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ARTS her sensational
4-6 claims about the
Cover story
The government has pledged
president’s family
a big rescue package for the history
arts, but theatres still can’t
reopen. Stephen Armstrong
Biography, page 20
reports on the problems that
will keep them closed

PETER SERLING, ALAMY

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Art
128 days later: Waldemar
Januszczak on a

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Camilla Long know about Beethoven early years into a remain deeply controversial, Author Q&A
brilliant memoir. finds Max Hastings The crime writer Karin

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COVER STORY

T
he natural condition of the
theatre business is one of

waiTing
insurmountable obstacles on
the road to imminent disaster,
according to Philip Henslowe,
owner of the Rose Theatre, in
Shakespeare in Love. Strangely enough,
he adds, it all turns out well. He doesn’t
know how. It’s a mystery.
Henslowe’s modern counterparts
awoke to just such a miracle on Monday

for The
morning. Apparently out of nowhere, a
previously recalcitrant government
decided the arts were worth saving. To
the industry’s delight, the culture sec-
retary, Oliver Dowden, unveiled an
unexpected £1.57bn rescue package to
help “cultural and heritage organisa-
tions across the country . . . stay afloat
while their doors are closed”.

nexT
The press release from the Depart-
ment of Digital, Culture, Media and
Sport (DCMS) came with enthusiastic
quotes from Lord Lloyd-Webber, the
playwright James Graham, Simon Rat-
tle, Tamara Rojo, Nicholas Serota and
Ruth Wilson — although a Lloyd-
Webber tweet later that morning sug-
gested he had since read the small
print: “Great to see the government

acT
support the arts, but what we really
need is for the UK’s theatres to open
safely as soon as practically possible.”
The government’s five-stage road
map for the reopening of arts venues
still does not have a timeline attached to
it. According to Lord Grade, a member
of the DCMS cultural renewal taskforce,
but speaking in his own capacity, what
arrived last week is a package to get
theatres through until a reopening
date. “But the government doesn’t
want to set up any expectation. No one The government’s bailout may keep
believes it will be possible to open thea-
tres with social distancing in place.” theatres solvent, but it won’t help them
So what works for shops and restau-
rants won’t work for theatres. to open safely. Stephen Armstrong
And there are further concerns . . .
explains what still needs fixing
Will all theatre jobs be saved now?
The Treasury money is purely to ensure
theatres can open when the lockdown
is over, but will the people who make
these places work still be there? “Many
of us were asking for provision in the
package for theatres to make work in director of the Professional Lighting How long before money arrives?
the short term and employ the free- and Sound Association. “Over 70% of There’s also the delicate issue that the
lance workforce,” says Tom Morris, the our members are self-employed, and at clients of Arts Council England (ACE)
artistic director of Bristol Old Vic. “This the start of June we found seven out of — the body entrusted with distributing
hasn’t happened. That group of people 10 of them had three months’ cash left. this money, alongside Historic England, extent commercial companies will be
are already leaving — they won’t sit and Unless we extend furlough and the the National Lottery Heritage Fund and able to access funds,” warns Neil Adle-
wait for us to come back.” freelance support scheme, we will lose the British Film Institute — account for man, who heads up the theatre team at
“Most theatres are already engaged our technical people to high-tech only 20% of the turnover in the theatre the legal firm Harbottle & Lewis. “The
in consultation over redundancies,” says industries where they can earn twice as industry. Charitable trust theatres Arts Council will have to adapt quickly
Sean Foley, artistic director of Birming- much for half the hours.” including Shakespeare’s Globe and the to working with the commercial sector,
ham Repertory Theatre. “When the Old Vic in London, Norwich Theatre or with new structures such as loans.”
money comes in, it will be crucial to mit- Royal and the Birmingham Hippo- The Arts Council is collaborating
igate those job losses — but it only under- drome receive no Arts Council funding with the DCMS to establish the details of
pins survival to March/April next year.” — just like every independent producer the package, including how the funding
The launch of Sam Mendes’s Theatre We will lose our and commercial theatre. Despite the will be distributed. Some theatres are
Artists’ Fund this week, with a Netflix Globe’s chief executive, Neil Constable, already concerned.
donation of £500,000, is a helpful technical people to welcoming “this significant invest- “There’s a huge swathe of organisa-
short-term measure. But “DCMS are
aware that the package does not cover
industries where they ment” on the DCMS press release, he
may struggle actually to get the cash.
tions whose business models the Arts
Council won’t necessarily understand,”
people”, says Peter Heath, managing can earn twice as much “At the moment it isn’t clear to what says Stephen Crocker, chief executive of
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 STATE OF PLAY
As the Manchester Royal
government Exchange 65% of
announced its permanent staff could
£1.57bn bailout be made redundant
package, this was
the situation our Newcastle Theatre
theatres were in: Royal 44 of 89 staff to
lose jobs
West End theatres
Ambassador Oxford Playhouse up to
Theatre Group, 20% of 50 staff at risk
about 5% of
workforce to go; Norwich Theatres
Nimax Theatres, 33% 113 staff could lose jobs
of workforce to go;
Delfont Mackintosh and Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Cameron Mackintosh 42 of 98 staff at risk
Ltd, redundancy
consultations under way Plymouth Theatre Royal
33% of 340 staff at risk
National Theatre
250 front-of-house staff Leicester Haymarket
to be made redundant Theatre closed
permanently
Birmingham
Hippodrome 62 of Southampton Nuffield
130 staff at risk Theatre closed
permanently
Edinburgh Royal
Lyceum Theatre Southport Theatre
redundancy closed permanently
consultations under way Source: The Stage

outfitted the London Palladium with a

series of protocols the company learnt
in South Korea, where Phantom of the
Opera has continued its Seoul run
throughout the lockdown.
Officially these protocols are
designed to ensure the theatre is Covid-
secure. Unofficially it is a demonstra-
tion of ways, as shown to Dowden on a
tour of the venue, that old theatres
could fight the virus. These include
temperature checks on arrival, silver
ion door-handle covers that destroy
viruses, a regular antiviral cleaning
regime, fogging machines coating fabric

34m
and carpets with antiviral chemicals,
effective ventilation and previsit guide-
lines and information video.
“We have waded through many
technologies and products to find the
TheaTregoers in 2018 most effective antiviral mitigations,”
explains Rebecca Kane Burton, chief
executive of LW Theatres. “We are
sharing all our findings with DCMS to
Norwich Theatres. “For us, panto is as says: “It could help ACE to understand the official guidance get around the demonstrate that when we combine
MIKE CATHRO

valid as ballet, and comedy is as impor-
tant as opera. The Arts Council process
for deciding on funding for an arts
company it already subsidises typically
takes two months. We don’t have two
months — some speed needs to be
injected. Subsidised theatre has suffered
less thanks to its funding, so the rest of
us need to be prioritised now.”
This could lead to a long-overdue
reconciliation between the UK’s theatre
sectors. Edward Snape, chairman of
the League of Independent Producers,
the commercial sector — which benefits
hugely from the subsidised sector —
and realise we are one ecosystem.”
If planes can fly, why can’t theatres
open?
On the face of it, airlines and theatres
offer a similar experience. Both place
people in rows of seating facing for-
wards. Both have too few lavatories if
everybody decides to use them at once.
Both offer slightly disappointing food
and wine. Planes are flying. How does
dangers of hundreds of people locked
in a narrow tube for hours on end?
With these simple guidelines, on the
government website, headed “Corona-
virus: safer air travel for passengers”.
“In England and Scotland passengers
must wear a face covering on board air-
craft. You can remove your face covering
to communicate with someone who
relies on lip reading, avoid harm or
injury, take medication, eat or drink, if
reasonably necessary.”
Lloyd-Webber’s LW Theatres has
science and practical solutions, we can
find a route to reopening our beloved
industry safely.”
On the Today programme on Mon-
day Dowden appeared to dismiss these
protocols: “These are just mitigations.”
If you book them, will they come?
When the theatres finally do open, per-
haps next spring, perhaps even further
away, “it’s a brave producer who’s will-
ing to go first”, says James Mackenzie
Blackman, chief executive of Eden 
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COVER STORY/ART
▶ Court, mainland Britain’s northern-
most arts complex. “We don’t know
how willing the general public is going
to be to get back in our buildings.” UK
cinemas have been able to open from
July 4 — although research by the Film
Distributors’ Association shows only
one in five people are willing to go,
even when social distancing and rigor-
ous cleaning are in operation.
Who will back the backers?
Theatrical angels — wealthy investors in
new shows — are crucial to the lifeblood
of theatre. They run huge risks at the
best of times, with only about a third of
shows recouping their initial capital,
according to the Society of London
Theatres. To this risk, the pandemic has
added a fresh peril: insurance compa-
nies are not prepared to cover for Covid.
“What can you do if you’re touring
and four cities go into lockdown?” says
Snape, the producer behind Touching
the Void and Fleabag. “I don’t know
another solution — we need insurance.
It’s going to be tough raising invest-
ment, and the insurance needs to be
resolved. The government underwrites
terrorism insurance. They may have to
step in here.”
Many insurance companies are drag-
ging their heels about payouts on poli-
cies taken out before the pandemic,
even those the Financial Conduct
Authority (FCA) believes are watertight.
“There are some instances where insur-
ers have paid out, but many others
where they’re contesting claims spuri-
ously or just trying to make life difficult
for theatres,” Adleman says. “A lot of
insurers are holding out for as long as
they can — either cynically in the hope
organisations go bust or to keep hold of
the money as long as they can.”
He cites one regional theatre with
£250,000 of cover, but nursing losses
much greater than that. The insurer’s
loss adjuster initially agreed with the
theatre’s loss adjuster that a payout
should be straightforward, then asked
the theatre to itemise every single way
it had lost money; a time-consuming
process. On Broadway and in the Ger-
man theatre market many claims have
already been settled — by some of the
same companies refusing to pay here.
In June the FCA started test case pro-
ceedings against a number of insurers,
including Hiscox and Zurich, which
will reach the High Court this month.
What can we expect?
A long wait. There are proposals from
theatres including group arrival times
for ticket holders to pace arrivals, one-
£32.3bn
VALUE OF CULTURE
TO THE UK ECONOMY
6 12 July 2020
metre markings on the floor in queue
areas, online registration and a health
questionnaire, allocated seating, sani-
tising guns, compulsory masks and ran-
dom temperature checks. The govern-
ment doesn’t have faith in any of these.
In the meantime such theatre as you
will be able to find will be outside the
auditorium — with site-specific pieces,
drive-in events, shorter plays and one-
person performances in theatre foyers.
Jude Doherty of Grid Iron Theatre
Company is hoping to stage an outdoor
show in Edinburgh this August.
“It’s more straightforward for com-
panies with decades of experience
working in all sorts of spaces — we can
work outdoors and know how to put
lavatories in. We can keep shows going
while bigger theatres and older build-
ings get sorted out,” she says.
Whether the big venues with open
roofs, such as the Globe and Regent’s
Park Open Air Theatre in London, will
reopen wasn’t clear last week, but
wasn’t being ruled out.
But no panto?
Dowden says the mix of generations,
endangering granny, the shouting and
the throwing of toys, sweets and the
occasional bubble spray “represent huge
transmission risks”.
Is there a happy closing number?
Theatreland is hoping to help itself fur-
ther — and persuade the government it
is not just begging for handouts — with
its own fundraising exercise, along the
lines of Comic Relief. Called #actnow,
it’s an embryonic industry-wide cam-
paign to raise money through spon-
sored performances and public engage-
ment. And challenging times usually
provoke creatives — the theatres may
close, but theatre will always be there.
For instance, Robert Hastie, artistic
director of Sheffield Theatres, is hoping
to create open-air Shakespeare pieces
“taking live performance out of the
building and into the city. Shakespeare
was written to be performed outside.
Until we can get people together in a
space confidently — with large enough
groups of people to make the numbers
add up — we won’t be out of the woods,
but imagination and a proper action
plan will keep us going.
“Crucially, we don’t want to return
to the same way of doing things. We’ll
have learnt huge lessons in this terrible
time that will make theatre better, as
long as we’re creating experiences —
even if they are bespoke, compromised
and on the hoof.”
Amit Lahav, artistic director of the
physical theatre company Gecko, agrees.
“We might find an explosion of excite-
ment, we might find lots of people and
places can’t operate, we might find
both. Theatre’s way of operating is to
be as flexible as possible to deal with
problems. That’s the job description —
not just solving problems, but playing
with them and enjoying them.” c
The National
Gallery is the
first of the big
guns to open its
doors, and what
treasures await
WALDEMAR
JANUSZCZAK
Do you remember your first
love? How you sat for an
eternity by the phone,
hoping it would ring? How
every time you started
thinking about something else
they would barge back in?
How you hung on every smile,
every touch of the hand?
Waiting for the National
Gallery to reopen wasn’t quite
as torturous as that, but it was
of that ilk. The last time I was
there was 128 days ago. So yes,
I was desperate. And no, it
didn’t disappoint.
GUY BELL/SHUTTERSTOCK
The National is the first of
the big galleries to reopen
for various reasons. In an
era of little support for the
arts it has been supported
more generously than most.
No key members of staff had
Like you’
to be furloughed or laid off.
So when the call came to
reopen, there were enough
hands on deck to do it quickly.
As most of its holdings
are paintings, it was easier Restored when you follow me through
also to organise the viewing to glory   the reopened doors. As we’re
of them. Walking past a The Julia all so much more practised at
picture on a wall is a far and Hans simplicity than we were, I can
less complicated gallery Rausing get it down to two words:
experience than meandering Room bloody and marvellous.
through an installation or You come in at the
sitting in the dark watching a Sainsbury Wing entrance on
shaky video. The ye olde art Trafalgar Square, and leave
journey offered by the through the Getty exit on
National is easier to simplify, Charing Cross Road. Inside
easier to organise, easier to are three recommended
police, easier to love. routes through the collection.
Finally I have to take my For Covid reasons maps are
stetson off to the National’s not handed out, so you
director, Gabriele Finaldi, download them chez vous.
who has shown the quality Masks are advised, but not
that you need most in compulsory. When the shop
circumstances such as reopens I hear it will be selling
these — excellent leadership. masks decorated with Van
He’s been calm. Said the Gogh’s Sunflowers. Had it
right things. Made the right been up to me I would
calls. Got the timings right.
Bravo, Finaldi. THE have gone for Rubens’s
Massacre of the Innocents,
You’ll be wanting,
though, to know how it went
CRITICS but that’s why I am not a
successful National Gallery
for me after my 128 days, and director and Finaldi is.
what it will be like for you Route one of the three

ve never seen it before
journeys involves turning left
at the top of the Sainsbury
Wing stairs and heading into
the 14th century. Straight
away you pass the Wilton
Diptych, pretty much the only
important work of British art
to survive the Reformation.
The rest was gouged,
stamped, burnt after Henry
VIII began his wife-swapping.
The eradication of 1,000 years
of Catholic art by, first,
the Tudors and then the
Cromwellians has left British
art with half a history. The
poor, tiny Wilton Diptych,
beautiful though it is, has to
stand for so much.
After the Diptych you get to
the Leonardo da Vincis and
the Piero della Francescas;
The Arnolfini Marriage and
the Raphaels. A couple of
things are missing — the
Uccello, some Botticellis.
Apparently they’re stuck in
quarantine in Japan, along
with the aforementioned
Sunflowers. The National sent
them out on tour to raise
much-needed cash and then
Covid struck.
Each route is slated to last
about half an hour, but I get
the feeling no one is going to
whip you if you linger a
moment longer. You’re
instructed to keep two metres
apart, and with fewer people
in the gallery you actually
get to see the art in better
conditions than before!
So book that ticket.
The green route takes
you through the Dutch and
Flemish collections. Walking
into the room filled with
Rembrandts is especially
impactful. It’s like having
a hand rest on your shoulder
and a voice whispering in
your ear: “This is humanity.
This is us.” He’s so deep, so
direct. The right artist for the
Covid world.
In the Flemish rooms the
huge Van Dyck of Charles I on
horseback has finally emerged
from its two-year restoration.
I’m surprised they got it into
the gallery. It’s so big, it looks
as if it has been wedged
between the floor and the
ceiling. But the most fruitful
Flemish moment comes in the
room before. The Courtauld
Galleries are closed for
restoration, so they have lent
their key Rubens paintings
— Landscape by Moonlight;
Descent from the Cross — to
the National, where they
enlarge the Rubens
experience into something
stunning. Boy, was he good.
Boy, is that clear here.
British art gets a good
showing in a reorganised
British Gallery featuring
Turner and Constable,
Hogarth and Reynolds. It’s the
second half of the story; how
the orphans survived the loss
of 1,000 years. For sheer
weepiness, though, the place
to head is the Gainsborough
room, where that lovely
picture of the artist’s two
daughters chasing a butterfly
has been joined by a new
acquisition, a portrait of
Margaret, the younger
daughter, playing a theorbo,
a kind of lute.
It was painted 20 years
after the butterfly chase and
WALDY AND BENDY’S
ADVENTURES IN ART
In the season’s last podcast
Waldy and the art historian
Bendor Grosvenor discuss
Hogarth, and Waldy reveals
what going to galleries is
like in the new normal
THESUNDAYTIMES.
CO.UK/CULTURE
continues the story to a sad
descent. Mary, the elder
sister, married disastrously to
a German composer, Johann
Christian Fischer, and lost her
mind. Margaret devoted her
life to looking after her. She’s
now on one side of the door,
while the two of them
together are on the other.
It’s a poignant moment and a
beautiful installation.
Halfway along the maroon
route is the thrilling Titian
show — Love, Desire, Death
— that was open for only a few
days before the lockdown,
but which will now stay until
January. It features seven
big paintings depicting the
complex and inventive love
lives of the gods, produced by
Titian for the Spanish king
Philip II in the 1550s and
1560s. This is the first time
they have been shown
together since then.
Seeing them again after 128
days I found it easier to enjoy
the details and especially
Titian’s exquisite touch when
it came to painting flesh. If
you’re dealing with the loves
of the gods, there will always
be large expanses of nudity.
But, like Rembrandt, Titian
made flesh feel warm and
human. His great achievement
in these Poesies, as he called
them, is to make the loves of
the gods feel like everyone
else’s love — fragile, fraught,
whispery and emotional.
The big wow moment on
the reopened journey is the
central gallery, now called
the Julia and Hans Rausing
Room after the heir to Tetra
Pak billions who funded its
restoration. With his, er,
chequered past, Hans Rausing
has done plenty to forget in
his life, but what he has made
possible at the National
should make him eternally
proud. Wow, wow, wow.
The roof has been opened
up and decoratively restored.
New floors. A perfect new
colour. But it’s what’s on the
walls that slaps you. The
Caravaggios. The Artemisia
Gentileschi. Guido Reni’s
gorgeous Europa.
Baroque art’s chief
ambition was to capture your
interest, involve you and
move you. The new gallery
does that spectacularly well. c
The National Gallery, London
W1, is open daily 11am-4pm,
Fridays 11am-9pm. Entry is by
prebooked ticket only:
nationalgallery.org.uk
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FILM
Oliver Stone’s new memoir of his early days in Hollywood
HIS ANGER
shows a director who, then as now, runs towards the gunfire
IS HIS ART
BRYAN
APPLEYARD
O
liver Stone is worried that
Donald Trump doesn’t get
enough sleep.
“He doesn’t sleep a lot. He
doesn’t take good care of his
health. Don’t you think there’s
some pile-up, if you don’t sleep for
several years like this?”
I feel a movie coming on. Stone, after
all, made W, a film about President
George W Bush; this one, perhaps, could
be The Don. Sure enough, he seems to
be thinking about it.
“There’s nothing that could quite
capture this fellow. He’s quite a whirl-
wind, a fascinating dramatic character.
Shakespearean too, in the sense that
he’s so emotional — at times he creates
a storm, almost purposely every day, to
keep the energy going. He creates a
storm inside himself. He’s King Lear in
a strange way too — which daughter
loves me more?”
He’s also thinking about the murder
of George Floyd, but he thinks a black
director should make it.
We are Zooming. He is in Los Angeles
in a large book-lined room, I am not.
He’s not lost his looks — sort of hand-
some, friendly but in your face — and his
conversation is warmly attentive.
The talk of possible films is all Stone
business as usual, running towards the
news and the gunfire, especially if it’s
American. At 73, his soul is still that of
the gonzo movie-maker who turned
out almost unbearably violent films
such as Platoon and Salvador. But he
did them because he hates film and
television violence. He learnt about the
real thing when, in 1967, he joined up
and volunteered to fight in Vietnam. He
left garlanded with honours but angry.
8 12 July 2020
Acts of war Above, James Woods in
Salvador; top, Willem Dafoe in Platoon
“I was known for my violent screen-
plays, but it came from a background of
real violence. There was a lot of it I saw,
and I wanted to depict it accurately. I
really hated that. All the TV shows —
1970s, 1980s, 1990s. Same old bullshit. I
hated the fake violence, so I was trying
in my movies to move away from Rambo
bullshit. It just doesn’t look as good as it
does in the movies; it never does.”
And now he’s written an autobiogra-
phy, Chasing the Light, covering his life
up to 1986. He was 40 then; Platoon had
just been released and, earlier that
year, Salvador. Platoon won four
Oscars, one for best director, and Salva-
dor was nominated for two, one for
best writing — Stone co-wrote it. It was,
as he says, “a remarkable two-film jour-
ney from the bottom back to the top of
the Hollywood mountain”. He had
arrived, he had been accepted. The book
ends with him trailing clouds of glory.
“I’d managed to crest into the light,”
he writes. “Money, fame, glory and
honor, it was all there at the same time
and space. I had to move now. I’d been
waiting too many years to make films.
Time had wings. I wanted to make one
after the other in a race against that time
— I suppose really a race against myself
in a hall of mirrors of my own making.”
Will there, I wonder, be another
volume?
“Yes, of course. Why not? I think it’s
important for me to at least come to
grips with things because it goes so fast.
You don’t really get it all. You don’t — one
event after the other. One movie after
the other. You’re always dealing with
people, people, people. It’s hard to have
that solitary space.”
SHUTTERSTOCK
He kept diaries “to understand
myself, to understand what happened”.
As a result the book is phenomenally
well detailed. It opens with an account
of filming a scene from Salvador. It’s a He has, as the critic Pauline Kael
cavalry charge being shot in Mexico; noted, a divided sensibility: “He’s work-
everything that could go wrong seems ing outside the industry, in freedom,
to be going wrong, and the money — but he’s got all this Hollywood muck in
where on earth is the money? But some- his soul.” She never liked his films, but
how he pulls it off. Reading that made he accepts this judgment. The book
my head spin: how could anybody live also stands up her analysis — one minute
with such levels of risk? Reading his he’s the guerrilla film-maker, the next
diaries made him ask the same question he’s lapping up the glamour, the drugs
about himself. and the schmoozing with stars. But the
“I always knew I was bold, but I never real divisions are much deeper than
realised that I was crazy too and risked that. The first is the division between his
a lot. At 39, with nothing in my future, father and mother.
my father dying, my mother dependent He was born in New York. His father,
on me, a new wife, a new baby — and I go Louis, was a high-ranking soldier turned
and put everything I have into this idea, stockbroker; his mother, Jacqueline, an
this crazy idea to shoot this movie.” elegant, beautiful French lady Louis met

while fighting with the allies in Europe.
She loved parties and glamour — Stone
says she would have loved him to make
a flowery romantic film. His evocation
of her character is laden with love for
her. Louis was more complex, serially
unfaithful and constantly at war with
the demon money.
One day, when he was 16, Stone had
a phone call at his private boarding
school: his parents were separating. It
was a pivotal moment.
“I was naive. I thought it was a happy,
loving family and I was very privileged
to have that. The divorce was cruel in
the way that it was done. It was brutal,
and it shocked me because I was naive.
On the field of battle Oliver Stone
during the Vietnam War, in 1967
The whole world fell apart. They split,
and there’s nothing else. There’s no
brothers, there’s no sisters. There’s no
home. And as a result you become an
orphan of the storm. If Charles Dickens
were writing it, it might be an Oliver
Twist story … I used to get kidded that
my name was Oliver. And maybe I did
feel an identification with him.”
His education faltered. He went to
Yale but never completed his degree. At
18 he started wandering the world and
at 20 he enlisted, then apparently
forced himself to see the worst things
that could be seen in Vietnam. The book
starts 10 years later when he is at his
lowest ebb. He speaks of himself
in the third person while talk-
ing about this moment.
“He confronts his failures
in life. He sees that he hasn’t
gotten his dream, what he
wanted to do. And his grand-
mother dies. He had gone to see
her on this deathbed in Paris and he
talks to her. And she communicates to
him, and she tells him how he must live
his life the way he is doing it, he’s fol-
lowing his instincts. And she loved me,
and she’d always loved me and
believed in me. That was a big thing.
Something happened at 30 with her
death. And I became more mature, and
my success started to flow from there.”
His attempts to reconstruct a family
have been patchy. His present wife is
his third, and he has two sons and a
daughter. There’s a moving moment in
the book when he holds one of his
sons, Sean, in his arms.
“If ever there was proof,” he writes,
“we are born with a sweet nature, this
was it; the veils come later.”
He has a Wordsworthian sense that
we arrive trailing clouds of glory, but
somehow the world takes all that away.
So does he think we are born good?
“Yeah, I think so. A baby is innocent,
beautiful. You see it in baby animals.
They don’t know what the world is.”
The second division is America. He
came back, he says, “very divided and
alienated”.
“Nobody was walking around over
there saying: I’m against the war. No. A
lot of us knew the war was bullshit.
Certainly the black soldiers knew that,
they didn’t really believe in it.”
Stone became an American excep-
tionalist. Usually that means somebody
who regards the US as an especially
good country; Stone regards it as espe-
cially bad.
“The divide was growing when I
came back and that’s still with us. You
see it coming down to us to this very
day. We have a law-and-order candi-
date in Mr Trump. He talks like a fool,
but he talks like many people — more
military, more power, more application
of force, more violence.”
From Salvador and Platoon onwards,
Stone’s work became an angry charge
sheet, an indictment of US postwar
politics. His 1989 film, Born on the
Fourth of July, attacked the treatment
of veterans; JFK (1991) embraces con-
spiracy theories about the death of
Kennedy; Heaven & Earth in 1993
skewered the behaviour of Americans
in Vietnam, and so on. Postwar Ameri-
can history became, for Stone, a
descent into insanity.
“America just goes mad after the
Second World War — it just goes mad.
Under Eisenhower the beginning of
this madness sets in. The question we
have to ask ourselves now is: was there
really an enemy? Russia was not the
It doesn’t matter who
the president is in the
end. It’s the system
threat to Europe we pretended it to be.
And, for that matter, China neither.
And we created this postwar scenario
that was culminating in this economic
concept that had come out of the
Depression, that we cannot go back to
the old way again and have to keep
going. We have to put money into this
military economy, to keep the country
pumped. There’s been no end to that,
no end at all. It just keeps going up. It
doesn’t matter who the president is in
the end. It’s the system. And no one can
beat that system. No one can control it.”
This is, you will gather, a tremendous
book — readable, funny and harrowing.
It’s also full of movie-making gossip,
scandal and fun. If you want to know
what working with a truly difficult actor
is like, read his account of handling
James Woods on the set of Salvador.
Nevertheless, Stone sticks with Woods
because “he is a genius”. Also if you
want to know what it’s like to be so intox-
icated at a Golden Globes ceremony that
your speech is so bad and almost denies
you an Oscar, then you need this book.
There is much to disagree with about
Stone’s politics — America’s iniquities in
the postwar period are nothing next to
China’s — but his anger is his art. It’s a
way of balancing out the deep divisions
in his character and his feelings.
For the moment he is not too worried
about the pandemic, but he is taking on
a new cause: nuclear power.
“The virus seems to me the ongoing
business of history. It’s just... there’s so
many viruses. I don’t see it as an exis-
tential threat to the world. It’s more of
a mood thing. No, I think the real issue
is global warming.”
He is making a documentary, A
Brighter Future, about the need to
deploy nuclear power to reduce carbon
emissions. “Renewables,” he says,
“cannot solve it.”
There he goes again, running towards
the news and the gunfire, like Oliver
Twist always asking for more. c
Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone is
published on July 21 (Monoray £25)
12 July 2020 9
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anecdotes. A gang of
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Theron) who keep coming
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mainly about the pain of
outliving their loved ones.
This melancholy tone may
impress fans of earnest
fantasy drama, who also
might not mind that the film,
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After all, it does have a few
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when he becomes a
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and likeable, and Gavin
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appeal found in pretty much
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underdogs looking for
redemption. Yet, in its
decision to burden Affleck’s
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hides from us for a while),
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Scoob!
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PG, 93 mins HH
It wisely omits Scrappy-Doo,
but otherwise this CGI movie
does all it can to annoy
purists who want their
Scooby-Doo stories without
excrescent changes. As well
as adding dinosaurs, robots,
Greek mythology and Dick
Dastardly as a supervillain, it
weirdly makes Scoob much
more articulate than he used
to be. There’s something
horribly jarring about a
version of the character who
sounds as if he could
perform Shakespeare
readings without much
trouble. Children, of course,
won’t necessarily object to
this tinkering, but they might
still find the film mediocre.
It’s fast and colourful, but
the animation looks a bit
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An actor’s greatest weakness,
correctly handled, can also be
their superpower. In a career
stretching from Wolverine
in X-Men to Jean Valjean in
Les Misérables, Hugh Jackman
has attracted the kind of
adjectives — solid, persuasive,
focused, disciplined,
dependable, likeable — that
peg him as an old-fashioned
showman and good sport.
He’s the guy you call when
your first choice falls through,
his proficiency at times
verging on slickness; he’s at
his best playing hucksters in
in The Prestige and The
Greatest Showman. Nothing,
though, quite prepares you
for the hustle and jive he puts
on in Bad Education.
Jackman plays Frank
Tassone, the superintendent
of an affluent Long Island
school district, beloved by
parents, students and fellow
teachers alike for his
twinkling congeniality,
generous pep talks and ability
to place his students in the
very best Ivy League schools,
delighting parents and raising
local property values in the
process. Somewhere between
a maitre d’ and a salesman,
with his raven-black
pompadour and fixed smile,
Frank seems too good to be
true. There’s just something
slightly off about him.
We first see him spritzing
cologne and trimming nose
hairs in the mirror before
soaking up an auditorium of
applause — which he drinks
in a little too deliriously —
and when it comes to light
that a fellow administrator,
Pam (Allison Janney), has
embezzled more than
$200,000 of the district’s
money, Frank fights hard with
the school board to keep it
charges, lest any unseemly
publicity blot his good work.
The film is based on a
real-life embezzlement scam
that rocked Long Island in
2002, but the less you know
about it the better. It’s one of
those stories where a single
thread, tugged by the student
reporter Rachel (Geraldine
Viswanathan), slowly and
methodically unravels an
entire teetering structure —
a jigsaw puzzle in reverse,
dark, droll and enthrallingly
layered. The writer Mike
Makowsky and director Cory
Finley, who showed his talent
for acidic social satire in the Thick as thieves Hugh
excellent Thoroughbreds, Jackman and Allison Janney
share a nose for the delectable
pettiness and greed of more fixed as the secrets of
provincial white-collar crime. this Pecksniffian peacock
This isn’t Pacino and De begin to tumble out. His
Niro doing cops and robbers emptiness contains
at epic length. It’s petty New multitudes. Rolling up to
Yawk bureaucrats fiddling school in a Mercedes,
home improvements on the chugging charcoal-black
company credit card — a smoothies (a telling detail:
bonfire of petty vanities. It’s he’s playing a charcoal-black
Dickens, not Dostoevsky. You smoothie), Jackman bundles
squirm in recognition. up all his innate charisma as a
Chatting casually about performer and drives himself,
misusing her credit card over and the audience, straight
the buzz of the blender as she over a cliff. It’s easily the most
mixes margaritas, Janney thrilling, audacious
proves herself, if further proof performance of his career.
were needed, the chain- “There’s something in the
smoking trash queen of petty water!” warns one of the
human motives. After similar young Australians trapped in
roles in Drop Dead Gorgeous
and I, Tonya, she pretty much
cast herself, one imagines.
One look at Pam’s home —
with its gold candelabras,
statuettes and entitled brood
Nothing quite
of kids — and you instantly
know what appetites she’s
prepares you
kept fed all this time. for the star’s
It’s Jackman, though, who
mesmerises, his smile ever hustle and jive

an underwater cave, only to
find it already occupied by a
crocodile, in Andrew
Traucki’s D-grade exploitation
flick Black Water: Abyss
— which happens to be the
first film released in Britain’s
reopened cinemas this week.
You’ll probably spend more
time jumping out of your seat
when someone sneezes than
you will from this torpid
thriller about a group of
twentysomething friends who
decide for reasons best known
to themselves to abseil into a
remote, unexplored cavern in
northern Australia, only to
find themselves trapped when
a storm floods the cave,
leaving them flashing torches
from one anxious face to the
next, wondering who is next
on the crocodile menu.
“It’s gonna be fine, we just
have to stay together and stay
calm,” says one of the gang,
bearded and macho, although
both bits of advice are roundly
ignored once the à la carte
dining starts. Cue lots
of murky underwater
photography, jump scares
from frame left
cunningly alternated
with jump scares
from frame right, THE
and a script
seemingly written CRITICS
to drain audience
sympathies from the
human protagonists and
tilt them towards the poor old
croc, whose solitude has been
so rudely disturbed. “This is
madness,” someone says at
some point. “Victor, I’m
pregnant,” another says, with
what must be the worst piece
of timing since Leelee
Sobieski remembered they’d
left the dog behind in Deep
Impact. Traucki’s film has
neither the cheesiness to get
the B-movie juices flowing,
like Alexandre Aja’s 2019
down’n’dirty Crawl, nor the
sly verve of John Sayles’s 1980
Alligator. This one is a croc.
Adapted from CS Forester’s
1955 novel The Good Shepherd
by Tom Hanks, who also stars
as a navy captain leading a
convoy of 37 troop and supply
ships across the North Atlantic
in 1942, Greyhound does an
exceedingly good job of
depicting the barrage
of life-and-death
decision-making
that goes into the
command of a
warship. Hanks’s
mission is simple
enough: navigate the
stormy “black pit”, named for
the fact that it’s too far from
either continent for air cover,
while avoiding the U-boats
that tail them like a pack of
wolves, dodging the path of
incoming torpedoes and
taking evasive action without
colliding with one of your
own ships. Simple.
Broken down according to
watch hours over a three-day
period and set mostly on the
cramped bridge and
pilothouse of the USS Keeling,
the film, which comes in at a
trim 91 minutes, is as swift
and sleepless as Hanks’s
performance. A quietly
religious man who says grace
before even a snack and looks
on the sight of enemy bodies
in the water with a gravity
that contrasts with the
jubilation of his crew, Ernest
Krause is actually on his first
Atlantic crossing in full
command, and it’s the genius
of Hanks’s performance that
only the audience senses this.
As usual he does a lot with a
little — a pause, a furrowed
brow, a small grimace — to
suggest a man who must first
take command of himself
before commanding his men.
If the film has a flaw, it’s
that he has no one really to
play off. Stephen Graham is
his stalwart right-hand man,
Rob Morgan the cook trying to
get him to eat, and Elisabeth
Shue his sweetheart, glimpsed
in flashback, but the film’s
full-speed-ahead pacing
doesn’t allow for much
downtime. Greyhound is all
pewter-grey skies and
battleships, binoculars
and barked commands —
“Left hard rudder” — and
mostly that’s enough.
For the more relaxed
pleasures of a Hanks
performance, we will
have to wait for
another film. c
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Phillip Picardi renounced
religion as a gay teenager in
a Catholic school faced
with a homophobic pope.
In this show from the
makers of Pod Save
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tries to “figure this shit out”
in the chaos of 2020.
The Penguin Podcast
Authors pick the
objects that inspire them:
Mark Gatiss’s choices
include an easel and
fossils; for Bernardine
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I May Destroy You is the
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The woman
at the end
of an ERA
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Mrs America BBC2, Wed
The Secrets She Keeps
BBC1, Mon
The Kemps: All True
BBC2, Sun
Floor Is Lava Netflix
Penny Dreadful: City of
Angels Sky Atlantic, Wed
There’s a moment in the first
episode of Mrs America
when Tracey Ullman, playing
Betty Friedan — apparently as
a badger — shrieks: “Who the
is the strange figure of
Schlafly: a weaponised
homemaker and mother of
six who believed the ERA
would lead to a “feminist
totalitarian nightmare”,
talking nonstop about
amendments and caucuses on
chat shows and in meetings
— 70% of the first episode is
just noise. Discovering,
moreover, that the actor
playing this crackpot troll is
Cate Blanchett is like realising
Katie Hopkins is being played
by Farrah Fawcett.
It’s strange casting: are
we meant to love her or hate
her? The programme-makers
want us to hate her so much
they have created an entire
character, played by Sarah
Paulson, to sit through
JAMES COWEN

hell is Phyllis Schlafly?” The her mother-and-daughter

other feminists in the room,
including the smoky sexpot
Gloria Steinem (Rose Byrne)
— wig piled up like Cousin Itt
— seem equally disconcerted.
It is 1972 and they thought
their Equal Rights
Amendment would sail
through, but suddenly there’s
this awful “right-wing nut
from Illinois” filling the halls
of Congress with fellow
“homemakers”, protesting
their “right to be in the
home as a wife and mother”.
“This is our Vietnam,”
Steinem seethes.
The story of how the
conservative Schlafly
tore down this sane and
reasonable piece of legislation
offers orgasmic opportunities
for any miniseries. For a start,
there are double helpings of
hats, hair and make-up, both
for the hairy feminists and for
the nipped and plucked wives
and mothers who were
bussed in to protest, holding
babies and bread. Then
there’s the opportunity to
break out a cheesy 1970s
soundtrack — the first sign
this is not as sophisticated a
12 12 July 2020
luncheons and roll her eyes.
Blanchett, by contrast, seems
determined to portray
Schlafly as some kind of
gorgeous martyr, forced in the
very first scene to walk down
the catwalk in a “patriotic
swimsuit” for a Republican
fundraiser — even though
Schlafly probably never wore
a bathing suit, let alone a
bikini — and spends the rest of
the series with her cardigans
buttoned right up to the top,
like Kate Middleton.
She glides through
Washington in her awful,
stiff little uniform, being
petted, patted and asked to
take minutes by grunty
chauvinists. Nearly every man
she meets is comically rude,
chuntering and dismissive —
there is a parodic scene on a
chat show where she tries to
tell the host that during the
war she “worked nights as a
gunner and ballistics
technician”, but he ignores
her. Even her husband seems
cartoonishly dreadful, pushing
her on the bed and humping
her like a dog even when he
knows she’s tired from her trip
to DC. But was she really this
much of a victim?
I thought the point about
Schlafly wasn’t that she was
Cate Blanchett unfulfilled or self-hating, but a
terrible hypocrite, happy to tell
as Phyllis other women to stay at home
Schlafly while hardly being at home
herself. Meanwhile gorgeous
is strange men can’t stop throwing
themselves at the hairy
casting: are feminists, who reject them.
On BBC1 there was another
we meant to reminder of exactly how far
we have come as women. It
love her or was a heartwarming tale
of one pregnant woman
hate her? being stalked and abused
by another pregnant woman,
who in turn was using a third
pregnant woman as a pawn
in her game to bring the first
pregnant woman down.
The overriding philosophy
of The Secrets She Keeps, a
THE lavish new-mummy series set
in Australia, is that all women
CRITICS are hysterical, duplicitous,
conniving and weak, and I
won’t lie, it made great crappy
TV. There was the added
bonus of the frankly wrong
special-interest perversion in
watching the leads waddling
around with pregnancy
bellies — and to think we look
down on the Japanese for
fetishising schoolgirls.
We began with Meghan, a
“glorified mummy blogger” —
is there any other kind? — and
the beautiful wife of Jack, a
TV presenter. They live in a
gorgeous house with their two
other children, so it can only
be a matter of moments before
her world caves in. For this to
happen she is befriended in
an unlikely fashion by the
supermarket worker Aggie,
played by Downton’s Lady
Edith, who’s also pregnant,
although it’s only a matter of
moments before this facade
caves in as well.
Watching Aggie flinging her
sweaty fake belly into a bin
fire at the end of the second
episode felt like the purest
offering on The Fast Show
— just as you think it couldn’t
get more crass and obvious, it

does. The whole thing is
held together by Laura
Carmichael as Aggie, a
compulsive liar played at the
screeching end of camp,
complete with weird, limp
hair and beaky fury.
What was the purpose of
The Kemps: All True?
Officially it was a parody
of a parody, inspired by the
extraordinary documentary
about Bros broadcast in 2018.
Whereas the Bros twins felt
genuinely unhappy, however,
Spandau Ballet just didn’t.
Martin, in particular, seems
boringly contented — he has
been married since 1988 to
Shirlie from Pepsi & Shirlie,
whose appearance on the
show was its only truly
amusing and dyspeptic
moment. At one point we
were told Gary’s life had
collapsed after he poured all
of his money into a meat
substitute called Wonge —
but I don’t think millionaire
Gary’s that miserable either.
So it was difficult to see
where the comedy would
come from — certainly not
from the script, written by
the comedian Rhys Thomas,
which was only funny on
the rare occasion it stopped
trying. There was a great
moment when Gary showed
his artwork, in an obvious
parody of the ludicrous
Ronnie Wood. And guess who
Gary was painting? Ronnie
Wood. “A rock star painting a
rock star painting a rock star,”
he said. I laughed.
The liveliest watch of the
week was Floor Is Lava, a
game show on Netflix that felt
so cheap, you were astounded
the prize money was as much
as $10,000 an episode. God
knows where they got the
contestants from — probably
scrounging around YouTube
for people who post vlogs of
their hair transplant. The tiny
muscled Virzi triplets were a
sheer, almost hairless delight.
Each seemed to be losing a
battle with his own mind and
body. One of them admitted
he had stopped working out.
Why, asked the other two.
“I was sad,” he said. Brutal.
The idea — if you care — was
that each team must throw
itself across a room filled with
ancient polystyrene artefacts
floating in frothing red water.
For the triplets, failure to
successfully teabag a giant
Easter Island head before
sliding, balls first and
shrieking, into the foam
seemed like the perfect way
for the whole thing to end.
What runs through Rory
Kinnear’s mind during his sex
scenes with Natalie Dormer?
In Penny Dreadful: City of
Angels, a spinoff of the gothic
horror show, set in LA in 1938,
he plays a German doctor
who’s a secret Nazi. You could
tell every minute of his long
theatre training had been
poured lovingly into getting
his German accent just right
— not too much throat action,
not too much tongue. By
contrast, Dormer is all throat
and tongue. Here is an actress
who does not care about
anything, least of all the
howling noise she produces
as a demon disguised as a
German immigrant housewife
determined to start a “race
war”. It sounded like a cat
angrily coughing up a furball.
You turned to him, and
then turned to her, and you
thought: “Sorry, who’s the
one being paid millions and
getting top billing?” c
Bad news for the Beeb
GILLIAN
REYNOLDS
BBC local radio
Walks Like a Duck
Radio 4, Mon
Letter to America
World Service, Sun
Whenever the BBC announces
plans “to transform its local
services in England”, we take
that to mean cuts. Again. It’s
a wonder there’s anything
left of the 39 BBC local radio
stations. Every time a
pecuniary axe falls on the
BBC, its local stations feel the
edge first.
How do I know? Because
I have been translating BBC
announcements for so long,
I’ve come to know the
language — let’s call it Beebese
— well enough to grasp
implied intent. When the
same recent press release
also trumpeted “a significant
reinvention” and “a new
vision”, that translates to me
as serious cuts to come.
The two big national
commercial radio groups,
Global and Bauer, also
recently announced they are
chopping local news services.
Times are hard for them too.
News is a big expense that,
even in the present phase of
national Covid-19 emergency,
they feel unable to afford.
But shouldn’t this make the
role of the BBC locals even
more significant?
When the emergency
began, the BBC locals launched
a joint campaign called Make
a Difference. More than a
million listeners have been
in touch with it. If parents
want to know which schools
will open and when, or how
nearby hospitals and
healthcare services are coping,
which trains and buses are
running, it is BBC local radio
they trust and will turn to.
Certainly there are
websites and chat groups
that offer such information.
But that’s not the same
as hearing a familiar
voice making you feel part
of a real community.
The Times last Monday impossible, counting her
carried a letter from the poet
Alison Brackenbury deploring
blessings, listening to Jacob
merrily rabbit on about her
BBC local stations suddenly
dropping all their specialist
disability getting them to the
front of queues.
music programmes. What “Hello, people,” Jacob said,
about young performers, she talking into the phone that
asked, and fans of traditional Louise uses to record what’s
music? “I feel personally happening. “Hello, Jacob,”
betrayed,” she said. For us I said to the radio. “Be careful
older listeners, I would add in that kick-boxing class.”
that it also means we will soon That’s good radio for you,
be paying our £157.50 licence creating the illusion of being
fee while losing 25 hours of there, inside the picture.
local programming. Some James Naughtie has a new
bargain, eh? World Service series, Letter
I recognise that BBC Radio to America, looking back
has obligations beyond over half a century of getting
serving regular customers. to know, and love, the USA.
Its patronage of writers, Each letter is eight minutes
musicians and performers long. The whole, it is hoped,
is wide and significant. It will be about what has
buys in programmes from changed since he first arrived
independent producers, not for a US road trip as a student,
a requirement on commercial through the time he worked
stations, but one that, for there as a correspondent
listeners, can work wonders. and what, to him, are the
Take Walks Like a Duck. landmarks along the way from
It began last Monday morning then to now.
on Radio 4, a three-part Dismiss any memories of
documentary from the Alistair Cooke’s Letter from
independents Loftus Media, America. Naughtie’s come
produced by Catherine Carr with aural illustrations:
and Jo Rowntree, but wholly Jimi Hendrix’s revolutionary
by and about Louise Halling. version of The Star Spangled
She has a muscle-wasting Banner; President Nixon’s
condition, akin to muscular resignation speech and
dystrophy, diagnosed when Donald Trump as a
she was 19. She has been presidential candidate
married 17 years to Mark, promising to “bring back the
their son Jacob is eight, and American dream”. Naughtie
she works as a therapist. hopes to define that dream,
This tells us what it’s like linking it beyond politics to
for her, to get upstairs, bring literature, journalism, social
in the post, fear falling over. shifts and the effect of such
This is her singing. This is sudden surges of change as
her in tears. “I’d give a lot the world is going through
to have a day off,” she says, now. He is an affectionate
knowing that such a thing is chronicler, but commendably
wary of letting his instant
Altered States Jim Naughtie’s emotional connection to
Letter to America 1970s America get the better
of him. I argue with him, but
I trust him.
ROBERTO RICCIUTI/GETTY IMAGES
Now here’s a curious thing.
I listened to Naughtie on the
BBC Sounds app. When it
finished, I looked at what
Sounds was recommending
for me next. Radio 1’s Dance
Anthems; Glastonbury
Headliners; 1Xtra’s Throwback
30; Trevor Nelson Goes Old
Skool; I Was 30, Now I’m 15. The
only possible cross-reference
was to series 2 of 13 Minutes to
the Moon, the Apollo 13 story.
How cheering to know
algorithms can be even more
unreliable than humans. c
12 July 2020 13
theatre/john peter 1938-2020
The voice of the frightened majority gets an
outing, and the Old Vic’s live screening is good fun
Breath of fresh air
QUENTIN
LETTS
Richard Nelson takes the title
of his new drama And So We
Came Forth from the end of
Dante’s Inferno: “Thence we
came forth to rebehold the
stars.” Nelson’s white,
middle-class, middle-aged
characters have been having a
hellish time during lockdown.
Will they ever emerge to
“rebehold the stars”?
There are five of them: four
siblings in upstate New York
and one spouse who has been
stuck in Brooklyn with his
tense ex-wife. These are
supposedly comfortable folk
— teachers, a writer, a lawyer
— but when they assemble
for a Zoom get-together one
evening, it slowly becomes
evident they have been badly
dented by the pandemic. It is
not just the health worries. It
is the air of racial unrest. It is
the looming US presidential
election (will “he” be
re-elected?). It is people
snooping on social-distancing
violations. There is even
anxiety that younger family
members, in this new
McCarthyism one scarcely
dare mention, are silently
policing their uncles and
aunts and parents for political
incorrectitude. After so many
ploddingly predictable plays
about minority victims, it is
electrifying — you feel almost
subversive just watching
this brilliant piece — to
hear the voice of the
frightened majority.
Barbara (Maryann
Plunkett), an
experienced high
school teacher,
sighs that her pupils
have become so
dismissive of her
that they have
told her to stop
contacting them
with homework
tips. “I have never
felt so old,” she
says. Her face,
that of a well-
intentioned trier,
14 12 July 2020
Sits right slumps with sorrow and
Claire Foy
performs
bewildered bleakness. The
writing is light-touch and the
live in Lungs,
below
acting of a really high order.
You barely notice this family
chitchat developing into
something more significant.
The disorientation of these
likeable characters should
serve as a profound riposte
to the political fever of recent
weeks, but I don’t suppose
many of the fools who
encourage the tearing down
of statues are much into plays.
And So We Came Forth is a
minor masterpiece, a play
that authenticates Zoom as a
grown-up dramatic medium.
Watch it free or for a
charitable donation on
YouTube until late August.
At the Old Vic they have
cleverly revived Duncan
Macmillan’s Lungs, a
two-hander in which two
urban thirtysomethings
debate starting a family. They
like the idea, but what about
the carbon footprint of a
baby? Claire Foy and Matt
Smith are well matched as
the good-looking couple,
and Macmillan catches the
uncompleted sentences, the
fashionable introspection
and the pointlessly foul
language of that generation.
This is not just a filmed
version of last year’s
successful production. You
buy your ticket to see the
actors perform live on stage
at the empty Old Vic. Is it not
a little cheeky to charge full
ticket prices for a virtual
viewing experience? Maybe.
But I found it unexpectedly
the exciting to be given my
two-minute bell by the
critics streaming feed and then to
watch the show knowing
it was being played for real.
The play is slightly annoying,
MANUEL HARLAN
but hats off to the Old Vic
for showing some
entrepreneurial
spark. c
And So We Came Forth
Apple Family Productions
(YouTube)
HHHHH
Lungs
In Camera, Old Vic
HHH
The late John Peter’s
upcoming memoir tells
how he beat dire odds to
become our theatre critic
J
ohn Peter escaped from the after-
math of the 1956 Hungarian
uprising against Soviet occupa-
tion at the age of 18. He made his
way to London with his mother,
his only luggage a bag containing
a clean shirt and his father’s two-
volume history of Hungarian art. His
father had been executed in Budapest
by Hungarian Nazis in 1944.
In the UK he learnt English from
scratch and then studied at Campion Hall
and Lincoln College, Oxford. Working
first for the Times Educational Supple-
ment, then the arts and literary depart-
ment of The Sunday Times, he became
the paper’s theatre critic in 1984, retiring
from that role in 2003. He was awarded
VICKI COUCHMAN
an MBE for services to theatre in 2019.
The following is extracted from his
forthcoming memoir.
A LIFE O
********
It all began with Richard III.
The audacious young artistic
director of the National
Theatre in Budapest decided
to take advantage of the
slight thaw in the icy grip of
censorship for a couple of years after living in rural poverty in a village called
Stalin’s death in 1953 to put on the Dunafoldvar, deep in the countryside
most politically provocative of along the Danube, when one of my
Shakespeare’s history plays. godfathers (eminent godparents having
True, the director, Tomas Major, been dutifully supplied by my parents
was also a leading actor, and longed to at my baptism in the basilica of St
play the wicked king, but all the same, Stephen, where they had been married)
his production was more than a risk: it invited me to Budapest to see the play.
was an extraordinary show of courage I knew, of course, that my
and defiance. appearance, let alone my lack of
Here was a play about an evil despot manners or social graces, would seem
who ruthlessly murders anyone who shocking in the city: after village school
gets in his way, a tyrant who regularly hours I worked with a donkey called
wrote the scripts used to try, find guilty Rudi and a rickety cart, collecting
and execute his enemies, just as in the water from ancient wells for the local
show trials staged in the capitals of the vineyards, and the only clothes I had
Soviet bloc — a recent memory. were shabby, worn-out peasant ones.
I was 16 at the time of this event and But fortunately, though I knew I would
‘HE CARED VERY MUCH’
The director Richard Eyre pays tribute to a critic
who has left British theatre with an enduring legacy
I
knew John for many years before Flies: “The RSC is not there to put on
I met him as a critic for The Sunday school plays.”
Times. He could be stern, was He cared very much both about
never gratuitously unkind, was theatre criticism and the art of
always principled, serious and theatre, and had a huge knowledge and
high-minded. He once said to respect for tradition, all the more
me of a production of Lord of the remarkable for coming to the UK in

F HIGH DRAMA
feel mortified by my scruffy
appearance, it did not prevent me
from accepting this exciting invitation.
I must have known, somehow, that
I had to be there, though I could not
have predicted that I would be present
at one of those rare moments when
Art actually influences Society, nor
that seeing it do so would shape my
future, dictate the priority of drama
in my life, and — subconsciously, of
course — my career as theatre critic.
The 1,000-seat theatre was packed
and the audience rapt, bodies taut,
faces tense with concentration, only
too aware of the parallels between
Richard’s manipulation of the truth in
his drive to power and the recent drama
1956 barely able to speak a word of
English. As a recipient of his criticism I
found him fair, very well informed and
intelligent, if sometimes wayward in
the tradition of his most illustrious
predecessor, Harold Hobson, of whom
Penelope Gilliatt said: “One of the most
characteristic sounds of the English
Sunday is the sound of Harold Hobson
barking up the wrong tree.”
He was extremely kind and extremely
conscientious; if he had unfavourable
things to say, he would ensure that his
facts were correct. He rang me once to
ask me, in his all-too-imitable voice — a
blend of George Soros and John Hum-
phrys — about a detail of a performance
they’d all witnessed: the show trial of
the former minister of the interior and
founder of the Avo — the Hungarian
MI5, later to become the Gestapo
— Laszlo Rajk, when he was tortured
until he confessed to crimes against
the state he’d never even dreamt of.
Everyone knew such charges were
trumped up and completely fake: the
trials were scripted dramas — they
selected someone from the top, made
them read a script detailing their
imagined crimes, then executed them.
As an example. Like the drama it was,
each trial was completely rehearsed.
“Everyone knew their lines,” said
the current head of the Avo with
satisfaction, referring to the Rajk trial.
by Alan Howard that he hadn’t liked. I
defended Alan vigorously, to which
John replied: “But this is Alan Howard,
Richard, a great actor.” He was mischie-
vous as well as generous.
I got to know John in person in the
wake of the death of Ian Charleson in
1990. He had seen Ian’s last perfor-
mance as Hamlet and been over-
whelmed by it. When Ian died, John
suggested that The Sunday Times and
the National Theatre establish an award
in Ian’s name to recognise the best clas-
sical stage performance by an actor
under the age of 30. We agreed that the
young winners as well as those in sec-
ond and third place would receive a
The purpose of all these horrifying
charades? To show the country we
lived in a one -party state, that power
resided only and entirely in that party,
and the party was embodied only and
absolutely in the person of Stalin.
No wonder, therefore, that when
we reached the point in Shakespeare’s
play where Richard, Buckingham and
their henchmen are manipulating the
masses and faking public support to
crown Richard king, the shock of the
audience’s recognition was palpable.
Only Lord Hastings is vociferously
opposed, so that when Buckingham
asks Richard: “Now, My Lord, what
shall we do if we perceive Lord
Hastings will not yield to our
complots?” and Richard replies,
“Chop off his head, man,” it would
be fair to say the mid-20th-century
audience was unusually gripped.
Richard banishes Hastings to the
Tower and sends Catesby to kill him.
His head is duly delivered in a bloody
sack. Then a scrivener comes on to
explain he has in his hand a paper that
is “the indictment” of Richard “by the
good Lord Hastings”, who has spent
the last hours of his “untainted” life
writing it. The scrivener concludes by
asking the audience: “Who is so gross /
That cannot see this palpable device? /
Yet who’s so bold but says he sees it not?”
At this there was a kind of collective
gasp, and the entire audience rose to
their feet and cheered and cheered.
I was shaken to see a man with tears
running down his face and through his
spectacle frames: it was the first time
I had seen a grown man cry. We
applauded for fully five or six minutes,
which felt like a lifetime. I held my
breath. Maybe this was it. Revolt!
A thrill ran through the theatre like
a tidal wave. We were all electrified.
In the event, the uprising
took another year and a bit to
happen — October 23, 1956.
But when it happened, I was in
the midst of it. I was there. c
How I Became an Englishman is
published this autumn by
Salamander Street
useful reward — cash — and that the
awards should be presented at a private
lunch at the NT’s restaurant, without
any red carpet or acceptance speeches.
“Classical work is the solid bedrock of
all acting,” John said at the inauguration
of the awards. “It is classical acting,
with its twin demands of psychological
perception and formal excellence, that
truly tests and proves the actor’s ability
and stamina, both physical and men-
tal.” The Ian Charleson Awards have
proved to be an immensely well-
regarded addition to the British theatre
scene and an enduring legacy to two
remarkable and honourable men: Ian
Charleson and John Peter. c
THE AWARDS
HE GAVE US
If you watched the RSC’s recent
streamed screenings of Paapa
Essiedu’s Hamlet and Bally Gill’s
Romeo and Juliet, you will have
witnessed the calibre of an Ian
Charleson award-winner. These two
extraordinary actors follow Rebecca
Hall, Dominic West, Nonso Anozie,
Toby Stephens, Emma Fielding,
David Oyelowo, Ruth Negga, Tom
Hollander and many more. Add in all
the finalists for these prestigious
awards, typically eight to 10 a year
since 1990, and most of our leading
actors are there: Simon Russell
Beale, Helen McCrory, Jude Law,
Nancy Carroll, Ben Whishaw, Tom
Hiddleston, David Tennant. As the
head of the National Theatre, Rufus
Norris, has remarked, the awards are
now an “important part of the
theatre landscape”.
The awards, as Richard Eyre
writes below, have their origin in a
1989 performance of Hamlet at the
National by Ian Charleson, who was
suffering from Aids and died in
January 1990, the text of Hamlet at
his bedside. John Peter was so
moved by Charleson’s brilliance and
courage, he suggested to Eyre that
an award should be created in his
honour. So for the past 30 years
the Charleson judges (usually Peter,
an actor, a casting director and
an artistic director) have combed
the country for outstanding
performances by actors under
30 in a play written before 1918.
The awards are presented at
a no-fuss ceremony at the
National that often resembles a cast
lunch for the Harry Potter and
Tolkien films. Guests of honour have
included Alec Guinness, Paul
Scofield, Tamsin Greig, Ian McKellen
and that well-known amateur
thespian the Prince of Wales. c
Brio trio John Peter with Geraldine
James, left, and Ruth Negga in 2010
12 July 2020 15
STREAMING/CLASSICAL
ARTS OUT THERE
WHAT’S NEW ONLINE
Comedy
There’s no Edinburgh
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Next Up is staging a virtual
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every night of July. Jen
Brister and Fin Taylor are
in this week’s line-up.
nextupcomedy.com, £9
Classical
In Bavarian State Opera’s
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of the season, Kirill Petrenko
conducts works by Strauss,
Stravinksy, Schoenberg and
Hugh Canning on Animated Ermonela Jaho with
Opera Rara in Valencia, 2019
the next releases
markets the fruits of his and
from Opera Rara, his assistants’ labours to the
the label that digs Italian opera world.
Recently he has worked on
out lost pieces Donizetti’s Les Martyrs
(supervising the musicologist
Last month, London opera- Flora Willson), L’ange de Nisida
goers should have been (with Candida Mantica), Le duc
looking forward to a rare d’Albe and Il paria (with Ian
treat, a concert performance Schofield). Apart from the last,
by Opera Rara at the Barbican none of these operas really
Hall of a seldom seen or heard existed beyond librettos and,
Donizetti opera, Il furioso with L’ange, as “manuscripts
all’isola di San Domingo scattered all over the place”.
(The Madman on the Island Reconstruction is akin to doing
of San Domingo). It was to a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces
have marked Carlo Rizzi’s have gone astray. Parker says
SIMON WEIR/OPERA RARA

Mahler. Jonas Kaufmann is
the soloist. staatsoper.de,
available until Aug 1
Theatre
A new, excellent adaptation
from the puppet theatre
Little Angel of When...,
Emma Dodd’s children’s
book about a bear and
its hopes for the future.
debut as artistic director of L’ange took Mantica and him
the company, in succession “years and years” to get into a
to born-again Donizettian performable edition — the
Mark Elder, who had taken Donizetti Festival in Bergamo
up the post in 2012. staged the work using OR’s
The company, run by the score last year — while Il paria
chief executive Henry Little, “took me about three months
has rescheduled the concert,
with largely the same cast as
announced for last month,
to July 8, 2021, and it will be
Another of continuous work; 10-hour
days, six days a week”. It’s a
painstaking task, with little
guarantee of long-term reward,

high note
Little Angel YouTube recorded in a studio the week apart from the satisfaction of
channel, until Sept 30 before. It is a first for this seeing an opera reborn.
work, which is remembered A project Schmid left
Opera today mostly for the creator of unrealised at his death in 2005
This 2018 Glyndebourne the title role, Giorgio Ronconi, was the book series 100 Years
production of Madam who sang Verdi’s Nabucco Meyerbeer and employed during the of Italian Opera, of which only
Butterfly is by Annilese at La Scala, Milan, at its first Offenbach. In the lockdown. three volumes, covering
Miskimmon, ENO’s new performance in 1842. During early years many of “In fact, the pace 1800-30, were made. But since
artistic director. Olga the previous decade he the operas were THE of our work in the then OR has branched out,
Busuioc gives a formidable
reading in the title role.
had sung in seven Donizetti
premieres — the first of them,
staged, but the
expense of creating CRITICS last three months
has been intense,”
most notably into late 19th and
early 20th-century “verismo”
marquee.tv Il furioso, in 1833 — five of productions for Little says, “as we’ve works such as Leoncavallo’s
which have already been short London runs worked to prepare for Zaza and the original version
Art recorded by Opera Rara. soon encouraged the release of Ermonela of Puccini’s Le Willis (as in
Hauser & Wirth has “Il furioso will be our 28th Schmid to devote his energies Jaho’s debut recital album, “it gives me the willis”) — an
reopened its galleries, recording of a Donizetti to making scholarly critical Anima Rara, in September. operatic version of the ballet
but is continuing its opera,” Little says. “The editions of long-unperformed Our projects often take us Giselle — both starring Jaho,
excellent online offerings, young Italian musicologist works and recording them back to the original autograph the Albanian soprano and
including a curation of Eleonora Di Cintio has under studio conditions, to create a brand-new the leading “verista” of the
Don McCullin’s deeply rediscovered versions that with a concert performance performing edition. So for a day. Recital discs, often
peaceful landscape have not been heard since the as the final touch. piece we might do in 2023, the built around the repertoire
prints. hauserwirth.com, premiere performances in In the 2000s the catalogue process of what I call ‘live of famous singers from
until Sep 6 1833, which we’ll include in was enriched by the release operatic archaeology’ needs operatic history, have partly
the recording. I’m happy under the OR imprint of five to start right now.” filled the gap.
Theatre we’ve managed to keep the BBC studio recordings, made The “archaeological” “Following discs featuring
The Sam Wanamaker majority of the cast, including some 30 years earlier. These operatic team is headed by Michael Spyres (singing music
Playhouse’s Richard II (2019) Albina Shagimuratova, five titles — the original Roger Parker, professor of associated with Gilbert Duprez)
was the first Shakespeare returning after Rossini’s versions of Macbeth, Simon music at King’s College and Joyce El-Khoury ( Julie
play performed entirely Semiramide and Donizetti’s Boccanegra and La forza del London and an expert on Dorus-Gras), Ermonela’s
by women of colour Il paria” — Opera Rara’s next destino, and the first 19th-century Italian opera. His Anima Rara focuses on music
on a UK stage. Adjoa Donizetti recording, due for recordings of Les vêpres credentials have attracted the associated with the Italian
IDIL SUKAN

Andoh is formidable release in January 2021. Siciliennes and Don Carlos in attention of the Milan-based soprano Rosina Storchio, who
in the title role. Opera Rara made its French — have become publisher Ricordi, which created the title roles of
Swinging the reputation under its collector’s items, sumptuously Madam Butterfly and Zaza,”
Lens YouTube co-founder, the American packaged and documented Little says. “It includes the
channel musicologist Patric Schmid. with fat, lavishly illustrated arias Addio del passato from
In the late 1970s and early and annotated booklets. La traviata and Un bel di
Francesca
Angelini
1980s the company
championed unknown works
Little runs a tight ship,
reliant on private donations
Il paria took vedremo from Butterfly,
alongside excerpts from

Virtual comic
by Bellini, Rossini and
lesser-known composers of
replacing the decades-long
support of the late Littlewoods
three months rarities such as Giordano’s
Siberia and Mascagni’s
Jen Brister on the so-called bel canto heir Peter Moores, so its four of continuous Lodoletta.” Jaho’s many
Next Up era, but also some full-time and two part-time London fans, as well as Opera
neglected works by staff have remained fully work Rara’s, will be happy. c
16 12 July 2020
NINE THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT
BEETHOVEN
Classical music’s first rock star is full of surprises. By Laura Tunbridge
S 3
urely there can’t be too much
more to know about Beethoven.
This year a slew of publica-
tions and recordings have
been released to celebrate the
250th anniversary of his birth.
Certain aspects of his personality,
biography and art are inevitably
emphasised over others. Today we think
of him as a misunderstood and unworldly
loner, isolated by deafness, whose grand
heroic symphonies promise triumph
over adversity.
Of course that’s only part of the story.
Born in Bonn in 1770, Beethoven went to
study in Vienna. He stayed there for the
rest of his life, never travelling outside
the Habsburg Empire. Friends, family
and colleagues were important to
him, even if they had to be thick-
skinned to stand his teasing and temper.
Far from unworldly, he worked hard to
organise concerts and broker deals with
publishers to make sure his music was
known internationally. When he died in
1827, crowds lined the streets of Vienna
to pay tribute. They did not know or
appreciate many of what are now his
most famous pieces: Für Elise was only
published 40 years later and his last
string quartets were thought incompre-
hensible, not profound.
1 5
He was a dandy
When Beethoven moved to Vienna
as a young man he was keen to make
a good impression. He spent a lot of
money on fine clothes and fashionable
haircuts, and his composition teacher
Joseph Haydn wrote to the court back
in Bonn pleading for him to be sent
more money. In later years, no longer
frequenting court circles, Beethoven let
things slide and became known for his
wild hair and grubby clothing (which
friends tried to replace surreptitiously).
2
His two most famous letters
were never sent
Beethoven probably sent thou-
sands of letters in his lifetime, but the
two most famous ones were only
found after his death. The first was the
Heiligenstadt Testament, written to
his brothers in 1802, as he reconciled
himself to his encroaching deafness.
The second was not dated by year,
but scholars have deduced it was
probably written in 1812; it was
addressed to an “Immortal Beloved”
whose identity remains a mystery.
He was a Francophile
Beethoven was desperate to make
his name in Paris. That was prob-
ably why he retracted the dedication of
a violin sonata to George Bridgetower,
who had given the premiere, in favour
of the French virtuoso Rodolphe
Kreutzer. He allowed his friends to think
he had been sent an Erard piano from
Paris as a gift, and his opera Fidelio had
its roots in a story from the Terror,
retold in the French-style operas then
popular in Vienna. This “most Ger-
man” of composers drew on a cosmo-
politan mix of sources.
4
He read widely and was
interested in eastern religions
The diaries Beethoven kept
between 1812 and 1818 reveal he read
about Hinduism and Buddhism, noting
down the importance of silence for
Brahmans, their musical scales and the
impressive age of Indian temples. His
Illuminati contacts in Bonn had been
interested in ancient Egypt, and writers
he admired, including Friedrich Schiller,
were fascinated by non-western reli-
gions. Beethoven had not received much
of a formal education and from his youth
onwards read avidly to improve his
knowledge of literature and the classics.
His most successful year came
with Napoleon’s defeat
Like many young men in the late
18th century, Beethoven had republican
sympathies and was caught up in the
cult of Napoleon. His attitude changed
when Bonaparte declared himself
emperor and French troops invaded
Vienna. The tale of Beethoven ripping
the dedication to Napoleon from the
manuscript of the Eroica Symphony is
well known. Less often acknowledged is
that the most successful year of the com-
poser’s career came with Napoleon’s
initial defeat in 1814. In the ensuing cel-
ebrations in Vienna, there were multi-
ple performances of his music, and his
patriotic works, such as Wellington’s Vic-
tory from 1813, were extremely popular.
6
Messy desk, ordered mind?
Illustrations and descriptions of
Beethoven’s rooms always stress
their messiness, with papers strewn
everywhere and, famously, unemptied
chamber pots stranded under pianos.
But he took care to keep track of and
catalogue what mattered — his musical
sketches and compositions —
and in the last decade of his
life stuck to a daily routine, ris-
ing early, drinking coffee, com-
posing until midday, when he
had lunch, and then a long
walk in the rural outskirts of
Vienna. He might visit a tavern
or coffee house before having
a simple supper at home and
going to bed by 10pm.
7
Money matters
Beethoven’s financial situa-
tion was complicated by ram-
pant inflation. During the French occu-
pation of Vienna in 1809, food prices
— fixed by the government — went up
50%. Beethoven complained that a
pair of boots that had cost six flor-
ins in 1792 now cost 30. By 1819
Vienna’s economy was stabilis-
ing. Beethoven bought eight
bank shares, intended as secu-
rity for loans and for his
nephew Karl’s inheritance. By
1825 their value had more than
doubled, constituting most of the sub-
stantial wealth Beethoven left.
8
Barbers of Vienna
The most-performed composer in
Vienna in the 1820s was not Beet-
hoven, and certainly not his younger
contemporary Franz Schubert, but
Gioachino Rossini. The Italian’s operas
dominated the city, filling theatres,
their melodies spilling out onto the
streets on barrel organs, and into the
home in arrangements for piano duets.
Beethoven supposedly advised Rossini High profile
to write more in the vein of his biggest Beethoven by
hit, The Barber of Seville. Laura Tunbridge
shines a light on
9
The value of Beethoven’s music the composer’s
After his death, Beethoven’s extraordinary life
sketchbooks and autograph man-
uscripts were sold. The huge Missa Sol-
emnis (1823), for vocal soloists, chorus
and orchestra, went for seven florins,
far less than the melodious Septet
(1799), which sold for 18. This shows
that the big, serious late works weren’t
necessarily as appreciated in his life-
time as they are now. A page of the
LO RES
GETTY IMAGES
Missa Solemnis autograph was put up
for auction for $40,000 in 2015. c POSITIONAL
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces by
Laura Tunbridge is published on
Thursday (Viking £16.99)
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ON RECORD
POP, ROCK AND JAZZ
Rufus Wainwright
Unfollow the Rules
BMG
Rufus reining it in? Well, it’s
all relative. After writing an
opera and recording
Shakespearean sonnets, the
most flamboyant of the
Wainwright clan has at last
learnt that less can mean
more. There’s still an
orchestra of outstanding
musicians on an album
recorded in lavish LA studios,
but they don’t all play at once
and the arrangements allow
a voice that’s grown richer
with age to take centre stage.
Lyrics steeped in
self-reflection and an
embracing of middle age
CLASSICAL
Verdi
Otello
Jonas Kaufmann, Federica
Lombardi, Carlos Alvarez,
Orchestra e Coro
dell’Accademia Nazionale
di Santa Cecilia,
cond Antonio Pappano
Sony Classical 19439707932
This Otello is the first studio
recording of Verdi’s
Shakespearean masterpiece
in more than 25 years. It
makes a stronger case for
Kaufmann’s assumption of
the title role than either of
his live stage appearances;
the microphones catch his
dark, penetrating tone for
the opening Esultate and his
18 12 July 2020
ALBUM
OF THE
WEEK
seek out mischief at every
turn. The “solid steel bob” in
Trouble in Paradise belongs
to Anna Wintour, whose
world doesn’t fare well.
Wainwright pokes fun at his
own domesticity in the
charming folk-waltz Peaceful
Afternoon — “between sex
and death and trying to keep
the kitchen clean” — and at
his older female fans on the
Disneyesque This One’s for
the Ladies (That Lunge!).
Early Morning Madness is a
majestic ode to addiction,
before the nightmarish
Hatred, with crazed backing
vocals from his sister Martha
Wainwright, proves you can’t
keep an opera lover at bay
for long. Lisa Verrico
ALBUM
OF THE
explosive WEEK
tirades in
close-up, and
his musicianship and textual
clarity pay dividends in the
intimate confrontations with
Iago and Desdemona.
Alvarez is a sardonic foil as
Iago, seductive in his
narration of Cassio’s Dream.
And Lombardi’s Desdemona
is outstanding; she is now a
youthfully resplendent lyric
Verdian. Pappano’s thrilling
orchestral and choral forces
are on peak form in the
opening storm and the
arrival of the Venetian
embassy. A notable addition
to the Otello discography.
Hugh Canning
Donna Missal
Lighter
Virgin EMI
The Los
Angeles-based
New Jersey
singer’s second
album is a
glorious throwback of a
record, all bruised acoustica,
slow-build 1990s big-hair
balladry and giant choruses.
Missal’s powerhouse of a
voice — Shania Twain-like in
its scope, but with an icy
exactness that calls to mind
Nina Persson — takes songs
such as Carefully and How
Does It Feel by the scruff of the
neck and wrestles them to the
floor, as her lyrics — candid
explorations of self-esteem,
betrayal and intimacy —
turn the screw. Dan Cairns
The Beths
Jump Rope Gazers
Carpark
In November
the Beths
should be on
a stadium bill
supporting
Green Day and Weezer — and
that tells you just what kind of
music they deliver: bright,
dynamic power pop, topped
with clever lyrics. Their video
for Dying to Believe is a mock
“how to” tutorial including
the suggestion “Why not let
the song write you?” Given
the way the band’s catchy
hooks and riffs get under your
skin, you’d swear something
like that was happening. ME
Haydn
Organ Concertos
Iain Quinn (organ), Sophie
Gent (violin), Arcangelo,
cond Jonathan Cohen
Chandos CHAN 20118
Haydn’s
concertos for
organ are
among his least-
known works,
written in his mid-twenties
before his appointment
as kapellmeister to the
Esterhazy family in 1761.
Already his innovative style
marks him out as a singular
genius, and Quinn’s urbane
performances of the C and D
major solo concertos, joined
by Gent in the F major double
concerto, are stylishly
accompanied by Cohen’s
period band. HC
Margo Price
That’s How Rumors Get
Started
Loma Vista
The “new
queen of
country”
switches gear
on her third
album, aided by her fellow
Nashville maverick Sturgill
Simpson. The arcing vocal
lines and immaculate
phrasing remain, but the
sound is rockier — and, on
Heartless Mind, awash in
synths. The lyrics have a new
bluntness too. The spiky,
score-settling title track;
Twinkle Twinkle, which views
fame as illusory; the Tom
Petty-like Letting Me Down:
fleet of foot, Price sounds in
her element. DC
DMA’S
The Glow
Infectious
The fingerprints
of Madonna
producer Stuart
Price are
evident from the
off. Formerly defined by their
debt to Oasis, the Aussie trio
shine on a third album that still
nods to 1990s Britpop — the
Stone Roses and Screamadelica
— but updates its attitude with
slick electronics without
sacrificing singalongs. The
title track and shape-shifting
Criminals are itching for
festival fields to reopen, while
the dreamy Silver is already
their biggest hit. LV
Nico Muhly et al
Sleeper’s Prayer
Choir of Merton College,
Oxford, cond Benjamin
Nicholas
Delphian DCD34232
This recording
finds a
quintessentially
English choir
addressing
North American choral music,
mostly by minimalist
composers, including David
Lang and Philip Glass. But
Muhly’s Senex puerum
portabat has a deeply
traditional quality even as it
comes over with freshness
and inventiveness. His
enjoyable organ solos further
the impression the disc tends
to give of bad boys on their
best behaviour. Paul Driver
Kacy Hill
Is It Selfish If We Talk About
Me Again
Kacy Hill
Listen up, team,
I’m going to be
brutal. We
didn’t do well
enough. In 2017,
when Kacy Hill released her
debut album (executive-
produced by Kanye West), we
failed to make her a star. Well,
we can do better on this one.
Hill cites Peter Gabriel as an
influence, but you’ll also hear
Prince seeping through the
delicately gorgeous I Believe
in You and Unkind, a sultry
ballad that is the perfect
showcase for Hill’s captivating
voice. She’s a serious talent.
You know what you have to
do. Mark Edwards
Redman, Mehldau,
McBride, Blade
RoundAgain
Nonesuch
Joshua Redman
was once hailed
as the future of
jazz — yet there
has always been
an antiseptic aura to his
albums. Reuniting the quartet
he led 25 years ago, he runs
through the post-bop
vocabulary with ease, as do
the pianist Brad Mehldau,
bassist Christian McBride and
drummer Brian Blade. Once
again, though, the results are
proficient, not impassioned,
and the original compositions
are forgettable. Clive Davis
Simone de Bonefont
Missa pro mortuis
Huelgas Ensemble/Van Nevel
Cypres CYP1682
Can a
Renaissance
composer
represented
by only four
surviving pieces be any good?
The Huelgas Ensemble’s
director, Paul Van Nevel,
certainly thinks so. This
requiem, low-pitched and
delivered with attractive
restraint, is a sober work,
complex polyphonies
underlying the trebles’
elongated plainchant. Four
reflective settings of In media
vita, including richly
expressive pieces by Lassus
and Gombert, complete the
programme. Stephen Pettitt

A Trump
family hell
The White House tried to stop
publication of this tell-all book by his
niece about Trump and his family
BIOGRAPHY
Josh Glancy
Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the
World’s Most Dangerous Man
by Mary L Trump
Simon & Schuster £20,
ebook £11.99 pp240
Imagine the worst family
dinner you’ve ever attended,
full of petty rivalries, casual
bigotry, patriarchal bullying
and simmering resentments
over money. Recall the
loudmouth uncle who hijacks
every gathering, radiating
entitlement and braggadocio.
Throw in a heavy dose of
alcoholism, contested wills
and a Darwinian culture of
brutal one-upmanship. Then
imagine that bombastic uncle
somehow becomes president
of the United States and you
may begin to understand
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where Mary L Trump is
coming from in this book.
“It felt as though
62,979,636 voters had chosen
to turn this country into a
macro version of my
malignantly dysfunctional
family,” writes Mary, Donald
Trump’s niece, about her
feelings on election night in
2016. To Mary’s shock and
horror, the toxic dynamics
of the Trump dinner table
are now shaping world affairs.
To the dismay of her uncle
in the White House, she
has decided to spill
the inside story on
life as a Trump.
The result is a
ghastly tale laden
with profound
dynastic anguish:
something like
Settling family
business
Mary L
Trump
Succession crossed with Bleak
House. It’s no wonder the
Trump family sued to try to
block publication.
Mary Trump is the
daughter of Freddy Trump Jr,
the president’s elder brother,
who died aged 42 of a heart
attack in 1981. A psychologist
and addiction therapist,
Mary is 55 and insists that she
wrote this book not for the
money, as the White House
has declared, nor for revenge,
but because the “events of
the last three years have
forced my hand”. Another
term for Trump, she believes,
would spell the “end of
American democracy”.
The money angle is murky,
but there’s no doubt this book
is an epic, Michael Corleone-
grade piece of score-settling.
Having missed out on a vast
inheritance, with her mother
mocked and marginalised
and her father allegedly
bullied into an early grave,
this is the day that Mary
settles all family business.
In Mary’s telling, the
Trump home in Queens,
known as “the House”,
existed in something
approaching a
Hobbesian state
of nature. Fred, the
paterfamilias, was
the son of German
immigrants
and a tough
self-made
businessman
whose
affordable
China
syndrome
How Beijing is
spreading its
influence around
the world
22
housing projects in Brooklyn
became the family goldmine.
Mary labels him a “high-
functioning sociopath”,
describing a racist, sexist bully
who was “callous” and
“controlling” towards his
family. “Be tough at all costs,
lying is okay ... apologising is
weakness” were the values he
instilled in the Trump boys.
This was the environment
JUDIE BURSTEIN/ALAMY. INSET: PETER SERLING
that forged Donald, and
broke her father. Portrayed
as an easy-going, sensitive
young man, Freddy was
crushed in a pincer between
the “cruelty and contempt”
of his father and the
destructive ambition of his
younger brother, who
eventually supplanted him as
heir apparent.
The boys’ mother, also Anointed son Donald Trump
Mary, is portrayed as weak in 1992 with his mother, Mary
and ineffectual, enfeebled by Anne, and father, Fred
postpartum complications and
unable to compensate for her
husband’s savagery. “Having
been abandoned by his
mother... and having his father
fail not only to meet his needs
but to make him feel safe or
loved, valued or mirrored,
Donald suffered deprivations
that would scar him for life,”
is Mary Trump’s verdict.
Donald became “Fred’s
monster”, she writes,
It’s a ghastly
eternally vying for his father’s
approval. “At a very deep
tale laden
level, his bragging and false
bravado are not directed at
with profound
the audience in front of him dynastic
but at his audience of one:
his long-dead father.” anguish
 Freddy’s attempt to forge
his own life as a commercial
pilot was ridiculed by the
father-son tag team of Fred
and Donald, whose only real
interest was in discussing
“New York politics and deals
and ugly women”. On one
occasion an 18-year-old
Donald, fresh from military
school, told his elder brother:
“Dad’s right about you:
You’re nothing but a glorified
bus driver.”
With Freddy ravaged by
alcoholism and his two
daughters, Elizabeth and
Maryanne, of little interest,
Fred Trump anointed his
fourth child, Donald, as
dauphin. He admired his
son’s “killer” instincts and
showmanship. For while
Fred’s immigrant parochialism
meant he would always be an
outsider, no matter his wealth,
his all-American son had the
“bold ideas and the chutzpah”
to conquer Manhattan.
And so Donald was backed
to the hilt. He inveigled his
way into Pennsylvania
University, Mary alleges, by
paying a friend to take the SAT
exams for him (the White
House has denied this). After
that he set about building his
own property empire, the
Trump Organization, not with
a solitary $1m loan as he often
claimed, but bankrolled by his
father’s vast fortune.
Here we enter more familiar
territory, as Donald launches
himself on Manhattan and
then Atlantic City, with Dad
picking up the bills. On one
occasion in 1990, as Trump’s
reckless casino investments
barrelled him towards one of
several bankruptcies, his
father sent a chauffeur with
$3m in cash to purchase (but
not gamble) chips at “Trump’s
Castle”. Why did the despotic
Fred let his son get away with
such improvidence? “Fred
had become so invested in
the fantasy of Donald’s
success that he and Donald
were inextricably linked,”
Mary speculates.
There are a few moments of
light relief. Christmas presents
from Uncle Donald are
hilariously insincere. One year
a possibly regifted gold lamé
shoe filled with candy. Then a
gift basket from which the best
goodies had been removed,
leaving just olives and sardines.
Mary alleges that Ivana Trump
once gave a designer handbag
to her forlorn mother, Linda.
There was, she writes, a used
tissue inside.
Mary’s own voyage through
this hellscape is not a happy
one. She was briefly hired by
Donald to ghostwrite one of
his books, but couldn’t get him
to sit down for an interview.
She makes a brief allusion to
being gay, emphasising that
coming from a family where
her grandma complained
about “that little faggot”
Elton John singing at Princess
Diana’s funeral made coming
out something of a minefield.
Her estrangement from the
Trumps, catalysed by a mostly
unsuccessful legal effort to
reinsert herself into Fred’s
inheritance, is now total. Even
Mary’s brother, Fritz, has
disavowed her memoir.
This furious book is at once
mesmerising and excruciating.
It strays too far into politics,
on which the author is neither
authoritative nor interesting. It
has a bitter, naked agenda and
the weeping sores left by Mary
Trump’s childhood make her
a deeply unreliable narrator.
And yet she has insights that
no biographer can match.
She has the anecdotes, the
receipts and the battle scars
from 55 years as a Trump.
And if nothing else she has
inherited the family penchant
for enacting vengeance with
apocalyptic style. c
12 July 2020 21
BOOKS
Two studies of how we repurpose
our junk, both in the past and today
Our history
of recycling
HISTORY
Lucy Knight
Rummage A History of the
Things We Have Reused,
Recycled and Refused to Let
Go by Emily Cockayne
Profile £16.99, ebook £12.19
pp304
Rag and Bone A Family
History of What We’ve
Thrown Away by Lisa Woollett
John Murray £20, ebook £20
pp208
Elisabeth Beresford, the
creator of The Wombles, was
always happy to claim it was
her characters that “invented
recycling”. That’s a myth that
is swiftly debunked by the
historian Emily Cockayne in
Rummage, her rich and
meticulous history of reuse.
Certainly the children’s
novels and subsequent TV
animation coincided with a
renewed zest for recycling in
the 1970s. But repurposing for
ecological reasons, Cockayne
shows, can be traced back at
least to 1852, when the idea
was recorded by the Scottish
chemist and MP Lyon Playfair.
Recycling and reuse for
financial or practical reasons
date back further still.
Rummage is a lively study
that contains countless
examples of historical reuse.
22 12 July 2020
downfall when an occupant
took antibiotics, which killed
the algae that processed
the sewage.
Harebrained schemes such
as these abound in Rummage,
but Cockayne argues that only
a more consistent approach to
reuse can effect change,
something at which Britain
has never been particularly
good. Even in wartime,
Wastepaper, it turns out, has salvage drives only worked
seen a remarkable array of
uses: from Victorian papier-
well “when they possessed
some sort of unusual, novel or
mâché products (which competitive aspect”, such as
included steamship pilasters the Kensington dog-owning
and the working pianoforte ladies who began an appeal to
made for the 1867 Paris make dog hair into wool
International Exhibition) to during the First World War.
the two million unsold Mills & Lisa Woollett, like
Boon novels used in the Cockayne, has a Womble-like
construction of the M6 toll approach to finding and
road. A common form of reusing. In her book Rag and
poetry between the 16th and Bone, the keen mudlark and
19th centuries, the “broadside beachcomber explores the
ballad”, printed on a single social history behind some of
ALBERTO PIZZOLI/GETTY IMAGES
sheet of cheap paper, was the objects that she has found
often put to use “lining pie washed up on the foreshore.
dishes, absorbing dirt or Both books interweave
binding books”. Just one in history with familial anecdote
every 10,000 of these ballads — Cockayne tells of her thrifty
has survived in its original grandmother, who once gifted
form. Seventeenth- and her a homemade toy, “Stinky
18th-century shopkeepers and Lion”, which earned its name
How China i
servants would assess scrap because it had been stuffed
paper to determine whether it with old tights. And Rag and
had enough gluey content to Bone is at its most engaging
seal food — if not, “Bumm when Woollett writes about
foder” (lavatory paper) was her dustman grandfather and
always an option. scavenger great-grandfather,
Cockayne even charts the both of whom had an eye for
A revelatory look at the way the Chinese
reuse of human waste itself, acquiring “toot” — saleable party state is spreading its influence
although this has not always items found from rubbish.
been effective: the phrase The trouble with writing
“taking the piss” is thought to a history shaped around one’s participated in the
have come from a failed
17th-century attempt to use
own ramblings, though, is
that the result can be, well,
CHINA ambassadorial salon. They
included a clutch of lords,
urine in alum production, rambling. For the most part, Michael Sheridan professors, hacks and
while a 1972 eco-house that Rag and Bone plods along business folk. Many belonged
converted excrement into amiably, telling the stories Hidden Hand to the 48 Group Club, the
methane for cooking met its behind debris Woollett has Exposing How the Chinese successor to a body founded
found. But when she switches Communist Party Is in the 1950s by a communist
Rubbish The Wombles were to an angrier tone at the Reshaping the World fellow traveller to promote
enthusiastic recyclers book’s close it feels somewhat by Clive Hamilton and trade with the People’s
abrupt — although her Mareike Ohlberg Republic. Today, according to
descriptions of how plastic Oneworld £20, ebook £11.99 the authors of this book, its
and e-waste are destroying the pp432 chief function is to lavish
earth are chilling. praise on President Xi in the
Recycling in its current The hyperactive Chinese expectation of advantage.
form is often simply a way to ambassador to London, Liu The echoes with Anthony
assuage guilt, both books Xiaoming, is an eloquent Trollope’s novel The Way
agree — Cockayne in advocate for “better We Live Now, in which just
particular is scathing about understanding China”. To before his fall the great rogue
clothes designers who use that end he helpfully hosted Augustus Melmotte assembles
recycled materials (“such an event last year for British high society at a banquet for
reuse is aimed at consumers admirers of Xi Jinping, the the Emperor of China, will
who already overconsume”). Communist Party leader, to not be lost on anyone who
Instead, a systematic study that luminary’s has read that satire.
TONY EVANS/GETTY IMAGES
upheaval to the way we thoughts on diplomacy and Hidden Hand is unlikely
consume and reuse is needed. “a shared future for mankind”. to find a place on the Chinese
“Now the mighty oceans are It is depressing to read in embassy’s approved reading
clogged with plastic debris,” this revelatory book that 70 list. It is a partisan, detailed
Rummage concludes. “Who straight-faced members of and necessary examination
will salvage that?” c the great and the good of how a state that officially

s taming the West
describes itself as the
“people’s democratic
dictatorship” has persuaded
many who are fortunate
enough to live beyond its
reach that it is benign,
misunderstood and so
wisely governed that it
offers humanity an
alternative way of living.
Clive Hamilton, an
Australian author who has
already written about
Chinese influence in his
home country in a book called
Silent Invasion, and Mareike
Ohlberg, a China scholar from
Germany, do not spare the
footnotes in their exposé of
China’s influence operations
in the western democracies.
They need to document
their case because, as surely
as the sun rises in the east,
they will be suspected of
paranoia, racism and, that
old favourite, a “Cold War
mentality”. Even before
publication in the UK, the
book has already caused
a stir, with the 48 Group Club
taking down a digital list of
its fellows.
The case against their type
of inquiry was put by the
Clinton-era official and China
expert Susan Shirk, who is
quoted in the book. Speaking
to a friendly audience in
Beijing last spring, she
warned of a looming
“McCarthyite Red Scare”
in the United States.
The authors, therefore,
start from two premises.
One is that when they say
“China” they do not mean
Chinese people, but the
regime. The other is that to
understand Xi and his version
of Marxism-Leninism you do
indeed have to study them.
In 1937 Mao Tse-tung wrote
an essay, On Contradiction,
that defined the revolution
by its enemies and laid out
a manifesto for permanent
struggle. The party’s
strategists today speak of
“global thought
management”, dividing
interlocutors into friends,
enemies and those who may
be won over or neutralised.
This is known as “united
front work”, a method that
Mao called “our magic
weapon”.
For the party “the Cold War
never ended”, the authors say.
Eyes on the prize Xi Jinping,
the Chinese president
It runs a United Front Work
Department to promote its
aims: the defence of the ruling
elite; the pursuit of national
interests; and the promotion
of the authoritarian principle.
Foreigners may encounter
influence operations without
knowing it. They may deal
with a foundation, an
institute, an association, a
think tank, a business circle.
The name will be bland, but
all are controlled by the
party state.
My favourite among these is
the magnificently titled China
Association for International
Friendly Contact. After Tony
Blair unwisely accepted its
invitation to speak on
For China’s
ruling party,
the Cold War
never ended
“philanthropy” in 2012 it
proved short work to identify
his hosts as three major-
generals in the People’s
Liberation Army (PLA)
specialising in psychological
warfare, who had somehow
forgotten to mention their
military ranks on the
prospectus.
Then there is the
Zhengzhou Information,
Science and Technology
Institute, which has sent
“academics” to the West,
but, it seems, does not
actually exist. The authors
find a PO box, but no
buildings, phone number
or website. The city is,
however, home to a PLA
cyber-warfare school.
When a professor from
China spoke at Cambridge
University recently, he was
billed to the respectful dons
as a distinguished think
tanker in the field of strategic
analysis. Nobody seemed to
mind that all think tanks in
China are obedient to the
Ministry of State Security,
which censors and locks up
Chinese scholars.
This is what Lenin is said to
have called “useful idiocy”
and it exasperates the
authors. They consider Britain
a hopeless case, although the
government’s new stance on
Huawei and Hong Kong may
be a sign of change.
The rest of Europe is
abject. In France, the book
reveals, a former prime
minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin,
utters paeans of praise for
Beijing while lobbying for its
business. In Italy an enigmatic
finance professor, Michele
Geraci, has persuaded its
leaders, who are almost wholly
ignorant of China, to sign up
for Xi’s ambitious Belt and
Road Initiative, against the
advice of the foreign ministry.
The tide has turned in
America, Australia and other
countries where China is
seen with new realism in
politics, business, academia
and security. The authors
may thus expect pushback
from disabused supporters
of “engagement” who cling
to the hope that Xi may turn
out to be cuddly, the party
can reform and China will
become “a responsible
stakeholder” in the global
system. If the Chinese
ambassador ever hosts a
soiree to discuss that
particular dream, expect
masks to be provided. c
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by Jim Field
Hodder £12.99, age 2-5
If you have plans to travel
to France this year, or any
year, with small children,
this bilingual picture book,
inspired by the author/
illustrator’s Anglo-French
family, introduces words
and phrases in French.
Monsieur Roscoe, a
floppy-eared dog and
canine M Hulot, takes his
bicycle, tent and teddy bear
and travels from Paris to
camp, ski and visit the lake,
the beach and the café. The
pictures are rich in comic
incident; Roscoe is inclined
to cause havoc, in ways
readers can deduce from
the images alone. The book
is rewarding to pore over,
inviting children to search
for details on the busy,
colourful, cartoony pages,
reminiscent of Richard
Scarry, although with a
softer line. Its friendly world
of anthropomorphised
animals is short on social
distancing, but at least it
focuses on the outdoors.
WATCH OUT FOR
Found You
by Devon Holzwarth
Alison Green £6.99,
age 3-6
Holzwarth brings the
decorative style and colour
of her native Panama to
this sweet, retro-looking
picture book about a little
boy in a new country
where the customs and
language are unfamiliar.
12 July 2020 23
BOOKS
his book’s time span humans Toil and
A history of the occult from 40,000BC to the Wicca movement left no written records. trouble
Writing and literacy did not The Wicked

Magical thinking develop until about 3,200BC.

So assumptions about the
thoughts and motives of the
countless generations of
humans who lived before that
Witch from
The Wizard
of Oz

MAGIC
John Carey
The History of Magic
From Alchemy to Witchcraft,
from the Ice Age to the Present
by Chris Gosden
Viking £25, ebook £12.99 pp502
Writing a history of magic is
like writing a history of the
human imagination. No matter
how many words you use to
pin it down, its nature is to
evade definition. Chris Gosden
is well aware of this difficulty.
His book is breathtaking in
scope. Its time span stretches
from 40,000BC to the present
that this is not a book for
everyone. For many readers
its pages will be full of
fascinating discoveries. For
others, the same pages will
be full of meticulously
catalogued nonsense.
Knowing which group you
belong to is easily checked. At
the start of the book Gosden
cites the anthropologist
EE Evans-Pritchard, who
worked among the Azande
of central Africa. The Azande
believed all misfortune and
death to be caused by magic
and witchcraft. Evans-
Pritchard considered this
viewpoint “not irrational”,
and Gosden evidently
concurs. If you agree with
For Gosden, magic is older
than religion and science, and
not just older but better. Magic
is better than religion because
it is, he thinks, egalitarian,
whereas religions tend to place
power in the hands of the few,
and submit to rulers who
claim privileged access to the
deity or deities. Magic is better
than science in Gosden’s view
because science is cold,
calculating and inhuman,
reducing the universe to a
machine. Magic, by contrast,
assumes that humans have a
sympathetic relationship with
nature and the cosmos. It
cultivates the belief that
everything — trees, stones,
rivers, the heavenly bodies — is
time, including how they
thought about animism, are,
he admits, no more than
“imaginative reconstructions”.
All the same he feels sure that
“most people”, in the past,
and even now, believe that
“the universe is animate and
sentient”. He is convinced,
too, that early humans did not
think of humans and animals
as different species, and he
points, as evidence for this,
to the mixture of animal and
human remains in many
prehistoric graves.
Such evidence is, though,
disputable. The oldest known
artwork — about 40,000 years
old — is a figurine of a human
with a lion’s head, carved out

day, and its global reach
takes in China, central Asia,
Africa, the Americas and
Australia, as well as Europe.
Yet in his closing pages he
describes our knowledge as
“woefully partial”.
It should be said at once
them that it is not irrational
to believe all misfortune and
death to be caused by magic
and witchcraft, then this book
is for you. If you disagree, it
is probably not, unless you
can suspend disbelief
completely while you read.
sentient, and contains a spirit,
as humans do. Even a piece of
bread has its own spirit and its
own “tiny intentions”.
Gosden observes that
animism, as this belief is called,
takes many forms. He makes
the point, too, that for most of
PAUL FAHERTY/MGM/SHUTTERSTOCK
of a mammoth tusk and found
in the Stadel Cave in Germany.
The figurine might indicate,
as Gosden believes, that the
carver thought humans were
intimately linked to lions and
other species. Or it might
suggest quite the contrary —

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 that the figurine made an
imaginative breakthrough
by combining species that
the carver knew to be
essentially different.
Gosden’s depiction of
magic as a set of sensitive,
benevolent beliefs is also
contestable, as is his claim
that “an ethics of care” lies
at the heart of magical
world-views. Both opinions
conflict, for example, with
evidence from many periods
and sources linking magic
with human sacrifice. At one
Chinese magic site it is
estimated that at least 112
people, mainly young women,
met what Gosden concedes
must have been “fearful and
bloody” ends. It seems
somehow irrelevant, after
that, for him to remind us
how “sophisticated” Chinese
magic was. In the European
witch craze of the 16th and
17th centuries an estimated
80,000 women and men, and
some children, were
executed. Their persecutors
believed firmly in the reality of
magic and, after torture, some
of the victims were prepared
to say that they did too.
For many readers the
classic text on this subject is
He portrays
it as a set of
benevolent
beliefs
Keith Thomas’s Religion and
the Decline of Magic (1971).
Gosden admires it, but regrets
its emphasis on magic’s
decline. He does not think it
is declining, and does not
want it to. His final chapter,
on modern magic, gives
surprising prominence to the
magician Aleister Crowley
(1875-1947), who founded a
new religion called Thelema,
based on a sacred text that
was said to have issued from
the spirit world.
Evidently gladdened that
magic is taking on such new
forms, Gosden commends
neopaganism and the Wicca
movement for using “social
media and apps that bring
magical possibilities to younger
audiences”. If we are to
overcome threats such as
climate change, he believes,
these new forms of magic must
show us the way. His book was
apparently completed before
the outbreak of the Covid-19
pandemic, so we cannot know
if he thinks that magic might
help against that too.
Whether he himself really
believes in magic is not clear.
He certainly writes as if he
does. But can he truly believe,
for example, that Chinese
magic could “shift the
cosmos”, or that Egyptian
magic could enable a dead
husband to beget a child on
his still-living wife — both of
which he reports with no
suggestion that they are
nonsense? Interestingly he is
perfectly prepared to use
modern scientific evidence,
such as radiocarbon dating, in
judging the antiquity of
archaeological finds. Surely if
science is as baneful as he says
it is, and magic as efficacious,
he should seek the truth
through some other means —
inspecting the entrails of a
dead animal, for example, or
examining the cracks in a
turtle shell — both of them
methods of research that
have, he tells us, been
successfully employed by
generations of magicians. c

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BOOKS
The world is full of
controversial
monuments to the
Second World War,
says this study
HISTORY
Max Hastings
Prisoners of History
What Monuments to the
Second World War Tell Us
About History and Ourselves
by Keith Lowe
Wm Collins £20,
ebook £12.99 pp320
Statues have become a focus
of controversy on both
sides of the Atlantic. The
Confederacy’s Robert E Lee
and Britain’s Cecil Rhodes
seem doomed to be toppled,
a fate once reserved for
Saddam Hussein and the like.
Black Lives Matter is driving
a wider rethink of whom we
memorialise in bronze or
stone, and why.
Keith Lowe, the author of
several works on the Second
World War, had the inspired
idea of examining nations’
architectural and artistic
remembrances of the conflict.
Why do the Russians sustain
an almost manic programme
of new architectural
celebrations of their “Great
Patriotic War”? What inspired
the recent Bomber Command
memorial in Green Park?
He discusses explicitly 25
such creations around the
world, almost one-third of
them raised in this century:
“If history is the basis of our
identity, then this history
seems to define us more than
any other. The Second World
War is the screen upon which
we like to project all our
national sentiments.”
His descriptions and
explanations are always
thoughtful and evocative,
sometimes controversial.
Many Russian war memorials
were crumbling 30 years ago,
while today they are being
expensively restored,
especially the giant statues at
Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd.
“There must be a renewed
sense of instability, or
vulnerability, which is driving
Russians to insist ever
more stridently upon their
wartime heroism.”
To put the matter bluntly
26 12 July 2020
Statues at war
Memorial General MacArthur’s
landing in the Philippines
— in my words, not Lowe’s
— Russia’s only indisputable
successes since the Bolshevik
Revolution have been Sputnik
and victory in 1945. This
makes it unsurprising that the
Kremlin is driven to make
much of the latter.
Putin and many of his
people still revere Stalin, who
presided over a tyranny
almost as murderous as that
of Hitler. China hosts
countless statues of Chairman
Mao, who was responsible for
probably more deaths than
either of his rival monsters.
Lowe notes that China is
also building war memorials
with unprecedented energy.
The largest of these
commemorates the 1937
Nanking massacre, in which
Too many of
them seek to
promote
deceit
at least 100,000 people were
killed — the Chinese claim
300,000, although nobody
really knows. The purpose of
the memorials is indisputably
political, to promote the
demonisation of Japan.
The Yasukuni shrine in
Tokyo honours the memories
of 2.4 million Japanese
soldiers who have perished
since 1868. Many foreign
visitors are troubled by the
recent Japanese inclusion
among the registered deities
of convicted war criminals.
This reflects policy incited by
ultra-nationalists. Beside
Yasukuni’s memorials
stands a war museum that
perpetuates monstrous
nationalistic falsehoods about
the war. Lowe reflects on the
country’s refusal to attempt
to educate its children about
their nation’s past. The
shrine, he writes, is
“increasing their denial rather
than diminishing it … because
of this toxic power-play, every
act of worship threatens to
poison the future as much as
the past.”
He expresses a different
sort of unease about Britain’s
Bomber Command memorial,
which he suggests is “a
ALAMY
monument to nostalgia …
[that] says at least as much
about the society that erected
it as it does about the people
he commemorates”. I share
Lowe’s view, that it was wrong
to erect this in the 21st century.
We should honour the
aircrew who perished to carry
out the strategic air offensive.
But we owe it to our modern
European neighbours to
recognise that while the
systematic destruction of
their cities may have been a
necessity of war, it is nothing
to be proud of. Lowe notes
that the memorial was
promoted and largely funded
by right-wing Tories, the sort
of people who “feel indignant,
snubbed, cheated by history”.
The Dutch began building
their National Monument in
1956. The author admires the
work, but is troubled that its
stone figures include no Jews.
He suggests that Holland was
slow to recognise the full
horror of what befell its
Jewish minority, which
accounted for only 1.5% of the
population, but half of its war
deaths. The legend of Anne
Frank hiding in Amsterdam
masked the reality that a
higher proportion of Dutch
than of French Jews went to
the gas chambers.
Lowe quotes Felix de
Weldon, the artist who
sculpted the image of marines
raising the flag at Iwo Jima in
1945, at its inauguration a
decade later at Arlington,
Virginia. “The hands of these
men reaching out,” he said,
are “groping for that which
may be beyond one’s means
to attain, needing assistance
from the power above”.
The author writes that
the critical element in this
memorial is not human, but
instead the Stars and Stripes,
“the symbol of virtues
[Americans] believe to be
universal: hope, freedom,
justice and democracy”. No
other nation, he observes,
cherishes its national flag with
the same fervour.
Unfortunately, he adds,
other parts of the world see
things rather differently. The
people of the Philippines have
become ever more doubtful
about the huge memorial at
Leyte, depicting General
Douglas MacArthur wading
ashore to liberate them in
October 1944. MacArthur, a
uniformed charlatan grossly
overpromoted by propaganda,
conducted a campaign in the
Philippines that cost the lives
of 8,000 Americans and about
150,000 Filipinos. This
achieved his own glorification,
but contributed almost
nothing to the defeat of Japan.
Yet it would be wrong to
give the impression that
Lowe’s book is iconoclastic.
For all his reservations about
our statues and memorials, he
concludes by urging that we
should not hasten to topple
those that suddenly seem
displeasing. “Our monuments
are valuable historical
documents: they speak
eloquently about the values of
our ancestors, both good and
bad. They are curiosities with
the power to inspire and
provoke all kinds of debate …
To tear all this down for the
sake of contemporary politics
seems like a great shame.”
Lowe’s sensitive,
disturbing book should be
compulsory reading for both
statue builders and statue
topplers. Too many
memorials of all kinds seek
to promote deceits or
half-truths. While recognising
their imperfections, however,
we should be readier to
indulge these than are some
modern protesters. c

David Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic new novel,
set in the world of 1960s rock music
Eclectic
dreams
FICTION
Peter Kemp
Utopia Avenue
by David Mitchell
Sceptre £20, ebook £20 pp576
A gaudy swirling concept
album of a novel, Utopia Avenue
tracks the rise to stardom of a
“curious psychedelic-folk-rock
band” in the late 1960s. When
it opens, Dean, a working-
class boy from Gravesend, is
on his uppers in Soho. Hopes
for a breakthrough as a bass
guitarist and songwriter have
been dashed by his expulsion
from a radical Marxist band,
Battleship Potemkin.
Prospects look dismal until he
meets Levon, a music manager
seeking new talent. Joining Elf
(a female folk singer and
keyboard player), Griff (a jazz
drummer) and Jasper de Zoet
(a lead guitar wizard) in a
combo they call Utopia
Avenue, Dean embarks on a
dizzying ride from rackety gigs
in dingy clubs to chart-topping
LPs, TV fame and screamingly
thronged pop festivals.
Gradually backstories
Spies, subterfuge and a mysterious dinosaur skeleton
HISTORICAL FICTION
ROUNDUP
The historical figure of the
philosopher Giordano
Bruno has been ingeniously
transformed into the hero of
Tudor-era thrillers by SJ Parris.
Execution (HarperCollins
£14.99, ebook £8.99), the sixth,
emerge: Dean’s grim early life
as the son of a brutal alcoholic
father; the conventional milieu
that Elf, a bank manager’s
daughter, had to extricate
herself from; Griff ’s Ringo
Starr-like sickly childhood
stays in hospital where he
learnt to drum; illegitimate
Jasper’s wealthy Dutch
background; gay Levon’s
painful estrangement from his
Baptist family back in Canada.
Problem parentage is just
ALAMY
one of many threads running
through this richly textured
novel. A review of the band’s
first LP hails it as “remarkably
diverse”. Remarkable diversity
has been David Mitchell’s forte
ever since his 1999 debut,
Ghostwritten, which had nine
narrators. Virtuoso varying of
voice, time and genre is a
speciality: interlinked
narratives in Cloud Atlas, his
2004 tour de force, ranged
from pastiche Victorian travel
writing to noir thriller, sci-fi
dystopia and post-apocalyptic
parable. Less miscellaneous
in style, Utopia Avenue is still
lavishly eclectic in content.
A terrific feat of period
evocation, it resurrects the
1960s’ flamboyant heyday in
is set in 1586, as fanatical
Catholics plot once more to
assassinate Elizabeth I and
install Mary, Queen of Scots on
the English throne. Spymaster
Sir Francis Walsingham
summons the Italian Bruno to
London to infiltrate the group
and thwart their plans. Parris’s
attention to the details of
Elizabethan life and her
ability to create characters
of depth are again on display
in a gripping narrative.
Another much-admired
series, SG MacLean’s books
about Damian Seeker, an
agent for Oliver Cromwell,
concludes with The House of
Far out Mitchell’s novel
follows a psychedelic band
high-fidelity detail. From a
South Kensington party
reeking with “a marshy pong
of dope, lentils and incense” to
a celebrity-packed shindig
hosted by Janis Joplin on the
roof of New York’s Chelsea
Hotel, its teeming social scenes
are peacock displays of
rose-print or lime shirts,
peach Afghan coats, turquoise
glasses, and suits with
raspberry and vanilla stripes.
Miniskirted “Twiggy-thin” fans
with Mary Quant bobs and
kohl-ringed eyes sleekly
circulate. Jasper bumps into
Lamentations (Quercus £20,
ebook £20). Seeker, assumed
by many to be dead, has been
dispatched to Bruges, where
Charles II’s exiled supporters
pass their time in boozing,
womanising and doomed
schemes to restore the king to
his throne. Seeker has a mole
among the Cavaliers, but word
reaches him that the turncoat
is in danger. MacLean guides
her characters through the
twists of an intriguing plot
with great aplomb.
The American writer
L Annette Binder’s debut
novel, The Vanishing Sky
(Bloomsbury £14.99, ebook
David Bowie, “trench coat
flapping like a superhero’s
cape”. Marc Bolan preeningly
informs Elf, “I always tell girls:
‘If you want to understand me,
read The Lord of the Rings right
now.’ It’s that simple.” John
Lennon is encountered under
a table at a movie mogul’s ball.
Throughout the whirligig of
funny, elating and sometimes
saddening and sobering
scenes, a prominent theme is
artistic creativity: its sources,
satisfactions, purposes and
problems. Another is
Mitchell’s persisting concern
with predatory and bullying
behaviour. Routinely facing
sexist harassment, Elf is
£10.49), is a moving tale of a
family destroyed by war. In
a small German town in 1945
Etta celebrates the return of
her eldest son, Max, from the
front line, but it soon becomes
clear that all is not well with
him. “All my strings are cut,”
he confesses. Meanwhile her
younger son, Georg, flees a
Hitler Youth camp, attempting
to come home. Inspired by
her family’s history, Binder
unfolds a harrowing tale in
limpid, expressive prose.
Equally poignant is the
short but powerful A
Hundred Million Years
and a Day (Gallic £10.99,
exploited by a manipulative
lover. Bent promoters,
swindling agents, extortion,
blackmail and plagiarism
feature. Creepily cocksure,
Jimmy Savile capers with sleazy
bumptiousness on Top of the
Pops. Drug dealers close in (a
friend’s descent into addiction
bleakly counterpoints Dean’s
soaring career). In contrast,
beneficial rapport is
highlighted: ideal partners,
timely reconciliations.
Supportive camaraderie fuels
the band. Engagement with
others is a challenge for Jasper,
whose autism makes “the
language of face and tone … as
impenetrable as Sanskrit”.
His unswerving literalism can
cause social comedy (as in an
entertaining scene where it
discomfits a snortingly
overbearing conservative
boor). Less surely, his mental
state — noises in his head,
flickering visions — is hazed
with paranormal significance.
A descendant of the hero of
Mitchell’s historical
masterpiece The Thousand
Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
(2010), he is afflicted, it’s
suggested, not by
schizophrenia or psychosis
but the occult consequences
of centuries-old villainy.
Utopia Avenue has links with
other Mitchell novels too. What
makes it a stand-out triumph is
the vibrant flair with which it
recreates an era, the acuteness
with which it explores
composition and performance,
and its often witty (“An
American moon … wedged
between two skyscrapers,
like a nickel fallen down a
crack”) verbal finesse. c
ebook £5.99) by Jean-Baptiste
Andrea, translated by Sam
Taylor. Its narrator, Stanislas,
is a palaeontologist,
fascinated by fossils since
childhood. In middle age
he hears of a possible
dinosaur’s skeleton,
preserved within a glacier.
He organises an expedition,
but his quest becomes a
dangerous journey into his
personal history. Packing
much into his 176 pages,
Andrea explores ideas of
comradeship, the persistence
of childhood trauma and the
nature of obsession. c
Nick Rennison
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BOOKS
A clifftop hiker is implicated in a baffling
death in the pick of Joan Smith’s roundup
Driven to
the edge
CRIME FICTION
ROUNDUP
Michel Bussi is one of France’s
most successful authors,
thrilling readers with
extraordinary feats of
imagination. His latest novel,
Never Forget (Weidenfeld
£14.99, ebook £7.99),
translated by Shaun Whiteside,
begins with a seemingly
impossible event: a young
woman jumps from a cliff, but
by the time she lands on the
beach below it appears she’s
been strangled by a red scarf.
It’s the kind of conundrum
golden age crime writers used
to revel in, and the young man
who witnesses her fall finds
himself under suspicion in
An almost flawless tale about hidden suburban desire
FICTION
Johanna
Thomas-Corr
Small Pleasures
by Clare Chambers
Weidenfeld £14.99,
ebook £14.99 pp352
When John Major evoked an
England of spinsters cycling
across misty village greens, he
might have had someone like
Jean Swinney in mind. Jean,
the protagonist of Clare
Chambers’s sixth novel, is
only 39, but she has long been
overlooked. A local newspaper
reporter, she is unmarried,
childless and lives in one of
those invincible green suburbs
in Kent with her housebound
mother. Hers is a life of “small
28 12 July 2020
Holly’s whereabouts, but now
her remains have been
discovered miles from
London — and a post-mortem
examination reveals she was
shot. DC Cat Kinsella has the
unenviable task of having to
question the high-flying
detective who convicted
Masters. Frear writes vividly
about the uneasy relationship
between her female cops and
brings the novel to a startling
what looks like an old- conclusion.
fashioned murder mystery.
But Bussi’s novel is set firmly
Another senior detective,
DCS Frankie Sheehan, has her
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in the 21st century, much of it third outing in If Looks Could
consisting of diary entries by Kill (riverrun £14.99, ebook
the witness, Jamal Salaoui, £14.99) by Olivia Kiernan.
who is acutely aware of how This classy series about a
the police see his French-Arab Dublin-based detective always
background. His discovery of has subplots involving office
a similar murder on the same politics and this one is no
cliff a decade earlier leads exception, as Sheehan deals
him into a labyrinth as with the mess left behind by
exhilarating as anything in a bent detective. What starts
Bussi’s breakthrough novel, he got the wrong man. But Intrigue Karin Slaughter, the out as a missing-person case
After the Crash. Trent and Linton gradually author of The Silent Wife turns into a murder inquiry
The Silent Wife uncover a series of rapes and when blood is found in the
(HarperCollins £20, ebook murders carried out by a London. That of his fourth home of 55-year-old Debbie
£9.99) is the latest novel in perpetrator who is disguising victim, Holly Kemp, was never Nugent, who lived with her
Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent them as accidents. Slaughter’s found. Masters was murdered daughter in the Wicklow
series, featuring an agent novel is both a page-turner in prison without revealing mountains. The girl falls
with the Georgia Bureau of and a protest about how often under suspicion because she
Investigation. When a student sexual violence is overlooked. is evasive about when she last
is attacked and left for dead, Caz Frear’s first novel, Sweet CRIME saw her mother alive, but
BOOK
a prisoner at Georgia state Little Lies, was a bestseller. Her Sheehan isn’t sure whether
penitentiary insists the crime latest, Shed No Tears (Zaffre she’s guilty or just frightened.
is identical to an assault he £8.99, ebook £5.99), is a tense OF THE Kiernan’s novel has echoes of
MONTH
was jailed for. The old attack police procedural about an old real-life scandals about
was investigated by the late serial killer case. Christopher undercover cops in illicit
husband of the forensic Masters strangled three relationships, and it is written
pathologist Sara Linton, women in 2012 and dumped OUR TOP PICK with an undertone of anger
and she’s reluctant to believe the bodies in woods in south about ruined lives. c
pleasures”: “a glass of sherry rewind six months to June of a jeweller. He initially seems embed so deeply in the
before Sunday lunch; a bar
of chocolate parcelled out to
that year, when a woman
called Gretchen Tilbury writes
like an “unremarkable, oldish
man”. But he is kind and
narrative that you can’t
possibly avoid them — even as
last a week; a newly published to the North Kent Echo to claim funny and quickly their her buttoned-up characters
library book, still pristine and her 10-year-old daughter was conversation gathers a special try hard to.
untouched by other hands”. the product of a virgin birth. charge. What’s more, The suburban railway
Heading that list is the “first As the only female journalist, Gretchen seems to be pushing stations and humdrum lives
cigarette of the day”, which Jean is sent to investigate. them to be alone together. brimming with emotion
best captures the way Jean Gretchen turns out to be an Small Pleasures is an almost recall the 1945 film Brief
copes with her “limited life”. attractive seamstress of Swiss flawlessly written tale of Encounter; the liver-and-
Her modest treats have served heritage, married to a much genuine, grown-up romantic onions dinners conjure up
as “encouragement enough” older man. Jean learns that anguish. Written in prose the dreary postwar world of
— one of those English phrases Gretchen got pregnant at 18 that is clipped as closely as Philip Larkin’s poetry. But
that conceal an ocean of quiet while bedridden in a woman’s suburban hedges, this is a one of the great strengths of
sorrows and frustrations. sanatorium. She tracks down book about seemingly mild the book is its tender,
Yet what’s clever about the ward matron, as well as people concealing turbulent atmospheric descriptions of
Chambers’s well-tempered the three other patients, who feelings. Jean and Howard’s England: wet leaves, misted
novel is its undercurrent of sex include a woman trapped in desire for each other becomes windows, the “melancholy
and danger, present from the an iron lung and a lesbian so inflamed by self-denial it sense of approaching dusk”.
opening pages. It begins with artist now living in bohemian gains a tragic grandeur. Far Small Pleasures succeeds in
a newspaper report about a squalor. Did they, by any from being cosy, the novel creating one of those
horrific train crash, based on chance, see a man lurking? centres on homosexuality, enclosed fictional worlds
the Lewisham rail disaster of Meanwhile Jean finds abortion and sexual assault, that, however desolate, has its
1957, which killed 90 people herself growing attached to themes that Chambers own rules, its own flavour and
and left 173 wounded. We then Gretchen’s husband, Howard, doesn’t so much “tackle” as its own charm. c
THE BEST OF THE WEEK AHEAD SEVEN DAY LISTINGS FOR JULY 12-18
PICK OF “Do you ever feel like we’re
living during a particularly
THE WEEK bad period in history?”
Alexandra (Geraldine
MIRACLE Viswanathan) asks her friend,
Maggie (Lolly Adefope), as
WORKERS — they turn a public execution
DARK AGES
into a drinking game. Daniel
Radcliffe, meanwhile, is well
cast as the cowardly Prince
Monday, Sky Comedy, 9pm Chauncley, desperate to
impress his vicious father,
King Cragnoor the Heartless
(Peter Serafinowicz). The
follow-up to the angel-heavy
first season takes the action
from the spiritual realm into
a distinctly earthly one, as
Alexandra’s dreams come to
a disappointing end and she
finds herself following her
father, Eddie (Steve Buscemi),
into his insalubrious
occupation. More Shrek
than Holy Grail, the show’s
charm stems largely from
Viswanathan and the always
excellent Adefope, here
playing a novice nun taunting
her silent colleagues.
A not-so-horrible history.
Victoria Segal
THE WEEK AHEAD
F1: Styrian Grand Prix
(Today, Sky Sports F1, 1pm;
Highlights, C4, 6.30pm)
Home Is Where The Art Is
(Monday-Friday, BBC1, 3.45pm)
Panorama
(Monday, BBC1, 7.30pm) How
Scotland Cut Violent Crime
Test Cricket
(Thursday, SSME, 10.30am;
Highlights, BBC2, 7pm)
Stephen Lawrence —
Has Britain Changed?
(Thursday, ITV, 8pm)
FILM OF
THE WEEK
Ad Astra
Friday, Sky Cinema
Premiere, 11.10am/8pm
Starring Brad Pitt as an
astronaut on course for an
outer-space reunion with his
long-lost dad (Tommy Lee
Jones), James Gray’s 2019
sci-fi drama may not discover
new worlds in the well-
explored theme of father-son
bonding, but its combination
of sober thinking and grand
celestial imagery makes the
journey worthwhile.
DEMAND PICK
OF THE WEEK
Bilal Zafar’s Acting
School Of Excellence
YouTube
In which the comedian
subjects “underperforming
actors” ( Josie Long, Iain Lee,
etc) to his unique thoughts on
stagecraft. With stylistic nods
towards Zach Galifianakis’s
spoof talk show Between Two
Ferns, it’s a one-on-one chat
show poised between the
deadpan and the excruciating,
and builds nicely to points of
well-earned comic hysteria.
RADIO PICK
OF THE WEEK
Soul Music
Wednesday, Radio 4, 9am
Return of the simple
programme idea that
became truly classic radio,
explorations of how a single
piece of music can resonate
strongly, often and variously
with many different
generations. This new season
opens with Nina Simone’s
song Feeling Good.
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SUNDAY 12 JULY
They may be locked down, but the Kanneh-Mason house is full of music (BBC1, 6pm)
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Imagine (BBC1, 6pm)
It’s four years since Sheku
Kanneh-Mason won Young
Musician of the Year and
was profiled on BBC4, with
his family as supporting
cast. Now all seven siblings
are the stars in a lockdown
concert at their home in
Nottingham, with only
mum, dad and Alan Yentob
(present via a laptop screen)
as audience. Performing in
various combinations, they
and a friend play classical
works by Bartok, Bridge,
Chopin and Rachmaninoff,
plus a Fiddler on the Roof
medley and versions of a folk
song, a spiritual and a Bob
Marley number. It all makes
for a joyous start to the new
Imagine series.
John Dugdale
FILM CHOICE
Chicken Run (ITV, 2.15pm)
The Aardman Animations team
are now working on a sequel
to this poultry-farm spoof of
prisoner-of-war movies and
they will know they have a
high standard to meet. In its
20th-anniversary year, the film
remains much loved for its
fond, cheerful jokes and zippy
action scenes. Co-dirs: Peter
Lord, Nick Park (2000)
30 12 July 2020
P-Valley (Starzplay)
Katori Hall has spoken of
the fact that, growing up in
Memphis, strip clubs were a
location for birthday parties.
“I always felt like it was a
fun space,” she adds, “even
though it was a space of
exploitation.” While this soapy
expansion of her play Pussy
Valley respects the athleticism
of the pole dancers, it soft
pedals the inherent sexism of
their role. (Helen Stewart)
One Day — Sport’s Super
Sunday (BBC2, 8.30pm)
This film interweaves the
cricket World Cup final and
Wimbledon men’s singles
final on July 14, 2019, which
culminated in a super over
and a tiebreak. Surprisingly,
its opening images show both
contests’ winners, although
even tennis fans may have
forgotten whether Djokovic
or Federer won. (JD)
My Life Is Murder
(Drama, 9.20pm)
Lucy Lawless has been reliable
ever since Xena — Warrior
Princess, bringing lightness
and likeability to everything
from Battlestar Galactica
and Spartacus to Parks &
Recreation. Here, she is a
former policewoman brought
out of retirement by the
merest sniff of a case — such
as a woman tipped over a
balcony by a male escort. (HS)
RSC: Othello
(BBC4, 9.30pm)
In Iqbal Khan’s production,
Hugh Quarshie plays the
general unaware his aide-de-
camp, Iago (Lucian Msamati)
is his archenemy. Notable
features include the hero’s
use of torture, a rap contest
during a party and poignant
performances from Joanna
Vanderham as Desdemona and
Ayesha Dharker as Emilia. (JD)
1G
BBC1
6.00 Breakfast The latest reports.
7.55 Match Of The Day Highlights
of the latest matches. (R)
9.00 Andrew Marr Political chat.
10.15 Politics News and debate.
10.45 Sunday Morning Live
11.45 Countryfile Spring Diaries
Reports. (Last in series, R)
12.15 Bargain Hunt Curios. (R)
1.00 News; Weather Reports.
1.15 Songs Of Praise Hymns. (R)
2.05 Wimbledon’s Greatest
Finals A panel of tennis
experts select the best men’s
finals of the Open era.
5.05 Billie Jean King — Born To
Lead The former tennis player
talks to Sue Barker about her
sexuality and life as an activist
and advocate for LGBT
rights and gender equality.
5.35 News; Weather Reports.
6.00 CHOICE Imagine A portrait
of the Kanneh-Mason family,
looking at the music-making
of Stuart and Kadiatu’s seven
gifted children as well as
family life at home in
lockdown. (See Critics’ choice)
7.00 Countryfile Anita Rani and
Matt Baker visit the Blean
woodland in Kent to get an
exclusive look at a unique
wilding project; and a report
from Gloucestershire on
the elusive pine marten.
8.00 Antiques Roadshow Fiona
Bruce presents the show
from Piece Hall in Halifax,
where items featured include
a huge sapphire, which the
owner is convinced is a fake,
a Chinese imperial robe and
the oldest piece of glass to
ever appear on the show. (R)
9.00 The Luminaries The men of
Hokitika begin to piece
together what happened on
the night Crosbie Wells died;
and Emery and Anna reconcile
and, at their first kiss, a
cosmic transference occurs
and they trade souls. (5/6)
10.00 News; Weather Reports.
10.30 Match Of The Day 2 Action
from the day’s Premier
League fixtures, including
Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal.
11.40 Looking For Alaska New
drama series, with Charlie
Plummer. A teenager seeking
a more exciting life enrolls at
a boarding school, where he
makes a life-changing deal.
(1/8) 12.30 Looking For
Alaska An expulsion ignites
an escalating prank war.
1.25-6.00 Joins BBC News
The Festival (C4, 9pm)
Starring Joe Thomas and
Hammed Animashaun as
bumbling students suffering
mishaps at a Glastonbury-like
music event, this 2018 comedy
was directed by Iain Morris,
who helped create The
Inbetweeners, and that previous
gig gives you an idea of what
to expect in this show’s
line-up: salty jokes founded
on good craftsmanship and
a friendly understanding of
young people’s capacity for
foolishness. (Edward Porter)
BBC2
6.20The Edible Garden (R)
6.50The Instant Gardener (R)
7.35Countryfile Rural issues. (R)
8.30Gardeners’ World (R)
9.30 Beechgrove Gardening.
10.00 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites
11.30Rick Stein’s Spain (R)
12.30 The Good Cook Food. (R)
1.00Natural World Sea otters. (R)
1.55
The Choir — Singing For
Britain (Last in series, R)
2.55 Talking Pictures Profile. (R)
3.45 FILM: The Ipcress File Stars
Michael Caine. A spy
investigating the kidnap and
brainwashing of leading
scientists uncovers evidence
of high-powered double-
dealing. Cunning. (1965, PG)
5.30 Saving Lives At Sea The RNLI
volunteers race to the rescue
of two teenagers who have
become trapped in a cave. (R)
6.30 Cuba With Simon Reeve
Examining how economic
liberalisation has affected
Cubans and their society. (R)
7.30 Cricket Action from the fifth
day of the first Test between
England and West Indies, at
Ageas Bowl in Southampton.
8.30 CHOICE One Day — Sport’s
Super Sunday A look back at
the day last year that featured
England v New Zealand in the
ICC Cricket World Cup final,
and Roger Federer v Novak
Djokovic in the Wimbledon
final. (See Critics’ choice)
9.00 Romesh Ranganathan
— Misadventures From My
Sofa In a new series, the
comedian revisits memorable
moments from his travel
series, beginning with a look
back at the editions where
he explored Zimbabwe,
Bosnia and the Sahara. (1/3)
10.00 Extreme Love: Autism. Louis
Theroux visits a school in
America for children and
young adults with autism,
finding out how specialist
intervention can help both
the students and the families
who care for them. (1/2, R)
11.00 FILM: Mum’s List Stars
Rafe Spall, Emilia Fox and
Elaine Cassidy. A young
father is left to pick up
the pieces after his wife
succumbs to breast cancer.
Emotional drama. (2016, 12)
12.40 Ambulance A drunk driver
is treated. (Signed, R)
1.40-2.35 Holby City (Signed, R)
ON DEMAND
Betty (Sky/Now TV)
Based on her 2018 film Skate
Kitchen, which followed a
group of female skateboarders
hanging out in Manhattan,
Crystal Moselle’s six-part
comedy-drama perfectly
captures the everything-or-
nothing tumult of children
becoming adults. The first
episode is almost ambient TV,
with its emphasis on place
ITV
6.00 Children’s Shows Fun.
8.30 Martin & Roman’s Sunday
Best! Music and chat.
9.25 James Martin’s Islands To
Highlands In Dorset. (R)
10.25 John And Lisa’s Weekend
Kitchen Beetroot risotto
with goat’s cheese. (R)
11.30 Beautiful Baking (R)
12.30 News; Weather Update.
12.40 The Voice Kids Contest. (R)
2.15 CHOICE Chicken Run
With the voices of Julia
Sawalha, Mel Gibson,
Miranda Richardson and
Tony Haygarth. A chicken
and her fellow fowls plan to
escape from a farm before
they are turned into pies.
(2000, U; see Film choice)
4.00 Tipping Point Gameshow. (R)
5.00 The Chase Quiz show. (R)
6.00 Coronation Street — Stories
That Gripped The Nation A
look back at the soap’s most
memorable storylines. (R)
6.30 News; Weather Reports.
6.50 Regional News Headlines.
7.00 The Durrells When Larry falls
dangerously ill, Theo and his
neighbour put their basic
medical skills to the task of
saving him. (Series 1, ep 2, R)
8.00 Maigret The detective
interrogates a mysterious
Dane who has been caught
with a dead body in his car in
a rural town — but finds all
the locals seem to be hiding
something. (Series 2, ep 1, R)
10.00 News; Weather Update.
10.20 The Comedy Years A look
back at important comedy
milestones of 1998. (3/4, R)
11.10 Last Laugh In Vegas The
performers wonder if the
show should go on after a
tragedy hits Nevada. (4/5, R)
12.10 Britain’s Brightest Celebrity
Family Quiz show. (R)
12.35 Teleshopping Goods.
3.00 Nightscreen Information.
5.05-6.00 Judge Rinder (R)
King rules supreme (BBC1, 5.05pm)
and mood and a disregard for
any kind of strong narrative.
Yet, gradually, the lives,
loves and worries of these
characters take hold and you
find yourself pulled into their
hazy world. With a semi-
professional, semi-scripted
cast culled from New York
artists, musicians, skaters et
al, the mood is one of freedom
giving way to responsibility.
It’s all beautifully done — but
be warned, anyone who is a
day over thirty will feel utterly
ancient after watching it.
CHANNEL 4
6.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
Family comedy series. (R)
7.15 The Big Bang Theory (R)
8.30 Bake Off — The
Professionals The three best
teams from both heats join
forces to face new rivals. (R)
9.30 Sunday Brunch With guests
including Emily Atack, Russell
Kane, Julian Clary, Becky Hill
and Rufus Wainwright.
12.30 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
1.55 FILM: Stuart Little 2 With the
voices of Michael J Fox and
James Woods. The plucky
talking mouse sets out to
rescue his canary friend from
a falcon. Inventive. (2002, U)
3.25 A Place In The Sun Jasmine
Harman shows five properties
to a couple in the Cadiz area
of southwest Spain. (R)
3.55 Best Of Crufts — Flying Dogs
Action from the flyball
contest at this year’s Crufts.
5.00 Jimmy’s Forest As summer
arrives, Jimmy Doherty aims
to catch a glimpse of badgers
near his tree house. (2/4)
6.00 News; Weather Reports.
6.30 Formula 1 Highlights of the
second round of the season
— the Styrian Grand Prix,
held at the Red Bull Ring
in Spielberg, Austria.
9.00 CHOICE The Festival Stars
Joe Thomas, Hannah Tointon
and Hammed Animashaun.
A graduate gets dumped by
his girlfriend and goes to a
music festival to get over it.
(2018, 15; see Film choice)
10.50 FILM: Now You See Me 2
Stars Jesse Eisenberg, Mark
Ruffalo and Daniel Radcliffe.
A gang of magicians turned
criminals reunite to expose
the illegal activities of a
ruthless businessman.
Bustling caper. (2016, 12)
1.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA An Italian
restaurant in Florida receives
help from the chef. (R)
2.00 Couples Come Dine With Me
Parties in Newcastle. (R)
2.55 Undercover Boss Australia
The CEO of Domino’s Pizza
Enterprises works incognito
alongside his employees. (R)
3.50 Animal Airport A much-loved
rabbit arrives from Iran and
is sent to quarantine. (R)
4.45 Animal Rescue School (R)
5.40 Handmade Treasures (R)
5.50-6.30 Countdown Game. (R)
I May Destroy You
(BBC iPlayer)
Michaela Coel plays an
author trying to piece her
life back together after a
violent sexual assault in this
semi-autobiographical 12-part
drama. What amazes is how
this premise transforms into
a multilevelled, multifaceted
exploration of race, consent,
feminism, gender and the
media while remaining
narratively and visually
inventive, self-reflexive and
darkly funny. (Andrew Male)
CHANNEL 5
6.00 Milkshake! Fun for children.
10.15 Spongebob Animation.
10.25 Ryan’s Mystery Playdate
10.35 Access Showbiz gossip.
10.40 WWE Raw Highlights
11.40 Friends American sitcom. (R)
1.40 FILM: The Time Of Their
Lives Stars Joan Collins. A
former Hollywood star enlists
the help of a new friend in
order to travel from London
to France for her ex-lover’s
funeral. Nostalgic. (2017, 12)
3.45 FILM: Shirley Valentine
Stars Pauline Collins and Tom
Conti. A housewife trapped
in a humdrum existence and
a dull marriage decides to
go on holiday by herself.
Marvellous. (1989, 15)
6.00 Escape To Greece Following
the stories of British people
who have made a fresh start
on the Greek Islands. (R)
6.55 News; Weather Reports.
7.00 Rich Kids, Skint Holiday A
privileged 19-year-old goes
on a caravan trip to the New
Forest with a family, and the
mum challenges him to plan
a day’s activities for £20. (R)
8.00 Filthy Britain SOS An Oxford
litter-picker is shocked when
he discovers a collection of
used needles; and a clean-up
crew sifts through rubbish for
clues to who dumped it.
9.00 Rich House, Poor House
A millionaire property
developer and his adult
children swap their London
penthouse for the council
property of a single mother
living on the breadline. (R)
10.00 Bargain-Loving Brits In
Blackpool A pair await a
mystery celebrity guest at
their B&B, where they offer
luxury on a budget. (R)
10.50 Me & My 10 Kids — Mega
Families Documentary
following the hectic lives of
two British families wrestling
with the struggles and joys of
raising 10 kids apiece. (R)
11.50 On Benefits — Britain’s Most
Married Man Insights. (R)
12.50 Wonderful World Of
Chocolate Documentary. (R)
1.15 The 21.co.uk Live Casino
Show Interactive gambling.
3.15 This Week On The Farm (R)
4.00 House Doctor Advice. (R)
4.50 Wildlife SOS Animals. (R)
5.15-6.00 Building Britain’s
Canals The Grand Union. (R)
SKY 1
6.00 Hour Of Power Faith. (R)
7.00 Formula 1 Highlights.
8.45 PL Greatest Games
9.00 Monkey Business (R)
10.00 Modern Family Sitcom. (R)
11.30 Super Sunday Live coverage
of the Premier League fixture
between Wolverhampton
Wanderers and Everton, at
Molineux. Kickoff at 12.00.
2.00 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
6.30 Super Sunday Action from
the Premier League game
between Bournemouth and
Leicester City, live at the
Vitality Stadium. Kickoff 7.00.
9.30 F1 GP Highlights Action
from the second round of
the season — the Styrian
Grand Prix, held in Spielberg.
10.30 Greg Davies — Firing
Cheeseballs At A Dog
The sell-out debut solo show
by the comedian, in which he
sets out to chronicle the
significant issues
surrounding modern life.
11.45 A League Of Their Own
— European Road Trip
Jamie Redknapp and Andrew
Flintoff race on Paris’s
Formula E circuit. (R)
12.45 The Blacklist Secluded on a
private island, Red reunites
with an old flame as he plots
to make millions from a haul
of stolen art. (S7, ep 12, R)
1.50 The Force — North East
A helicopter is used to try
and find a woman heard
screaming in a park. (R)
2.55 Brit Cops — Rapid Response
Officers in Wiltshire track
down drug-dealers. (R)
4.00-6.00 Road Wars Crime. (R)
VARIATIONS
BBC1 WALES 11.45 Bargain Hunt
12.30 Tudur’s TV Flashback BBC2
WALES 1.55 Talking Pictures 2.45
FILM: The Ipcress File 4.30 Saving
Lives At Sea 5.00 Back In Time For
The Factory 6.00 Iolo’s Street Life
6.30 Llangollen 2019 S4C 6.00
Cyw: Shwshaswyn 6.05 Sbridiri 6.25
Y Teulu Mawr 6.35 Jamborî 6.45 Jen
A Jim Pob Dim 7.00 Cymylaubychain
7.10 Rapsgaliwn 7.25 Blero Yn Mynd
I Ocido 7.40 Gwdihw 7.55 Y Brodyr
Coala 8.05 Do Re Mi Dona 8.20
Sion Y Chef 8.35 Ynys Adra 8.50
Penblwyddi Cyw 8.55 Pen-Blwydd
Pwy? 9.00 Cefn Gwlad 10.00
Blwyddyn Y Bugail — Ioan Doyle
10.30 Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol
YOU SAY
Alan Bennett’s monologues Talking Heads (BBC1)
are absolute gems. Such acting, such emotions,
presented to us with words spoken in a way that
we listen to each one of them.
Kerstin Colliander-Metzler
In a word: brilliant.
Malcolm E Flanagan CBE
Talking Heads so good; The Archers (Radio 4)
so bad. Enough said.
David Milner
Send your comments to: telly@sunday-times.co.uk
ATLANTIC
6.00 Elementary Drama series.
8.00 CSI Crime drama series.
2.00 CSI The truth emerges about
Officer Bell, and Sophia
fears she is responsible.
(Series 6, ep 8) 3.00 CSI A
man dies from overeating.
4.00 Blue Bloods The Reagans
unite to confront the Blue
Templar. (Series 1, ep 22)
5.00 Blue Bloods Frank is
asked to downplay the
significance of a murder. (S2,
ep 1) 6.00 Blue Bloods Danny
shoots an undercover cop
who failed to identify himself.
7.00 Blue Bloods A bank robbery
turns into a hostage situation;
and Jamie gets a new
partner. 8.00 Blue Bloods
Erin reopens an 18-year-old
rape case that was originally
investigated by Frank.
9.00 The Sopranos Carmela and
Meadow hold a vigil at Tony’s
bedside. (Series 6, ep 2)
10.10 The Sopranos Tony’s
bizarre dream continues; and
Paulie and Cary DiBartolo find
a vast amount of cash.
11.20 Dexter The bloodthirsty
crime-fighter puts his fatherly
duties on hold when he
makes a startling discovery
that leads him to a new
victim. (Series 5, ep 2)
12.25 Californication (S7, ep 10)
12.55 Perry Mason Maynard Barnes
goes public with a shocking
new development. (3/8)
2.00 Perry Mason Strickland
and Mason and lean on Virgil
for legal assistance.
3.10 Hotel Secrets Hospitality.
4.00-6.00 The Guest Wing
11.00 Oedfa Dechrau Canu Dechrau
Canmol 11.30 Dal Ati 12.30 Y Sioe
Fwyd 1.00 Heno Aur 1.30 Sgwrs Dan
Y Lloer 2.00 04 Wal 3.00 Celwydd
Noeth 4.00 Ty Am Ddim 5.00
Waliau’n Siarad 5.55 Ffermio 6.20
Pobol Y Cwm 7.15 Newyddion A’r
Tywydd 7.30 Goreuon Eisteddfod
Llangollen. Highlights from choirs
and folk dancing groups that have
triumphed in Llangollen 9.00 Clwb
Rygbi — Super Rugby Aotearoa.
Action from the fifth set of fixtures
10.00 Lowri Morgan — Her 333.
Lowri starts her journey at the foot of
Snowdon in Llanberis 10.30-11.35
Y Fets. A cow needs help giving birth;
and a terrier has dental treatment
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BBC4
7.00pm All Aboard! The Canal
Trip A journey down one of
the most historic waterways in
Britain, the Kennet and Avon
Canal, filmed in real time.
9.00 The Sky At Night Chris Lintott
investigates the dimming of
Betelgeuse; and Maggie
Aderin-Pocock reports on the
discovery of the biggest
supernova ever observed.
9.30 CHOICE RSC: Othello. Iqbal
Khan’s 2015 production, with
Hugh Quarshie as in the title
role and Lucian Msamati as
Iago. (See Critics’ choice)
12.30 Shakespeare In Italy The
historian Francesco da Mosto
explores how the country
influenced the Bard, visiting
locations that inspired him,
beginning with Padua, Verona,
Sicily and Venice. (1/2)
1.30-3.30 Classic EastEnders
Keep your friends close ... Quarshie and Msamati (BBC4, 9.30pm)
FILMS
SKY CINEMA PREMIERE
12.00 It Chapter Two Now grown up,
the Losers Club must battle the evil
Pennywise once more. (2019, 15)
3.00 Bad Education A New York
school superintendent is linked to an
embezzlement scandal. (2019, 15)
5.00 Frozen 2 Elsa the Snow Queen
travels to the enchanted forests
beyond her kingdom. (2019, U)
6.50 The Last Black Man In San
Francisco A young man searches for
home in the changing city. (2019, 15)
9.00 It Chapter Two Details as 12.00.
11.50 The Goldfinch A boy in New York
is taken in by a rich family after his
mother is killed in a bombing. (2019, 15)
2.20 The Heist Of The Century Thieves
carry out one of the most famous bank
heists in Argentina’s history. (2020, 15)
4.20-6.00 Okko’s Inn (2018, PG)
SKY CINEMA THRILLER
2.55pm The Intruder A couple learn
the man they bought their house from
will not let go of the property. (2019, 15)
4.50 Killerman A money launderer
wakes up with no memory but millions
in stolen cash and drugs. (2019, 15)
6.50 The Bodyguard A famous singer
subjected to death threats hires a
former Secret Service agent. (1992, 15)
9.00 Manhunter A former FBI agent
comes out of retirement to assist in
the hunt for a serial killer. (1986, 18)
11.05 Disturbing The Peace A
small-town marshal must take on a
gang of outlaw bikers. (2020, 15)
12.50-2.35 Marked For Death Stars
Steven Seagal. Action thriller. (1990, 18)
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DRAMA
10.00 Catherine Cookson’s A
Dinner Of Herbs Drama,
with Billie Whitelaw.
4.00 A Place To Call Home
6.00 Keeping Up Appearances
8.00 Death In Paradise A hen
party on the island ends in
tragedy when the bride-to-be
is found dead in her bath the
following morning. (S4, ep 4)
9.20 CHOICE My Life Is Murder
Crime drama, with Lucy
Lawless. Private investigator
Alexa Crowe is asked to
examine the death of a
woman who fell from the
balcony of a male escort.
(1/10; see Critics’ choice)
10.20 Taggart A boxer’s murder
leads the team into a world of
cage fighting, illegal betting
and lap dancing. (S27, ep 8)
11.20 Dalziel & Pascoe (S11, ep 3)
1.20-4.00 A Place To Call Home
SKY CINEMA GREATS
6.30am Twins Comedy. (1988, PG)
8.25 Ocean’s Thirteen Thieves need
the help of an enemy in order to get
even with a casino boss. (2007, PG)
10.30 Lawrence Of Arabia A British
Army officer tries to unite the Arab
nations against the Turks. (1962, PG)
2.10 Shaun Of The Dead A man tries
to sort his life out just as zombies
terrorise London. (2004, 15)
4.00 Hot Fuzz A series of so-called
accidents in a sleepy village arouse the
suspicions of a policeman. (2007, 15)
6.00 The World’s End Five childhood
friends reunite, only to stumble on a
threat to the human race. (2013, 15)
8.00 Ocean’s Thirteen As 8.25am.
10.05 Argo The CIA uses a movie shoot
as cover to smuggle Americans out of
Iran during the revolution. (2012, 15)
12.10 Dangerous Minds Stars Michelle
Pfeiffer. Fact-based drama. (1995, 15)
2.00 The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Stars Rebecca De Mornay. (1992, 15)
4.00-6.00 Remember The Titans
Fact-based sports drama. (2000, PG)
Keep off the grass (TPTV, 6pm)
ITV2
7.00 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
7.40 Ellen DeGeneres Chat.
9.10 Dress To Impress Dating.
11.15 The Masked Singer US
12.20 Take Me Out A celebrity
edition of the dating show.
1.20 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
2.20 FILM: The Perfect Man Stars
Hilary Duff and Heather
Locklear. Bad romcom.
(2005, PG; includes FYI Daily)
4.25 FILM: Annie Stars
Quvenzhane Wallis and Jamie
Foxx. An orphan goes to live
with a wealthy businessman.
Sloppy musical remake.
(2014, PG; includes FYI Daily)
6.50 FILM: Back To The Future
Part II Stars Michael J Fox.
Marty McFly travels forward
in time in an effort to save
his children from a terrible
fate. Inventive comedy.
(1989, PG; includes FYI Daily)
9.00 Love Island — Australia
Feuds ignite as one islander
runs away from the villa; and
a controversial challenge
spells the end of one couple’s
romantic connection.
10.20 Celebrity Juice Comedy
quiz, hosted by Keith Lemon.
11.05 Family Guy Brian, Peter and
Lois go on holiday to
Martha’s Vineyard. (S6, ep 10)
11.35 Family Guy The Griffins
flee to Texas and move in
with Lois’s sister. (S5, ep 15)
12.05 American Dad! Animation.
1.05 The Cleveland Show
2.05 Don’t Hate The Playaz
2.50 Totally Bonkers Guinness
World Records Feats.
3.15 Nightscreen Information.
3.30-7.00 Teleshopping
SKY CINEMA BLOCKBUSTERS
3.30pm Star Wars — The Empire
Strikes Back Sci-fi sequel. (1980, U)
5.40 Star Wars — Return Of The Jedi
Sci-fi adventure sequel. (1983, U)
8.00 Star Wars — The Rise Of
Skywalker Fantasy adventure. (2019, 12)
10.30 Terminator 2 — Judgment Day
A cyborg is sent to protect the future
saviour of the human race. (1991, 15)
12.50 Terminator 3 — Rise Of The
Machines Sci-fi sequel. (2003, 12)
2.45-6.00 King Kong (2005, 12)
FILM 4
11.00am Moomins On The Riviera With
the voice of Russell Tovey. (2014, U)
12.35 The Spongebob Movie (2004, U)
2.20 The Emperor’s New Clothes
Romantic comedy drama. (2001, PG)
4.25 Nutty Professor II — The Klumps
Stars Eddie Murphy. (2000, 12)
6.20 Ghostbusters Experts investigate
a series of supernatural disturbances
in New York City. (2016, 12)
9.00 Kingsman — The Secret Service
A teenager is given the chance to work
with a spy organisation. (2015, 15)
11.40 Let’s Be Cops Comedy. (2014, 15)
1.45-3.40 Rams Drama. (2015, 15)
TALKING PICTURES TV
3.25pm Follow A Star (1959, U)
5.30 The Adventures Of Robin Hood
6.00 The Grass Is Greener Stars
Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Cary
Grant and Deborah Kerr. (1960, PG)
8.10 The Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes
9.00 Sunday Night At The London
Palladium An edition from 1965.
10.00 No Room At The Inn (1948, PG)
11.40-1.40 Tiger In The Smoke
Stars Donald Sinden. (1956, 12)
1G
ITV3
6.00 That’s My Boy Sitcom.
7.00 Coronation Street Soap.
8.25 Emmerdale Rural soap.
9.55 A Touch Of Frost (S5, ep 4)
12.05 Marple (Series 2, ep 2)
2.10 FILM: The Great St Trinian’s
Train Robbery Stars Frankie
Howerd. Crooks stash their
loot in a deserted mansion.
Boisterous. (1966, PG)
4.00 Poirot A schoolgirl becomes
embroiled in a mystery when
jewels are hidden among her
belongings. (Series 11, ep 2)
6.00 Midsomer Murders With
Neil Dudgeon. Barnaby and
Nelson discover dark secrets
in the world of stunt pilots
and military heroes after an
airfield owner is hit on the
head and then dropped
to his death from a plane.
8.00 Long Lost Family Featuring a
50-year-old woman who has
spent years longing to find her
birth mother; and a 74-year-
old in West Sussex is haunted
by a missed opportunity.
9.00 Charles — 50 Years A Prince
A look at Prince Charles’s
relationship with Wales, a
country that has shaped his
life and work since his
investiture 50 years ago.
10.00 Lewis A college dean is
found bludgeoned to death
and the detectives discover
evidence suggesting there
may be three more murders
to follow. (Series 9, ep 2)
12.00 The Loch A body is pulled
from the loch. (Last in series)
1.00 A Touch Of Frost (S6, ep 1)
3.05 Poirot (Series 2, ep 2)
4.05 Emmerdale Rural soap.
5.20 That’s My Boy Sitcom.
5.50-6.00 Nightscreen
ENTERTAINMENT
GOLD
7.30am Dinnerladies Diaries 8.20 Only
Fools And Horses 8.20 Dad’s Army —
The Lost Episodes 9.00 Still Open All
Hours 10.20 Mrs Brown’s Boys 11.00
I’m Alan Partridge. Three episodes
12.55 Still Open All Hours 2.15 I’m Alan
Partridge 2.45-4.00 Green Wing
SKY COMEDY
6.00pm Parks And Recreation 9.00
FILM: Couples Retreat. Stars Vince
Vaughn 11.15 Silicon Valley 12.25 Veep
1.35 The Mindy Project 2.30 Amy
Schumer — Live At The Apollo
3.50-5.00 Everybody Hates Chris
SKY WITNESS
6.00pm Nothing To Declare 7.00
Ghost Whisperer 9.00 FBI. OA goes
undercover when a bomb detonates at
a restaurant he frequented as a child
10.00 Coroner. Jenny’s Thanksgiving
dinner sees her work and personal lives
collide 11.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit 1.00 Ghost Whisperer
3.00-6.00 Nothing To Declare
W 6.00pm Friends 7.00 FILM: Leap Year.
5.40pm Outnumbered 7.00 999
Rescue Squad 9.00 Inside The
Ambulance 11.00 Stacey Dooley
Investigates. The sexualisation of
children in Japan 12.00 One Born —
What Happened Next? 1.00 The World
According To Kids 1.50-3.00 Top Chef
5 STAR
6.00pm Nightmare Tenants, Slum
Landlords 9.00 FILM: Hercules. Stars
Dwayne Johnson and Ian McShane
ITV4
11.45am River Monsters Creatures.
12.15 The Sweeney Police drama.
1.25 FILM: Police Academy 3 —
Back In Training Stars Steve
Guttenberg. Poor sequel.
(1986, PG; includes FYI Daily)
3.10 FILM: The Great Outdoors
Stars John Candy. Comedy.
(1988, PG; includes FYI Daily)
4.55 FILM: Brewster’s Millions
Stars Richard Pryor. Average.
(1985, PG; includes FYI Daily)
7.00 Tour De France ReCycled —
Geraint’s Tour Action from
stage 15 of the 2018 race.
8.00 FILM: Twins Stars Arnold
Schwarzenegger. Comical.
(1988, PG; includes FYI Daily)
10.05 FILM: National Lampoon’s
Vacation Stars Chevy Chase.
(1983, 15; includes FYI Daily)
12.10 Minder Comedy drama.
1.10 Take The Tower Gameshow.
2.15 Only When I Laugh (S1, ep 7)
2.50 Nightscreen Information.
3.00-6.00 Teleshopping
A Lawless life (Drama, 9.20pm)
11.00 FILM: Blitz. Stars Jason Statham
and Aidan Gillen 12.55 Car Crime UK
— Caught On Camera 1.55 Can’t Pay?
We’ll Take It Away 3.50-4.00 Access
5 USA
5.55pm Columbo 9.00 Law & Order:
Criminal Intent. Three deaths are linked
to a pre-school with a long waiting list
10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims
Unit 1.45 Remington Steele 3.35-4.00
Criminals — Caught On Camera
QUEST
6.00pm Plane Reclaimers 7.00
Salvage Hunters 8.00 Salvage Hunters
— The Restorers 9.00 The Repair Shop
10.00 Aussie Gold Hunters 11.00
Nasa’s Unexplained Files 12.00
Mummies Unwrapped 1.00 What On
Earth? 2.00 American Chopper 3.00
Ultimate Airport Dubai 4.00 Dirty
Jobs 5.00-6.00 How It’s Made
FOX
6.00pm Bones 7.00 NCIS: New
Orleans 9.00 Emergence 10.00
American Dad! 10.30 Family Guy
2.30 American Dad! 4.00-5.00 Bull
COMEDY CENTRAL
Stars Amy Adams 9.00 FILM: Bruce
Almighty. Stars Jim Carrey 11.00 Al
Murray’s Great British Pub Quiz 12.00
Jason Manford Live — First World
Problems 1.00 Russell Howard’s Good
News 2.00 South Park 4.15-5.00 Friends
YESTERDAY
6.00am Walking Through History 8.00
World War Weird 11.00 WW2 — Battles
For Europe 1.00 The Architecture The
Railways Built 7.00 Train Truckers
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6.00 Hollyoaks Chester soap.
7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA Advice.
9.00 Don’t Tell The Bride Nuptials.
11.00 FILM: Step Up All In Stars
Briana Evigan, Ryan Guzman
and Adam G Sevani. Stale
dance drama. (2014, PG)
1.10 The Goldbergs (S4, ep 10)
3.10 The Big Bang Theory
6.10 The Big Bang Theory Howard
and Bernadette do not want
to know the gender of their
baby. (Series 10, ep 4)
6.40 FILM: The Hunger Games
— Mockingjay Part 1 Stars
Jennifer Lawrence and Philip
Seymour Hoffman. Katniss
Everdeen becomes the
figurehead of a revolution
against the despotic Panem
regime. Intelligent. (2014, 12)
9.00 Batwoman Alice’s limits are
tested; and Batwoman
encounters a new challenge
from an old villain. (16/20)
10.00 Naked Attraction Singletons
from Bristol and Basingstoke
choose dates from a selection
of six naked people. 11.00
Naked Attraction A man who
is HIV positive, and a musician
from Burnley take part.
12.00 Supernatural Jack does his
best to impress a new group
of friends. (Series 14, ep 16)
1.00 The Big Bang Theory
Sheldon’s mother comes to
visit. (Series 5, ep 6) 1.30 The
Big Bang Theory The gang
celebrates Halloween by
playing pranks on Sheldon.
2.00 Gogglebox Opinions on TV.
3.00 Batwoman Drama. (16/20)
3.50 Don’t Tell The Bride Nuptials.
4.45-6.00 Hollyoaks Soap.
8.00 ’Allo ’Allo! 10.00 Extreme Railway
Journeys. With Chris Tarrant 11.00-1.00
The Architecture The Railways Built
DAVE
6.00pm Scrapyard Supercar 7.00
Top Gear. A high-altitude mountain
expedition across Peru 8.00 Ross
Noble — Off Road. It is the last three
days of the Scottish Six Days Trial 9.00
Have I Got A Bit More News For You.
Steph McGovern hosts, with Ash Sarkar
and Josh Widdicombe 10.00 QI XL.
Extended edition of Sandi Toksvig’s
debut as host 11.00 Live At The Apollo
12.00 Mock The Week 12.40 Have I Got
A Bit More News For You 1.35 Modern
Life Is Goodish 3.30-4.00 Red Dwarf
PICK
5.35pm David Attenborough’s Wild
City 6.30 LIVE Super Sunday:
Bournemouth v Leicester City. Action
from the Premier League match at the
Vitality Stadium. Kickoff is at 7.00 9.30
Extreme World 10.30 World’s Most Evil
Killers 11.30 Murders That Shocked The
Nation 12.20 Killer In My Village 1.10
The Force — North East 2.00 Banged
Up Abroad 4.00-6.00 Motorway Patrol
FACTUAL
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
6.00pm Seconds From Disaster 8.00
No Man Left Behind. The former SAS
commando Chris Ryan tells of his
experiences 9.00 No Man Left Behind.
The race is on to find the stealth pilot
Dale Zelko 10.00 No Man Left Behind.
A commando squad is lured into a trap
in Afghanistan 11.00-2.00 Rescued
MORE 4
8.55 Car SOS Three editions.
11.55 Come Dine With Me Contest.
2.35 Four In A Bed B&B contest.
5.20 Come Dine With Me A charity
manager hosts the first party
in Hastings. 5.50 Come Dine
With Me A Moroccan-themed
evening. 6.25 Come Dine
With Me A German-themed
dinner party. 6.55 Come
Dine With Me A hairdresser
organises a ‘gourmet pub
night’. 7.25 Come Dine With
Me A Greek-inspired evening
in Hastings, East Sussex.
8.00 Grand Designs An architect
designs an unusual home
where everything is white
and open plan while using
materials and systems more
commonly used in offices.
9.00 999 — On The Front Line
Examining the effects of
substance abuse on the NHS,
as paramedics in Coventry
treat a suspected drink-driver
who has crashed his car.
10.00 24 Hours In A&E A 40-year-
old is rushed to St George’s
with life-threatening injuries,
having been knocked over
while crossing a road; and a
footballer arrives after being
elbowed during a match.
11.05 999 — What’s Your
Emergency? This edition
focuses on the lack of
respect officers face on the
street, with a confrontation
between teenagers having
worrying implications.
12.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA A failing
restaurant in Connecticut
1.05 999 — On The Front Line
2.10 24 Hours In A&E Incidents.
3.15-3.55 Father Ted Comedy.
4.00-8.55 Teleshopping
DISCOVERY
6.00pm Legends Of The Wild.
Investigating a creature mutilating
livestock in Ecuador 7.00 How Do
Animals Do That 8.00 Urban Predator
— Lion On The Loose. Investigating
reports that an African lion is stalking
Milwaukee 9.00 Serial Killer Tiger At
Large. Hunters head out to find a
man-eating tigress 10.00 In Search Of
Monsters. Examining DNA evidence
suggesting the Yeti resides in America
and comes from an otherworldly source
11.00 The Alaska Triangle. Exploring an
area known for unusual activity 12.00
Mysteries Of The Deep 1.00-2.00
Urban Predator — Lion On The Loose
PBS AMERICA
5.55pm Regimental Stories 7.15 Battle
Of Britain — The Real Story. James
Holland explores the battle from the
German point of view 8.35 Code-
Breakers — Bletchley Park’s Lost
Heroes. A wartime project to unravel
the secrets of Hitler’s personal code
machine 9.40 Dam Busters — The Race
To Smash The German Dams. James
Holland presents an analysis of the
1943 raids by the RAF 11.00-12.15 Plane
Resurrection. A Douglas A-1 Skyraider
SKY ARTS
5.00pm BB King — Live In Concert At
The Royal Albert Hall. A performance
by the blues musician from 2011 6.45
Queen — Live In Milton Keynes.
Highlights from the concert in 1982
7.45 Oasis — Live By The Sea. A 1995
concert by the band 9.00 Florence &
The Machine/Andra Day — Austin City
Limits. Performances by Florence Welch
and the American singer-songwriter
SPORT
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT
7.00am Total Goals 8.00 LIVE ANZ
Premiership Netball: Tactix v Mystics.
Centre-pass at 8.00 9.30 Total Goals
10.00 The Sunday Supplement 11.30
LIVE Super Sunday: Wolverhampton
Wanderers v Everton. The Premier
League fixture at Molineux. Kickoff at
12.00 2.00 LIVE Super Sunday: Aston
Villa v Crystal Palace. Premier League
action at Villa Park. Kickoff at 2.00
4.15 LIVE Renault Super Sunday:
Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal. The
Premier League match at Tottenham
Hotspur Stadium. Kickoff at 4.30 6.30
LIVE Super Sunday: Bournemouth v
Leicester City. Premier League action at
the Vitality Stadium. Kickoff is at 7.00
10.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf. Coverage
of the Workday Charity Open 11.00
Formula 1 12.00-6.00 News
EUROSPORT 1
7.00am Ultimate Tennis Showdown
8.00 Tour De France: Froome 2015
11.00 Speedway. The European
championship 12.00 Football 1.00
Cycling. The Road World championships
2.00 Tour De France: Froome 2015
5.00 Football 6.00 Cycling. The Virtual
Tour De France 8.00 Tour De France:
Froome 2015 11.00 Cycling. The Road
World championships 12.00 World
Poker Tour — Alpha 8 1.00 Hall Of
Fame: Olympics 2.00 Tour De France:
Froome 2015 5.00-7.00 Snooker
World Championship Final 2010
BT SPORT 1
7.30am ESPN FC 8.00 Premier League
9.30 Premier League 11.00 Bundesliga
Special 11.30 Premier League 100
12.00 Uefa Champions League —
Classics 1.00 Uefa Champions League
Goals Show Retro 2.00 Cricket 5.30
Turkish Super Lig 7.00 LIVE Turkish
Super Lig: Denizlispor v Trabzonspor.
At Denizli Ataturk Stadium. Kickoff 7.00
9.00 WWE 24 10.00 WWE SmackDown
Highlights 11.00 WWE NXT 12.45 WWE
Monday Night Raw 3.15 Meet The
Managers 4.15 Goals Reload 4.30
Goals Reload 5.00-6.00 Fishing
10.15 Pulp Live. The band perform at
Brixton Academy 11.15-1.00 Distant Sky
— Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live In
Copenhagen. The band’s 2017 concert
SKY DOCUMENTARIES
6.00am The Directors 9.00 Discovering
Elizabeth Taylor 10.00 Discovering
Marlon Brando 11.00 Discovering
Audrey Hepburn 12.00 Discovering
Gene Kelly 1.00 Discovering Rita
Hayworth 1.55 Hollywood Couples 2.55
War Dog — A Soldier’s Best Friend 4.25
The Cold Blue 5.30 Dan Carter — A
Perfect 10 7.15 The Biggest Little Farm.
A modern-day sustainable farm on the
edge of Los Angeles 9.00 Dennis
Hopper — Uneasy Rider 10.20-12.05
Natalie Wood — What Remains Behind
SKY NATURE
6.00am Ol Pejeta Diaries 7.00 Secrets
Of Wild Australia 9.00 Ol Pejeta Diaries
10.00 Great Blue Wild 2.00 Surviving
The Amazon 6.00 Bear — Koala Hero
7.00 David Attenborough’s Conquest
Of The Skies 8.00 Wild Tales From The
Farm. Summer days mean the animals
roam in the open meadows; and the
sheep stage a breakout 9.00 Dogs — An
Amazing Animal Family. Patrick Aryee
heads to the Americas 10.00 Mysteries
Of The Mekong 11.00-12.00 David
Attenborough’s Conquest Of The Skies
SMITHSONIAN
6.00am Mystic Britain 7.00 America’s
Hidden Stories 8.00 Aerial America
12.00 Stories From The Vaults 1.00
America In Colour 7.00 Mystic Britain.
Three editions 10.00 Combat Ships.
The evolution of amphibious assault
crafts 11.00-12.00 Mystic Britain
RADIO
PICK OF THE DAY
Sunday Feature
Radio 3, 6.45pm
John Cage, pictured, is
“music’s high priest of
silence” says the composer
Robert Worby, a paradox
he weighs up in John Cage,
Zen and Japan. Worby
traces how Zen Buddhism
transformed Cage’s work
and how Cage explained it
to him. He had found Cage’s
number in the phonebook
and rang him, asking why
silence was so important?
Come over and I’ll tell you,
said Cage. And he did.
Gillian Reynolds
RADIO 4
10.00 The Archers (R) 10.45-7.00 (LW)
Test Cricket: England v West Indies. Day
five of the first Test, at the Ageas Bowl
in Southampton 10.55 Tweet Of The
Day — Tweet Take 5 (R) 11.00 Desert
Island Discs. With Jens Stoltenberg,
secretary general of Nato 11.45 Join
The Dots (R) 12.00 News 12.04 The
Unbelievable Truth (R) 12.30 The Food
Programme 1.00 The World This
Weekend 1.30 The Listening Project (R)
2.00 Gardeners’ Question Time (R)
2.45 The Way I See It (R) 3.00 Drama:
The Periodic Table, by Primo Levy.
Arsenic And Silver, dramatised by
Graham White (R) 4.00 Open Book
4.30 The New Japanese Poetry. How
Japanese poets are pushing creative
boundaries 5.00 File On 4 (R) 5.40
Profile (R) 5.54 Shipping 6.00 News
6.15 Pick Of The Week 7.00 Q&A, by
Vikas Swarup 7.15 Cabin Pressure (R)
7.45 Spice. The Last Believers, by Alex
Preston 8.00 Feedback (R) 8.30 Last
Word (R) 9.00 Money Box (R) 9.25
Appeal (R) 9.30 Analysis (R) 10.00 The
Westminster Hour 11.00 The Film
Programme (R) 11.30 Something
Understood (R) 12.00 News 12.15
Thinking Allowed (R) 12.45 Bells (R)
12.48 Shipping 1.00 World Service
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6.00 Jenny Kleeman And Luke Jones
With Times Radio Breakfast 10.00
G & T With Gloria De Piero And
Tom Newton Dunn. Including Mick
Hucknall on his politics at 10.30 1.00
Alexis Conran. Sunday Supplement
at 3.00 4.00 Ayesha Hazarika 7.00
Split Opinion With Amber Rudd And
Flora Gill 8.00 Stories Of Our Times
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Times Radio 10.00 Kait Borsay 1.00
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RADIO 4 EXTRA
10.00 Desert Island Discs Revisited
10.45 Multi Story Shorts 11.00 The
Moth Radio Hour 12.00 Poetry Extra
12.30 All Those Women 1.00 I Played
The Prime Minister 4.00 The Weekend
5.00 Poetry Extra 5.30 All Those
Women 6.00 Ghosts Of Albion —
Legacy 7.00 The Moth Radio Hour
8.00 The Weekend 9.00 Desert Island
Discs Revisited 9.45 Multi Story Shorts
10.00 All Those Women 10.30 Twenty
Players 10.45 Self Storage 11.00
Seekers 11.30-12.00 Mark Thomas
— My Life In Serious Organised Crime
LBC
10.00 Iain Dale 12.00 Maajid Nawaz
3.00 Ian Payne 6.00 Clive Bull. Debate
10.00 Tom Swarbrick. Discussion
1.00 Darren Adam 4.00 Steve Allen
RADIO 3
9.00 Sunday Morning 12.00 Private
Passions (R) 1.00 Lunchtime Concert.
The trumpeter Simon Höfele performs
six pieces of 20th-century repertoire,
accompanied by the pianist Frank
Dupree (R) 2.00 The Early Music Show.
Recordings from the York Early Music
International Young Artists competition
3.00 Choral Evensong (R) 4.00 Jazz
Record Requests 5.00 The Listening
Service. An odyssey through the
musical universe 5.30 Words And
Music. Poetry and prose on the theme
of looking back at childhood 6.45
Sunday Feature. Robert Worby
investigates the inspiration behind
John Cage’s silent composition, 4’33’,
exploring how Zen Buddhism helped
him unlock a whole new world of
hearing sound 7.30 Drama On 3:
Byzantium, by Robin Brooks. The story
of the 11th-century Byzantine Empress
Zoe, who despite her political
inexperience, ruled through decades
of vicious power struggles (R) 9.35
Record Review Extra. Hannah French
offers listeners a chance to hear the
recommended version of the Building
a Library work, Vivaldi’s collection of
concertos for violin, L’Estro Armonico
11.00 Mindful Mix (R) 12.00 Classical
Fix 12.30 Through The Night
CLASSIC FM
10.00 Bill Turnbull 1.00 Catherine Bott
3.00 John Humphrys 5.00 David Mellor
7.00 Charlotte Hawkins 9.00 Sir Trevor
McDonald’s Headliners. New series
10.00 Myleene Klass 1.00 Sam Pittis
RADIO 2
9.00 Steve Wright 11.00 Lunchtime
1.00 Elaine Paige 3.00 Sounds Of The
70s 5.00 Paul O’Grady Again (R) 7.00
Sunday Night Is Music Night (R) 9.00
People’s Songs (R) 10.00 Swing & Big
Band 11.00 Don Black 12.00 Gethin
Jones 3.00 Sounds Of The 60s (R)
VIRGIN RADIO
10.00 The Best Of The Chris Evans
Breakfast Show 1.00 Christian Williams
4.00 Bam 7.00 Steve Denyer
10.00 Amy Voce 1.00 Through
The Night 4.00 Ben Jones
TALKSPORT
9.00 Jonny Owen And Friends 11.00
Sunday Exclusive With Mark Saggers
3.00 The Sunday Session 6.00 Simon
Jordan’s Final Word With Danny Kelly
9.00 The Full Time Phone-in 10.00
Trans Euro Express 12.00 Extra Time
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MONDAY 13 JULY
Gone, but not forgotten: Issam Al Rawi can’t let Saddam go (BBC2, 9pm)
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Once Upon A Time In Iraq
(BBC2, 9pm)
“I’m happy because
somebody is listening to me,”
says one of the interviewees
in James Bluemel’s series
about the invasion of Iraq
and its legacy. It’s a comment
that emphasises where the
film’s power lies: civilians,
journalists and soldiers who
experienced the war and its
aftermath telling their stories,
bolstered by archive footage.
Participants include the
frontman of Iraq’s first heavy-
metal band; the country’s
most popular comedian; and
a US “recon marine”. There is
also commentary from one of
Saddam Hussein’s advisors:
“I miss him every moment
of every day”.
Victoria Segal
FILM CHOICE
Joan Of Arc (BBC2, 2.55pm)
Ingrid Bergman, always one for
noble anguish, plays the Maid
of Orléans in Victor Fleming’s
movie, which has pretensions
to intellectual grandeur
(thanks to its roots in Maxwell
Anderson’s play Joan of
Lorraine) but is best enjoyed
as a Hollywood pageant: it
won Oscars for its costumes
and cinematography. (1948)
34 12 July 2020
Top Chef (W, 7pm)
Masterchef ’s boast that
“cooking doesn’t get tougher
than this” wilts like spinach
next to this American contest
in which professional chefs
fight for glory. The judging
is all salt and acid and the
emotional heat is high, as
competitors are challenged to
reinvent shrimp and grits, get
creative with a chicken and,
in the sudden-death cook-off,
ace the “oyster roast”. (VS)
Exhibition On Screen
(Sky Arts, 7pm)
As a director, David Bickerstaff
has an embarrassment of
riches at his disposal when it
comes to Vincent Van Gogh.
Not only does the artist’s
work itself render in HD, but
Bickerstaff employs curators,
the artist Lachlan Goudie and
a plethora of correspondence
to bestow insight into what
drove Van Gogh the man. (HS)
Paramedics — Britain’s
Lifesavers (C4, 9pm)
Filmed in April, this sombre
documentary follows the
West Midlands Ambulance
Service as it struggled to keep
up with surging calls and
shifting government guidance,
focusing on volunteering
paramedic students and
trainee call assessors. “It’s a
lot of weight on the shoulders,
but a weight I’m happy to
carry,” says one. (VS
Shoplifters — At War
With The Law (C5, 9pm)
Theft is a serious problem but
there is something grubby
about this series, which
follows the security teams of
a Coventry shopping centre.
“They walk out them doors
with that perfume,” says
one delighted guard. “We
are dragging ’em back to the
control room shouting and
screaming if we have to.” (HS)
1G
BBC1
6.00 Breakfast The latest reports.
9.00 BBC News Headlines.
10.00 Rip Off Britain Scams.
10.45 Homes Under The Hammer
Properties at auction. (R)
11.45 Caught Red Handed (R)
12.15 Bargain Hunt Curios.
1.00 News; Weather Reports.
1.45 The Heights Anna has to
decide about her future with
Ryan; and Claudia and Pav
may be on the verge of
parting company.
2.15 Impossible Gameshow. (R)
3.00 Escape To The Country (R)
3.45 Home Is Where The Art Is
Featuring lottery winners
who want to celebrate the
day their lives changed.
4.30 The Repair Shop — Fixing
Britain Items include a
bike and teapot linked to
undercover operatives.
5.15 Pointless Unorthodox quiz.
6.00 News; Weather Reports.
6.30 Regional News Update.
7.00 The One Show Features.
7.30 Panorama Kate Silverton
follows Police Scotland’s
Violence Reduction Unit as
she examines how the country
dramatically reduced violent
crime in the past 15 years.
8.00 EastEnders — Secrets From
The Square Stacey Dooley is
joined by Max Bowden and
Tony Clay to discuss Ben
Mitchell and Callum Highway.
8.30 Would I Lie To You? James
Acaster, Dani Dyer, Fred
Sirieix and Oti Mabuse bolster
the efforts of captains Lee
Mack and David Mitchell. (R)
9.00 The Secrets She Keeps
Meghan prepares for the
birth of the baby; and
Hayden, on special leave
from the navy, is becoming
desperate when Agatha
refuses to take his calls. (3/6)
9.45 Staged An actor who dropped
out of the play comes back
to haunt the production;
Georgia tells Anna she is
due to be a birthing partner;
and Michael is blackmailed
by a neighbour. (3/6, R)
10.00 News; Weather Reports.
10.45 I May Destroy You Arabella
continues staking out the
scene of her attack. (11/12)
11.20 Canada’s Drag Race The
contestants divide into teams.
12.20 Peter Crouch — Save Our
Summer Entertainment. (R)
1.10-6.00 Joins BBC News
SCOTLAND 6.30 Reporting Scotland.
The Last Black Man
In San Francisco (Sky
Cinema Premiere, 11pm)
A tale of gentrification and its
effects on African-American
communities, this whimsical
drama concerns an aesthete
( Jimmie Fails) who insists
on looking after a house his
family used to own. If you
have ever loved a creaky old
home, you might like Joe
Talbot’s film — though here,
too, you must learn to live
with a few quirks others might
deem annoying. (2019) (EP)
BBC2
6.00 Home Is Where The Art Is (R)
6.45 The Repair Shop — Fixing
Britain With Jay Blades. (R)
7.30 Blue Planet Revisited With
Steve Backshall. (Signed, R)
8.30 The Week In Parliament (R)
9.00 Into The Wild Animals. (R)
10.00 News; Weather Reports.
1.00 The Boss Quiz show. (R)
1.45 The Hairy Bakers (R)
2.00 The A To Z Of TV Cooking (R)
2.20 Talking Pictures Profile. (R)
2.55 CHOICE Joan Of Arc Stars
Ingrid Bergman. Charting the
last battle undertaken by the
medieval heroine of Orleans.
(1948, U; see Film choice)
5.15 Flog It! Selling valuables. (R)
6.00 Eggheads Team quiz. (R)
6.30 Great Australian Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo
explores Australia by train. (R)
7.00 Back In Time For Tea How
life has changed for working
families in the north of
England over 100 years. (R)
8.00 Our Friend Victoria Julie
Walters celebrates the work
of Victoria Wood, with
contributions from fellow
collaborators including Celia
Imrie and Duncan Preston. (R)
8.30 University Challenge Jeremy
Paxman hosts a new run of
the student quiz show, with
Glasgow taking on Exeter
in the opening round.
9.00 CHOICE Once Upon A Time
In Iraq New documentary
series examining the realities
of war and life under Isis,
with unique personal archive
from civilians and soldiers on
both sides of the conflict.
(1/5; see Critics’ choice)
10.00 Comedians — Home Alone
Mathew Horne reveals how
life in isolation is familiar
territory for an actor; and
Tim Key provides food for
thought. (Last in series)
10.15 Mock The Week With the
comedians Angela Barnes, Ed
Byrne, Rhys James, Nish
Kumar and Suzi Ruffell. (R)
10.45 Newsnight The day’s events.
11.30 Britannia’s Burning — Fire On
The Bridge The story of the
fire 50 years ago that ravaged
the railway bridge over the
Menai Straits linking Anglesey
and the mainland. (R)
12.30 Countryfile (Signed, R)
1.30 Saving Our Nurses
Documentary. (Signed, R)
2.15-3.15 Celebrity Masterchef
Competition. (Signed, R)
ON DEMAND
Scandalous! The Tabloid
That Changed America
(BBC iPlayer)
You may think the story of
the National Enquirer would
include a fair degree of
unethical behaviour but you’d
be unprepared for the scale
of underhand activity in its
near-century-long existence.
Approaching the story with a
gimlet-eyed meticulousness,
ITV
6.00 Good Morning Britain
9.00 Lorraine Lifestyle chat.
10.00 This Morning Features.
12.30 Loose Women Debate.
1.30 News; Weather Reports.
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (R)
3.00 Tenable Quiz show. (R)
4.00 Tipping Point Gameshow. (R)
5.00 The Chase Quiz show. (R)
6.00 Regional News Update.
6.30 News; Weather Reports.
7.00 Emmerdale Jamie struggles
to take in that Moira has been
the victim of a hit and run.
7.30 Coronation Street Yasmeen
is stunned by Geoff’s latest
move; and Imran broaches the
subject of fostering with Nick.
8.00 Birds Of A Feather Sharon
and Tracey discover that
Dorien has a big secret. (R)
8.30 Coronation Street —
Weddings A celebration of
the most memorable big days
in Weatherfield, including
the nuptials of Raquel and
Curly, Shelley and Charlie,
and Beth and Kirk.
9.00 Long Lost Family — What
Happened Next Davina
McCall and Nicky Campbell
follow the story of two
reunited siblings as they
investigate a mystery and try
to trace a missing sister.
10.00 News At Ten Bulletin.
10.45 Broadchurch Case files are
piling up at the police station
but, with no fresh leads or
witnesses, the investigation
is stalling and a stunned
Hardy is told to scale back
resources. (Series 1, ep 6, R)
11.45 European Cup Winners —
Nottingham Forest
Examining the football
manager Brian Clough’s
success in Europe. (R)
12.35 All Elite Wrestling —
Dynamite Hard-hitting action.
1.25 Teleshopping Goods.
3.00 Who’s Doing The Dishes? (R)
3.50 Nightscreen Information.
5.05-6.00 Judge Rinder Cases. (R)
In at the deep end: Sam (C4, 9pm)
CHANNEL 4
6.30 Cheers Comedy. (R)
7.20 Mike & Molly Sitcom. (R)
8.05 The Big Bang Theory (R)
9.00 Frasier American sitcom. (R)
10.30 Come Dine With Me (R)
12.00 News; Weather Reports.
12.05 Come Dine With Me (R)
1.05 A New Life In The Sun (R)
2.10 Countdown Gameshow. (R)
3.00 A Place In The Sun Advice. (R)
4.00 Sun, Sea And Selling Houses
New homes in Alicante. (R)
5.00 Four In A Bed B&B contest. (R)
5.30 Come Dine With Me
6.00 The Simpsons Lisa gets her
own television show. (R)
6.30 Hollyoaks Chester soap. (R)
7.00 News; Weather Reports.
8.00 Devon And Cornwall Cattle
wait for TB testing in Devon;
and a former miner makes a
poignant return to the
Cornish colliery where he
laboured years ago. (R)
9.00 CHOICE Paramedics
— Britain’s Lifesavers New
documentary series following
West Midlands Ambulance
Service at the peak of the
Covid-19 pandemic in April,
from the perspective of crews,
managers and control-room
staff. (See Critics’ choice)
10.00 Catching A Killer — A Knock
At The Door Cameras follow
Thames Valley Police’s
investigation into the murder
of Hang Yin Leung, who
died after being violently
assaulted during a burglary at
her Milton Keynes home. (R)
11.25 24 Hours In A&E A teenager
with anorexia nervosa is
10.00 Grand Theft Auto — UK
rushed into the paediatrics
emergency department
with dangerously low
blood pressure, while her
mother reflects on feeling
unable to protect her. (R)
12.25 Ramsay’s Kitchen
11.05 FILM: Homefront Stars
Nightmares USA The chef
helps a Mexican restaurant in
southern California. (R)
1.15 Couples Come Dine With Me
Three couples from Hull
compete for £1,000. (R)
2.10 Bake Off — The
Professionals The three best
teams from both sets of
heats join forces to face new
rivals and challenges. (R)
3.05 Kirstie — Keep Crafting And
Carry On Kirstie Allsopp
creates a lightbox. (R)
4.00 The Fantastical Factory
Of Curious Craft (R)
4.50 Grand Designs Australia (R)
5.50-6.30 Countdown Game. (R)
CHANNEL 5
6.00 Milkshake! Fun for children.
9.15 Jeremy Vine Debate.
11.20 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It
Away Recouping debts. (R)
12.10 News; Weather Reports.
12.15 Nightmare Tenants, Slum
Landlords Documentary. (R)
1.15 Home And Away Nikau
lashes out at Ben. (R)
1.45 Neighbours Tensions boil
over between Susan and Karl.
2.15 The Beach Murders —
Garage Sale Mystery Crime
drama, with Lori Loughlin.
The antique-shop owner
Jenni Shannon turns sleuth
again when a friend’s wealthy
husband dies in what seems
to be a surfing accident. (R)
4.00 Friends American sitcom. (R)
5.00 News; Weather Reports.
5.30 Neighbours Soap. (R)
6.00 Home And Away (R)
6.30 News; Weather Reports.
7.00 Great Coastal Railway
Journeys Following a
train ride along the most
attractive coastlines in
Europe, meeting some of the
characters who live and work
along the scenic lines. (R)
8.00 Police Interceptors
Documentary following the
work of a high-speed police
interception unit. (R)
9.00 CHOICE Shoplifters — At
War With The Law New
documentary series following
shopping-centre security
teams who are locked in a
battle to catch criminals.
(See Critics’ choice)
People who make a living
from crimes involving cars,
from those who steal vehicles
to order to another who stage-
manages car crashes to cash
in on insurance claims. (R)
Jason Statham, James
Franco and Winona Ryder.
A former drug enforcement
agent tries to put his past
behind him, but is drawn into
a conflict with a gangster.
By-the-book thriller. (2013, 15)
1.00 The 21.co.uk Live Casino
Show Interactive gambling.
3.00 Access Showbiz gossip.
3.10 Police Interceptors (R)
4.00 The Railways That Built
Britain Documentary. (R)
4.50 Wildlife SOS Animals. (R)
5.15-6.00 Building Britain’s
Great Canals — A Transport
Revolution Insights. (2/3, R)
SKY 1
6.00 Monkey Business (R)
7.00RSPCA Animal Rescue (R)
8.00 The Flash (Series 1, ep 21, R)
9.00 Supergirl (Series 2, ep 1, R)
10.00 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
11.00NCIS: Los Angeles Drama. (R)
1.00Hawaii Five-0 Drama. (R)
3.00 Magnum PI (S2, ep 18, R)
4.00 Modern Family Sitcom. (R)
5.00 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
5.30Futurama Animation. (R)
6.30The Simpsons Milhouse’s
estranged parents consider a
reconciliation. (R) 7.00 The
Simpsons Lisa goes on a
rampage through school;
and Bart is bullied. (R)
7.30 MNF: Manchester United v
Southampton. Coverage of
the Premier League game at
Old Trafford. Kickoff at 8.00.
10.30 FILM: Final Score Stars Dave
Bautista and Pierce Brosnan.
A former soldier is forced into
action when armed terrorists
take control of a packed
football stadium. Patchy
action thriller. (2018, 15)
12.30 Condor Deacon’s traumatic
past comes into focus; Sharla
pursues Joubert; and Mae
makes a discovery. (9/10, R)
1.30 Condor Joe’s morality
faces the ultimate test as
he tries to stop the plague
from being released. (R)
2.30 The Moaning Of Life Karl
Pilkington considers
professional success in Japan,
South Africa and the US. (R)
3.30 Manifest Michaela and Ben
risk it all in a brave rescue
attempt. (Last in series, R)
4.30 Highway Patrol Crime. (R)
5.30-6.00 Futurama Cartoon. (R)
VARIATIONS
BBC1 WALES 11.45 Bargain Hunt
12.30 Wales Today Coronavirus Daily
Update 8.30 Gareth Edwards’ Great
Welsh Adventure S4C 6.00 Cyw:
Peppa 6.05 Hafod Haul 6.20 Syrcas
Deithiol Dewi 6.30 Do Re Mi Dona
6.45 Sam Tan 6.55 Olobobs 7.00
Halibalw 7.10 Blero Yn Mynd I Ocido
7.25 Patrôl Pawennau 7.40
Cacamwnci 8.00 Jen A Jim A’r
Cywiadur 8.15 Bing 8.25 Dwylo’r
Enfys 8.40 Stiw 8.50 Nico Nôg 9.00
Cymylaubychain 9.10 Caru Canu
9.15 Sbridiri 9.35 Guto Gwningen
9.45 Deian A Loli 10.00 Peppa
10.05 Hafod Haul 10.20 Syrcas
Deithiol Dewi 10.30 Do Re Mi Dona
10.45 Sam Tan 10.55 Olobobs
ATLANTIC
6.00 Fish Town Life in Brixham.
7.00 Urban Secrets Insights.
8.00 Hotel Secrets Hospitality.
9.00 Elementary (Series 1, ep 10)
10.00 CSI Crime drama series.
1.00 Elementary (Series 1, ep 11)
2.00 Blue Bloods A bank robbery
turns into a hostage situation.
(Series 2, ep 3) 3.00 Blue
Bloods Erin reopens one
of Frank’s old cases.
4.00 CSI A youngster goes
missing. (S6, ep 10) 5.00 CSI
A man with ‘human werewolf
syndrome’ is murdered. 6.00
CSI Nick is haunted by his
kidnapping ordeal.
7.00 Blue Bloods Danny tries to
juggle work and romance.
(Series 2, ep 5) 8.00 Blue
Bloods An incident at a
church ends up testing
Frank’s diplomatic skills.
9.00 Perry Mason Strickland and
Mason lean on Virgil for
legal assistance; and Birdy
urges Sister Alice to
renounce her claims
about baby Charlie. (4/8)
10.15 The Sopranos Jason Barone’s
father dies, leaving him to
make a mammoth decision
about the future of the family
business. (Series 6, ep 4)
11.30 True Blood Bill discovers
Marnie’s deadly plans for the
vampires of Bon Temps.
(Series 4, ep 7) 12.45 True
Blood Bill tries to arrange a
truce with Marnie.
2.00 The Plot Against America
With Winona Ryder. (1/6)
3.10 Elementary (Series 1, ep 12)
4.00 Storm City Earthquakes.
5.00-6.00 The Guest Wing
11.00 Halibalw 11.10 Blero Yn Mynd I
Ocido 11.25 Patrôl Pawennau 11.40
Cacamwnci 12.00 Cymoedd Roy
Noble 12.30 Datganiad Dyddiol
Covid-19 1.00 Heno 1.30 Ar Werth
2.00 Newyddion A’r Tywydd 2.05
Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion A’r
Tywydd 3.05 Cofio — Hogia’r
Wyddfa 4.00 Awr Fawr 5.00 Stwnsh
6.00 Clwb Rygbi — Super Rugby
Aotearoa 7.00 Heno 7.30
Newyddion A’r Tywydd 8.00 Sgwrs
Dan Y Lloer 8.25 Garddio A Mwy
8.55 Newyddion A’r Tywydd 9.00
Ffermio 9.30 Rygbi — Clasuron
Bermuda. Highlights from the 2017
World Rugby Bermuda Classic
10.00 Drych 11.00-11.35 Y Ditectif

the director Mark Landsman The Truth (Mubi)

YOU SAY

charts the life of this
storied rag from pro-fascist
mouthpiece and mob-linked
gore-sheet to Florida-based
purveyor of celebrity sleaze.
The most troubling tale is how
the paper worked with Donald
Trump to “catch and kill”
stories that might harm his
2016 presidential campaign,
but the unlikely stars are
the unrepentant hacks who
worked the scoops during its
lavish heyday and now have
the mansions to prove it. (AM)
Although made by Japan’s Why remake Talking Heads (BBC1)? The original
Kore-eda Hirokazu (working cast were vastly superior.
abroad for the first time), this Louise Shearring
genial French drama could
hardly seem more Gallic: it Why is everyone so posh in this new series?
stars Catherine Deneuve as a Maxine Peake takes a stab at a Yorkshire accent
famous and haughty actress but the others are all hopelessly upper middle
and Juliette Binoche as her class in their delivery, with the result that it all
estranged daughter. The film’s sounds false. I remember the originals, actors had
story of a reunion is over- Yorkshire accents even when talking posh. No one
contrived but does indeed say comes within a mile of the talent of Thora Hird.
truthful things about family Ina Pickard
life, and Deneuve’s portrait
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BBC4
7.00pm River Walks — The Dart
7.30 The Joy Of Painting Bob Ross
paints a scene with a cabin.
8.00 Rise Of The Nazis How
Hitler’s party seized power in
Germany during the 1930s.
9.00 Being Beethoven The
composer’s return to the
town of Heiligenstadt. (2/3)
10.00 Great Continental Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo
ventures deep into the Black
Forest in Germany. (1/2)
10.30 Seven Ages Of Britain The
shift in values during the 20th
century. (Last in series)
11.30 The Trial Of Ratko Mladic
The war crimes trial of the
Bosnian Serb general.
1.00 A History Of Art In Three
Colours The allure of gold.
2.00 The Joy Of Painting Art.
2.30 River Walks — The Dart
3.00-4.00 Being Beethoven (2/3)
Civil service: Lincoln meets Union troops in 1862 (PBS, 7.45pm)
FILMS
SKY CINEMA PREMIERE
6.00am Sprinter Drama. (2018, 15)
8.00 The Goldfinch Drama. (2019, 15)
10.30 The Top Ten Show Clips.
10.45 The Guardian An 11-year-old girl
and a car salesman embark on a trip to
save him from bankruptcy. (2020, 12)
12.45 It Chapter Two Now grown up,
the Losers Club must battle the evil
Pennywise once more. (2019, 15)
3.45 The Runaways Three children
take the family’s donkeys and set out to
find their estranged mother. (2019, 12)
5.45 Trolls World Tour Film preview.
6.00 The Guardian Details as 10.45am.
8.00 It Chapter Two As 12.45pm.
11.00 CHOICE The Last Black Man
In San Francisco Stars Jimmie Fails
and Jonathan Majors. Joe Talbot
drama. (2019, 15; see Film choice)
1.15 Bad Education Drama. (2019, 15)
3.15 The Top Ten Show Clips.
3.30 The Heist Of The Century
Ariel Winograd comedy. (2020, 15)
5.30-6.00 Monster Family Insights.
SKY CINEMA THRILLER
2.05pm The Operative (2019, 15)
4.05 Ride Action thriller. (2018, 15)
5.35 Poseidon Drama. (2006, 12)
7.20 Blood On Her Name A woman’s
plot to cover up an accidental killing
has disastrous consequences. (2019, 15)
9.00 The Untouchables An agent
forms a squad to bring Al Capone’s
control of Chicago to an end. (1987, 15)
11.05 A Good Woman Is Hard To Find
A widowed woman hunts for the truth
about her husband’s murder. (2019, 18)
12.50-2.40 Grand Isle Action. (2019, 15)
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DRAMA
12.00 The Bill Police drama series.
1.00 Classic EastEnders Soap.
2.15 London’s Burning (S11, ep 14)
3.20 Peak Practice (S3, ep 14)
4.20 Dangerfield (Series 2, ep 4)
5.20 Birds Of A Feather Sitcom.
6.00 Waiting For God Comedy.
6.40 ’Allo ’Allo! Classic sitcom.
7.20 Last Of The Summer Wine
Foggy believes he has found
a giant woodpecker’s nest.
8.00 Dalziel & Pascoe A chemist
suffocates in a sealed lab at a
university. (Series 11, ep 4)
10.00 New Tricks A diamond is
found in the flat of a man
who died. (Series 2, ep 5)
11.25 Silent Witness An insurance
investigator dies from
suspected cyanide
poisoning. (Series 13, ep 1)
1.35 The Bill Police drama series.
2.30 London’s Burning (S11, ep 14)
3.30-4.00 Birds Of A Feather
SKY CINEMA GREATS
6.00am 2001 — A Space Odyssey
A spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to
investigate a strange artefact. (1968, U)
8.45 Star Wars — The Phantom
Menace Two Jedi Knights meet a boy
who has a sinister destiny. (1999, U)
11.15 Ghost A murdered executive’s
spirit enlists a fraudulent psychic to
bring his killer to justice. (1990, 12)
1.30 Patriot Games A former CIA
agent is targeted after foiling a terrorist
attack by an IRA group. (1992, 15)
3.30 Clear And Present Danger A CIA
analyst becomes caught up in the
Colombian drug trade. (1994, 12)
6.00 Blade Runner A former cop
battles android replicants. (1982, 15)
8.00 Ghost Details as 11.15am.
10.10 Zero Dark Thirty Intelligence
operatives hunt down Osama bin
Laden after the 9/11 attacks. (2012, 15)
12.50 Psycho A woman on the run
after stealing money from her boss
ends up at an isolated motel. (1960, 15)
2.45 The Gambler Drama. (1974, 18)
4.45-6.15 Robin Hood (1973, U)
Majors and Fails (SCP, 11pm)
ITV2
7.00 Ellen DeGeneres Chat.
8.00 Emmerdale Rural soap.
8.30 Coronation Street Soap.
9.00 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
9.25 Supermarket Sweep
10.25 Ellen’s Game Of Games
11.20 Dress To Impress Dating.
12.25 Emmerdale Rural soap.
12.55 Coronation Street Soap.
1.30 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
2.00 Ellen DeGeneres Chat.
2.55 Dress To Impress Dating.
4.00 Supermarket Sweep
5.00 Ellen’s Game Of Games
6.00 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
8.00 Roswell, New Mexico Alex
and Michael try to unravel the
mystery surrounding the
night Nora’s spaceship
crashed in 1947. (S2, ep 3)
9.00 Love Island — Australia The
final four couples go on dates
to reflect on their time in the
villa and their relationships.
10.10 Celebrity Juice Comedy
quiz, hosted by Keith Lemon.
10.55 Family Guy James Woods
steals Peter’s identity. (Series
6, ep 9) 11.25 Family Guy
Lois is outraged when Chris
is expelled. (Series 5, ep 16)
11.55 American Dad! Steve is
recruited by the CIA’s nerdy
archrivals, the NSA. (Series
12, ep 4) 12.20 American
Dad! Stan infiltrates a group
of renegade surfers.
12.50 The Cleveland Show Rallo
and his friends perform in the
school talent show. (S2, ep 21)
1.20 The Cleveland Show
A secret from Donna’s past is
unearthed at Comic-Con.
1.50 Through The Keyhole
2.50 Totally Bonkers Guinness
World Records Feats.
3.15 Nightscreen Information.
3.30-7.00 Teleshopping
SKY CINEMA BLOCKBUSTERS
3.25pm Twilight Fantasy. (2008, 12)
5.30 The Da Vinci Code An academic
falsely accused of murder uncovers a
dangerous conspiracy. (2006, 12)
8.00 Angels & Demons Four cardinals
in line to become Pope are kidnapped
by a mysterious sect. (2009, 12)
10.20 Pacific Rim Robots with human
pilots are created to fight back against
gigantic alien monsters. (2013, 12)
12.35 The Amazing Spider-Man
Stars Andrew Garfield. (2012, 12)
2.55 The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Superhero adventure sequel. (2014, 12)
5.20-7.05 Tarzan Animation. (1999, U)
FILM 4
11.00am McLintock! Western. (1963, U)
1.40 Flying Tigers Drama. (1942, PG)
3.55 The Professionals (1966, PG)
6.25 The Second Best Exotic Marigold
Hotel A retirement-home owner sets
out to expand his empire. (2015, PG)
9.00 Assassin’s Creed A murder
suspect searches for a device that has
the genetic code for free will. (2016, 12)
11.10 Macbeth A Scottish nobleman
usurps the throne, but is consumed by
madness and paranoia. (2015, 15)
1.25-3.35 The Purge — Anarchy Stars
Frank Grillo. Horror sequel. (2014, 15)
TALKING PICTURES TV
2.40pm Barnacle Bill (1957, U)
4.25 The Magnet Comedy. (1950, U)
6.00 Johnny Come Lately A reporter
and an editor expose corruption in a
small American town. (1943, PG)
8.00 Hannay Period drama series.
9.00 Special Branch Crime drama.
10.00 The Gentle Touch Drama.
11.00-1.00 Fools’ Parade (1971, PG)
1G
ITV3
6.00 Classic Coronation Street
7.05 Classic Emmerdale Soap.
8.00 Heartbeat Rural drama.
9.00 Bless This House Comedy.
10.05 That’s My Boy Sitcom.
10.40 Midsomer Murders
12.40 Heartbeat Rural drama.
1.45 Classic Emmerdale Soap.
2.50 Classic Coronation Street
3.55 Midsomer Murders Barnaby
and Scott investigate the
murder of an author.
5.55 Heartbeat PC Bellamy
falls in love with the victim
of a handbag snatch.
6.55 Downton Abbey Rosamund
arrives at the estate after
Edith’s shock departure;
and Isobel makes a happy
announcement. (S5, ep 7)
8.00 Endeavour The detective has
been assigned to a quiet rural
area, but is reunited with his
former CID colleagues when
he discovers the body of a
missing schoolgirl. (S6, ep 1)
10.00 Law & Order: UK The
evacuation of a London
hospital leads to the
discovery of a tragic death,
but when a murder suspect is
arrested, the prosecutors
have insufficient evidence to
build a case. (Series 1, ep 1)
11.00 Scott & Bailey With Lesley
Sharp and Suranne Jones.
The detectives investigate
the case of a pregnant
woman who was killed in her
bedroom. (Series 1, ep 1)
12.05 A Touch Of Frost A
hit-and-run has devastating
repercussions. (S6, ep 3)
2.10 Poirot An aircraft
manufacturer hosts a party to
trap a spy. (Series 1, ep 8)
3.25 Nightscreen Information.
3.30-6.00 Teleshopping
ENTERTAINMENT
GOLD
7.05am Still Open All Hours 7.35 The
Green Green Grass 8.05 Porridge 8.40
Only Fools And Horses 10.00 Are You
Being Served? 10.40 Last Of The
Summer Wine 12.35 Dad’s Army — The
Lost Episodes 1.20 Porridge 2.00 Are
You Being Served? 2.35 The Green
Green Grass 3.15 Dad’s Army — The
Lost Episodes 4.00 Last Of The Summer
Wine 6.00 Are You Being Served? 6.35
The Green Green Grass 7.15 Dad’s
Army — The Lost Episodes 8.00 Only
Fools And Horses 9.55 Bottom 10.30
Men Behaving Badly 11.10 Only Fools
And Horses 1.05 Bottom 1.45 Snuff Box
2.15 Men Behaving Badly 2.45 The
Rebel 3.15-4.00 Snuff Box
SKY COMEDY
6.00pm 30 Rock 6.30 Modern Family
7.30 The Mindy Project 9.00 CHOICE
Miracle Workers — Dark Ages. New run
of the sitcom. There are new challenges
in the Middle Ages. (See Pick of the
week) 9.30 Flight Of The Conchords
10.05 Jim Jefferies — I Swear To God
11.15 Girls 11.50 Entourage 12.30 Vice
Principals 1.10 Bored To Death 1.50 Parks
And Recreation 3.30-5.00 30 Rock
SKY WITNESS
6.00pm Nothing To Declare 7.00
Paramedics — Australia. New run
8.00 Ghost Whisperer 9.00 Criminal
Minds 10.00 The InBetween 11.00
Criminal Minds 12.00 Ghost Whisperer
1.00 9-1-1 2.00 Coroner 3.00 Law &
Order 4.00 The Good Doctor
5.00-6.00 Brit Cops — Rapid Response
ITV4
5.55pm The Professionals Doyle
is targeted by an old enemy.
7.00 Tour De France ReCycled
— Geraint’s Tour The second
rest day of the 2018 race.
8.00 River Monsters Jeremy Wade
turns his attention to the
oceans, going in search of
the real creature behind the
enduring sea serpent legend.
9.00 Giant Lobster Hunters
It is the last week of the
winter rock lobster hunting
season, but the powerful
Bass Strait tide puts the Ella
Rose in potential danger.
10.00 FILM: American Sniper
Stars Bradley Cooper. A navy
Seal finds life back on civvy
street difficult to deal with
after four tours of Iraq.
Matter-of-fact biopic.
(2014, 15; includes FYI Daily)
12.40 Minder Arthur plans to make
money out of art forgeries.
1.40 The Sweeney The suitcase
of a gynaecologist is stolen.
2.45 Nightscreen Information.
3.00-6.00 Teleshopping
Starry: Van Gogh (Sky Arts, 7pm)
W
6.00pm Tipping Point 7.00 CHOICE
Top Chef. New run. (See Critics’ choice)
8.00 Inside The Ambulance 9.00 One
Born Every Minute 10.00 Louis
Theroux’s Altered States: Choosing
Death 11.00 Inside The Ambulance
12.00 One Born Every Minute 1.00
Louis Theroux’s Altered States:
Choosing Death 1.50-3.00 Top Chef
5 STAR
6.00pm Neighbours 6.30 Home And
Away 7.00 Benefits Britain — Life On
The Dole 8.00 On Benefits — Cashing
In For Xmas 9.00 FILM: Ghost Rider
11.15 FILM: Drive Angry 1.20 Good Girls’
Guide To Kinky Sex 2.20 Can’t Pay? We’ll
Take It Away 3.15-4.00 Will & Grace
5 USA
6.00pm NCIS. Four episodes 10.00
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1.45 Remington Steele 3.35-4.00
Criminals — Caught On Camera
QUEST
6.00pm Wheeler Dealers 7.00 Aussie
Gold Hunters 8.00 Salvage Hunters
9.00 Aussie Gold Hunters. A dig zone
floods 10.00 Gold Divers 11.00 EFL
12.00 Wheeler Dealers 1.00 American
Pickers 2.00 American Chopper 3.00
Ultimate Airport Dubai 4.00 Dirty Jobs
5.00-6.00 How It’s Made. Double bill
FOX
6.00pm The Mentalist 7.00 NCIS. Two
episodes 9.00 Emergence 10.00 NCIS:
New Orleans 11.00 American Dad!
12.00 Family Guy 1.00 American
Dad! 2.00 Family Guy 3.00 American
Dad! 4.00-5.00 Republic Of Doyle
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6.00 Hollyoaks Chester soap.
7.00How I Met Your Mother
8.00Melissa & Joey Sitcom.
9.00 Baby Daddy Comedy.
10.00 The Big Bang Theory
11.00The Goldbergs Sitcom.
12.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
1.00The Big Bang Theory
2.00Melissa & Joey Sitcom.
3.00The Goldbergs Sitcom.
4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
5.00Young Sheldon Comedy.
6.00 The Big Bang Theory Raj is
named one of People
magazine’s ‘30 to Watch
Under 30’. (Series 2, ep 4)
6.30 The Big Bang Theory
Sheldon is forced to
overcome his fear of driving.
7.00 Hollyoaks Chester soap.
7.30 Married At First Sight
Australia The couples decide
whether to stay or leave.
9.00 FILM: Mike And Dave Need
Wedding Dates Stars Zac
Efron, Anna Kendrick and
Adam Devine. Two party-
loving brothers try to find
dates for their sister’s
wedding. Vulgar. (2016, 15)
11.00 Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Sunnydale High is haunted
by the ghosts of two lovers
who force people to re-enact
their deaths. (Series 2, ep 19)
12.00 The Big Bang Theory Penny
and Bernadette shop for
bridesmaid dresses without
Amy. (Series 5, ep 8) 12.30
The Big Bang Theory Penny
and Leonard endure an
awkward night at the cinema.
1.00 Gogglebox Opinions on TV.
2.00 First Dates Matchmaking.
3.00 Derry Girls Comedy series.
3.55 The Big Bang Theory
4.45-6.00 How I Met Your Mother
COMEDY CENTRAL
6.00pm Friends 9.00 Naughty
Toddlers Caught On Camera 10.00
FILM: John Tucker Must Die 12.00
Bob’s Burgers 1.00 Al Murray One Man,
One Guvnor 2.45 South Park 3.10 Two
And A Half Men 3.30-5.10 Friends
YESTERDAY
6.00am Ice Bridge — Expedition
Across The Atlantic 7.10 Abandoned
Engineering 8.00 Royal Murder
Mysteries 9.00 Nazi Hunters 10.00 The
Architecture The Railways Built 11.00
Abandoned Engineering 12.00 The
Architecture The Railways Built 1.00
Antiques Roadshow 2.00 David
Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities
3.00 The Architecture The Railways
Built 4.00 Abandoned Engineering
5.00 WW2 — Battles For Europe
6.00 Nazi Hunters 7.00 Great British
Railway Journeys 8.00 Extreme
Railway Journeys 9.00 Bangers And
Cash 11.00-1.00 Open All Hours
DAVE
6.00pm Taskmaster 7.00 House Of
Games 7.40 QI 9.00 Live At The
Apollo. Hosted by Sara Pascoe 10.00
QI 11.15 Taskmaster 12.20 Mock The
Week 1.00 QI 1.40 Red Dwarf 2.25 Live
At The Apollo 3.15-4.00 Red Dwarf
PICK
6.00pm Star Trek — TNG 7.00 999
Frontline 7.30 LIVE MNF: Manchester
United v Southampton. Premier League
action. Kickoff at 8.00 10.30 CSI 11.30
Brit Cops — Law & Disorder 12.30 Road
Wars 2.00 Banged Up Abroad 3.00
Police Force — Australia 4.00 Motorway
Patrol 5.00-6.00 Border Patrol
MORE 4
8.55 Vintage Gems Crafts.
9.20 A Place In The Sun Property.
10.15 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Items.
12.15 Escape To The Chateau
— DIY Angel Adoree advises
two Brits on how to make
their wedding business work.
1.15 Building The Dream A couple
builds a family home in Hull.
2.15 Four In A Bed B&B contest.
4.55 Find It, Fix It, Drive It Henry
Cole and Sam Lovegrove
fix a tractor and plough.
5.55 The Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick
operates on two poodles.
6.55 Escape To The Chateau —
DIY A couple continue the
look for their dream chateau.
7.55 Grand Designs A couple with
a love of gothic architecture
and horror movies plan to
use their budget of
£400,000 to build an
Addams Family-style house.
9.00 Car SOS Fuzz Townshend
and Tim Shaw take on the
restoration of a 1983 Citroën
2CV after its owner was
diagnosed with throat cancer.
10.00 Sarah Millican — Control
Enthusiast A stand-up
performance by the
comedian, covering topics
such as road rage and IBS.
11.05 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does
Countdown With guests
Katherine Ryan, Rob Beckett
and Greg Davies. 12.10 8 Out
Of 10 Cats Does Countdown
With guests Miles Jupp, Greg
Davies and Holly Walsh.
1.15 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA A failing
restaurant in New Orleans.
2.10 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does
Countdown With Sean Lock.
3.15-3.40 Food Unwrapped
4.00-8.55 Teleshopping
FACTUAL
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
6.00pm Drain The Oceans — Deep
Dive 7.00 Air Crash Investigation 8.00
Gathering Storm. The impact of three
severe storms on the Gulf coast 9.00
X-Ray Earth. Documentary exploring
what lies beneath the Earth’s crust
10.00 Doomsday Earth. The threat of
another large-scale natural disaster
11.00 Air Crash Investigation 1.00-2.00
Airport Security — First Class
DISCOVERY
6.00pm Fast N’ Loud. A Cadillac 7.00
Supertruckers 8.00 Texas Metal 9.00
Gas Extreme Customs 10.00 Street
Outlaws — Memphis. JJ gets a call out
from Chris Bromley and his Fox Body
Mustang drivers 11.00 Fast N’ Loud
12.00 Gas Extreme Customs 1.00-2.00
Street Outlaws — Memphis
PBS AMERICA
5.20pm Plane Resurrection 6.30
Genghis Khan 7.45 The Civil War. The
origins of the American Civil War 9.50
Plane Resurrection. A look at a restored
example of the clipped-wing version of
the Spitfire 11.00-1.05 The Civil War
SKY ARTS
6.00pm Discovering Tony Curtis 7.00
CHOICE Exhibition On Screen. The
work of Vincent van Gogh on display at
Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. (See
Critics’ choice) 8.00 Portrait Artist Of
The Year. With sitters Ricky Wilson,
Adrian Dunbar and Zawe Ashton 9.00
Andre Rieu — Welcome To My World
10.00-12.00 Sarah Brightman — Hymn
SPORT
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT
6.00am News 8.00 LIVE ANZ
Premiership Netball: Tactix v Magic.
Coverage of the match from the fifth
round of fixtures, taking place at
Auckland Netball Centre. Centre-pass
8.00 9.30 My Icon: Johnny Nelson
10.00 The Football Show 12.00 News
7.30 LIVE MNF: Manchester United v
Southampton. All the action from the
Premier League encounter at Old
Trafford. Kickoff at 8.00 10.30 Premier
League Goals 11.00-6.00 News
EUROSPORT 1
7.00am French Open: Best Of 2019
8.00 Tour De France: Froome 2015
11.00 Superbikes — Vodcast 1.00
Athletics 2.00 Tour De France:
Thomas 2018 5.00 Cycling. Highlights
of the 2015 UCI road world
championships 6.00 Superbikes —
Vodcast. Interviews from the sport’s
leading riders 8.00 Tour De France:
Thomas 2018. Action from stage six,
featuring a hilly 181km journey from
Brest to Mûr de Bretagne Guerlédan
11.00 Tennis. Highlights from the
quarter-finals on the opening day of the
Berlin Bett1 Aces exhibition 12.00
World Poker Tour 1.00 Hall Of Fame:
Greatest Cyclists 2.00 Tour De France:
Thomas 2018 5.00-7.00 Snooker
BT SPORT 1
6.00am Uefa Champions League
Magazine 6.30 Bundesliga Special
7.00 WWE Smackdown Highlights
8.00 ESPN FC 8.30 Premier League
Review 9.30 Bundesliga Special 10.30
Sport In Focus 10.45 LIVE FIM CEV
Repsol. The second round of the
championship in the Algarve, Portugal
3.00 The WRC Magazine 3.30 Fight
Night 5.30 Premier League Review
6.30 ESPN FC 7.00 LIVE Turkish Super
Lig: Yeni Malatyaspor v Besiktas. Kickoff
7.00 9.00 Fishing — On The Bank 10.00
World RX Esports 11.00 WWE Raw
Highlights 12.00 WWE Smackdown
Highlights 1.00 LIVE WWE Monday
Night Raw 4.15 Goals Reload 4.30 Goals
Reload 5.00-6.00 Bundesliga Special
SKY DOCUMENTARIES
6.00am The September Issue 7.45
My Icon: Anthony Joshua 8.00 Ava
Gardner — Alegria And Decadence
9.00 Discovering Rita Hayworth 10.00
The Directors 11.00 The British 12.00
Hollywood Couples 1.00 Hotel Secrets
2.00 The September Issue 3.45 My
Icon: Maggie Alphonsi 4.00
Discovering Sophia Loren 5.00 The
Directors 6.00 The British 7.00
Hollywood Couples 8.00 The Sixties
9.00 Well Groomed. Exploring the
world of competitive dog grooming
10.50-12.40 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
SKY NATURE
6.00am City Wildlife Rescue 7.00
Monkey Life 8.00 Living Beach 9.00
Zambia Untamed 10.00 Wildest New
Zealand 11.00 Wild Birds Of Australia
12.00 Wild Rockies 1.00 Monkey Life
2.00 Living Beach 3.00 Zambia
Untamed 4.00 Wildest New Zealand
5.00 Wild Birds Of Australia 6.00 Wild
Rockies 7.00 Monkey Life 8.00 Into
The Wild — India 9.00 Brazil Untamed.
The capybara 10.00 Wild Rockies
11.00-12.00 Wild Birds Of Australia
SMITHSONIAN
6.00am Aerial America 10.00 Mystic
Britain 11.00 Combat Ships 12.00
America In Colour 3.00 Mystic Britain
4.00 Stories From The Vaults 5.00 Air
Warriors 6.00 Memphis Belle In Colour
7.00 Combat Ships 8.00 Private Lives
Of The Windsors. New series featuring
scandalous stories of the royal family’s
previous generation 9.00 Million Dollar
American Princesses: Meghan Markle
10.00 Britain In Colour 11.00-12.00
Private Lives Of The Windsors
RADIO
PICK OF THE DAY
Why Mummy Swears
Radio 4, 10.45am/7.45pm
Gabriel Quigley, pictured,
plays Ellen, the Mummy of
the title, wondering where
her life is going in Gill Sims’s
comic novel, dramatised
across the week. Simon
Schama — The Great
Gallery Tours (Radio 4,
4pm) opens at the Courtauld
Institute in London, and
Schama’s fond personal
account is of how a private
collection of Impressionist
paintings became recognised
as true treasure.
Gillian Reynolds
RADIO 4
5.33 Shipping 5.43 Prayer 5.45 Farming
Today 5.58 Tweet Of The Day (R) 6.00
Today 9.00 How To Play 9.30 Legacy
Of War 9.45 Book Of The Week: A
Month In Siena, by Hisham Matar 9.45
(LW) Daily Service 10.00 Woman’s
Hour. At 10.45 Why Mummy Swears, by
Gill Sims. With Gabriel Quigley 11.00
Walks Like A Duck 11.30 Loose Ends (R)
12.00 News 12.04 The Girl With The
Louding Voice 12.18 You And Yours
1.00 The World At One 1.45 Bloodsport
2.00 Drama: Tumanbay, by Mike
Walker 3.00 The 3rd Degree 3.30 The
Food Programme (R) 4.00 Simon
Schama — The Great Gallery Tours.
New series. The historian talks about his
favourite repositories of great art 4.30
The Infinite Monkey Cage 5.00 PM
6.00 News 6.30 The Unbelievable Truth
7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 7.45
Why Mummy Swears (R) 8.00 A Deadly
Trade. The problem of illegal journeys
into the UK 8.30 Analysis 9.00 From
Our Home Correspondent (R) 9.30
How To Play (R) 10.00 World Tonight
10.45 Book At Bedtime (R) 11.00
Rewinder (R) 11.30 Today In Parliament
12.00 News 12.30 Book Of The Week
(R) 12.48 Shipping 1.00 World Service
TIMES RADIO
5.00 Calum Macdonald With Early
Breakfast 6.00 Aasmah Mir And Stig
Abell With Times Radio Breakfast
10.00 Matt Chorley 1.00 Mariella
Frostrup 4.00 John Pienaar At Drive
7.00 Phil Williams 10.00 Carole
Walker. The day’s headlines and
tomorrow’s front pages. With the
nightly paper review at 10.30 1.00
Stories Of Our Times 1.30 Red Box.
Matt Chorley’s politics podcast
2.00 Highlights From Times Radio
To get in touch with the Times Radio
studio, text TIMES plus your message
to 87222. Texts cost your standard
message charge.
RADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 Poetry Extra 5.30 All Those
Women 6.00 Raffles 6.30 Miss Marple:
Nemesis 7.00 Sneakiepeeks 7.30 The
Unbelievable Truth 8.00 Navy Lark
8.30 It Sticks Out Half A Mile 9.00
Guess What? 9.30 Spangles ’n’ Tights
10.00 The Raj Quartet 11.00 TED Radio
Hour 12.00 Navy Lark 12.30 It Sticks
Out Half A Mile 1.00 Raffles 1.30 Miss
Marple: Nemesis 2.00 Guess What?
2.30 Spangles ’n’ Tights 3.00 The Raj
Quartet 4.00 TED Radio Hour 5.00
Sneakiepeeks 5.30 The Unbelievable
Truth 6.00 Fear On Four 6.30 A Good
Read 7.00 Navy Lark 7.30 It Sticks Out
Half A Mile 8.00 Raffles 8.30 Miss
Marple: Nemesis 9.00 TED Radio Hour
10.00 The Unbelievable Truth 10.30
Ian D Montfort Is: Unbelievable 11.00
Dead Ringers 11.30-12.00 Hut 33
LBC
7.00 Matt Frei 10.00 James O’Brien
1.00 Shelagh Fogarty 4.00 Eddie Mair
7.00 Iain Dale 10.00 Tom Swarbrick
1.00 Darren Adam 4.00 Steve Allen
RADIO 3
6.30 Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer Of The Week:
Beethoven 1.00 Lunchtime Concert. At
Wigmore Hall, the saxophonist Jess
Gillam and the pianist Zeynep Ozsuca
perform music by Pedro Iturralde,
Marcello, Anna Clyne, Poulenc,
Wiedoeft, Ravel, Milhaud and John
Harle (R) 2.00 Afternoon Concert. The
BBC Symphony Orchestra recorded
on tour in Japan, as well as at the
Aldeburgh festival and London’s Royal
Albert Hall 4.30 Early Music Now.
Performances of Bach’s Organ Fantasia
in G and Orchestral Suite No 3 5.00
In Tune 7.00 In Tune Mixtape 7.30
In Concert. The Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra perform works by Janacek,
Rachmaninov and Prokofiev; plus,
chamber music by BBC Radio 3 New
Generation Artist Lise Berthaud 10.00
Music Matters. Kate Molleson hosts a
discussion on issues relating to race
and equality in the classical music
industry (R) 10.45 The Essay. Fatoumata
Diawara shares the first song she ever
wrote and talks about the early life
experiences that shaped her music
11.00 Night Tracks. An adventurous,
immersive soundtrack for late-night
listening 12.30 Through The Night
CLASSIC FM
6.00 Tim Lihoreau 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall
4.00 John Brunning 8.00 The Concert.
This week, John Suchet celebrates a
number of under-appreciated and
neglected symphonies 10.00
Margherita Taylor 1.00 Sam Pittis
RADIO 2
5.00 Nicki Chapman 6.30 The Zoe Ball
Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken Bruce. The
pop star Anastacia chooses tracks
12.00 Jeremy Vine 2.00 Angela
Scanlon In The Afternoon 5.00 Amol
Rajan 8.00 Jo Whiley. Including a
feature on the band Coldplay 11.00
The Blues Show With Cerys Matthews
12.00 Gethin Jones 3.00 Sounds Of
The 70s With Johnnie Walker (R)
VIRGIN RADIO
6.30 The Chris Evans Breakfast Show
10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris 1.00 Tim
Cocker 4.00 Kate Lawler 7.00 Steve
Denyer 10.00 Amy Voce 1.00 Through
The Night 4.00 Sam Pinkham
TALKSPORT
5.00 Early Breakfast 6.00 Breakfast
With Laura Woods 10.00 White And
Sawyer 1.00 Max Rushden & Charlie
Baker 4.00 Drive 7.00 The PressBox
10.00 Sports Bar 1.00 Extra Time
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The spirit of New Jersey: Winona Ryder faces a flight of hatred (Sky Atlantic, 9pm/10.10pm)
CRITICS’ CHOICE
The Plot Against America
(Sky Atlantic, 9pm/10.10pm)
“Win or lose, there’s a lot of
hate out there,” says Jewish
insurance salesman Herman
Levin (Morgan Spector), grimly
surveying the political rise of
antisemitic aviator Charles
Lindbergh, “and he knows
how to tap into it.” Based on
Philip Roth’s 2004 novel, this
drama resonates with current
politics, an alternative history
all the more terrifying for
being so plausible. Set in 1940,
it follows Herman and his
family — including Zoe Kazan
as his wife, Bess, and Winona
Ryder as her sister, Evelyn —
as they watch their country
turn towards fascism under
the guidance of “an airplane
pilot with opinions”.
Victoria Segal
FILM CHOICE
Ratatouille (Sky Cinema
Disney, 12.25pm/8pm)
Brad Bird’s cartoon about
a French rat with cooking
skills may not be the first film
you think of as a showcase
for the talent of the late Ian
Holm, but he gave a lovely
vocal performance — irate and
ripely accented — as a chef at
odds with the gourmet rodent
and his human helper. (2007)
38 12 July 2020
Amazing Hotels —
Life Beyond The Lobby
(BBC2, 8pm)
This show now looks like
something from The Wizard of
Oz as Giles Coren and Monica
Galetti visit extraordinary
hotels across the world. The
make-believe element is strong
in this first episode: a trip to
Macau’s luxurious MGM Cotai,
a neon flytrap full of flowers
and food that exists to lure
people into its casino. (VS)
The Rise Of The Murdoch
Dynasty (BBC2, 9pm)
Starting in 1995, when Labour
leader Tony Blair caused
concern in the party by
supposedly setting out to
secure the support of Rupert
Murdoch, this series digs into
recent history to tell the story
of Murdoch’s empire and his
family. John Prescott, Alastair
Campbell, Hugh Grant and
Piers Morgan contribute. (VS)
Our Yorkshire Farm (C5, 9pm)
As the third series of this
charming documentary begins,
the family from Ravenseat
farm prepare to wave Raven,
the eldest daughter, off to
York University and send little
daughter Clemmy to school
for the first time. One child is
noticeably happier than the
other, but the opportunity to
spend more time with Tony
the pony is a good reason to
want to stay at home. (HS)
Saudi Women’s
Driving School
(Sky Documentaries, 9pm)
The ban on women driving in
Saudi Arabia was lifted in June
2018 and females clamoured
to learn. Erica Gornali’s film
hears from Sarah, who works
at a car dealership and is saving
for a vehicle; part-time racing
driver Amjad; and Amal, one
of 700 instructors aiming to
get women on the move. (HS)
1G
BBC1
6.00 Breakfast The latest reports.
9.00 BBC News Headlines.
10.00 Rip Off Britain An agency
claims to own the drives and
gardens of private properties.
10.45 Homes Under The Hammer
Properties at auction. (R)
11.45 Caught Red Handed (R)
12.15 Bargain Hunt Curios. (R)
1.00 News; Weather Reports.
1.45 The Heights An awkward
encounter awaits Leonie;
and Mark’s resolve is tested.
2.15 Impossible Gameshow. (R)
3.00 Escape To The Country (R)
3.45 Home Is Where The Art Is
4.30 The Repair Shop — Fixing
Britain An insight into the
maritime history of three
items restored on programme.
5.15 Pointless Unorthodox quiz.
6.00 News; Weather Reports.
6.30 Regional News Update.
7.00 The One Show Features.
7.30 EastEnders — Pride In an
episode from 2019, Stuart tells
Callum he saw him kissing
Ben the night before. (R)
8.00 Holby City Nicky wakes up in
hospital to find her mother
interfering in both her work
and personal life; Fletch and
Essie befriend a cancer
patient; and Guy tries to prove
he still has what it takes.
9.00 The Secrets She Keeps A
media campaign is launched
to find the kidnapped baby,
with Jack giving a press
conference, but the renewed
interest in the case puts
pressure on Agatha to conceal
the truth as Hayden’s return
brings her closer to having
her perfect family. (4/6)
9.45 Staged David and Michael
struggle to regain each
other’s trust; Michael gets
drawn deeper into the
situation with his neighbour;
and David is worried about
Georgia’s plans to help a
friend who is in labour. (4/6, R)
10.00 News; Weather Reports.
10.45 I May Destroy You Arabella
encounters her attacker, and
asks Terry and Theo to help
her get revenge — but the
plan quickly spirals out of
control. (Last in series)
11.25 How’s Your Head, Hun?
Michelle Visage chats to Alan
Carr and Joel McHale.
12.00 Ambulance A drunk driver is
treated after a car crash. (R)
1.05-6.00 Joins BBC News
SCOTLAND 6.30 Reporting Scotland.
The Man Who Could Cheat
Death (TPTV, 10pm)
In this story of a 19th-century
doctor (Anton Diffring) who
has obtained perpetual youth,
Hammer horror is delivered
with a bit more waffle than
usual: Terence Fisher’s movie
is based on a play (The Man
in Half Moon Street by Barré
Lyndon), and those origins
sometimes show. There is still
room, though, for the film to
live up to its studio’s finest
style in bursts of gaudy, grisly
melodrama. (1959) (EP)
BBC2
6.30 Home Is Where The Art Is (R)
7.15 The Repair Shop — Fixing
Britain With Jay Blades. (R)
8.00 Gardeners’ World (Signed, R)
9.00 Into The Wild Nature. (R)
10.00 News; Weather Reports.
1.00 The Boss Quiz show. (R)
1.45 Best Bakes Ever Recipes. (R)
2.30 Wild China Insights. (1/6, R)
3.30 Sporting Legends A profile
of the skier Lindsey Vonn.
3.35 Olympics Rewind: Beijing
2008. Sue Barker narrates
a look back at the event.
5.15 Flog It! Selling valuables. (R)
6.00 Eggheads Team quiz. (R)
6.30 Great Australian Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo
takes a trip from Alice
Springs to Darwin. (R)
7.00 Back In Time For Tea The
Ellis family enters the late
1940s in high spirits and,
joined by two new family
members, they live through
an era of rations and
rock’n’roll, cow-heel pie
and coronation cake. (R)
8.00 CHOICE Amazing Hotels
— Life Beyond The Lobby
A new run begins with Giles
Coren and Monica Galetti
visiting a hi-tech hotel in
Macau, exploring secret VIP
suites where it takes more
than just money to book a
room, and a theatre that sends
its audience flying through
the air. (See Critics’ choice)
9.00 CHOICE The Rise Of The
Murdoch Dynasty New
documentary series about
the media mogul’s influence
on international politics and
the power struggles within
his family, beginning with
a focus on the build-up to
the 1997 general election.
(1/3; see Critics’ choice)
10.00 Live At The Apollo Frankie
Boyle hosts an evening of
stand-up at the Apollo in
Hammersmith, London,
introducing routines by Simon
Evans and Aisling Bea. (R)
10.45 Newsnight The day’s events.
11.30 Romesh Ranganathan —
Misadventures From My
Sofa The comedian recalls
moments from his travel
series, beginning with a look
back at his trips to Zimbabwe,
Bosnia and the Sahara. (1/3, R)
12.30 The Great British Sewing
Bee (Signed, Last in series, R)
1.30 Beechgrove (Signed, R)
2.00-3.00 Celebrity Masterchef
Culinary contest. (Signed, R)
ON DEMAND
Blackfeet Boxing (ESPN)
According to the United States
Justice Department, Native
American women are 10 times
more likely to be murdered
or go missing than any other
demographic. Centred on
the Blackfoot Nation Boxing
Club, Kristen Lappas and
Tom Rinaldi’s documentary
examines this grim statistic and
how one tight-knit community
ITV
6.00 Good Morning Britain
9.00 Lorraine Lifestyle chat.
10.00 This Morning Features.
12.30 Loose Women Debate.
1.30 News; Weather Reports.
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (R)
3.00 Tenable Quiz show. (R)
4.00 Tipping Point Gameshow. (R)
5.00 The Chase Quiz show. (R)
6.00 Regional News Update.
6.30 News; Weather Reports.
7.00 Doc Martin Penhale decides
to have a police open day to
raise community awareness;
and Morwenna and Al head
for a weekend away at
Hannah’s new glamping
site. (Series 8, ep 6, R)
8.00 Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire? Jeremy Clarkson
hosts the big-prize quiz show,
inviting another line-up of
contestants to answer
questions that could
change their lives. (R)
9.00 The Secret Mediterranean
Trevor McDonald visits Mount
Vesuvius on the west coast
of Italy, takes a spin in a
supercar on Spain’s Costa
Brava and steps back in time
with Morocco’s ancient
Berber tribes. (3/4, R)
10.00 News At Ten Bulletin.
10.45 Manhunt — The Raoul Moat
Story Nicky Campbell looks
back at the 2010 search for
the Newcastle bodybuilder
Raoul Moat, who went on the
run after shooting dead his
ex-girlfriend’s partner and
severely wounding her. (R)
11.45 Tenable Five firefighters
from Lincoln answer
questions about top 10 lists,
then try to score a perfect 10
in the final round. (R)
12.35 Teleshopping Goods.
3.00 Who’s Doing The Dishes?
The former gold Olympic
medallist Tessa Sanderson
throws a dinner party. (R)
3.50 Nightscreen Information.
5.05-6.00 Judge Rinder Cases. (R)
Hotel lobbyists (BBC2, 8pm)
CHANNEL 4
6.30 Cheers Two episodes. (R)
7.20 Mike & Molly Comedy. (R)
8.05 The Big Bang Theory (R)
9.00 Frasier American sitcom. (R)
10.30 Come Dine With Me (R)
12.00 News; Weather Reports.
12.05 Come Dine With Me (R)
1.05 A New Life In The Sun (R)
2.10 Countdown Gameshow. (R)
3.00 A Place In The Sun Advice. (R)
4.00 Sun, Sea And Selling Houses
Properties in Almeria. (R)
5.00 Four In A Bed B&B contest. (R)
5.30 Come Dine With Me (R)
6.00 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
6.30 Hollyoaks Chester soap.
7.00 News; Weather Reports.
7.55 DEC Coronavirus Appeal
8.00 Bake Off — The Professionals
Liam Charles and Tom Allen
host the quarter final of the
baking contest, with the five
best teams working on a
spectacular showpiece that
incorporates an edible
game for the judges to play.
9.00 24 Hours In A&E An 89-year-
old man needs treatment
for acute abdominal pain;
and a three-year-old boy has
fallen off a trampoline and
broken his leg — but his
sister thinks he is faking it.
10.00 Shocking Emergency Calls
UK A distressing call is taken
by emergency call handlers
when a young woman finds
her flatmate murdered; and
extreme weather conditions
in Kent lead to one of the
biggest road traffic accidents
in British history. (R)
11.05 Paramedics — Britain’s
Lifesavers Documenting West
Midlands Ambulance Service
at the peak of the Covid-19
pandemic in April, from the
perspective of crews, control
room staff and managers. (R)
12.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA Advice. (R)
1.00 Couples Come Dine With Me
Dinner parties in Hull. (R)
1.55 FILM: The Nile Hilton
Incident Stars Fares Fares. A
maid witnesses a murder at a
hotel and a policeman soon
realises important people do
not want the case solved.
Intriguing. (2017, 15; Arabic
and Dinka with subtitles)
3.45 Undercover Boss Australia A
waste-management company
director goes incognito. (R)
4.40 Grand Designs Australia (R)
5.35 Handmade Treasures (R)
5.50-6.30 Countdown Game. (R)
CHANNEL 5
6.00 Milkshake! Fun for children.
9.15 Jeremy Vine Debate.
11.20 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It
Away Recouping debts. (R)
12.10 News; Weather Reports.
12.15 Nightmare Tenants, Slum
Landlords Disputes. (R)
1.15 Home And Away Ziggy
discovers that her father
has been seeing Gemma.
1.45 Neighbours Shaun comes
to Elly’s rescue when she is
hounded by a journalist.
2.15 My Daughter Is Innocent
Drama, with Victoria Pratt
and Christina Cox. Two
teenage girls are accused of
a brutal murder and a mother
is determined to prove her
daughter’s innocence. (R)
4.00 Friends American sitcom. (R)
5.00 News; Weather Reports.
5.30 Neighbours Soap. (R)
6.00 Home And Away (R)
6.30 News; Weather Reports.
7.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly
Graeme Hall tries to solve
dog behavioural problems,
meeting a woman whose two
labradors pull her along at
break-neck speed, and a
cross-breed escape artist. (R)
8.00 This Week On The Farm A
newborn alpaca is causing
problems; and a farming
family with nearly a century
of fruit-picking experience
between them share their tips
9.00 CHOICE Our Yorkshire Farm
Return of the documentary
following hill shepherds
Amanda and Clive Owen and
their nine children, beginning
as they say farewell to their
daughter as she leaves for
university. (See Critics’ choice)
10.00 Prince Harry — The
Troubled Prince Charting the
Duke of Sussex’s life from
childhood to the present
day, looking at his struggle to
find his place and align his
desire for independence
with the need for duty. (R)
11.05 When TV Goes Horribly
Wrong A compilation of TV
mishaps, including news
reader Krishnan Guru-Murthy
dealing with a fire alarm. (R)
1.00 The 21.co.uk Live Casino
Show Interactive gambling.
3.00 Access Showbiz gossip.
3.10 Wormwood Scrubs —
Violence Behind Bars (R)
4.00 OMG! Boy Beauty Addicts (R)
4.50 Wildlife SOS Animals. (R)
5.15-6.00 Building Britain’s
Canals With Dan Jones. (R)
SKY 1
6.00 Monkey Business (R)
7.00RSPCA Animal Rescue (R)
8.00The Flash (Series 1, ep 22, R)
9.00 Supergirl (Series 2, ep 2, R)
10.00 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
11.00NCIS: Los Angeles (R)
1.00Hawaii Five-0 Drama. (R)
3.00Magnum PI (S2, ep 19, R)
4.00 Modern Family Sitcom. (R)
5.00The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
5.30Futurama Animation. (R)
6.30The Simpsons Marge joins a
women’s group, but soon
discovers her fellow
members plan to steal $1m
from Mr Burns. (R) 6.30 The
Simpsons Homer, Marge and
the kids tour Italy in Mr Burns’
new car and encounter
Sideshow Bob. (R) 7.30 The
Simpsons Homer learns his
mother had an affair around
the time of his conception,
meaning Grampa may
not be his father. (R)
8.00 Premier League: Chelsea v
Norwich City. Live coverage
of the top-flight fixture, which
takes place at Stamford
Bridge. Kickoff is at 8.15.
10.45 FILM: The Hurricane Heist
Stars Toby Kebbell and
Maggie Grace. Thieves try to
pull off a heist against the US
Treasury as a Category 5
hurricane approaches one of
its mint facilities. Storm-
damaged thriller. (2018, 12)
12.55 Road Wars Video footage
of highway dangers. (R)
2.00 Stop, Search, Seize The work
of Ireland’s border force. (R)
3.10 Hawaii Five-0 (S3, ep 8, R)
4.05 Highway Patrol Crime. (R)
5.00-6.00 Futurama Cartoon. (R)
VARIATIONS
BBC1 WALES 11.45 Bargain Hunt
12.30 Wales Today Coronavirus Daily
Update S4C 6.00 Cyw: Blociau Rhif
6.05 Jamborî 6.15 Tomos 6.25 Bach
A Mawr 6.35 Ahoi! 6.55 Ty Mel 7.05
Gwdihw 7.20 Timpo 7.30 Ynys Adra
7.45 Sion Y Chef 8.00 Heini 8.15
Shwshaswyn 8.25 Y Teulu Mawr 8.40
Nos Da Cyw 8.45 Amser Maith Maith
Yn Ol 9.00 Meripwsan 9.05 Y Brodyr
Coala 9.15 Antur Natur Cyw 9.30
Octonots 9.45 Cei Bach 10.00
Blociau Rhif 10.05 Jamborî 10.15
Tomos 10.25 Bach A Mawr 10.35
Ahoi! 10.55 Ty Mel 11.05 Gwdihw
11.20 Timpo 11.30 Ynys Adra 11.45
Sion Y Chef 12.00 Codi Hwyl
12.30 Datganiad Dyddiol Covid-19
ATLANTIC
6.00 Fish Town Life in Brixham.
7.00 Urban Secrets In Newcastle.
8.00 Hotel Secrets In Venice.
9.00 Elementary (Series 1, ep 11)
10.00 CSI American drama series.
1.00 Elementary (Series 1, ep 17)
2.00 Blue Bloods Danny tries to
juggle work and romance.
(S2, ep 5) 3.00 Blue Bloods
An incident at a church tests
Frank’s diplomatic skills.
4.00 CSI The team investigates
the murder of a waiter. (S6,
ep 13) 5.00 CSI A car crash
results in murder. 6.00 CSI
A corpse is found with a
number branded on its arm.
7.00 Blue Bloods Jackie goes
undercover as an escort.
(Series 2, ep 7) 8.00 Blue
Bloods Henry suffers a heart
attack during the Reagans’
Thanksgiving celebrations.
9.00 CHOICE The Plot Against
America New drama series
imagining an alternate
American history told
through the eyes of a family
in New Jersey, as they watch
the political rise of Charles
Lindbergh. With Winona
Ryder. (1/6) 10.10 The Plot
Against America Bengelsdorf
becomes a fundamental
asset in the Lindbergh camp.
(See Critics’ choice)
11.20 Six Feet Under The Fishers
deal with a nosebleed fatality.
(Series 3, ep 6) 12.25 Six
Feet Under Brenda attends
her father’s funeral.
1.35 Penny Dreadful — City Of
Angels Drama series. (2/10)
2.40 Elementary Double bill.
4.20-6.00 The Guest Wing
1.00 Heno 1.30 Ffermio 2.00
Newyddion 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00
Newyddion 3.05 Y Fets 4.00 Awr
Fawr 5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Natur A Ni
6.30 Rownd A Rownd 7.00 Heno
7.30 Newyddion 8.00 Pobol Y Cwm
— Cewri Cwmderi 8.25 Rownd A
Rownd. Mali is worried when Miriam
stops returning her calls 8.55
Newyddion 9.00 Pandemic
1918/2020. A Carmarthen GP looks
at the history of the 1918 Spanish flu
pandemic 10.00 Tewach Na Dwr.
Anna-Lisa’s children learn that
they must run the lodge for a
summer season 11.15-11.50 Bad
Achub Porthdinllaen. The crew
gets to grips with a new lifeboat

is dealing with the loss and Marvellous (BBC iPlayer)

YOU SAY

fighting back. It’s a hydra-
headed narrative, taking in
the stories of gym owner
Frank Kipp, the Olympic
hopefuls who have trained
with him, and the family of
Ashley Loring Heavyrunner,
who went missing from the
Blackfeet Indian Reservation
in June 2017. As a result,
it seems almost insulting
that ESPN only allotted 24
minutes of screen-time to
what is such a powerful and
significant subject.
A quiet, gentle soul who A brilliant production of Tess (BBC4) and worthy
ignored “learning disabilities” of Hardy’s great novel. Gemma Arterton is now
to become a circus clown, surely this country’s finest actress.
befriend the Archbishop Anthony Branchini
of Canterbury and play for
Stoke City, Neil Baldwin Vienna Blood (BBC2) was a fantastic, high-class
has lived a wonderful life. and gripping detective programme in three parts.
Retold in Peter Bowker’s I sincerely hope that it will become a series.
2014 true-life film, it becomes It was so thoroughly researched that even the
the stuff of fairy tale, with German writing style was correct for that era.
the wonderful Toby Jones Well done, BBC2.
playing Baldwin as a kind Vivienne Grant
of holy innocent on a
neverending quest for Send your comments to: telly@sunday-times.co.uk
new experiences. (AM)
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BBC4
7.00pm River Walks Sean Fletcher
walks an eight-mile route
along the River Lea.
7.30 The Joy Of Painting A
rugged mountain scene.
8.00 Rise Of The Nazis Hitler calls
a general election to increase
Nazi representation in the
German parliament. (2/3)
9.00 Ancient Invisible Cities The
secrets of Istanbul’s ancient
palaces and aqueducts.
10.00 United Skates Documentary
exploring the campaign to
save America’s last standing
roller rinks from closure.
11.25 Being Beethoven The
composer’s return to the
town of Heiligenstadt. (2/3)
12.25 At Home With The British
A look at cottages. (1/3)
1.25 The Joy Of Painting Art.
1.55 River Walks The Lea.
2.25-3.25 Ancient Invisible Cities
Girl racers? Hitting the road in Saudi (Sky Documentaries, 9pm)
FILMS
SKY CINEMA PREMIERE
6.00am Okko’s Inn (2018, PG)
7.40 Buffaloed Comedy. (2019, 15)
9.20 Sprinter Drama. (2018, 15)
11.20 The Parts You Lose A young boy
in a North Dakota town befriends a
potentially dangerous fugitive. (2019, 12)
1.00 It Chapter Two Now grown up,
the Losers Club must battle the evil
Pennywise once more. (2019, 15)
4.00 Trolls World Tour Film preview.
4.15 The Guardian Comedy. (2020, 12)
6.05 Bad Education A New York
school superintendent is linked to an
embezzlement scandal. (2019, 15)
8.00 The Parts You Lose As 11.20am.
9.45 It Chapter Two Details as 1pm.
12.45 The Last Black Man In San
Francisco Drama. (2019, 15)
3.00 The Top Ten Show Clips.
3.15 The Runaways Drama. (2019, 12)
5.15 Top Ten — James Bond Clips.
5.30-6.00 Jacqueline Wilson —
Four Kids, It And Me Interview.
SKY CINEMA THRILLER
1.25pm Layer Cake A dealer trying to
go straight is sent to find a mobster’s
drug-addicted daughter. (2004, 15)
3.15 The Hate U Give Drama. (2018, 12)
5.30 Searching Mystery. (2018, 12)
7.15 Greta A waitress gets more than
she bargained for after returning a lost
handbag to its owner. (2018, 15)
9.00 Layer Cake Details as 1.25pm.
11.00 Hotel Mumbai Terrorists take
staff and residents hostage at the Taj
Mahal Palace Hotel in 2018. (2018, 15)
1.05-2.55 The Wedding Guest Stars
Dev Patel and Radhika Apte. (2018, 15)
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DRAMA
12.00 The Bill Police drama series.
1.00 Classic EastEnders Soap.
2.15 London’s Burning (S11, ep 15)
3.20 Peak Practice (S3, ep 15)
4.20 Dangerfield Medical drama.
5.20 Birds Of A Feather Sitcom.
6.00 Waiting For God Comedy.
6.40 ’Allo ’Allo! Classic comedy.
7.20 Last Of The Summer Wine
8.00 Dalziel & Pascoe The trial of
a child murderer collapses,
and Pascoe soon becomes
embroiled in the lives of a
victim’s family. (S11, ep 5)
10.00 New Tricks Standing
investigates a greyhound’s
kidnapping. (Series 2, ep 6)
11.20 Silent Witness When a
wealthy banker dies, Harry
and Nikki reach different
conclusions. (Series 13, ep 2)
1.30 The Bill Police drama series.
2.30 London’s Burning (S11, ep 15)
3.30-4.00 Birds Of A Feather
SKY CINEMA GREATS
6.15am Snow White And The Seven
Dwarfs Disney animation. (1937, U)
7.45 Star Wars — Attack Of The
Clones Sci-fi adventure. (2002, PG)
10.10 Evita Musical drama. (1996, PG)
12.30 The Bridge On The River Kwai A
British colonel in a Japanese PoW camp
must build a railway bridge. (1957, PG)
3.15 The Great Gatsby A naive writer
slowly uncovers the dark underside of
a millionaire’s lavish lifestyle. (2013, 12)
5.45 Unforgiven Two gunslingers help
a bounty hunter kill a pair of cowboys
who attacked a prostitute. (1992, 15)
8.00 Dirty Harry A tough detective
vows to capture a deranged sniper
picking off victims at random. (1971, 15)
9.45 The French Connection New
York cops use unorthodox methods to
try to break a drug ring. (1971, 18)
11.35 Sleepers Four friends vow to take
revenge on the prison guards who
abused them as teenagers. (1996, 18)
2.05 Boys Don’t Cry Drama. (1999, 18)
4.05-6.45 The Guns Of Navarone
Second World War adventure. (1961, PG)
What, no donor card? (TPTV, 10pm)
ITV2
7.00 Ellen DeGeneres Chat.
8.00 Emmerdale Rural soap.
8.30 Coronation Street Soap.
9.00 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
9.25 Supermarket Sweep
10.25 Ellen’s Game Of Games
11.20 Dress To Impress Dating.
12.25 Emmerdale Rural soap.
12.55 Coronation Street Soap.
1.30 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
2.00 Ellen DeGeneres Chat.
2.55 Dress To Impress Dating.
4.00 Supermarket Sweep
5.00 Ellen’s Game Of Games
6.00 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
8.00 Roswell, New Mexico
Cameron confronts Jesse
about where her sister is; and
Liz needs a favour. (S2, ep 4)
9.00 Love Island — Australia After
six weeks in the villa, the
winning couple is given
$50,000 to start their new
lives together. (Last in series)
10.15 Celebrity Juice Comedy
quiz, hosted by Keith Lemon.
10.55 Family Guy Peter becomes a
campaigner for immigration
rights. (Series 6, ep 6) 11.25
Family Guy Lois runs for
mayor. (Series 5, ep 17)
11.55 American Dad! Steve and
Snot plan a party for their
fellow social misfits. (S12, ep
11) 12.25 American Dad! Stan
goes on a wild night out with
some co-workers. (S5, ep 20)
12.50 The Cleveland Show Donna
is jealous when Cleveland’s
former school friend ‘Fatty
Patty’ turns up. (S2, ep 18)
1.20 The Almost Impossible
Gameshow Challenges.
2.20 Joel Dommett — Finding Emo
3.10 Totally Bonkers Guinness
World Records Feats.
3.25 Nightscreen Information.
3.30-7.00 Teleshopping
SKY CINEMA BLOCKBUSTERS
3.45pm The Twilight Saga — New
Moon Romantic fantasy. (2009, 12)
6.00 The Lion King (2019, PG)
8.00 The Matrix A computer hacker
joins with rebels to free humans from
a virtual-reality fantasy. (1999, 15)
10.20 The Matrix Reloaded Freedom
fighters act when machines threaten
the last refuge of humanity. (2003, 15)
12.40 The Matrix Revolutions Stars
Keanu Reeves. Sci-fi sequel. (2003, 15)
2.50 I Am Legend Sci-fi. (2007, 15)
4.35-6.35 The Chronicles Of Narnia
— The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader
Stars Georgie Henley. (2010, PG)
FILM 4
11.00am Destroyer (1943, U)
1.05 7th Cavalry Western. (1956, U)
2.45 The Great Sioux Massacre Stars
Philip Carey. Western. (1965, U)
4.50 Carry On Constable (1960, U)
6.35 Life Of Pi A man tells of how he
ended up adrift at sea with only a
ferocious tiger for company. (2012, PG)
9.00 Deadpool A mercenary uses his
superpowers to get payback. (2016, 15)
11.10 Buried Thriller. (2010, 15)
1.00-3.30 Sicilian Ghost Story
Fantasy crime drama. (2017, 15)
TALKING PICTURES TV
3.15pm The Hypnotist (1957, PG)
5.00 The Secret Of The Incas (1954, U)
7.00 The Man Who Finally Died Stars
Stanley Baker. Mystery. (1963, PG)
9.00 Budgie Crime drama series.
10.00 CHOICE The Man Who Could
Cheat Death Stars Anton Diffring and
Hazel Court. (1959, 12; see Film choice)
11.45-1.30 What A Crazy World
Stars Joe Brown. Drama. (1963, 12)
1G
ITV3
6.00 Classic Coronation Street
7.00 Classic Emmerdale Soap.
8.00 Heartbeat Rural drama.
9.00 Bless This House Comedy
10.05 That’s My Boy Sitcom.
10.40 Marple (Series 2, ep 2)
12.40 Heartbeat Rural drama.
1.45 Classic Emmerdale Soap.
2.50 Classic Coronation Street
3.55 That’s My Boy Sitcom.
4.30 Poirot A dentist’s wife fears
for her life. (Series 2, ep 4)
5.30 Heartbeat Missing explosives
cause trouble for Blaketon.
6.30 Downton Abbey Family
tensions threaten to derail
preparations for Rose’s
wedding. (Series 5, ep 8)
8.00 Midsomer Murders With Neil
Dudgeon. The unveiling of a
newly found novel by a
deceased writer is jeopardised
when the manuscript is stolen
and an artist is electrocuted
by a lethal roulette wheel.
10.00 Law & Order: UK A teenager
is found kicked to death at
Euston Station and the
suspect’s barrister gathers
evidence for an audacious
defence strategy that could
change the nature of the
British legal system. (S1, ep 2)
11.00 Scott & Bailey Rachel’s life
becomes more complicated;
horrific events unfold after a
killer’s arrest; and Janet
reopens the investigation into
Veronica’s murder. (S1, ep 2)
12.05 A Touch Of Frost A stolen car
is found with a body in the
boot. (Series 6, ep 4)
2.05 Poirot The sleuth investigates
the disappearance of a
bank’s most valued
customer. (Series 2, ep 3)
3.25 Nightscreen Information.
3.30-6.00 Teleshopping
ENTERTAINMENT
GOLD
7.15am Porridge 7.45 The Green Green
Grass 8.20 Porridge 9.00 Are You
Being Served? 9.40 Last Of The
Summer Wine 11.40 Porridge 12.20 Are
You Being Served? 1.00 The Green
Green Grass 1.40 Only Fools And
Horses 3.35 Last Of The Summer Wine
5.30 Are You Being Served? 6.05 Only
Fools And Horses 9.30 Bottom 10.05
Men Behaving Badly 11.20 Only Fools
And Horses 12.50 Bottom 1.30 Men
Behaving Badly 2.35-4.00 The Rebel
SKY COMEDY
6.00pm 30 Rock 6.30 Modern Family
7.30 The Mindy Project 9.00 Insecure.
Issa has a crisis over a party 9.35 Betty
10.15 Girls 10.50 The Tonight Show
11.50 Entourage 12.30 Vice Principals
1.10 Bored To Death 1.50 Parks And
Recreation 3.30-5.00 30 Rock
SKY WITNESS
6.00pm Nothing To Declare 7.00
Paramedics — Australia 8.00 Ghost
Whisperer 9.00 9-1-1. Debris from a
meteor shower crashes into a building
10.00 Coroner 11.00 Criminal Minds
12.00 Ghost Whisperer 1.00 Grey’s
Anatomy 2.00 Station 19 3.00 The
Good Doctor 4.00 Road Wars
5.00-6.00 Brit Cops — Rapid Response
W 3.00-5.00 Republic Of Doyle
6.00pm Tipping Point 7.00 Top Chef
8.00 Inside The Ambulance 9.00
Inside The Vets 10.00 Louis Theroux
— Gambling In Las Vegas. A trip to
Nevada 11.00 Inside The Ambulance
ITV4
5.55pm The Professionals East
German agents blackmail
a government employee.
7.00 Tour De France ReCycled
—Geraint’s Tour Action from
stage 16 of the 2018 race.
8.00 Giant Lobster Hunters The
Ella Rose is in potential
danger. (Series 2, ep 8)
9.00 Gordon, Gino And Fred —
American Road Trip The trio
visit San Francisco, where
highlights include afternoon
tea — laced with cannabis.
10.00 FILM: Coogan’s Bluff Stars
Clint Eastwood and Lee J
Cobb. An Arizona sheriff
searches New York for an
escaped killer. Intense.
(1968, 15; includes FYI Daily)
12.05 FILM: National Lampoon’s
Vacation Stars Chevy Chase
and Beverly D’Angelo. A man
takes his wife and kids on a
disaster-filled cross-country
trip. Amusing romp. (1983,
15; includes FYI Daily)
2.10 Lethal Weapon (S2, ep 10)
3.00-6.00 Teleshopping
Everest challenge (Nat Geog, 8pm)
12.00 One Born Every Minute 1.00
Louis Theroux — Gambling In Las Vegas
1.50-3.00 Top Chef. Cookery show.
5 STAR
6.00pm Neighbours 6.30 Home And
Away 7.00 Thieves & Thugs — Caught
On Camera 8.00 Criminals — Caught
On Camera 9.00 Fare Dodgers — At
War With The Law 10.00 Pickpockets &
Proud 11.00 FILM: The Chronicles Of
Riddick. Stars Vin Diesel and Judi
Dench 1.20 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It
Away 2.20 Will & Grace 3.10 Two
And A Half Men 3.55-4.00 Access
5 USA
6.00pm NCIS 9.00 Law & Order:
Criminal Intent 10.00 Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit 1.50 Remington
Steele 3.50-4.00 Access
QUEST
6.00pm Wheeler Dealers 7.00 Aussie
Gold Hunters 8.00 Salvage Hunters
9.00 Plane Reclaimers. A 747 tests
the crew 10.00 Border Control —
Spain 11.00 How Do They Do It?
12.00 Wheeler Dealers 1.00 American
Pickers 2.00 American Chopper 3.00
Ultimate Airport Dubai 4.00 Dirty
Jobs 5.00-6.00 How It’s Made
FOX
6.00pm The Mentalist 7.00 NCIS 9.00
American Dad! 9.30 Family Guy 11.00
American Dad! 12.00 Family Guy 1.00
American Dad! 2.00 Family Guy
COMEDY CENTRAL
6.00pm Friends 8.00 FILM: The Dukes
Of Hazzard. Stars Seann William Scott
10.00 Al Murray’s Great British Pub Quiz
E4
6.00 Hollyoaks Chester soap.
7.00 How I Met Your Mother
8.00 Melissa & Joey Sitcom.
9.00 Baby Daddy Comedy.
10.00 The Big Bang Theory
11.00 The Goldbergs Sitcom.
12.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
1.00 The Big Bang Theory
2.00 Melissa & Joey Sitcom.
3.00 The Goldbergs Comedy.
4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
5.00 Young Sheldon Comedy.
6.00 The Big Bang Theory Sheldon
is flattered when a graduate
student takes a shine to him.
(Series 2, ep 6) 6.30 The Big
Bang Theory Sheldon bans
Penny from the apartment.
7.00 Hollyoaks Chester soap.
7.30 Married At First Sight
Australia The wives get a
glimpse of their husbands’
lives in their hometowns;
Sean and Susan’s differences
are laid bare; and Sharon
becomes even closer to Nick.
9.00 The Inbetweeners Will plans
to celebrate his birthday with
a dinner party. (S2, ep 3)
9.35 The Inbetweeners Will
tries to reinvent the boys’
image by taking them
clubbing around London.
10.05 Derry Girls Jenny Joyce
organises a 1950s-style
prom. (Series 2, ep 5) 10.40
Derry Girls Excitement in
Derry is at fever pitch for
President Bill Clinton’s visit.
11.10 Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Buffy battles a species of
aquatic monsters. (S2, ep 20)
12.10 The Big Bang Theory Sitcom.
1.10 Gogglebox Opinions on TV.
2.10 The Inbetweeners Sitcom.
3.10 8 Out Of 10 Cats Quiz show.
3.55 The Big Bang Theory
4.45-6.00 How I Met Your Mother
11.00 Al Murray — The Only Way Is Epic
12.00 Bob’s Burgers 1.00 8 Out Of 10
Cats 2.00 Two And A Half Men 2.55
The Daily Show 3.25-5.00 Friends
YESTERDAY
6.00am The Living Universe 7.10
Abandoned Engineering 8.00 Royal
Murder Mysteries 9.00 Nazi Hunters
10.00 Antiques Roadshow 11.00
Abandoned Engineering 12.00 Great
British Railway Journeys 1.00 Antiques
Roadshow 2.00 David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities 3.00 The
Architecture The Railways Built 4.00
Abandoned Engineering 5.00 WW2
— Battles For Europe 6.00 Nazi Hunters
7.00 Great British Railway Journeys
8.00 David Jason — Planes, Trains And
Automobiles 9.00 Open All Hours
11.00 The Green Green Grass 11.35
Porridge 12.35-1.00 What A Carry On!
DAVE
6.00pm Taskmaster 7.00 House Of
Games 7.40 QI 9.00 Live At The Apollo
10.00 This Country 11.00 Taskmaster.
With Roisin Conaty, Tim Key, Romesh
Ranganathan, Frank Skinner and Josh
Widdicombe 12.00 Mock The Week
12.40 QI 1.20 Red Dwarf 2.00 This
Country 3.00 Red Dwarf 3.30-4.00 QI
PICK
6.00pm Star Trek — TNG 7.00 Hawaii
Five-0 8.00 Merlin 9.00 Killer
Colleagues. A hospital researcher fights
for life in his own ER 10.00 Britain’s
Most Evil Killers 11.00 CSI 12.00 Brit
Cops — Law & Disorder 1.00 Road Wars
2.00 Banged Up Abroad 3.00 Police
Force — Australia 4.00 Motorway
Patrol 5.00-6.00 Border Patrol
MORE 4
8.55 Vintage Gems Crafts.
9.20 A Place In The Sun Property.
10.15 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Items.
12.15 Escape To The Chateau —
DIY A pair continue the hunt
for their dream chateau.
1.15 Building The Dream A
couple in East Sussex plan to
build a straw-bale house.
2.15 Four In A Bed B&B contest.
4.55 Find It, Fix It, Drive It Henry
Cole and Sam Lovegrove
find a remote-control First
World War replica biplane.
5.55 The Supervet The team
examines a Bengal cat
involved in a road accident.
6.55 Escape To The Chateau
— DIY Dick Strawbridge
searches for wine hidden
during the Second World War.
7.55 Grand Designs A couple
decide to build a house
on an old industrial site in
the Midlothian countryside.
9.00 Britain’s Most Historic
Towns Alice Roberts explores
the Georgian era in Bristol,
discovering the story of the
world’s first chocolate factory.
10.00 999 — On The Front Line
Highlighting the effects of
substance abuse on the NHS,
as paramedics in Coventry
treat a suspected drink-driver
who has crashed his car.
11.05 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does
Countdown Vic Reeves and
Sara Pascoe join captains
Sean Lock and Lee Mack.
12.05 Emergency Helicopter
Medics A farmer is pierced
through the chest by a spike.
1.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA Advice.
2.10 999 — On The Front Line
3.15-3.40 Food Unwrapped
4.00-8.55 Teleshopping
FACTUAL
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
6.00pm Drain The Oceans — Deep
Dive 7.00 Air Crash Investigation 8.00
Expedition Everest. What the mountain
can reveal about the impact of climate
change 9.00 Lost On Everest. Climbers
search for the body of a missing 1920s
explorer 10.00 Seconds From Disaster
11.00 Air Crash Investigation 1.00-2.00
Airport Security — First Class
DISCOVERY
6.00pm Fast N’ Loud 7.00 Outback
Truckers 8.00 Mighty Ships. The Ibn
Battuta, one of the strongest dredgers
of its type 9.00 Deadliest Catch. Josh
takes a big risk to keep the Cornelia
Marie crew safe 10.00 All On The Line.
Eighteen-year-old captain Danny Smith
Jr makes his mark on the fleet 11.00
Homestead Rescue 12.00 Deadliest
Catch 1.00-2.00 All On The Line
PBS AMERICA
4.55pm 10 Modern Marvels That
Changed America 6.05 Plane
Resurrection 7.15 Britain’s Lost
Colosseum. The history of Chester’s
Roman amphitheatre 8.20 The Civil
War. The crusade to end slavery in
America 9.50 Plane Resurrection.
A restored example of the Westland
Lysander 11.00-12.25 The Civil War
SKY ARTS
6.00pm Discovering Errol Flynn 7.00
Tate Britain’s Great British Walks. The
work of William Powell Frith 8.00
Landscape Artist Of The Year 2019.
From the Herstmonceux Observatory
SPORT
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT
6.00am News 8.00 Fighting Fit 8.30
Fit In 5: Strength 8.40 Fit In 5: Abs &
Core 2 8.50 Fit In 5: Challenger 9.00
News 10.00 The Football Show 12.00
News 2.00 LIVE MLS: Inter Miami CF
v Chicago Fire. Coverage of the MLS is
Back Group A match at ESPN Wide
World of Sports Complex in Florida.
Kickoff 2.00 4.10 One2Eleven: Wayne
Hennessey 4.20 One2Eleven: Stephen
Carr 4.30 News 5.30 Soccer Special
8.00 LIVE Premier League: Chelsea
v Norwich City. Coverage of the
top-flight fixture, which takes place at
Stamford Bridge. Kickoff at 8.15 10.45
PL Greatest Games 11.00-6.00 News
EUROSPORT 1
7.00am Tennis. Highlights from the
quarter-finals of the Berlin Bett1 Aces
8.00 Tour De France: Thomas 2018
11.00 Superbikes — MotoAmerica 12.00
Speedway. The European championship
1.00 Athletics: Diamond League 2.00
Tour De France: Thomas 2018 5.00 Hall
Of Fame: Greatest Cyclists 6.00
Speedway 7.00 Superbikes —
MotoAmerica 8.00 Tour De France:
Thomas 2018 11.00 Tennis 12.00 World
Poker Tour 1.00 Hall Of Fame: Greatest
Gymnasts 2.00 Tour De France:
Thomas 2018 5.00-7.00 Snooker:
World Championship Final 2012
BT SPORT 1
6.00am Premier League Review 7.00
WWE Friday Night SmackDown 8.45
Goals Reload 9.00 ESPN FC 9.30 FIM
CEV Repsol 12.30 V8 Supercars
Highlights. Highlights from races in
Sydney 2.30 World RX Esports 3.30
Bundesliga Special 4.30 ESPN FC 5.00
Premier League Review. Including
Tottenham v Arsenal, Watford v
Newcastle and Liverpool v Burnley
6.00 Fishing — On The Bank 7.00 The
WRC Magazine 7.30 Bundesliga Special
8.30 Uefa Champions League Magazine
9.00 WWE Monday Night Raw 11.30
WWE NXT 1.15 Goals Reload 1.30
Fishing — On The Bank 2.30 FIM CEV
Repsol 5.30-6.00 Bundesliga Special
9.00 Portrait Artist Of The Year. With
Ken Stott, Mike Leigh and Lydia
Leonard 10.00 Florence & The
Machine/Andra Day — Austin City
Limits 11.15-1.00 Bronx Gothic
SKY DOCUMENTARIES
6.00am Irene’s Ghost 7.40 My Icon
— Michael Holding 8.00 Hotel Secrets
9.00 Discovering Sophia Loren 10.00
The Directors 11.00 The British 12.00
Hollywood Couples 1.00 Hotel Secrets
2.00 Irene’s Ghost 3.40 My Icon —
Solomon Wilcots 4.00 Discovering Kirk
Douglas 5.00 The Directors 6.00 The
British 7.00 Hollywood Couples 8.00
The Sixties. Space exploration 9.00
CHOICE Saudi Women’s Driving
School. The stories of those discovering
a new way of life now they can legally
drive. (See Critics’ choice) 10.15-12.00
The Biggest Little Farm. Documentary
SKY NATURE
6.00am City Wildlife Rescue 7.00
Monkey Life 8.00 Shark Squad 12.00
Wild Rockies 1.00 Monkey Life 2.00
Shark Squad 6.00 Wild Rockies 7.00
Monkey Life 8.00 Macro Worlds
9.00 Land Of Primates 10.00 Wild
Rockies 11.00-12.00 Shark Squad
SMITHSONIAN
6.00am Mystic Britain 8.00 Combat
Ships 9.00 Private Lives Of The
Windsors 10.00 Epic Warrior Women
11.00 Combat Ships 12.00 Aerial Britain
1.00 Mystic Britain 2.00 Combat Ships
4.00 Epic Warrior Women 5.00 Air
Warriors 6.00 Private Lives Of The
Windsors 7.00 Mystic Britain 9.00 The
Pacific War In Colour 10.00 Atomic Age
Declassified 11.00-12.00 Mystic Britain
RADIO
PICK OF THE DAY
The Political School
Radio 4, 11am
The author Timandra
Harkness, pictured, explores
the theory dear to prime
ministerial adviser Dominic
Cummings, that our political
system needs radical
overhaul. DNA And Me
(World Service, 9am) shows
why a home DNA kit shocked
the reporter Sophia Smith
Galer with what it revealed.
Operation Night Watch
(World Service, 11.30am)
observes Rembrandt’s great
painting being restored.
Gillian Reynolds
RADIO 4
5.33 Shipping 5.43 Prayer 5.45
Farming Today 5.58 Tweet Of The Day
(R) 6.00 Today 8.30 (LW) Yesterday In
Parliament 9.00 Positive Thinking. How
dropping the school calendar could
help children fulfil their true potential
9.30 Behind The Buzzwords 9.45 Book
Of The Week 9.45 (LW) Daily Service
10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 The Political
School. New series examining Britain’s
political system, with Timandra
Harkness 11.30 The Last Songs Of Gaia
12.00 News 12.04 The Girl With The
Louding Voice 12.18 Call You And Yours
1.00 The World At One 1.45 Bloodsport
2.00 The Archers (R) 2.15 Drama: Tiger
Girls, by Amy Ng (R) 3.00 The Kitchen
Cabinet (R) 3.30 The Curious Cases Of
Rutherford & Fry 4.00 Word Of Mouth
4.30 A Good Read 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW)
Shipping 6.00 News 6.30 Meet David
Sedaris (R) 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front
Row 7.45 Why Mummy Swears 8.00
File On 4 8.40 In Touch 9.00 Inside
Health 9.30 Positive Thinking (R) 10.00
The World Tonight 10.45 Book At
Bedtime (R) 11.00 The Infinite Monkey
Cage (R) 11.30 Today In Parliament
12.00 News 12.30 Book Of The Week
(R) 12.48 Shipping 1.00 World Service
TIMES RADIO
5.00 Calum Macdonald With Early
Breakfast 6.00 Aasmah Mir And Stig
Abell With Times Radio Breakfast
10.00 Matt Chorley 1.00 Mariella
Frostrup 4.00 John Pienaar At Drive
7.00 Phil Williams. Including sports
roundup at 9.30 10.00 Carole
Walker. Including tomorrow’s front
pages at 10.30 1.00 Stories Of Our
Times. The Times’s podcast 1.30 Red
Box. Matt Chorley’s politics podcast
2.00 Highlights From Times Radio
To get in touch with the Times Radio
studio, text TIMES plus your message
to 87222. Texts cost your standard
message charge.
RADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 Sneakiepeeks 5.30 The
Unbelievable Truth 6.00 Raffles 6.30
Miss Marple: Nemesis 7.00 Hazelbeach
7.30 It’s A Fair Cop 8.00 Goon Show
8.30 Albert And Me 9.00 Dead
Ringers 9.30 Like They’ve Never Been
Gone 10.00 The Raj Quartet 11.00
Telling Tales 12.00 Goon Show 12.30
Albert And Me 1.00 Raffles 1.30 Miss
Marple: Nemesis 2.00 The Museum
Of Curiosity 2.30 Like They’ve Never
Been Gone 3.00 The Raj Quartet 4.00
Telling Tales 5.00 Hazelbeach 5.30 It’s
A Fair Cop 6.00 Fear On Four 6.30
Soul Music 7.00 Goon Show 7.30
Albert And Me 8.00 Raffles 8.30 The
British Podcast Awards 10.00 It’s A
Fair Cop. Comedic tales 10.30
Everyone Quite Likes Justin 11.00 Ida
Barr — Artificial Hip Hop 11.15 Date
With Fate 11.30-12.00 Odd Half Hour
LBC
7.00 Matt Frei 10.00 James O’Brien
1.00 Shelagh Fogarty 4.00 Eddie Mair
7.00 Iain Dale 10.00 Tom Swarbrick
1.00 Darren Adam 4.00 Steve Allen
RADIO 3
6.30 Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer Of The Week 1.00
Lunchtime Concert. Live at City Halls,
Glasgow, the bass-baritone Michael
Mofidian and the pianist Julia Lynch
perform music by Vaughan Williams,
Ravel, Schubert and Tchaikovsky 2.00
Afternoon Concert. Featuring the BBC
Singers performing Poulenc’s Figure
humaine, a concert by the BBC SO,
and Simon Höfele playing Bernd Alois
Zimmermann’s trumpet concerto 5.00
In Tune 7.00 In Tune Mixtape 7.30 In
Concert. Harry Christophers directs
The Sixteen in a performance of works
by two Spanish Renaissance
composers, at the 2015 York Early
Music festival (R) 10.00 Free Thinking.
Matthew Sweet and guests in
conversation about the enduring
appeal of magic 10.45 The Essay.
From her garage studio in Wiltshire,
Verity Sharp talks to Chris Wood, who
has found solace during lockdown in
the poetry of John Clare, and drawn
inspiration from the family sofa 11.00
Night Tracks. An adventurous,
immersive soundtrack for late-night
listening 12.30 Through The Night
CLASSIC FM
6.00 Tim Lihoreau 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall
4.00 John Brunning 8.00 The Concert.
John Suchet introduces Saint-Saëns’
‘Urbs Roma’ symphony, Berlioz’s
Roman Carnival Overture and Fauré’s
Cantique De Jean Racine 10.00
Margherita Taylor 1.00 Sam Pittis
RADIO 2
5.00 Nicki Chapman 6.30 The Zoe Ball
Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00 Angela Scanlon In
The Afternoon 5.00 Amol Rajan 8.00
Jo Whiley 11.00 The Jazz Show With
Jamie Cullum 12.00 Gethin Jones.
Sitting in for OJ Borg 3.00 Sounds Of
The 80s With Gary Davies (R) 4.50
Radio 2 Sounds Of The 80s Mastermix
VIRGIN RADIO
6.30 The Chris Evans Breakfast Show
10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris 1.00
Tim Cocker 4.00 Kate Lawler 7.00
Steve Denyer 10.00 Amy Voce 1.00
Through The Night 4.00 Ben Jones
TALKSPORT
5.00 Early Breakfast 6.00 Breakfast
With Laura Woods 10.00 White And
Sawyer 1.00 Max Rushden & Charlie
Baker 4.00 Drive With Adrian Durham
& Darren Gough 7.00 The PressBox
10.00 Sports Bar 1.00 Extra Time
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All right, my sun? Giles Clark and Mary, a bear in need of sanctuary (BBC2, 8pm)
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Bears About The House
(BBC2, 8pm)
Like Gordon (... and Me)
Buchanan, Giles Clark is a
man with a brand. Tigers
About The House was followed
by Big Cats About The House,
and now there’s this two-
parter in which the former
zookeeper spends a year in
Laos helping out at a friend’s
sanctuary: in part one, looking
after a baby sun bear called
Mary, and later overseeing
two more orphans. As in the
earlier series, the cutesy stuff
serves as sugar to sweeten
the conservation message;
there are jolting glimpses of
the grim fate (being tortured
in farms where bear bile is
extracted) from which the
cubs have been rescued.
John Dugdale
FILM CHOICE
Berlin Express (Sony
Movies Action, 7.40am)
Jacques Tourneur, a director
known for his way with
atmosphere, made this thriller
in Germany soon after the
Second World War, and bomb-
wrecked cityscapes greatly
enhance its story, a cloak-and-
dagger tale with Merle Oberon
and Robert Ryan on a perilous
train journey. (1948) B/W
42 12 July 2020
For The Love Of Dogs —
Back In Business (ITV, 8pm)
Always a soft touch when it
comes to pets, Paul O’Grady’s
defences are especially low
in this programme, filmed
in March as Battersea Dogs
and Cats Home prepared for
lockdown. While staff seek out
foster homes for the animals,
O’Grady makes contact with
six-week old puppies and — on
a “rare trip over to the dark
side” — a cat called Bear. (VS)
Mrs America (BBC2, 9pm)
A double bill begins with
Shirley Chisholm (Uzo
Aduba) still bidding to be the
Democrats’ candidate at the
party’s 1972 convention. Then
the spotlight switches to Betty
Friedan (Tracey Ullman),
“mother of the women’s
movement”, who debates
with Phyllis Schlafly (Cate
Blanchett). Amma Asante
directs both episodes. (JD)
Condor (Sky 1, 9pm)
“Exile is a dream of glorious
return,” reads the title card —
this show comes with weighty
aspirations. The second
series unfolds once more as a
standard spy thriller, however,
with CIA analyst Joe (Max
Irons) being drawn back into a
high-stakes game. A reminder:
Condor is big on the sudden
ambush and surprise gunfire,
so don’t become too attached
to any of the characters. (VS)
Walking Britain’s Roman
Roads (5 Select, 9pm)
In contrast to the agreeable
hikes of Julia Bradbury, Dan
Jones is forced to march
through Yorkshire and
Northumbria in freezing
winter weather. He sets off
from York along Dere Street,
which runs northwards and
peters out in Scotland; and
explores east-west Stanegate
and Hadrian’s Wall. (JD)
1G
BBC1
6.00 Breakfast The latest reports.
9.00 BBC News Headlines.
10.00 Rip Off Britain A report on
the couriers who did a
runner after being hired
to move valuable items.
10.45 Homes Under The Hammer
Properties at auction. (R)
11.45 Caught Red Handed (R)
12.15 Bargain Hunt In York. (R)
1.00 News; Weather Reports.
1.45 The Heights Family strains
show for Sully and his
mother; and Sabine turns
matchmaker for Mich.
2.15 Impossible Gameshow. (R)
3.00 Escape To The Country Jules
Hudson crosses the Solent to
go house shopping on the Isle
of Wight with a couple who
have a £750,000 budget. (R)
3.45 Home Is Where The Art Is
Nick Knowles challenges a
sculptor, a ceramicist and a
painter to create something
to celebrate a couple’s 25th
wedding anniversary.
4.30 The Repair Shop — Fixing
Britain Jay Blades looks back
at three fixes from the archive
— a centuries-old clock, a toy
and a clocking-off machine
— to explore how clockwork
still influences modern life.
5.15 Pointless Unorthodox quiz.
6.00 News; Weather Reports.
6.30 Regional News Update.
6.55 MOTD Gary Lineker presents
live second-half coverage of
the Premier League fixture
between Burnley and
Wolverhampton Wanderers,
taking place at Turf Moor.
8.00 The Repair Shop The team
tackles a radio that survived
Dunkirk, a battered leather
gaming case, a grandfather
clock with a poignant history
and Viking statues. (R)
9.00 Celebrity Masterchef The
actress Felicity Montagu,
musician Lady Leshurr, travel
presenter Amar Latif, and
television presenters Gethin
Jones and Jeff Brazier enter
the studios to demonstrate
their culinary skills.
10.00 News; Weather Reports.
10.45 Match Of The Day Arsenal v
Liverpool, and Manchester
City v Bournemouth.
11.50 A Question Of Sport With
guests Carl Fogarty, Imani-
Lara Lansiquot, Kevin Phillips
and Bianca Walkden. (R)
12.25-6.00 Joins BBC News
SCOTLAND 6.30 Reporting Scotland.
Ocean’s Eleven
(Sky Cinema Blockbusters,
10.05am/10pm)
Even though suave, virile
coolness is represented in
Steven Soderbergh’s heist
movie by two paragons of the
form, George Clooney and
Brad Pitt, the rather more
weathered sophistication of
Carl Reiner (who died last
month) is still the film’s most
sublime asset. His comic skills
and his air of experience
make him a hit in his role as a
veteran con artist. (2001) (EP)
BBC2
6.30 Home Is Where The Art Is (R)
7.15 The Repair Shop — Fixing
Britain Maritime history. (R)
8.00 Great Asian Railway
Journeys Travel. (Signed, R)
9.00 Jungle Atlantis (1/2, R)
10.00 News; Weather Reports.
11.15 Politics Live Discussion.
1.00 The Boss Quiz show. (R)
1.45 The Hairy Bikers’ Bakeation
The culinary duo bake their
way through Austria. (R)
2.45 Wild China Creatures living
in the Yunnan Province. (R)
3.45 Sporting Legends Profile.
3.55 Olympics Rewind — Beijing
2008 A look back at days
seven to 10 of the event.
5.30 MOTD The first half of the
Premier League fixture
between Burnley and
Wolverhampton Wanderers,
live at Turf Moor. Kickoff is at
6.00. Continues on BBC1.
7.00 Back In Time For Tea The
family enjoys the new
freedoms of the 1960s,
from steak and chips and
caravan holidays to muscle-
man competitions. (R)
8.00 CHOICE Bears About The
House The conservationist
Giles Clark embarks on his
biggest mission to date
— taking on the illegal wildlife
trade and helping to build a
new bear sanctuary in Laos.
(1/2; see Critics’ choice)
9.00 CHOICE Mrs America With
Uzo Aduba. The proponents of
the Equal Rights Amendment
prepare for the Democratic
presidential campaign, and
must choose between the
crowd-pleaser George
McGovern or the trail-blazing
Shirley Chisholm. (3/9) 9.45
Mrs America The Supreme
Court makes an historic
judgement legalising
abortion. (See Critics’ choice)
10.35 Grand Tours Of Scotland
Paul Murton travels to the
icy summit of Ben Nevis.
10.45 Newsnight The day’s events.
11.30 Once Upon A Time In Iraq
Documentary examining the
realities of war and life under
Isis, with unique personal
archive from civilians and
soldiers from both sides
of the conflict. (1/5, R)
12.30 You Are What You Wear
(Signed, Last in series, R)
1.30 Inside Monaco — Playground
Of The Rich (Signed, R)
2.30-3.00 Celebrity Masterchef
Competition. (Signed, R)
ON DEMAND
The Sinner (Netflix)
The first two seasons of
Derek Simonds’s American
crime drama were almost
unbearably tense, their ever-
shifting narratives unfolding
with stealth and unease.
What kept you watching was
the brilliant performances
from the chief suspects —
Jessica Biel (season one) and
Carrie Coon (season two)
ITV
6.00 Good Morning Britain
9.00 Lorraine Lifestyle chat.
10.00 This Morning Features.
12.30 Loose Women Debate.
1.30 News; Weather Reports.
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal David
Dickinson and the team visit
the Old Granada Studios in
Manchester, where items
include a collection of gold. (R)
3.00 Tenable Quiz show. (R)
4.00 Tipping Point Gameshow. (R)
5.00 The Chase Bradley Walsh
presents the quiz show. (R)
6.00 Regional News Update.
6.30 News; Weather Reports.
7.00 Emmerdale Jamie worries
about keeping the truth from
Kim, but Andrea tells him they
must convince her that they
are back together for good.
7.30 Coronation Street Alya fears
that Geoff may win Yasmeen
back; and Kevin urges Abi to
meet up with the twins one
last time before they leave for
Australia or she will regret it.
8.00 CHOICE For The Love Of
Dogs — Back In Business
Paul O’Grady returns to
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
to see how staff have coped
during the coronavirus crisis.
(See Critics’ choice)
9.00 Benidorm Amber and the
staff hatch a plan to cheer
Les up; Troy thinks he is
being stalked by his ex Gavin;
and a case of mistaken
identity gets Rob, Joey and
Tiger into trouble with the
law. (Series 8, ep 6, R)
10.00 News At Ten Bulletin.
10.45 Peston Political magazine.
11.45 Long Lost Family — What
Happened Next Davina
McCall and Nicky Campbell
follow the story of reunited
siblings as they investigate a
family mystery and try to
trace a missing sister. (R)
12.35 Teleshopping Goods.
3.00 Nightscreen Information.
5.05-6.00 Judge Rinder Cases. (R)
Pioneer: Uzo Aduba (BBC2, 9pm)
— and the grey-grizzled Bill
Pullman as sciatica-stricken
detective Harry Ambrose.
Unfortunately, season three
commits a huge boo-boo by
making its key villain a whiny
white bloke with a Nietzsche
complex (Matt Bomer). Of
course, we still have Bill, and
there are some lovely scenes
between him and Jessica
Hecht as a reclusive painter,
but that’s never quite enough.
If Simonds makes it to season
four he needs to reinstate that
strong female lead. (AM)
CHANNEL 4
6.30 Cheers Comedy series. (R)
7.20 Mike & Molly Sitcom. (R)
8.05 The Big Bang Theory (R)
9.00 Frasier American sitcom. (R)
10.30 Come Dine With Me (R)
12.00 News; Weather Reports.
12.05 Come Dine With Me (R)
1.05 A New Life In The Sun (R)
2.10 Countdown Gameshow. (R)
3.00 A Place In The Sun Advice. (R)
4.00 Sun, Sea And Selling Houses
A couple look to swap the
Scottish Highlands for some
Spanish sunshine. (R)
5.00 Four In A Bed B&B contest. (R)
5.30 Come Dine With Me (R)
6.00 The Simpsons Marge takes
action and launches an
anti-sugar campaign. (R)
6.30 The Simpsons Lisa
befriends Sideshow Bob. (R)
7.00 News; Weather Reports.
8.00 Location, Location, Location
Kirstie Allsopp tries to help a
couple find a bigger home in
Blackpool; and Phil Spencer
helps a climber from
Scotland who wants a new
home in the Lake District. (R)
9.00 Grand Designs Kevin
McCloud meets a Spanish
architect and his wife as they
embark on a mission to
convert a Grade II listed
folly into a family home in
Buckinghamshire. (R)
10.00 Naked Attraction A 25-year-
old estate agent and a
29-year-old transsexual each
choose a date after seeing
what they have to offer on a
purely physical level. (R)
11.05 Celebrity Gogglebox Some
of Britain’s best-loved
personalities appraise the
10.00 Shoplifters — At War With
week’s television. (R)
12.10 Wife Swap USA A sports-
obsessed mother swaps
places with a more
laid-back, hippy mum. (R)
1.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA Advice. (R)
1.50 Couples Come Dine With Me
Parties in Manchester. (R)
2.45 FILM: The Family Stars
Robert De Niro and Michelle
12.05 Robbing Your Relatives
Pfeiffer. A gangster and his
family go into witness
protection, but cannot resist
returning to their criminal
ways. Uneven. (2013, 15)
4.35 Grand Designs Australia
Building a sleek underground
eco bunker that will look
like a bush garden. (R)
5.30 Fill Your House For Free (R)
5.50-6.30 Countdown Game. (R)
Lynn + Lucy (BFI Player)
A drama about two young
women whose friendship is
corroded by envy, insecurity
and grim events, this British
film is the impressive first
feature of its writer-director,
Fyzal Boulifa, who is aided by
another promising newcomer,
Roxanne Scrimshaw. She
plays Lynn (alongside Nichola
Burley as Lucy), and though
the script risks overdoing the
miseries in her character’s
story, her performance is
always affecting. (2019) (EP)
CHANNEL 5
6.00 Milkshake! Fun for children.
9.15 Jeremy Vine Debate.
11.20 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It
Away Recouping debts. (R)
12.10 News; Weather Reports.
12.15 Nightmare Tenants, Slum
Landlords A property
developer calls in an eviction
specialist to oust squatters
from the derelict pub he has
recently purchased. (R)
1.15 Home And Away Bella and
Colby bump into each other
with unexpected results.
1.45 Neighbours Toadie learns
who Dee’s biological father is.
2.15 The Killer Trainer Thriller,
with Hannah Barefoot. A
woman confides her woes in
her personal trainer, but it
soon becomes clear he is
intent on taking a controlling
interest in her life. (R)
4.00 Friends American sitcom. (R)
5.00 News; Weather Reports.
5.30 Neighbours Soap. (R)
6.00 Home And Away (R)
6.30 News; Weather Reports.
7.00 Great British Bike Rides
Larry and George Lamb join
the World Hen Racing
championships. (R)
8.00 The Railway 24/7 British
Transport Police launch a
sting operation in Hull to
disrupt county-lines drug-
dealing on the network;
and a would-be train driver
is put through his paces.
9.00 Traffic Cops New series. In
south Derbyshire, after spate
of alleged violent robberies,
two officers support a local
police team as they track a
gang of teenage suspects.
The Law Documentary
following shopping-centre
security teams who are
locked in a cat-and-mouse
battle to catch criminals
using every excuse and trick
to evade capture. (R)
11.05 Criminals Caught On
Camera Secret cameras are
used to catch fly tippers. (R)
— Families At War (R)
1.00 The 21.co.uk Live Casino
Show Interactive gambling.
3.00 Access Showbiz gossip.
3.10 Red Arrows — Kings Of The
Sky Documentary. (R)
4.00 OMG! My Midlife Plastic
Crisis Insights. (R)
4.45 Wildlife SOS Animals. (R)
5.10 Great Artists Giotto. (R)
5.35-6.00 House Doctor (R)
SKY 1
6.00 Animal 999 Incidents. (R)
7.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue (R)
8.00 The Flash (Series 1, ep 23, R)
9.00 Supergirl (Series 2, ep 3, R)
10.00 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles Drama. (R)
1.00 Hawaii Five-0 Drama. (R)
3.00 Magnum PI (S2, ep 20, R)
4.00 Modern Family Sitcom. (R)
5.00 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
5.30 Premier League: Manchester
City v Bournemouth. All the
action from the top-flight
encounter, live at the Etihad
Stadium. Kickoff is at 6.00.
8.00 Rob & Romesh vs Ballet The
comedians Rob Beckett and
Romesh Ranganathan team
up to examine the world of
ballet and take part in a
performance of Swan Lake. (R)
9.00 CHOICE Condor New run of
the drama. While travelling
through Europe, Joe is
approached by a Russian
intelligence officer who
offers to reveal the identity
of a mole in exchange for
protection. (Series 2, ep 1;
see Critics’ choice)
10.10 Premier League’s Greatest
Moments Jamie Carragher
reveals his greatest Premier
League moments. (R)
12.10 A League Of Their Own With
Mo Farah and Rob Beckett. (R)
1.10 The Blacklist Secluded on a
private island, Red reunites
with an old flame. (S7, ep 12, R)
2.05 Micky Flanagan Thinking
Aloud The comedian tackles
a variety of topics. (R)
3.05 Hawaii Five-0 (S3, ep 13, R)
4.00 Highway Patrol Crime. (R)
5.00-6.00 Futurama Cartoon. (R)
VARIATIONS
BBC1 WALES 11.45 Bargain Hunt
12.30 Wales Today Coronavirus Daily
Update BBC2 WALES 1.45 First
Minister’s Questions 2.35 Wild China
3.35 Coast S4C 6.00 Cyw: Twm
Tisian 6.05 Hafod Haul 6.20 Syrcas
Deithiol Dewi 6.30 Loti Borloti 6.45
Sam Tan 6.55 Olobobs 7.00 Oli Wyn
7.10 Blero Yn Mynd I Ocido 7.25
Patrôl Pawennau 7.40 Cacamwnci
8.00 Jen A Jim Pob Dim 8.15 Bing
8.25 Straeon Ty Pen 8.40 Stiw 8.50
Teulu Ni 9.00 Cymylaubychain 9.10
Caru Canu 9.15 Sbridiri 9.35 Guto
Gwningen 9.45 Sbarc 10.00 Twm
Tisian 10.05 Hafod Haul 10.20 Syrcas
Deithiol Dewi 10.30 Loti Borloti 10.45
Sam Tan 11.00 Dysgu Gyda Cyw
YOU SAY
What a fantastic programme Art Of Persia was.
Samira Ahmed made it a real show about art,
not a Samira Ahmed show. BBC4 is certainly
my favourite channel.
Eleonora van Wijchgel
Agree. The Art of Persia was superb. Samira Ahmed
was a perfect presenter; no nervous twitching just
a calm, engaging, well-informed presence with
manifest enthusiasm for her subject. More, please.
Mrs R King
Samira Ahmed beautiful and wonderful.
Sheila FitzPatrick
ATLANTIC
6.00 Fish Town Life in Brixham.
7.00 Urban Secrets In Dublin.
8.00 The Guest Wing Insights.
9.00 Elementary (Series 1, ep 17)
10.00 CSI Crime drama series.
1.00 Elementary (Series 1, ep 18)
2.00 Blue Bloods Jackie goes
undercover as an escort. (S2,
ep 7) 3.00 Blue Bloods
Henry suffers a heart attack.
4.00 CSI A body is found in a
chimney. (S6, ep 16) 5.00 CSI
TV cameras follow the agents
as they investigate a rape.
6.00 CSI Two siblings confess
to a schoolgirl’s murder.
7.00 Blue Bloods A dangerous
convict strikes a deal with
Danny. (Series 2, ep 9) 8.00
Blue Bloods Erin enlists
Danny and Jackie’s help to
find the killer of an informant
who had been helping her.
9.00 Penny Dreadful — City Of
Angels With Daniel Zovatto.
Tiago and Molly visit Santa
Monica Pier; and Mateo is
invited into a new world. (3/10)
10.10 Perry Mason Strickland and
Mason lean on Virgil for legal
assistance; and Birdy urges
Sister Alice to renounce her
claims about Charlie. (4/8)
11.20 The Sopranos Johnny Sack is
granted temporary leave from
prison so he can attend his
daughter’s wedding, where
he puts pressure on Tony to
kill Rusty Millio. (S6, ep 5)
12.30 Get Shorty Miles has been
released from prison, and has
a plan for revenge. (S3, ep 1)
1.40 Californication (S7, ep 11)
2.15 Elementary Two episodes.
4.00-6.00 The Guest Wing
12.00 Caru Siopa 12.30 Datganiad
Dyddiol Covid-19 1.00 Heno 1.30
Natur A Ni 2.00 Newyddion 2.05
Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion 3.05
Trysorau’r Teulu 4.00 Awr Fawr
5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Y Ty Cymreig
6.30 Gêm Gartre 7.00 Heno 7.30
Newyddion 8.00 Heno Aur. Looking
back at 30 years of Heno 8.25 Y Sioe
Fwyd. With guest Aeron Pughe 8.55
Newyddion 9.00 Pawb A’i Farn. New
series. Examining the impact of
Covid-19 on lives and livelihoods in
Wales 10.00 Miwsig Fy Mywyd. The
soprano Rhian Lois is keeping Tudur
Owen company 11.00-12.00 Clwb
Rygbi. Pontypridd v Llanelli in the
2002 Principality Cup final
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BBC4
7.00pm River Walks — The Nidd
7.30 The Joy Of Painting Bob Ross
creates an unexpected place
of respite for a traveller.
8.00 Rise Of The Nazis The
infamous Night of the Long
Knives in 1934. (Last in series)
9.00 Ian Hislop’s Stiff Upper Lip
— An Emotional History Of
Britain How the British
expressed their feelings in the
20th century. (Last in series)
10.00 Top Of The Pops Classic
Kylie Minogue performances.
10.30 Germaine Bloody Greer
A profile of the writer.
11.30 Virago — Changing The
World One Page At A Time
12.30 Andrew Marr’s Great Scots
1.30 The Joy Of Painting
2.00 River Walks — The Nidd
2.30-3.30 Ian Hislop’s Stiff Upper
Lip — An Emotional History
Of Britain (Last in series)
Shared responsibility: Washington and Hackman see red (ITV4, 9pm)
FILMS
SKY CINEMA PREMIERE
6.00am Buffaloed Comedy. (2019, 15)
7.45 The Guardian Comedy. (2020, 12)
9.40 The Runaways Three children
take the family’s donkeys and set out to
find their estranged mother. (2019, 12)
11.40 Olympic Dreams A love story
develops between two lonely hearts at
the Winter Olympic Games. (2019, 12)
1.10 It Chapter Two Now grown up,
the Losers Club must battle the evil
Pennywise once more. (2019, 15)
4.10 The Last Black Man In San
Francisco A young man searches for
home in the changing city. (2019, 15)
6.20 The Parts You Lose A young boy
in a North Dakota town befriends a
potentially dangerous fugitive. (2019, 12)
8.00 Olympic Dreams As 11.40am.
9.30 It Chapter Two Details as 1.10pm.
12.25 Bad Education Drama. (2019, 18)
2.20 The Heist Of The Century
Ariel Winograd comedy. (2020, 15)
4.20-6.00 Okko’s Inn (2018, PG)
SKY CINEMA THRILLER
1.45pm The Bouncer Action. (2018, 15)
3.25 Galveston Thriller. (2018, 15)
5.10 Inside Man — Most Wanted
MJ Bassett crime thriller. (2019, 15)
7.10 The Intruder A couple learn the
man they bought their house from will
not let go of the property. (2019, 15)
9.00 Killerman A money launderer
wakes up with no memory but millions
in stolen cash and drugs. (2019, 15)
11.00 Disturbing The Peace A
small-town marshal must take on a
gang of outlaw bikers. (2020, 15)
12.40-2.20 Come To Daddy (2019, 18)
44 12 July 2020
DRAMA
12.00 The Bill Police drama series.
1.00 Classic EastEnders Soap.
2.15 London’s Burning (S11, ep 16)
3.20 Peak Practice (Series 4, ep 1)
4.20 Dangerfield Medical drama.
5.20 Birds Of A Feather Sitcom.
6.00 Waiting For God Comedy.
6.35 ’Allo ’Allo! Classic comedy.
7.20 Last Of The Summer Wine
The trio recreate a battle.
8.00 Inspector George Gently
Bacchus and Gently delve
into a world of military
secrets. (Series 6, ep 3)
10.00 New Tricks The detectives
investigate kidnappings from
1979, and believe they may
be linked to more recent
disappearances. (S2, ep 7)
11.20 Silent Witness Leo suspects
a murder victim was a police
informant. (Series 13, ep 3)
1.35 The Bill Police drama series.
2.35-4.00 London’s Burning
SKY CINEMA GREATS
6.45am Star Wars — Revenge Of The
Sith Sci-fi adventure prequel. (2005, 12)
9.10 The Blind Side Drama. (2009, 12)
11.20 The Goonies The discovery
of a treasure map plunges seven
youngsters into an adventure. (1985, 12)
1.20 Star Wars — A New Hope Luke
Skywalker sets out to rescue a princess
from the evil Darth Vader. (1977, U)
3.30 Star Wars — The Empire Strikes
Back The rebels are dispersed after an
attack on their secret base. (1980, U)
5.40 Star Wars — Return Of The Jedi
The rebels face a final battle with
the forces of the Empire. (1983, U)
8.00 Full Metal Jacket Raw marine
recruits undergo harsh training before
service in the Vietnam War. (1987, 15)
10.00 The Royal Tenenbaums A man
feigns illness to bring his estranged
family back together. (2001, 15)
12.00 The Godfather Part III A mafia
don is haunted by his past as he tries
to legitimise his business. (1990, 15)
3.00 Red Heat Action thriller. (1988, 18)
5.00-7.20 Vertigo Thriller. (1958, PG)
Oceans apart (SCB, 10pm)
ITV2
7.00 Ellen DeGeneres Chat.
8.00 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
9.25 Supermarket Sweep
10.25 Ellen’s Game Of Games
11.20 Dress To Impress Dating.
12.25 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
12.55 Celebrity Catchphrase
2.00 Ellen DeGeneres Chat.
2.55 Dress To Impress Dating.
4.00 Supermarket Sweep
5.00 Ellen’s Game Of Games
6.00 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
8.00 Roswell, New Mexico Liz,
Michael and Isobel are forced
to face up to the reality that
they might not be able to
save Max; and Maria and Alex
make amends. (S2, ep 5)
9.00 Love Island — All The Dramz
Revisiting some of the juiciest
and most memorable
moments from the show.
10.05 Maura Higgins — You’re
Joking Me! Documentary
following the Love Island star
as she prepares to compete
in the Spartan Race, a
gruelling 5km extreme
obstacle course around
Twickenham rugby ground.
11.05 Family Guy The Griffins are
stuck indoors during a
blackout, so Peter passes
the time by telling a story
spoofing Star Wars.
12.00 American Dad! Stan begins
to ask some serious
questions about his marriage.
(Series 12, ep 6) 12.00
American Dad! Stan grows
an unhealthy attachment
to a tree. (Series 12, ep 1)
1.00 The Cleveland Show
2.00 Celebability Gameshow.
2.45 Totally Bonkers Guinness
World Records Feats.
3.25 Nightscreen Information.
3.30-7.00 Teleshopping
SKY CINEMA BLOCKBUSTERS
3.50pm The Twilight Saga — Eclipse
Romantic fantasy sequel. (2010, 12)
6.00 Ant-Man A thief uses a suit that
gives him the power to shrink to help
recover a stolen invention. (2015, 12)
8.00 Pokemon Detective Pikachu
A student seeks help to find his
missing investigator father. (2019, PG)
10.00 CHOICE Ocean’s Eleven Stars
George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
Comedy. (2001, 12; see Film choice)
12.00 Godzilla Thriller. (2014, 12)
2.10 Ant-Man Details as 6pm.
4.15-8.00 Gone With The Wind Stars
Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. (1939, PG)
FILM 4
11.00am Night Passage (1957, U)
12.50 Freedom Radio (1940, PG)
2.45 Gun Fury Western. (1953, U)
4.20 Gallipoli Drama. (1981, PG)
6.35 Star Trek The first mission of the
starship Enterprise leads the crew into
a battle with a Romulan. (2009, 12)
9.00 War For The Planet Of The Apes
Simians are forced into a lethal battle
with an army of humans. (2017, 12)
11.45 The Gunman Drama. (2015, 15)
2.00-3.55 Nico, 1988 Biopic. (2017, 15)
TALKING PICTURES TV
3.05pm You Can’t Do Without Love
Stars Vera Lynn. Comedy. (1944, U)
4.35 Dial-A-Bus In Harlow Insights.
5.00 The Grass Is Greener (1960, PG)
7.10 Escape From Zahrain A group of
rebels flee across the desert to avoid
corrupt government officials. (1961, PG)
9.00 Rumpole Of The Bailey
10.05 Home Of The Brave (1949, PG)
11.50-1.50 No Trees In The Street
Stars Sylvia Syms. Drama. (1959, PG)
1G
ITV3
6.00 Classic Coronation Street
7.00 Classic Emmerdale Soap.
8.05 Heartbeat Rural drama.
9.05 Bless This House Comedy.
10.05 That’s My Boy Sitcom.
10.40 Poirot (Series 12, ep 4)
12.40 Heartbeat Rural drama.
1.45 Classic Emmerdale Soap.
2.50 Classic Coronation Street
3.55 Poirot The sleuth searches
for a missing man. (S2, ep 3)
5.00 Heartbeat A serious road
accident causes chaos.
6.00 Downton Abbey Lord
Sinderby invites the Crawleys
to a grouse-shooting party at
Brancaster Castle, but a
scandalous secret threatens
to derail the holiday.
8.00 Lewis The master of
Gresham College is found
dead at the Oxford University
observatory, and Lewis finds
there are numerous suspects,
from senior academics to
college scouts. (S4, ep 2)
10.00 Law & Order: UK A former
vice cop is found beaten to
death, setting Brooks and
Devlin off on an investigation
through London’s seedy
underbelly. (Series 1, ep 3)
11.00 Scott & Bailey A man
acquitted of rape and murder
is found dead and the prime
suspect is a woman who
testified against him in court;
and Rachel receives some
devastating news. (S1, ep 3)
12.05 A Touch Of Frost Jack
searches for a woman who
witnessed a gangland murder
— and finds himself targeted
by a contract killer. (S10, ep 1)
2.10 Poirot A party is planned to
trap a spy. (Series 1, ep 8)
3.25 Nightscreen Information.
3.30-6.00 Teleshopping
ENTERTAINMENT
GOLD
7.05am Porridge 7.35 The Green Green
Grass 8.40 Porridge 9.15 Are You Being
Served? 10.00 Last Of The Summer
Wine 12.00 Porridge 12.35 Are You
Being Served? 1.20 The Green Green
Grass 1.55 Only Fools And Horses 3.20
Last Of The Summer Wine 5.15 Are You
Being Served? 6.00 The Green Green
Grass 6.35 Only Fools And Horses
10.35 Men Behaving Badly 11.15 The
Young Ones 12.00 Only Fools And
Horses 2.25-4.00 The Rebel
SKY COMEDY
6.00pm 30 Rock 6.30 Modern Family
7.30 The Mindy Project 9.00 Silicon
Valley 10.15 Girls. Hannah attends her
editor’s funeral 10.50 The Tonight Show
11.50 Entourage 12.30 Vice Principals
1.10 Bored To Death 1.50 Parks And
Recreation 3.30-5.00 30 Rock
SKY WITNESS
6.00pm Nothing To Declare 7.00
Paramedics — Australia 8.00 Ghost
Whisperer 9.00 Grey’s Anatomy. Owen
and Link treat an older woman who
cannot stop singing 10.00 Station 19.
Dr Jackson Avery visits 11.00 Criminal
Minds 12.00 Ghost Whisperer 1.00 FBI
2.00 How To Get Away With Murder
3.00 The Good Doctor 4.00 CSI
5.00-6.00 Brit Cops — Rapid Response
W
6.00pm Tipping Point 7.00 Top Chef
8.00 Inside The Ambulance 10.00
Dark States — Murder In Milwaukee.
Insights 11.00 Inside The Ambulance
ITV4
5.55pm Golf — PGA Tour
Highlights The Workday
Charity Open at Muirfield
Village Golf Club in Ohio.
7.00 Tour De France ReCycled —
Geraint’s Tour Action from
stage 17 of the 2018 race.
8.00 Junk And Disorderly An
attempt to make a profit on
automobile memorabilia.
9.00 FILM: Crimson Tide Stars
Gene Hackman and Denzel
Washington. A veteran US
submarine captain and his
first officer clash over
whether or not to launch
nuclear weapons. Nail-biting.
(1995, 15; includes FYI Daily)
11.10 FILM: Blue Streak Stars
Martin Lawrence and Luke
Wilson. A thief fresh out of
prison goes undercover as a
cop to try to retrieve stolen
goods. Mildly diverting.
(1999, 12; includes FYI Daily)
1.05 Fishing Impossible
2.10 The Protectors Drama.
2.45 Nightscreen Information.
3.00-6.00 Teleshopping
Testy? Greer (BBC4, 10.30pm)
12.00 One Born Every Minute. Plans for
a home birth 1.00 Dark States — Murder
In Milwaukee 1.50-3.00 Top Chef
5 STAR
6.00pm Neighbours 6.30 Home And
Away 7.00 Britain’s Gypsy Claimers
8.00 Benefit House — Me & My 26 Kids
9.00 FILM: Dirty Dancing. Stars Patrick
Swayze 11.05 FILM: Dirty Dancing 2 —
Havana Nights 12.55 Iceland — Britain’s
Biggest Budget Supermarket 1.55 Can’t
Pay? We’ll Take It Away 2.55 Will &
Grace 3.40-4.00 Two And A Half Men
5 USA
6.00pm NCIS 9.00 Law & Order:
Criminal Intent 10.00 Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit. Four editions 1.50
Remington Steele 3.50-4.00 Access
QUEST
6.00pm Wheeler Dealers 7.00 Aussie
Gold Hunters 8.00 Salvage Hunters
9.00 Salvage Hunters — The Restorers
10.00 Salvage Hunters — Bitesize
10.30 EFL 12.00 Wheeler Dealers. Mike
Brewer buys a Willys Jeep 1.00 American
Pickers 2.00 American Chopper 3.00
Ultimate Airport Dubai 4.00 Dirty Jobs
5.00-6.00 How It’s Made. Double bill
FOX
6.00pm The Mentalist 7.00 NCIS 9.00
APB. Brandt is sent undercover 10.00
NCIS: New Orleans 11.00 American
Dad! 12.00 Family Guy 1.00 American
Dad! 2.00 Family Guy 3.00 American
Dad! 4.00-5.00 Republic Of Doyle
COMEDY CENTRAL
6.00pm Friends 9.00 When Kids TV
Goes Horribly Wrong 12.00 Bob’s
Burgers 1.00 8 Out Of 10 Cats
E4
6.00 Rules Of Engagement
7.00 How I Met Your Mother
8.00 Melissa & Joey Sitcom.
9.00 Baby Daddy Comedy.
10.00 The Big Bang Theory
11.00 The Goldbergs Sitcom.
12.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
1.00 The Big Bang Theory
2.00 Melissa & Joey Sitcom.
3.00 The Goldbergs Sitcom.
4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
5.00 Young Sheldon Comedy.
6.00 The Big Bang Theory Howard
becomes attracted to a
woman who falls for Leonard.
(Series 2, ep 8) 6.30 The Big
Bang Theory Sheldon is
delighted Leonard’s girlfriend
matches his high standards.
7.00 Hollyoaks Favourites
7.30 Married At First Sight
Australia The couples attend
an emotionally-charged
commitment ceremony.
9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox USA
Featuring Sharon and Kelly
Osbourne, Tyra Banks
and Meghan Trainor.
10.00 Celebrity Gogglebox Shows
including Countdown,
Titanic, First Dates and
Serengeti are appraised.
11.00 Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Angel plans to destroy the
world. (Series 2, ep 21)
12.00 The Big Bang Theory
Sheldon is encouraged to
feign interest in Amy’s
career. (S5, ep 12) 12.30 The
Big Bang Theory Leonard
and Penny try to give their
relationship another chance.
1.00 Gogglebox Opinions on TV.
2.05 First Dates Matchmaking.
3.00 8 Out Of 10 Cats Panel game.
3.40 The Big Bang Theory
4.30 How I Met Your Mother
5.20-6.00 Rules Of Engagement
2.00 RuPaul’s Drag Race 3.20 RuPaul’s
Drag Race — Untucked! 3.45 The Daily
Show. Talk show 4.10-5.00 Friends
YESTERDAY
6.00am The Living Universe 7.10
Abandoned Engineering 8.00 History
Hunters 9.00 Nazi Hunters 10.00
Antiques Roadshow 11.00 Abandoned
Engineering 12.00 Great British Railway
Journeys 1.00 Antiques Roadshow
2.00 David Attenborough’s Natural
Curiosities 3.00 The Architecture The
Railways Built 4.00 Abandoned
Engineering 5.00 WW2 — Battles For
Europe 6.00 Nazi Hunters 7.00 Great
British Railway Journeys 8.00 Britain’s
Biggest Warship Goes To Sea 9.00 The
Green Green Grass 9.35 Porridge 10.35
What A Carry On! 11.00 Abandoned
Engineering 12.00-1.00 Nazi Hunters
DAVE
6.00pm Taskmaster 7.00 House Of
Games 7.40 QI 9.00 Live At The Apollo
10.00 Big Zuu’s Big Eats. Big Zuu takes
his food van to Manchester 10.40
Taskmaster 11.40 QI. With Andy
Hamilton, Rich Hall, Phill Jupitus and
Alan Davies 12.20 Mock The Week 1.00
QI 1.40 Red Dwarf 2.25 Sliced 2.55 Red
Dwarf 3.30-4.00 The Indestructibles
PICK
5.30pm LIVE Premier League:
Manchester City v Bournemouth.
Kickoff at 6.00 8.00 Merlin 9.00 The
Good Doctor 10.00 Paramedics —
Life On The Line 11.00 CSI 12.00 Brit
Cops — War On Crime 1.00 Road Wars
2.00 Banged Up Abroad 3.00 Police
Force — Australia 4.00 Motorway
Patrol 5.00-6.00 Border Patrol
MORE 4
8.55 Vintage Gems Crafts.
9.20 A Place In The Sun Property.
10.15 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Items.
12.15 Escape To The Chateau
— DIY Dick Strawbridge
looks for wine hidden during
the Second World War.
1.15 Building The Dream A home
on a farm in West Yorkshire.
2.15 Four In A Bed B&B contest.
4.55 Find It, Fix It, Drive It Henry
Cole and Sam Lovegrove
unearth a scooter which
folds away into a suitcase.
5.55 The Supervet A rabbit has a
broken leg, and the bone is
the smallest Noel Fitzpatrick
has ever operated on.
6.55 Escape To The Chateau —
DIY It is crunch time for a pair
as they face their investors;
and other owners host an
anniversary party, but have
to deal with broken toilets.
7.55 Grand Designs A couple build
a modernist home in Bath,
opting for a prefabricated
German kit house, but first
they have to prepare the site
— an extremely steep hill.
9.00 24 Hour Baby Hospital For
young parents, the arrival of
their new baby is bittersweet,
as they recall their first child,
who died shortly after birth.
10.00 24 Hours In A&E A woman is
rushed in after being flung
from a go-kart at speed.
11.05 24 Hours In A&E
Stories of human compassion
and kindness in the most
challenging circumstances.
12.10 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does
Countdown With Alex Horne.
1.15 24 Hour Baby Hospital
2.15 24 Hours In A&E Incidents.
3.20-3.45 Food Unwrapped
4.00-8.55 Teleshopping
FACTUAL
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
6.00pm Drain The Oceans — Deep
Dive 7.00 Air Crash Investigation 8.00
Witness To Disaster 9.00 Rescued.
French snowboarders search for a
friend buried in an avalanche 10.00
Wicked Tuna. Tyler McLaughlin hands
out pineapples as good luck charms
11.00 Air Crash Investigation 1.00-2.00
Airport Security — First Class
DISCOVERY
6.00pm Fast N’ Loud 7.00 Outback
Truckers 8.00 Mighty Ships. A look
at Wind Surf, the largest sailing
yacht in the world 9.00 Gold Divers
10.00 Outback Truckers 11.00
Homestead Rescue 12.00 Gold
Divers 1.00-2.00 Outback Truckers
PBS AMERICA
6.00pm Plane Resurrection 7.05 The
Lost Civilisation Of Peru 8.15 The Civil
War. The emancipation of America’s
slaves 9.50 Plane Resurrection. The
team flies a monoplane built by Louis
Blériot 11.00-12.40 The Civil War
SKY ARTS
6.00pm Discovering Steve McQueen
7.00 Treasures Of The British Library
8.00 The Animated World Of Halas And
Batchelor. The story of the people who
created Britain’s first feature-length
cartoon 9.00 Landscape Artist Of The
Year 2019. The contestants paint a
scene featuring Gateshead Millennium
Bridge 10.00 Josephine Baker — The
Story Of An Awakening 11.00-12.00
Sinatra — The Man And His Music
SPORT
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT
6.00am News 7.00 Total Goals 8.00
Fighting Fit 8.30 Fit In 5: Intro To Series
2 8.40 Fit In 5: Lisa & Marvin — Abs,
Core & Strength 8.50 Fit In 5: Lisa &
Marvin — High Intensity Interval
Training 9.00 Total Goals 10.00 The
Football Show 12.00 News 5.30 LIVE
Premier League: Manchester City v
Bournemouth. All the action from the
top-flight encounter at the Etihad
Stadium. Kickoff at 6.00 8.00 LIVE
Premier League: Arsenal v Liverpool.
Coverage of the top-flight match,
which comes from the Emirates
Stadium. Kickoff 8.15 11.00-6.00 News
EUROSPORT 1
7.00am Tennis: Berlin Bett1 Aces
8.00 Tour De France: Thomas 2018
11.00 Football 12.00 Superbikes:
MotoAmerica 1.00 Athletics 2.00
Tour De France: Thomas 2018 5.00
Cycling 6.00 LIVE Speedway.
Coverage of all the action from round
three of the European championship,
at Rybnik, Poland 8.30 Tour De France:
Thomas 2018 11.30 Olympics —
Greatest Tennis Players 12.00 World
Poker Tour: Alpha 8 1.00 Hall Of
Fame: Greatest Jumpers 2.00 Tour
De France: Thomas 2018 5.00-7.00
Snooker: O’Sullivan v Hawkins
BT SPORT 1
6.00am Uefa Champions League
Magazine 6.30 Goals Reload 7.00 WWE
Monday Night Raw 9.30 ESPN FC
10.00 Fishing 11.00 Bundesliga Special
12.00 Hakim Ziyech — Wizard Of AMS
12.45 What I Wore 1.00 Fight Night
3.00 Fight Night 3.30 Uefa Champions
League Magazine 4.00 What Went
Down 4.30 Bundesliga Special 5.00
ESPN FC 5.30 LIVE Premier League:
Newcastle United v Tottenham
Hotspur. Kickoff 6.00 8.15 What Went
Down 8.30 Films 9.30 Uefa Champions
League Magazine 10.00 WWE NXT UK
11.00 WWE NXT Highlights 12.00 WWE
Raw 1.00 LIVE WWE NXT 3.15 WWE
Stone Cold Steve Austin 5.15 What
Went Down 5.45-6.00 Films Shorts
SKY DOCUMENTARIES
6.00am Dan Carter — A Perfect 10
7.45 My Icon: Kadeen Corbin 8.00
Hotel Secrets 9.00 Discovering Kirk
Douglas 10.00 The Directors 11.00 The
British 12.00 Hollywood Couples 1.00
Hotel Secrets 2.00 Dan Carter — A
Perfect 10 3.45 My Icon: Michael
Holding 4.00 Discovering Bette Davis
5.00 The Directors 6.00 The British
7.00 Hollywood Couples 8.00 The
Sixties 9.00 The Trade 11.05-12.50
Natalie Wood — What Remains Behind
SKY NATURE
6.00am City Wildlife Rescue 7.00
Monkey Life 8.00 Living Beach 9.00
Zambia Untamed 10.00 Wildest New
Zealand 11.00 Wild Birds Of Australia
12.00 Wild Rockies 1.00 Monkey Life
2.00 Living Beach 3.00 Zambia
Untamed 4.00 Wildest New Zealand
5.00 Wild Birds Of Australia 6.00 Wild
Rockies 7.00 Monkey Life 8.00 Arabian
Inferno. The Arabian Peninsula 9.00
Africa’s Hidden Kingdoms. The Cloud
Mountains 10.00 Wild Rockies
11.00-12.00 Wild Birds Of Australia
SMITHSONIAN
6.00am Private Lives Of The Windsors
7.00 Epic Warrior Women 8.00
Combat Ships 9.00 Mystic Britain
10.00 Aerial Britain 11.00 Atomic Age
Declassified 12.00 Private Lives Of The
Windsors 1.00 Million Dollar American
Princesses: Meghan Markle 2.00 Britain
In Colour 3.00 Mystic Britain 4.00 The
Pacific War In Colour 5.00 Air Warriors
6.00 Atomic Age Declassified 7.00
Air Warriors 8.00 Dung Dynasty 9.00
King Of The Desert Lions 10.00 Aerial
Africa 11.00-12.00 Dung Dynasty
RADIO
PICK OF THE DAY
Soul Music
Radio 4, 9am
This is my Pick of the week
because it shows how a
simple idea can, with a bit of
imagination, become classic
radio. Today’s spotlights
Nina Simone, pictured,
and the song Feeling Good,
written for an Anthony
Newley/Leslie Bricusse
musical but with a history
that spans time, place, hurt
and hope. Radio 4 Extra this
week begins a six-part series
of past editions, airing on
Tuesdays at 6.30pm.
Gillian Reynolds
RADIO 4
5.33 Shipping 5.43 Prayer 5.45
Farming Today 5.58 Tweet Of The Day
(R) 6.00 Today 8.30 (LW) Yesterday In
Parliament 9.00 Soul Music. A new run
begins with the history behind the song
Feeling Good, made famous by Nina
Simone 9.30 Four Thought 9.45 Book
Of The Week 9.45 (LW) Daily Service
10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 A Deadly
Trade (R) 11.30 The Break 12.00 News
12.04 The Girl With The Louding Voice
12.18 You And Yours 1.00 The World At
One 1.45 Bloodsport 2.00 The Archers
(R) 2.15 Drama: The Interrogation, by
Roy Williams. Suspects are subjected to
a grilling. With Kenneth Cranham and
Alex Lanipekun 3.00 Money Box Live
3.30 Inside Health (R) 4.00 Thinking
Allowed 4.30 The Media Show 5.00 PM
6.00 News 6.30 Women Talking About
Cars (R) 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front
Row 7.45 Why Mummy Swears (R) 8.00
The Moral Maze 8.45 Four Thought (R)
9.00 Soul Music (R) 9.30 The Media
Show (R) 10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book At Bedtime (R) 11.00 Little
Lifetimes 11.15 The Damien Slash
Mixtape (R) 11.30 Today In Parliament
12.00 News 12.30 Book Of The Week
(R) 12.48 Shipping 1.00 World Service
TIMES RADIO
5.00 Calum Macdonald With Early
Breakfast 6.00 Aasmah Mir And Stig
Abell 10.00 Matt Chorley. Live
political coverage. Including Prime
Minister’s Questions at 12.00 1.00
Mariella Frostrup 4.00 John Pienaar
At Drive 7.00 Phil Williams.
Entertainment headlines at 8.00
10.00 Carole Walker. Includes US
update at 11.00 1.00 Stories Of Our
Times 1.30 Red Box. Politics podcast
2.00 Highlights From Times Radio
To get in touch with the Times Radio
studio, text TIMES plus your message
to 87222. Texts cost your standard
message charge.
RADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 Hazelbeach 5.30 It’s A Fair Cop
6.00 Raffles 6.30 Miss Marple:
Nemesis 7.00 Mum’s On The Run 7.30
Women Talking About Cars 8.00
Hancock’s Half Hour 8.30 After Henry
9.00 Dilemma 9.30 An Actor’s Life For
Me 10.00 The Raj Quartet 11.00
Parody Please 12.00 Hancock’s Half
Hour 12.30 After Henry 1.00 Raffles
1.30 Miss Marple: Nemesis 2.00
Dilemma 2.30 An Actor’s Life For Me
3.00 The Raj Quartet 4.00 Parody
Please 5.00 Mum’s On The Run 5.30
Women Talking About Cars 6.00 Fear
On Four 6.30 Short Cuts 7.00
Hancock’s Half Hour 7.30 After Henry
8.00 Raffles 8.30 Miss Marple:
Nemesis 9.00 Parody Please 10.00
Women Talking About Cars 10.30
Armando Iannucci 11.00 Fags, Mags
And Bags 11.30-12.00 Cowards
LBC
7.00 Matt Frei 10.00 James O’Brien
1.00 Shelagh Fogarty 4.00 Eddie Mair
7.00 Iain Dale 10.00 Tom Swarbrick
1.00 Darren Adam 4.00 Steve Allen
RADIO 3
6.30 Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer Of The Week 1.00
Lunchtime Concert. Kate Molleson
presents a live recital at Glasgow’s
City Halls, with Steven Osborne
playing Schubert’s last piano sonata
2.00 Afternoon Concert. Recorded
last summer in Shanghai, the BBC
Symphony Orchestra perform works
by Huang Ruo, Elgar and Tchaikovsky
3.30 Choral Evensong. From
Chichester Cathedral during the 2010
Southern Cathedrals’ festival (R) 4.30
New Generation Artists. The Aris
Quartet play music by Lombardini
Sirmen at the 2019 Proms 5.00 In
Tune 7.00 In Tune Mixtape 7.30 In
Concert. Hesperion XXI and Jordi
Savall recreate the lost sounds of
medieval Spain, Provence and Italy in
a concert from York University as part
of 2014 York Early Music festival (R)
10.00 Free Thinking. Featuring
contributors Dafydd Mills Daniel from
Oxford University, Pippa Marland from
Leeds University and the author Lucy
Jones 10.45 The Essay. Lisa O’Neill
shares two songs she has written since
the start of the pandemic and talks
about how her priorities in life have
changed 11.00 Night Tracks.
A magical sonic journey for late-night
listening 12.30 Through The Night
CLASSIC FM
6.00 Tim Lihoreau 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall
4.00 John Brunning 8.00 The Concert.
Performances of symphonies by
Vaughan Williams, Stanford, Harty,
Walton, Field and Berlioz 10.00
Margherita Taylor 1.00 Sam Pittis
RADIO 2
5.00 Nicki Chapman 6.30 The Zoe Ball
Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00 Angela Scanlon
In The Afternoon 5.00 Amol Rajan
8.00 Jo Whiley 11.00 The Folk Show
12.00 Gethin Jones 3.00 Sounds Of
The 90s With Fearne Cotton (R)
VIRGIN RADIO
6.30 The Chris Evans Breakfast Show
10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris 1.00 Tim
Cocker 4.00 Kate Lawler 7.00 Steve
Denyer 10.00 Amy Voce 1.00 Through
The Night 4.00 Sam Pinkham
TALKSPORT
5.00 Early Breakfast 6.00 Breakfast
10.00 White And Sawyer 1.00 Max
Rushden & Charlie Baker 4.00 Drive
7.00 The PressBox 10.00 Sports Bar
1.00 Extra Time 4.00 Ben Jones
12 July 2020 45
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We’re doomed: DC Comics’ outcast superheroes return to fight again (Starzplay)
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Doom Patrol (Starzplay)
DC Comics’ weirdest offspring
returns for a second series,
with the child of Niles Caulder
(Timothy Dalton) joining them
as an apparently perpetual
11-year-old. With the exception
of Larry, who is working on
a potion to fix his friends,
the gang remains tiny and
resentful, camping on a table,
driving around on a Scalextric
track, using a Meccano lift
to reach the floor and, in the
case of Cliff Steele, whose
brain has been placed inside
a robot, picking fights with
rats. The new season misses
Mr Nobody’s (Alan Tudyk’s)
arch commentary, but
Dorothy, a young ape-faced
girl (Abigail Shapiro), looks to
be a worthy replacement.
Helen Stewart
FILM CHOICE
The Other Guys (Sky Cinema
Comedy, 10.35am/9.40pm)
To mark Will Ferrell’s 53rd
birthday, Sky Cinema Comedy
is showing a spate of his films,
including this action-movie
send-up, which casts him and
Mark Wahlberg as sidelined
cops. Its jokes aren’t always
great, but a likeable type of
silliness runs through them.
Dir: Adam McKay (2010)
46 12 July 2020
The Supervet (C4, 8pm)
This catch-up episode offers
a chance to revisit Noel
Fitzpatrick’s former patients
and to discover what became
of them after their surgeries.
Unsurprisingly, none has
written a novel or gone into
banking: instead, Lulu the
rottweiler, bull terrier Jasper
and Alsatian Marley show off
their new elbows, remodelled
spines and running and
barking abilities. (VS)
Raging Bull Shark
(Wild, 8pm)
Forget the great white: Steven
Spielberg might have been
better off featuring an agile,
aggressive bull shark — pound
for pound, they have a more
powerful bite than their
showy Jaws cousins. With
climate change creating the
warmer waters they favour, a
post-lockdown Florida holiday
may have lost its shine. (HS)
The Hunt For Cleopatra’s
Tomb (C5, 9pm)
Even the presenter struggles
with the idea that the tomb of
the Egyptian queen and Mark
Antony has been found near
Alexandria, but he makes a
good fist of looking fascinated
as the 2,000-year-old tomb
of an unknown couple is
opened. The female has a
signifier of wisdom, which
may suggest education, but
was she Cleopatra? (HS)
The Directors (Sky Arts, 9pm)
Critics and clips combine
to provide an overview of
Martin Scorsese’s work, from
film-school shorts, through
Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and
GoodFellas, right up to The
Irishman. There are insights
into his favourite actors and
themes, plus a reminder
that he and Steven Spielberg
traded roles on Schindler’s List
and Cape Fear. (VS)
1G
BBC1
6.00 Breakfast The latest reports.
9.00 BBC News Headlines.
10.00 Rip Off Britain Investigating
a fake tax scam designed
to steal people’s money.
10.45 Homes Under The Hammer
Properties at auction. (R)
11.45 Caught Red Handed (R)
12.15 Bargain Hunt Curios. (R)
1.00 News; Weather Reports.
1.45 The Heights Leonie makes a
drastic decision when work
gets in the way of family.
2.15 Impossible Gameshow. (R)
3.00 Escape To The Country (R)
3.45 Home Is Where The Art Is
Three artists pitch ideas to
celebrate a couple’s wedding.
4.30 The Repair Shop — Fixing
Britain Items include a pump
organ and an accordion.
5.15 Pointless Unorthodox quiz,
with Alexander Armstrong.
6.00 News; Weather Reports.
6.30 Regional News Update.
7.00 The One Show Features.
7.30 Panorama A report from
Salford as the city lifts the
lockdown and tries to get its
community back to work,
asking if services can be
sustained as the council
approaches bankruptcy.
8.00 Celebrity Masterchef The
contestants are paired up
and asked to cook identical
dishes while separated by
a wall, before taking on a
mass catering challenge
at the Wellcome Genome
Campus in Cambridgeshire.
9.00 Ambulance A call handler
has to guide a caller through
lifesaving CPR while they wait
for the arrival of paramedics;
and there is an emergency
at an airport when a plane
loses contact with air traffic
control. (Last in series)
10.00 News; Weather Reports.
10.45 Match Of The Day Gary
Lineker presents action from
the latest Premier League
contests, including Crystal
Palace v Man United, Leicester
City v Sheffield United,
and Everton v Aston Villa.
11.45 The Coronavirus Newscast
Adam Fleming, Laura
Kuenssberg and Fergus
Walsh discuss the latest
updates on the pandemic.
12.20-6.00 Joins BBC News
SCOTLAND 6.30 Reporting
Scotland. 11.35 Panorama. A report
from Salford. 12.15 The Coronavirus
Newscast. 12.50 BBC News.
The Fighting Kentuckian
(Film 4, 11am)
Appearing without Stan Laurel
for a change, Oliver Hardy
has a slightly more rugged
partner in this western: none
other than John Wayne. The
pair’s entertaining double act
is the most distinctive feature
of George Waggner’s film, but
horse-opera buffs will also
note that the story is set in
1818, much further back in
time than Hollywood usually
ventured in its chronicles of
the West. (1949) B/W (EP)
BBC2
6.30 Home Is Where The Art Is (R)
7.15 The Repair Shop — Fixing
Britain With Jay Blades. (R)
8.00 Inside The Factory —
Keeping Britain Going At
the Heinz baked bean factory
in Wigan. (Signed, R)
9.00 Jungle Atlantis (2/2, R)
10.00 News; Weather Reports.
1.00 Chronicles Of A Champion
Golfer Documentary. (R)
2.00 Coast Shorelines. (R)
2.20 Wild China Insights. (3/6, R)
3.20 Olympics Rewind — Beijing
2008 A look back at the final
six days of the event. (3/3)
5.15 Flog It! At Allerton Castle
in North Yorkshire. (R)
6.00 Eggheads Team quiz. (R)
6.30 Great Australian Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo
explores New South Wales. (R)
7.00 Cricket Isa Guha presents
action from day one of the
second Test in the three-game
series between England and
West Indies, at Old Trafford.
8.00 Glow Up — Britain’s Next
Make-Up Star Stacey Dooley
presents the return of the
contest for aspiring make-up
artists, beginning with an
advertising campaign for a
sports fashion retailer.
9.00 QI Joe Lycett, Zoe Lyons and
Liza Tarbuck join regular Alan
Davies and host Sandi Toksvig
for an edition of the quiz show
on the theme of reflections.
9.30 There She Goes Rosie has
become obsessed with
Christmas — in the middle of
February — so Simon and
Emily hope that celebrating a
different day will distract her
from yuletide. (Series 2, ep 2)
10.00 What We Do In The Shadows
When Nandor and Laszlo
are abducted by a coven of
witches, the others must
venture to Brooklyn to rescue
them. (Series 2, ep 9) 10.20
What We Do In The Shadows
The housemates prepare
for the most exclusive event
on the vampiric social
calendar. (Last in series)
10.45 Newsnight The day’s events.
11.30 The Rise Of The Murdoch
Dynasty Documentary about
the media mogul Rupert
Murdoch’s influence on
international politics. (1/3, R)
12.30 Dragons’ Den — Best Ever
Pitches Series highlights.
(Signed, Last in series, R)
1.30-2.30 Italy’s Frontline —
A Doctor’s Diary (Signed, R)
ON DEMAND
Washington (Sky History)
Those caught up in the debate
around problematic historical
figures would do well to
watch Matthew Ginsburg’s
three-part mini-series about
the first American president.
It suffers from the usual
pitfalls of the educational
American documentary — a
worshipful male voiceover
and unsatisfying dramatic
ITV
6.00 Good Morning Britain
9.00 Lorraine Lifestyle chat.
10.00 This Morning Features.
12.30 Loose Women Debate.
1.30 News; Weather Reports.
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (R)
3.00 Tenable Quiz show. (R)
4.00 Tipping Point Ben Shephard
presents the gameshow. (R)
5.00 The Chase Quiz show,
hosted by Bradley Walsh. (R)
6.00 Regional News Update.
6.30 News; Weather Reports.
7.00 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
7.30 Generation Covid — Our
Children In Crisis? Exploring
how the lockdown has
affected children, looking
at the impact on mental
health and asking what
months of missing school
will mean for their prospects.
8.00 Stephen Lawrence — Has
Britain Changed? Rageh
Omaar and Anushka Asthana
host a debate examining racial
equality in the UK, discussing
how much has changed
almost three decades after
the murder of the teenager.
9.00 The Murder Of Stephen
Lawrence Dramatisation
revealing Doreen and Neville
Lawrence’s struggle to bring
their 18-year-old son’s killers
to justice, exposing the flaws
in the system that failed them.
With Marianne Jean-Baptiste
and Hugh Quarshie. (R)
11.05 News; Weather Reports.
11.45 Regional News Headlines.
11.55 European Cup Winners —
The British Pioneers Taking
a look back at the early
achievements of British
clubs in Europe, including
Celtic’s triumph in 1967
and Manchester United’s
victory the following year.
12.50 Teleshopping Goods.
3.00 Generation Covid — Our
Children In Crisis? (R)
3.25 Nightscreen Information.
5.05-6.00 Judge Rinder Cases. (R)
Carrying on for Cleo (C5, 9pm)
reconstructions — but what
it understands and conveys
brilliantly is that this military
general and founding father
was a complex figure. The
arrogance, racism and
occasional youthful screw-ups
are present and correct but
laid out by engaging historians
aware of the bigger picture.
You will also find out that
the man who famously said
“I cannot tell a lie” was quite
liberal with the untruths in
the service of his political
aims. Plus ça change.
CHANNEL 4
6.30 Cheers Two episodes. (R)
7.20 Mike & Molly Comedy. (R)
8.05 The Big Bang Theory (R)
9.00 Frasier American sitcom. (R)
10.30 Come Dine With Me (R)
12.00 News; Weather Reports.
12.05 Come Dine With Me (R)
1.05 A New Life In The Sun (R)
2.10 Countdown Gameshow. (R)
3.00 A Place In The Sun Advice. (R)
4.00 Sun, Sea And Selling Houses
Property advice series. (R)
5.00 Four In A Bed B&B contest. (R)
5.30 Come Dine With Me (R)
6.00 The Simpsons Marge’s former
boyfriend makes Homer an
offer he cannot refuse. (R)
6.30 The Simpsons An
eccentric loner saves Bart
from the school bullies. (R)
7.00 News; Weather Reports.
8.00 CHOICE The Supervet A look
back at more memorable
cases for Fitzpatrick Referrals,
including an 18-month-old
chihuahua that suffered a
crushed pelvis after being hit
by a car, and a three-legged
cat having trouble with its sole
back leg. (See Critics’ choice)
9.00 National Treasure Paul and
his family have to deal with
the pressure of mounting
allegations against him;
Dee confronts her former
babysitter, Christina, now
one of the star’s accusers;
and Marie is rattled to
discover she was away on the
nights that Paul is accused
of assaulting her. (2/4, R)
10.00 Celebrity Gogglebox
Some of Britain’s best-loved
personalities, including
Denise Van Outen, Nick
Grimshaw, Zoe Ball, Martin
Kemp and Johnny Vegas,
appraise TV programmes. (R)
11.05 First Dates A 71-year-old
beekeeper is looking for a
man with a naughty side to
his nature; and a 21-year-old
is reluctant to venture from
his house, which has dented
his chances of romance. (R)
12.10 How To Lose Weight Well
— Get Fit For Summer
Volunteers test some of the
most popular diet plans. (R)
1.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA Advice. (R)
1.55 Couples Come Dine With Me
Parties in Manchester. (R)
2.50 Flirty Dancing Romance. (R)
3.45 Animal Airport Insights. (R)
4.40 Animal Rescue School (R)
5.35 Vintage Gems Crafts. (R)
5.50-6.30 Countdown Game. (R)
Hamilton (Disney+)
Few TV highlights this week
will match this Broadway cast
production of Lin-Manuel
Miranda’s game-changing
musical. Even if you’re a
sceptic (“A hip-hop musical?
No, thank you very much”)
with no interest in the story of
this American founding father,
give it a go. It’s a stylistic
marriage between Gilbert and
Sullivan, Steven Sondheim
and the Wu-Tang Clan and it
should never have worked —
but work it does. (AM)
CHANNEL 5
6.00 Milkshake! Fun for children.
9.15 Jeremy Vine Debate.
11.20 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It
Away Recouping debts. (R)
12.10 News; Weather Reports.
12.15 Nightmare Tenants, Slum
Landlords Disputes. (R)
1.15 Home And Away Ryder wants
to organise a gig for his dad;
and Tori lashes out at Jasmine.
1.45 Neighbours Hendrix goes to
the agency to ask why they
were rejected for fostering.
2.15 FILM: Good Morning Murder
Stars Chrishell Hartley. A TV
host meets a man from her
past who works his way back
into her life, but as her career
sky-rockets, her personal
life begins to fall apart.
Bland thriller. (2019, 12)
4.00 Friends American sitcom. (R)
5.00 News; Weather Reports.
5.30 Neighbours Soap. (R)
6.00 Home And Away (R)
6.30 News; Weather Reports.
7.00 Extreme Railway Journeys
Chris Tarrant sets out on a
mission to cross Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania entirely
by rail in just one week. (R)
8.00 The River Thames — Then &
Now A focus on the capital’s
docklands, which at their
peak, employed more than
30,000 workers. (R)
9.00 CHOICE The Hunt For
Cleopatra’s Tomb The
Egyptologist Glenn Godenho
explores the work of the
archaeologist Kathleen
Martinez, who is seeking the
tomb of the country’s last
pharaoh. (See Critics’ choice)
10.00 10 Mistakes That Sank The
Titanic Examining the chain
of events that led to the
sinking of the ship in 1912,
when it struck an iceberg and
went down with around 1,500
passengers and crew. (R)
11.30 Draining Alcatraz — The
Impossible Escape
Uncovering the secrets of
San Francisco Bay. (R)
12.25 When Buildings Collapse —
World’s Worst Engineering
Disasters Documentary (R)
1.15 The 21.co.uk Live Casino
Show Interactive gambling.
3.15 New Lives In The Wild Down
Under With Ben Fogle. (R)
4.00 The Funny Thing About
Holidays Comedy. (R)
4.45 Wildlife SOS Animals. (R)
5.10 Great Artists Leonardo. (R)
5.35-6.00 House Doctor (R)
SKY 1
6.00 Animal 999 Incidents. (R)
7.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue (R)
8.00 The Flash (Series 2, ep 1, R)
9.00 Supergirl (Series 2, ep 4, R)
10.00 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles Drama. (R)
1.00 Hawaii Five-0 Drama. (R)
3.00 Brit Cops — Frontline Crime
UK Officers in west Wales. (R)
4.00 Modern Family Sitcom. (R)
5.00 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
5.30 Premier League: Leicester
City v Sheffield United. All
the action from the top-flight
match, live at the King Power
Stadium. Kickoff at 6.00.
8.00 Football’s Funniest
Moments Memorable
incidents from the world of
football, from Gary Neville’s
stint at Valencia to Alan
Pardew’s dance moves. (R)
9.00 The Blacklist The Task Force
investigates attacks on data
centres by a blacklister who
has an unusual condition;
and Glen tries to prove his
value after a shipping
mishap. (Series 7, ep 13)
10.00 FILM: Final Score Stars Dave
Bautista and Pierce Brosnan.
A former soldier is forced into
action when armed terrorists
take control of a packed
football stadium. Patchy
action thriller. (2018, 15)
12.00 Road Wars Vehicle crime. (R)
1.00 Manifest Michaela and Ben
risk it all in a brave rescue
attempt. (Last in series, R)
2.00 Brit Cops — Rapid Response
Police officers on patrol. (R)
3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S3, ep 14, R)
4.00 Highway Patrol Crime. (R)
5.00-6.00 Futurama Cartoon. (R)
VARIATIONS
ITV WALES 7.00 Wales This Week
BBC1 WALES 11.45 Bargain Hunt
12.30 Wales Today Coronavirus Daily
Update S4C 6.00 Cyw: Blociau Rhif
6.05 Jamborî 6.15 Tomos A’i
Ffrindiau 6.25 Bach A Mawr 6.40
Ahoi! 7.00 Ty Mel 7.10 Gwdihw 7.25
Timpo 7.35 Asra 7.50 Sion Y Chef
8.00 Heini 8.15 Shwshaswyn 8.25 Y
Teulu Mawr 8.40 Sara A Cwac 8.45
Yr Ysgol 9.00 Meripwsan 9.05 Y
Brodyr Coala 9.15 Ysbyty Cyw Bach
9.30 Octonots 9.45 Cei Bach 10.00
Blociau Rhif 10.05 Jamborî 10.15
Tomos A’i Ffrindiau 10.25 Bach A
Mawr 10.40 Ahoi! 11.00 Ty Mel 11.10
Gwdihw 11.25 Timpo 11.35 Asra
11.50 Sion Y Chef 12.00 Ar Y Bysus
YOU SAY
I think Staged (BBC1) is utterly brilliant, clever
and hilarious.
Kay Raitt
Finally, thankfully, a properly intelligent comedy,
brilliantly acted by David Tennant and Michael
Sheen. Much more of this, please.
Ann Lunam-Cowan
Just brilliant: clever, funny and oddly endearing.
Two actors, complete with Covid hair, giving us a
masterclass in how to achieve effortless-seeming
naturalism. Undoubtedly the best lockdown TV.
Sarah Parry
ATLANTIC
6.00 Fish Town Life in Brixham.
7.00 Urban Secrets In Glasgow.
8.00 The Guest Wing Insights.
9.00 Elementary (Series 1, ep 18)
10.00 CSI American drama series.
1.00 Elementary (Series 1, ep 19)
2.00 Blue Bloods Double bill.
4.00 CSI A psychic is killed in her
shop. (Series 6, ep 19) 5.00
CSI Three teenage rap fans
are murdered. 6.00 CSI A
lawyer is found dead at her
son’s wedding reception.
7.00 Blue Bloods Danny and
Jackie investigate a shooting
at a diner, but are concerned
to discover a uniformed
police officer is the chief
suspect. (Series 2, ep 11)
8.00 Blue Bloods Danny’s
dedication to the job puts
his wife and sons in danger
after they are caught up in a
chase involving a gunman.
9.00 Get Shorty Miles settles into
his assistant job at Budd E
Boy Productions; and Rick
calls Miles, Louis and Yago to
a secret meeting. (S3, ep 2)
10.10 Penny Dreadful — City Of
Angels With Daniel Zovatto.
Tiago and Molly visit Santa
Monica Pier;and Mateo is
invited into a new world. (3/10)
11.15 The Sopranos Gossip is rife
about Vito’s secret life after
he is seen in a gay bar,
prompting him to go on the
run. (Series 6, ep 6) 12.25
The Sopranos Artie reaches
crisis point as his business
starts to go under.
1.35 My Brilliant Friend Drama.
4.00 The Guest Wing Insights.
5.00-6.00 The British
12.30 Datganiad Dyddiol Covid-19
1.00 Heno 1.30 Garddio A Mwy
2.00 Newyddion A’r Tywydd 2.05
Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion A’r
Tywydd 3.05 Cefn Gwlad 4.00 Awr
Fawr — Blociau Rhif 4.05 Asra 4.20
Shwshaswyn 4.30 Y Brodyr Coala
4.40 Cei Bach 5.00 Stwnsh: Henri
Helynt 5.10 Dewi A’r Ditectifs Gwyllt
5.15 Fideo Fi O’r Ty 5.30 Lolipop
5.55 Larfa 6.00 Ar Werth 6.30
Rownd A Rownd 7.00 Heno. 7.30
Newyddion A’r Tywydd 8.00 Pobol Y
Cwm — Cewri Cwmderi 8.25 Rownd
A Rownd. Carys is deeply suspicious
of Barry 8.55 Newyddion A’r Tywydd
9.00 Y Fets 10.00 Goreuon Priodas
Pum Mil 11.00-11.35 Lwp — Curadur
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BBC4
7.00pm River Walks – The Severn
7.30 The Joy Of Painting A lake
and cabin. (Last in series)
8.00 Emma Sandy Welch’s
dramatisation of Jane Austen’s
novel, with Romola Garai
and Jonny Lee Miller. (1/4)
9.00 Jane Austen — Behind
Closed Doors Lucy Worsley
visits locations that helped
inspire the writer’s works.
10.00 My Friend Jane The lives
of Jane Austen superfans.
10.30 The Sky At Night Betelgeuse.
11.00 Britain’s Star Men — Heroes
Of Astronomy Insights.
12.00 Art, Passion & Power — The
Story Of The Royal Collection
1.00 Bought With Love — The
Secret History Of British
Art Collections (1/3)
2.00 The Joy Of Painting Art.
2.30 River Walks The Severn.
3.00-4.00 As 9pm
Did somebody call a cab? Scorsese, Foster and De Niro (Sky Arts, 9pm)
FILMS
SKY CINEMA PREMIERE
6.00am The Guardian (2020, 12)
8.00 Two Tails Animation. (2018, U)
9.30 Trolls World Tour Film preview.
9.45 The Heist Of The Century
Ariel Winograd comedy. (2020, 15)
11.45 It Chapter Two Now grown up,
the Losers Club must battle the evil
Pennywise once more. (2019, 15)
2.45 Bad Education Drama. (2019, 15)
4.45 Two Tails Details as 8am.
6.15 The Top Ten Show Clips.
6.30 Olympic Dreams A love story
develops between two lonely hearts at
the Winter Olympic Games. (2019, 12)
8.00 It Chapter Two Details as 11.45am.
11.00 The Parts You Lose A young boy
in a North Dakota town befriends a
potentially dangerous fugitive. (2019, 12)
12.45 The Last Black Man In San
Francisco Drama. (2019, 15)
3.00 The Runaways Drama. (2019, 12)
5.00 The Top Ten Show Clips.
5.15 Top Ten — Must-See Movies
5.30-6.00 Extremely Wicked,
Shockingly Evil And Vile Insights.
SKY CINEMA THRILLER
2.40pm The Hand That Rocks
The Cradle Thriller. (1992, 15)
4.40 Argo Drama. (2012, 15)
6.45 The Bodyguard (1992, 15)
9.00 Manhunter A former FBI agent
comes out of retirement to assist in
the hunt for a serial killer. (1986, 18)
11.05 Ride A cab driver’s shift takes a
horrific turn when a psychopath targets
him and his passenger. (2018, 15)
12.35-2.35 The Hand That Rocks
The Cradle Details as 2.40pm.
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DRAMA
12.00 The Bill Police drama series.
1.00 Classic EastEnders Soap.
2.15 London’s Burning (S12, ep 1)
3.20 Peak Practice (Series 4, ep 2)
4.20 Dangerfield Medical drama.
5.20 Birds Of A Feather Sitcom.
6.00 Waiting For God Comedy.
6.35 ’Allo ’Allo! Classic comedy.
7.20 Last Of The Summer Wine A
stranger gives the trio a van.
8.00 Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
A First World War veteran is
murdered. (Series 2, ep 3)
10.05 New Tricks A Home Office
pathologist joins the team to
help discover the identity of a
girl found dead in woodland
in 1987. (Series 2, ep 8)
11.25 Silent Witness Harry and
Nikki’s investigation into the
suicide of a student takes a
dramatic turn. (S13, ep 4)
1.35 The Bill Police drama series.
2.45-4.00 London’s Burning
SKY CINEMA GREATS
7.20am Armageddon Sci-fi. (1998, 12)
10.05 Sister Act Comedy. (1992, PG)
11.50 Sister Act 2 — Back In The Habit
Stars Whoopi Goldberg. (1993, PG)
1.45 Elizabeth — The Golden Age
Elizabeth I wrestles with her feelings
for Sir Walter Raleigh. (2007, 12)
3.50 Three Men And A Baby Three
flat-sharing bachelors take care of an
infant left on their doorstep. (1987, PG)
5.40 The Rock A renegade general
and his team take over the abandoned
fortress prison of Alcatraz. (1996, 15)
8.00 Chinatown A small-time private
detective investigates the husband of
a wealthy socialite. (1974, 15)
10.15 No Country For Old Men A hunter
takes the money left at the scene
of a botched drug deal. (2007, 15)
12.20 Basic Instinct A hard-drinking
cop lets his feelings for a suspect
cloud his judgment. (1992, 18)
2.35 Three Days Of The Condor Stars
Robert Redford. Thriller. (1975, 15)
4.40-6.45 Bedknobs And
Broomsticks Musical Fantasy. (1971, U)
Defective: Caine (Film 4, 4.30pm)
ITV2
7.00 Ellen DeGeneres Chat.
8.00 Emmerdale Rural soap.
8.30 Coronation Street Soap.
9.00 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
9.25 Supermarket Sweep
10.25 Ellen’s Game Of Games
11.20 Dress To Impress Dating.
12.25 Emmerdale Rural soap.
12.55 Coronation Street Soap.
1.30 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
2.00 Ellen DeGeneres Chat.
2.55 Dress To Impress Dating.
4.00 Supermarket Sweep
5.00 Ellen’s Game Of Games
6.00 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
7.00 Supermarket Sweep Rylan
Clark-Neal hosts the
shop-based gameshow.
8.00 Roswell, New Mexico
A night out ends with Isobel
in the arms of someone
unexpected. (Series 2, ep 6)
9.00 Love Island — All The Feels
Iain Stirling takes a nostalgic
look back at some of the
most romantic moments the
villa has ever seen, checking
in on some classic couples.
10.05 Celebrity Juice Comedy
quiz, hosted by Keith Lemon.
10.50 Family Guy Stewie decides
to murder Lois. (S6, ep 4)
11.15 Family Guy Lois returns
to identify her would-be
killer. 11.45 Family Guy
Brian’s new girlfriend leaves
him. (Series 7, ep 1)
12.15 American Dad! Steve rubs
shoulders with some trouble-
makers. (S12, ep 8) 12.40
American Dad! Steve joins a
water polo team. (S12, ep 2)
1.10 Timewasters (Series 2, ep 2)
1.40 Celebability Gameshow.
2.25 Release The Hounds
— Famous & Freaked
3.20 Nightscreen Information.
3.30-7.00 Teleshopping
SKY CINEMA BLOCKBUSTERS
2.00pm Transformers A teen is drawn
into a war between two factions of
giant shape-changing robots. (2007, 12)
4.30 The Twilight Saga — Breaking
Dawn: Part 1 Fantasy. (2011, 12)
6.30 The Secret Life Of Pets 2 A
terrier encounters hostile foxes when
he visits the countryside. (2019, U)
8.00 ET — The Extra-Terrestrial
A lonely boy befriends a stranded alien
and helps him call for rescue. (1982, U)
10.00 Transformers Details as 2pm.
12.25 Django Unchained (2012, 18)
3.10 Thor Fantasy adventure. (2011, 12)
5.10-6.40 The Grinch (2018, U)
FILM 4
11.00am CHOICE The Fighting
Kentuckian Stars John Wayne, Vera
Ralston and Oliver Hardy. Western
drama. (1949, U; see Film choice)
1.05 Appointment With Danger Stars
Alan Ladd. Noir thriller. (1950, PG)
2.55 Comanche Station (1960, PG)
4.30 Funeral In Berlin Stars Michael
Caine and Paul Hubschmid. (1966, PG)
6.35 Ender’s Game A gifted boy is
trained to lead Earth’s military forces
into battle against aliens. (2013, 12)
9.00 Kingsman — The Secret Service
A teenager is given the chance to work
with a spy organisation. (2015, 15)
11.35 Escape Plan (2013, 15)
1.50-3.40 Anomalisa (2015, 15)
TALKING PICTURES TV
2.30pm The Eternal Sea (1955, U)
4.35 Saloon Bar Mystery. (1940, PG)
6.20 John And Julie Comedy. (1953, U)
8.00 The Beauty Jungle (1964, PG)
10.15-12.05 Man In The Middle Stars
Robert Mitchum. Drama. (1964, U)
1G
ITV3
6.00 Classic Coronation Street
7.00 Classic Emmerdale Soap.
8.00 Heartbeat Rural drama.
9.05 Bless This House Comedy.
10.05 That’s My Boy Sitcom.
10.40 Midsomer Murders
12.40 Heartbeat Rural drama.
1.45 Classic Emmerdale Soap.
2.50 Classic Coronation Street
3.55 Midsomer Murders With
John Nettles. A barman is
shot dead as he takes a
walk near a ruined cottage.
5.55 Heartbeat Vernon tries to
impress the new doctor.
7.00 Poirot A well-known
eccentric contacts the sleuth
when he is haunted by
suicidal nightmares, but he
fails to follow Poirot’s advice,
and is found dead soon
afterwards. (Series 1, ep 10)
8.00 Midsomer Murders With Neil
Dudgeon. A sparkling wine
launch ends in disaster when
guests sampling the vintage
start to collapse, and Barnaby
must investigate a possible
connection to a hit-and-run.
10.00 Law & Order: UK The
discovery of a body in a
shallow grave by the Thames
prompts Brooks and Devlin to
reopen a case. (Series 1, ep 4)
11.00 Scott & Bailey Three weeks
after reporting her husband
missing, a porn star is
arrested on suspicion of his
murder. (Series 1, ep 4)
12.05 A Touch Of Frost An autistic
teenager is arrested for
murder. (Series 10, ep 2)
2.15 Poirot When a dentist falls in
love with his young assistant,
his anxious wife calls for
Poirot’s help. (Series 2, ep 4)
3.25 Nightscreen Information.
3.30-6.00 Teleshopping
ENTERTAINMENT
GOLD
7.10am The Green Green Grass 8.10
Porridge 9.30 Are You Being Served?
10.10 Last Of The Summer Wine 12.10
Porridge 12.50 Are You Being Served?
1.30 The Green Green Grass 2.10 Only
Fools And Horses 2.50 Last Of The
Summer Wine 4.50 Are You Being
Served? 5.30 The Green Green Grass
6.05 Only Fools And Horses 10.00 Men
Behaving Badly 11.15 Only Fools And
Horses 1.20 Green Wing 2.25 The Rebel
2.55-4.00 My Favourite Sketch
SKY COMEDY
6.00pm 30 Rock 6.30 Modern Family
7.30 The Mindy Project 9.00 Dana
Carvey — Squatting Monkeys Tell No
Lies 10.15 Girls 10.50 The Tonight Show
11.50 Entourage 12.30 Vice Principals
1.10 Bored To Death 1.50 Parks And
Recreation 3.30-5.00 30 Rock
SKY WITNESS
6.00pm Nothing To Declare 7.00
Paramedics — Australia 8.00 Ghost
Whisperer 9.00 FBI. A blogger’s son
goes missing 10.00 How To Get Away
With Murder. Annalise tries to derail
Tegan’s plans 11.00 Criminal Minds.
The BAU investigates a fatal drone
shooting 12.00 Ghost Whisperer
1.00 CSI 3.00 The Good Doctor
5.00-6.00 Brit Cops — Rapid Response
W COMEDY CENTRAL
6.00pm Tipping Point 7.00 Top Chef
8.00 Inside The Ambulance 9.00 999
Rescue Squad 10.00 Louis Theroux’s
Altered States — Take My Baby
ITV4
5.55pm The Sweeney Regan and
Carter stake out a dodgy
garage, believed to be the
base of a criminal gang.
7.00 Tour De France ReCycled —
Geraint’s Tour Action from
stage 18 of the 2018 race.
8.00 The Motorbike Show Henry
Cole rides through Andalusia
and meets up with Zef
Eisenberg back in the UK.
9.00 FILM: Logan Lucky Stars
Channing Tatum and Adam
Driver. Two brothers try to
pull off a heist during a
Nascar race. Crime caper.
(2017, 12; includes FYI Daily)
11.10 FILM: National Lampoon’s
European Vacation Stars
Chevy Chase. The family
members win a holiday
touring Europe and proceed
to cause mayhem wherever
they go. Cliché-ridden.
(1985, 15; includes FYI Daily)
1.15 The Sweeney Police drama.
2.20 Only When I Laugh (S2, ep 3)
2.50 Nightscreen Information.
3.00-6.00 Teleshopping
Persuasive: Austen (BBC4, 9pm)
11.00 Inside The Ambulance 12.00 One
Born Every Minute 1.00 Louis Theroux’s
Altered States — Take My Baby
1.50-3.00 Flip Or Flop. Double bill
5 STAR
6.00pm Neighbours 6.30 Home And
Away 7.00 FILM: The First Wives Club.
Stars Goldie Hawn 9.00 Skin A&E 10.00
Good Girls’ Guide To Kinky Sex 11.00
FILM: The Commuter 1.05 Nightmare
Tenants, Slum Landlords 2.05 Iceland
— Britain’s Biggest Budget Supermarket
3.05 Will & Grace 3.50-4.00 Access
5 USA
6.00pm NCIS. Triple bill 9.00 Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit. Five
episodes 1.45 Remington Steele 3.35-
4.00 Criminals — Caught On Camera
QUEST
6.00pm Wheeler Dealers 7.00 Aussie
Gold Hunters 8.00 Salvage Hunters
9.00 Vintage Voltage 10.00 Chasing
Classic Cars 11.00 How Do They Do It?
12.00 Wheeler Dealers 1.00 American
Pickers 2.00 American Chopper
3.00 Ultimate Airport Dubai 4.00
Dirty Jobs 5.00-6.00 How It’s Made
FOX
6.00pm The Mentalist. Patrick sets up a
robbery 7.00 NCIS 9.00 LA’s Finest
10.00 Family Guy 11.00 American Dad!
12.00 Family Guy 1.00 American Dad!
2.00 Family Guy 3.00 American Dad!
4.00-5.00 Republic Of Doyle
6.00pm Friends 9.00 FILM: Bruce
Almighty. Stars Jim Carrey 11.00
Bob’s Burgers 12.00 Russell Howard’s
Good News 1.00 8 Out Of 10 Cats
E4
6.00 Rules Of Engagement
7.00 How I Met Your Mother
8.00 Melissa & Joey Sitcom.
9.00 Baby Daddy Comedy.
10.00 The Big Bang Theory
11.00 The Goldbergs Sitcom.
12.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
1.00 The Big Bang Theory
2.00 Melissa & Joey Sitcom.
3.00 The Goldbergs Sitcom.
4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
5.00 Young Sheldon Comedy.
6.00 The Big Bang Theory
Leonard seeks relationship
advice. (Series 2, ep 10)
6.30 The Big Bang Theory
Sheldon becomes obsessed
with gift-giving etiquette.
7.00 Hollyoaks Favourites
7.30 Married At First Sight
Australia The husbands visit
their wives’ homes.
9.00 The Big Bang Theory Amy
and Sheldon argue. (Series
10, ep 5) 9.30 The Big Bang
Theory Penny discovers she
has a dedicated fan-base.
10.00 The Good Place Michael
prevents Eleanor, Chidi,
Tahani and Jason from
dying. (Series 3, ep 2)
10.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine A new
captain tries to ingratiate
herself with Jake and the
squad. (Series 7, ep 2)
11.00 Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Buffy discovers an unlikely
ally. (Series 2, ep 22)
12.00 Rick And Morty (S3, ep 1)
12.30 Robot Chicken (S10, ep 12)
12.45 The Jellies! Adult animation.
1.00 Rick And Morty (S2, ep 6)
1.30 The Big Bang Theory
2.25 Gogglebox Opinions on TV.
3.20 The Good Place (S3, ep 2)
3.45 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
4.10 The Big Bang Theory
5.00-6.00 How I Met Your Mother
2.00 Two And A Half Men 2.55 The
Daily Show 3.25-5.00 Friends
YESTERDAY
6.00am The Living Universe 7.10
Abandoned Engineering 8.00 History
Hunters 9.00 Nazi Hunters 10.00
Antiques Roadshow 11.00 Abandoned
Engineering 12.00 Great British Railway
Journeys 1.00 Antiques Roadshow
2.00 David Attenborough’s Natural
Curiosities 3.00 The Architecture The
Railways Built 4.00 Abandoned
Engineering 5.00 WW2 — Battles For
Europe 6.00 Nazi Hunters 7.00 Great
British Railway Journeys 8.00
Abandoned Engineering 9.00 Train
Truckers 10.00 The World At War
11.00-1.00 Porridge. Triple bill
DAVE
6.00pm Taskmaster 7.00 House Of
Games 7.35 QI 9.00 Live At The Apollo
10.00 Famalam. Comedy sketch show
10.30 Sliced. Joshua asks Naomi out
— only to find she is going on a date
with someone else 11.05 Taskmaster.
Roisin Conaty and fellow contestants
have to fill an egg cup with tears 12.10
Mock The Week 12.55 QI 1.30 Red
Dwarf 2.10 Famalam 2.35 Red Dwarf
3.15-4.00 The Indestructibles
PICK
6.00pm Premier League: Leicester City
v Sheffield United. Live coverage,
kickoff 6.00 8.00 Merlin 9.00 Magnum
PI 10.00 Double Murder — The Inside
Story 11.00 CSI 12.00 Brit Cops —
War On Crime 1.00 Road Wars 2.00
Banged Up Abroad 3.00 Police
Force — Australia 4.00 Motorway
Patrol 5.00-6.00 Border Patrol
MORE 4
8.55 Vintage Gems Crafts.
9.20 A Place In The Sun Property.
10.15 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Items.
12.15 Escape To The Chateau
— DIY Jonathan and Michael
face their investors.
1.15 Building The Dream A
couple plan to build a
contemporary home.
2.15 Four In A Bed B&B contest.
4.55 Find It, Fix It, Drive It Henry
Cole and Sam Lovegrove
fix up a MG Midget. (9/10)
5.55 The Supervet A rescued
bulldog is treated after having
trouble with all four legs.
6.55 Escape To The Chateau
— DIY A couple make plans
to enhance their property by
building a swimming pool.
7.55 Grand Designs Kevin
McCloud meets a couple
whose house was designed
and fabricated in Germany,
then transported to Surrey to
be assembled within a week.
9.00 Outlander Jamie, Claire and
Young Ian embark on a long
and uncertain journey to
rescue Roger; and Brianna is
sent to be cared for by
Jocasta. (Series 4, ep 11)
10.15 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does
Countdown With Joe
Wilkinson, Seann Walsh,
Danny Dyer and Bill Bailey.
11.20 Father Ted The annual
football match leads to
trouble. 11.50 Father Ted
Cheating in the football
match backfires on Ted.
12.20 24 Hours In A&E Incidents.
1.25 Emergency Helicopter
Medics A boating accident.
2.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does
Countdown With Bill Bailey.
3.30-3.55 Father Ted Comedy.
4.00-8.55 Teleshopping
FACTUAL
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
6.00pm Drain The Oceans — Deep
Dive 7.00 Air Crash Investigation 8.00
Food Factory 9.00 Superstructures —
Engineering Marvels. The world’s
largest plane 10.00 Gathering Storm.
The impact of three storms on the Gulf
coast 11.00 Air Crash Investigation
1.00-2.00 Airport Security — Peru
DISCOVERY
6.00pm Fast N’ Loud 7.00 Outback
Truckers 8.00 Mighty Ships. The
Avataq cargo ship 9.00 Mysteries Of
The Deep 10.00 Naked And Afraid XL.
New series. Twelve survivalists enter a
punishing African location for their
40-day challenge 12.00 Mysteries Of
The Deep 1.00-2.00 Deadliest Catch
PBS AMERICA
5.10pm 10 Streets That Changed
America 6.20 Plane Resurrection 7.30
The Lost Tribes Of Humanity 8.35 The
Civil War. The Union’s failure to achieve
a victory by spring 1863 9.50 Plane
Resurrection. The team flies a P-40
Warhawk 11.00-12.20 The Civil War
SKY ARTS
6.00pm Discovering Edward G
Robinson 7.00 Bafta — Life In Pictures
8.00 Great Film Composers — The
Music Of The Movies 9.00 CHOICE
The Directors. The life and work of
Martin Scorsese. (See Critics’ choice)
10.00 FILM: Corman’s World — Exploits
Of A Hollywood Rebel. Documentary on
the producer Roger Corman 11.45-12.45
Queen — Live In Milton Keynes
SPORT
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT
6.00am News 7.00 Total Goals 8.00
Fighting Fit 8.30 Fit In 5: Lisa & Marvin
— Full Body Tone 8.40 Fit In 5:
Sarah-Jane & Marvin — Full Body Blast
8.50 Fit In 5: Sarah-Jane & Marvin
— Core Cardio 9.00 Total Goals 10.00
My Icon: Shaun Gayle 10.15 My Icon:
Pam Cookey 10.30 LIVE Test Cricket:
England v West Indies. Coverage of the
first day of the second Test in the three-
match series, at Old Trafford 5.30 LIVE
Premier League: Everton v Aston Villa.
Kickoff at 6.00 8.30 LIVE PGA Tour
Golf. Coverage of the Memorial
Tournament 11.30-6.00 News
EUROSPORT 1
7.00am Tennis. The Berlin Bett1 Aces
8.00 Tour De France: Thomas 2018
11.00 Speedway. The European
championship 12.00 Best Of Bikes
1.00 Athletics 2.00 Tour De France:
Thomas 2018 5.00 Cycling 6.00 Best
Of Bikes 7.00 Speedway 8.00 Tour De
France: Thomas 2018 11.00 Tennis. The
Berlin Bett1 Aces 12.00 World Poker
Tour 1.00 Hall Of Fame: Greatest
Sprinters 2.00 Tour De France:
Thomas 2018 5.00-7.00 Snooker:
World Championship Final 2014
BT SPORT 1
6.00am Uefa Champions League
Magazine 6.30 What Went Down 6.45
Hakim Ziyech — Wizard Of AMS 7.30
Premier League 9.00 ESPN FC 9.30
A-League Highlights 10.30 LIVE
A-League: Melbourne Victory v Western
United. At AAMI Park. Kickoff 10.30
12.30 Bundesliga Special 1.30 Goals
Reload 2.00 Uefa Champions League
Goals Show Retro 3.00 Premier League
4.30 Uefa Champions League Goals
Show Retro 5.30 ESPN FC 6.00
A-League 7.30 LIVE Premier League:
Crystal Palace v Manchester United.
Kickoff 8.15 10.30 Premier League
Tonight 11.30 Uefa Champions League
Greatest Nights 12.30 Uefa Champions
League Goals Show Retro 1.30
A-League 3.00 Goals Reload 3.30
Outdoor Sports 4.00-6.00 AFL
SKY DOCUMENTARIES
6.00am In Vogue — The Editor’s Eye
7.20 PL Legends — Andrew Cole 8.00
Hotel Secrets 9.00 Discovering Bette
Davis 10.00 The Directors 11.00 The
British 12.00 Hollywood Couples 1.00
Hotel Secrets 2.00 In Vogue — The
Editor’s Eye 3.20 PL Legends — Ian
Wright 4.00 Discovering Clark Gable
5.00 The Directors 6.00 The British
7.00 Hollywood Couples 8.00 The
Sixties 9.00 The Putin Interviews 10.10-
12.10 Divide And Conquer — The Story
Of Roger Ailes. Examining the story of
the controversial Fox News founder
SKY NATURE
6.00am City Wildlife Rescue 7.00
Monkey Life 8.00 Living Beach 9.00
Zambia Untamed 10.00 Wildest New
Zealand 11.00 Wild Birds Of Australia
12.00 Wild Rockies 1.00 Monkey Life
2.00 Living Beach 3.00 Zambia
Untamed 4.00 Wildest New Zealand
5.00 Wild Birds Of Australia 6.00 Wild
Rockies 7.00 Monkey Life 8.00
Mysteries Of The Mekong 9.00 Coastal
Africa. Penguins 10.00 Wild Rockies
11.00-12.00 Wild Birds Of Australia
SMITHSONIAN
6.00am Mystic Britain 7.00 Aerial
Britain 8.00 Atomic Age Declassified
9.00 Dung Dynasty 10.00 King Of The
Desert Lions 11.00 Aerial Africa 12.00
Mystic Britain 1.00 The Pacific War In
Colour 2.00 Atomic Age Declassified
3.00 Dung Dynasty 4.00 King Of The
Desert Lions 5.00 Air Warriors 6.00
The Hunt For Eagle 56 7.00 Seriously
Amazing Objects 8.00 Inside The
Christmas Factory 10.00 Ultimate
Warships 11.00-12.00 The Lost Tapes
RADIO
PICK OF THE DAY
What If Everyone
Was Disabled?
Radio 4 FM, 11.30am
Mat Fraser, pictured, is a
writer, actor, performer and
thalidomide survivor. Here
is his passionate and sharply
observed account of how
the wheelchair victories of
Tanni Grey-Thompson — 16
Olympic medals, 11 golds,
won over two decades —
changed general perceptions
of disabled people. She was
made a life peer in 2010 and
remains a powerful advocate.
But is “visibility” enough?
Gillian Reynolds
RADIO 4
5.33 Shipping 5.43 Prayer 5.45
Farming Today 5.58 Tweet Of The Day
(R) 6.00 Today 8.31 (LW) Yesterday In
Parliament 9.00 The Long View 9.30
James Burke’s Web Of Knowledge (R)
9.45 Book Of The Week 9.45 (LW) Daily
Service 10.00 Woman’s Hour 10.00
(LW) Woman’s Hour 10.25-7.00 (LW)
Test Cricket: England v West Indies
11.00 From Our Own Correspondent
11.30 What If Everyone Was Disabled?
With Mat Fraser 12.00 News 12.03
Shipping 12.06 The Girl With The
Louding Voice 12.20 You And Yours
1.00 World At One 1.45 Bloodsport
2.00 The Archers (R) 2.15 Drama: The
Interrogation 3.00 Open Country 3.27
Appeal (R) 3.30 Open Book (R) 4.00
The Film Programme 4.30 Inside
Science 5.00 PM 6.00 News 6.30
ReincarNathan 7.00 The Archers 7.15
Front Row 7.45 Why Mummy Swears
(R) 8.00 The Briefing Room 8.30 The
Bottom Line 9.00 Inside Science (R)
9.30 The Long View (R) 10.00 The
World Tonight 10.45 Book At Bedtime
(R) 11.00 For The Love Of Leo (R)
11.30 Today In Parliament 12.00 News
12.30 Book Of The Week (R) 12.48
Shipping 1.00 As World Service
TIMES RADIO
5.00 Calum Macdonald With Early
Breakfast 6.00 Aasmah Mir And Stig
Abell With Times Radio Breakfast.
Includes On This Day at 6.50 10.00
Matt Chorley. 1.00 Mariella Frostrup
4.00 John Pienaar At Drive. Including
the daily opinion interview at 5.30
7.00 Phil Williams 10.00 Carole
Walker 1.00 Stories Of Our Times.
The Times’s daily podcast 1.30 Red
Box. Matt Chorley’s politics podcast
2.00 Highlights From Times Radio
To get in touch with the Times Radio
studio, text TIMES plus your message
to 87222. Texts cost your standard
message charge.
RADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 Mum’s On The Run 5.30 Women
Talking About Cars 6.00 Raffles 6.30
Miss Marple: Nemesis 7.00 North By
Northamptonshire 7.30 ReincarNathan
8.00 Round The Horne 8.30 Yes
Minister 9.00 The Write Stuff 9.30
Bristow 10.00 The Raj Quartet 11.00
Desert Island Discs Revisited 11.45
Multi Story Shorts 12.00 Round The
Horne 12.30 Yes Minister 1.00 Raffles
1.30 Miss Marple: Nemesis 2.00 The
Write Stuff 2.30 Bristow 3.00 The Raj
Quartet 4.00 Desert Island Discs
Revisited 4.45 Multi Story Shorts 5.00
North By Northamptonshire 5.30
ReincarNathan 6.00 Fear On Four 6.30
Great Lives 7.00 Round The Horne 7.30
Yes Minister 8.00 Raffles 8.30 Miss
Marple: Nemesis 9.00 Desert Island
Discs Revisited 9.45 Multi Story Shorts
10.00 ReincarNathan 10.30 On The
Town With The League Of Gentlemen
11.00 Sir Ralph Stanza’s Letter From
Salford 11.15 Can’t Tell Nathan Caton
Nothing 11.30-12.00 Listen Against
LBC
7.00 Matt Frei 10.00 James O’Brien
1.00 Shelagh Fogarty 4.00 Eddie Mair
7.00 Iain Dale 10.00 Tom Swarbrick
1.00 Darren Adam 4.00 Steve Allen
RADIO 3
6.30 Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer Of The Week 1.00
Lunchtime Concert. Live at City Halls,
Glasgow, the keyboard player John
Butt and the tenor Thomas Walker,
present a programme of Handel and
his contemporaries 2.00 Afternoon
Concert. Antonio Pappano conducts
the Royal Opera House Chorus
and Orchestra in a performance of
Puccini’s La Bohème, with Nicole Car
(soprano, Mimi) and Michael Fabiano
(tenor, Rodolfo) (R) 5.00 In Tune
7.00 In Tune Mixtape 7.30 In Concert.
The Chinese-American pianist Eric
Lu, winner of the 2018 Leeds
International Piano Competition and
New Generation Artist, performs music
by Schumann, Brahms and Chopin (R)
10.00 Free Thinking. Ideas shaping
modern life (R) 10.45 The Essay. Verity
Sharp talks to the Indian sarangi player
Suhail Yusuf Khan, who sings an Urdu
poem that has been resonating for him
during the pandemic 11.00 The Night
Tracks Mix 11.30 Unclassified. Music
by a new generation of composers
12.30 Through The Night
CLASSIC FM
6.00 Tim Lihoreau 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall
4.00 John Brunning 8.00 The Concert.
John Suchet presents performances of
works by Raff, Mendelssohn, Liszt,
Sibelius and Clara Schumann 10.00
Margherita Taylor 1.00 Jane Jones
RADIO 2
5.00 Nicki Chapman 6.30 The Zoe Ball
Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00 Angela Scanlon In
The Afternoon 5.00 Amol Rajan 8.00
Jo Whiley 11.00 The Country Show
With Bob Harris. With Ingrid Andress
12.00 Gethin Jones 3.00 Pick Of The
Pops (R) 4.00 Pick Of The Pops (R)
VIRGIN RADIO
6.30 The Chris Evans Breakfast Show
10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris 1.00
Tim Cocker 4.00 Kate Lawler 7.00
Steve Denyer 10.00 Amy Voce 1.00
Through The Night 4.00 Ben Jones
TALKSPORT
5.00 Early Breakfast 6.00 Breakfast
With Alan Brazil 10.00 White And
Sawyer 1.00 Hawksbee And Jacobs
4.00 Drive 7.00 Kickoff 10.00
Sports Bar 1.00 Extra Time
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Swords and sorcery retold: will Katherine Langford prove to be a kingmaker? (Netflix)
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Cursed (Netflix)
Adapted by Frank Miller and
Tom Wheeler from their
graphic novel, Cursed is a
prequel to and retelling of the
Arthurian legend, centring on
Nimue (Katherine Langford),
a fairy destined to be the Lady
of the Lake. The priestess’s
daughter journeys in part one
through a land where the Red
Paladins, led by Father Carden
(Peter Mullan), are burning
pagan villages. She runs into a
freelance knight called Arthur
(Devon Terrell) but has yet to
meet Merlin (Gustaf Skarsgard),
a drunken, failed magician.
“Mother will kill me” is a
typical line: young ancient
Britons can sound uncannily
similar to modern home-
counties counterparts today.
John Dugdale
FILM CHOICE
The Sound Barrier
(TPTV, 11.20am)
Ignoring the fact that an
American, Chuck Yeager, broke
the sound barrier in 1947,
this David Lean film invents
a distinctly British story.
A fusty but resolute drama
with striking aerial scenes,
it features Nigel Patrick as a
test pilot and Ann Todd as his
nerve-racked wife. (1952) B/W
50 12 July 2020
The Other One (BBC1, 9pm)
The final episode of the cheery
family comedy finds Cathy
insta-stalking her ex as he and
his medical receptionist enjoy
the honeymoon itinerary she
booked. “I’m supposed to be
the one on the beach feeding
turtles,” she wails to her half-
sister (who should really be
delivering her customer’s pad
thai). Time for the girls to get
Dad’s two-berth cruiser off the
drive for a second series. (HS)
The North York Moors —
A Wild Year (BBC2, 9pm)
A blissed-out 12 months on the
wild moors and sheltered dales.
Viewers experience vicariously
the feeding of wintering sheep
on snow-covered fells, dippers
diving into freezing streams,
the birth of lambs and the
hatching of moths and birds,
the careful burning of the
heather and the Christmas-
tree harvest. Magical. (HS)
A Greek Odyssey (C5, 9pm)
Bettany Hughes begins her last
leg by bizarrely re-crossing the
Peloponnese peninsula to visit
Corinth in the northeast, then
back yet again to the western
coast. Could she be feigning
madness, as Odysseus did?
Things become saner as she
traces the foreign cultural
influences on Corfu; and on
Ithaca, where she tells of the
Greek hero’s homecoming
after 20 years away. (JD)
Huey Morgan’s Latin Music
Adventure (BBC4, 9.30pm)
Morgan’s mother came from
Puerto Rico, animating a busy,
final film that chronicles the
island’s distinctive music —
19th-century bomba and plena
to reggaeton today. It looks
at the impact of post-war
“Nuyorican” immigrants in
New York who combined Latin
styles with jazz, R&B or rock to
create boogaloo and salsa. (JD)
1G
BBC1
6.00 Breakfast The latest reports.
9.00 BBC News Headlines.
10.00 Rip Off Britain The team
reports on builder-checking
websites. (Last in series)
10.45 Homes Under The Hammer
Properties at auction. (R)
11.45 Caught Red Handed (R)
12.15 Bargain Hunt In Ardingly. (R)
1.00 News; Weather Reports.
1.45 The Heights Ash reacts badly
to an insinuation; and the
hospital ball sees one
relationship flourish while
another one founders.
2.15 Impossible Gameshow. (R)
3.00 Escape To The Country (R)
3.45 Home Is Where The Art Is A
buyer from Lincolnshire seeks
a special gift for her husband.
4.30 The Repair Shop — Fixing
Britain Examining the First
World War’s legacy on the UK
today, with fixes including
bagpipes, a soldier’s wire
cutters and two RAF mascots.
5.15 Pointless Unorthodox quiz.
6.00 News; Weather Reports.
6.30 Regional News Update.
7.00 The One Show Features.
7.30 A Question Of Sport Hal
Robson-Kanu, Colin Jackson,
Paul Sculthorpe and Terri
Harper take part in the quiz.
8.00 Celebrity Masterchef Phil
Vickery, Lisa Faulkner and
John Partridge lend their
thoughts as John Torode and
Gregg Wallace judge the four
remaining contestants
battling for semi-final places.
8.30 Jack Whitehall’s Sporting
Nation Britain’s attitude
towards its sporting heroes,
examining the delight the
nation takes in building its
sports stars up — as well as
bringing them down again.
9.00 CHOICE The Other One Cat
takes Cathy on their own
‘sister honeymoon’ to cheer
her up; and Marilyn finds
Colin’s missing will, and,
along with Tess, has to impart
some shocking news. (See
Critics’ choice; last in series)
9.30 Peter Kay’s Car Share
Kayleigh has had enough of
work and fancies a day off,
but John is not having any
of it. (Series 2, ep 3, R)
10.00 News; Weather Reports.
10.45 London 2012 — Opening
Ceremony Taking a look
back at the event. (R)
1.20-6.00 Joins BBC News
SCOTLAND 6.30 Reporting Scotland.
20th Century Women
(BBC2, 11.20pm)
A coming-of-age drama about
a 15-year-old (Lucas Jade
Zumann) living with his mother
(Annette Bening) and two
younger women (Elle Fanning
and Greta Gerwig) in California
in 1979, Mike Mills’s film houses
a range of tones and styles
under one roof. Its visual
quirks and chatty voiceovers
might tempt some viewers
to quit, yet Bening’s work in
her credible, warm-hearted
role is quite a draw. (EP)
BBC2
6.30 Home Is Where The Art Is (R)
7.15 The Repair Shop — Fixing
Britain The importance of
music in people’s lives. (R)
8.00 Great American Railroad
Journeys Travel. (Signed, R)
9.00 Wild China Ruined trade cities
outside the Great Wall. (R)
10.00 News; Weather Reports.
1.00 The Boss Quiz show. (R)
1.45 Chronicles Of A Champion
Golfer How Darren Clarke,
Nick Faldo and Rory McIlroy
have fared at the Open. (R)
2.45 Coast Shorelines. (R)
3.05 Imagine Alan Yentob looks
back at the 2012 Olympics
opening ceremony. (R)
4.45 Britain’s Olympic Torch
Story Documentary. (R)
5.15 Flog It! In Co Durham. (R)
6.00 Eggheads Team quiz. (R)
6.30 Great Australian Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo
rides the steepest railway
in the world. (2/2, R)
7.00 Cricket Action from day two
of the second Test between
England and West Indies,
held at Old Trafford.
8.00 Gardeners’ World Adam
Frost provides an update on
his garden; and in Devon,
Toby Buckland shares tips on
dealing with damaged
shrubs, tree pruning and
transplanting perennials.
9.00 CHOICE The North York
Moors — A Wild Year An
exploration of the upland area
of North Yorkshire, where
heather-clad uplands and
sheltered dales have been
shaped both by the elements
and by its people. (See
Critics’ choice; last in series)
10.00 I Love 1981 Adam Ant
presents a retrospective look
at the pop culture of the year,
featuring Kim Wilde, Clare
Grogan, Tom Selleck, Danger
Mouse and Gregory’s Girl. (R)
10.35 State Of The Union Louise
discovers something
troubling about Tom. (2/10, R)
10.45 Newsnight The day’s events.
11.20 CHOICE 20th Century
Women Stars Annette Bening
and Lucas Jade Zumann.
A teenage boy is raised by
his mother and two other
women among the love and
freedom of 1979 California.
(2016, 15; see Film choice)
1.10 Panorama (Signed, R)
1.40-2.25 What We Do In The
Shadows (Last in series, R)
ON DEMAND
Scenes For Survival
(nationaltheatrescotland.
com/events)
Have we all had too much of
lockdown monologues, or
could you stomach some more?
The National Theatre for
Scotland has produced in
excess of 50, but with Janey
Godley, Jonathan Watson,
Lorraine McIntosh, Moyo
Akandé, Mark Bonnar and
ITV
6.00 Good Morning Britain
9.00 Lorraine Lifestyle chat.
10.00 This Morning Features.
12.30 Loose Women Debate.
1.30 News; Weather Reports.
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal
David Dickinson heads to
Bradford, where Tim Hogarth
appraises an amplifier, and a
terracotta dog piques Cheryl
Hakeney’s interest. (R)
3.00 Tenable Quiz show. (R)
4.00 Tipping Point Gameshow. (R)
5.00 The Chase Bradley Walsh
presents the quiz show. (R)
6.00 Regional News Update.
6.30 News; Weather Reports.
7.00 Emmerdale Nate and Rhona
try to calm Cain as Kim
threatens to bring down
Butlers Farm; and Jamie
feels trapped by Andrea.
7.30 Coronation Street Kevin asks
Abi to move in with him and
Jack but, while she is
delighted, Seb is angry that
she has moved on so quickly
from her own kids to Kevin’s.
8.00 Vera With Brenda Blethyn.
When a man’s body is
dredged up from a slurry pit
on a remote farm, Vera must
connect the dots between the
victim and a wounded illegal
immigrant who has been
working there. (S5, ep 3, R)
10.00 News At Ten Bulletin.
10.45 Life Stories The singer-
songwriter Barry Gibb
reflects on his life, and
explains how he has finally
managed to come to terms
with being the last surviving
member of the Bee Gees. (R)
11.40 The Masked Singer US More
mystery celebrities battle it
out in the singing contest
while dressed head to toe in
elaborate costumes, while a
panel of famous faces try to
guess their identities. (R)
12.30 Teleshopping Goods.
3.00 1000 Heartbeats (R)
3.50-6.00 Nightscreen
Home schooling (BBC2, 11.20pm)
CHANNEL 4
6.30 Cheers Comedy series. (R)
7.20 Mike & Molly Sitcom. (R)
8.05 The Big Bang Theory (R)
9.00 Frasier American sitcom. (R)
10.30 Come Dine With Me (R)
12.00 News; Weather Reports.
12.05 Come Dine With Me (R)
1.05 A New Life In The Sun
It is crunch time for two
plant-nursery entrepreneurs
in France. (Last in series, R)
2.10 Countdown Gameshow. (R)
3.00 A Place In The Sun A couple
looking for a holiday home on
Spain’s Costa Blanca. (R)
4.00 Sun, Sea And Selling Houses
Properties in Almeria. (R)
5.00 Four In A Bed The B&B
owners discover what they
have been paid. (R)
5.30 Come Dine With Me (R)
6.00 The Simpsons Homer has
his jaw wired shut. (R) 6.30
The Simpsons Grampa
moves in with the family. (R)
7.00 News; Weather Reports.
8.00 Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food
Jamie Oliver cooks up more
mouth-watering recipes,
starting with a quick-to-
prepare lamb stew that boasts
deep flavours, followed
by a warm lentil salad.
8.30 Celebrity Snoop Dogs
Camera footage of inside the
homes of a labradoodle and
two American spaniels that
are brothers from different
mothers. (Last in series)
9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox
Some of Britain’s best-loved
personalities turn their hand
to being the country’s most
opinionated viewers as
they critique the week’s
television. (Last in series)
10.00 First Dates The pop star
Samuel Preston, the TV
presenter Scarlett Moffatt,
the entrepreneur Jo Wood
and the dog trainer Ashleigh
Butler go on dates with
members of the public. (R)
11.05 FILM: Why Him? Stars Bryan
Cranston, James Franco and
Zoey Deutch. A protective
father is less than thrilled
when his daughter starts
dating a foul-mouthed
playboy. Charming. (2016, 15)
1.10 Come Dine With Me (R)
3.30 Food Unwrapped (R)
3.55 Undercover Boss Australia
Managers go incognito. (R)
4.50 Grand Designs Australia (R)
5.45-6.00 Jamie’s Comfort Food
Ossobuco with a twist. (R)
CHANNEL 5
6.00 Milkshake! Fun for children.
9.15 Jeremy Vine Debate.
11.20 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It
Away Recouping debts. (R)
12.10 News; Weather Reports.
12.15 Nightmare Tenants, Slum
Landlords Tenants leave a
landlord over £20,000
behind with his mortgage. (R)
1.15 Home And Away Leah is
attacked by a hooded figure
when she comes home. (R)
1.45 Neighbours Kyle’s decision
to return to the island worries
his family and friends.
2.15 Morning Show Mystery
— Murder On The Menu
Drama, with Holly Robinson
Peete. A dead body turns
up in the car of a TV host’s
guest — a celebrity chef
with dark secrets in his past.
4.00 Friends Comedy series. (R)
5.00 News; Weather Reports.
5.30 Neighbours Soap. (R)
6.00 Home And Away (R)
6.30 News; Weather Update.
7.00 The Gadget Show Jon
Bentley tests a cheap DSLR
camera to see if it can
capture the essence of a
great British holiday; and
Craig Charles learns to play
the piano with a little help
from a smart speaker.
8.00 The World’s Most Scenic
Railway Journeys Bill Nighy
narrates a trip through
Wales’ highest peaks and
deepest valleys, taking in
locations including Pwllheli,
Porthmadog, Portmeirion
and Aberdovey. (R)
9.00 CHOICE A Greek Odyssey
Bettany Hughes visits Corfu,
where she discovers the
island has a close connection
to the UK, before her epic
journey ends on Odysseus’s
home island of Ithaca. (See
Critics’ choice; last in series)
10.00 FILM: Love Actually Stars
Hugh Grant, Martine
McCutcheon and Emma
Thompson. Ten interlinked
stories of people searching
for and finding love. Slushy
romantic comedy. (2003, 15)
12.45 Every Day Is Christmas Day!
Documenting eccentric
people who are always in the
festive holiday spirit. (R)
1.30 The 21.co.uk Live Casino
Show Interactive gambling.
3.30 New Lives In The Wild (R)
5.10 Great Artists Durer. (R)
5.35-6.00 House Doctor (R)
SKY 1
6.00 Animal 999 Incidents. (R)
7.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue (R)
8.00 The Flash (Series 2, ep 2, R)
9.00 Supergirl (Series 2, ep 5, R)
10.00 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles Drama. (R)
1.00 Hawaii Five-0 Drama. (R)
3.00 Brit Cops — Frontline Crime
UK Documentary. (R)
4.00 Modern Family Sitcom. (R)
5.00 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
5.30 Futurama Animation. (R)
6.30 The Simpsons Marge is
arrested. (R) 7.00 The
Simpsons Groundskeeper
Willie is made homeless and
moves in with the family. (R)
7.30 FNF: West Ham United v
Watford. Live coverage of the
Premier League contest,
which is held at London
Stadium. Kickoff at 8.00.
10.30 Greg Davies — Firing
Cheeseballs At A Dog The
comedian’s sell-out debut
solo show, in which he sets
out to chronicle the issues
surrounding modern life in
his own irreverent style. (R)
11.45 Micky Flanagan Thinking
Aloud The comedian
explores snobbery and the
obsession with class. (R)
12.45 The Moaning Of Life Karl
Pilkington aims to bag
himself a vocation, meeting
an 85-year-old inventor in
Japan and a self-made
millionaire in South Africa (R)
1.45 Rob & Romesh vs Ballet (R)
2.40 Road Wars Vehicle crime. (R)
3.05 NCIS: Los Angeles American
drama. (Series 7, ep 7, R)
4.00 Highway Patrol Crime. (R)
5.00-6.00 Futurama Cartoon. (R)
VARIATIONS
BBC1 WALES 11.45 Bargain Hunt
12.30 Wales Today Coronavirus Daily
Update 8.30 Tudur’s TV Flashback
9.00 Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience
9.30 Jack Whitehall’s Sporting
Nation 10.45 The Other One 11.15
Peter Kay’s Car Share 11.45 London
2012 — Opening Ceremony 2.15 BBC
News S4C 6.00 Cyw 6.45 Sam Tan
6.55 Olobobs 7.00 Halibalw 7.10
Blero Yn Mynd I Ocido 7.25 Meic Y
Marchog 7.40 Sigldigwt 8.00 Pentre
Bach 8.15 Ynys Broc Môr Lili 8.25
Dwylo’r Enfys 8.40 Stiw 8.50 Babi Ni
9.00 Cymylaubychain 9.10 Sblij A
Sbloj 9.20 Y Diwrnod Mawr 9.35
Guto Gwningen 9.45 Deian A Loli
10.00 Peppa 10.05 Rapsgaliwn
ATLANTIC
6.00 Fish Town Life in Brixham.
7.00 Storm City Snow and ice.
8.00 The Guest Wing Insights.
9.00 Elementary (Series 1, ep 19)
10.00 CSI Crime drama series.
1.00 Elementary (Series 1, ep 21)
2.00 Blue Bloods An officer is
suspected of a shooting
at a diner. (Series 2, ep 11)
3.00 Blue Bloods Danny
puts his family in danger.
4.00 CSI A blackjack player’s win
proves fatal. (Series 6, ep 22)
5.00 CSI A murder suspect
takes a woman hostage in a
casino. 6.00 CSI Brass fights
for his life after being shot.
7.00 Blue Bloods A woman claims
God told her who murdered
her mother. (S2, ep 13) 8.00
Blue Bloods The Reagans
debate how far they would
go to protect their family.
9.00 FILM: The Theory Of
Everything Stars Eddie
Redmayne. Biopic of
Stephen Hawking, exploring
his relationship with his wife
and his groundbreaking work
in the face of deteriorating
health. Stellar stuff. (2014, 12)
11.25 The Plot Against America
Drama imagining the political
rise of Charles Lindbergh.
(1/6) 12.35 The Plot Against
America Bengelsdorf
becomes a fundamental
asset in the Lindbergh camp.
1.50 Boardwalk Empire Nucky
cedes control of one of his
assets to Rothstein. (S3, ep 12)
3.00 Elementary Holmes and
Watson lead a manhunt for a
blackmailer. (Series 1, ep 20)
4.00-6.00 The British
10.20 Syrcas Deithiol Dewi 10.30
Do Re Mi Dona 10.45 Sam Tan 10.55
Olobobs 11.00 Halibalw 11.10 Blero
Yn Mynd I Ocido 11.25 Meic Y
Marchog 11.40 Sigldigwt 12.00
Ysgol Ddawns Anti Karen 12.30
Datganiad Dyddiol Covid-19 1.00
Heno 1.30 Y Sioe Fwyd 2.00
Newyddion 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00
Newyddion 3.05 Miwsig Fy Mywyd
4.00 Awr Fawr 5.00 Stwnsh 6.00
Mamwlad Gyda Ffion Hague 6.30
Garddio A Mwy 7.00 Heno 7.30
Newyddion 8.00 Gêm Gartre
8.25 Hwyl Y Noson Lawen 8.55
Newyddion 9.00 Ras E-Seiclo Tim
Ineos 10.00 Sgwrs Dan Y Lloer
10.30-11.35 Sioe Fach Fawr

Tam Dean Burn — and that’s The Booksellers

YOU SAY

just in front of the camera —
these shorts are well worth
the detour. The headline-
grabber is probably Ian
Rankin’s new, and exclusive,
Rebus story, The Lockdown
Blues, performed by Brian
Cox and directed by Cora
Bissett; but make time, too,
for Peter Mullan’s Fatbaws, in
which an act of kindness has
traumatic consequences for
a man who only wanted to
feed the birds in his back
garden. (David Hutcheon)
(Buy as stream/download) I May Destroy You (BBC1): some of the best
DW Young’s documentary writing and acting on the screen this year. The
about the state of the rare-book programme shines a light on the complexities
trade in America wanders of modern ethics. Who would be young?
through stores, casts an eye Paul Burgess
over old volumes and hears
from sellers and collectors. Have just bought a DVD of Aurelio Zen. Can you
The internet has brought tell your readers who are waiting for him to make
changes to the business, but a comeback, it is the way to see him.
eccentric characters still Carmena Newey
survive, it seems. The world
revealed by the film would be Talking Heads (BBC1): drama of the highest
a good source of inspiration standard. Zen, you are now toast.
for a comedy by Christopher Tom John
Guest and his team. (2019 (EP)
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BBC4
7.00pm Nigel Kennedy At The
BBC A music compilation.
8.00 FA Cup TOTP2 A chance to
revisit songs produced to
celebrate the FA Cup final.
8.30 TOTP: 1989. With Rob’n’Raz.
9.00 TOTP: 1989. With Bros.
9.30 CHOICE Huey Morgan’s
Latin Music Adventure The
music of Puerto Rico. (See
Critics’ choice; last in series)
10.30 Latin Music — A Session
With Edwin Colon Zayas A
performance by the Cuatro
player. (Last in series)
11.00 Roy Orbison — One Of The
Lonely Ones Biography of
the singer and musician.
12.00 Southern Rock At The BBC
1.00 The Defiant Ones (1/6)
1.45 Huey Morgan’s Latin Music
Adventure (Last in series)
2.45-3.15 Latin Music — A Session
With Edwin Colon Zayas
This is how we do it down in Puerto Rico, Huey (BBC4, 9.30pm)
FILMS
SKY CINEMA PREMIERE
6.00am Okko’s Inn (2018, PG)
7.40 The Guardian Comedy. (2020, 12)
9.30 The Parts You Lose (2019, 12)
11.10 CHOICE Ad Astra Stars Brad
Pitt. (2019, 12; see Film of the week)
1.20 It Chapter Two Now grown up,
the Losers Club must battle the evil
Pennywise once more. (2019, 15)
4.15 Two Tails A cat and a beaver set
out to rescue their friends, who have
been abducted by aliens. (2018, U)
5.45 The Top Ten Show Clips.
6.00 Bad Education A New York
school superintendent is linked to an
embezzlement scandal. (2019, 15)
8.00 CHOICE Ad Astra Details as
11.10am. (See Film of the week)
10.15 It Chapter Two Details as 1.20pm.
1.15 The Top Ten Show Clips.
1.30 Olympic Dreams (2019, 12)
3.00 The Last Black Man In San
Francisco Drama. (2019, 15)
5.15 The Top Ten Show Clips.
5.30-6.00 Hotel Mumbai Insights.
SKY CINEMA THRILLER
2.45pm Ocean’s Eleven A former
convict assembles a gang of crooks to
pull off a daring robbery. (2001, 12)
4.45 Ocean’s Twelve The crooks
reunite when an enemy from the past
catches up with them. (2004, 12)
6.55 Ocean’s Thirteen Thieves need
the help of an enemy in order to get
even with a casino boss. (2007, PG)
9.00 The Wolf Of Wall Street A
stockbroker enjoys an outrageously
debauched lifestyle. (2013, 18)
12.00-2.00 Paycheck (2003, 12)
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DRAMA
12.00 The Bill Police drama series.
1.00 Classic EastEnders Soap.
2.15 London’s Burning (S12, ep 2)
3.20 Peak Practice (S4, ep 3)
4.20 Dangerfield Medical drama.
5.20 Birds Of A Feather Sitcom.
6.00 Waiting For God Comedy.
6.40 ’Allo ’Allo! Classic sitcom.
7.20 Last Of The Summer Wine
8.00 Shakespeare & Hathaway
— Private Investigators
Frank and Lu are asked to
recover a jewel. (S1, ep 10)
9.00 The Coroner Jane tries to
find out who left a girl to die
after a car crash. (S2, ep 10)
10.00 New Tricks The case of a
murdered teacher. (S3, ep 1)
11.20 Silent Witness Harry and Leo
help an asylum seeker return
to the UK. (Series 13, ep 5)
1.30 The Bill Police drama series.
2.35 London’s Burning (S12, ep 2)
3.25-4.00 Birds Of A Feather
SKY CINEMA GREATS
6.45am Enemy Of The State (1998, 15)
9.00 Ben-Hur A Jewish prince
seeks revenge after being betrayed
and sold into slavery. (1959, PG)
12.45 Spartacus A gladiator leads an
army of escaped slaves in a rebellion
against the Roman state. (1960, PG)
4.00 William Shakespeare’s Romeo +
Juliet Teenagers from two rival clans
fall in love, with tragic results. (1996, 12)
6.00 Lethal Weapon An ageing Los
Angeles detective and his suicidal new
partner take on a drug cartel. (1987, 15)
8.00 Lethal Weapon 2 The detectives
set their sights on a corrupt diplomat
laundering drug money. (1989, 18)
10.00 The Green Mile A convicted
child-killer on death row starts to
exhibit healing powers. (1999, 18)
1.05 Terminator 2 — Judgment Day A
cyborg is sent to protect the future
saviour of the human race. (1991, 15)
3.45 Evil Dead II A man protects
strangers besieged by the powers of
darkness in a remote cabin. (1987, 15)
5.20-6.55 Robin Hood (1973, U)
To the stars: Brad Pitt (SCP, 8pm)
ITV2
7.00 Ellen DeGeneres Chat.
8.00 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
9.25 Supermarket Sweep
10.25 Ellen’s Game Of Games
11.20 Dress To Impress Dating.
12.25 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
12.55 Celebrity Catchphrase
2.00 Ellen DeGeneres Chat.
2.55 Dress To Impress Dating.
4.00 Supermarket Sweep
5.00 Ellen’s Game Of Games
6.00 You’ve Been Framed Clips.
8.00 Roswell, New Mexico Liz is
forced to revisit a painful part
of her past when her mother
turns up; and Michael urges
Maria to seek help after she
has a strange vision. (S2, ep 7)
9.00 Love Island — All The LOLs
A chance to revisit some
of the most memorable
moments from the series.
10.05 Family Guy Peter puts out a
fire at a fast-food restaurant.
(S6, ep 8) 10.30 Family Guy
Peter becomes obsessed
with a hit song from 1963.
(Series 7, ep 2) 11.00 Family
Guy James Woods steals
Peter’s identity. (S6, ep 9)
11.30 American Dad! An
apocalyptic event reduces
Langley Falls to a barren
wasteland. (Series 12, ep 10)
12.00 American Dad! Hayley
regresses to her six-year-old
self. (Series 12, ep 3)
12.30 The Cleveland Show Roberta
dreams of becoming a
superstar. (Series 2, ep 19)
12.55 The Cleveland Show
Cleveland competes against
Donna’s ex-husband, Robert.
1.25 The Almost Impossible
Gameshow Challenges.
2.25 Release The Hounds
3.25 Nightscreen Information.
3.30-6.00 Teleshopping
SKY CINEMA BLOCKBUSTERS
4.00pm The Twilight Saga —
Breaking Dawn: Part 2 (2012, 12)
6.00 Maleficent — Mistress Of Evil
Maleficent and Aurora question the
family ties that bind them. (2019, PG)
8.00 The Dark Knight The Joker
plunges Gotham into anarchy and
pushes Batman to his limit. (2008, 12)
10.35 The Dark Knight Rises Batman
comes out of hiding to battle the
leader of a terrorist army. (2012, 12)
1.20 Meet The Fockers (2004, 12)
3.20 Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Stars James Franco. Sci-fi. (2011, 12)
5.10-6.45 Tarzan Animation. (1999, U)
FILM 4
11.00am The Professionals (1966, PG)
1.20 Hell Below Zero Action. (1954, U)
3.10 The Last Frontier (1955, PG)
5.10 The Two Faces Of January Stars
Viggo Mortensen. Thriller. (2014, 12)
7.00 Fantastic Four Scientists return
from another dimension having been
granted unusual powers. (2015, 12)
9.00 The Ritual College pals reunite
for a trip to the forest, but encounter a
menacing presence. (2017, 15)
10.50 The Business Drama. (2005, 18)
12.40 The Pyramid Horror. (2014, 15)
2.25-4.00 Smashed Drama. (2012, 15)
TALKING PICTURES TV
2.30pm One Good Turn (1954, U)
4.30 Scarlet Web Drama. (1954, 15)
5.40 The Atomic City (1952, PG)
7.20 Conflict Of Wings Villagers fight
to stop a bird sanctuary being turned
into an RAF firing range. (1954, U)
9.00 Van Der Valk Crime drama.
10.00-12.00 Straight On Till Morning
Stars Rita Tushingham. (1972, 18)
1G
ITV3
6.00 Classic Coronation Street
7.00 Classic Emmerdale Soap.
8.00 Heartbeat Rural drama.
9.00 Bless This House Comedy.
10.10 That’s My Boy Sitcom.
10.40 Midsomer Murders Drama.
12.40 Heartbeat Rural drama.
1.45Classic Emmerdale Soap.
2.50 Classic Coronation Street
3.55 Marple With Geraldine
McEwan. The corpse of a
mysterious blonde is found in
Gossington Hall. (S1, ep 1)
5.55 Heartbeat Shiner sets up an
ambush to catch two
would-be gold thieves.
7.00 Poirot A woman is murdered
on a luxury cruise ship,
presenting the sleuth with a
host of possible suspects to
interrogate. (Series 1, ep 7)
8.00 Doc Martin The medic says
farewell to old friends and
prepares to leave Portwenn.
(S4, ep 8) 9.00 Doc Martin
The curmudgeonly GP
struggles to come to terms
with fatherhood. (S5, ep 1)
10.00 Law & Order: UK The bones
of an eight-year-old boy who
disappeared 25 years ago are
found buried inside the wall
of a communal basement,
and suspicion falls on the
house’s residents. (S1, ep 5)
11.00 Scott & Bailey Janet moves a
step closer to tracking down
Veronica’s killer while
investigating a recent murder
that bears similarities to the
cold case. (Series 1, ep 5)
12.05 A Touch Of Frost Jack links
the disappearance of a boy
to a mysterious hit-and-run
killing. (Series 10, ep 3)
2.10 Poirot Mystery. (S2, ep 3)
3.25 Nightscreen Information.
3.30-6.00 Teleshopping
ENTERTAINMENT
GOLD
7.15am Dinnerladies Diaries 8.05 The
Green Green Grass 9.20 Porridge
10.00 Are You Being Served? 10.40
Last Of The Summer Wine 12.40
Porridge 1.20 Are You Being Served?
2.00 The Green Green Grass 2.35 Only
Fools And Horses 3.15 Last Of The
Summer Wine 5.20 Are You Being
Served? 6.00 The Green Green Grass
6.40 Only Fools And Horses 10.00 Men
Behaving Badly 10.40 The Young Ones
11.25 Only Fools And Horses 1.30 My
Favourite Sketch 3.15-4.00 The Rebel
SKY COMEDY
6.00pm 30 Rock 6.30 Modern Family
7.30 The Mindy Project 9.00 Veep
10.15 Girls 10.50 The Tonight Show
11.50 Entourage 12.30 Vice Principals
1.10 Bored To Death 1.50 Parks And
Recreation 3.30-5.00 30 Rock
SKY WITNESS
6.00pm Nothing To Declare 7.00
Paramedics — Australia 8.00 Ghost
Whisperer 9.00 Criminal Minds. Garcia
is hit by anxiety over a case 10.00 CSI
11.00 Criminal Minds 12.00 Ghost
Whisperer 1.00 The InBetween 2.00
Law & Order 3.00 CSI 4.00 Road Wars
5.00-6.00 Brit Cops — Rapid Response
W Dad! 4.00-5.00 Republic Of Doyle
6.00pm Tipping Point 7.00 Top Chef
8.00 Inside The Ambulance 9.00 The
Shift — Women On The Force 10.00
Louis Theroux — America’s Most Hated
Family In Crisis. The Westboro Baptist
Church 11.00 Inside The Ambulance
ITV4
5.55pm The Sweeney Regan
investigates when cash goes
missing during an operation
to protect a security van.
7.00 Tour De France ReCycled —
Geraint’s Tour Action from
stage 19 of the 2018 race.
8.00 Junk And Disorderly Henry
Cole and Sam Lovegrove
experience mixed results at
the Stafford Show — the UK’s
biggest classic motorcycle
auction and autojumble.
9.00 FILM: The Outlaw Josey
Wales Stars Clint Eastwood
and Sondra Locke. A Civil War
veteran crossing America in
search of sanctuary attracts
a strange assortment of
fellow travellers. Fine western.
(1976, 18; includes FYI Daily)
11.40 All Elite Wrestling —
Dynamite The latest edition
of the event, with all of the
biggest stars on the roster.
1.45 Minder The police pick up
Arthur for shady dealings.
2.55 Nightscreen Information.
3.00-6.00 Teleshopping
Roberto Duran (Sky Docs, 9pm)
12.00 One Born Every Minute 1.00
Louis Theroux — America’s Most Hated
Family In Crisis 1.50-3.00 Flip Or Flop
5 STAR
6.00pm Neighbours 6.30 Home And
Away 7.00 Nightmare Tenants, Slum
Landlords 8.00 The Nightmare
Neighbour Next Door 9.00 FILM: Good
Will Hunting. Stars Matt Damon and
Robin Williams 11.35 FILM: Scream 2.
Stars Neve Campbell 2.00 Impact
Wrestling 3.50-4.00 Access
5 USA
6.00pm NCIS 9.00 Private Eyes 10.00
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1.50
Remington Steele 3.50-4.00 Access
QUEST
6.00pm Wheeler Dealers 7.00 Aussie
Gold Hunters 8.00 Salvage Hunters
9.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files 10.00
Mummies Unwrapped 11.00 How Do
They Do It? 12.00 Wheeler Dealers. A
Triumph TR6 sports car 1.00 American
Pickers 2.00 American Chopper 3.00
Ultimate Airport Dubai 4.00 Dirty Jobs
5.00-6.00 How It’s Made. Double bill
FOX
6.00pm The Mentalist 7.00 NCIS 9.00
NCIS: New Orleans. New run. Hannah is
suspended for breaking protocol 10.00
Emergence 11.00 American Dad! 12.00
Family Guy. Cartoon 1.00 American
Dad! 2.00 Family Guy 3.00 American
COMEDY CENTRAL
6.00pm Friends. Four episodes 8.00
FILM: John Tucker Must Die. Stars Jesse
Metcalfe 10.00 Al Murray’s Great
British Pub Quiz 11.00 Bob’s Burgers
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6.00 Rules Of Engagement
7.00How I Met Your Mother
8.00Melissa & Joey Sitcom.
9.00 Baby Daddy Comedy.
10.00 The Big Bang Theory
11.00The Goldbergs Sitcom.
12.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
1.00The Big Bang Theory
2.00Melissa & Joey Sitcom.
3.00The Goldbergs Comedy.
4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
5.00Young Sheldon Sitcom.
6.00 The Big Bang Theory The
boys are challenged to a
robot duel. (Series 2, ep 12)
6.30 The Big Bang Theory
Sheldon develops a scientific
procedure for making friends.
7.00 Hollyoaks Favourites
7.30 Married At First Sight
Australia The homestay
phase of the experiment
leads to a betrayal of trust.
9.00 FILM: Bad Neighbours 2
Stars Seth Rogen, Zac Efron
and Rose Byrne. A couple
seek the aid of a former rival
to fight back against a
raucous college sorority that
moves in next door to them.
Authentic comedy. (2016, 15)
11.00 Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Buffy fights evil in another
dimension. (Series 3, ep 1)
12.00 The Big Bang Theory
Sheldon uses his holidays to
help Amy in her biology lab.
(Series 5, ep 16) 12.30 The
Big Bang Theory Sheldon
and Kripke battle it out to get
a vacant corner office.
1.00 Gogglebox Opinions on TV.
2.05 8 Out Of 10 Cats Panel game.
2.45 First Dates Matchmaking.
3.40 The Big Bang Theory
4.30 How I Met Your Mother
5.20-6.00 Rules Of Engagement
12.00 Russell Howard’s Good News
1.00 8 Out Of 10 Cats 2.00 Two And A
Half Men 3.00 South Park 3.50 The
Daily Show 4.15-5.00 Friends
YESTERDAY
6.00am The Living Universe 7.10
Abandoned Engineering 8.00 History
Hunters 9.00 Nazi Hunters 10.00
Antiques Roadshow 11.00 Abandoned
Engineering 12.00 Great British Railway
Journeys 1.00 Antiques Roadshow
2.00 David Attenborough’s Natural
Curiosities 3.00 The Architecture The
Railways Built 4.00 Abandoned
Engineering 5.00 WW2 — Battles For
Europe 6.00 Nazi Hunters 7.00 Great
British Railway Journeys 8.00 Wonders
Of The Solar System 9.00 Porridge.
Three episodes 11.00 Abandoned
Engineering 12.00-1.00 Nazi Hunters
DAVE
6.00pm Taskmaster 7.00 House Of
Games 7.40 QI 9.00 Live At The
Apollo. With Nish Kumar, Luisa Omielan
and David O’Doherty 10.00 Big Zuu’s
Big Eats. Big Zuu travels to Bath to cook
for the comedian the Lou Sanders
10.40 Taskmaster 11.40 QI 12.20 Mock
The Week 1.00 QI 1.40 Red Dwarf 2.25
Live At The Apollo 3.15-4.00 Red Dwarf
PICK
6.00pm Star Trek — TNG 7.00 Hawaii
Five-0 8.00 Merlin 9.00 Frontline
Police. Rav Wilding accompanies
officers on a drug raid 10.00 The Force
— North East 11.00 CSI 12.00 Brit
Cops — War On Crime 1.00 Road Wars
2.00 Banged Up Abroad 3.00 Police
Force — Australia 4.00 Motorway
Patrol 5.00-6.00 Border Patrol
MORE 4
8.55 Vintage Gems Crafts.
9.20 A Place In The Sun Property.
10.15 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Items.
12.15 Escape To The Chateau
— DIY A couple make plans
to enhance their property by
building a swimming pool.
1.15 Building The Dream A plan
to build a four-bedroom
home with a farmhouse feel.
2.15 Four In A Bed B&B contest.
4.55 Find It, Fix It, Drive It Henry
Cole and Sam Lovegrove
set out to ride a lap on
the Isle of Man TT circuit.
5.55 The Supervet The patients
include a rare breed of
bulldog with multiple issues.
6.55 Escape To The Chateau —
DIY As owners prepare their
property for a wedding, they
have a sewage problem that
threatens to take the whole
first floor out of action.
7.55 Grand Designs Kevin
McCloud revisits a couple
who built an earth-sheltered
home in Cumbria, to find
out if it has delivered the
eco-friendly life they desired.
9.00 Code 37 — Sex Crimes A
woman is found naked in her
car in public, and Hannah’s
subsequent investigation
leads to colleagues of the
Ghent financial squad. (S3,
ep 6; Flemish with subtitles)
10.15 24 Hours In A&E A look at
the work of a specialist stroke
team. 11.15 24 Hours In A&E
Two families come to terms
with life-changing events.
12.20 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA Gordon
revisits three restaurants.
1.15 24 Hours In A&E Incidents.
3.20-3.45 Father Ted Comedy.
4.00-8.55 Teleshopping
FACTUAL
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
6.00pm Drain The Oceans — Deep
Dive 7.00 Air Crash Investigation 8.00
Border Wars 9.00 Alaska State
Troopers. The troopers race to end a
sibling dispute and catch illegal fur
trappers 10.00 No Man Left Behind.
True stories of warfare and soldiers
who risked their lives for their
comrades 11.00 Air Crash Investigation
1.00-2.00 Airport Security — Peru
DISCOVERY
6.00pm Fast N’ Loud 7.00 Outback
Truckers 8.00 Mighty Ships. A profile
of the Hawk 9.00 The Alaska Triangle.
A cryptozoologist hunts for scientific
proof of Bigfoot in the remote Alaskan
wilderness 10.00 Expedition Unknown.
Josh Gates embarks on a mission to
Puerto Rico 11.00 Homestead Rescue.
The Raneys help an Oregon homestead
under threat of fire 12.00 The Alaska
Triangle 1.00-2.00 Expedition Unknown
PBS AMERICA
5.40pm Plane Resurrection 6.50 The
Search For Alfred The Great 7.55 The
Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg
9.50 Plane Resurrection. Enthusiasts
restore a De Havilland Canada DHC-4
Caribou 11.00-12.55 The Civil War
SKY ARTS
6.00pm Discovering Claudette Colbert
7.00 CMA Fest 2019. The country music
event in Nashville 9.00 Shania Twain
— Still The One: Live In Las Vegas. The
country singer performs 11.00-1.00
Kings Of Leon — Live At The O2
SPORT
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT
6.00am News 8.00 ANZ Premiership
Netball 9.30 My Icon: Anthony Joshua
9.45 My Icon: Nasser Hussain 10.00 My
Icon: Maggie Alphonsi 10.15 My Icon:
Martin Offiah 10.30 LIVE Test Cricket:
England v West Indies. Day two of the
second Test, at Old Trafford 7.00 Test
Cricket Bitesize 7.15 My Icon: Chris
Powell 7.30 LIVE FNF: West Ham
United v Watford. At London Stadium.
Kickoff at 8.00 10.30 LIVE PGA Tour
Golf. The Memorial Tournament 11.30
News 1.30 LIVE Indycar Iowa.
Coverage of race one at the fourth
round of the season 4.30-6.00 News
EUROSPORT 1
7.00am Tennis: Berlin Bett1 Aces 8.00
Tour De France: Thomas 2018 11.00
Football 1.00 Athletics 2.00 Tour De
France: Thomas 2018 4.30 Cycling:
Cancellara — The Day When 5.00 Hall
Of Fame: Greatest Sprinters 6.00
Speedway: European Championship
7.00 Superbikes: MotoAmerica 8.00
Tour De France: Thomas 2018 10.30
Cycling: Cancellara — The Day When
11.00 Tennis: Berlin Bett1 Aces 12.00
World Poker Tour: Alpha 8 1.00 Hall
Of Fame: Greatest Swimmers 2.00
Tour De France: Thomas 2018
4.30 Cycling 5.00-7.00 Snooker:
World Championship Final 2018
BT SPORT 1
6.00am Premier League Review 7.00
WWE Raw Highlights 8.00 WWE NXT
9.45 ESPN FC 10.15 The Aussie Rules
Show 10.30 LIVE AFL: Essendon v
Western Bulldogs. Bounce-up 10.50 1.30
The Aussie Rules Show 1.45 The Outdoor
Sports Show 2.15 Premier League 5.15
ESPN FC 5.45 Premier League Review
6.45 LIVE National League; Boreham
Wood v Halifax Town. Kickoff 7.00 9.15
MotoGP — ICYMI 9.30 The Outdoor
Sports Show 10.00 WWE NXT UK 11.00
WWE NXT Highlights 12.00 WWE
Smackdown Highlights 1.00 LIVE
WWE Friday Night Smackdown 3.00
MotoGP — ICYMI 3.15 AFL 5.15-6.00
Hakim Ziyech — Wizard Of AMS
SKY DOCUMENTARIES
6.00am Jane Fonda In Five Acts 8.30
Hotel Secrets 9.30 Discovering Clark
Gable 10.30 The Directors 11.30 The
British 12.30 Hotel Secrets 1.30 Jane
Fonda In Five Acts 4.00 Discovering
James Stewart 5.00 The Directors 6.00
The British 7.00 Robert Mitchum —
Hollywood’s Bad Boy 8.00 The Sixties
9.00 I Am Duran. The story of the
boxer Roberto Duran 10.45-12.30
Foreman. The career and personal
transformation of George Foreman
SKY NATURE
6.00am City Wildlife Rescue 7.00
Monkey Life 8.00 Living Beach 9.00
Zambia Untamed 10.00 Pridelands —
Wilderness Reborn 11.00 Wild Birds Of
Australia 12.00 Wild Rockies 1.00
Monkey Life 2.00 Living Beach 3.00
Zambia Untamed 4.00 Pridelands –
Wilderness Reborn 5.00 Wild Birds Of
Australia 6.00 Wild Rockies 7.00
Monkey Life 8.00 Dogs With
Extraordinary Jobs 9.00 Guardians Of
The Wild 10.00 Wild Rockies
11.00-12.00 Wild Birds Of Australia
SMITHSONIAN
6.00am Dung Dynasty 7.00 King Of
The Desert Lions 8.00 Aerial Africa
9.00 The Lost Tapes 11.00 Ultimate
Warships 12.00 Dung Dynasty 1.00
King Of The Desert Lions 2.00 Aerial
Africa 3.00 The Deadliest Wave —
Asian Tsunami 4.00 Volcanoes — Dual
Destruction 5.00 Air Warriors 6.00
Ultimate Warships 7.00 Memphis Belle
In Colour 8.00 Aerial America 9.00
America’s Hidden Stories 10.00 Mystic
Britain 11.00-12.00 Million Dollar
American Princesses: Meghan Markle
RADIO
PICK OF THE DAY
Relativity
Radio 4 FM, 11.30am
Returning comedy of family
life, written by Richard
Herring, pictured, starring
him and Emily Berrington,
with Alison Steadman and
Phil Davis among a fine
supporting cast. Warning:
a crying baby dominates
the first minute. This is
bold. The immediate effect
is to induce anxiety but
this show’s punchy script
confidently uses it to
heighten the laughter
that soon follows.
Gillian Reynolds
RADIO 4
5.33 Shipping 5.43 Prayer 5.45
Farming Today 5.58 Tweet Of The Day
(R) 6.00 Today 8.31 (LW) Yesterday In
Parliament 9.00 Desert Island Discs (R)
9.45 Book Of The Week 9.45 (LW)
Daily Service 10.00 Woman’s Hour
10.00 (LW) Woman’s Hour 10.45-7.00
(LW) Test Cricket: England v West
Indies 11.00 Bluebirds Over The White
Cliffs Of Dover (R) 11.30 Relativity.
New run of the comedy, with Richard
Herring 12.00 News 12.03 Shipping
12.04 The Girl With The Louding Voice
12.20 You And Yours 1.00 The World At
One 1.45 Bloodsport 2.00 The Archers
(R) 2.15 Drama: The Interrogation (R)
3.00 Gardeners’ Question Time 3.45
Short Works. The Fall of Man, by Donal
Ryan 4.00 Last Word 4.30 Feedback
5.00 PM 6.00 News 6.30 Dead Ringers
7.00 Front Row 7.45 Why Mummy
Swears (R) 8.00 Any Questions? 8.50
A Point Of View 9.00 Bloodsport
(R) 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45
Book At Bedtime (R) 11.00 A Good
Read (R) 11.30 50 More Things That
Made The Modern Economy (R) 11.45
Today In Parliament 12.00 News
12.30 Book Of The Week (R) 12.48
Shipping 1.00 As World Service
TIMES RADIO
5.00 Calum Macdonald With Early
Breakfast 6.00 Jenny Kleeman And
Luke Jones With Times Radio
Breakfast 10.00 Gloria De Piero 1.00
Giles Coren 4.00 Cathy Newman
At Drive. An in-depth look at the
main stories of the day 7.00 Michael
Portillo. Cultured discussion and
interviews 10.00 Kait Borsay 1.00
Stories Of Our Times. The Times’s
daily podcast 1.30 The Week 2.00
Highlights From Times Radio
To get in touch with the Times Radio
studio, text TIMES plus your message
to 87222. Texts cost your standard
message charge.
RADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 North By Northamptonshire 5.30
ReincarNathan 6.00 Raffles 6.30 Miss
Marple: Nemesis 7.00 Michael Frayn’s
Matchbox Theatre 7.30 Cabin Pressure
8.00 Something To Shout About 8.30
Second Thoughts 9.00 The Personality
Test 9.30 King Of Bath 10.00 The
Raj Quartet 11.00 Podcast Radio Hour
12.00 Something To Shout About
12.30 Second Thoughts 1.00 Raffles
1.30 Miss Marple: Nemesis 2.00 The
Personality Test 2.30 King Of Bath
3.00 The Raj Quartet 4.00 Podcast
Radio Hour 5.00 Michael Frayn’s
Matchbox Theatre 5.30 Cabin Pressure
6.00 Fear On Four 6.30 Off The Page
7.00 Something To Shout About 7.30
Second Thoughts 8.00 Raffles 8.30
Miss Marple: Nemesis 9.00 Podcast
Radio Hour 10.00 Cabin Pressure
10.30 What Does The K Stand For?
11.00 Mitch Benn Specials 11.30-12.00
Elis James’ Pantheon Of Heroes
LBC
7.00 Matt Frei 10.00 James O’Brien
1.00 Shelagh Fogarty 4.00 Eddie Mair.
Discussion 6.00 Rachel Johnson.
Debate 7.00 Andrew Pierce 10.00
Nick Abbot 1.00 Matt Stadlen
RADIO 3
6.30 Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer Of The Week 1.00
Lunchtime Concert. At the City Halls,
Glasgow, the percussionist Colin Currie
brings a programme full of innovation
and exploration for the marimba and
other instruments 2.00 Afternoon
Concert. Performances by the BBC
Symphony Orchestra and the BBC
Singers, featuring Duruflé’s Requiem,
as well as works by Mussorgsky,
Sibelius and John Adams 4.30 The
Listening Service (R) 5.00 In Tune
7.00 First Night Of The BBC Proms.
The launch of six weeks’ of highlights
from the past 20-or-so years of the
Proms, featuring performances from
an array of the world’s greatest
soloists, orchestras and conductors
10.00 The Verb. Ian McMillan talks to
Salman Rushdie about language and
the writing process 10.45 The Essay.
Eliza Carthy sings a timely song from
her home in Robin Hood’s Bay in North
Yorkshire 11.00 Late Junction. Featuring
Limpe Fuchs, Sarathy Korwar and Abel
Selaocoe 1.00 Through The Night
CLASSIC FM
6.00 Tim Lihoreau 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall
4.00 John Brunning 8.00 The Concert.
John Suchet introduces under-
appreciated symphonies by Dvorak,
Smetana, Beethoven and Hummel
10.00 Margherita Taylor 1.00 Katie
Breathwick 4.00 Jane Jones
RADIO 2
5.00 Nicki Chapman 6.30 The Zoe Ball
Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00
Jeremy Vine 2.00 Angela Scanlon 5.00
Amol Rajan 8.00 Tony Blackburn’s
Golden Hour 9.00 Sounds Of The 80s
11.00 Sounds Of The 90s 1.00 Craig
Charles (R) 3.00 The First Time With
Dave Grohl (R) 4.00 Huey Morgan
VIRGIN RADIO
6.30 The Chris Evans Breakfast Show
10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris 1.00 Tim
Cocker 4.00 Kate Lawler. Music and
chat 7.00 Stu Elmore 10.00 James
Merritt 1.00 Through The Night
TALKSPORT
5.00 Early Breakfast 6.00 Breakfast
With Alan Brazil 10.00 Jim White,
Martin Keown And Bob Mills 1.00
Hawksbee And Jacobs 4.00 Drive
7.00 Kickoff 10.00 Sports Bar
1.00 Extra Time With Will Gavin
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Made of stone: the Roses get down to work at Rockfield (BBC4, 9.15pm)
BBC1
6.00 Breakfast The latest reports.
10.00 Saturday Kitchen Live
11.30 The Great Food Guys
12.00 Football Focus A look ahead
to the FA Cup semi-finals.
1.00 BBC News Headlines.
1.15 Olympics Rewind — London
2012 Memories of the event.
4.45 Garden Rescue Horticultural
design, with Charlie Dimmock
and the Rich brothers. (R)
5.15 FILM: Maleficent Stars
Angelina Jolie and Elle
Fanning. A fairy is betrayed
by her human lover and plots
to take revenge. Enchanting
fantasy adventure. (2014, PG)
6.45 News; Weather Reports.
7.05 Mastermind Another set of
famous faces put their
knowledge to the test. (R)
7.35 Pointless Celebrities A
star-studded version of the
general-knowledge quiz. (R)
8.25 Casualty Lev delves into
traumatic memories from
his past; Jan has to put her
work before her relationship
with Ffion; and Charlie
decides to take a step back.
9.15 Peter Crouch — Save Our
Summer With Mo Gilligan
and Anne-Marie; Jamie
Redknapp takes on Dina
Asher-Smith in a challenge;
and Zara Larsson performs.
10.00 News; Weather Reports.
10.20 Match Of The Day Premier
League action from Norwich
City v Burnley at Carrow Road.
10.50 MOTD — FA Cup Highlights
Recent match action.
11.15 Hot Property Dating show.
11.55 FILM: Short Term 12 Stars
Brie Larson and John
Gallagher Jr. A counsellor at
a foster-care centre deals
with her own troubled past
while helping the residents
face an uncertain future.
Thoughtful drama. (2013, 15)
1.30 Joins BBC News Update.
6.00 Breakfast The latest reports.
8.05 Match Of The Day Action. (R)
8.35 Match Of The Day — The FA
Cup Recent highlights.
9.00 Andrew Marr Political chat.
10.00 Politics Debate and analysis.
10.30 Sunday Morning Live
11.30-12.15 Wanted Down Under (R)
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BBC2
6.45 Marrying Mum And Dad (R)
7.15 Wild & Weird Nature. (R)
7.30 All Over The Place — UK (R)
8.00 Blue Peter Magazine. (R)
8.30 Deadly 60 Scary animals. (R)
9.00 Wonders Of The Moon (R)
10.00 Chronicles Of A Champion
Golfer Two editions.
12.00 Nadiya’s British Food
Adventure Culinary trip. (R)
12.30 The Good Cook Recipes. (R)
1.00 My Life On A Plate (R)
1.45 Royal Recipes Food. (R)
2.05 FILM: The Thomas Crown
Affair Stars Steve McQueen
and Faye Dunaway. A bored
millionaire plans a bank
robbery, only to be pursued
by a glamorous investigator.
Precise drama. (1968, PG)
3.45 Bears About The House (R)
4.45 Great Australian Railway
Journeys Travel series. (R)
5.15 A House Through Time (R)
6.15 The Open Championship
2019 — How Shane Won The
Claret Jug A look at Shane
Lowry’s golfing triumph.
7.15 Cricket Action from day three
of the second Test in the
series between England and
West Indies, at Old Trafford.
8.15 British History’s Biggest
Fibs Historian Lucy Worsley
explores how certain national
events are in fact carefully
crafted mythologies. (R)
9.15 FILM: The Duchess Stars
Keira Knightley. An 18th-
century noblewoman
enduring a troubled marriage
is driven into the arms of
a prominent politician.
Interesting drama. (2008, 12)
10.55 FILM: Maps To The Stars
Stars Julianne Moore and Mia
Wasikowska. A disfigured
woman works as an assistant
to a fading Hollywood star,
who is obsessed with her
dead mother. Haunting.
(2014, 18; ends at 12.40)
6.05 The A To Z Of TV Cooking (R)
6.50 The Instant Gardener (R)
7.35 Countryfile Reports. (R)
8.30 Gardeners’ World Advice. (R)
9.30 Beechgrove Gardening.
10.00 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites
11.30-12.30 Rick Stein’s Spain (R)
ITV
6.00 Children’s Shows Fun.
9.25 James Martin’s Saturday
Morning Chat show. (R)
11.35 John And Lisa’s Weekend
Kitchen Preparing pork belly
served with potato salad.
12.35 James Martin’s Islands To
Highlands Exploring south
Wales, with Stephen Terry. (R)
1.35 News; Weather Reports.
1.50 FILM: Small Soldiers Stars
Kirsten Dunst. A computer
chip brings a squad of toy
soldiers to life, causing
mayhem for their owner.
Crafty adventure. (1998, PG)
4.00 The Masked Singer US
5.00 News; Weather Reports.
5.20 Regional News Update.
5.30 The Chase Quiz show. (R)
6.25 Ninja Warrior Obstacle-
course challenge. (R)
7.25 The Voice Kids Junior
version of the talent contest,
presented by Emma Willis.
9.00 FILM: Thunderball Stars
Sean Connery, Claudine
Auger and Adolfo Celi.
James Bond sets out to foil a
plot by crime syndicate
Spectre to detonate nuclear
warheads off the American
coast. Burns out. (1965, PG)
11.30 News; Weather Reports.
11.50Play To The Whistle (R)
12.40 Teleshopping Goods.
3.00 Babushka Gameshow. (R)
3.50Nightscreen Information.
6.00 Children’s Shows Fun.
8.30 Martin & Roman’s Sunday
Best! With Myles Stephenson.
9.25 James Martin’s Islands To
Highlands Culinary trip. (R)
10.25 John And Lisa’s Weekend
Kitchen Recipe ideas. (R)
11.20-12.20 Beautiful Baking (R)
FILMS
SKY CINEMA PREMIERE
6.00am Okko’s Inn (2018, PG)
7.40 Two Tails Animation. (2018, U)
9.00 The Guardian Comedy. (2020, 12)
10.55 Olympic Dreams (2019, 12)
12.25 CHOICE Ad Astra Stars Brad
Pitt. (2019, 12; see Film of the week)
2.30 Bad Therapy A couple seek out a
marriage counsellor, but there is more
to her than meets the eye. (2020, 15)
4.15 The Last Black Man In San
Francisco Drama. (2019, 15)
6.20 The Parts You Lose A young boy
in a North Dakota town befriends a
potentially dangerous fugitive. (2019, 12)
8.00 CHOICE Ad Astra Details as
12.25pm. (See Film of the week)
10.15 Bad Therapy Details as 2.30pm.
12.00 The Top Ten Show Clips.
12.15 It Chapter Two Horror. (2019, 15)
3.15 Bad Education Drama. (2019, 15)
5.15 The Top Ten Show Clips.
5.30-6.00 Anon Film insights.
SKY CINEMA BLOCKBUSTERS
3.00pm Men In Black 3 (2012, PG)
5.00 Ratatouille Animation. (2007, U)
7.00 Avengers — Endgame The
reunited heroes make a last stand
against the evil Thanos. (2019, 12)
10.00 Interstellar A team of space
explorers desperately search for a new
home for the human race. (2014, 12)
12.50 Mission: Impossible An agent
accused of betraying his fellow spies
sets out to clear his name. (1996, PG)
2.50 Men In Black Comedy. (1997, PG)
4.40-6.25 Men In Black II (2002, PG)
1G
CHANNEL 4
6.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
Family comedy series. (R)
6.50 Frasier American sitcom. (R)
7.40 The Big Bang Theory (R)
9.25 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
12.50 Four In A Bed Contest. (R)
3.25 Best Of Crufts — Crufts
Goes Walkies Canines.
4.25 A Place In The Sun (R)
5.10 Grand Designs Property. (R)
6.15 News; Weather Reports.
6.45 Formula 1 Action from the
qualifying session of the
Hungarian Grand Prix.
8.15 How To Build British The
Morgan Motor Company
opens its doors to reveal
how its £90,000 Plus Six
sports car is made. (R)
9.15 FILM: Three Billboards
Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Stars Frances McDormand
and Sam Rockwell. A woman
pressures the police into
continuing the investigation
into her daughter’s murder.
Breathtaking. (2017, 15)
11.30 FILM: Jackie Stars Natalie
Portman. Jacqueline
Kennedy battles with grief
after the assassination of her
husband, President John F
Kennedy. Intimate. (2016, 15)
1.20 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA Advice. (R)
2.10 Amazing Spaces Projects. (R)
3.05 Hollyoaks Chester soap. (R)
4.00 Animal Airport Insights. (R)
4.55 Animal Rescue School (R)
5.50 Fill Your House For Free (R)
6.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
Family comedy series. (R)
7.15 The Big Bang Theory (R)
8.30 Bake Off — The
Professionals Contest. (R)
9.30-12.30 Sunday Brunch
FILM 4
11.00am The Spongebob Movie
Animated comedy. (2004, U)
12.45 Rio 2 Animation. (2014, U)
2.45 The Choir Drama. (2014, PG)
4.45 Nutty Professor II — The Klumps
Stars Eddie Murphy. (2000, 12)
6.40 Sahara An explorer searches for
a treasure-laden battleship believed to
be somewhere in the desert. (2005, 12)
9.00 Deepwater Horizon An oil rig in
the Gulf of Mexico becomes the site of
an environmental disaster. (2016, 12)
11.05 Don’t Breathe Thieves break into
the house of a blind man who is not
as helpless as he seems. (2016, 15)
12.50-3.40 Candyman (1992, 18)
Stolen moment (TPTV, 6pm)
CHANNEL 5
6.00 Milkshake! Fun for children.
10.00 Spongebob Animation.
10.15 Ryan’s Mystery Playdate
10.25 Access Showbiz gossip.
10.30 Britain’s Greatest Bridges (R)
10.50 Friends American sitcom. (R)
12.50 Police Interceptors (R)
3.50 D-Day’s Sunken Secrets (R)
5.20 Britain’s Great Stately Homes
With Alan Titchmarsh. (R)
6.40 News; Weather Reports.
6.45 Jane McDonald & Friends
The host sings some of her
favourite songs with a band,
and is joined by Gwen Dickey
and John Partridge. (R)
7.40 Jane McDonald — Cruising
The Nordics A journey aboard
the Viking Sky, visiting Russia,
Finland and Sweden. (R)
9.15 The Queen — In Her Own
Words Showcasing the
monarch’s speeches and
interviews across her 68-year
reign, from her first public
address at the age of 14 to the
75th anniversary of D-Day.
10.45 Diana — 7 Days That Shook
The Windsors Documentary
about the aftermath of the
death of Diana, Princess
of Wales in 1997. (R)
12.45 Wonderful World Of
Chocolate Documentary. (R)
1.10 The 21.co.uk Live Casino
Show Interactive gambling.
3.10 New Lives In The Wild (R)
3.55 Bargain-Loving Brits In
Blackpool Insights. (R)
4.45 Wildlife SOS Animals. (R)
5.10 Great Artists Profile. (R)
5.35 House Doctor Advice. (R)
6.00 Milkshake! Fun for children.
10.00 Spongebob Animation.
10.15 Ryan’s Mystery Playdate
10.25 Access Showbiz gossip.
10.30 WWE Raw Highlights
11.25-1.25 Friends Sitcom. (R)
TALKING PICTURES TV
3.45pm Fighting Coast Guard (1951, U)
5.30 The Adventures Of Sir Lancelot
6.00 A Touch Of Larceny Stars James
Mason and Vera Miles. (1959, U)
8.00 Dark City A crooked bookie
fleeces a gambler, but the victim’s
brother seeks revenge. (1950, PG)
10.00-1.05 The Carpetbaggers An
ambitious playboy embarks on a
ruthless rise to power. (1963, 12)
ENTERTAINMENT
ITV2
2.30pm FILM: Daddy Day Care. Stars
Eddie Murphy 4.25 FILM: Annie. Stars
Quvenzhane Wallis 6.45 FILM: Back To
The Future Part II. Stars Michael J Fox
9.00 FILM: Blade Runner 2049. Stars
Ryan Gosling 12.10 Family Guy 1.05
American Dad! 2.00 The Cleveland
Show 2.55 Totally Bonkers Guinness
World Records 3.25-3.30 Nightscreen
ITV3
5.00pm Midsomer Murders. With Neil
Dudgeon. Guests at a wine launch party
are poisoned 7.00 Midsomer Murders.
With John Nettles. A land dispute leads
to a killing 9.00 Midsomer Murders.
With Neil Dudgeon. Barnaby and Nelson
team up with a pair of female detectives
in Copenhagen 11.00 Law & Order: UK
2.10 Barging Round Britain 2.45 That’s
My Boy 3.15-3.30 Nightscreen
ITV4
9.30am Racing — The Opening Show.
Preview 10.30 The Big Match Revisited
BBC4
7.00pm This Farming Life The
lambing season approaches.
8.00 Nature’s Weirdest Events
8.15 Wonders Of The Great
Barrier Reef A specialist dive
team looks for signs of hope
that the largest coral reef in
the world can survive the
threat of global warming.
9.15 Rockfield — The Studio On
The Farm The unlikely story
of a Monmouth dairy farm
that became a renowned
recording studio, playing
host to Black Sabbath, Queen,
the Stone Roses, Oasis,
Coldplay and many others.
10.45 Robert Plant — By Myself The
singer discusses his varied
musical career, including his
time with Led Zeppelin.
11.40 Coldplay In The BBC
Horseshoe Performance.
12.30 TOTP: 1989. Archive clips.
1.30 Wonders Of The Great
Barrier Reef Documentary
2.30-3.30 This Farming Life
Natalie Portman (C4, 11.30pm)
11.35 FILM: Police Academy 3 — Back
In Training 1.20 World Of Sport 1.30
Racing. Action from Newbury and York
4.30 FILM: Brewster’s Millions 6.35
World Cup Rivalries: England v
Argentina 7.00 Tour De France
ReCycled — Geraint’s Tour 8.00 FILM:
Twins 10.10 FILM: The Blues Brothers
12.50 The Sweeney 1.55-3.00 Minder
E4
5.40pm The Big Bang Theory 6.40
FILM: The Hunger Games — Mockingjay
Part 1. Stars Jennifer Lawrence and Philip
Seymour Hoffman 9.00 FILM: Hitman
— Agent 47. Stars Rupert Friend and
Hannah Ware 10.55 Celebrity Gogglebox
USA 11.50 Gogglebox 1.55 First Dates
3.50-6.00 Don’t Tell The Bride
MORE4
5.50pm Four In A Bed 8.00 The
Queen’s Lost Family 9.00 24 Hours In
A&E 11.05 Sarah Millican — Chatterbox
Live 12.10 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does
Countdown 1.15 24 Hours In A&E
3.20-3.45 Food Unwrapped
GOLD
5.55pm Only Fools And Horses 9.00
Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow
10.00 Mrs Brown’s Boys 10.40 Smack
The Pony 12.20 Peep Show 12.55
Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow
1.55 Smack The Pony 2.45 Peep
Show 3.15-4.00 Smack The Pony
YESTERDAY
6.00am Walking Through History 8.00
Sounds Of The Sixties 10.00 Steam
Train Britain 1.00 David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities 3.00 Wild China
SKY 1
6.00 Monkey Business (R)
8.00 Modern Family Sitcom. (R)
11.00 Soccer AM Magazine.
12.00 The Simpsons Cartoon. (R)
1.00 The Simpsons Milhouse falls
in love. (R) 1.30 The Simpsons
With the voice of Lisa Kudrow.
(R) 2.00 The Simpsons
Homer becomes an inventor.
(R) 2.30 The Simpsons
Bart looks after a bird’s
nest filled with eggs. (R)
3.00 Soccer Saturday Results.
5.00 Premier League: Norwich
City v Burnley. Live coverage
of the top-flight fixture,
which takes place at Carrow
Road. Kickoff is at 5.30.
8.00 A League Of Their Own
Nicola Adams, Wladimir
Klitschko and Tom Davis join
the quiz show, with Jamie
Redknapp and Andrew
Flintoff as team captains. (R)
9.00 FILM: Pacific Rim Stars
Charlie Hunnam, Rinko
Kikuchi and Idris Elba. The
Earth is invaded by giant
alien monsters, so equally
massive robots with human
pilots are created to fight
back. Fantastical. (2013, 12)
11.30 Brit Cops — Rapid Response
Police officers on patrol. (R)
12.30 Road Wars The work of the
Proactive Squad from
Thames Valley Police. (R)
1.00 Condor Deacon’s traumatic
past comes into focus, Sharla
pursues Joubert and Mae
makes a terrifying discovery.
(R) 2.05 Condor Joe’s morality
faces the ultimate test as
he tries to stop the plague
from being released. (R)
3.05 Hawaii Five-0 (S3, ep 16, R)
4.00-6.00 Stop, Search, Seize (R)
6.00 Blue Planet II 7.00 Sounds Of The
Sixties 9.00 Royal Murder Mysteries
10.00 Royals On The Frontline 11.00
Abandoned Engineering 12.00-1.00
Britain’s Biggest Warship Goes To Sea
DAVE
6.00pm Soapbox Race 7.00 Would I
Lie To You? 7.40 Not Going Out 9.00
Have I Got A Bit More News For You.
With the Rev Richard Coles and Clive
Myrie 10.00 FILM: Rambo. Stars
Sylvester Stallone 11.50 Big Zuu’s Big
Eats 12.30 Mock The Week 1.10 Red
Dwarf 1.45 Jon Richardson — Ultimate
Worrier 3.35-4.00 Eddie Eats America
FACTUAL
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
6.00pm Back To The Titanic 7.00 FILM:
Free Solo. Documentary about the free
climber Alex Honnold and his quest to
climb El Capitan 9.00 Running Wild.
Alex Honnold joins Bear Grylls in the
Swiss Alps 10.00 Running Wild. With
Brie Larson 11.00-2.00 Lost Cities
DISCOVERY
6.00pm Deadliest Catch 7.00 Gold
Divers 8.00 Gas Extreme Customs.
Dave Shuten gets his chance to
compete at the Grand National
Roadster Show 9.00 Outback Truckers.
Australia’s toughest drivers hit the
open road 10.00 Killing Bin Laden.
A look at how the al-Qaeda founder
Osama bin Laden was tracked down
and killed 11.00 SAS — Who Dares
Wins. 12.00-5.30 Wheeler Dealers
ATLANTIC
6.00 Elementary Three episodes.
9.00 Blue Bloods Crime drama.
2.00 CSI A youngster goes
missing. (S6, ep 10) 3.00 CSI
A man with ‘human werewolf
syndrome’ is murdered.
4.00 CSI Nick is haunted
by his kidnapping ordeal.
5.00 CSI The team investigates
the murder of a waiter. 6.00
CSI A criminal fleeing the city
after committing a murder is
involved in a car crash.
7.00 CSI A girl is found murdered
with a number branded on
her arm, and investigations
lead the team to a Nazi
sympathiser. 8.00 CSI The
discovery of a body in a
chimney leads Catherine
and Warrick to reopen the
case of a missing teenager.
9.00 Band Of Brothers Winters is
promoted to a desk job, but
finds the change of pace hard
to accept; and news arrives
of a planned Axis raid on the
allied lines. (5/10) 10.10 Band
Of Brothers Easy Company
spends a grim Christmas in
the trenches as frostbite and
hunger take their toll, but
medic Eugene Roe finds
his luck changing after
meeting a Belgian nurse.
11.20 The Sopranos AJ causes
problems for his family as he
tries to better his life; and
Vito gains an admirer while
hiding out in New Hampshire.
(Series 6, ep 8) 12.30 The
Sopranos Paulie organises an
annual feast; and Christopher
makes an announcement.
1.40 Dexter (Series 5, ep 3)
2.45 Californication (S7, ep 12)
3.20 Elementary (Series 1, ep 22)
4.10-6.00 Fish Town Insights.
SKY ARTS
4.45pm Chicago — Greatest Hits Live
6.15 Bee Gees — Live In Melbourne
1989. At the National Tennis Centre in
Melbourne 8.30 Queen Rock Montreal.
A 1981 concert by the band 10.30-
12.00 The Who — Live At Kilburn 1977.
A performance by the rock group
PBS AMERICA
5.20pm The Search For Alfred The Great
6.30 Genghis Khan 7.35 The Lost Tribes
Of Humanity. Shedding new light on
humanity’s ancient ancestors 8.50
The Lost Civilisation Of Peru. Charting
the story of the Moche civilisation
9.55 The Secrets Of The Mary Rose
11.00-12.15 Plane Resurrection
Top that: Honnold (Nat Geog, 7pm)
DRAMA
11.00 Sharpe (Series 1, ep 2)
1.00 Doctor Who Triple bill of the
sci-fi adventure, with David
Tennant and Billie Piper.
4.00 An Inspector Calls Adaptation
of JB Priestley’s stage play.
6.00 The Brokenwood Mysteries
The bodies of a guest judge
and a wine critic attending
the town’s annual wine show
are found. (Series 1, ep 2)
8.00 Father Brown The sleuthing
priest sets out to solve the
murder of an aeronautics
magnate’s son. (S4, ep 9)
9.00 New Tricks The team
reinvestigates three cases
of rape. (Series 7, ep 4)
10.20 Men Behaving Badly
Deborah gets passionate
with Tony. (Series 6, ep 3)
11.00 Doctor Who The Time Lord
and Rose travel to an alien
world. (Series 2, ep 1)
12.00 Doctor Who Double bill.
2.00-4.00 Where The Heart Is
Doctor’s orders (Drama, from 1pm)
SPORT
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT
6.00am LIVE ANZ Premiership Netball:
Pulse v Mystics. Centre-pass 6.00 7.30
LIVE Super Rugby: Hurricanes v Blues.
Kickoff at 8.05 10.10 My Icon 10.30
LIVE Test Cricket: England v West Indies
2.45 LIVE EFL. Coverage 5.00 LIVE
Premier League: Norwich City v Burnley.
Kickoff at 5.30 8.00 LIVE PGA Tour
Golf. The Memorial Tournament 11.00
News 1.30 LIVE Indycar Iowa. Race
two 4.00-7.00 LIVE Super Rugby:
Chiefs v Highlanders. Kickoff at 4.35
EUROSPORT 1
7.00am Tennis 8.00 Tour De France
10.30 Cycling 11.00 Football 12.00
Speedway 1.00 Athletics 2.00 Tour
De France 5.00 Hall Of Fame 6.00
Tour De France 11.00 Tennis 12.00
World Poker Tour 1.00 Olympics
2.00 Tour De France 5.00-7.00
World Snooker Championship
BT SPORT 1
6.00am PL Match Pack 6.30 A-League
8.00 LIVE A-League 10.00 ESPN FC
10.30 LIVE AFL 1.30 ESPN FC 2.00
PL Preview 2.30 LIVE National League:
Yeovil Town v Barnet. Kickoff at 3.00
5.15 Uefa Champions League 5.45
Goals Reload 6.15 The FA Cup Preview
6.45 What Went Down 7.00 LIVE FA
Cup: Arsenal v Manchester City. Kickoff
at 7.45 10.15 What Went Down 10.30
UFC Fight Camp 11.00 LIVE UFC.
Coverage 4.30 Uefa Champions
League 5.00-6.00 Meet The Managers
RADIO
PICK OF THE DAY
Standing Up
For Liverpool
Radio 4 Extra, 10.30pm
A documentary by Tony
Staveacre about the Liverpool
comedian Jackie Hamilton
(1937-2003), an inspiration to
many (including Ken Dodd)
but who never performed
beyond Merseyside. First
heard in 2007, repeated now
to accompany Jigsy, the stage
play it inspired, which, in
a new recording, with Les
Dennis brilliant as the comic,
is a YouTube sensation.
Gillian Reynolds
RADIO 4
5.33 Shipping 5.43 Prayer 5.45 Four
Thought (R) 6.00 News And Papers
6.07 Open Country (R) 6.30 Farming
Today This Week 7.00 Today 8.45
(LW) Yesterday In Parliament 9.00
Saturday Live 10.30 The Kitchen
Cabinet. With Zoe Laughlin, Rachel
McCormack, Jordan Bourke and Tim
Hayward 10.45-7.00 (LW) Test Cricket:
England v West Indies. Day three of
the second Test at Old Trafford 11.00
The Week In Westminster 11.30 From
Our Own Correspondent 12.00 News
12.00 (LW) Shipping 12.04 Money Box
12.30 Dead Ringers (R) 1.00 News 1.10
Any Questions? (R) 2.00 Any Answers?
2.45 One To One (R) 3.00 Drama: The
Martin Beck Killings (R) 4.00 Weekend
Woman’s Hour 5.00 Saturday PM 5.30
Political Thinking 5.54 Shipping 6.00
News 6.15 Loose Ends. With Ned
Glasier; and music by Samantha Crain
and Monophonics 7.00 Profile 7.15 The
Reith Lectures 2017. Hilary Mantel
discusses the role that history plays in
culture (R) 8.00 Archive On 4: Four
Women Poets Today. An update on a
1992 debate on gender and poetry (R)
9.00 Drama: Tracks (R) 9.45 The Time
Being. The Love Songs Of Foxes, by
Amber Lee Dodd (R) 10.00 News 10.15
The Moral Maze (R) 11.00 The 3rd
Degree (R) 11.30 The New Japanese
Poetry (R) 12.00 News 12.15 The Way I
See It (R) 12.30 Short Works (R) 12.48
Shipping 1.00 As World Service
RADIO 3
7.00 Breakfast 9.00 Summer Record
Review 11.45 New Generation Artists.
New run 12.30 This Classical Life (R)
1.00 Inside Music 3.00 BBC Proms.
The Staatskapelle Dresden perform
pieces by Beethoven, Reger and
Strauss, from 2016 (R) 5.00 J To Z.
The pianist Carla Bley and her trio in
concert 6.30 BBC Proms. A 1996
performance of Beethoven’s opera,
Leonore, by Orchestre Révolutionnaire
et Romantique (R) 10.00 New Music
Show. Including Stockhausen’s 2008
Proms premiere, Cosmic Pulses 12.00
Freeness (R) 1.00 Through The Night
TIMES RADIO
6.00 Jenny Kleeman And Luke Jones
With Times Radio Breakfast 10.00
Hugo Rifkind 1.00 Alexis Conran
4.00 Ayesha Hazarika 7.00 Past
Imperfect 8.00 Stories Of Our
Times. The Times’s daily podcast
8.30 Red Box 9.00 Highlights From
Times Radio 10.00 Kait Borsay
1.00 Highlights From Times Radio
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