eva and Jason together I was a bit dubious, because of the relationship that Stella used to have with Jason,” says Tyldesley.

“But when I read the script I just thought, ‘Oh my God, this is so cute!’ It’s not just a

fleeting thing, or a one-night stand. They genuinely do fall in love with each other.”

Initially, Eva tries to resist her feelings for Jason, especially since she’s been supporting her mum following the revelation on her wedding day that Karl burnt down the Rovers and murdered Sunita Alahan. She feels terrible when Stella catches her and Jason kissing, and Eva even offers to call the whole thing off. But Stella gives them her blessing. She has other things on her mind – her decision to sell the Rovers back to former landlord Steve McDonald, who plans to run it with his mum Liz (Beverley Callard).

“I totally get that. It holds too many bad memories for Stella,” says Tyldesley. “When Eva moved to Weatherfield, she thought the Rovers was a dump, hated it, but over time it’s grown on her. So she’s quite upset to leave the pub, but she realises it’s best for her mum.”

Tyldesley admits that getting used to all the changes has been difficult. “It was weird – the other week I was filming in the Rovers and my instinct was to go behind the bar, it did feel strange.”

She has plenty of positives to look forward to, however, and the glamorous actress is excited about Eva’s upcoming romance.

“It is lovely because she’s got such a bad history with guys,” says Tyldesley. “I’ve known Ryan for years and we’re both really happy to be working together. I’m very fortunate that they want to keep me,” she adds. “I’m happy as Larry at the minute, so hopefully I won’t go anywhere for a while.”

Viewers will have to wait and see how things turn out, but Tyldesley hopes the storyline will continue for a while yet.

“With the way things are going at the moment, and from what I’ve heard from the powers-that-be, they’re really liking Eva and Jason together,” she says. “They’ve genuinely fallen for each other.”

“Jason and I are both hoping they give us

some really juicy stuff. A bit of comedy and tragedy, greedy as it sounds, would be great.”

If their relationship does turn sour, Tyldesley has other ideas to keep her character’s drama levels up. For instance, she’d love Corrie bosses to weave Eva’s biological father into the show. “It’s something I’ve been thinking about recently, because obviously nobody knows who he is,” she says.

She’s even thought of an actor who’d be ideal for the role – Neil Dudgeon, who plays Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby in Midsomer Murders. “He’d be fab as my dad! I think he’s a fab actor and that would be really cool,” she says.

Corrie’s keeping her busy at the moment but Tyldesley, who trained in music theatre and has singing lessons in her spare time, says it’s her dream to star in a West End musical, and would love to have a go at opera, too.

“I wish they’d bring back that show, Pop Star To Opera Star,” she says. “As a singer, it was so interesting to watch how they could change their voices.”

Coronation Street is on ITV on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

Catherine is thrilled to still be in the Corrie cast

PICKS OF THE WEEK

PROFILE Talking heads tell us why they love this national treasure in Hello: A Portrait of Leslie Phillips (Saturday, More4, 9pm)

GAME SHOW It may be in its 43rd year, but A Question of Sport remains as fresh and entertaining as ever (Monday, BBC1, 8.30pm)

DRAMA Settle into Sunday evenings with a cup of tea and the latest dose of Downton Abbey (ITV1, 9pm)

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ENTERTAINMENT Brucie and Tess are back in their Saturday slot as Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One, 7pm) gets going

MUSIC Enjoy an evening with Elton in this fantastic concert on Friday evening (Elton John in Concert (BBC Four, 9pm)

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Saturday television&radio Saturday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

ATLANTIS 8.25pm, BBC1

Fledgling hero Jason goes in search of his father, only to be washed up on the shores of a mysterious land. Fantasy drama, starring Jack Donnelly and Mark Addy.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 10.00 Saturday Kitchen Live (S). 11.30 Paul Hollywood’s Bread (R,S,HD). 12.00 Football Focus (S,HD). 12.45 Saturday Sportsday (S,HD).

1.00 BBC News; Regional News (S,HD).

1.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S). 2.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 3.00 Live Cycling: Road World Championships (S).

4.00 Final Score (S,HD). 5.10 BBC News; Regional News and Weather (S,HD). 5.30 I Love My Country (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

STRICTLY COME DANCING 7pm, BBC1

Following last night’s first live edition, Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly introduce the nine celebrities waiting in the wings, who show off what they’ve learned in the rehearsal room so far. With no public vote or elimination this weekend, the scores given by judges are carried over to next week.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two (S). 6.30 Film: From This Day Forward (S) (1946). ●●● 8.00 Film: A Damsel in Distress (S) (1937). ●●●● 9.40 Reel History of Britain (R,S).

10.10 The Life of Birds 11.00 Fred Dibnah’s Industrial Age 11.30 University Challenge 12.00 The A to Z of TV Cooking 12.45 The Hairy Bakers 1.00 Live MotoGP 2.05 EastEnders (S,HD). 4.00 Live Cycling: Road World Championships (S). 5.15 Flog It! (R,S,HD).

DARA O BRIAIN – CRAIC DEALER 10.10pm, BBC2

The comedian and Mock the Week host in performance at Edinburgh Playhouse in 2012, combining quick-fire gags and set pieces with audience interaction.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 CITV 9.25 ITV News (S). 9.30 Saturday Cookbook (R,S,HD). 10.25 Murder, She Wrote (R,S,HD). 11.25 ITV News and Weather (S). 11.35 Surprise Surprise (R,S,HD). 12.35 All Star Family Fortunes (R,S). 1.20 Catchphrase (R,S,HD).

2.05 Doc Martin (R,S). 3.05 The X Factor (R,S,HD). 4.05 Film: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (HD) (2001). Comedy adventure sequel, starring Paul Hogan. ●● 5.55 Regional News (S).

STEPPING OUT 7.20pm, ITV

The two remaining couples demonstrate what they have learnt during the competition so far. Judges Mel B, Wayne Sleep and Jason Gardiner then have their say on the performances, the public votes are counted and Davina McCall announces the Stepping Out winning duo.

Channel Channel 4

6.15 British F3 (S). 6.40 The Grid (S). 7.05 The Great North Swim (S,HD). 8.00 The Morning Line (S). 9.00 The American Football Show (S). 10.05 Frasier (R,S).

10.35 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S).

11.05 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD).

12.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 12.30 The Secret Millionaire USA (R,S). 1.30 Channel 4 Racing (S). Live coverage of races at Newmarket and Market Rasen. 4.10 Come Dine with Me (R,S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 10.15 Power Rangers: Megaforce (S,HD). 10.50 Slugterra (S,HD).

11.15 Inside Hollywood. 11.20 Animal Maternity (R,S,HD). 12.15 Cowboy Builders (R,S,HD). 1.15 Film: Columbo: Caution – Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (S) (1991). ●●● 3.10 Film: The Kentuckian (S,HD) (1955). Western, starring Burt Lancaster. ●●● 5.15 Film: The Magnificent Seven (S,HD) (1960). Western, starring Yul Brynner. ●●●●●

(R) repeat (S) subtitles (HD) highdefinition

7.20 Stepping Out (S,HD). 5/5.

See Choices Above.

7.00 Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (R,S). 1/13. Clark Gregg reprises his regular film role as Agent Phil Coulson in this comic-book drama co-created by Joss Whedon.

8.00 The 70s (R,S). 1/4. Historian Dominic Sandbrook examines the decade, touching on the housing boom, the arrival of thousands of Ugandan refugees and the 1972 miners’ strike.

8.20 The X Factor (S,HD). 9/22. The singers who impressed at the double auditions now face a tougher challenge as they gather at Wembley Arena for the first part of boot camp.

Dermot O’Leary presents.

8.00 Grand Designs (R,S,HD). 4/11.

A Marine who was seriously injured in Afghanistan begins a project to build a specially adapted home with a cuttingedge design, on a budget of £250,000.

9.00 Mock the Week (R,S,HD).

10/12. With Rob Beckett, Romesh Ranganathan and Josh Widdicombe. Dara O Briain hosts.

9.30 The Sarah Millican Slightly Longer Television Programme (S,HD). 1/6.

Extended edition.

9.50 Through the Keyhole (S,HD).

5/6. Larry Lamb and Emma Bunton join Dave Berry on the panel as Keith Lemon visits three mystery homes and challenges them to guess the identities of the famous occupants.

9.00 The Taking of Pelham 123 (S,HD) (2009). Criminals hijack a crowded New York subway train and threaten to start shooting the passengers unless a $10million ransom is paid in one hour. However, the transport supervisor they issue their demands to begins to suspect the plot is part of an even grander scheme.

Tony Scott’s thriller remake, with Denzel Washington and John Travolta. See Choices Above. ●●

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7.00 Dad’s Army (R,S). 2/14. The men head off for a weekend at a training camp. Comedy, starring Arthur Lowe.

7.30 Count Arthur Strong (R,S,HD). 3/6.

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6.40 News (S).

7.00 Strictly Come Dancing (S,HD). See Choices Above.

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6.00 The Wonder of Dogs (R,S,HD).

2/3. Kate Humble and Steve Leonard examine the differences in senses and abilities between breeds.

8.25 Atlantis (S,HD). 1/13.

See Choices Above.

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after

Channel 4 Racing, 1.30pm

6.05 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.20 You’ve Been Framed and Famous! (R,S). 23/26. A selection of celebrity lookalike clips.

9.15 The National Lottery Saturday Night Draws (S,HD).

Matt Johnson presents as the balls are set rolling.

9.25 Casualty (S,HD). Fletch shoulders the blame for Tess’s mistake. Michael Stevenson, Alex Walkinshaw and Suzanne Packer star.

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You’ve Been Framed and … 6.20pm

6.15 Pointless Celebrities (S,HD).

2/10. Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present an edition of the game show featuring contestants from period dramas.

10.15 BBC News; Weather (S,HD).

10.30 Match of the Day (S,HD). Gary Lineker presents highlights of the latest Premier League matches, including Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea at White Hart Lane and Swansea City v Arsenal at the Liberty Stadium.

Followed by National Lottery Update.

10.10 Dara O Briain – Craic Dealer (S,HD). See Choices Above.

10.50 ITV News and Weather (S); Weather.

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Mock the Week, 9pm

11.55 The Football League Show (S). Highlights and all the goals from the latest fixtures in the Championship, League One and League Two, including Nottingham Forest v Derby County at the City Ground.

11.10 Wonder Boys (S,HD) (2000). A washed-up professor is given the inspiration to finish his latest novel by a student who shows him a new perspective on life. Drama, starring Michael Douglas. ●●●●●

11.05 10,000 BC (S,HD) (2008).

See Choices Above. ●●

11.10 Hitman (S,HD) (2007).

See Choices Above. ●●

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Casualty, 9.25pm

1.10 Weatherview (S). 1.15 BBC News (S,HD).

12.55 Film: Distant Voices, Still Lives (S) (1990). Terence Davies’s autobiographical drama about his childhood in post-war Liverpool, struggling in a household with a patriarch who rules his clan with an iron fist. Starring Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh and Lorraine Ashbourne. ●●●●● 2.15 This Is BBC Two (S). Preview of upcoming programmes.

1.00 Jackpot247 Viewers get the chance to participate in live interactive gaming from the comfort of their sofas, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team. 3.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R,S). The host takes his successful talk show stateside, where he invites American guests to air their differences. 3.45 ITV Nightscreen (HD).

1.00 Film: The Informers (S,HD) (2008).

Premiere. Eighties-set drama, starring Billy Bob Thornton. ●● 2.35 Hollyoaks (R,S,HD). 4.45 Hugh’s 3 Good Things: Best Bites (S,HD). Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall prepares a mouth-watering dish using squid as the main ingredient.

4.55 Countdown (R,S,HD). 5.40 Blancpain Endurance Series (S).

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Animal Maternity, 11.20am

7.45 The Wonderful Country (S,HD) (1959). A solitary gunman lies low for years in Mexico hiding out from the American authorities, until circumstances force him to return to the US – where he reluctantly agrees to take on dangerous work with a team of Texas Rangers patrolling the border. Western, starring Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Pedro Armendariz, Jack Oakie, Gary Merrill, Albert Dekker, Victor Manuel Mendoza and Charles McGraw. ●●●● 9.40 5 News Weekend (S,HD).

9.45 Point Break (S,HD) (1991). An FBI agent infiltrates a Californian surfing gang suspected of carrying out a series of armed robberies wearing masks modelled on former US presidents. However, his loyalties are tested to the limits when he is befriended by the gang’s leader. Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller, starring Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, Gary Busey and Lori Petty. See Choices Above. ●●●●

12.05 SuperCasino 3.55 Michaela’s Wild Challenge (R,S). Michaela Strachan tries to survive on a desert island. 4.20 Make It Big (R,S). 4.50 Roary the Racing Car (R,S).

5.00 Angels of Jarm (R,S). 5.05 Hana’s Helpline (R,S). 5.20 Angels of Jarm (R,S).

5.25 The Funky Valley Show (R,S). 5.40 Roary the Racing Car (R,S). 5.50 Hana’s Helpline (R,S).

THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 9pm, Channel 4

POINT BREAK 9.45pm, Channel 5

Criminals hijack a crowded New York subway train and threaten to kill the passengers unless they are paid $10million. Thriller remake, with Denzel Washington and John Travolta.

ITV2 ITV2

6.00 Coronation Street (HD).

8.10 Emmerdale (HD). 11.00 The X Factor (R,HD). 12.05 The X Factor USA (R). 2.00 Girlfriends (R,HD). 3.00 Peter Andre: My Life (R,HD). 4.00 Kings of Leon: The Hot Desk (HD). 4.15 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 4.45 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 5.15 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 5.45 Film: Happy Feet (HD) (2006). ●●●●

An FBI agent infiltrates a Californian surfing gang suspected of carrying out a series of armed robberies wearing masks modelled on former US presidents. However, his loyalties are tested to the limits when he is befriended by the gang’s leader. Thriller, starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.

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6.00 Being Erica (R,HD). 6.45 Gok’s Style Secrets (R,HD). 7.35 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.30 Charmed (R). 9.25 Glee (R,HD). 10.25 90210 (R,HD). 11.25 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 1.20 Mindy Project 2.15 Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.10 2 Broke Girls (R,HD).

3.40 2 Broke Girls (R,HD). 4.05 Rules of Engagement (R,HD).

5.00 How I Met Your Mother

Sky1 Sky1

6.00 Glee (R,S,HD). 7.00 Glee (R,S,HD). 8.00 Fantasy Football Club (R). 9.00 Game Changers 10.00 Soccer AM. 12.00 WWE Superstars (HD). 1.00 Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew (R,S,HD). 2.00 Harrow: A Very British School (R,S,HD). 3.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 4.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S).

5.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

FILM PICKS

Saturday television&radio 10,000 BC 11.05pm, ITV

HITMAN 11.10pm, Channel 4

A young mammoth hunter crosses the wilderness to rescue his lover and fellow villagers from slave raiders. Fantasy, starring Steven Strait.

Gold GOLD

6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.00 Goodnight Sweetheart 8.20 As Time Goes By 9.00 Last of the Summer Wine 10.20 Yes Minister 11.00 Open All Hours 11.40 Jeeves and Wooster 12.50 Jeeves and Wooster 2.00 The Good Life 3.00 One Foot in the Grave 4.30 Yes, Prime Minister: Re-Elected 5.50 Only Fools and Horses

A genetically engineered assassin fails to complete his latest assignment and finds that he has become a target himself. Thriller, with Timothy Olyphant.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1

6.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 6.30 FL72 Highlights (HD). 7.30 Premier League Preview (HD).

8.00 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). 9.00 Game Changers (HD).

10.00 Soccer AM (HD). 12.00 FL72 Live (HD). 2.30 Saturday Team Talk (HD). 3.00 Soccer Saturday (HD). 5.00 Saturday Night Football (HD). Swansea City v Arsenal (kick-off 5.30pm).

New Girl, 8pm

A League of Their Own, 8pm

Only Fools and Horses, 7.55pm

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). A former marine is killed during a drone strike on a terrorist target.

6.55 The Two Ronnies Spectacle Three-part documentary telling the story of the comedy double act.

7.50 Evan Almighty (HD) (2007). Politician Evan Baxter is recruited by God for a special mission. A great flood is coming, and like Noah before him, Evan has to build an ark to protect the wildlife of the world from the impending cataclysm. However, convincing others that the end is nigh proves difficult. Comedy sequel, with Steve Carell. ●●●

7.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). Ted struggles to get his business off the ground.

7.30 Suburgatory (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Bart creates a range of novelty T-shirts.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S). Mr Burns campaigns to become state governor.

8.00 New Girl (R,HD). Jess is fired from her teaching job. Comedy, with Zooey Deschanel.

8.30 New Girl (R,HD). Jess pretends to be a handsome stranger’s blind date.

8.00 A League of Their Own (R,S,HD). With Matt Smith, Jonathan Ross and Perri ShakesDrayton.

7.55 Only Fools and Horses Dodgy dealer Del gets his hands on a consignment of selfinflating rubber dolls, which turn out to be filled with explosive gas.

Comedy, starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Buster Merryfield.

9.50 The Xtra Factor (HD).

Caroline Flack and Matt Richardson present the companion show to the X Factor, as the remaining contestants face the competition’s tough boot camp stage at London’s Wembley Arena.

9.00 Marley and Me (HD) 9.00 Little Britain Andy and 9.00 An Idiot Abroad (2008). Journalist John Lou buy an unusual pet, (R,S,HD). Ricky Gervais Grogan celebrates his while Peter Andre tries to and Stephen Merchant wedding by getting his sneak into a royal garden send their friend and wife a golden Labrador party. Comedy, with Matt former radio producer puppy, hoping to stave Lucas.

Karl Pilkington on a tour off her desire to have of some of the most 9.40 Little Britain Vicky children. Over the course impressive sites in the Pollard finds out she is of their marriage, the world. pregnant. dog remains a constant companion and never 10.20 Bottom After inheriting 10.00 SNF – Match Choice 10.00 An Idiot Abroad loses his mischievous £600 the duo head off (R,S,HD). Karl Pilkington (HD). Extended streak even as he grows for a night at the fair. arrives in India, where highlights from the from a cute puppy to a Richie’s wallet is stolen, he attends the Holi, a Premier League, 7st dog. Comedy drama but that proves to be the spring festival in which allowing viewers to based on a newspaper least of his problems as a people throw coloured access the latest round of column, starring Owen fortune teller declares dye at one another, and top-flight fixtures, Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, that he is going to die in takes an eight-hour bus including Manchester Kathleen Turner and three nights’ time.

Rik ride to see holy men United v West Bromwich Alan Arkin. ●●● Mayall stars. known as ‘the babas’.

Albion.

Evan Almighty, 7.50pm

10.50 Celebrity Juice (R,HD).

A special edition of the comedy quiz hosted by Keith Lemon, with team captain Holly Willoughby’s This Morning co-presenter Phillip Schofield standing in for Fearne Cotton.

FL72 Live, 12pm

(HD). Sarah-Jane Mee presents a full re-run of the day’s top Premier League match.

11.00 Big Train Comic 11.00 Road Wars (R,S,HD). sketches.

Dog handler Steve speaks to youngsters 11.40 The Smell of Reeves who have been stealing and Mortimer Jack car badges, and the Dent and Eric Potter Road Crime Unit makes a present a British surprise discovery in a Information Board film. vehicle on the M5.

11.30 FL72 Highlights (HD).

Nottingham Forest v Derby County. Action from the Championship fixture at the City Ground.

12.40 Crazy Beaches (R,HD). A reveller decides to fly home after spending just 48 hours in Malia, while bar owner Chubby White attempts to set a new world record. 1.10 The X Factor (R,HD).

2.30 Life’s Funniest Moments (R). 2.55 Teleshopping 5.55 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.55 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 1.25 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 1.55 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 2.20 Shameless (R,HD). 3.10 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 3.35 Happy Endings (R,HD). 3.55 Being Erica (R,HD). 4.40 Life Unexpected (R,HD).

12.00 Road Wars (R,S). 1.55 Border Invasion USA (R,S,HD).

2.50 Border Invasion USA (R,S,HD). 3.45 Futurama: Welcome to the World of Tomorrow (R,S). 4.00 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD). 4.30 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD). 5.00 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD).

12.00 Saturday Reloaded (HD). A round-up of the latest football goals from the top flight, Championship, League One and League Two. 1.00 SNF – Match Choice (HD). Extended highlights from the Premier League.

2.30 SNF – Match Choice (HD).

4.00 SNF – Match Choice (HD).

5.30 FL72 Highlights (HD).

RADIO

11.20 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Leonard breaks his and Sheldon’s roommate agreement.

11.50 Rude Tube: Total Fails (R,HD). Video clips of people’s disasters.

Radio 1 5.00am Rob da Bank 7.00 Gemma Cairney 10.00 Matt Edmondson 1.00pm Huw Stephens 4.00 Radio 1’s Dance Anthems with Danny Howard 7.00 MistaJam 9.00 Charlie Sloth 11.00 DJ Target 1.00am Diplo and Friends 3.00 Friction Radio 2 6.00am Anneka Rice 8.00 Sounds of the 60s 10.00 Graham Norton 1.00pm Pick of the Pops 3.00 Dermot O’Leary 6.00 Liza Tarbuck 8.00 Paul Gambaccini with America’s Greatest Hits. Records from this week’s US charts and the past six decades, plus tracks from a landmark album. 10.00 Dave Pearce: Dance Years Midnight Gideon Coe 3.00 Richard Allinson

Radio 3 7.00am Breakfast 9.00 News 9.03 CD Review 12.15pm Sound of Cinema: Chaplin and Music 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Saturday Classics: Sound of Cinema 4.00 Sound of Cinema 5.00 Jazz Record Requests 6.00 Jazz Line-Up. Concert music by Quercus at the Brecon Jazz Festival. 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert 10.00 Hear and Now Midnight Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz 1.00 Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 iPM 6.00 News and Papers 6.07 Ramblings 6.30 Farming Today This Week 6.57 Weather 7.00 Today 9.00 Saturday

Live 10.30 Blind Man Roams the Globe 11.00 The Forum 11.30 From Our Own Correspondent Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 Money Box 12.30 The Now Show 12.57 Weather 1.00 News 1.10 Any Questions? 2.00 Any Answers? 2.30 Saturday Drama: The Million Pound Bank Note 3.30 The Secret Life of JS Bach 4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour 5.00 Saturday PM 5.30 iPM 5.54 Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.15 Loose Ends.

Frederick Forsyth, Lucy Worsley, Steven Berkoff andMiranda Sawyer join Clive Anderson in the studio. 7.00 Profile 7.15 Saturday Review 8.00 Archive on

4: A Brief History of Irony. Joe Queenan returns to the topic of his 2002 Radio 3 essay, assessing the history of ironic humour with the help of Ian Hislop, Armando Iannucci and John Sergeant.

9.00 Classic Serial: Three Men in a Boat. Conclusion to Jerome K Jerome’s story, dramatised by Chris Harrald.

10.00 News and Weather 10.15 Unreliable Evidence 11.00 Round Britain Quiz 11.30 Poetry Please Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Tales from the Casino 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 6.00 Saturday Breakfast

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7.00 Robin Hood (R,S). Part two of two. The real Sheriff surrounds the castle with his formidable army.

Last in the series.

7.45 Doctor Who (R,S). An old enemy returns.

8.30 Great Movie Mistakes IV: May the Fourth Be with You (R,S). Blunders in Hollywood films.

9.00 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (S) (2003).

Swashbuckling fantasy adventure, with Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. ●●●●● 11.15 Family Guy (R,S).

11.40 Family Guy (R,S).

12.00 Orphan Black (R,S).

12.45 Russell Howard’s Good News (R,S). 1.15 Bad Education (R,S). 1.45 Staying in with Greg & Russell (R,S). 2.15 Bamboo (R,S). 2.35 Live at Electric (R,S). 3.05 8.00 SNF – Game of the Day the Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S).

11.40 The Magaluf Weekender (R,HD).

London lads Jack, John and Callum arrive in Magaluf eager for some action.

12.20 Little Britain 1.00 Little Britain 1.30 Big Train 2.00 Bottom 2.30 The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer

BBC3 BBC3

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 Africa (R).

Creatures of East Africa captured on film, from a lizard eating flies from the face of a sleepy lion to an elephant watching over her calf while it dies on the sunparched plains.

8.00 Lost Kingdoms of Africa (R).

Shedding light on Africa’s precolonial kingdoms.

9.00 The Young Montalbano.

The detective attempts to navigate local gossip in Vigata.

In Italian.

10.50 What’s Going On? The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye (R).

The story of the soul singer.

11.50 Charles Bradley: Soul of America (R).

12.55 Top of the Pops: 1978 (R). 1.35 Africa (R).

2.35 Lost Kingdoms of Africa (R).

9.00 The Danny Baker Show 11.00 Fighting Talk Noon 5 Live Sport 12.45 5 Live Sport: Premier League Football 2013-14 3.00 5 Live Sport: Premier League Football 2013-14 5.00 Sports Report 6.06 6-0-6. Darren Fletcher and Robbie Savage take calls on the day’s football action. 8.00 Saturday Edition 9.45 TBA 11.30 Stephen Nolan 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 Alan Titchmarsh Noon Nicholas Owen 3.00 Jamie Crick 5.00 Saturday Night at the Movies 7.00 Alex James’s Magical Musical Tour 9.00 The New Releases Show 10.00 Smooth Classics Midnight Bob Jones

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Sunday television&radio Sunday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

BY ANY MEANS 9pm, BBC1

A girl’s body is found in a respected judge’s car boot, and Helen is convinced the accused has been framed by an ex-policeman with a personal vendetta.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 7.30 Match of the Day (R,S,HD). 9.00 Andrew Marr Show (S,HD). 10.00 Sunday Morning Live 2013 (S,HD). 11.00 Sunday Politics (S). 12.15 MOTD2 Extra (S,HD). 1.00 News (S,HD).

1.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S). 2.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 3.00 Ronnie’s Animal Crackers (R,S,HD). 4.00 Points of View (S,HD). 4.15 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 5.00 Songs of Praise (S,HD). 5.35 Britain’s Big Wildlife Revival (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

THE GINGE, THE GEORDIE AND THE GEEK DOWNTON ABBEY 7.30pm, BBC2 9pm, ITV Comedy sketch show featuring an array of characters, starring Graeme Rooney, Paul Charlton and Kevin O’Loughlin. In the first episode, gulls raid a local business, a ventriloquist’s puppet has an affair, dancers create revolutionary choreography and a wolf and a pig go for counselling.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 Film: Borderline (S) (1950). ●●● 7.30 Around the World in 80 Gardens (R,S,HD). 8.30 Gardeners’ World (R,S,HD).

9.00 The Beechgrove Garden (S). 9.30 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites (S). 11.00 James Martin’s Food Map of Britain (R,S,HD). 12.30 Live MotoGP (S,HD). 2.15 Live Cycling: Road World Championships (S). 4.15 Flog It! (R,S,HD).

5.00 Rugby League: Super League PlayOffs (S,HD).

Mary takes an interest in the running of the estate, but meets firm resistance from her father. Lady Rose MacClare finds herself in a predicament at a tea dance in York.

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6.00 CITV 9.25 ITV News (S). 9.30 Ade in Britain (R,S,HD). 10.25 Film: Columbo: Dagger of the Mind (S) (1972). Detective drama, starring Peter Falk and Honor Blackman. ●● 12.25 ITV News and Weather (S). 12.35 Murder, She Wrote (R,S,HD). 1.35 The X Factor (R,S,HD). 3.05 You’ve Been Framed! (R,S). 3.35 Big Star’s Little Star (R,S,HD). With Lucy Pargeter, Rosemary Shrager and Andrew Whyment. 4.35 Downton Abbey (R,S,HD).

BIG FAT QUIZ OF THE 90S 9pm, Channel 4

Jonathan Ross, Jo Brand, Sue Perkins, Lee Mack, Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade demonstrate how much they remember about the 1990s. Among the celebrity questionsetters are boy band Hanson, presenters Melinda Messenger and Andi Peters, fitness guru Mr Motivator and DJ Goldie.

Channel Channel 4

6.35 The American Football Show (R,S).

7.30 American Football: Hard Knocks (S).

8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S).

9.00 Frasier (R,S). 9.30 Sunday Brunch (S).

12.20 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD).

12.50 The Simpsons (R,S). 1.50 Film: The Net (S,HD) (1995). See Choices Above. ●● 4.00 Location, Location, Location (R,S,HD). 5.05 Channel 4 News (S). 5.25 The Political Slot (S,HD). 5.30 American Football Live (S).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 10.15 Power Rangers: Super Samurai (R,S,HD). 10.50 Slugterra (S,HD). 11.15 Inside Hollywood. 11.20 Police Interceptors (R,S,HD). 12.20 James Bond: The True Story (R,S). 1.20 Film: Vertical Limit (S) (2000). Action adventure, starring Chris O’Donnell. ●● 3.40 Film: Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Director’s Cut (S,HD) (1977). Sci-fi drama, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut and Teri Garr. ●●●●●

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6.35 Regional News (S,HD).

6.05 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.15 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.30 Surprise Surprise (S,HD). 3/10.

A father and daughter are reunited.

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7.00 Countryfile (S,HD). Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison visit the Shropshire town of Ludlow.

6.00 Great British Railway Journeys (R,S,HD). 10/25. The role Weymouth played in the D-Day landings.

6.30 The Great British Bake Off (R,S,HD). 6/16.

7.30 The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek (S,HD). 1/6. See Choices Above.

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8.00 Antiques Roadshow (S,HD).

7/26. Items at the Royal Agricultural University near Cirencester include a tea caddy used for a budgie’s ashes and possibly the last signatures made by Edward VIII before his abdication.

8.00 The Crane Gang (S,HD). 2/3.

The lifting of a hugely expensive sculpture into a private home in Somerset proves a logistical nightmare, while high winds lead to jobs being cancelled across the country.

9.00 By Any Means (S,HD). 2/6.

See Choices Above.

9.00 The Story of the Jews (S,HD).

5/5. Simon Schama examines how the Holocaust and the subsequent creation of the state of Israel in 1948 fundamentally changed what it means to be Jewish. Last in the series.

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Surprise Surprise, 6.30pm

10.00 BBC News; Regional News and Weather (S,HD).

10.25 Match of the Day 2 (S,HD).

Highlights of the latest Premier League matches, which were Stoke City v Norwich City at the Britannia Stadium and Sunderland v Liverpool at the Stadium of Light.

10.00 The Wrong Mans (R,S,HD).

1/6. A case of mistaken identity catapults two council employees into the middle of a deadly criminal conspiracy.

Comedy thriller, with James Corden and Mathew Baynton.

10.30 QI XL (S,HD). 4/16. Extended edition, with Sue Perkins, Ross Noble and David Mitchell.

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11.25 New Town Killers (S,HD) (2008). See Choices Above. ●●●

11.15 Never Mind the Buzzcocks (R,S,HD). 1/13. John Hannah hosts, with Felix Buxton, Aluna Francis, Dave Myers and James Acaster.

11.45 Sus (S,HD) (2010). Drama, starring Clint Dyer. ●●●

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1.00 Weatherview (S). 1.05 BBC News (S,HD).

1.15 Sign Zone: Countryfile (R,S). Ellie Harrison witnesses the homecoming of a remarkable horse in Devon and Tom Heap asks whether the number of domestic cats in the UK is posing a threat to wildlife. 2.10 Sign Zone: Holby City (R,S). Hanssen warns Malick to tread carefully after his recent behaviour. 3.10 This Is BBC Two (S).

Preview of upcoming programmes.

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Kevin McCloud’s Man … 8pm

Police Interceptors, 11.20am 6.20 Superman (S) (1978). A fledgling superhero crash-lands on Earth after evacuation from his home planet and is taken in by an elderly couple who raise him as their own. But with adolescence comes a greater understanding of his superhuman powers, leading to his rebirth as a crusader for justice. Comic-strip adventure, with Christopher Reeve. See Choices Above. ●●●●●

7.30 The X Factor (S,HD). 10/22. The remaining acts have a final chance to impress Gary Barlow, Nicole Scherzinger, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh as they compete in more bootcamp challenges at London’s Wembley Arena. The contestants are hoping to get through to the judges’ houses, but this year the stakes are higher than ever as they compete for a seat on stage – each one representing a place at their mentor’s house.

8.00 Kevin McCloud’s Man Made Home (S). 2/4. Having moved his cabin to the beach, Kevin doubles the floor space with a new sun lounge, puts up a hammock and dives in London’s oldest dock in search of junk to recycle.

8.55 5 News Weekend (S,HD).

9.00 Downton Abbey (S,HD). 2/9.

See Choices Above.

9.00 Big Fat Quiz of the 90s (S).

See Choices Above.

10.05 ITV News and Weather (S); Weather.

10.20 Larry Crowne (S,HD) (2011).

Premiere. A middle-aged man loses his job, and decides to fill his empty days by returning to college. He develops a new circle of friends among the various outcasts who have enrolled, and falls for his public speaking teacher, who has become disenchanted with her job and her marriage.

Comedy drama, directed by and starring Tom Hanks. With Julia Roberts and Cedric the Entertainer. ●●●

10.35 Gogglebox (R,S). 1/13. Return of the weekly TV review programme in which some of Britain’s most opinionated and avid viewers comment on shows from the past seven days, from the comfort of their sofas. Narrated by Caroline Aherne.

9.00 Gone in 60 Seconds (S,HD) (2000). A veteran car thief is forced out of retirement to steal 50 top-of-the-range vehicles in exchange for his brother’s life. While his sibling is held hostage by a sadistic gangster, he asks his former cronies to help – but with the clock ticking and just a few days remaining to pull off the daunting task, their chances of success are hanging by a thread. Thriller, starring Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Duvall, Christopher Eccleston, Vinnie Jones, Delroy Lindo and Will Patton. ●●

11.20 Alan Carr: Chatty Man (R,S).

5/18. Justin Timberlake joins Alan for the 100th edition of Chatty Man, talking about his new film Runner Runner and performing Take Back the Night from his latest album.

11.25 Timecop (S) (1994). A federal agent goes back in time to track down a corrupt politician who has the power to manipulate history. Sci-fi adventure, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Ron Silver. ●●●

12.10 Premiership Rugby Union (S,HD).

Action from the fourth round of top-flight fixtures, including Northampton Saints v Sale Sharks, Harlequins v Saracens and Exeter Chiefs v Leicester Tigers. 1.00 The Store 3.00 British Superbike Championship Highlights (S,HD). 3.55 Motorsport UK (S,HD). 4.40 Nightscreen (HD). 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S).

12.35 Paddy’s TV Guide (R,S,HD). 1.15 American Football Live (S). Atlanta Falcons v New England Patriots (kick-off 1.30am). Nat Coombs is joined by Mike Carlson to present coverage of the interconference match from the Georgia Dome.

4.45 British F3 (R,S). 5.10 Brief Encounters of the Sporting Mind: Golf (R,S). 5.15 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD).

1.15 SuperCasino Live interactive gaming.

3.55 Michaela’s Wild Challenge (R,S).

The five biggest snakes in Africa. 4.20 Make It Big (R,S). 4.50 Roary the Racing Car (R,S). 5.00 Angels of Jarm (R,S). 5.10 Hana’s Helpline (R,S). 5.20 Angels of Jarm (R,S). 5.25 The Funky Valley Show (R,S). 5.40 Roary the Racing Car (R,S).

5.50 Hana’s Helpline (R,S).

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Mary takes an interest in the A superpowered alien is evacuated from his doomed planet and crash-lands on Earth, becoming a crusader for justice. Adventure, with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder.

ITV2 ITV2

6.00 Beauty and the Geek (R).

6.40 Emmerdale (R,HD). 9.15 Coronation Street (R,HD). 11.45 The X Factor USA (R). 1.35 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 2.10 Film: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (HD) (1997). Steven Spielberg’s adventure sequel, with Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore.

Including FYI Daily. ●●● 4.40 The X Factor (R,HD).

THE XTRA FACTOR 9pm, ITV2

Caroline Flack and Matt Richardson head behind the scenes to find out the latest news, views and gossip, as the remaining contestants face the competition’s tough boot camp stage at London’s Wembley Arena and learn if they will be reaching the next stage at the judges’ houses.

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6.00 Charlie’s Angels (R,HD).

7.20 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.05 Charmed (R). 9.05 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 10.05 Hollyoaks (R,HD). 12.35 2 Broke Girls (R,HD). 1.35 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 2.25 Mindy Project (R,HD). 3.25 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 4.50 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 5.45 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1

6.00 Hour of Power (HD). 7.00 Glee (R,S,HD). 9.00 Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew (R,S,HD). 10.00 WWE Superstars (R,HD). 11.00 WWE: Experience (HD). 12.00 Football’s Funniest Moments (R,S,HD). 1.00 Modern Family (R,S,HD). 3.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 5.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 5.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

FILM PICKS

SUPERMAN 6.20pm, Channel 5

Sunday television&radio NEW TOWN KILLERS 11.25pm, BBC1

An inner-city teenager agrees to act as prey in a deadly game of cat and mouse played by a wealthy banker. Thriller, with Dougray Scott and James Anthony Pearson.

Gold GOLD

6.10 2point4 Children 6.40 Sykes 7.15 One Foot in the Grave 8.45 The Good Life 9.45 Only Fools and Horses 12.00 Last of the Summer Wine 12.40 Keeping Up Appearances 1.20 Keeping Up Appearances 2.00 Bring Me Morecambe & Wise 3.00 The Two Ronnies Spectacle 4.00 Just a Minute 4.40 Jo Brand’s Great Wall of Comedy 5.20 Borrowers

Mr Bean’s Holiday, 7.10pm

The Spy Next Door, 8.10pm

Harrow: A Very … 8pm

The Office, 9pm

6.10 The Xtra Factor (R,HD).

Behind the scenes gossip during the boot camp stage.

6.15 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). Comedy, starring Megyn Price.

6.45 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). Mr Burns receives a vital blood transfusion from Bart.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.00 Jeeves and Wooster Bertie decides to retire to the country when his trombone-playing upsets the neighbours.

7.10 Mr Bean’s Holiday (HD) (2007). The bumbling fool wins first prize in the church raffle – a trip to France and a video camera. His travels cause chaos as he disrupts a film shoot in Cannes, to the fury of its megalomaniac director, and is then accused of kidnapping a youngster.

Comedy, starring Rowan Atkinson and Willem Dafoe. ●●

7.15 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Amy is disappointed by Sheldon.

7.40 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

7.00 Moone Boy (R,S,HD).

Martin becomes a tearaway.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Sideshow Bob and Selma get engaged.

7.10 Jeeves and Wooster Bertie Wooster offers his services as a bodyguard when Pauline Stoker reports she is being followed.

8.10 The Spy Next Door (HD) (2010). A Chinese secret agent falls in love with a single mother while helping the CIA apprehend a terrorist, and decides to quit the espionage business. He offers to look after her three kids for the weekend, but struggles to cope with their mischief-making – and to make matters worse, the terrorist escapes from prison. Comedy, with Jackie Chan and Magnus Scheving. ●●●

8.00 Harrow: A Very British School (R,S,HD). As the autumn term draws to a close, sixth-formers Hugh and Henry reflect on some of the school’s eclectic range of traditions.

8.25 Porridge Harris accidentally drops stolen pills into Fletcher’s midday cuppa – much to the annoyance of prison racketeer Harry Grout.

Classic comedy, starring Ronnie Barker.

9.00 The Xtra Factor (HD).

See Choices Above.

THE NET 1.50pm, Channel 4

A shy computer analyst discovers evidence of a criminal conspiracy, so the villains decide to retaliate. Thriller, with Sandra Bullock and Jeremy Northam.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1

6.00 SNF – Match Choice (HD).

7.30 Game Changers (HD). 8.30 FL72 Highlights (HD). 9.00 The Sunday Supplement (HD). 10.30 Goals on Sunday (HD). A review of yesterday’s football action. 12.30 Live Super Sunday (HD). Stoke City v Norwich City (kick-off 1.30pm). 3.30 Live Super Sunday (HD). Sunderland v Liverpool (kickoff 4.00pm).

8.00 Live Spanish Football (HD). Real Betis v Villarreal (kick-off 8.00pm). All the action from the La Liga clash at the Estadio Benito Villamarin.

12.00 Bad Education (R,S).

12.30 Bamboo (R,S). 12.50 Snog, Marry, Avoid? (R,S).

1.20 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(R,S). 1.50 Him & Her (R,S).

2.20 Him & Her (R,S). 2.50 Fazer’s Urban Takeover (R,S). 3.50 Pop’s Greatest Dance Crazes (R,S).

1.25 Rock ’n’ Roll Britannia (R). 2.30 The Enigma of Nic Jones: Return of Britain’s Lost Folk Hero (R).

7.00 Miss Marple (R).

Part one of three.

A body is found in a couple’s library.

7.50 The Rabbits of Skomer (R).

Wildlife and flora on the island of Skomer.

8.00 Fabric of Britain (R).

9.00 Secret Voices of Hollywood. A look at the “ghost singers”, whose voices were dubbed for Hollywood stars.

10.30 Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies (R). How changing technology has taken film soundtracks in new directions.

Last in the series.

11.35 Proms on Four: John Wilson’s Hollywood Rhapsody (R).

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9.00 The Office Brent 9.00 Chickens (R,S,HD). The employs a new secretary. soldiers return to RittleRicky Gervais stars. on-Sea on leave. Comedy, starring Simon Bird. Last 9.40 Knowing Me, Knowing in the series.

You – With Alan Partridge First episode 9.30 Trollied (R,S,HD). of the spoof chat show, Richard gets the staff to starring Steve Coogan’s attend a performance hapless presenter. workshop.

10.00 New Rude Tube Alex Zane presents a top 50 countdown celebrating the greatest internet mishaps, including an amusing scene in which Ryan Gosling refuses to eat his breakfast.

10.20 The Thick of It A keen 10.00 Football Special (HD).

10.00 Football’s Funniest MP is appointed to the Moments (R,S,HD). A Stoke City v Norwich City Department of Social look back at laugh-outand Sunderland v Affairs and Citizenship in loud incidents from the Liverpool. Highlights of a Cabinet reshuffle, but world of Premier League the Premier League she was so far down the football, including matches at the Britannia food chain that spin interviews with players, Stadium and Stadium of doctor Malcolm Tucker pundits and comedians.

Light respectively, where did not have a file on the sixth round of the her. season continued.

11.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Amy is caught in a conflict between Sheldon and Penny.

11.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

11.00 Road Wars (R,S). Police 11.00 The Thick of It A 11.30 Spanish Football (HD). database of immigration officers use unmarked Real Madrid v Atletico records is accidentally cars fitted with on-board Madrid. The La Liga clash erased.

Political comedy, video cameras, offering at the Bernabeu, where starring Rebecca Front. an insight into vehicle the city rivals clash in one crime and how it can be 11.40 Nighty Night Cath tries of Spanish football’s prevented. to mend her marriage. fiercest derbies.

12.10 The X Factor (R,HD). 1.40 The Xtra Factor (R,HD). 2.35 You’ve Been Framed! (R). Harry Hill narrates more camcorder chaos, featuring naughty children, trampoline trouble and fights between cats and dogs. 2.55 Teleshopping 5.55 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.00 Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (R,HD). June goes on a blind date to improve her room-mate evaluation score. 12.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

1.00 The Cleveland Show (R,HD).

1.30 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 2.15 Life Unexpected (R,HD). 3.00 Hollyoaks (R,HD).

12.00 Road Wars (R,S). 1.00 Border Invasion USA (R,S,HD).

3.00 Border Invasion USA (R,S,HD). 4.00 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD). 4.30 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD). 5.00 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD).

5.30 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD).

RADIO

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 Pop’s Greatest Dance Crazes (R,S). The top 12 dance fads. Last in the series.

7.10 Great Movie Mistakes IV: May the Fourth Be with You (R,S). Blunders in Hollywood films.

Last in the series.

7.40 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (S) (2006).

Swashbuckling adventure sequel, starring Johnny Depp. ●●● 10.00 Family Guy (S).

Live Super Sunday, 12.30pm 10.25 Family Guy (R,S).

6.30 Live Spanish Football 10.45 Staying in with Greg & Russell (HD). Espanyol v Getafe.

(R,S).

Coverage of the La Liga 11.15 American Dad! match at the Estadi (R,S).

Cornella-El Prat, joining 30 minutes after kick-off. 11.40 American Dad! (R,S).

10.00 Fast & Furious (HD) (2009). News of a friend’s murder brings international fugitive Dominic Toretto back to his home city of Los Angeles in search of revenge. It is not long before his pursuit leads him to cross paths with FBI agent Brian O’Conner, and despite their hostile feelings toward each other, the pair work together to bring down those responsible. Thriller sequel, starring Vin Diesel. ●●●

Radio 1 5.00am Seani B 7.00 Gemma Cairney 10.00 Matt Edmondson 1.00pm Huw Stephens 4.00 The Official Chart Show with Jameela Jamil 7.00 Dan & Phil 9.00 The Surgery with Aled & Dr Radha 10.00 Annie Mac Midnight BBC Introducing with Jen and Ally 2.00 Monki 4.00 Dev Radio 2 6.00am The Sunday Hour 7.00 Clare Balding with Good Morning Sunday 9.00 Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs 11.00 Weekend Wogan 1.00pm Elaine Paige on Sunday 3.00 Johnnie Walker’s Sounds of the 70s 5.00 Len Goodman 7.00 Sunday Night with Michael Ball 9.00 Russell Davies

BBC3 BBC3

10.00 Clare Teal 11.00 Don Black Midnight Janice Long Radio 3 7.00am Breakfast 9.00 News 9.03 Sunday Morning with Rob Cowan Noon Private Passions: Sound of Cinema 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 The Early Music Show 3.00 Choral Evensong 4.00 The Choir 5.30 Words and Music 6.45 Sunday Feature 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert 10.00 Drama on 3: You Can Never Tell Midnight Dancing in the Dark 12.30 Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Bells on Sunday 5.45 Profile 6.00 News Headlines 6.05 Something Understood 6.35 On Your Farm 6.57

Weather 7.00 News 7.07 Sunday Papers 7.10 Sunday 7.55 Radio 4 Appeal 7.57 Weather 8.00 News 8.07 Sunday Papers 8.10 Sunday Worship 8.50 A Point of View 8.58 Tweet of the Day 9.00 Broadcasting House 10.00 The Archers 11.15 Desert Island Discs Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 Just a Minute 12.30 The Food Programme 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World This Weekend 1.30 Steve Richards Stands Up for Politics 2.00 Gardeners’ Question Time 2.45 Witness 3.00 Classic Serial: Sword of Honour – Men at Arms 4.00 Open Book 4.30 Poetry Please 5.00 File on 4 5.40 Profile 5.54 Shipping Forecast

12.20 The Office 1.00 Knowing Me, Knowing You – With Alan Partridge 1.30 The Thick of It 2.00 The Thick of It 2.30 Nighty Night

5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.15 Pick of the Week 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Alex Horne Presents the Horne Section 7.45 Bloody Scotland 8.00 More or Less 8.30 Last Word 9.00 Money Box 9.26 Radio 4 Appeal 9.30 In Business 9.59 Weather 10.00 The Westminster Hour 11.00 The Film Programme 11.30 Something Understood Midnight News and Weather 12.15 Thinking Allowed 12.45 Bells on Sunday 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 The Non League Football Show 6.00 Sunday Breakfast 9.00

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12.30 Spanish Football (HD).

Almeria v Barcelona. Action from the La Liga clash at the Estadio de los Juegos Mediterraneos. 1.30 Football Special (HD). 3.00 Champions League Weekly (HD).

A look ahead to matchday two.

3.30 Spanish Football (HD). 4.30 Football Special (HD).

SportsWeek 10.00 Pienaar’s Politics 11.00 5 Live Investigates Noon 5 Live Sport 12.15 MOTD2 Extra 1.00 5 Live Sport 4.00 5 Live Sport: Premier League Football 2013-14 6.06 6-0-6 7.30 On the Money 8.30 5 Live News 10.00 Stephen Nolan 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 Aled Jones Noon Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen 3.00 Charlotte Green’s Culture Club 5.00 The Classic FM Chart. John Brunning counts down the top 30 classical albums of the week. 7.00 David Mellor 9.00 The Countdown to the Classic Brits 10.00 Smooth Classics Midnight Bob Jones

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Monday television&radio Monday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

A QUESTION OF SPORT 8.30pm, BBC1

Michael Owen, Louis Smith, Ben Youngs and Helen Glover join regular team captains Phil Tufnell and Matt Dawson on the quiz. Sue Barker hosts.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 Rip Off Britain (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 11.00 Real Rescues (S,HD).

11.45 Claimed and Shamed (R,S,HD).

12.15 Bargain Hunt (S,HD). 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD). 1.30 Regional News (S); Weather. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD).

2.15 Perfection (R,S,HD). 3.00 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 3.45 Country Show Cook Off (R,S,HD). 4.15 Flog It! (R,S,HD).

5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

INSIDE BROADMOOR 9pm, Channel 5

Documentary charting the history of the highsecurity psychiatric hospital, examining the diverse treatments that have been applied during the 150 years it has been in operation.

This edition looks at some of the first residents, including artist Richard Dadd and Edward Oxford.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two (S). 6.05 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 7.05 Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 7.50 Claimed and Shamed (R,S,HD). 8.20 Sign Zone 10.35 Click (R,S,HD). 11.00 BBC News (S,HD).

11.30 Daily Politics Conference Special (S). 1.00 Classic Mastermind (S). 1.30 Weakest Link (R,S). 2.15 Great British Menu (HD). 2.45 Oceans (HD). 3.45 Elephant Diaries (R,S). 4.15 South Pacific (HD). 5.15 Vintage Antiques Roadshow

NEVER MIND THE BUZZCOCKS 10pm, BBC2

DOC MARTIN 9pm, ITV

Comedian Russell Howard hosts the comedy music quiz, with Conor Maynard and Lethal Bizzle among the guests joining team captains Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (S,HD). From Matlock in the Peak District. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). Features, music and conversation.

3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point (S,HD). 5.00 The Chase (S,HD). Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh.

Mrs Tishell returns to the village, and her affection for Martin quickly disappears when he refuses to pass her fit for work. As if he didn’t have enough on his plate, the doctor must also face his fear of blood when tests show that Lorna has a high level of ferratin, which is placing a strain on her heart and liver.

Channel Channel 4

6.10 The Hoobs (R,S). 7.00 According to Jim (R,S,HD). 7.25 Will & Grace (R,S). 7.55 Frasier 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 10.00 Four Rooms US (S,HD). 11.00 A Place in the Sun (R,S,HD). 12.00 News (S).

12.05 River Cottage Every Day (HD). 1.05 Kirstie’s Vintage Gems (R,S,HD). 1.25 Film: Green for Danger (S) (1946). See Choices Above. ●●●● 3.10 Countdown (S,HD). 4.00 Deal or No Deal (S,HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (S,HD). 5.30 Come Dine with Me (S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 Cowboy Builders (R,S,HD).

12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 Hustling America (R,S,HD). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD).

2.15 Castle (R,S,HD). Beckett discovers the novelist at the scene of a murder. 3.15 Film: Her Fatal Flaw (S) (2006). Crime drama, starring Victoria Pratt and Vincent Spano. ●●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD). 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

The Hairy Bikers … 7pm

Emmerdale, 7pm

Jamie’s Money Saving Meals, 8pm

Under the Dome, 10pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather.

6.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 7/20. With the guest voice of Jack Black.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Ste receives unexpected financial assistance ahead of his court appearance.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD).

Maddy realises Spencer still has feelings for Sasha.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Hosted

by Alex Jones and Matt Baker.

7.30 Regional Programme (S).

Followed by BBC News; Regional News.

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 65/140. Quiz show.

6.30 Strictly Come Dancing – It Takes Two (S,HD). New series.

Zoe Ball looks back at the first two live shows.

7.00 The Hairy Bikers: Everyday Gourmets (R,S,HD). 6/6. How to create a restaurant-quality meal on a tight budget. Last in the series.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Nicola discovers Jimmy is in hospital.

7.30 Coronation Street (S,HD).

David tells Kylie they should make a fresh start.

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S). A week of talks by five of Britain’s oldest citizens.

7.00 Nature Shock: Giraffe Feast (S,HD). In 2011, a number of adult giraffe carcasses were found at the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania. Followed by 5 News Update.

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The One Show, 7pm

8.00 EastEnders (S,HD). Carol agrees David can stay while he recovers from his beating.

8.30 A Question of Sport (S,HD).

1/36. See Choices Above.

8.00 University Challenge (S,HD).

12/37. Cardiff University takes on the University of Exeter in the student quiz.

8.30 Tom Kerridge’s Proper Pub Food (S,HD). 2/6. Recipes inspired by beer gardens and barbecues.

8.00 Countrywise (S,HD). 5/8.

Observing timber wolves.

8.30 Coronation Street (S,HD).

Gail asks David to come to the hospital as Nick repeatedly says his brother’s name.

8.00 Jamie’s Money Saving Meals (S,HD). 5/6. Roast shoulder of lamb with all the trimmings.

8.30 Gadget Man (S). 5/6. Richard Ayoade tests a range of products designed to make DIY home decorating a stress-free activity.

8.00 Police Interceptors (S,HD).

Andy deals with a case of criminal damage at a house party, while Duggie and Mark respond to a report of a car abandoned after being involved in a crash. Last in the series. Followed by 5 News at 9.

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(R) repeat (S) subtitles (HD) highdefinition

9.00 Motorway Cops (S,HD). 5/5.

Motorway police clear the road following a fatal head-on collision near Birmingham city centre, and a trucker is caught using his mobile phone at the wheel. Narrated by Jamie Theakston. Last in the series.

9.00 The Midwives (S,HD). 7/8.

Staff at University Hospital of Wales looking after mothersto-be who need additional medical support and care, including a woman whose baby’s growth has slowed down.

9.00 Doc Martin (S,HD). 5/8. See Choices Above.

9.00 The Fried Chicken Shop (S).

3/3. The documentary captures a conversation between two students about the benefits of self-employment and the aspirations of this generation’s next entrepreneurs. Last in the series.

9.00 Inside Broadmoor (S,HD). 1/2.

See Choices Above.

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10.00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks (S,HD). 2/13. See Choices Above.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Followed

by Weather.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 Through the Keyhole (R,S,HD). 5/6. Larry Lamb and Emma Bunton join Dave Berry on the panel as Keith Lemon visits three mystery homes and challenges them to guess the identities of the famous occupants.

10.00 Porn on the Brain (S).

Journalist Martin Daubney examines how young minds are affected by pornography, the increasing ease of access to which, he discovers, is a concern for many neuroscientists, therapists and teachers.

10.00 Under the Dome (S,HD). 7/13.

Norrie and Joe search for the centre of the dome, Julia’s neighbour Harriet goes into premature labour and Ollie decides to claim Big Jim’s propane supply for himself.

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 Saving Syria’s Children – Panorama (S,HD). Special edition of the documentary, travelling inside Syria to reveal the devastating impact of the civil war on children caught in the conflict.

11.05 BBC News: The Editors (S,HD). 6/11.

11.35 The Name of the Rose (S) (1986). Mystery based on Umberto Eco’s novel, starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater and F Murray Abraham. ●●●●

11.20 Today at Conference (S).

Highlights of the second day of the Conservative Party’s annual gathering.

11.50 The Women’s Football Show (S,HD).

11.35 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories: Gloria Hunniford (R,S,HD).

2/6. The presenter talks about her career and her daughter Caron Keating’s death.

11.05 Educating Yorkshire (R,S).

4/8. The documentary follows the school lives of unlikely duo Safiyyah and Hadiqa, as a crisis in their friendship threatens to derail the girls’ plans and cause major upset.

11.00 Hostel (S) (2005). See Choices Above. ●●

1.40 Weatherview (S). 1.45 BBC News (S,HD).

12.20 The Story of the Jews (R,S,HD).

1.20 Sign Zone: Martin Luther King and the March on Washington (R,S). Denzel Washington narrates a documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, one of the biggest civil rights rallies in US history. 2.20 This Is BBC Two (S). 4.00 BBC Learning Zone

12.30 Jackpot247 Viewers get the chance to participate in live interactive gaming from the comfort of their sofas, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team. 3.00 Champions League Weekly (S,HD). A look ahead to the matchday two fixtures. 3.25 ITV Nightscreen (HD). 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S).

12.05 First Time Farmers (R,S,HD). Flossy from Somerset reveals how she juggles farm work and school. 1.05 Random Acts (S). 1.10 Film: Gunga Jumna (1961).

Musical crime thriller, starring Dilip Kumar, Nasir Khan and Vyjayanthimala. ●●● 4.05 Film: Dark Waters (S) (1944). Thriller, starring Merle Oberon. ●● 5.40 Countdown (R,S,HD).

12.45 Campus PD (S,HD). Officer Dimmit busts an out-of-control party in Chico, California, and Officer Williams prepares to arrest a driver involved in a hit-and-run incident. 1.10 SuperCasino Live interactive gaming. 3.55 Great Scientists (R,S). 4.20 Great Artists (R,S). 4.45 House Doctor (R,S). 5.10 Wildlife SOS (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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GADGET MAN 8.30pm, Channel 4

PETER ANDRE: MY LIFE 9pm, ITV2

Richard Ayoade tests products designed to make DIY less stressful, including robot lawnmowers, the world’s safest saw and an automatic wallpapering machine.

During a promotion campaign, Peter is starstruck to meet his childhood idol – singer Rick Astley. Later, the family goes to Cyprus for the first time since Andrew’s death, and despite the sad memories, there is time to enjoy the holiday. Plus, Peter begins training for his charity bike ride across Zanzibar.

ITV2 ITV2

E4 E4

6.00 Emmerdale (R,HD). 6.25 Coronation Street (R,HD). 7.25 Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R). 8.10 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 8.40 Dinner Date (R). 9.40 The Real Housewives of New York City (R,HD). 10.35 Real Housewives of Vancouver (R,HD). 11.30 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD). 12.30 Emmerdale (R,HD). 1.00 Coronation Street (R,HD).

2.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R). 4.10 Real Housewives of Vancouver (HD).

5.05 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD).

6.00 Switched (R). 6.25 90210 (R,HD). 7.10 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 Glee 10.00 New Girl (R,HD). 10.30 Mindy Project (HD). 11.00 Rules of Engagement 11.30 Charmed 12.30 Hollyoaks 1.00 How I Met Your Mother (HD).

2.00 Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 New Girl (HD). 3.30 Mindy Project 4.00 Rules of Engagement 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 7.00 Road Wars (R,S). 8.00 Airline USA (R). 8.30 Airline USA (R). 9.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 1.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 2.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Futurama (R,S,HD). 5.30 The Middle (R,S).

FILM PICKS

Monday television&radio GREEN FOR DANGER 1.25pm, Channel 4

HOSTEL 11pm, Channel 5

A detective investigates a series of mysterious deaths at a Second World War emergency hospital. British comedy thriller, with Alastair Sim and Sally Gray.

Gold GOLD

6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.00 2point4 Children 7.40 Sykes 8.20 Last of the Summer Wine 9.00 Keeping Up Appearances 10.20 Just a Minute 11.00 Jo Brand’s Great Wall of Comedy 11.40 The Borrowers 12.20 Open All Hours 1.00 dinnerladies 2.20 As Time Goes By 3.00 Goodnight Sweetheart 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 One Foot in the Grave

Three backpackers travelling across Europe hear of a Slovakian inn where their every hedonistic desire will be met. Horror, starring Jay Hernandez.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 9.00 Football Special (HD).

10.30 FL72 Highlights (HD). 11.00 Spanish Football (HD). 12.00 Football Special (HD). 1.30 FL72 Highlights (HD). 2.00 Spanish Football (HD). 3.00 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). 3.30 Game Changers (HD). 4.30 Champions League Weekly (HD). 5.00 Soccer AM: The Best Bits (HD).

Peter Andre: My Life, 9pm

90210, 9pm

Spartacus: Vengeance, 10pm

dinnerladies, 8.20pm

Live Monday Night … 7pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R).

Potential suitors woo Jenni from Cardiff.

Narrated by Charlotte Hudson.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 The Middle (R,S).

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

Mr Burns replaces the power plant employees with robots.

6.20 Yes Minister Sir Humphrey is horrified when Hacker decides to support the sale of a museum in aid of a football club.

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Crazy christenings.

7.30 The X Factor (R,HD).

The remaining acts have a final chance to impress Gary Barlow, Nicole

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD).

Disaster strikes for Leanne during Ste’s court hearing.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Ned Flanders opens a shop.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Homer becomes a missionary.

7.00 Open All Hours Arkwright tries to shift an overstocked commodity.

7.40 dinnerladies A convict escapes near the factory.

8.00 New Girl (R,HD). Nick and Jess address the nature of their relationship.

8.30 New Girl (R,HD). Jess and Schmidt get to know the new neighbours.

8.00 A League of Their Own (R,S,HD). With Matt Smith, Jonathan Ross and Perri ShakesDrayton.

8.20 dinnerladies The staff have a bet on Bren’s chances of romance with Tony, but the hapless cook’s past finally catches up with her and threatens to ruin any prospects of romance.

9.00 90210 (HD). Naomi meets an up-and-coming mogul, who hires her to plan events for his media business, but a girls’ night out with Annie, Adrianna and Silver ends with a difficult confession.

9.00 Cop Squad (R,S).

Documentary following the work of Cambridgeshire police officers as they tackle crime in a county renowned for its university, tourism and picture-postcard appearance.

9.00 Mrs Brown’s Boys Agnes tries to solve Dermot’s relationship problems.

9.40 Mrs Brown’s Boys Agnes worries her family is too secretive. Comedy, written by and starring Brendan O’Carroll.

6.00 FL72 Review A roundup of recent matches, featuring all the goals from the Championship, League One and League Two. 7.00 Live Monday Night Football (HD). Everton v Newcastle United (Kickoff 8.00pm). Coverage of the final Premier League match from the latest round of fixtures, which takes place at Goodison Park. Both sides will be looking to improve on their early results, with the Magpies struggling for goals and lacking new signings, and Everton drawing their opening three matches of the season under new manager Roberto Martinez.

Scherzinger, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh as they compete in more boot-camp challenges at London’s Wembley Arena.

9.00 Peter Andre: My Life (HD). See Choices Above.

BBC3 BBC3

BBC4 BBC4

12.10 American Dad! (R,S). Stan and Roger exchange lives. 12.30 Some Girls (R,S). 1.00 Booze, Bar Crawls and Bulgaria: Stacey Dooley Investigates (R,S). 2.00 Staying in with Greg & Russell (R,S). 2.30 Bad Education (R,S). 3.00 Booze, Bar Crawls and Bulgaria: Stacey Dooley Investigates (R,S).

12.55 Only Connect (R).

1.25 Welsh Railways: Beating Beeching (R). Part two of two. Reliving the heyday of Welsh steam railways. Last in the series.

1.55 A Garden in Snowdonia (R). 2.25 A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (R).

7.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S).

8.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? (R,S). A fake-tan enthusiast and a make-up addict.

8.30 Would I Lie to You? (R,S). With Jack Whitehall, Emily Maitlis, Jim Carter and Armando Iannucci.

9.00 Booze, Bar Crawls and Bulgaria: Stacey Dooley Investigates (S).

10.00 Some Girls (S).

10.30 EastEnders (R,S).

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 American Dad! (R,S).

7.00 World News Today; Weather.

7.30 A Garden in Snowdonia (R).

A year in the life of Bodnant Garden in North Wales.

8.00 Welsh Railways: Beating Beeching (R).

Part two of two.

Reliving the heyday of Welsh steam railways.

Last in the series.

8.30 Only Connect.

Three board game players take on a trio of travellers.

9.00 A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley 10.00 Miss Marple (R).

10.55 Africa (R).

11.55 Lost Kingdoms of Africa (R).

10.00 Spartacus: Vengeance 10.20 Only Fools and Horses 10.00 Bridget Jones’s Diary 10.00 Slither (HD) (2006). A Del-Boy acquires a (R,S,HD). News of (HD) (2001). A single sheriff battles to save his nuclear fallout shelter, Naevia’s fate reaches the woman begins a new rural town from alien so he, Rodney and gladiators and pushes year with resolutions to parasites that transform Grandad have a practice them to breaking point, find love, give up her their victims into run to make sure they and matters are made bad habits and step up bloodthirsty zombies. will know what to do if worse when they are the career ladder. Her Comedy horror, starring the Russians attack. thrust into battle. plans crumble as she Nathan Fillion, Michael Historical drama, tries to deal with her Rooker and Elizabeth starring Liam McIntyre. mother’s infidelity, get Banks. ●●● over a passionate fling with her boss and come 11.50 The Big Bang Theory 11.00 Outnumbered Sue and 11.00 FL72 Review A round11.10 Ross Kemp Back on to terms with her Pete ban TV and (R,HD). Leonard, the Frontline (R,S). The up of recent matches. feelings for an uptight computers for a day.

Sheldon, Howard and actor returns to lawyer. Romantic Raj are excited to Afghanistan to discover 11.40 Outnumbered Sue and comedy, based on Helen discover actress Summer what has changed in the Pete try to survive being Fielding’s novel, starring Glau is on their train to 10 years since the trapped in a foreign Renee Zellweger and San Francisco. With conflict began. airport.

Colin Firth. ●●●● Johnny Galecki.

RADIO

12.00 Girlfriends (R,HD). Ruby, Sophia and Mellissa choose two of the three remaining men each to take through to the final, having whittled their potential suitors down from 100. 1.00 The Vampire Diaries (R,HD). 1.45 The Vampire Diaries (R,HD). 2.30 Teleshopping

12.20 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 12.45 Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (R,HD).

1.15 Suburgatory (R,HD). 1.45 Happy Endings (R,HD). 2.10 Rules of Engagement (R,HD).

2.35 Sirens (R,HD). 3.25 Glee (R,HD). 4.10 Life Unexpected (R,HD). 4.50 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 4.00 Greg James 7.00 Zane Lowe 9.00 Radio 1’s Stories 10.00 Phil Taggart and Alice Levine Midnight Rock Show with Daniel P Carter 2.00 B.Traits 4.00 Dev Radio 2 5.00am Vanessa Feltz 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Paul Jones 8.00 Jo Whiley 10.00 Hugh Laurie’s Blues Changes. The influence blues standard Mystery Train had on rock ‘n’ roll. 11.00 Jools Holland Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester

12.10 Road Wars (R,S). Officers face a drug addict in Milton Keynes.

1.10 Road Wars (R,S). 2.10 Road Wars (R,S). 3.00 Armed and Dangerous: Ultimate Forces (R,S). Chris Ryan joins the Colombian police force. 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S).

Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composer of the Week: Sound of Cinema: John Williams 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composer of the Week: Sound of Cinema: John Williams 7.30 Opera on 3: La Rondine 10.00 Night Waves 10.45 The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet 11.00 Jazz on 3 12.30am Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 9.00 Start the Week 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: Beowulf 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00

12.20 Gimme Gimme Gimme Linda’s old youth custody warden turns up. 1.00 Mrs Brown’s Boys 1.30 Mrs Brown’s Boys 2.00 Gimme Gimme Gimme 2.30 The Comic Strip Presents: Gino – Full Story and Pics A small-time hoodlum inadvertently becomes a celebrity.

The Young Devolutionaries 11.30 Reception Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 You and Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Publishing Lives 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: The Gun Goes to Hollywood 3.00 Round Britain Quiz 3.30 The Food Programme 4.00 Walter Kershaw: The UK’s First Street Artist? 4.30 Beyond Belief 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 The Museum of Curiosity 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 7.45 The Pillow Book: Time and Change 8.00 Fear of the Brain Drain 8.30 Analysis 9.00 Shared Planet 9.30 Start the

Week 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Solo.

By William Boyd, abridged by Libby Spurrier. 11.00 Verse Illustrated. Two story poems by spoken-word artists.

Laura Dockrill narrates and performs Earwig, and Polar Bear enacts his work Homebase. 11.15 Warhorses of Letters.

Napoleon returns from Elba. Robbie Hudson and Marie Phillips’ comedy telling the tragic love story of two 19thcentury horses. Starring Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby. 11.30 With Great Pleasure Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: Beowulf 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

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12.00 SPFL Round-Up (HD). 12.30 Soccer AM: The Best Bits (HD). A look back at some of the highlights of Saturday’s show, hosted by Max Rushden and Helen Chamberlain.

1.30 Monday Night Football (HD). 4.00 FL72 Review. 5.00 Soccer AM: The Best Bits (HD).

Highlights of Saturday’s show.

Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Richard Bacon. News, sport and entertainment. 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport: The Monday Night Club 8.00 5 Live Sport: Premier League Football 2013-14. Everton v Newcastle United (Kick-off 8.00pm). 10.00 5 Live Sport: Final Whistle 10.30 Phil Williams 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Bob Jones

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Tuesday television&radio Tuesday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

NEW TRICKS 9pm, BBC1

Sasha is asked to prove a crime boss was convicted on false evidence, even though she is certain the same man killed her CID partner eight years before.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 Rip Off Britain (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (S,HD). 11.00 Real Rescues (S,HD). 11.45 Claimed and Shamed (R,S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD).

1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD). 1.30 Regional News (S); Weather. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 Perfection (R,S,HD). 3.00 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 3.45 Country Show Cook Off (R,S,HD). 4.15 Flog It! (R,S,HD). 5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

MY BIG FAT GYPSY CHRISTENING 9pm, Channel 4

One-off documentary exploring the attitudes of British gypsies and travellers toward birth and death, revealing the customs, rituals and ceremonies observed. The film reveals a world in which pregnancy comes with its own strict rules of conduct and breastfeeding is considered shameful by some.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two (S). 6.05 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 7.05 Real Rescues (R,S,HD). 7.50 Claimed and Shamed (R,S,HD). 8.20 Sign Zone: Wanted Down Under (R,S). 9.05 Sign Zone: Britain’s Big Wildlife Revival (R,S). 10.05 Sign Zone: The Incredible Spice Men (R,S). 10.35 HARDtalk (R,S,HD). 11.00 BBC News (S,HD). 11.30 BBC World News (S,HD). 12.00 Daily Politics Conference Special 1.00 Classic Mastermind (R,S). 1.30 Weakest Link (R,S). 2.15 Great British Menu (R,S,HD). 2.45 Oceans (R,S,HD). 3.45 Elephant Diaries (R,S). 4.15 South Pacific (R,S,HD). 5.15 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (R,S).

THE SARAH MILLICAN TELEVISION PROGRAMME 9.30pm, BBC2

CASTLE 10pm, Channel 5

It looks like Castle and Beckett are too late to protect famous psychic Vivien Marchand, who suspected her own demise. The sparring duo’s investigations take them to Albert Moreno, a member of an Italian-American crime family who lost all his money after seeking advice from Vivien.

The comedienne chats to Monty Python star Michael Palin, former Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton and Bargain Hunt host Tim Wonnacott.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (S,HD). David Dickinson and the team head to Colwyn Bay, north Wales. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD).

Features, music and conversation. 3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point (S,HD). 5.00 The Chase (S,HD).

Channel Channel 44

6.25 The Treacle People (R,S). 6.35 The Hoobs (R,S). 7.00 According to Jim (R,S,HD). 7.30 Will & Grace (R,S). 7.55 Frasier (R,S). 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 10.00 Four Rooms (R,S,HD). 11.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (R,S,HD). 12.00 Channel 4 News Summary (S). 12.05 River Cottage Every Day (R,S,HD). 1.10 Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures (R,S,HD). 1.30 Film: Siege of the Saxons (S,HD) (1963). ●● 3.10 Countdown (S,HD). 4.00 Deal or No Deal (S,HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (S,HD).

5.30 Come Dine with Me (S,HD).

Channel Channel 55

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 Cowboy Builders (R,S,HD).

12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 Animal Maternity (R,S,HD). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD).

2.15 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (R,S,HD). 3.15 Inside Hollywood. 3.20 Film: Jane Doe: Eye of the Beholder (S) (2007). Mystery, with Lea Thompson and Jessy Schram. ●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD).

5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

(R) repeat (S) subtitles (HD) highdefinition

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD).

Ricky tells Brax to testify against her.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Amy nearly misses Joanie’s visit.

7.30 Live UEFA Champions League (S,HD). Celtic v Barcelona (Kick-off 7.45pm).

Coverage of the Group H match at Celtic Park, where the sides face each other once again after being drawn in the same group last season. The corresponding fixture in the previous campaign produced a memorable night for the Bhoys, as they secured an unexpected 2-1 victory that helped ensure they progressed to the knockout stage. Having lost 2-0 away to AC Milan in their opening encounter, Neil Lennon’s men could do with repeating those heroics tonight, but Barca were in fine form in their first group match, with Lionel Messi scoring a hattrick in a 4-0 home win against Ajax. See Choices Above.

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S).

7.00 Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (R,S,HD). Documentary following Joe Cross as he attempts to regain control of his health. Followed by 5 News Update

8.00 Double Your House for Half the Money (S,HD). 7/10. A West Sussex couple’s plans to extend their property run into trouble on the first day, and a woman takes charge of the build on her south London Victorian terrace.

8.00 New Cowboy Builders (S,HD).

Dominic Littlewood and Melinda Messenger help a couple in Southampton who lost all confidence in their builder after a series of delays and broken promises. Followed by 5 News at 9.

9.00 My Big Fat Gypsy Christening (S,HD).

See Choices Above.

9.00 CSI: NY (S,HD). 13/17. The detectives are called in to investigate the case of a man who fell to his death from an allegedly cursed building and find he was a pickpocket preying on tourists. Crime drama, starring Sela Ward.

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New Cowboy Builders, 8pm

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 8/20.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Disaster strikes for Leanne during Ste’s court hearing.

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My Tattoo Addiction, 10.30pm

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather 6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Live chat and topical reports.

7.30 EastEnders (S,HD). David continues to try to win Carol over. Followed by BBC News; Regional News

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The Chase, 5pm

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 66/140. Quiz show.

6.30 Strictly Come Dancing – It Takes Two (S,HD). Karen Hardy analyses the couples’ choreography.

7.00 The Hairy Bikers’ Bakeation (R,S,HD). 1/8. Si King and Dave Myers seek out the best baking in Europe, beginning in Norway.

6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather 6.30 Regional News (S); Weather

8.00 Holby City (S,HD). 51/52.

Hanssen is still reeling after learning he is to be a grandfather, and furious when Chantelle puts a pregnant patient at risk. Malick turns up for his first day as a consultant.

8.00 The Great British Bake Off (S,HD). 7/16. The remaining six contestants face three tasks involving pastry, making signature suet puddings, choux buns filled with creme patissiere, and three different types of puff pastries.

9.00 New Tricks (S,HD). 10/10.

See Choices Above.

9.00 The Wrong Mans (S,HD). 2/6.

Sam and Phil try to rescue Mr Stevens’ wife.

9.30 The Sarah Millican Television Programme (S,HD). 2/6. See Choices Above.

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S). Followed

by National Lottery Update 10.35 The Stephen Lawrence Unity Concert (S,HD). See Choices Above.

10.00 Later Live – with Jools Holland (S,HD). 3/8. With performances by indie rockers Franz Ferdinand, electronic duo Goldfrapp, jazz musician Gregory Porter, singersongwriter James Blake and punk band Radkey.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Followed

by Weather

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather 10.35 UEFA Champions League: Extra Time (S,HD). Highlights from tonight’s group-stage matches, which included Celtic v Barcelona, Steaua Bucharest v Chelsea and Arsenal v Napoli.

10.00 London Irish (S). 2/6. The friends deal with the fallout from a wedding party.

10.30 My Tattoo Addiction (R,S).

1/3. Documentary exploring the world of body art, featuring an unemployed father-of-six whose facial tattoos prevent him from getting regular work.

10.00 Castle (S,HD). 2/24. See Choices Above.

10.55 Body of Proof (R,S,HD). 2/9. A man and his former sweetheart are found shot dead in a car, and Megan suspects the involvement of a jealous ex-lover known for his domineering behaviour.

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The Great British Bake Off, 8pm

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EastEnders, 7.30pm

11.35 Who Do You Think You Are? (R,S,HD). 10/10. BBC world affairs editor John Simpson follows the trail of his greatgrandmother, who took her children and ran off with Wild West entertainer Samuel F Cody. Last in the series.

11.20 Today at Conference (S).

Highlights of the third day of the Conservative Party’s annual gathering.

11.50 The Crane Gang (R,S,HD). 2/3.

High winds lead to jobs being cancelled across the country.

11.35 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R,S). The host takes his successful talk show stateside, where he invites American guests to air their differences, and dispenses his own judgment on the situation.

11.35 Celebrity Fifteen To One (R,S).

Adam Hills hosts a one-off special of the fast-paced quiz, as 15 famous faces including Jonathan Ross, Jo Brand, Fern Britton and Eamonn Holmes compete to win money for charity.

11.50 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (R,S,HD). 4/16. The chief financial officer of a fraudulent hedge fund is killed, leading Wheeler and Nichols to investigate the therapy sessions the company’s CEO is attending.

12.35 Weatherview (S). 12.40 BBC News (S,HD).

12.50 Sign Zone: The United States of Television: America in Primetime (R,S).

Alan Yentob reflects on the social changes that transformed the traditional image of a stay-at-home mother portrayed on American TV in the 1950s into the independent woman of today. 1.50 This Is BBC Two (S). 4.00 BBC Learning Zone (S,HD).

12.20 Jackpot247. Viewers get the chance to participate in live interactive gaming from the comfort of their sofas, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team. 3.00 Loose Women (R,S,HD). With Lorraine Kelly and Brian McFadden. 3.45 ITV Nightscreen (HD).

Text-based information service. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S).

12.30 Random Acts (S). A visual display by FIELD. 12.35 Poker (S). Action from the Pokerstars.com & Monte Carlo Casino Grand Final. 1.30 American Football: Hard Knocks (R,S). 2.25 KOTV Boxing Weekly (S). 2.55 Beach Volleyball (S).

3.50 The Grid (R,S). 4.20 Blancpain Endurance Series (R,S). 5.15 The Great North Swim (R,S,HD).

12.40 True Crimes: The First 72 Hours (R,S). A girl from a wealthy family is abducted in Vancouver, but the kidnappers make a major mistake that leads to their downfall. 1.05 SuperCasino. Live interactive gaming. 3.55 Great Scientists (R,S). 4.20 Great Artists (R,S). 4.45 House Doctor (R,S). 5.10 Wildlife SOS (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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LIVE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 7.30pm, ITV

Celtic v Barcelona (Kick-off 7.45pm). Coverage of the Group H match at Celtic Park, where the sides face each other once again after being drawn in the same group last season.

THE STEPHEN LAWRENCE UNITY CONCERT 10.35pm, BBC1

Highlights of Sunday’s concert at the O2, hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Reggie Yates.

Performers include Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora, Beverley Knight, Emeli Sande, Rizzle Kicks, Labrinth, Plan B, Jamie Cullum, Jessie J, Tinie Tempah, Rudimental and Ed Sheeran.

ITV2 ITV2

E4 E4

6.00 Emmerdale (R,HD). 6.25 Coronation Street (R,HD). 7.25 Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R). 8.10 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 8.40 Dinner Date (R). 9.40 Real Housewives of New York City (R,HD). 10.35 The Real Housewives of Vancouver (R,HD). 11.30 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD). 12.30 Emmerdale (R,HD). 1.00 Coronation Street (R,HD).

2.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R). 4.10 Real Housewives of Vancouver (HD).

5.05 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD).

6.00 Switched (R). 6.25 90210 (R,HD).

7.10 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 Glee (R,HD). 10.00 New Girl (R,HD). 10.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 11.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 11.30 Charmed (R). 12.30 Hollyoaks (R,HD). 1.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 New Girl (R,HD).

3.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 4.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 7.00 Road Wars (R,S). 8.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 1.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 2.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Futurama (R,S,HD). 5.30 The Middle (R,S).

FILM PICKS

Tuesday television&radio RUN FAT BOY RUN 10pm, E4

HAROLD & KUMAR GET THE MUNCHIES 11.20pm, ITV2

A man who regrets leaving his fiancee standing at the altar tries to prove his love for her by running a marathon. Comedy, with Simon Pegg.

Gold GOLD 6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.10 2point4 Children 7.50 Sykes 8.30 As Time Goes By 9.10 Goodnight Sweetheart 10.30 Last of the Summer Wine 11.50 One Foot in the Grave 12.30 Yes Minister 1.10 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 1.50 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 2.30 As Time Goes By 3.05 Jeeves and Wooster 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 Only Fools and Horses

Comedy adventure, starring John Cho, Kal Penn, Paula Garces, Neil Patrick Harris and David Krumholtz.

Including FYI Daily.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 7.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 8.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 9.00 Monday Night Football (HD). 11.30 SPFL Round-Up (HD). 12.00 FL72 Review 1.00 Soccer AM: The Best Bits (HD). 2.00 Monday Night Football (HD). 4.30 Football Gold (S). 4.45 Football Gold (S). 5.00 Premier League Review (HD).

The Magaluf … 9pm

How I Met Your … 5pm

An Idiot Abroad, 8pm

Bring Me Morecambe … 9pm

Soccer Special, 7.30pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R). A man from Derbyshire takes part in the dating show.

Narrated by Charlotte Hudson.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 The Middle (R,S). Mike forces Axl to work at the quarry.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.20 Yes, Prime Minister.

Jim attempts to gain support for his tax cuts by threatening to raise the duty on tobacco.

6.00 Revista De La Liga (HD). Scott Minto presents highlights of the latest La Liga matches in Spain.

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Kung-fu crotch kicks.

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Bridesmaids who run riot.

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD). Search parties set out to find the missing Leah.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Homer buys Lisa a pony.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

With the guest voice of Lady Gaga.

7.00 Open All Hours.

Granville’s bike develops a squeak.

7.40 Outnumbered. Sue and Pete ban TV and computers for a day.

8.00 Peter Andre: My Life (R,HD). During a promotion campaign, Peter meets his childhood idol Rick Astley.

8.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). Part one of two. Ted invites an old professor to the GNB opening.

8.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

8.00 An Idiot Abroad (R,S,HD). Karl Pilkington stops off in Israel on his way to Petra, Jordan.

8.20 Outnumbered. Sue and Pete try to survive being trapped in a foreign airport. Comedy, starring Hugh Dennis, Claire Skinner and David Ryall.

7.00 Sportswomen (HD).

Profiles of leading competitors.

7.30 Soccer Special (HD).

Julian Warren introduces pre-match reports and news of all tonight’s goals as they go in, while studio guests keep an eye on the big games and talking points. Plus, a classified results roundup from all of this evening’s fixtures.

9.00 An Idiot Abroad (R,S,HD). Karl Pilkington travels to Mexico and immerses himself in the country’s culture, before heading for Chichen Itza, home to temples built between the ninth and 12th centuries.

9.00 Bring Me Morecambe & Wise. The series paying tribute to the double act continues with a look at some of the most memorable guest stars to appear on their shows. Narrated by Victoria Wood.

9.00 The Magaluf 9.00 Rules of Engagement Weekender (HD). Two (HD). New series. Liz new groups of holidaytemporarily moves in makers arrive at the with Jeff and Audrey. party resort eager for a 9.30 Happy Endings (HD). good time. The friends Penny decides to reach waste no time getting to out to her estranged know each other, helped father Roy. Comedy, by reps Jaime-Leigh, guest with Andy Richter.

Imogen, Jordan and Tobi.

BBC3 BBC3

BBC4 BBC4

12.10 American Dad! (R,S). 12.30 Bad Education (R,S). 1.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S). 2.00 Some Girls (R,S). 2.30 Staying in with Greg & Russell (R,S). 3.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S).

12.00 Calf’s Head and Coffee: The Golden Age of English Food (R). 1.00 Britain on Film: This Sporting Life (R). 1.30 A Pembrokeshire Farm 2.00 A Garden in Snowdonia 2.30 House of Surrogates

7.00 Top Gear (R,S).

The presenters build their own motorhomes.

8.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? (R,S). Ellie Taylor visits Essex.

8.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid? (R,S).

Featuring a “queen of shock”.

9.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (S). Music fan Perry is given £12,000 to plan his wedding.

10.00 Bad Education (S). Mr Fraser organises a guest speaker for Drugs Awareness Day. 10.30 EastEnders (R,S).

David continues to try to win Carol over.

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 American Dad! (R,S).

7.00 World News Today; Weather 7.30 A Garden in Snowdonia (R).

Adam Salvin restores an Italianate terrace to its former glory.

8.00 A Pembrokeshire Farm (R).

Building work moves to the inside of the house.

8.30 Britain on Film: This Sporting Life. Footage reflecting Britain’s interest in sports during the 1960s.

9.00 House of Surrogates. A look inside a surrogacy clinic in India.

10.30 Secret Voices of Hollywood (R).

10.00 The Two Ronnies 10.00 Revista De La Liga 10.00 Crazy Beaches (HD). A 10.00 Run Fat Boy Run (HD) 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles Spectacle. Three-part (R,S,HD). Callen has been (HD). Scott Minto group of well-known (2007). Commitment-shy documentary telling the suspended after going presents highlights of DJs are flown to Malia Dennis leaves his story of the comedy rogue and killing the the latest La Liga for the resort’s Beach pregnant fiancee double act, beginning Chameleon, leaving the matches in Spain, Festival. standing at the altar. with an account of how team shaken and featuring the likes of Five years later, he 10.30 Celebrity Juice (R,HD).

Ronnie Barker and divided, while Hetty is Barcelona and Real realises his mistake and With team captains Ronnie Corbett first adjusting to life in Madrid. tries to win her back, Holly Willoughby and came to work together. retirement. just as she looks set to Phillip Schofield. settle down with someone else. Since she always used to accuse 11.00 Only Fools and Horses. 11.00 Premier League 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 11.20 Harold & Kumar Get him of never finishing Del is invited to a school (R,S,HD). A former the Munchies (HD) Review (HD). A look anything, he decides the reunion at the Nag’s marine is killed during a (2004). See Choices back at recent fixtures in only way to prove his Head organised by old drone strike on a Above. ●●● the English Premier love is to run a adversary Roy Slater (Jim terrorist target. Chris League. marathon. Comedy, Broadbent), who has O’Donnell and LL Cool J with Simon Pegg. See recently been released star.

Choices Above. ●●● from prison.

RADIO

1.05 The Vampire Diaries (R,HD).

Elena is invited to a formal ball at Klaus’s newly renovated mansion, where she learns of a horrifying plan that could lead to numerous deaths. 1.55 Life’s Funniest Moments (R). 2.20 Teleshopping.

Buying goods from home. 5.50 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Penny feels threatened by a sexy woman. 12.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.00 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 1.30 90210 (R,HD). Naomi is hired by a mogul. 2.20 Sirens (R,HD). 3.10 Being Erica (R,HD). 3.55 Glee (R,HD). 4.35 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 4.00 Greg James 7.00 Zane Lowe 9.00 The Review Show with Edith Bowman 10.00 Phil Taggart and Alice Levine Midnight Punk Show with Mike Davies 2.00 Nihal 4.00 Dev Radio 2 9.30am Ken Bruce Noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Jamie Cullum. With American singersongwriter Bilal. 8.00 Jo Whiley 10.00 The Mozart of Madras 11.00 Mark Radcliffe’s Music Club Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester

12.00 Road Wars (R,S). 1.00 Ross Kemp Back on the Frontline (R,S,HD). The actor spends time with American soldiers. 2.00 Road Wars (R,S,HD). 3.00 Armed and Dangerous: Ultimate Forces (R,S). 4.00 Football’s Funniest Moments (R,S,HD). 5.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD).

Radio 3 9.00am Essential Classics Noon Composer of the Week: Sound of Cinema: John Williams 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composer of the Week: Sound of Cinema: John Williams.

The composer talks about his famous Star Wars score. 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert. Pianist Steven Osborne plays Beethoven. 10.00 Night Waves. Jung Chang discusses her new biography of Empress Dowager Cixi. 10.45 The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet 11.00 Late Junction. Troyka, Lisa Knapp and Perhaps Contraption. 12.30am Through the Night

12.10 The Comic Strip Presents: Eddie Monsoon – A Life? A South African TV star causes worldwide controversy. 1.00 The Brittas Empire 1.30 The Brittas Empire 2.00 The Comedy Genius of John Sullivan 2.30 The Comic Strip Presents: Eddie Monsoon – A Life?

Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 9.00 The Life Scientific 9.30 One to One 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: Beowulf 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 Shared Planet 11.30 The Night Visiting Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 Call You and Yours 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Publishing Lives 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: Man in the Moon 3.00 Short Cuts 3.30 Costing the Earth 4.00 Keeping It Real 4.30 Great Lives. The life and career of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

Last in the series. 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW)

Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 7.45 The Pillow Book: Time and Change 8.00 File on 4 8.40 In Touch 9.00 Inside Health. Dr Mark Porter separates medical fact from fiction. 9.30 The Life Scientific. The work of scientists whose research is changing the world. 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Solo 11.00 He Died with His Eyes Open 11.30 With Great Pleasure Midnight News 12.30 Book of the Week: Beowulf 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

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12.00 UEFA Champions League Goals (HD). 1.00 Football Gold (S).

1.15 Football Gold (S). 1.30 Football Asia (S). 2.00 Revista De La Liga (HD). 3.00 Premier League Review (HD). 4.00 UEFA Champions League Goals (HD).

5.00 Football Gold (S). 5.30 Football Asia (S).

Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Colin Paterson 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport. Mark Pougatch presents commentary and updates from the UEFA Champions League, with tonight’s matches including Arsenal v Napoli, Steaua Bucharest v Chelsea and Celtic v Barcelona. 10.30 Phil Williams 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Bob Jones

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WednesdayTelevision television&radio Wednesday’s Guide TV PICKS

SCIENCE BRITANNICA 9pm, BBC2

Brian Cox looks at how discoveries are made and examines whether it is best if scientists are left to their own devices in the field of research.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 Rip Off Britain (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 11.00 Real Rescues (S,HD).

11.45 Claimed and Shamed (R,S,HD).

12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD). 1.30 Regional News (S); Weather 1.45 Doctors (S,HD).

2.15 Perfection (R,S,HD). 3.00 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 3.45 Country Show Cook Off (R,S,HD). 4.15 Flog It! (R,S,HD).

5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

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THE GREAT BRITISH YEAR 9pm, BBC1

New series. Documentary following British wildlife through the seasons, beginning on New Year’s Day, with the landscape in the grip of winter. Time-lapse photography shows a magical country shrouded in frost and swirling mist, while water becomes the enemy as the creatures must cope with ice.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S,HD). 7.00 Real Rescues (R,S,HD). 7.45 Claimed and Shamed (R,S,HD). 8.15 Sign Zone: Wanted Down Under (R,S). 9.00 Hairy Bikers’ Meals on Wheels Back on the Road (R,S). 10.00 Inspire: The Olympic Journey (R,S). 10.30 See Hear (S,HD). 11.00 Daily Politics Conference Special (S). 1.00 Classic Mastermind (R,S). 1.30 Weakest Link (R,S). 2.15 Great British Menu (R,S,HD). 2.45 Oceans (R,S,HD). 3.45 Elephant Diaries (R,S).

4.15 South Pacific (R,S,HD). 5.15 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (R,S). 5.55 Party Political Broadcast (S).

WHITECHAPEL 9pm, ITV

Part one of two. The team is fearful when Buchan is kidnapped, and Chandler investigates the discovery of a disembowelled body in the sewers. Crime drama, with Rupert Penry-Jones.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (S,HD). From Ilford, Greater London. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). Features, music and conversation.

3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point (S,HD). 5.00 The Chase (S,HD). Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh.

GRAND DESIGNS 9pm, Channel 4

Flying instructor Colin Mackinnon and his partner, hovercraft instructor and trapeze artist Marta Briongos, love their airfield so much, they have decided to live there too.

Their plan is to build an extraordinary metal sculptural home next to the runway, designed by one of Scotland’s most acclaimed architects.

Channel 4

6.10 The Hoobs 7.00 According to Jim (HD). 7.30 Will & Grace 7.55 Frasier 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 10.00 Four Rooms (HD). 11.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (HD). 12.00 News Summary 12.05 River Cottage Every Day (HD). 1.05 Kirstie’s Vintage Gems (R,S,HD). 1.30 Film: Bugles in the Afternoon (S) (1952). ●● 3.10 Countdown (S,HD). 4.00 Deal or No Deal (S,HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (S,HD).

5.30 Come Dine with Me (S,HD).

Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 Cowboy Builders (R,S,HD).

12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 The Railway: First Great Western (R,S,HD). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD).

1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.15 NCIS (R,S).

3.15 Film: Seventeen and Missing (S) (2006). Thriller, starring Dedee Pfeiffer, Matthew Harrison and Tegan Moss. Edited for daytime broadcast. ●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD). 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

Strictly Come Dancing … 6.30pm

James Nesbitt’s Ireland, 11.35pm

The Three Day Nanny, 8pm

Robson’s Extreme Fishing … 7pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather 6.30 Regional News (S); Weather 6.55 Party Political Broadcast (R,S). By the Conservative Party.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather 6.25 Party Political Broadcast (R,S). By the Conservative Party.

6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 9/20.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Search parties set out to find the missing Leah.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD).

Brax is charged with contempt of court after refusing to give his witness statement.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Hosted

by Matt Baker and Alex Jones.

Followed by BBC News; Regional News

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 67/140. Quiz show, hosted by Dermot Murnaghan.

6.30 Strictly Come Dancing – It Takes Two (S,HD). Ian Waite analyses the couples’ training.

7.00 The Hairy Bikers’ Bakeation (R,S,HD). 2/8. The second leg of Si King and Dave Myers’ journey in search of Europe’s finest baking takes them through the Low Countries.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Ashley gets the wrong idea about Laurel’s feelings for him.

7.30 Coronation Street (S,HD).

David confides in Tina, who urges him to tell Kylie the truth.

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S). Immunologist Dr William Frankland, 101, reveals his thoughts on Christianity.

7.00 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge (R,S,HD). The actor heads to Michigan’s Great Lakes. Followed by 5 News Update

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6 7 8 9

Watchdog, 8pm

8.00 Watchdog (S,HD). 3/8. Anne Robinson reports on the pram that collapses with the baby inside and reveals how phone companies are cashing in on the cost of making calls abroad.

8.00 The House That £100K Built (S,HD). 3/6. Kieran Long and Piers Taylor follow the progress of a Shropshire couple hoping to transform their crumbling farmhouse on a tight budget.

Postponed from September 18.

8.00 Big Star’s Little Star (S,HD).

5/6. Stephen Mulhern hosts the entertainment show in which children spill the beans about their famous relatives.

8.00 The Three Day Nanny (S,HD).

3/4. Kathryn Mewes visits Harrogate to help Lisa and Ross with three-year-old Jack and five-year-old Alfie, who have pushed mum to breaking point with their rages and fussy eating.

8.00 Animal Maternity (S,HD).

Three pregnant bongo antelopes approach their due dates at Woburn Safari Park and a hand-reared meerkat is introduced to its new family at Chessington Zoo. Followed by 5 News at 9

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(R) repeat (S) subtitles (HD) highdefinition

9.00 The Great British Year (S,HD).

1/4. See Choices Above.

9.00 Science Britannica (S,HD). 3/3.

See Choices Above.

9.00 Whitechapel (S,HD). 5/6. See Choices Above.

9.00 Grand Designs (S,HD). 5/11.

See Choices Above.

9.00 NCIS: The Port-to-Port Killer (R,S,HD). 22/24. Tony’s former Baltimore PD partner is murdered, raising fears that the port-to-port killer has struck again – until new evidence suggests the crime was the work of a copycat. Continues tomorrow at 9pm.

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10.00 The Culture Show: Jon Ronson Meets Malcolm Gladwell – Beware the Underdog (S,HD). 15/32. The author chats about his latest book.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Followed

by Weather

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather 10.35 Exposure (S,HD). 1/8. New series. Return of the current affairs documentaries shedding light on social, political and economic issues.

10.00 Gogglebox (S). 2/13. Viewers’ thoughts on the week’s TV. Narrated by Caroline Aherne.

10.45 My Big Fat Gypsy Ladies’ Day (R,S,HD). One-off special exploring the bond between the traveller community and horses, from equine-themed christenings and fairs to road races in the dead of night.

10.00 Wentworth Prison (S,HD).

6/10. See Choices Above.

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S). Followed

by National Lottery Update 10.35 Father Figure (S,HD). 3/6. Tom is persuaded to enter a competition to find the house husband of the year – with his highly competitive mother as his trainer. Comedy, with Jason Byrne and Pauline McLynn.

11.05 Room 101 – Extra Storage (R,S,HD). 3/8. With Alice Cooper, Chris Tarrant and Chris Packham.

11.45 Judgment Night (S) (1993).

Thriller, starring Emilio Estevez and Stephen Dorff. ●●●

11.20 Today at Conference (S).

Highlights of the final day of the Conservatives’ annual gathering.

11.50 The Midwives (R,S,HD). 7/8.

Mothers-to-be who need additional medical support and care.

11.35 James Nesbitt’s Ireland (R,S,HD). 3/8. The actor learns about the legend of the Blarney Stone, enjoys a day out at a popular amusement park and experiences some of Ireland’s best live traditional music.

11.50 Random Acts (S). Short creative films.

11.55 iTunes Festival 2013 (S). 5/5.

Featuring Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Pixies and Tinie Tempah. Last in the series.

11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (R,S). 4/23. A police officer shoots his ex-partner dead. Starring Marg Helgenberger.

11.55 Inside Hollywood (R).

Magazine show.

1.30 Weatherview (S). 1.35 BBC News (S,HD).

12.50 Sign Zone: See Hear (R,S,HD).

Weekly magazine for the deaf and hard of hearing. With voiceover. 1.20 This Is BBC Two (S). Preview of upcoming programmes from BBC Two. 4.00 BBC Learning Zone (S,HD).

12.05 Jackpot247 Viewers get the chance to participate in live interactive gaming from the comfort of their sofas, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team. 3.00 British Touring Car Championship (HD). Coverage of the ninth round of the season from Silverstone.

4.15 ITV Nightscreen (HD). 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S).

12.50 Shameless USA (S,HD). The Gallaghers prepare for Thanksgiving. 1.45 Film: Mere Mehboob (1963). A budding poet falls in love with a college girl, but class differences and family opposition threaten their happiness. Romantic musical, starring Sadhana and Rajendra Kumar. ●●● 4.45 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD). 5.40 Countdown (R,S,HD).

12.00 The Big Game (S,HD). Action from the poker tournament in which amateurs compete alongside world-class professionals and some of the legends of the game. 12.50 SuperCasino. Live interactive gaming. 3.55 Great Scientists (R,S). 4.20 Great Artists (R,S). 4.45 House Doctor (R,S). 5.10 Wildlife SOS (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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WENTWORTH PRISON 10pm, Channel 5

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN 9pm, Sky1

James Corden hosts the sports-based comedy quiz, with regulars Jamie Redknapp, Andrew Flintoff and Jack Whitehall joined by Doctor Who star Matt Smith, TV host Jonathan Ross and British hurdling champion Perri ShakesDrayton. Former athlete Kriss Akabusi also puts in an appearance.

Vera tries to get closer to Fletcher, Jacs demands to know where Toni got her drugs from, and the governor is incensed by a TV news report that casts aspersions on her integrity.

ITV2 ITV2 6.00 Emmerdale 6.25 Xtra Factor 7.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 8.10 You’ve Been Framed! 8.40 Dinner Date 9.40 Real Housewives of New York City (R,HD). 10.35 Real Housewives of Vancouver (R,HD).

11.30 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD). 12.30 Emmerdale (R,HD).

1.00 Xtra Factor (HD). 2.00 Jeremy Kyle Show 4.10 Real Housewives of Vancouver (HD). 5.05 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD).

E4 E4 6.00 Switched 6.25 90210 7.10 Ugly Betty 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 Glee (R,HD). 10.00 New Girl (R,HD).

10.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD).

11.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD).

11.30 Charmed 12.30 Hollyoaks (R,HD). 1.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 New Girl (R,HD).

3.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 4.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 7.00 The Middle (R,S). 8.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 1.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 2.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Futurama (R,S,HD). 5.30 The Middle (R,S).

FILM PICKS

Wednesday television&radio BANDSLAM 8pm, E4

BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON 10pm, ITV2

A teenage misfit’s love of music brings him to the attention of a girl at his new school planning to put together a rock band. Musical, starring Aly Michalka.

Gold GOLD

6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.00 2point4 Children 7.40 Sykes 8.20 As Time Goes By 9.00 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 9.40 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 10.20 Last of the Summer Wine 11.40 Open All Hours 12.20 Yes, Prime Minister 1.00 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 1.40 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 2.20 As Time Goes By 3.00 Jeeves and Wooster 4.15 Last of the Summer Wine 5.35 One Foot in the Grave

The hapless journalist’s new romance looks set to be short-lived when she ends up serving time in a Thai prison.

Renee Zellweger stars.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 9.00 UEFA Champions League Goals (HD). 10.00 Premier League Review (HD). 11.00 Revista De La Liga (HD). 12.00 Football Asia (S).

12.30 Football Gold (S). 1.00 UEFA Champions League Goals (HD). 2.00 Premier League Review (HD). 3.00 Revista De La Liga (HD). 4.00 UEFA Champions League Goals (HD). 5.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial. 5.30 Football Gold (S).

Girlfriends, 9pm

Rude Tube, 10.15pm

Chickens, 10pm

The Two Ronnies … 8pm

What’s the Story?, 10pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R). Lois from London chooses three blind dates.

Narrated by Charlotte Hudson.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Penny makes a surprising revelation.

6.00 The Middle (R,S). Brick comes up with an unusual costume idea for Halloween.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.00 Boots ‘n’ All (HD). A look back at the Man of Steel announcement.

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R).

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Skateboarding crashes and crazy cats and dogs.

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD).

Danny’s two lives look set to collide in a dramatic fashion.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Bart runs away from home.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Three Halloweenthemed tales.

6.15 Yes, Prime Minister A territorial battle develops in the corridors of power.

6.55 Only Fools and Horses Del is invited to a school reunion at the Nag’s Head organised by old adversary Roy Slater (Jim Broadbent), who has recently been released from prison. Comedy, starring David Jason.

8.00 You’ve Been Framed Extreme! (R). Harry Hill narrates a selection of some of the most extreme clips filmed by viewers on their camcorders and mobile phones.

8.00 Bandslam (HD) (2009).

A daydreaming teenager starts at a new school, where he finds himself a social outcast.

However, his love of music brings him to the attention of a girl putting together a rock group. They recruit a number of fellow misfits and plan to enter the school’s battle of the bands competition.

Musical, with Aly Michalka and Gaelan Connell. See Choices Above. ●●●

8.00 Harrow: A Very British School (S,HD). Music scholar Henry feels the pressure of organising West Acre’s entry in the inter-house orchestral competition.

8.00 The Two Ronnies Spectacle The making of the double act’s 1970s TV series.

9.00 A League of Their Own (R,S,HD). See Choices Above.

9.00 Mrs Brown’s Boys Dermot announces his choice of best man for the wedding.

9.40 Only Fools and Horses Rodney falls for a policewoman. Vintage comedy, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst.

9.00 Girlfriends (HD). Ruby, Sophia and Mellissa each invite their final two bachelors to meet their parents before making a final decision. Presented

by Emma Willis. Last in the series.

7.00 Total Rugby Magazine show rounding up the latest rugby union action from across the world.

7.30 Soccer Special (HD).

Julian Warren introduces pre-match reports and news of all tonight’s goals as they go in, while studio guests keep an eye on the big games and talking points. Plus, a classified results roundup from all of this evening’s fixtures.

BBC3 BBC3

7.00 Total Wipeout (R,S).

8.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S). Music fan Perry is given £12,000 to plan his wedding.

9.00 Unsafe Sex in the City (S). New series. The dangers faced by young people who practise unprotected sex.

10.00 Staying in with Greg & Russell (S). With Dizzee Rascal and Scott Disick.

10.30 Russell Howard’s Good News (R,S). The comedian’s perspective on the news.

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 American Dad! (R,S).

12.10 American Dad! (R,S). 12.30 Unsafe Sex in the City (R,S). 1.30 Staying in with Greg & Russell (R,S). 2.00 Booze, Bar Crawls and Bulgaria: Stacey Dooley Investigates (R,S). 3.00 Unsafe Sex in the City

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 World News Today; Weather.

7.30 A Garden in Snowdonia (R).

Bodnant comes under threat from an oak disease.

8.00 Guilty Pleasures (R). Part two of two. Attitudes to luxury in medieval Europe.

9.00 Fabric of Britain: The Wonder of Embroidery The history of English embroidery. Last in the series.

10.00 Hidcote: A Garden for All Seasons (R). The creation of Hidcote Manor Garden in Gloucestershire.

11.00 A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (R).

12.00 Edgar Allan Poe: Love, Death and Women (R). 1.00 A Garden in Snowdonia (R). 1.30 Guilty Pleasures (R). 2.30 Fabric of Britain: The Wonder of Embroidery

10.00 Chickens (R,S,HD). The 10.20 Blackadder the Third 10.00 What’s the Story? (HD).

10.00 Bridget Jones: The 10.15 Rude Tube (R). Alex Devious royal butler trio finally have more Sarah-Jane Mee presents Edge of Reason (HD) Zane presents a top 50 Edmund Blackadder men to talk to when the a discussion show (2004). The disastercountdown celebrating steps in to foil a plan by soldiers return to Rittlefocusing on recent sports prone journalist seems the greatest internet new prime minister Pitt on-Sea on leave.

Last in developments. to have finally found mishaps, including an the Younger to bankrupt the series. the perfect boyfriend. amusing scene in which his master the Prince However, when the Ryan Gosling refuses to 10.30 Don’t Sit in the Front Regent. Rowan couple start to squabble eat his breakfast.

Row (R,S,HD). Comedy Atkinson, Hugh Laurie over their personal panel show, hosted by and Tony Robinson star. habits, she decides to Jack Dee. decamp for a while to Thailand and write a 11.20 8 Out of 10 Cats Uncut 11.00 Road Wars (R,S). Police 11.00 Blackadder the Third 11.00 Sporting Heroes: travelogue. Romantic Edmund falls foul of Dr (R,HD). With Richard officers use unmarked Linford Christie comedy sequel, with Johnson. Guest starring Bacon and Gemma cars fitted with on-board Interviews Allan Wells Renee Zellweger, Colin Robbie Coltrane.

Collins. video cameras, offering (HD). The former Firth, Hugh Grant, Jim an insight into vehicle 11.40 Gimme Gimme Olympic sprint Broadbent and Gemma crime and how it can be Gimme Tom gets his big champions meet.

Jones. See Choices prevented. break.

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RADIO

12.15 Fake Reaction (R,HD). With Sinitta, Harry Judd, Iain Stirling and Laura Whitmore. 1.00 Up All Night (R,HD). Reagan finds it difficult to get rid of Nancy. 1.20 Up All Night (R,HD). 1.45 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 2.25 Teleshopping 5.55 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.10 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.10 Suburgatory (R,HD).

1.40 Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (R,HD). 2.05 8 Out of 10 Cats Uncut (R,HD). 2.50 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 3.15 Bob’s Burgers (R,HD). 3.35 Being Erica (R,HD). 4.20 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 3.30 The Official Chart Update 4.00 Greg James 7.00 Zane Lowe 9.00 My Playlist 10.00 Phil Taggart and Alice Levine Midnight Huw Stephens 2.00 Benji B 4.00 Dev Radio 2 5.00am Vanessa Feltz 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe 8.00 Jo Whiley. Including a 1980s mixtape.

10.00 The People’s Songs 11.00 Trevor Nelson’s Soul Show Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester

12.00 Road Wars (R,S,HD). 1.00 Ross Kemp Back on the Frontline (R,S,HD). 2.00 Road Wars (R,S). 3.00 Armed and Dangerous: Ultimate Forces (R,S). 4.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 4.30 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 5.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD).

Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composer of the Week: Sound of Cinema: John Williams 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 3.30 Choral Evensong. Live from Westminster Abbey. 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composer of the Week: Sound of Cinema: John Williams. The composer’s score to Schindler’s List and work with Alfred Hitchcock. 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert. The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performs works by Wagner and Rachmaninov. 10.00 Night Waves 10.45 The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet 11.00 Late Junction 12.30am Through the Night

12.20 Mrs Brown’s Boys 1.00 The Comic Strip Presents: Slags Comedy drama about two rival street gangs. 1.30 The Comedy Genius of John Sullivan A tribute to the comedy writer, who died in April 2011. 2.00 Gimme Gimme Gimme 2.30 The Comic Strip Presents: Slags

Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 9.00 Midweek 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: Beowulf 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 The Young Devolutionaries 11.30 The Rivals Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 You and Yours 12.57 News and Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Publishing Lives 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: Nothing Happened 3.00 Money Box Live 3.30 Inside Health 4.00 Thinking Allowed 4.30 The Media Show 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 Fresh from the

Fringe 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 7.45 The Pillow Book: Time and Change 8.00 Unreliable Evidence. Clive Anderson brings together a panel of experts to discuss the idea of instant justice – including practices such as on-the-spot fines. Last in the series.

8.45 Four Thought 9.00 Costing the Earth 9.30 Midweek. Presented by Libby Purves. 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Solo 11.00 The Music Teacher 11.15 It Is Rocket Science 11.30 With Great Pleasure Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: Beowulf 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

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12.00 UEFA Champions League Goals (HD). 1.00 What’s the Story? (HD). 2.00 Football Gold (S). 2.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 3.00 UEFA Champions League Goals (HD). 4.00 Sporting Heroes: Linford Christie Interviews Allan Wells (HD). 5.00 Football Gold (S).

5.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Richard Bacon 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport. Mark Pougatch presents commentary and updates from the UEFA Champions League, with matches including Shakhtar Donetsk v Manchester United and Manchester City v Bayern Munich. 10.30 Phil Williams 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Bob Jones

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Thursday television&radio Thursday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

PAT AND CABBAGE 8.30pm, ITV

The duo’s relaxing weekend away is ruined when their families turn up unannounced, Dylan forgets Ida’s birthday, and Nicola grows tired of Helen’s advice.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 Rip Off Britain (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (S,HD). 11.00 Real Rescues (S,HD). 11.45 Claimed and Shamed (R,S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD).

1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD). 1.30 Regional News (S); Weather 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 Perfection (R,S,HD). 3.00 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 3.45 Country Show Cook Off (R,S,HD). 4.15 Flog It! (R,S,HD). 5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

EASTENDERS 7.30pm, BBC1

It’s Carol’s birthday and she is touched when David remembers as he gives her a single flower – and he soon turns on the Wicks charm, making it clear he wants more from her than a roof over his head. But seeing the closeness between her and Masood, he schemes to get one over on his love rival.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two 6.05 Homes Under the Hammer 7.05 Real Rescues (HD). 7.50 Claimed and Shamed 8.20 Sign Zone: Wanted Down Under 9.05 Robert Peston Goes Shopping (R,S). 10.05 Raymond Blanc 10.35 HARDtalk (HD). 11.00 News 11.30 World News 12.00 Daily Politics 1.00 Classic Mastermind 1.30 Weakest Link 2.15 Great British Menu 2.45 Oceans 3.45 Animal Park 4.15 South Pacific 5.15 Vintage Antiques Roadshow

EDUCATING YORKSHIRE 9pm, Channel 4

THE WONDER OF DOGS 8pm, BBC2

The documentary follows pupils in Year 9, who face a critical period in their education – but with all the hormones flying around, some of the 13-year-olds can prove disruptive.

ITV1 ITV

Kate Humble and Steve Leonard delve into the psychology of the human-dog relationship to discover how canines have evolved to read people better than any other creature. The team examines the UK’s 10 most popular breeds, while Ruth Goodman explores the story of Greyfriars Bobby.

Channel Channel 4

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (S,HD). Valuing antiques in Stockport, Greater Manchester. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). Features, music and conversation. 3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point (S,HD).

5.00 The Chase (S,HD).

6.35 The Hoobs (R,S). 7.00 According to Jim (R,S,HD). 7.30 Will & Grace (R,S). 7.55 Frasier (R,S). 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S).

10.00 Four Rooms (R,S,HD). 11.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (R,S,HD). 12.00 News Summary (S). 12.05 River Cottage Every Day (R,S,HD). 1.05 Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures (R,S,HD). 1.20 Film: The Day the Earth Stood Still (HD) (1951). See Choices Above. ●●●●● 3.10 Countdown (S,HD). 4.00 Deal or No Deal (S,HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (S,HD). 5.30 Come Dine with Me (S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 Cowboy Builders (R,S,HD).

12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 Cowboy Builders (R,S,HD). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD).

2.15 NCIS (R,S). 3.15 Film: The Perfect Teacher (S) (2010). Thriller, starring Megan Park and David Charvet. ●●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD). 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

Kate is stunned when Mason suggests they should try for a baby.

Peaky Blinders, 9pm

Women Behind Bars with … 9pm

Location, Location, Location, 8pm

Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 10pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather 6.30 Regional News (S); Weather

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather 6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 10/20.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Danny’s two lives look set to collide in a dramatic fashion.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD).

Casey begins secretly drinking alcohol at work and proves to be a bad influence on Maddy.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Topical stories from around the UK. 7.30 EastEnders (S,HD).

See Choices Above.

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 68/140. Quiz show, hosted by Dermot Murnaghan.

6.30 Strictly Come Dancing – It Takes Two (S,HD). A look ahead to the weekend’s action.

7.00 The Hairy Bikers’ Bakeation (R,S,HD). 3/8. Si King and Dave Myers’ baking tour takes them to Germany, where they turn out potato bread with asparagus soup.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Jimmy tells Nicola their marriage is over.

7.30 Bargains in the Sun: Tonight (S,HD). The seemingly resurgent property markets in Spain and Greece.

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S).

7.00 Braveheart: The True Story (R,S,HD). The historical accuracy of Mel Gibson’s Oscar-winning film Braveheart. Followed by 5 News Update.

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8.00 Waterloo Road (S,HD). 5/30.

Lisa and Lenny’s grandfather turns up to straighten them out, while Christine is furious when she discovers George cannot speak Mandarin.

Connor decides on a new career.

8.00 The Wonder of Dogs (S,HD).

3/3. See Choices Above.

8.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Laurel and Marlon announce their engagement.

8.30 Pat and Cabbage (S,HD). 5/6.

See Choices Above.

8.00 Location, Location, Location (S,HD). 7/9. Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer see whether Ian and Peta managed to downsize and Ben and Lucy found their ideal location as they revisit property-hunters in London.

8.00 The Railway: First Great Western (S,HD). See Choices Above.

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9.00 Mayhem & Mishaps: Britain Caught on Camera (S). Mark Chapman presents a catalogue of everyday accidents, illustrating them with homevideo or CCTV footage before examining the cause at various test institutions around the UK.

9.00 Peaky Blinders (S,HD). 4/6.

The war with the Lees escalates when they ransack the Shelbys’ betting shop, while John reveals he intends to remarry, but his choice of bride does not go down well with his family.

9.00 Women Behind Bars with Trevor McDonald (S,HD). 2/2.

See Choices Above.

9.00 Educating Yorkshire (S). 5/8.

See Choices Above.

9.00 NCIS: The Port-to-Port Killer (R,S,HD). 23/24. New evidence reveals the serial killer has infiltrated the agency and plans to murder a member of the NCIS team, prompting Gibbs to seek the help of former mentor Mike Franks. Concludes tomorrow at 9pm.

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Waterloo Road, 8pm

10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 Question Time (S,HD). 4/38.

Political debate from Birmingham, where the panel includes Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps and Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.

10.00 Mock the Week (S,HD). 11/12.

Milton Jones, Miles Jupp and Josh Widdicombe join regular panellists Chris Addison, Hugh Dennis and Andy Parsons on the topical comedy quiz. Dara O Briain hosts.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Followed

by Weather.

10.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (S,HD). 3/8. A programmer working for a cyberwarfare business is killed.

10.55 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (R,S). 5/23. An American football player is suspected of murdering his coach.

11.35 This Week (S). Andrew Neil presents round-table chat in which he and his guests, Michael Portillo and Tom Watson, take a light-hearted romp through the political and parliamentary developments of the past seven days.

11.20 Science Britannica (R,S,HD).

3/3. Professor Brian Cox looks at how discoveries are made and examines whether it is best if scientists are left to their own devices in the field of research.

Last in the series.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather 10.35 Magicians (S,HD) (2007). A conjuring double act comes to an end after an unfortunate accident with a guillotine. Set on separate careers, the pair become bitter rivals bent on sabotaging each other’s performance at any opportunity – until the prospect of winning a prestigious international contest offers the incentive to bury the hatchet and join forces once again. Comedy, with David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Jessica Hynes and Peter Capaldi.

See Choices Above. ●●

10.00 My Tattoo Addiction (S). 2/3.

A fortysomething woman gets her first tattoo to celebrate the most important person in her life, while a man hopes his new design will help him cope with a failed relationship.

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11.05 The Fried Chicken Shop (R,S).

3/3. The documentary captures a conversation between two students about the benefits of selfemployment and the aspirations of this generation’s next entrepreneurs. Last in the series.

11.50 True Crimes: The First 72 Hours (R,S). 19/45. A veteran policeman stumbles across evidence linked to two murders committed in a small farming community outside Toronto 28 years earlier.

12.20 Holiday Weatherview (S). 12.25 BBC News (S,HD).

12.20 Sign Zone: Saving Syria’s Children – Panorama (R,S,HD). Special edition of the documentary, travelling inside Syria to reveal the devastating impact of the civil war on children caught in the conflict. 12.50 This Is BBC Two (S).

Preview of upcoming programmes from BBC Two. 4.00 BBC Learning Zone (S,HD).

12.15 Wild Britain with Ray Mears (R,S,HD). The survival expert explores the Isles of Scilly off the Cornish coast, where mild temperatures create an ideal habitat for many species normally associated with warmer climes. 12.40 Jackpot247 3.00 Bargains in the Sun: Tonight (R,HD).

3.25 ITV Nightscreen (HD). 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S).

12.10 Porn on the Brain (R,S). The effects of pornography on young minds. 1.05 Random Acts (S). A strange tale of passion. 1.10 Sex: My British Job (R,S,HD). 2.25 Rogue Baboon: An Inside Nature’s Giants Special (R,S,HD). 3.20 SuperScrimpers (R,S,HD). 4.15 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD). 5.10 Countdown (R,S,HD). 5.55 River Cottage Bites (R,S).

12.15 SuperCasino Viewers get the chance to take part in live interactive gaming, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team.

3.55 Great Scientists (R,S). The life and legacy of Charles Darwin. 4.20 Great Artists (R,S). English painter JMW Turner.

4.45 House Doctor (R,S). 5.10 Wildlife SOS (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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THE RAILWAY: FIRST GREAT WESTERN 8pm, Channel 5

WOMEN BEHIND BARS WITH TREVOR MCDONALD 9pm, ITV

The small seaside station at Dawlish in Devon is brought to life by an influx of people attending an air show, with the company laying on extra staff and scheduling more trains.

The veteran broadcaster meets more inmates inside two of Indiana’s most dangerous women’s prisons. Among them are Dawn Hopkins, who was sentenced to life for murdering her three-month-old son, and Linda Darby, who spent 35 years as a fugitive.

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6.00 Emmerdale 6.25 Coronation Street 6.55 Life’s Funniest Moments (R). 7.25 Jeremy Kyle Show USA 8.10 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 8.40 Dinner Date (R). 9.40 The Real Housewives of New York City 10.35 Real Housewives of Vancouver (R,HD). 11.30 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD). 12.30 Emmerdale (R,HD). 1.00 Coronation Street (R,HD).

1.30 Life’s Funniest Moments (R). 2.00 Jeremy Kyle Show (R). 4.10 Real Housewives of Vancouver (HD). 5.05 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD).

6.00 Switched (R). 6.25 90210 (R,HD). 7.10 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 Glee 10.00 New Girl 10.30 Mindy Project (R,HD).

11.00 Rules of Engagement 11.30 Charmed (R). 12.30 Hollyoaks (R,HD). 1.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 New Girl (R,HD).

3.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 4.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 7.00 The Middle (R,S). 8.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 1.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 2.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Futurama (R,S,HD). 5.30 The Middle (R,S).

FILM PICKS

Thursday television&radio MAGICIANS 10.35pm, ITV

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL 1.20pm, Channel 4

A conjuring double act comes to an end after an unfortunate accident with a guillotine.

Comedy, with David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Jessica Hynes.

Gold GOLD

6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.00 2point4 Children 7.40 Sykes 8.20 As Time Goes By 9.00 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 9.40 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 10.20 Last of the Summer Wine 11.40 One Foot in the Grave 12.20 Yes, Prime Minister 1.00 ‘Allo ‘Allo!

2.20 As Time Goes By 3.00 Goodnight Sweetheart 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 Only Fools and Horses

Sci-fi drama, with Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, Lock Martin and John Brown.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 7.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 8.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 9.00 UEFA Champions League Goals (HD).

All the strikes from the second night of matchday two fixtures. 10.00 European Tour Weekly (HD).

10.30 Live Golf (HD). The Seve Trophy. 4.30 Live Golf (HD). The Presidents Cup.

Celebrity Juice, 10pm

The IT Crowd, 10pm

Trollied, 9pm

Blackadder the Third, 7.40pm

Live Golf, 4.30pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R).

Potential suitors woo Harriet from Manchester. Narrated by Charlotte Hudson.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco star.

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 The Middle (R,S,HD).

Brick pleads with Frankie to let him stay at home alone.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

6.20 Yes, Prime Minister The government faces financial ruin.

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Potty pensioners and cute cats and dogs.

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). A boy who can walk up walls.

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD). John Paul receives a surprise when he visits his supposed love nest.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Homer invents a new drink.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Homer becomes a hippie.

7.00 Open All Hours Arkwright decides to make his own product.

7.40 Blackadder the Third Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie star.

8.00 The X Factor USA (HD).

Kelly Rowland, Paulina Rubio, Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato take their places behind the judges’ desk and prepare for the fourth round of auditions.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Leonard and Sheldon hire a former TV host to entertain them.

8.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

8.00 Modern Family (R,S,HD). Claire plans a bit of Halloween mischief.

8.30 Modern Family (R,S,HD). The friends have fun as they pitch in for a charity yard sale.

8.20 Blackadder the Third Edmund falls foul of an enraged Dr Johnson when Baldrick inadvertently burns the great man’s new dictionary.

6.00 Live Golf Continued.

The Presidents Cup. Coverage of the opening day’s play of the biennial event between a team representing the USA and an International side, which is being staged at Muirfield Village, Ohio. Six foursome matches are scheduled to take place on this day, and team captains Fred Couples and Nick Price will hope to steer their charges to an early advantage.

9.00 Trollied (S,HD). Richard removes Gavin’s office door to make him more approachable.

9.30 An Idiot Abroad (R,S,HD). Karl Pilkington goes on a world tour, beginning with a visit to China.

9.00 Mrs Brown’s Boys Agnes tries to gatecrash Maria’s hen party.

Comedy, written by and starring Brendan O’Carroll.

9.40 Only Fools and Horses Del tries to sell a pair of antique urns.

10.30 An Idiot Abroad 10.00 Celebrity Juice (HD).

10.00 The IT Crowd (R). Roy (R,S,HD). Karl Pilkington With guests Craig Revel becomes obsessed with arrives in India, where Horwood and Chris his latest girlfriend’s sad he attends a spring Ramsey. family history, while Jen festival in which people tells a lie to get 10.50 The Magaluf throw coloured dye at attention. Comedy, Weekender (R,HD). one another, and pays a starring Chris O’Dowd.

Two new groups of visit to the Taj Mahal. holiday-makers arrive at 10.30 The IT Crowd (R). Roy the party resort. and Moss become juvenile delinquents.

10.20 Gavin & Stacey Smithy and Nessa visit the hospital for their first ultrasound scan. Stacey looks forward to a trip to see her family home after she struggles to adjust to life as an ‘Essex wife’.

9.00 Utterly Outrageous 9.00 Don’t Trust the B**** Celebrity Frock Ups in Apartment 23 (HD).

(HD). Denise Van Outen Chloe decides to take counts down her 20 time off from her favourite fashion slipfriendship with James. ups, featuring interviews 9.30 Suburgatory (HD). with Helen Flanagan, Dallas realises a fraction Joey Essex, Kerry Katona, of her house is in East Amy Childs and Perez Chatswin.

Hilton.

11.00 iTunes Festival 2013 11.30 Ross Kemp Back on (R). Highlights from the the Frontline (R,S,HD). final week of the The actor joins troops festival, featuring Justin for the first operation Timberlake, Katy Perry, planned by the Afghan Pixies, Tinie Tempah, Army.

Dizzee Rascal and John Legend.

11.00 Gavin & Stacey The 11.00 Golf (HD). The Seve newlyweds argue while Trophy. The opening day on a night out at the at the biennial team bowling alley. competition, featuring 11.40 Gimme Gimme Great Britain & Ireland v Gimme Linda’s long-lost Continental Europe. son appears.

12.20 Film: Unbreakable (HD) (2000). A seemingly ordinary security guard is baffled when he emerges unscathed from a train crash – but a mysterious stranger may know why. Drama, with Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson. ●●●● 2.20 Teleshopping. 5.50 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.05 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 12.35 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.05 New Rude Tube (R). 2.05 Happy Endings (R,HD). 2.30 The IT Crowd (R).

2.55 The IT Crowd (R). 3.20 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 3.40 Glee (R,HD). 4.25 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

12.20 The Comic Strip Presents: The Bullsh**ters Parody of The Professionals, starring Keith Allen.

1.10 Mrs Brown’s Boys 1.40 Gimme Gimme Gimme Comedy, starring Kathy Burke and James Dreyfus as the mismatched friends.

2.10 The Comic Strip Presents: The Bullsh**ters

RADIO

11.50 Crazy Beaches (R,HD).

A group of well-known DJs are flown to Malia for the resort’s Beach Festival, and two girls from Liverpool are left in need of urgent medical attention.

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 4.00 Greg James 7.00 Zane Lowe 9.00 In New DJs We Trust 10.00 Phil Taggart and Alice Levine Midnight The Residency: Heidi 2.00 Toddla T 4.00 Dev Radio 2 5.00am Vanessa Feltz 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Bob Harris Country 8.00 Jo Whiley 10.00 Bill Kenwright’s Golden Years 11.00 Nigel Ogden: The Organist Entertains 11.30 Listen to the Band Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester

12.30 Road Wars (R,S). Police officers combat vehicle crime. 1.00 Road Wars (R,S). 2.00 Road Wars (R,S). 3.00 Armed and Dangerous: Ultimate Forces (R,S). 4.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 4.30 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 5.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD).

Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composer of the Week: Sound of Cinema: John Williams 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3: Verdi 200 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composer of the Week: Sound of Cinema: John Williams 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert. Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony and the world première of Britten’s Britain to America, live from Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. 10.00 Night Waves 10.45 The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet 11.00 Late Junction 12.30am Through the Night

Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 9.00 In Our Time 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: Beowulf 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 From Our Own Correspondent 11.30 Nobody’s N-Word Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 You and Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Publishing Lives 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: Imaginary Boys 3.00 Ramblings 3.27 Radio 4 Appeal 3.30 Open Book 4.00 The Film Programme 4.30 Inside Science 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six

O’Clock News 6.30 Fags, Mags and Bags 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 7.45 The Pillow Book: Time and Change 8.00 The Report 8.30 The Bottom Line. New series. Evan Davis hosts a discussion on the money-making world of big data as improvements in computer memory storage have created new industries while transforming others. 9.00 Inside Science 9.30 In Our Time 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Solo 11.00 Seekers 11.30 With Great Pleasure Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: Beowulf 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

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12.10 American Dad! (R,S). 12.30 Staying in with Greg & Russell (R,S).

1.00 Hotel of Mum and Dad (R,S). 2.00 Unsafe Sex in the City (R,S). 3.00 Some Girls (R,S). 3.30 Bad Education (R,S).

12.20 Twitchers: A Very British Obsession 1.20 Top of the Pops: 1978 (R).

2.00 The Horizon Guide to Mars (R). 3.00 Pain, Pus & Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines (R).

7.00 Great TV Mistakes (R,S).

7.10 Atlantis (R,S).

Fantasy adventure, with Jack Donnelly and Mark Addy.

8.00 Motorway Cops (R,S). A trucker is caught using his mobile phone at the wheel.

9.00 Hotel of Mum and Dad (S). New series. Young people are challenged to live away from their family homes.

10.00 Russell Howard’s Good News (R,S). An edition from 2010.

10.30 EastEnders (R,S).

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 American Dad! (R,S).

7.00 World News Today; Weather.

7.30 Top of the Pops: 1978 (R). Tony Blackburn introduces an edition first broadcast on October 26, 1978.

8.00 The Horizon Guide to Mars (R).

9.00 Pain, Pus & Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines. New series. How scientists exploited the natural world to make medicines.

10.00 For Britain and the Hell of It (R).

Richard Noble’s successful attempt to break the land-speed record in 1983.

10.50 House of Surrogates (R).

12.00 NFL – A Football Life (HD).

Documentary series focusing on the lives of NFL players. 1.00 Live NFL (HD). Cleveland Browns v Buffalo Bills (Kick-off 1.25am). 4.30 FL72 Preview A look ahead to the latest round of fixtures. 5.30 Premier League World (HD). A round-up of the latest news.

Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Richard Bacon 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport. Eleanor Oldroyd presents the day’s sports news, as well as a look ahead to horse racing’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. 8.00 5 Live Sport: 5 Live Rugby League 9.00 5 Live Formula 1 10.00 Question Time Extra Time 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Bob Jones

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Fr iday Television television&radio Friday’s Guide TV PICKS

HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU 9pm, BBC1

New series. Regular captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop poke fun at the week’s headlines in the return of the comedy news quiz.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 Rip Off Britain (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 11.00 Real Rescues (S,HD).

11.45 Claimed and Shamed (R,S,HD).

12.15 Bargain Hunt (S,HD). 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD). 1.30 Regional News (S); Weather 1.45 Doctors (S,HD).

2.15 Perfection (R,S,HD). 3.00 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 3.45 Country Show Cook Off (R,S,HD). 4.15 Flog It! (S,HD).

5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

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CORONATION STREET 7.30pm, ITV

Kylie decides to tell David the truth about her night with Nick. Can Gail persuade her to keep quiet? Owen breaks into Phelan’s house to see what valuables he can take, and Michelle is stunned when her dad Barry turns up and asks if he can stay for a few nights. Meanwhile, Rita encourages Julie to look into fostering.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S,HD).

7.00 Real Rescues 7.45 Claimed and Shamed 8.15 Sign Zone: Wanted Down Under (R,S). 9.00 Flog It! Trade Secrets (R,S). 10.00 Question Time (R,S,HD). 11.00 BBC News 11.30 BBC World News (S,HD).

12.00 Daily Politics (S). 1.00 Gymnastics: World Artistic Championships (S). 3.00 Great British Menu (R,S,HD). 3.30 Animal Park (R,S). 4.15 South Pacific (R,S,HD).

5.15 Vintage Antiques Roadshow (R,S).

QI 10pm, BBC2

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson and comedians Jimmy Carr and Bill Bailey join Alan Davies on the comedy quiz. Host Stephen Fry asks a range of fiendish questions on the topic of kings.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (S,HD). From Coalville, Leicestershire. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). Features, music and conversation. 3.59 Regional Weather (S).

4.00 Tipping Point (S,HD). 5.00 The Chase (S,HD). Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh.

HUGE HELICOPTER: MONSTER MOVES 8pm, Channel 5

Engineers prepare a Sikorsky S-92 searchand-rescue helicopter for a journey from America to its new home at the coastguard base at Sumburgh on Shetland. The chopper is flown from the factory in Coatesville, New York, to upstate Stewart International Airport. Last in the series.

Channel Channel 4

6.10 The Hoobs 7.00 According to Jim 7.30 Will & Grace 7.55 Frasier (R,S). 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 10.00 Four Rooms 11.00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 12.00 Channel 4 News Summary 12.05 River Cottage Every Day 1.05 Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures 1.25 Film: The Black Knight (S,HD) (1954). ●●● 3.10 Countdown (S,HD). 4.00 Deal or No Deal (S,HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (S,HD). 5.30 Come Dine with Me (S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 Cowboy Builders (R,S,HD).

12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 Police Interceptors (R,S,HD). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD).

2.15 The Mentalist (R,S,HD). A man who believed he was abducted by aliens is murdered. 3.15 Film: Ice Twisters (S) (2009). Sci-fi thriller, starring Mark Moses and Camille Sullivan. ●●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD). 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

Later with Jools Holland, 11.05pm

Piers Morgan’s Life … 9pm

Alan Carr: Chatty Man, 10pm

NCIS: The Port-to-Port Killer, 9pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD). Followed by Weather 6.30 Regional News (S); Weather

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather 6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 11/20.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). John Paul receives an unpleasant surprise when he visits his supposed love nest.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD).

Marilyn has a business proposal for John.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Hosted

by Chris Evans and Alex Jones.

7.30 Ronnie’s Animal Crackers (S,HD). Ronnie Corbett meets a pet psychic. Followed by BBC News; Regional News

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 69/140. Quiz show, hosted by Dermot Murnaghan.

6.30 Strictly Come Dancing – It Takes Two (S,HD). A preview of tomorrow’s live show.

7.00 The Hairy Bikers’ Bakeation (R,S,HD). 4/8. Si King and Dave Myers go baking in Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Amy warns Eric that his actions are endangering their relationship.

7.30 Coronation Street (S,HD). See Choices Above.

7.00 News (S).

7.30 Unreported World (S). 1/8.

New series. Women’s shelters in Afghanistan.

7.55 4thought.tv (S).

7.00 World’s Strongest Man 2012 (R,S,HD). James Richardson presents action from the third of five qualifying heats in Los Angeles, California. Followed by 5 News Update.

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8.00 EastEnders (S,HD). Roxy and Ronnie’s luck may be running out.

8.30 Miranda (R,S,HD). 3/6. Things look up for Miranda’s love life when she finds herself with two dates. Comedy, starring Miranda Hart.

8.00 Mastermind (S,HD). 8/31.

Specialist subjects include Portsmouth FC, the Battle of Balaklava and Father Ted. 8.30 Gardeners’ World (S,HD).

25/31. Monty Don gathers in his bumper apple, pear and quince crop.

8.00 Gino’s Italian Escape (S,HD).

4/6. Gino D’Acampo visits Rome.

8.30 Coronation Street (S,HD). At the hospital, a desperate David begs a semi-conscious Nick to believe he never meant to cause the crash.

8.00 Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (S). 2/13. See Choices Above.

8.00 Huge Helicopter: Monster Moves (S,HD). See Choices Above. Followed by 5 News at 9.

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9.00 Have I Got News for You (S,HD). 1/10. See Choices Above.

9.30 Citizen Khan (S,HD). 1/6. New series. Alia fails her exams. Adil Ray and Shobu Kapoor star.

9.00 Orangutans: The Great Ape Escape – Natural World (S,HD). An orangutan is released back into the wild after eight years in a rescue centre, undertaking a journey by boat, road and finally helicopter with its three-yearold infant.

9.00 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories: Brian Blessed (S,HD). 3/6. The actor reflects on his career, which has included a role in the film version of Flash Gordon, as well as an extraordinary life that has seen him attempt to climb Everest.

9.00 8 Out of 10 Cats (S). 1/9. New series. Irreverent panel show hosted by Jimmy Carr, in which two teams headed by Sean Lock and Jon Richardson answer questions based on opinion polls.

9.00 NCIS: The Port-to-Port Killer (R,S,HD). 24/24. Gibbs and the team attend the funeral of a fallen colleague before identifying the man they believe to be the port-to-port killer, and rush to apprehend him.

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10.00 QI (S,HD). 5/18. See Choices Above.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD).

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S). Followed

by National Lottery Update 10.35 Kevin Bridges – The Story Continues (S,HD). The comedian performs at Glasgow’s SECC Arena.

11.35 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (S,HD) (1992). A disturbed widow gets a job as a nanny for the woman she blames for her husband’s suicide, and plots to destroy her life. Thriller, with Rebecca De Mornay. ●●●●

11.00 Weather (S).

11.05 Later with Jools Holland (S,HD). 3/8. Extended edition.

With Franz Ferdinand, Goldfrapp, Gregory Porter, James Blake and Radkey.

1.20 Weatherview (S). 1.25 BBC News (S,HD).

12.10 Film: The Sheltering Sky (S,HD) (1990). An American couple’s attempts to revive their ailing marriage during a visit to North Africa only bring them more heartache. Period drama, starring John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Campbell Scott and Timothy Spall. ●●● 2.20 Sign Zone: Question Time (R,S). Topical debate from Birmingham. 3.20 This Is BBC Two (S).

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10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather 10.35 Mickey Blue Eyes (S,HD) (1999). A strait-laced Englishman falls for a New York mobster’s daughter, who wants to escape her family’s criminal connections. However, try as he may, he realises there is virtually no way to avoid being drawn into its members’ illegal activities. Romantic comedy, starring Hugh Grant, Jeanne Tripplehorn, James Caan and Burt Young. See Choices Above. ●●●

10.00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man (S).

6/18. See Choices Above.

12.30 Jackpot247. Interactive gaming.

3.00 Film: The Land That Time Forgot (S) (1974). Marooned German and American mariners form an uneasy alliance to escape an island inhabited by prehistoric monsters.

Fantasy adventure, starring Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon and Keith Barron. ●● 4.30 ITV Nightscreen (HD).

Text-based information service.

12.35 Random Acts (S). 12.40 Film: The Future (S,HD) (2011). Drama, directed by and starring Miranda July. With Hamish Linklater. ●●●● 2.15 The Ricky Gervais Show (R,S,HD). 2.45 2 Broke Girls (S,HD).

3.15 SuperScrimpers (R,S,HD). 4.10 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD). 5.05 Countdown (R,S,HD). 5.45 Kirstie’s Vintage Gems (R,S,HD).

11.10 Big Fat Quiz of the 90s (R,S).

Jonathan Ross, Jo Brand, Sue Perkins, Lee Mack, Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade demonstrate how much they remember about the 1990s.

Jimmy Carr asks the questions.

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10.00 Under Siege (S,HD) (1992).

Terrorists infiltrate a US battleship in a carefully orchestrated move to steal its arsenal of nuclear weapons, unaware the ship’s resourceful cook – a veteran US Navy Seal – and a scantily clad stripper are about to foil their plans. Action adventure, starring Steven Seagal, Erika Eleniak, Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones. See Choices Above. ●●●●

12.05 SuperCasino. Viewers get the chance to take part in live interactive gaming, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team.

3.55 Motorsport Mundial (HD). 4.20 Great Scientists (R,S). A profile of Albert Einstein. Last in the series. 4.45 House Doctor (R,S). 5.10 Wildlife SOS (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

ALAN CARR: CHATTY MAN 10pm, Channel 4

Coulson takes his crew to Peru to investigate a mysterious object codenamed 0-8-4. But when he runs into Commandant Camilla Reyes, sparks soon fly – in more ways than one.

The comedian is joined by David Mitchell, chatting about his new Channel 4 show Was It Something I Said?, actor James McAvoy discusses his latest movie, Filth, and some of the stars of Strictly Come Dancing waltz into the studio. Plus, there’s music by Australian rapper Iggy Azalea.

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6.00 Emmerdale (R,HD). 6.55 Life’s Funniest Moments 7.25 Jeremy Kyle Show USA 8.10 You’ve Been Framed! 8.40 Dinner Date 9.40 The Real Housewives of New York City 10.35 The Real Housewives of Vancouver 11.30 Millionaire Matchmaker 12.30 Emmerdale 1.30 Life’s Funniest Moments 2.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show 4.10 Real Housewives of Vancouver 5.05 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD).

6.00 Switched 6.25 90210 7.10 Ugly Betty 8.00 Charmed (R).

9.00 Glee 10.00 New Girl 10.30 The Mindy Project 11.00 Rules of Engagement 11.30 Charmed (R).

12.30 Hollyoaks 1.00 How I Met Your Mother 2.00 The Big Bang Theory 3.00 New Girl 3.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 4.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 7.00 The Middle (R,S). 8.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 1.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 2.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Futurama (R,S,HD). 5.30 The Middle (R,S,HD).

FILM PICKS

Friday television&radio MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD 8pm, Channel 4

MICKEY BLUE EYES 10.35pm, ITV

UNDER SIEGE 10pm, Channel 5

A strait-laced Englishman falls for a New York mobster’s daughter, and is reluctantly drawn into the family business.

Comedy, with Hugh Grant.

Gold GOLD

6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.00 Goodnight Sweetheart 8.20 As Time Goes By 9.00 ‘Allo ‘Allo!

10.20 Last of the Summer Wine 11.40 Open All Hours 12.20 Yes, Prime Minister 1.00 Ever Decreasing Circles 2.20 As Time Goes By 3.00 Goodnight Sweetheart 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 Only Fools and Horses

A veteran US Navy Seal working on a battleship as a cook leaps into action to liberate the vessel from terrorists.

Action adventure, starring Steven Seagal.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 7.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 8.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 9.00 Premier League World (HD). 9.30 Golf (HD). 10.30 Live Golf (HD). 4.30 Premier League World (HD). 5.00 Grand Final Gold. 5.15 Grand Final Gold. 5.30 Super League Grand Final Preview (HD). A look ahead to the match at Old Trafford.

Fast & Furious, 10pm

Marley and Me, 9pm

Don’t Sit in the … 10.30pm

The Royle Family, 9.40pm

Live Golf, 6pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R).

Londoner Charlie chooses three blind dates. Narrated by Charlotte Hudson.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 The Middle (R,S,HD).

Frankie’s parents decide to celebrate Christmas with her.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.20 Yes, Prime Minister.

Jim has his first encounter with the staff at the Foreign Office.

Comedy, starring Paul Eddington.

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Harry Hill narrates.

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Harry Hill narrates a selection of camcorder calamities.

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD). Fraser and Trevor plan to frame Ste for DS Trent’s murder.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Homer becomes an inventor.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Marge rediscovers her flair for art.

7.00 Open All Hours. Ronnie Barker stars.

7.40 Gavin & Stacey. Smithy and Nessa visit the hospital for their first ultrasound scan.

8.00 The X Factor USA (HD).

Kelly Rowland, Paulina Rubio, Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato take their places behind the judges’ desk and prepare for the fifth round of auditions, in

8.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Guest starring Bob Newhart.

8.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). Part two of two. Barney tells Ted he is going to propose to Patrice.

8.00 Glee (S,HD). New series.

The musical drama returns with the first three episodes of series five, including a tribute to Cory Monteith, before taking a break until later in the year.

8.20 Gavin & Stacey. After a day spent househunting, the newlyweds take up an invitation from Nessa and Smithy to relax with a trip to the bowling alley.

6.00 Live Golf (HD). The Presidents Cup. The second day’s play of the biennial event between a team representing the USA and an International side, which is being staged at Muirfield Village, Ohio. Fred Couples and Nick Price are the respective nonplaying captains, with Couples able to call on the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Jason Dufner, and Price utilising the talents of Adam Scott, Ernie Els and Jason Day.

which solo singers and groups compete for a place in the next phase of the competition.

RADIO

BBC4 BBC4

12.05 American Dad! (R,S). 12.30 American Dad! (R,S). 12.50 Some Girls (R,S). 1.20 Staying in with Greg & Russell XL (R,S). 2.05 Bad Education (R,S). 2.35 Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment (R,S). 2.55 Unsafe Sex in the City (R,S).

12.00 Big in America: British Hits in the USA (R). 1.00 Elton John in Concert 2013 (R). 2.00 The Making of Elton John: Madman Across the Water (R). 3.00 Elton John at the BBC (R).

7.00 Live Gymnastics: World Artistic Championships (S). The women’s all-around final.

9.00 Orphan Black (S). Sarah’s reunion with Kira is put in jeopardy.

9.45 Staying in with Greg & Russell XL (S). With Dizzee Rascal and Scott Disick.

10.30 EastEnders (R,S).

Roxy and Ronnie’s luck may be running out.

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

Chris meets a puppeteer with a dark past.

11.45 Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment (S).

7.00 World News Today; Weather.

7.30 The Sound and the Fury: A Century of Music (R).

8.30 Transatlantic Sessions. With Mary Chapin Carpenter, Maura O’Connell and Julie Fowlis.

9.00 Elton John in Concert 2013.

The singer performs at the BBC’s Radio Theatre.

10.00 The Making of Elton John: Madman Across the Water (R).

The singer’s rise to stardom in the 1970s.

11.00 Elton John at the BBC (R). A selection of archive session performances.

9.00 Marley and Me (HD) 9.00 A League of Their Own 9.00 Mrs Brown’s Boys.

(2008). Journalist John (S,HD). Sports-based Dermot gets cold feet in Grogan celebrates his comedy quiz, hosted by the run-up to his wedding by getting his James Corden, with wedding. wife a golden Labrador funnymen David 9.40 The Royle Family. The puppy, hoping to stave Walliams and Richard family argues over a off her desire to have Ayoade, and Olympic television programme. children. Over the course boxing champion Nicola Award-winning comedy, of their marriage, the Adams. starring Caroline Aherne. dog remains a constant companion and never 10.20 The Royle Family.

10.00 Trollied (R,S,HD). loses his mischievous Nana recovers from an Richard removes Gavin’s streak even as he grows operation to remove a office door to make him from a cute puppy to a cataract, while Antony more approachable.

7st dog. Comedy drama takes a ribbing about his 10.30 Don’t Sit in the Front based on a newspaper new girlfriend. Comedy, Row (S). Comedy panel column, starring Owen starring Caroline show, hosted by Jack Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Aherne, Craig Cash, Sue Dee. Kathleen Turner and Johnston and Ricky Alan Arkin. ●●● Tomlinson.

10.00 Fast & Furious (HD) (2009). News of a friend’s murder brings international fugitive Dominic Toretto back to his home city of Los Angeles in search of revenge. It is not long before his pursuit leads him to cross paths with FBI agent Brian O’Conner, and despite 11.20 New Rude Tube (R).

11.00 Groundhog Day (S) their hostile feelings Alex Zane presents a top (1993). Comedy, starring toward each other, the 50 countdown Bill Murray, Andie pair work together to celebrating the greatest MacDowell, Chris Elliott bring down those internet mishaps. and Stephen responsible. Thriller Tobolowsky. ●●●●● sequel, starring Vin Diesel. ●●● 12.15 Film: Whip It (HD) (2009). A misfit teenager tired of her small town and pushy mother secretly takes up the fast-paced sport of roller derby. Comedy drama, starring Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore. ●●●● 2.20 Kings of Leon: The Hot Desk (R,HD). 2.30 Teleshopping

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12.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.30 Friday Night Dinner (R,HD). 2.05 The Midnight Beast (R,HD). 2.30 Full English (R,HD).

2.55 Chris Moyles’ Quiz Night (R,HD). 3.35 Show and Tell (R).

4.15 Life Unexpected (R,HD).

5.00 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 4.00 Greg James 6.00 Radio 1’s Dance Anthems with Greg James 7.00 Annie Mac 9.00 Pete Tong 11.00 Skream and Benga 1.00am Radio 1’s Essential Mix 3.00 Annie Nightingale Radio 2 5.00am Vanessa Feltz 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Paul Gambaccini: The Way I Was 8.00 Friday Night Is Music Night 10.00 Paul Gambaccini Midnight Huey Morgan 3.00 Richard Allinson

1.00 Ross Kemp Back on the Frontline (R,S,HD). 2.00 Road Wars (R,S). Police officers combat vehicle crime. 3.00 Armed and Dangerous: Ultimate Forces (R,S,HD). 4.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 4.30 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 5.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD).

Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composer of the Week: Sound of Cinema: John Williams 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composer of the Week: Sound of Cinema: John Williams 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert. Thomas Søndergard opens the Cardiff concert season with the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales performing Poulenc’s Gloria and Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony. 10.00 The Verb 10.45 The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet 11.00 World on 3 1.00am Through the Night.

Chopin, Mendelssohn.

Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 9.00 Desert Island Discs 9.45 (LW) Act of Worship 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: Beowulf 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 The Young Devolutionaries 11.30 Start/Stop Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 You and Yours 12.52 The Listening Project 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Publishing Lives 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk 3.00 Gardeners’ Question Time 3.45 Brazilian Bonanza 4.00 Last Word 4.30 More or Less 4.56 The Listening Project 5.00 PM

11.00 Early Doors. Ken holds a quiz night, while unlucky-in-love Duffy sinks into misery.

11.40 Mrs Brown’s Boys.

Bawdy comedy, starring Brendan O’Carroll.

11.00 Golf (HD). The Seve Trophy. Highlights of the second day at the biennial team competition, featuring Great Britain & Ireland v Continental Europe.

12.20 Early Doors. Gossip is rife about Ken’s on-off date with Tanya, while relations with Mel have turned distinctly cold since her dalliance with Dean during last week’s quiz. 1.00 The Royle Family 1.30 The Royle Family 2.00 Early Doors 2.30 Early Doors

12.00 Golf (HD). 1.00 Grand Final Gold (HD). 2.00 Super League Grand Final Preview (HD). 2.30 Premier League Preview (HD).

3.00 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). 4.00 Champions League Weekly (HD). 4.30 Premier League Preview (HD). 5.00 The Fantasy Football Club (HD).

5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 The Now Show 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 7.45 (LW) The Pillow Book: Time and Change 7.45 (FM) The Pillow Book: Time and Change 8.00 Any Questions? 8.50 A Point of View.

Reflections on a topical issue. 9.00 Friday Drama: Bar Mitzvah Boy. 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Solo 11.00 Great Lives 11.30 With Great Pleasure 11.55 The Listening Project Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: Beowulf 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

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Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport.

Dan Walker presents the day’s sports news and previews the weekend’s action, including the Super League Grand Final, the F1 Korean Grand Prix and the latest football fixtures. 10.00 Stephen Nolan 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Bob Jones

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BRASSES, BITS AND BRIDLES I could barely reach his shoulder, he was mighty as an ox Yet Major was a kitten underneath, In human terms, a gentleman who always gave his best, A soul-mate with an apple in his teeth.

But to visit at his cottage is to learn about his life By simply looking round you at the door, Brasses, bits and bridles hang from brackets and from beams And photographs, a dozen, maybe more.

Oh, how he loved his apples, I could tease him like a child So he'd nudge them from the pockets of my coat And he'd know what I was thinking, he'd anticipate a wish Before the words had time to reach my throat.

He's not a man for small talk or civility's ex change, The secret is to probe about the past, The magic word is 'horses', then you'll see the blue eyes shine, From there, the stories follow thick and fast.

He'll take you back with fondness to the fields of Manor Farm And draw a sketch of how it used to be, 'Hard times, son,' he recollects, ' With a pittance as a wage But the horses were the best of it for me.

I was never one for people though I've tried to rub along But they tend to muddle craftiness with brains, A horse is slow to understand and slower still to trust But he knows when there's a fool upon the reins.

If you've the salt to prove yourself, the hardest part is done Though, sometimes, he'll be obstinate or cute, Unless you've one like Major, he was king among his kind, A scholar in a shiny, sable suit.

So close was that relationship, so weatherproof the bond That I dreaded my retirement at the end, That boss of mine was hard of heart and never known for warmth, I feared for Major, as you would a friend.

But boss-man showed a tender side I'd never seen before, Now, Bill, he said, I promised you your home And Major, too, has served me well and earned himself a rest, Until he dies, he'll have these fields to roam.

Well, Major made the most of it, past thirty when he died And, knowing him, he'll wait for me, for sure, Same old Major, same old eyes, same willingness to please All harnessed up by heaven's stable door.'

For book enquiries, ring 01752600366.

chess Bob Jones The Paignton Congress survived its move from Oldway to the Livermead House Hotel and the new venue has already been booked for the same week next year.

The main winners were as follows (all points out of 7):- Premier: 1st K Arkell (Paignton) 6. 2nd S Berry 5½. 3rd= F Rayner; A Crombleholme; C Fegan; D Mackle (Newton Abbot) and S Dilleigh (Bristol).

Challengers (U-180): 1st= N Burrows; C Costello; B Hewson (Tiverton) and M Waddington (Dorchester).

Intermediate (U-150): 1st= D Rogers (Exmouth) and A Wiggins both 5. 3rd= N Dennis; T Greenaway (Torquay); G Harrison and B Sandercock all 4½.

Minor (U-125): 1st J MacDonald 5½. 2nd= K

Spooner; R Hale; G Naldrett; P Gordon and L Bullock all on 5.

Arkell’s only slip-up was against the second seed who finished the game in style.

White: S Berry (214) Black: K Arkell (237).

English Opening – Symmetrical Defence [A39].

1.c4 c5 2.g3 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.d4 cxd4 7.Nxd4 Nxd4 8.Qxd4 d6 9.0–0 0–0 10.Qd3 Nd7 11.b3 Nc5 12.Qd2 Rb8 13.Bb2 b6 14.Rad1 Bb7 15.e4 a6 16.Rfe1 Ba8 17.Qe2 Qd7 18.h4 h5 19.Nd5 Bxb2 20.Qxb2 Bxd5 21.exd5 White now has long open lines for all his pieces, that he exploits to the full 21...b5 The best place to attack a pawn chain is as near the base as possible. If 21...e6 White has 22.Bh3 or 22.Qa3. 22.cxb5 Rxb5 Now that Black’s rook and knight are tucked away on the Q-side without any immediate threats, White can plan a direct attack on the K-side. 23.Re3 Re8 24.Rde1 Rb7 25.Qd2 Qb5 26.Bf1 Qb6 27.Bc4 f5 Preparing an outpost for the knight. 28.R3e2 Opening a diagonal for his queen. 28...Kh7 Black cannot allow the queen to invade on h6. 29.Bd3 Qd8 The Black king has no defending pieces, so White launches a double sacrificial attack. 30.Bxf5! gxf5 31.Re6 Black has little alternative but to retake, though it only delays the inevitable by one move. 31...Nxe6 32.Rxe6 Rh8 33.Rh6+ Good enough, but White missed the even quicker 33.Qg5 with mate next move.

33...Kg7 34.Qg5+ Kf7 35.Qg6+ Kf8 36.Rxh8# 0–1 Last week’s problem was solved by 1.R4b6! after which Black has four tries; i.e. cxb6+; Bc6: c6 & Ne5, but each is met with a different mate.

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(9)was popular in the off to see a band that 22 (1-2) I hear Artie and Len from 1980s Lanreath are off to see a band that was popular in the 1980s 23 Golly the sea looks rough! And it’s not the first time it’s been this stormy near (1-2) Wadebridge 23 Golly(10) the sea looks rough! And it’s not the first time it’s been this stormy near Wadebridge (10)

DOWN 1 The two lads who were seen at the back of my property just DOWN outside of Warminster were 1 The two lads who were seen at the back of just hanging around looking my property just outside suspicious (4) of Warminster were just hanging suspicious 2 Tom wantedaround to getlooking another pint (4) in before setting off back to his place near Bridgwater (12) 2 Tom wanted to get another pint in before 3 It’soff back plain Wells setting to histo place see, near Bridgwater (12) Cathedral is trying to attract only the very top people (1-4) to make 34It’sSue plain left to see,Tiverton Wells Cathedral is tryinga completely newtop start (6)(1-4) to attract only the very people 5 My brother, a top decorator, 4 Sue left just Tiverton make a completely has lefttoIddesleigh to go new to startthe (6) middle of Exbourne where he’s redecorating a lady’s bed5 My brother, a top decorator, has just left room (7) Iddesleigh to go to the middle of Exbourne 6 I’mhe’s going to takea my nan to this where redecorating lady’s bedroom (7) riverside place about one mile Sturminster Newton 6 I’mfrom going to take my nan to this riverside (6,2,4) place about one mile from Sturminster 7 When I took my first love to Newton (6,2,4) visit my gran in East Melbury 7 When took my first love to visit sheI reacted furiously (7)my gran in East Melbury reacted (7) 12 I found myshe suitor in furiously Teignmouth having travelled there as a 12 I found my suitor in Teignmouth having holidaymaker (7) travelled there as a holidaymaker (7) 14 Unfortunately three bags were taken by athree criminal right in the 14 Unfortunately bags were taken by a centre ofinBraunton onBraunton Sundayon– criminal right the centre of they had been off Sunday – they had been taken taken off people’s shoulders (7) shoulders (7) people’s 16 By the beginning of August, the 16 By the beginning of August, frontthe of front of our B&B theon our outskirts B&B on the outskirts of Otterham of Otterham can can get get obscured by the grass (6) obscured byfast-growing the fast-growing grass (6) 19 On the coast between Aberystwyth and 19 On there the are coast between Aberdovey two Travelodges – both and Aberdovey lookAberystwyth rather run-down (5) there are two Travelodges – bothbungalows look rather (5) 20 Seven are torun-down be built in our small village in Somerset (4) are to be 20 Seven bungalows built in our small village in Somerset (4)

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Last week you were stressed out but now you feel as if you’ve had a burst of strength and energy. Run with your dreams. You don’t even need the go-ahead from family. You’re certain which path is right. Give me a call now. I have to fill you in on your love scope.

Pay attention to what you say, as others will take your words more literally than you think. The chance to go somewhere new and different should be accepted. Make your fun a priority. Changes in the workplace are the shove you need. Ring for answers.

You’re one of the strongest signs and yet those around you have convinced you that you’re not. Wake up, Leo; someone wants to manipulate you. Travel is well starred and helps you to get closer to a relationship. Ring now to hear who’s telling you lies.

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Life is not easy but you have to agree you’ve done an admirable job. You miss someone and yet there is nothing to stop you from getting in touch. They’ve missed you as much as you’ve missed them my friend.

Ring now to hear how the Moon reveals secrets.

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It’s time to work on the communication skills with your loved ones. Talking, not shouting is the way to get through. Don’t turn down the offer of a night out with distant family or forgotten friends. News they share is sure to bring life back into perspective.

You’re worrying too much about what might happen when you should be concentrating on what is going on in your life. Younger faces are the bearers of important news. Gambles in love pay off. Follow your heart. Ring now, I have so much to tell you.

The home comes under the spotlight and you find out you had friends in places you didn’t realise. News for a close one requires some moral support. They’ll remember it. Venus helps with a love dilemma. Ring to hear who can’t stop telling white lies.

Rather than sit and moan, concentrate on all that is good. By moving on you’ll find your strength, courage and fortitude. A mix-up mid week goes in your favour as you get to prove yourself. Ring now to hear why it’s important you look good throughout this week.

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Without your problems, you wouldn’t appreciate the good times ahead. It’s worth remembering this when you get disappointing news. Forced changes are a blessing in disguise. Gambles in love pay off. Call to hear why it’s worth accepting celebration invites.

I see great things ahead. You’re about to learn that you have impressed those who can help you to take your career to the next level. Personal issues still need to be sorted out, but Mercury is on hand. Ring now to hear how life and love could soon see you travelling.

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1 Inside The Yarn Market in Dunster, Somerset.

2 The clock on a branch of HSBC, Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire. 3 The Rebecca Fountain outside Bath Abbey. 4 Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol 5 Portland Bill lighthouse, Dorset.

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