TV & Radio
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Sam & Shauna’s Big Cook Out
First shown on BBC Wales earlier this year, Sam & Shauna’s Big Cook Out sees the eponymous cooks and authors prepare barbecue and Southern Us-style food for deserving groups and organisations during a roadtrip around Wales. In each episode they start by showing how to prepare the feasts for a few people, before up-scaling to feed hundreds at large cook-outs.
From picanha steak with chimichurri to spatchcock chicken in Alabama white barbecue sauce, all their recipes can be replicated at home. In the first episode, they barbecue a whole pig with Barry Town United FC .
Monday to Wednesday, BBC2, 7pm
The Flu That Killed 50 Million
As the Armistice bells rang out to celebrate the end of the First World War, a silent killer made its way home with the soldiers – Spanish Flu.
This devastating global pandemic infected up to a third of the world’s population and killed more than 50 million people. Now, using compelling eyewitness testimony from doctors, soldiers, civilians and politicians, and aided by dramatic reconstructions, this one-off special brings to life the terrifying onslaught of the disease, the horror for those who lived through it, and the hope of the pioneering scientists who desperately sought a cure.
Narrated by Christopher Eccleston.
Tuesday, BBC2, 11:15pm
Britain At Low Tide
Tori Herridge continues her exploration of Britain’s extraordinary maritime, industrial and natural history by visiting Glasgow and finding out more about various attempts to make the River Clyde deeper to get ships into the heart of the city. She also investigates the role of an odd-shaped vessel in a boat graveyard.
Today, Channel 4, 7pm
Later Live – With Jools Holland
Jools Holland returns to host the umpteenth series of the excellent live music show. Taking performances from studios around the country, his guests on the first episode include Jess Glynne, post punk five-piece Idles, who will playing tracks from their new album Joyasanactof
Resistance, electro pop legends Soft Cell, R&B singer Ella Mai and singersongwriter Ralph Mctell.
Tuesday, BBC2, 10pm
Football Genius
Stand-up comedian Tim Vine hosts the comedy quiz in which two teams of football supporters, managed by The Chase’s Paul Sinha and Olympic Gold medallist Sam Quek, play against each other in a game of virtual football by answering football related questions.
In the first episode, Sinha’s team of AFC Wimbledon supporters take on Quek’s side of West Bromwich Albion fans but which team manager will be lifting the Football Genius trophy at full time?
Tuesday, ITV4, 10pm
Manson: The Lost Tapes
The awful crimes perpetrated by Charles Manson and his followers in the late 1960s, culminating in the murder of actress Sharon Tate and three others, are explored in this twopart documentary based around 100 hours of original footage taken by filmmaker Robert Hendrickson, who had been given exclusive access to the Manson cult 50 years ago. Remastered versions of that material along with new interviews with Manson cult members and experts present the inside story of how an apparently peace-loving commune was turned into a group of coldblooded killers. ■
Thursday, STV, 9pm