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Australia: Earth’s Magical Kingdom
BBC Two, Sunday
Travelling from the peaks of the Snowy Mountains to tropical Queensland, cameras reveal how animals have learned to thrive across the continent’s harsh and beautiful extremes. The nation’s unique wildlife includes a tree-dwelling kangaroo, a spider that survives underwater and a bird that gathers burning sticks and embers from bush fires to drop into dry grass to spread a curtain of flame that flushes out insects and small prey. Narrated by Barry Humphries
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
BBC One, Monday
Documentary following the climate activist over the course of 2019 and 2020, as she travels the world exploring the science of global warming and challenging world leaders to take action on the growing crisis.
All That Glitters: Britain’s Next Jewellery Star
BBC Two, Tuesday
Taking place in a specially built workshop nestled in Birmingham's historic Jewellery Quarter, Katherine Ryan hosts as eight talented jewellers battle it out to prove they can be the next big jewellery-making sensation. In each episode, the competitors are faced with two very different challenges, with their work judged by are two of the biggest names in the business, Solange Azagury-Partridge and Shaun Leane, before one contestants leaves the competition
Snackmasters
Channel 4, Tuesday
Fred Sirieix sets two chefs to the challenge of replicating the Wagon Wheel, a precise combination of mallow, crumbly biscuit and chocolate. Tristan Welch, who cut his teeth with Gary Rhodes, aims to solve the problem with madcap gadgets, while Cyrus Todiwala, one of the most respected Indian chefs in the country, takes a more instinctive approach
The Great British Sewing Bee
BBC One, Wednesday
The return of the sewing competition in which 12 keen amateurs take part in three challenges, all judged by Savile Row tailor Patrick Grant and fashion designer Esme Young. The sewers start in their efforts to impress with the first pattern challenge, creating the simple, clean lines of the versatile classic sleeveless blouse called a ‘shell top’, and, for the transformation challenge, they must turn old T-shirts into completely new garments for men, women or children, in just 90 minutes.