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Travel with a Goat INSIGHT TV, FROM TODAY
In this intriguing new series (watch online, on Smart TVS and on Sky HD channel 279), a pair of food experts travel for four days with an animal destined for the slaughterhouse, before deciding whether it should be saved or killed for food. This opener sees Bake Off winner Sophie Faldo and Youtube star Abraham Bandera Baez in Kenya; they take a goat from the countryside to the city, where attitudes to killing animals differ starkly. TD
Great Canadian Railway Journeys
BBC ONE, 6.30PM
Michael Portillo kicks off a new adventure, travelling along Canada’s Ocean line and exploring the country’s maritime provinces from Halifax to Montreal. First up, he’s in Nova Scotia. TD Icons BBC TWO, 9.00PM; SCOTLAND, 11.15PM
Scientists come under the spotlight in this episode, as Chris Packham profiles four of the 20th century’s greatest. They are radiotherapy pioneer Marie Curie, game-changing physicist Albert Einstein, wartime codebreaker Alan Turing and Tu Youyou, creator of anti-malaria medicine. TD