BEST OF THE REST
JAMIE COOKS ITALY Channel 4, 8.30pm
JAMIE Oliver serves up another mouthwatering series, this time seeking out the mammas and nonnas of Italy.
“Great food here isn’t about Michelinstarred chefs, it’s about home cooked recipes,” gushes Jamie, who, along with pal Gennaro Contaldo, is on a tour of Italian cuisine.
There’s plenty to feast your eyes on as Jamie cooks a Sunday lunch with a massive family on the Aeolian Islands. On the menu is a lip-smacking chicken and aubergine pot roast with lemony couscous. There’s also sweet and sour rabbit two ways.
But star of the show is 92-year-old caper farmer Nonna Franchina, who teaches Jamie how to make her speciality, stuffed squid.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? BBC1, 9pm
THERE are many stand-out moments in tonight’s instalment, about the family of TV lawyer Robert Rinder, that land an emotional punch. But one in particular is chilling and leaves Robert upset.
He has come to the site of a former labour camp in Poland where he meets a friend of his late grandfather Morris, who tells of the horrors of captivity.
He tells Robert: “It’s important that you hear what happened to your grandfather. One has to talk because people should understand what we suffered and what the Holocaust is about.”
We also hear how Morris lost his entire family to the gas chambers of Treblinka.
It’s a moving episode, with some astonishing first-hand testimony, but Robert hopes to finally lay some ghosts to rest.