PickS of the week
YOUR CAN’T-MISS TV SHOWS FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS
ALEX BROOKER: DISABILITY AND ME TONIGHT, BBC2, 9PM UNCOVERING painful memories, comedian and TV presenter Alex Brooker revisits his own past as he confronts what disability means in Britain today. The Last Leg co-host asks some tough questions about his disability and the impact it had on him and his family growing up.
LONG LOST FAMILY:
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT TOMORROW, ITV, 9PM
DAVINA McCALL and Nicky Campbell catch up with some of the 336 people who have been reunited with missing relatives on Long Lost Family. The first episode includes the story of Kathleen Fraser Jackson, who wanted to find her birth mother and embarked on an epic journey, uncovering secrets and more family members.
24 HOURS IN A&E
TUESDAY, CHANNEL 4, 9PM
A TEENAGER with anorexia nervosa is rushed into the paediatrics emergency department with dangerously low blood pressure. Then a 66-yearold man who fell from a great height is brought in to St George’s, and doctors fear he has sustained organ damage and internal bleeding.
ALAN BENNETT’S TALKING HEADS WEDNESDAY, BBC1, 7.35PM THIS revival of Alan Bennett’s monologues has given some of Britain’s best actors a chance to tackle some great writing.
The penultimate episode, Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet, stars Maxine Peake in a role previously played by Patricia Routledge, as a woman who has a new chiropodist. The series concludes tomorrow with Monica Dolan.
THERE SHE GOES
IT’S two years since the first run of writer-actor Shaun Pye’s highly personal comedy drama made its debut on BBC Four, and now it’s back.
Jessica Hynes and David Tennant play Emily and Simon, parents of Rosie, who has a chromosomal disorder. As a result she has learning difficulties and is non-verbal; each episode focuses on the joys and problems her family faces.
JAMIE’S QUICK & EASY FOOD FRIDAY, CHANNEL 4, 8PM
JAMIE OLIVER cooks up four more tasty dishes. He starts with his hot smoked salmon pasta, followed by spiced, whole roast cauliflower. Next up, he rustles up a sausage and apple bake, and to finish, cherry chard rice.
WIMBLEDON: THE GREATEST CHAMPIONSHIPS Saturday, BBC1, 2.15pm SUE BARKER presents a look back at the best 10 ladies’ finals featuring the likes of Serena Williams, Steffi Graf, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
Alex Brooker