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BBC2, 9pm There’s no place like Rome. That’s the message Italian chef Giorgio Locatelli and British art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon are getting across with this two-part travelogue.

The pair are exploring Italy’s iconic capital city from, quite appropriately, the back of a moped.

It’s a 2,000-year-old metropolis where past and present collide, full of incredible history, art, architecture, culture and gastronomy. But it’s the people that make the city – the generations of ordinary Romans, who are famously loud, chaotic, opinionated and rebellious.

Giorgio and Andrew visit stunning sites such as the Trevi fountain, which featured in Federico Fellini’s famous film La Dolce Vita.

The pair each bring their own skills to the party – the way Andrew talks about art, describing some of Caravaggio’s work, is captivating and informative. Giorgio’s passion for food, meanwhile – as he makes a traditional Roman fish soup and an authentic carbonara – is deliciously infectious.