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ALAN BENNETT’S TALKING HEADS 7.30PM Lesley Manville stars as Susan, who struggles with life as a vicar’s wife
BBC 1
6am Breakfast (HD)
9.00 BBC News (HD)
10.00 Your Money and Your Life
Matt Allwright and Kym Marsh host the consumer rights show. (HD)
Properties in Birmingham and London. (R)(HD)(AD)
A medical student tracks down the hit-and-run driver who has left him for dead. (R)(HD)(AD)
From Newbury, Berkshire. (R)(HD)(AD) (HD)
Leonie finally has a breakthrough with Bruce. (HD)(AD) Impossible Game show, hosted by Rick Edwards. (R)(HD)
Acouple search for a property in the north Dorset countryside. (R)(HD)(AD)
Items include an unusual musical instrument and a perfume bottle. (HD)
Izzie Balmer and James Braxton head to Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. (R)(HD)
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Magazine show, with stories of interest from around the UK. (HD)
PICK Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads Episode 8/12. Bed Among the Lentils, starring Lesley Manville. See Pick of the Day. (HD)(AD)
The team restore a musical wooden bench, a Victorian kaleidoscope, military items owned by a soldier and a pair of Royal Crown Derby peacocks. (R)(HD)
PICK Celebrity Masterchef New series. With Thomas Skinner, Myles Stephenson, Judi Love,
John Barnes and Shyko Amos.
See Pick of the Day. (HD)(AD)
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PICK
Tamsin Greig performs Nights in the Garden of Spain. See Pick of the Day. (HD)(AD)
The comedian looks back at some of the best moments from the Michael Mcintyre’s Big Show series. (R)(HD)
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MARVELLOUS 9PM
Toby Jones delivers a remarkable performance in this uplifting drama
BBC 2
Memorable rural retreats in Wales. (R)(HD) (R)(HD) Yvonne and Julian learn about Brian Duffy and Ace Mahbaz’s experience in Seoul. With voiceover. (HD)(BSL)
Brian Cunningham sows and grows his own bedding plants. (R)(HD)(BSL)
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Updates from Westminster and beyond. (HD)
Mendip wallfish and cider-flavoured chorizo in Wells, Somerset. (R)(HD)
Goran Ivanisevic’s finals against Andre Agassi and Pat Rafter. (HD)
In London, Len tastes Middle Eastern food. (R)(HD)(AD) Flogit! James Lewis and Caroline Hawley uncover a few gems at Muncaster in Cumbria. (R)(HD)
Quiz show, hosted by Jeremy Vine. (R)(HD)
Memorable mystery houses, from upside-down houses to rustic old thatches. (HD) (Repeated tomorrow at 6.45am)
Chef Michel Roux Jr takes Fred Sirieix to some of his favourite restaurants in Paris, where the pair experience the signature dish of a worldfamous restaurant. (R)(HD)(AD)
Sue Barker is joined by Tim Henman and Boris Becker in the studio, and by John Mcenroe and Martina Navratilova via video link, to look back on highlights of the past. (HD)
PICK Marvellous Fact-based feature-length comedy drama, starring Toby Jones. See Pick of the Day. (R)(HD)(AD)
Paul Murton is on Barra, where he witnesses some of the spectacles of the natural world. (R)(HD) (HD)
British black people who have succeeded in their chosen field discuss the challenges they and others have had to overcome. (R)(HD)(AD)
Last in series. (R)(HD)(AD) (R)(HD)(BSL)
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THE RAILWAY 24/7 9PM
Mandy make a call as the Transpennine Express keeps the north connected
CHANNEL 5
6am Peppa Pig (R) 6.05 Peppa Pig (R) 6.10 Peppa Pig (R) 6.15 Peppa Pig (R) 6.20 Mya Go (R)(HD) 6.25 Fireman Sam (R)(HD) 6.35 Noddy: Toyland Detective (R)(HD) 6.45 Abby Hatcher (R)(HD) 6.55 Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! (R)(HD) 7.10 Daisy & Ollie (R)(HD) 7.20 Peppa Pig (R) 7.30 Peppa Pig (R) 7.40 Ricky Zoom (R)(HD) 7.55 Paw Patrol (HD) 8.10 Floogals (R)(HD) 8.25 Becca’s Bunch (R)(HD) 8.40 Little Princess (R)(HD) 8.55 Top Wing (R)(HD)
9.10 Sunny Bunnies (R)
Jeremy Vine (HD)
Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! Stewart and Elmor get caught up in a dispute at a barber’s. (R)(HD)
5 News at Lunchtime (HD)
The Golden Girls (R)(HD)
The Golden Girls (R)(HD)
Home and Away (HD)(AD)
Neighbours (HD)(AD)
FILM My Mother is a Murderer (2020) PG ● Premiere. Thriller, starring Heather Mccomb. (HD)
Friends Joey’s agent dies. (R)(HD)
Friends (R)(HD)
5 News at 5 (HD)
Neighbours (R)(HD)(AD)
Home and Away (R)(HD)(AD)
5 News Tonight (HD)
Great British Bike Rides
Larry and George Lamb explore Britain’s National Parks by bike. (R)(HD); 5 News Update
Traffic Cops Police target criminals using cloned or false number plates, with one officer chasing a known suspect through a Derby estate. (R)(HD); 5 News Update
The Railway 24/7 Part 4/6. Officers confront a group of young people who are dangerously close to a high-speed railway line, while in Ardwick train depot, a Class 185 has a cracked manifold. (HD)
An aggressive patient has been bought in by police. (R)(HD)
A Trading Standards team raid a premises in Birmingham. (R)(HD) (R)(HD)
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Interactive gambling. (HD) (HD)
Ben visits Andalucia. (R)(HD) (R)(HD)(BSL)
A Caribbean cruise. (R)(HD)(BSL) (R)(HD)(BSL) (R)(BSL)
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STAR RATINGS 105 133 105 152 155
CELEBRITY MASTERCHEF
9PM, BBC1 ★★★★
There are some big personalities in this first of a new series of the celebrity cooking challenge, not least fired Apprentice candidate Thomas Skinner (right), who loves a big portion. Football legend John Barnes is definitely a meat-lover and, with the other three contestants this week – Death In Paradise’s Shyko Amos, comic Judi Love and singer and I’m A Celebrity star Myles Stephenson – the kitchens are full of laughs and ambition. Fifteen more celebrities will fire up the burners over the coming weeks. Continues on Friday.
ALAN BENNETT’S TALKING HEADS
7.30PM, 10.45PM, BBC1 ★★★★
Bed Among The Lentils is the first of tonight’s monologues, delivered with a wonderfully refined bitterness by Lesley Manville as Susan, who finds escape from her life as a vicar’s wife. At 10.45pm, Tamsin Greig’s Nights In The Gardens Of Spain is a melancholy tale of suburban life – and death.
MARVELLOUS
9PM, BBC2 ★★★★★
First shown in 2014, this extraordinary drama – part musical, part fantasy – stars Toby Jones as Neil Baldwin, a man who refuses to let his learning difficulties define him or inhibit his ambition.
His range of jobs include clown, kit man at Stoke City FC – and he’s a regular fixture on campus at Keele University.
GEORGE CLARKE’S AMAZING SPACES
9PM, CH4 ★★★
One of the fantastic DIY designs George reveals in this episode is made by an aircraft technician, who has turned a jet engine’s housing into a supersonic camper. George also meets a couple building a magical den for a toddler, and savours the architectural delights at a winery in Chile. SA
SKY ONE
Sky 106 Virgin 110 (HD 109)
8PM, TLC ★★★
Usually on 90 Day Fiance, we follow the culture clash when people from other countries arrive in the US to live with their future spouses; this new series flips that, and tracks marrying Americans to far-off lands. Brittany (left) is a model and rapper who is headed for Jordan – and trouble.
8am The Flash (S) Supergirl (S) 10.00 The Simpsons (S)
11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (S)
1pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) 3.00
Magnum P.I. Modern Family (S)
The Simpsons 5.30 Live Premier League. Bournemouth v Newcastle United (Kick-off 6pm).
Children ofalesserclod. Homer decides to open a nursery.
8.30 The Simpsons Simpsons Tall Tales. Homer, Marge and the kids hitch a ride on a train, where they are entertained by a tramp who tells them a series of colourful yarns based on American folklore. (S)
9.00 NEW Agatha Raisin To take her mind off her breakup, Agatha and the gang visit a fayre, but it is not long before the innocuous event becomes a crime scene. Last in series.
Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life Karl Pilkington tries to find out how people achieve happiness. (S)
12midnight The Blacklist
1.00 A League of Their Own: European Road Trip (S) 11.00
NAT GEOGRAPHIC
Sky 129 Virgin 266 (HD 268)
90 DAY FIANCE: THE OTHER WAY
12noon Car S.O.S (S) 1.00 Air Crash Investigation (S) 2.00 Ultimate Airport Dubai 3.00 Seconds from Disaster (S) 4.00 Air Crash Investigation (S) 5.00 Drain the Oceans: Deep Dive 6.00 Buried Secrets of the Bible (S) 7.00 Ultimate Survival WWII (S) 8.00 Family Guns (S) 9.00 Strippers: Cars for Cash (S) 10.00 Wicked Tuna (S)
11.00 Banged Up Abroad
12midnight Science of Stupid
1.00 Air Crash Investigation (S)
EDEN
Sky 166 Virgin 245 (HD 247)
1pm Nature’s Miracle Orphans (S)
2.00 Life on Earth: A New Prehistory (S) 3.00 The Zoo 3.30 Orangutan Diary 4.00 Spy in the Wild 5.00 Alaska: Earth’s Frozen Kingdom (S)
6.00 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (S) 7.00 Nature’s Miracle Orphans (S) 8.00 Life on Earth: A New Prehistory (S) 9.00 The Zoo 9.30 Orangutan Diary 10.00 Spy in the Wild 11.00 Alaska: Earth’s Frozen Kingdom (S) 12midnight David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities
SKY ARTS
Sky 122 Virgin 123 (HD 156)
2pm The Lot of Fun: Where the Movies Learned to Laugh (S) 3.00
Landscape Artist of the Year 2018 (S) 4.00 The Art of Architecture 5.00
Discovering: Spencer Tracy (S) 6.00
Discovering: James Mason (S) 7.00
Treasures of the British Library 8.00
EM Forster: His Longest Journey (S) 9.00 Landscape Artist of the Year 2019 10.00 Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway (S) 11.30 24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters (S) 1am Brian Johnson’s A Life on the Road (S) 8.00 9.00
WALKING BRITAIN’S ROMAN ROADS
★★★
Dan Jones describes the six Roman roads he explores in his new series as ‘iconic’, but don’t let that put you off. It’s an informative journey that starts with the 240-mile Watling Street, which the Romans built as their invasion deepened. (Freeview 54, Freesat 133, Sky 153, Virgin 152)
24 HOUR BABY HOSPITAL
9PM, MORE4 ★★★★
There’s a life-affirming spirit to this One Born Every Minute-style series, which was filmed at the Rotunda in Dublin, the world’s longest-running maternity hospital. Among the high points are the interviews with the couples, in which it’s amusing to note how little the men actually speak.
PENNY DREADFUL: CITY OF ANGELS
9PM, SKY ATLANTIC ★★★★
The horror drama moves to LA in
1938 for a lavishly mounted new series about the fundamental evil of men. Natalie Dormer plays a many-faced and manipulative demon (left), while Rory Kinnear is a Nazi-supporting German living in the US, encouraging his new neighbours to ignore Europe.
SALVAGE HUNTERS: THE RESTORERS
★★★ Drew Pritchard’s army of experts assemble for a new series of the Salvage Hunters spin-off. Tonight, Drew (left) has picked up a 1950s ejector seat that he thinks would make a fun office chair for someone ‘a little off the wall’, and takes it to blacksmith Nev to weave his magic.
CELEBRITY GOGGLEBOX USA
9PM, E4 ★★★
The celebrities in the UK version may be more familiar, but this US equivalent has been far more fun to watch. The Osbournes have been particularly good value – especially Ozzy and his creepy ventriloquist’s doll – and Lindsay Lohan (left) has recently joined the line-up.
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SKY COMEDY
Sky 308 Virgin 408
8.40am Weird Science (1985) 15 u
See 12.05am.
10.20 Action Point (2018)15u
See 10.35pm. (S)
11.50 Night School (2018)15u
See 7pm. (S)
1.50pm Eighth Grade (2018)15u
See 1.45am. (S)
3.30 Howtoloseaguyin10 Days (2003) 12 Journalist Kate Hudson sets out to prove her theory of how women deter men from proposing. (S) 5.30 PICK Family (2019) 15 (S)
7.00 Night School (2018)15u
A group of adults are forced to attend night classes. (S)
9.00 Holmes & Watson (2018)12u
Detective duo Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly attempt to foil an assassination plot. (S)
10.35 Action Point (2018)15u
The owner of an unsafe amusement park has to juggle the arrival of his daughter with a rival park opening. (S) 12.05am Weird Science (1985) 15 u
Teenagers Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-smith use their computer to design the perfect woman.
1.45-3.25 Eighth Grade (2018)15u
With Elsie Fisher. (S)
uu3.10 5.25 7.00 9.00
FOUR KIDS AND IT
(2020) PG ● 7PM, SKY FAMILY HHHH
Fun adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s 2012 novel, which was itself inspired by E. Nesbit’s classic Five Children And It. The cast includes Russell Brand as a villainous aristo.
SKY DISNEY
Sky 305 Virgin 405
8am Old Dogs (2009) PG ● (S)
9.40 Beauty and the Beast (1991)
See 7.50pm. (S)
11.20 Toy Story 4 (2019) U n
See 6pm. (S)
1.10pm Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) U n
See 10.50pm. (S)
The Emperor’s New
Groove (2001) U (S)
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
An orphan boy genius is transported into the future where he is introduced to a madcap family. (S)
Toy Story 4 (2019) U A toy joins Woody and the gang, leading a road trip alongside old and new friends. (S)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
A woman becomes the prisoner of a monster, but realises he is not as fearsome as he seems. (S) The Tigger Movie (2000) U n
The tiger sets out to find more creatures like him. (S)
10.50 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) U A princess is driven from her home by her evil stepmother. (S)
12.25am-1.55 The Emperor’s
New Groove (2001) U (S) 2.45 4.15
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FOUR THOUGHT
9.30AM, 8.45PM, RADIO 4 HHH Samuel is a deputy head teacher in a large secondary school, and wants his pupils to do well. His standards are high, and he works hard to see that his pupils get good results, but the whole process worries him. Here, he talks to Olly Mann about exams, morality and education, and wonders why we put such weight on exam results.
COMPOSER OF THE WEEK
12 NOON, RADIO 3 HHH Thoughts of suicide and his increasing deafness drove Beethoven to the depths of despair. He poured his feelings out in a letter to his brothers in 1802 – but never sent it. Donald Macleod looks at this message, known as the Heiligenstadt Testament, which was found
BBC RADIO 4
FM 92.4 - 96.1 LW 198 Freeview 704 Sky 0104 Virgin 904
5.33am Shipping Forecast
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day
6.00 Today
8.30 (LW) Yesterday
in Parliament
9.00 More or Less Tim Harford
investigates numbers.
9.30 PICK Four Thought
9.45 (LW) Daily Service
9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: The Boy with Two Hearts By Hamed Amiri.
10.00 Woman’s Hour Including at 10.45 Drama: Part three of Six Suspects, Ayeesha Menon’s dramatisation of Vikas Swarup’s novel.
11.00 Meanwhile
11.30 The Break Andy and
Jeff’s relationship becomes problematic.
12noon News Summary
12.03 Shipping Forecast
BBC RADIO 1
FM 97.6 - 99.8 Freeview 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
7am Breakfast Show with Greg James. 11.00 Clara Amfo. 12.45pm Newsbeat. 1.00 Clara Amfo. 3.00 Nick Grimshaw. 5.45 Newsbeat. 6.00 Nick Grimshaw. 7.00 Future Sounds. 9.00 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie. 11.00 Indie Show with
Jack Saunders. 1am Benji B.
BBC RADIO 3
FM 90.2 - 92.4 Freeview 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903
6.30am Breakfast. 9.00 Essential Classics. 12noon PICK Composer of the Week: Beethoven – Private Papers. 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert. Music from the Cheltenham Music Festival, including Mozart and Ravel. 2.00 Afternoon Concert. The BBC Philharmonic plays music by British composers. 3.30 Choral Evensong. 4.30 New Generation Artists. 5.00 In Tune. 7.00 In Tune Mixtape. An eclectic, nonstop mix of music. 7.30 Radio 3 in Concert. The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs works by Elgar, Yiu and Elkington. 10.00 Free Thinking. 10.45 The Essay: New Generation Thinkers. Ella Parry-davies considers inequalities in healthcare 11.00 Night Tracks. 12.30am Through the Night.
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Sue Johnston (2.15pm, Radio 4) after the composer’s death. The letter also shows how, despite these dark thoughts, Beethoven was driven by a powerful need to create great music.
MY MOTHER’S DAUGHTER
2.15PM, RADIO 4 HHH
Sue Johnston and Christine Bottomley play a mother and
12.06 Brixton Hill
By Lottie Moggach.
12.20 You and Yours
Consumer affairs.
The World at One
A History of the World in 100 Objects A Minoan sculpture of a man leaping over a bull.
The Archers Ed has his arm twisted.
PICK Drama: My
Mother’s Daughter
By Becky Prestwich.
Money Box Live
Financial questions.
All in the Mind Last in series.
Thinking Allowed Thought-provoking issues.
The Media Show
PM News programme.
Six O’clock News
Women Talking About
Cars Victoria Coren Mitchell interviews Dawn French. 1.00 1.45 2.00 2.15 3.00
3.30 4.00
4.30 5.00 6.00 6.30
BBC RADIO 2
FM 88.1 - 90.2 Freeview 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902
5am Vanessa Feltz. 6.30 The Amol Rajan Breakfast Show. 9.30 Ken Bruce. 12noon Jeremy Vine. 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon. 5.00 Sara Cox. 8.00 Jo Whiley.
11.00 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe. 12midnight O.J. Borg.
3.00 Sounds of the 90s.
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
5am Wake Up to Money. 6.00
5 Live Breakfast. 9.00 Your Call. 10.00 The Emma Barnett Show. 1pm Nihal Arthanayake. 4.00
5 Live Drive. With Anna Foster and Tony Livesey. 5.55 5 Live Sport: Premier League Football. 8.00
Wednesday Night Club. Football discussion. 10.30 Colin Murray.
CLASSIC FM
FM 99.9-101.9 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
6am More Music Breakfast. 9.00 Alexander Armstrong. 12noon Anne-marie Minhall. 4.00 John Brunning. 7.00 Smooth Classics at Seven. John Brunning presents soothing sounds. 8.00 PICK
The Classic FM Concert with John Suchet. 10.00 Smooth Classics.
The Archers Elizabeth takes the first step.
7.15 Front Row Arts programme.
7.45 Six Suspects
8.00 The Moral Maze Debate examining the moral issues behind the news.
8.45 PICK Four Thought
9.00 More or Less Tim Harford
investigates numbers.
9.30 The Media Show
10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime: Brixton
Hill By Lottie Moggach.
11.00 Little Lifetimes The Girls, by Jenny Eclair. performed by Sarah Parish.
The Damien Slash Mixtape A one-man sketch show.
11.30 Today in Parliament 12midnight News; Weather
12.30 Book of the Week: The
Boy with Two Hearts
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World Service 7.00 11.15
BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA
DAB Freeview 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910
6am Orphans in Waiting. 6.30 Down Payment on Death. 7.00 Clare in the Community. 7.30 Tudur Owen: Zoo. 8.00 Hancock’s Half Hour. 8.30 Up the Garden Path. 9.00 Dilemma. 9.30 Rent. 10.00 An Odd Body. 11.00 Being David Sedaris. 12noon Hancock’s Half Hour. 12.30 Up the Garden Path. 1.00 Orphans in Waiting. 1.30
Down Payment on Death. 2.00 Dilemma. 2.30 Rent. 3.00 An Odd Body. 4.00 Being David Sedaris.
5.00 Clare in the Community.
5.30 Tudur Owen: Zoo. 6.00 Earthsearch II. 6.30 Short Cuts. 7.00 Hancock’s Half Hour. 7.30
Up the Garden Path. Comedy, with Imelda Staunton. 8.00 Orphans in Waiting. Thriller, by Wally K. Daly.
8.30 Down Payment on Death. Thriller, by Jim Eldridge. 9.00 Being David Sedaris. Emma Freud is joined by author David Sedaris to conclude their discussion of his life and career and listen to extracts from his extensive BBC archive. 10.00 Comedy Club: Tudur Owen: Zoo. 10.30 Rudy’s Rare Records. 11.00 Fags, Mags and Bags. 11.30 Cowards.
12midnight Earthsearch II.
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