West Country Life 26 October 2013

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magazine Western Daily Press, Saturday October 26 2013

Live like a land girl

Stunning Salisbury Cathedral

IT’S TIME TO ‘EAT FOR VICTORY’

CLARE GREEN’S PICTURE ESSAY

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COLUMNISTS

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PHOTO ESSAY

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PEOPLE

Lizzie Lane bids a fond farewell; while Martin Hesp tries not to be so grumpy

Clare Green finds out how Salisbury Cathedral looks so glorious inside

We could all learn from rationing says nutritionist and Forties fan Clare Millar

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PEOPLE

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NATURE

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FOOD

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ABSOLUTE CORKERS

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SHOPPING

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BOOKS

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TRAVEL

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WALKS

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GARDENING

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ANTIQUES

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TELEVISION

We talk to Wiltshire-born David Mitchell and Downton Abbey actress Holly Thomas

This Hallowe’en, Liam Creedon asks why the harmless bat has been vilified

Chris Rundle on ham hock; the perfect roast beef; plus Bonfire and Hallowe’en food

Autumn offers on supermarket wines have never looked tastier, says Ned Halley

Black has never looked so stylish in fashion; plus orange additions at home

GFNewman writes for us; David Jason’s autobiography; plus the badger debate

Shanghai offers a true mix of the old and new Plus, golfing in Castle Combe

Martin Hesp spots odd shoes on his Cornish hike; while Sue Gearing is in Charmouth

Heuchera are not only colourful but versatile and eyecatching too, says Alan Down

A strawberry nutmeg grater that sold for £3,940; and a rather famous violin

Robson Green talks about his new programme, while we pick some TV highlights

TV guide Poem & Puzzles Horoscope Where in the West Cover by Fran Stothard

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A cormorant and little egret keep their distance at Ham Wall Nature Reserve on the Somerset Levels

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Rural rambles

Roger Evans In autumn, pheasants are a common sight.

Some estates release birds in their thousands, some in their tens of thousands.

We have 80 acres here at home, on which we have the shooting, where there are plenty of pheasants that stray here from various adjacent shoots and estates.

We don’t actually shoot here ourselves but we allow the next door shoot to walk our ground. They get a couple of drives out of it, I don’t know all the farmers, professional people, with the odd multi millionaire sprinkled in among them.

What I do like about this particular shoot is that a lot of my friends from the pub are involved as beaters.

What I think is nice is that all of them, guns and beaters, mix together well socially, eating and drinking together. There is an added bonus to all this. When we are in the pub I can enquire of a third party if he knows where I can obtain the services of a part-time gamekeeper. As there are two or three who are involved with shooting the ground, and (therefore) think that they look after it, their faces are a picture. I go on to say that we are overrun with foxes, magpies and carrion crows, and that there will not be any pheasants about. It’s a nice bit of winding up.

I’ve reported here often enough that we’ve been overrun with foxes this autumn.

My son David goes around the cows that are due to calve every night at midnight and there is a fox or foxes in the calving shed every time he goes there – the attraction for the foxes is the food they get from the discarded placentas.

When the cows are fetched for milking in the early morning, foxes are always seen. One morning was particularly memorable. I will tell it in David’s words...

“I was walking down the track to fetch the cows and my torch battery was low so I was walking in the dark. Mert was with me and I’d sent him on ahead to go around the cows. I became aware of something walking at my side and thought it was Mert, not doing his work, so I scolded him. Nothing happened so I switched the torch on. It wasn’t a dog walking at my side, it was a fox!”

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he still amazes me with how he can handle cattle. We were doing something one day with the dry cows, there were 47 in the group and dairy farmers will know what I mean when I say, they were well full of themselves.

Stephen had put a round feeder in their field while I drove around them to see if they were OK. But Stephen left the gate open while he went to fetch a big bale of hay, they spotted this from 400 yards away and they were away. I tried to cut them off in their headlong charge by trying to overtake them in the truck. I managed to stop about half of them but those I didn’t, 20 odd, were away down the track, bucking and kicking along.

I got Mert out of the truck and said “get by”.

Loose cattle around these buildings have multiple choices where to go, but they always go just one way. It’s a magnet to them, a magnet called the landlord’s garden.

They were only gone out of sight a second but the next thing I knew they were on their way back at some speed with Mert behind them How do you value something like that?

It’s a different story on the poultry front.

Neville has been gone inside a fox for about 18 months now.

Occasionally visitors still get warily out of their cars and ask “is that cockerel still about?” I answer by saying that I haven’t seen him for a couple of hours, which is perfectly true. With that information the visitor’s business is conducted with frequent looks over their shoulders.

But the Lord taketh away and he also giveth.

So you lose the aggression of Neville on one hand and you get a stag turkey to replace him that is bigger and worse.

Strangely, for me, he doesn’t have a name, I think it’s because I was losing so many turkeys to the fox I didn’t want to get too attached.

I’ve only got three turkeys at present – stag, hen and youngster – and they are confined to an old walled garden we have so that I can put them in a fox-proof shed at night. The shed is about 20 yards from the entrance to the garden. If I want to go out and need to shut them up before it is dark, I have to fight him with a croquet mallet to drive him in.

Unfortunately for my wife, her clothes line is within this garden so she has had to take to drying the washing draped on her car. This is not a perfect solution because her car isn’t washed very often and she parks it under the flight path of a colony of sparrows.

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Columnists

Lizzie Lane ‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘to talk of many things...’

Martin Hesp Doc Martin is one of my favourite TV programmes.

“Of ships and seas and sealing wax, and whether pigs have wings...”

Actually my friends, the time has come for me to bid you goodbye. This will be my last column for West Country Life. It’s been a zany, swings and roundabouts kind of time, so I couldn’t resist dipping into Lewis Carroll.

West Country Life is a wonderful magazine – a lot of people read it avidly from cover to cover over the weekend and I was one of them.

I felt truly honoured when I was asked to contribute.

OK, I was a tad disappointed when I didn’t get the job of sampling super food in swish restaurants. I was also disappointed when I didn’t get the task of looking around upmarket houses, the really cool sort with acres of grounds, an indoor swimming pool and a stable yard to the rear.

First it was Straight from the Hip as Jeannie Johnson, then it became Down Lizzie Lane.

They’re both me, but that’s the way it is in the world of publishing; I’ve published more than 35 books under a number of different names.

One day I am this person, another day I am that person. Sometimes I don’t know who I’m supposed to be, but I soldier on regardless.

I have been asked which are my favourite articles; I have to say, I’m not sure, though I do have some favourite comments that stick in my mind. They were comments made to me by friends.

One friend repeated an overheard conversation between her two small sons. One asked the other whether God had a second name. “Of course he does,” said the older of the two. “It’s Zilla.”

I fully admit that I haven’t always depended on friends and family for funny/quirky comments. I’ve heard them while travelling on a bus or a train – or a plane for that matter. So watch out. An eavesdropper is about.

Not that it applies only to real live people and it isn’t only about comments.

I once asked how come Bristol MP Dawn Primarolo had taken the job of announcer at Bristol Airport. It really sounded like her urging me not to leave my bags unattended.

That was some years ago, but guess what? I flew in and out of there recently, and it still sounds like her. How about that? I’m still not happy paying for a luggage trolley, Bristol Airport, and while I’m on the subject, I’m not happy at my lift having to pay a pound just to pick me up. Think of my legs! Think of my

It’s partly because I like the fantastical idea of somewhere like Port Isaac being devoid of empty holiday homes and, instead, bustling with community life – but more probably because I feel a profound sense of empathy with the programme’s central character.

The Doc – who looks after the welfare of the people of Port Wenn which, unlike Port Isaac, has escaped having 40 of its 44 main street properties converted from family homes to holiday cottages – is grumpy and doesn’t take fools easily.

I fear that slowly, but inexorably, I am turning into a journalistic version of him.

People in my trade have to take on board information at a rapid rate, then translate whatever story it is into something that is

arms! By the time I get to the car my arms are twice the length they were, and I’m bowlegged.

There will be many regrets about leaving, but time rolls on and so have I. Lizzie Lane’s home now floats around the Mediterranean and her time is spent writing the next wartime saga plus the next Honey Driver crime mystery.

I know you’re going to be very disappointed that you won’t be getting my usual Christmas ditty, so I thought I might do one to commemorate this momentous event – that of me taking my leave of you. So here goes...

Clever with charts, sails and tides, Author of books like Wartime Brides, Storyteller of worldwide fame, Known sometimes as Lizzie Lane.

Writer of novels, some quite swish, Latest available, A Christmas Wish.

Follow it on with A Wartime Wife Or in Honey Driver, it’s run for your life.

But tempus fugit, I have to fly, So with much love from me, it’s a final goodbye.

Good wishes to you all and have a good weekend.

A Christmas Wish, a new title from Lizzie Lane, is out now

COLUMNISTS ONLINE You can enjoy the best of Lizzie Lane and Martin Hesp’s Saturday essays – and our other writers – on the Western Daily Press website westerndailypress.co.uk/wcl

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focussed, succinct and understandable. The more you do it, the more you assume it’s just the way things are – so when other people fail to “get” things you find yourself feeling irritated and wondering what fogbound planet they’re living on.

I feel this irritation, for example, about my local MP, Ian Liddell-Grainger, who doesn’t seem to comprehend the Bridgwater constituency he represents in any way at all.

Not being a member of any political party, I can’t really complain about their mysterious selection processes – but I can ask why they don’t de-select more readily.

However, it’s one thing my publicly haranguing an MP – such creatures have skins as thick as rhino hides, so I’m not going to lose sleep feeling guilty. It is another, more destructive, thing altogether when a grumpy old toad like me starts harrumphing at friends.

I’ve done it several times this week – by which I mean I’ve turned on people who have said things that I regarded as irrational, illogical, or even downright stupid.

It would have been much better all round if I’d held my tongue. Indeed, if this were New Year, I’d make my tongue-holding desire a proper, defined, resolution.

As it is, I do try. Occasionally, anyway. For example I was at a dinner the other night where someone declared something so witheringly unhinged and ill-founded I momentarily lost the will to live and fell silent for 20 minutes. Which some people will say is a Hesp record.

The thing I must remember is – who cares what I think? The answer to which is – no one.

My kids used to, but they’ve grown up now and regard me as a daft old boot. At least Doc Martin doesn’t often “go off on one” – unlike so many opinionated blokes of a certain age and over.

The opposite to grumpily haranguing is looking and learning. I was doing a lot of that in Switzerland recently, especially one afternoon when I joined three Dartmoor farmers halfway up a mountain.

The three West Country men were visiting a high alpine farm belonging to a Swiss cheesemaking family – and although there were language constraints they all seemed to understand one another perfectly.

The Dartmoor farmers were impressed by what they were being shown and so was I – but what I brought away from the meeting was the sense of profound privilege that I’d felt at being invited to witness the event.

Why? Because it seemed to me that these men of the soil had a more ancient and somehow grounded language than anything to do with actual words.

It was as if the West Country upland men were saying: “This is a tough and crazy place in which to produce food, and we take our hats off to you big-time for managing to do it – partly because we do something similar back home.”

I liked this silent mutual-appreciation zone – it was a far superior place to be than the cynical harrumphing world I sometimes live in.

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Nick Park joins Grand Handover of Clifton High School’s Gromit Clifton High School were proud to host the Grand Handover of their much-loved Gromit statue to his new owners at a special school assembly on Monday with the creator of Wallace and Gromit from Aardman Animations, Nick Park himself as well as Amy Ryder from the Gromit Unleashed campaign for the Grand Appeal in attendance.

Gromit was sold through a sealed bid auction for the very impressive and generous price of £5000 to a CHS parent, Mrs Roperto and her family from the Clifton area who are planning to keep him in their home, share him with their community and place him somewhere visible where passing public can also see him. They are renaming him ‘PolyGrom’ after his new address and visitors to the Hotwells panto this year might be in for a treat as he gets to tread the boards for the first time too!

Gromit was designed by CHS pupils in a competition open to everyone from Nursery age through to Sixth Form.

He was hand-painted by the winners, Robert Smith, Lucy Williams and Charlie Mathews and other runners up with the help of Head of Art, Paul Ayers.

Now named PolyGrom of course, the favourite Bristolian dog has been very popular with everyone at the school and they are thrilled that he is going to live in such a loving new home so nearby.

His auction took place during a week of

inspirational events held to celebrate the work of the pupils and the wider school community between 10 -15th October. The progamme showcased a broad spectrum of science, food, art, environmental, literary and musical events. Highlights of the celebrations, many of which were open to all, included an evening with acclaimed film director Ken Loach, a virtuoso piano recital by Russian pianist, Konstantin Lapshin, a visit from bestselling author Holly Smale and a talk on journalistic writing from Telegraph writer Xanthe Clay. Proceeds from Gromit’s auction have been shared equally between the Gromit Unleashed campaign for the Children’s Hospital Grand Appeal and the School.

A full selection of news of recent events, more pictures of all the special guests including Nick Park and more information about the school can be seen at www.cliftonhigh.bristol.sch.uk

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Picture essay Clare Green

Volunteers who keep historic cathedral looking its best Salisbury cathedral welcomes thousands of tourists and worshipers every year and a small army of volunteers and staff help keep the 13th-centruy building looking glorious.

More than 600 people give their time to help guide visitors around, clean, and even make the robes for services.

While the guides talk about the vast history of the building and the flower arrangers put together colourful displays, working away in the dark wooden choir stalls are a team of “Holy Dusters”, with feather dusters at the ready to clean lower levels, while the cathedral caretakers are on hand to get rid of cobwebs on the tall stain glass windows with a long pole and duster attached to the end. Meanwhile, the tomb cleaners are busy with small brushes, dusting all 80 tombs.

In the quiet gate house Mary White makes and repairs the cassocks, working with her own patterns, cutting and sowing each robe to fit the individual.

Among the people photographed on these pages are guides Pat Chilton and Wendy English.

The “Holy Dusters” – a nickname – take it in turns to dust and they are Lesley Ayers and Anne Watson. June Calamvokis is one of the tomb cleaners.

The flower arrangers, Carola Puddy-Henny and J Claypoole, put together their colourful displays every Friday.

Cassock and robe designer Mary White says her role is more like tailoring than dress making, as each one is made to fit the person wearing it.

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minutes to know Karen Gillan Former Doctor Who assistant Karen Gillan is starring as novelist Jane in new British romantic comedy Not Another Happy Ending Do you think not believing in happy endings makes Jane Lockhart an unusual rom-com heroine?

Jane Lockhart does like to indulge in the miserable side of life and in her own pain – she slightly worships pain, even though she won’t admit that. But I think she has some aspects that are very much a typical rom-com girl – like she falls over all the time! That’s something that comes naturally to me.

What did you do to prepare for the role?

I worked my way through all the great rom coms of all time. I also went on Twitter and just asked people “In one word, what type of person becomes a writer?” I got some very interesting responses, from loads of really well-known writers as well, everyone just chimed in, which was funny.

Jane has a very quirky dress sense in the movie, were you involved in styling her?

John [McKay, the director) and I came up with the idea of this Annie Hall, Diane Keaton thing, and we just ran with that. I idolise Diane Keaton, and want to be her, so it’s kind of a homage to her.

The film is set in Scotland, was it nice to work near home?

It was so nice to be in my country, because I don’t get up there as much as I’d like to and I could see my family and they could visit me. I had the chance to see Glasgow too, the place where my mum grew up, and I didn’t really know it that well before.

Do you like to visit home a lot?

I need to get back to Inverness on a fairly regular basis, but it’s only been happening about twice a year recently, so I want to work on that. But I’m generally very free and easygoing about where I live. Technically I live in Los Angeles but I’m never there.

You shaved your head for your role in new Marvel movie Guardian’s Of The Galaxy, how are you feeling about being a skinhead?

My hair is now on a wig, which I have with me, but it’s very creepy to wear your own hair – think about it, it is your hair but it’s not attached to you...

They’d shave it every day for filming but I’m going to grow it back now and have fun with hairstyles.

What is it like playing alien villain Nebula in the movie?

What’s cool about Nebula is that she has not been portrayed yet so I can establish the character, and that’s really exciting to me.

Because this franchise “guardians of the galaxy is slightly lesser known than the other Marvel ones, we can invent it and set the tone and that’s just the coolest thing.

How do you feel about Matt Smith leaving Doctor Who? It’s weird that he’s leaving, because to me he is The Doctor and he always will be. But I’m biased, I guess. I think Peter Capaldi is an amazing choice and a really cool direction to take the character – he’s older, he’s different to Matt and he’s Scottish.

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People Suzanne Savill

Clare Millar is wearing a land girl outfit as she potters around her vegetable garden.

Inside her house she has books on rationing and wartime recipes.

But this is no modern-day tribute to daily life on the Home Front in the Forties, a period that has long been a source of fascination for Clare, who has a wardrobe full of vintage clothes reflecting that era.

While the mantra “Dig For Victory” was a familiar one for during the Second World War, when people were encouraged to grow their own vegetables and fruit, Clare has come up with a new message as she embarks upon a personal crusade again a modern-day threat to the nation.

The West Country-based nutritionist is urging people to “Eat For Victory”, in a bid to tackle the obesity epidemic that has resulted in one in four people in the UK being obese, and over half being overweight.

And she is quick to empathise that this “battle of the bulge” for those previously defeated by a succession of diets will not involve eating some of the more notorious wartime foodstuffs, but rather replicating restrictions imposed during rationing.

“Some of the food, such as powdered egg, was pretty grim,” Claire admits.

“But many aspects of the wartime diet that resulted from rationing levels worked out by the Ministry of Food undoubtedly had all sorts health benefits that can still be applied today.

“For example portion control, eating certain foods such as sugar in moderation, cooking from scratch, and using local, seasonal produce, which of course wasn’t rationed.

“All of this can make a real difference, together with not eating processed and fast foods, can make a difference to health and weight – especially when other aspects of wartime life in Britain are also followed, such as walking rather than driving because of petrol rationing, spending more time outdoors and strong community networks.”

Clare, 40, picks up a container filled with 8oz, or 225g, of sugar – an amount which would have been an adult ration for a week.

“Nowadays, many people eat the same amount of sugar in one day that a person would have eaten in one week during the Second World War. Often it is hidden in processed foods,” she says.

As we speak, her mobile telephone rings and the strains of the Vera Lynn classic We’ll Meet Again can be heard throughout the cottage in which she lives in the historic Kings Weston area of Bristol.

“I’ve had an interest in food, and in vintage fashions and music for about as long as I can remember,” says Clare, who studied at the College of Naturopathic Medicine in the city, and recently set up her Eat for Victory consultancy to show people the benefits of a wartime approach to healthy living.

“After I qualified I wanted to combine what I’d learned on the course with my interest in life in Britain during the Second World War. My focus now is on getting the word out to as many people as possible, with advice on wartime recipes and limiting intake of certain

foods.” She adds: “A wartime approach to diet doesn’t only have health benefits. It is also useful to people on low incomes as the recipes of this era are very cost-effective, and offer fantastic guidance on budgeting and cooking skills in these challenging times.

“A lot of the recipes consisted of just four ingredients and four stages, which is really simply for people to do.”

Clare – who has previously provided workshops for staff in care homes about nutrition for older people, and who also gives individual consultations on healthy eating – adds that she believes the vast array of food choices available nowadays can do more harm than good.

“There is now so much choice, and so much conflicting information about what is good for you that many people don’t know what to think and as a nation we are lost.

“There was none of this complexity in the days of rationing. People had to be aware of portion control otherwise they would run out of rations, and food wastage was illegal, which very much appeals to me as I’m passionate about recycling.

“Life was certainly a challenge then, but there was also a simplicity that doesn’t exist nowadays. What I enjoy about taking a ration book approach is that it is an easy way in which to engage people, as it is something with which they can identify.”

Clare adds that as part of her Eat For Victory crusade, she is blogging about her experiences of following a wartime-style diet, and always tries to shop in the way that people would have done in the Forties and Fifties.

“I prefer to support local shops and buy locally produced food that ideally is also organic. Traditional farming methods in my opinion are much healthier and also much better for the environment because of low food miles.”

Before coming to Bristol to study, Clare had lived in New Zealand, where she spent two years working in vineyards.

“I was living a very simple life, working outside and cycling about 10km to get to work,” says Clare, who is a qualified nutritional therapist, and a member of the British Association of Nutritional Therapists. “We tend to live very static lives nowadays, often sitting for eight hours in an office and then getting into a car and driving home, and then sitting in front of a television.”

It was in some ways a similar existence to that of the wartime land girls, for whom Clare has immense admiration.

“I sometimes feel as if I’m a land girl who has been sent into the future to improve the nation’s health,” she says.

“One of my favourite books is The Land Girl – A Manual for Volunteers in the Women’s Land Army, which is what they would have been issued with when they joined.

“I would love to be able to meet some of the women who were land girls during the Second

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World War. I think they’re a great example to us all nowadays.”

For further information about the Eat For Victory approach to health and nutrition – or to read Clare’s blog about her experiences of eating according to the restrictions of rationing – go to: www.eatforvictory.co.uk Clare can also be contacted on 07786 928664

Know your rations The Eat For Victory approach that nutritionist Clare Millar is promoting will bring back memories of rationing to many who lived through the Second World War. Rationing was introduced by the Government during the Second World War in an attempt to cope with food shortages resulting from the German strategy of attacking shipping bound for Britain to restrict food imports and ultimately starve the nation into submission.

Permitted amounts of items under ration varied during the war. Clare Millar is basing her Eat For Victory approach on an adult weekly ration of 225g (8oz) of sugar; 50g (2oz) cheese; 50g (2oz) butter; 100g (4oz) bacon; 50g (2oz) tea; three pints of milk; one egg; and 3oz (85g) of sweets for children.

Clare says: “Nowadays there’s no need to restrict our diet to that degree, and I question some of the components of meals then, such as the heavy wheat and potato bias.

“Nowadays we know that a plate of food should have an amount of protein on it roughly equivalent to the palm of your hand, and twice that amount of protein for vegetarians.

“But we have much to learn from the wartime diet as an example of a more balanced approach to health.”

Clare Millar, who lives in Bristol, shows off her ‘lined stockings’ – 1940s’ style – she says: ‘I’ve had an interest in food, and in vintage fashions and music for about as long as I can remember’

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People Sophie Herdman

Salisbury-born David Mitchell, right, as Keith in Ambassadors with long-term comedy partner Robert Webb as Neil. ‘My parents would have been happier if I’d been an ambassador rather than a comedian’ says David

Mitchell and Webb are trying to explain what makes their double act work so well.

“I think we seem more different than we really are,” says David Mitchell, who was born and spent the early part of his childhood in Salisbury, Wiltshire. “You can’t have people who are really that different working together.”

The myth that the two friends are polar opposites – Mitchell a rule-lover, Robert Webb a rule-breaker – has been bolstered by hit comedy Peep Show, in which Mitchell plays law-loving geek Mark and Webb is drug-taking musician-wannabe Jeremy.

In real life, it’s clear the two are very different from those characters. Mitchell is confident and charming, looking dapper in a dark suit and sporting a beard, while Webb, today donning a pink shirt, his ginger hair receding, is relaxed and quieter than his partner. But they clearly have a lot in common.

“Generally I play the one who’s got his hands in his pockets, and David plays the one who hasn’t got his hands in his pockets,” Webb notes.

The pair have stuck to this rule for their latest show, comedy drama Ambassadors. At the outset, their characters do not seem a million miles away from their Peep Show counterparts. Mitchell plays Keith, a British ambassador sent out to Tazbekistan (a fiction-

al ex-Soviet “stan”), who likes to play by the rules and impress the big bods in London.

Webb is Neil, Keith’s deputy, a man who values human rights, speaks the language of Tazbekistan and has integrated with the locals. But over time, the roles become more disparate.

“The key difference with a comedy drama is people are allowed to be competent or even good at their jobs,” says Mitchell, 39. “Yes, I got to play someone with a brain,” adds Webb, 41.

For sitcom Peep Show, the pair were never required to do any homework. “We didn’t have to research what it was like hanging around in London with no money,” Webb points out.

But for Ambassadors, they spent an evening in the Foreign Office with real ambassadors and, much to history buff Mitchell’s delight, did their first read-through of the script in a room where an important 19th-century treaty was signed.

The duo discovered a new-found respect for the diplomatic corps. “They were quietly impressive people who have a terrific sense of humour – we left feeling quite relieved that these were the people we were representing,” says Webb.

But it’s a job that neither Mitchell nor Webb feel they could do themselves. “My parents

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would have been happier if I’d been aspiring to be an ambassador rather than a comedian,” says Mitchell.

“But I don’t think I’d have had the patience to deal constantly with insoluble problems.

The great thing about making television and theatre shows is they’re short-term issues – you try to tell a story and make people laugh, you either succeed, fail or do somewhere in between, then you walk away. Unfortunately the Middle East situation isn’t like that.”

Webb reckons education would have been his calling if he hadn’t gone down the comedy route. “I would have been a deeply underwhelming and not very impressive English teacher for a few years, before stopping and doing something else,” he says.

If, by some odd turn of events, they did end up as ambassadors, Webb says he would like to be posted to America, while Mitchell would choose Paris.

“I speak American and we’re allies so it should be OK,” says Webb, while Mitchell notes: “You’d have a nice social life in the British Embassy in Washington. You’d be honorary high society.

“And the same goes for Paris. The other advantage with France is it’s quite close to Britain. One of the reasons I wouldn’t have made a good diplomat is I quite like the idea of remaining in Britain.” To which Webb adds: “Me too.”

The pair met at Cambridge University during preparation for a pantomime put on by the Footlights, the famous Cambridge comedy troupe, although they can’t agree if they met during auditions or after. Whatever, Webb says Mitchell “made a mental note that I meant business”.

They never really considered stand-up.

Having grown up with Blackadder and Monty Python, comedy meant sketches. “For which you need two people,” Webb points out.

“Exactly, and the smallest amount of people who can do a sketch show is two,” says Mitchell. And so the pair formed a double act.

They started at the Edinburgh Fringe and went on to write for shows such as Big Train and Armstrong and Miller.

Their big break came in 2000 when their sketch show Bruiser was shown on the BBC. By the following year they had a new sketch show, The Mitchell And Webb Situation, on Play UK, which was later turned into a BBC Radio 4 show, That Mitchell And Webb Sound, which was followed by That Mitchell And Webb Look back on television, but this time on the BBC. They also appeared on the big screen in 2007 film Magicians.

In between, in 2003, the pair first appeared in Peep Show, written by Sam Bain and Jesse Ar mstrong.

Unfortunately for fans of the sitcom, it is taking an indefinite break after the upcoming ninth series.

Webb says: “I feel a mixture of sadness and...”

“Rage,” butts in Mitchell, joking. “No, I think we feel sad and old. We’ve loved doing it but we’re getting a bit old to play people who realistically share that life together,” Webb adds.

They haven’t seen a script for the next series and have no idea when it will be shooting, but say it’s not necessarily the end for Mark and Jez. “They might come back later on down the line, they’re not going to be killed,” Webb points out.

Other future projects for Mitchell include a novel, which was originally set to be published this year.

“I can exclusively reveal that a novel of mine will not be published in 2013,” he admits, adding that he’s not written a syllable.

Novels, autobiographies, nine-series sitcoms, hobnobbing with ambassadors – it’s all a long way from the penniless days of Edinburgh Fringe.

“It’s a constant pleasure to keep that in mind,” says Webb. “It makes you grateful for what’s happened since.”

But, while those days might have been tough, Mitchell adds: “It was always preferable to a proper job.”

Ambassadors is on BBC2 on Wednesday

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People Helen Blow

Holly Thomas never dreamed she would be part of the Downton Abbey cast.

The aspiring actress moved from Cheltenham to London and, within less than a year, she was part of Julian Fellowes’ costume drama.

Armed with a background in school plays and a performing arts degree, Holly was soon rubbing shoulders with the likes of Dame Maggie Smith and Jim Carter.

A former Cheltenham College pupil, she spent six months on the set and appeared in two series as Madge, maid to Lady Edith.

“It was an amazing experience – I couldn’t believe it when I got the job,” said Holly, 27, who was born and bred in Cheltenham and whose family still lives there.

“My agent called to say they were looking for housemaids for Downton Abbey and would I be interested. I jumped at the chance!

“I didn’t even need to audition as they offered me the job just from my photograph because of my natural look.

“I had to be fitted with my costume which included hideous tight corsets and I appear without any make-up, which isn’t so good.

“But I had the most amazing time and met all the main characters, who were all very nice and made me feel very much welcomed into the cast.”

Holly has now finished filming but she said she will always be proud to be part of one of Britain’s best-loved drama series.

“I got on particularly well with Brendan Coyle, who plays Mr Bates, the valet, and he told me never to give up on my dreams of being an actor and to keep going no matter what,” she said.

“He’s my favourite character and he turned out to be as nice a person in real life as his character.”

Holly was also singled out by the redoubtable Dame Maggie Smith for a particular act of kindness.

“I was standing around, waiting to go on and she told one of the runners to go and get me a chair so I could sit down.

Holly Thomas with Downton Abbey actor Brendan Coyle who plays Bates, she says: ‘I was really just an extra and didn’t have any lines but it didn’t matter, you were treated just the same’

“She said ‘you poor thing, you can’t stand all the time’. She was very kind.”

Holly said the atmosphere on the set was always very good, with everyone helping each other out.

“Everyone, cast and crew, were always very supportive,” she said. “I was really just an extra and didn’t have any lines but it didn’t matter, you were treated just the same and they really looked after you.”

And she supported the decision to include the controversial rape scene in the show just a few weeks ago.

“It was really difficult because I knew about it before it was shown and I was really upset about what was going to happen to Anna Bates. Not because I disapproved of the story line but just because it’s an awful thing to happen to anyone.

“But that kind of thing must have happened quite often in those days and the woman wouldn’t have been able to talk about it, so it was a relevant story line to include and I thought they did it very sensitively.”

Holly got the acting bug while she was a pupil at Cheltenham College. She acted in school performances as much as she could.

“They were very good at encouraging me in acting as I wasn’t very academic,” said Holly, who went on to do a degree in performing arts at Chichester University.

“I came back home after that and worked at the Cheltenham Film Studios for a couple of years but then decided if I was ever going to get into acting I needed to move to London,” she said.

She started doing work as an extra, some theatre work and also appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe as Desdemona in a black comedy version of Othello.

“That was a really amazing experience and I loved acting in independent theatre on the London stage,” she said.

It was then that Downton Abbey came up and for the next six months, Holly mixed with the likes of Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery and Elizabeth McGovern, filming at Ealing Studios and Highclere Castle.

Since leaving Downton, Holly has worked on a new TV series called Mr Sloane, in which she plays the girlfriend of a ’70s thug and it will be shown on Sky next year.

“There’s no doubt that acting is very hard work as a career as there is so much competition in London,” she said.

“With reality TV it seems everyone wants to be famous these days but I don’t particularly want that, I just want to make a living out of acting.”

During her quiet times, Holly spends time as a presenter for fashion and catwalk shows and is currently presenting for next week’s Gloucester Style Festival.

She has also worked at London Fashion Week and Fashion First in London.

But her first love is acting and principally the stage.

“I would love to do more theatre work and my dream would be to work for the Royal Shakespeare Company,” she said.

“I would love to play one of his main female characters and particularly Emilia in Othello – this time an original version of the play rather than a comedy.

“I also love period dramas like Downton as you really get to become someone else living in a different age and that to me really is acting,” said Holly.

Downton Abbey is on ITV tomorrow

Cheltenham actress Holly Thomas landed a role in Downton Abbey less than a year after moving to London: ‘I jumped at the chance,’ says Holly, ‘I had the most amazing time and met all the main characters, who were all very nice and made me feel very much welcomed into the cast’

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 2013 WEST COUNTRY LIFE 9

Nature Liam Creedon

Bloodsuckers, vampires, witch-spirits, disembodied souls and omens of death.

It is fair to say that bats and moths have endured a decidedly mixed reputation down the ages. But for those few mist-shrouded days in late autumn, these creatures of the night command centre stage as the ghoulish stars of Hallowe’en. Images of bats in the moonlight and the flickerings of moths at the window sill are as much a part of All Hallows’ Eve as carved Jack O’Lantern pumpkins and dodgy skeleton costumes. But just how have these harmless and unobtrusive creatures developed such a devilish reputation?

The bad feeling may have something to do with the hours that bats and moths keep. Both have long aroused suspicion simply for being denizens of the dark; they emerge at dusk to carry out their secretive business behind our backs in the gloom. To make matters worse, bats are associated with the burial places of the dead – they actively seek out churches and graveyards, which offer fantastic roosting locations. But it was the publication of Bram Stoker’s gothic horror novel Dracula in 1897 that saw our perception of bats change forever.

The book did as much damage to the reputation of these tiny mammals as the film Jaws inflicted upon sharks in the 1970s. Stoker, inspired by breathless reports of newly discovered blood-sucking bats in South America,

linked the animals with the character of shape-shifting vampire Dracula. In the novel Dracula takes the form of a bat to fly and flicker menacingly at the window of an intended victim. From then on, bats would be viewed as villainous creatures of the night.

Abi Mcloughlin from the Bat Conservation Trust believes we should look beyond ghoulish preconceptions and instead appreciate their nocturnal navigation skills. She explains: “Bats emerge and feed at dusk – just as the sun goes down. The fact they can ‘see in the dark’, where human’s fear to tread may be responsible for their spooky reputation. In addition to their good eyesight, bats use sound to map their surroundings and help find prey in the gloom of evening, using echoes to the calls they make to build up a sound picture.

“There is definitely, something of the night about them but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. They scoop up insects that are active at dusk and perform spectacular pest control – one bat can munch 3,000 midges a night.”

But British bats have more pressing concerns than bad publicity. There are 17 resident breeding species in the UK and many have suffered long-term declines as key habitats and roosting sites disappear. Several species are easy to see and happily share our living

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spaces. The tiny pipistrelle can be spotted zigzagging across the early evening sky.

Daubenton’s bat lives near water and is also relatively common. The noctule, the UK’s largest bat, emerges early so can be seen before it gets dark. They have gingery fur and fly very high.

But while the majority of our bats are bedding down to hibernate, the bad-boy of British moths is gearing up for Hallowe’en.

The death’s-head hawk-moth could not be more sinister if it tried. Strikingly large, with a skull-like marking on its thorax and the ability to let out an eerie squeak, the moth was traditionally seen as an omen of death.

Fortunately for those with a weak disposition, the death’s-head is rare; only a handful flutter over from the Continent each autumn.

Despite this scarcity though, its sinister reputation has haunted literature, art and folklore for generations. The death’s-head appears as a prophecy of doom in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native; its presence as an illadvised love token in William Holman Hunt’s 1851 painting The Hireling Shepherd hints of impending trouble between the young couple at the centre of the picture. But, most famously of all, the pupa of the moth is left as a grisly calling card by a serial killer in 1990s horror film The Silence of the Lambs.

Unlike bats, moths have long been beset with a sinister reputation. In Welsh folklore it was believed that dead witches’ souls left their bodies as moths. This spooky association lives on through moth names. The ghost moth earned its title through the haunting dance it performs at twilight. If you look closely at the upper wing of the Mother Shipton the hooknosed face of a witch stares back. The moth is named after a cave-dwelling prophetess – the witch of Knaresborough.

Sinister? No. Spooky? Possibly. But either way, creatures of the night are more fascinating than frightening.

For more information about bats or details of bat events at the Bats Conservation Trust in Bideford, North Devon, visit www.bats.org.uk

Bats may be creatures of the night but there’s really nothing to be scared of. The main image shows a pipistrelle and a brown long-eared bat; from the top, a greater horseshoe bat hangs in a cave; a rare grey long-eared bat in flight; the sweet-looking face of a brown long-eared bat; a handful of pipistrelles; the sinister-named death’s-head hawk-moth

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Retirement dreaming?

Wake up to the benefits of renting at The Hawthorns FINDING a practical solution which matches the quality of your retirement living dream may be easier said than done – and renting may not automatically spring to the top of your list of possible solutions.

However, increasing numbers of UK retirees are discovering what their counterparts in America and Australia found out a few years back – that renting your retirement home offers many advantages over continued property ownership.

Even more are discovering how you can continue to benefit from both!

The Hawthorns Retirement has brought its highly successful American formula for retirement living to the UK at Eastbourne, Clevedon and Braintree. These developments, in a nutshell, offer you continued independent living, none of the worries of home ownership and total flexibility to change your lifestyle at a month’s notice should circumstances dictate. And all this is achieved by renting your retirement home at The Hawthorns.

Your monthly rental includes all your many monthly expenses including all your meals and snacks, utility bills, housekeeping, maintenance – even a free mini-bus to take you to the shops and back. If you sit down and calculate what you are spending on all those items living in your own home, the rental fees appears very reasonable indeed.

As well as the financial argument, life at The Hawthorns offers the added benefits of security, companionship and the flexibility of handing in just one month’s notice of your decision to leave.

Whilst many residents fund this idyllic retirement lifestyle from the proceeds of the sale of their home, many others opt to rent out their own property and fund their new-found lifestyle from the rental income, maintaining their property as part of their estate.

Either way, they enjoy to the full the many benefits of renting, namely: •The freedom to live in new areas or change accommodation as desired •The ability to easily move closer to friends or family members •A lifestyle free from property and ground maintenance and the stress of everyday bills •Enjoying the benefits of quality accommodation more suited to their needs with live-in managers.

So whilst home ownership may be central to our traditional aspirations, it’s not necessarily central to the great retirement dream. Maybe you should wake up to the benefits of renting!

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 2013 WEST COUNTRY LIFE 11

Food Chris Rundle

Every so often – thankfully not that often – I awake, sweating, from a nightmare. And it all goes back to my grandfather’s bike.

In this dream, you see, I am being propelled down a steep incline on some kind of conveyance. There is nothing in front of me. Nothing to protect me. I am totally exposed to whatever we choose to collide with, whether a tree, a car, or a brick wall.

And I know precisely what it all stems from: the days when I was very young and my grandfather used to plonk me in the front carrier of his big old delivery bike – the space normally occupied by his sweep’s brushes – and cycle off to his allotment.

It was only about half a mile from his house, but to get there involved a long, gentle climb and a short, somewhat steeper descent, at the end of which he would swoop in a semi-circle, pull up opposite the allotments gate and decant me.

Little did he know what an imprint that terrifying ride would have on my subconscious, what nocturnal terrors would arise years, decades, later to haunt me. Only once, since, have I experienced anything of the kind and that was on Madeira.

Madeiran farmers used to load up wicker sledges with their produce and career down the mountainside to the market in Funchal.

These days the whole business has been turned into a lucrative tourist trap, with visitors seated on wicker sofas and, in return for a fistful of euros, propelled down gradients of one in four by a couple of the farmers’ descendants.

It’s grandfather’s bike all over again: there is nothing in front of you that is going to offer any kind of protection in the event of a mishap.

As you round the first corner and get a glimpse of the road suddenly pitching down at a frightening angle they station a photographer in the hedge to capture your expression, the results, thanks to some miraculously speedy technology, being flogged to you as you clamber off the sofa and offer a quiet prayer of gratitude just over a minute later.

I have kept my photo locked away. It is not a sight I should like children to witness. My expression is that of a man who has attempted to run out of his house to escape an alligator only to encounter a crazed, blood-stained axe murderer on the doorstep.

Back to grandfather, who grew the most fabulous vegetables on his allotment. Nothing fancy: no kohl rabi, or artichokes or cavallo nero. Just the root vegetables, brassicas, onions and beans that formed the basis of the modest but extremely nourishing diet he and my grandmother enjoyed in the rather modest cottage where they raised eight children.

One of the economic meals she would regularly produce was pig’s tail soup.

If I can explain: in the days before the arrival of intensive farming, pigs had long, curly tails which the butcher would sell you for a couple of pence. Chopped into segments and married up with split peas, onions and some root vegetables a tail could be transformed into a full-flavoured, satisfying soup.

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Fair enough, the dish would not have a huge meat content, but in grandma’s day (when even chicken was an annual treat) that was nothing unusual.

Occasionally there would be enough in the kitty to substitute a couple of trotters for the tail. Special occasions allowed another upwards move towards the porky Plimsoll line above which all the expensive cuts are found and it would be a ham hock.

I still make it. It still has that magical filling, warming effect. It’s a quintessential autumn dish, one that would be served up soon after the family pig had been killed and most of it salted away for the winter or turned into sausages.

All the seasonality has long since disappeared from the pig world but there’s no better way to prevent the chillier nights of autumn getting to you. Ham hocks are cheap and easily sourced and with the last of the parsley and the first of the walnuts you can cook up a stunning terrine, too.

Ham hock and split pea soup Ingredients for four to six Two ham hocks; three large onions, three large carrots, one large parsnip all roughly chopped; 500g yellow split peas; water; salt; white pepper

Method

Place the hocks in a very large saucepan and add the vegetables and peas with just enough cold water to cover everything by about an inch. Bring to the boil, skimming off any impurities, turn down the heat and cook at a gentle simmer for about an hour and a half, stirring occasionally, by which time the peas will have broken down completely and thickened the soup.

Remove the hocks, skin, cut the meat into chunks and return to the pan. Adjust the seasoning and serve.

Ham hock terrine with walnuts and gherkins Ingredients Two large ham hocks; two cloves of garlic; one large onion; one large carrot; one stick of celery; bouquet garni of thyme, bay leaves and parsley; 200ml cider; large double handful of finely chopped parsley’ 120g fresh walnut halves, roughly chopped’ about 20 cornichons sliced into ¼in rings; sea salt; freshly ground black pepper

Method

Place the hocks, vegetables, bouquet garni and cider in a pan, add just enough water to cover the meat, bring to the boil, cover and simmer for two hours.

Remove the hocks, cut away the rind, pull the meat off the bones (reserve these for flavouring soups) and chop it coarsely. Transfer to a bowl, add the sliced cornichons and the walnuts and season with plenty of salt and pepper.

Take a pint of the cooking liquid and reduce by half over a high heat, adding the reduction to the meat mixture and stirring well.

Line a loaf tin with cling film, allowing a generous overlap, pile in the mixture and press well down making sure there are no air pockets. Wrap the cling film over the top, cover with foil and refrigerate for 24 hours.

To serve, stand the tin in hot water for half a minute and either lift the terrine out with the cling film or invert onto a plate. Cut into thick slices and serve with French mustard and crusty bread.

Making ham hock and split pea soup and ham hock terrine is pretty straightforward with some simple ingredients

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Eating out Jonathan Whiley

Sitting here, part of me expects Jeremy Clarkson to walk in at any moment.

CHEESE, PLEASE Adam Bishop, from Bradford on Avon, in Wiltshire, has a range of cheeses to choose from as a deli trader selling at Corsham Market every Tuesday, Trowbridge on Wednesday, Calne on Friday and Chippenham on Saturday PICTURE: CLARE GREEN PICTURE: FRAN STOTHARD

I imagine he’d be wearing a sporting tweed, naturally, and carrying a dead woodland animal over his shoulder.

In my head he plonks said animal on the table, mutters something about lack of parking and squeezes his ego through the door frame, ushering the deceased beast towards the kitchen. After all, I’m in the Cotswolds.

In reality, two high-flying lawyers – the tables are within eavesdropping range – are among our fellow diners at the cosy cottage of the Michelin-starred restaurant that is 5 North Street in Winchcombe.

There’s something about this ancient town – within touching distance of celebrity Cotswold clientele – that seduces you. I’m talking comforting, reliable, cosy love rather than racy one-night stand. More the lady who nibbles Green & Black’s than the one who devours 50 Shades of Grey.

Venturing into this tiny restaurant of 28-cover capacity, feels much like crossing the threshold of someone’s front room. Which, in a sense, it is. Kate Ashenford owns and runs the restaurant with her husband, head chef Marcus (Gus), after they met as students at catering college in Cheltenham.

A decade has passed since they fulfilled a joint ambition of running their own restaurant, which has proudly held on to its Michelin accolade ever since.

It’s a devilish thing the Michelin star; conjuring up connotations of stuffy emotionless dwellings, waiters that buzz round you like flies you don’t have the heart to swot and a menu that reads like a travel magazine.

North Street is anything but. On the night we dine, Kate is running the front of house by herself, pottering around dark highly polished tables, within fiery terracotta walls and below low wooden beams.

Before long our complimentary pre-starter arrives – a re-invention of the classic Welsh rarebit with more cheese than a Hugh Grant movie.

The ale-infused mixture is pepped up by a generous measure of mustard and the tang of rhubarb chutney which sits underneath, proves moreish.

Two dainty little loaves of bread – still warm from the oven – were next to arrive, one intensely savoury from toasted sesame seeds and another leaning on the sweeter side with walnut and apricot.

A tiny ceramic cup of roasted tomato soup followed, the bite of smoky paprika and vibrant chive oil proving a heady sweet combination.

But I was on a collision course with a starter of Gloucester Old Spot; a generous square of crisp caramelised pork belly yielding beautifully tender sweet meat.

Two pieces of Cornish langoustine tried to steal the show – it was a reasonable effort – but the pork, served with both tart apple puree and creamy cauliflower, was of Oscar-winning proportions.

My girlfriend ate an equally well-presented starter of ethically produced soft foie gras encased by a ballotine of rich rabbit.

The acidity of pineapple chutney – an unusual addition but one that worked well – helped cut through the maple-glazed wings, echoing the natural sweetness of the tender meat. A side of cep brioche – think malt loaf – was a subtle, if uninspiring footnote.

Another glass of intensely fruity Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire region and the mains presented themselves.

Slices of seared rare breed sirloin of beef

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fanned themselves invitingly. But for all the precision and perfection of the cooking; a perfect medium rare; it was lacking in the smack of rich farmyard animal I’ve come to know and love.

The slow-cooked fibrous, wondrous cheek more than made up for it mind; refined comfort food at its absolute best.

Served with confit carrot, crisp shards of artichoke and a generous portion of jus, it was a tasty, if unremarkable dish.

On the other side of the table, roasted turbot (cooked well, holding its texture), smoked shrimp gnocchi (light, fluffy) and Vale of Evesham vegetables in the form of broad beans and lettuce (sweet, vibrant) with the saltiness of bacon and freshness of mint, meant my girlfriend was unbearably smug.

There are a trio of set three-course menus to choose from and you can mix and match accordingly which meant dessert, sticky

It’s ‘warm and comforting’ at 5 North Street toffee sponge, an all-time favourite, was heading my way.

My sweet tooth has lovingly devoured many, but this was among the best. Served with a ball of silky smooth creamy Guinness ice cream, chunks of fresh pineapple and a salted caramel tuile with popping candy, they had, in the words of Louis Walsh, nailed it.

The chocolate delice was just as good; the thin layer of mango jelly and passion fruit sorbet tempering the rich dark chocolate beautifully.

Filled with merriment – that dastardly wine – we agreed that it was an evening not of gastronomic innovation; but of warm, comforting, impeccably cooked food lacking any of the cliched pretentiousness so often associated with Michelin.

When food is as good as this, it doesn’t need a travel magazine as a menu. It speaks for itself.

Venue 5 North Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, GL54 5LH Contact 01242 604566 Price range Set three-course dinner menus at £41, £46 and £50

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Food Andy Welch

‘Remember, remember, the fifth of November.

Gunpowder, treason and plot’ – it seems we’ve never forgotten Guy Fawkes’s plan.

Just as we’ve never forgotten the old rhyme about the foiled plot to blow up the Houses Of Parliament.

It might have happened in 1605 but, year after year, people all over the country go out, whatever the weather, to watch bonfires and firework displays.

Judging by the number of food traditions associated with the event, it’s not just rockets, Catherine wheels and sparklers that keep people coming back for more.

By the time November comes around, the clocks have gone back and the nights have drawn in. The weather has normally taken a turn for the worse, too, providing the perfect excuse to wrap up in a scarf, hat and gloves, and warm up with some delicious food.

If you’re heading to a display, there’ll no doubt be burger vans and hot dog stalls, the sweet onion smell filling the air across the field, making them extra irresistible.

If you want to recreate these at home, by the way, slice some onions a few millimetres thick and cook over a low heat for around half an hour, stirring just enough to make sure they don’t take on much colour. You can add a little brown sugar to bring out the sweetness too.

It wouldn’t be Bonfire Night without some toffee, which you can buy just about anywhere, or have a go at making your own. Melt 450g of soft brown sugar and 350g of salted butter with a teaspoon of malt vinegar and 150ml of water in a large saucepan and bring to the boil.

It’s done when it reaches 130C or, if you don’t have a sugar thermometer, drop a little from a spoon into a saucer of cold water and it’ll set immediately when it’s ready. It should take around 10 minutes to reach the right stage.

Place the mixture into a greased, shallow tray around 19cm square. Put it in the fridge and you’ll have delicious toffee to take to the bonfire with you.

Toffee apples are also a traditional treat on November 5 and can be made very easily at home a few days in advance. Place ten Granny Smith apples in a pan of boiling water for around 20 seconds. This will get rid of any wax on the apples that might stop the toffee sticking. Remove, twist off any stalks and dry thoroughly.

Then, place 400g caster sugar and 100ml of water in a large pan and heat until the sugar dissolves. Add four tablespoons of syrup and a teaspoon of malt vinegar and bring to a temperature of 140C. As with the toffee, you can test this with a teaspoon and a saucer of water if you don’t have a thermometer. This toffee should set immediately and go brittle.

Put skewers or lolly sticks in your apples and dip into the mixture. Lift up, twist, let some excess drip away and place on a sheet of baking parchment or greaseproof paper to harden.

Finally, if you want to take a warm drink with you, crush the seeds from five or six cardamom pods in a pestle and mortar, or underneath a heavy pan on a chopping board.

Add them to a cafetiere of your favourite coffee and a little sugar. Put in a flask and top up with warm milk. The perfect scented drink for a cold evening.

If you’re planning your own Bonfire Night party, here’s some grub to make it go with a bang...

Sausage and lentil traybake Ingredients for two to three (double or triple amounts for larger parties) Three small onions; six good-quality sausages (we used Toulouse); 2 x 250g pouch cooked Puy lentils; 3tblspns red wine vinegar; 3tblspns maple syrup

Method

Heat oven to 200C. Quarter the onions, leaving the root intact so they don’t fall apart during cooking.

Heat a griddle pan to high. Griddle the onions to char them, then remove and set aside.

Repeat with the sausages – you don’t need to cook them through at this point, just brown them.

Tip the lentils into a roasting tin and add any juices from the griddle pan, the vinegar and some seasoning, then toss together.

Arrange the onion wedges and sausages on top. Brush the sausages and onions with the maple syrup, and season the onions. Cook for 20 minutes, then serve.

Pear parkin pudding with custard

Want the perfect Hallowe’en pumkin? These Witches Wart Pumpkins, from Waitrose, £3, are crooked and bobbly, and grown for display. They are easy to carve and look brilliant hollowed out with a tealight inside

Ingredients for eight

(or use orange juice); 25g unsalted butter; 1tspn mixed spice; zest and juice of one lemon; four Bramley apples, about 800g, peeled, cored and cut into 1cm rings For the crumble: 125g plain flour; 100g unsalted butter; 50g light muscovado sugar; 3tblspns jumbo oats; 25g flaked almonds (or use any other nuts you like); custard or ice cream, to serve

200g porridge oats; 200g self-raising flour; 2tspns ground ginger; ½tsp salt; 175g treacle; 140g butter, plus extra for the dish and for dotting over; 140g light muscovado sugar, plus a bit more for sprinkling; two balls stem ginger from a jar, chopped, plus some of the syrup to serve; one large egg; 150ml milk; four ripe pears, peeled, stalks cut off, cored and halved; custard, to serve

Method

Method

Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Put everything for the apple layer, except the lemon juice and apples, into a bowl and then put in the microwave on high for one and a half minutes, or until the butter has melted and the sugar is syrupy.

Toss in the apples and lemon juice, then spoon into a medium baking dish, making sure that the dried fruit is evenly distributed.

Rub the flour and butter together, first into fine crumbs, but then keep on mixing them together until the mix starts to form bigger clumps and starts to resemble a rough biscuit dough.

Next, stir in the sugar, oats and almonds.

Scatter the crumble mixture over the fruit, and then cover with foil and bake for one hour, removing the foil for the final 30 minutes or so, until golden and bubbling.

Rest for 10 minutes, then serve with custard or ice cream.

Heat your oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Butter a 30 x 20cm baking dish.

Mix the first four ingredients together in a bowl.

Melt the treacle, butter and sugar together in a large saucepan, then stir in the dry ingredients, half of the chopped ginger, the egg and milk to make a smooth batter.

Spoon into the baking dish, then sit the pear halves in the batter.

Dot more butter over each pear half and sprinkle with a little more sugar. Bake for one hour until risen all over and a skewer inserted into the middle of the pudding comes out clean.

To serve, scatter the rest of the ginger over the fruit, then drizzle all over with syrup from the jar. Serve in rectangles with custard.

Baked apple and toffee crumble Ingredients for six For the apples: 100g raisins; 100g pitted soft dates, snipped into small pieces with scissors; 85g light muscovado sugar; 3tblspns dark rum

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Sweet and warming – pear parkin pudding with custard

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Foodie treat Mark Taylor Recipes are only as good as their ingredients, particularly when it comes to meat. That’s why having a good understanding of how to select, cut, and cook meat makes all the difference to the final taste.

The appropriately named new book Great Meat is written by Dave Kelly, head butcher at Ruby & White butchers on Whiteladies Road, in Bristol.

In the book, Kelly debunks the myths and misinformation around selecting and cooking meat and offers up valuable information to meat lovers and home cooks who want to learn new and different techniques to create great dishes.

This comprehensive guide to meat takes you through the technical aspects of choosing cuts of beef, lamb, pork, poultry and game, for specific purposes, while providing recipes along the way that will help you try out your newfound techniques.

Great Meat by Dave Kelly is published by Fair Winds Press at £17.99

English roast beef with Yorkshire pudding Ingredients for six to eight

For the roast beef: 2.7kg bone-in rib of beef; three to four ribs in total; salt and black pepper; 1tblspn dry mustard powder; two small onions, peeled and halved; three carrots, peeled and halved; 1tblspn all-purpose flour For the Yorkshire puddings: 475 ml (2 cups) flour; 475 ml (2 cups) milk; 475 ml (2 cups) beaten eggs

Method

Preheat oven as high as it will go – ideally 450F (230C). Rub the mustard, salt, and pepper over the meat. Put the onions and carrots into a

Delicious and easy-to-make Bonfire Night food sausage and lentil traybake, above; baked apple and toffee crumble, top

Comfort food Rosa Mashiter You will have seen those big fat brilliant orange pumpkins in the shops all ready for Hallowe’en.

I will be bracing myself for the “trick or treat” ring on the doorbell on the 31st of the month, and when the local children arrive all dressed up as witches and ghosts I find the best way to deal with it is to “treat” and I fill a bowl or basket with clementines (healthy) and sweets and chocolates (not so healthy) in readiness.

I have wondered though why it is we adults do not seem to celebrate Hallowe’en in some way. So, this year, why not do something for the adults as well and celebrate with a fun “adults only” supper with some comforting flavoursome food that can be as simple as soup and crusty bread, or you might prefer a casserole with a Hallowe’en twist...

Pumpkin and tomato soup Ingredients for six to eight 1tblspn olive oil; one large onion; two cloves garlic; 2tspns paprika; 750g chopped pumpkin; two medium sized peeled and cooked potatoes; 1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes; one litre vegetable stock; bouquet garni; ½tspn sugar

Method Peel and chop the onion and garlic. Cut the potatoes into small chunks.

Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan and fry the onion and garlic until the onion has softened but not browned. Stir in the paprika, chopped pumpkin and potatoes and sauté for two to three minutes. Add the chopped tomatoes, stock, bouquet garni and sugar and stir well to mix before bring slowly to the boil.

Cover the pan, lower the heat and allow to simmer for about half an hour or until the vegetables are tender. Remove from the heat and allow to cool a little, then remove the bouquet garni and pour into a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Return the soup to a clean pan and heat through gently. Serve in warm bowls and spoon a dollop of soured cream on the top of each serving, and bread.

Hallowe’en lamb casserole Ingredients for six to eight 1.5kg diced lamb; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 6tblspns olive oil; three onions; two to three fat cloves garlic; 350ml ale; 450ml hot lamb stock; 1tblspn soft brown sugar; 1tblspn Worcester sauce; 1tblspn tomato puree; 1tspn dried thyme; 1tspn dried oregano; 3tblspns plain flour; 3tblspns butter; one large French stick; 2tblspns wholegrain mustard; 125g grated Mature Cheddar cheese; four pitted black olives

finely chop the garlic. Heat the oil in a large saucepan and cook the lamb in batches for four to five minutes each until browned, once browned remove with a slotted spoon and set aside. Add the onions to the pan and cook for about five minutes until soft but only lightly browned.

Return the lamb to the pan and add the ale, stock, sugar, Worcester sauce, tomato puree and herbs, mixing well. Stir well and bring to the boil, then reduce the heat, cover the pan and allow to simmer, very gently for two hours.

Soften the butter and put into a bowl together with the flour and blend together to form a paste. Whisk small pieces of the paste into the lamb mixture and cook for a further two – three minutes until thickened.

Preheat the oven to 180C (Gas mark 4) .

Spoon the lamb mixture into a large shallow ovenproof dish and keep warm in the oven.

Slice the French stick into about 20 thin slices and toast lightly on both sides. Spread the bread with the mustard.

Remove the lamb from the oven and arrange the bread slices in an attractive pattern on the top, mustard side up.

Scatter over the grated cheese and return to the oven for about 20 minutes.

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Who could resist the classic Sunday lunch dish of roast beef and Yorkshire puddings? roasting pan with the meat. Roast for 20 minutes.

Turn oven down to 350F (180C). Roast beef for 15 minutes per pound (450g) for rare; add 15 minutes to the total cooking time for mediumrare, 25 minutes for medium, and 35 minutes for well-done. Check the beef regularly, basting at the same time. If the meat feels soft, it is rare. Medium-rare meat feels fairly firm when prodded in the centre. Allow cooked meat to rest, covered, for 30–60 minutes. Pour the cooking juices into a bowl, allow to settle, then skim off most of the fat and reserve.

For the gravy, pour one tablespoon reserved fat back into roasting pan with carrots and onions. Stir in one tablespoon flour. Heat gently, stirring, for one minute, then add reserved pan juices and juices from rested meat. Cook, stirring, until smooth and thick.

Serve with the beef, Yorkshire puddings and steamed seasonal vegetables.

For the Yorkshire puddings: Mix batter until smooth, then rest it for one hour.

While the beef rests, pour the beef fat into a baking pan or muffin pans — add extra oil if there is not much. Heat the pan at 450F (230C) until smoking. Add the batter and bake for 10–20 minutes to set. Open the oven briefly to release steam. Bake again for 10 minutes at 350F (180C).

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Absolute Corkers Ned Halley

Watering hole The Carriers, Stockton Ned Halley A superb mild, memorable chips and a ray of sunshine

The Mediterranean vineyards of France are a rich source for current supermarket wine bargains

The supermarkets are warming up for a spate of special offers.

And they’re on some pretty good wines too.

Here’s an autumn round-up of the best deals from the four leading names, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose. For the first three, I have concentrated on own-label wines – reliably the most-interesting buys these days – but the Waitrose bargains are all brands.

Asda calls its periodical bargains “rollbacks” for reasons I cannot entirely fathom.

There are three particularly good own-label deals among the current crop, which all continue until November 11.

Asda Extra Special Pouilly-Fumé 2012 is down from £10.75 to £9. This is a classic sauvignon blanc from France’s Loire Valley, nettly, diamond-bright, river fresh and burbling with grassy fruit.

Asda Extra Special Corbières 2011 reduced from £6.97 to £5, is an unusually sophisticated red from an appellation of Mediterranean France better for robust and rustic flavour.

Asda Extra Special Cabernet Sauvignon 2011 cut from £7.25 to £5.00 is an impressively deeppurple Languedoc red, juicy-minty plush blackcurrant Cabernet is gently gripping, with 14 per cent alcohol.

Among a vast number of wines on discount in Sainsbury’s, I’ve picked out five own-label names, all from either France or Italy. All these offers continue until November 5.

Sainsbury’s Winemaker’s Selection Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2011 at £5.99 is at two bottles for £10. The cheerfully gaudy heraldic label on this central-Italian red draws the eye to a decent bouncing strawberry-juicy hedgerow fruit, finishing brisk with a citrus twang.

Sainsbury’s Winemaker’s Selection Tuscan Red 2011 at £6.99 is usefully reduced at two bottles for £10. The snazzy label reveals a sort of Chianti understudy with perky dark-cherry fruit.

Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Barbaresco 2009 is reduced, again, from £9.99 to £7.49.

Barbaresco is one of the prestige reds of the province of Piedmont and, by custom, outrageously expensive. This one might be generic, but it’s a cracker even at the full price let alone at a quarter off.

Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Languedoc Blanc 2012, reduced from £8.99 to £6.74, is a perennial favourite dry white of mine, this one a successful repeat of the superb 2011 vintage.

Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Pecorino Terre di Chieti 2012 comes down from £7.49 to £5.61.

Pecorino is the new (well, newly fashionable) cool grape variety from the Abruzzi of Adriatic Italy; this one has typical high colour and straight, fresh, tangy fruit.

Tesco have just relaunched their formidable “Finest” range of own-label wines and to mark the occasion are knocking 20 per cent off sixbottle cases of the lot of them online. To qualify you need to order at least two cases, which happens to qualify you for free next-day delivery (any order over £50).

Tesco Finest Côtes Catalanes Carignan 2012, from £6.99 to £5.49, is a spicy Pyrenean red with pitchy-purple colour and rich, concentrated briary fruit. Intensely delicious and ridiculously cheap.

Tesco Finest Picpoul de Pinet 2012 (£7.99 to £5.99) is my pick of the supermarket Picpouls this year, an attractively presented new vintage of the trendy Mediterranean holiday dry white; great oyster partner.

Tesco Finest Gavi 2012 (£7.99 to £5.99) is a dry white of very pale colour from Piedmont in Italy; it’s lush but keen and edgy, and will make a ritzy partner for grilled fish and other delicate flavours.

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Tesco Finest Domaine de Sours Rosé 2012 (£7.99 to £5.99) is a really interesting Bordeaux pink wine with a pale copper colour with blackcherry fruit from mainly merlot grapes; it has verve and freshness.

Tesco Finest Premier Cru Champagne Brut is down from £19.99 to £16.99. It’s still a lot of money, but if there’s a celebration coming up, it’s genuine value, by champagne standards.

These Waitrose offers continue only until Tuesday next week, the 29th. They’re all well worth seeking out.

Saumur Les Nivières 2011 (£8.49 to £6.79) is a bright, crunchily fresh and leafy Loire red from cabernet franc grapes, on top form for the umpteenth vintage in a row; ripe and juicy, it is extra-good with a gentle chill on it.

Masi Campofiorin 2009 (£12.49 to £9.99) is a long-established Verona brand, a sort of superValpolicella, including wine from part-dried grapes then oak-aged. The effect is a mellow, nutty, even raisiny dark velvet wine with notions of cloves and cinnamon.

Grão Vasco Dão 2009 (£7.99 to £6.39) comes from Portugal. It’s a defined and darkly intriguing midweight in the authentic Portuguese style made mainly from port grapes touriga nacional and tinta roriz grown in the reviving Dão region.

LaVis Vigneti di Montagna Pinot Grigio 2012 (£9.99 to £6.66) is well above the bog standard for Italian PG.From sub-alpine Trentino it’s generously coloured, ripe with crisp-apple fruit (bit of clove here too) and spice on the way to a tangy citrus finish.

San Leo Asti (£9.49 to £6.99) is a quality Asti “spumante” with honeyed rather than candied sweetness and an endearing freshness and liveliness. Jolly nice cake wine, and just seven per cent alcohol.

One of the ales in the Carriers was new to me.

Named Oscar Wilde, it was a dark, savoury mild of quite thrilling fruitiness, zest and balance, just 3.7 per cent alcohol, and – get this – winner of the Champion Beer of Britain award in 2011.

It’s a new beer to the Carriers too, imported from the Mighty Oak Brewery at Maldon in his native Essex by recently arrived landlord Mark Norton, who with partner Anna Hayden took over here just a few weeks ago. He’s done well for local ales, too.

On the day we popped in, there was a bitter from the Plain Ales brewery at Sutton Veny nearby in the Wylye Valley, and 6d Gold from the Sixpenny Brewery at Sixpenny Handley on Cranborne Chase, a little further afield in Dorset.

Stockton is a blissfully quiet sort of linear village, but just a couple of minutes from the A303, so I hope the pub will attract plenty of passing trade as well local custom.

The village, Mark told us, has been very supportive (the pub was closed between April and September after the previous management moved on), and it is certainly welcoming.

Mrs Halley and I were passing through en route east and pitched up just on 2pm, but there was no problem with a sandwich.

Ours were respectively smoked chicken (from the local smokery) and rare roast beef, each at £6.95 and very generously served. One would have been sufficient between us, and we had even ordered a side of chips (£2.50), which were hand-cut, crisp and exceptionally good.

Greed rewarded, and a pretty sure indication that the kitchen here knows what it’s doing.

The pub is a single large space plainly done out with a dozen or so tables ranged round the perimeter and plenty of standing room around the central serving counter. It has a good carpet and is noticeably well-maintained and clean. We were pleased to see a darts game in progress down one end. The sun was most obligingly slanting in through the low windows on this lunchtime, and we basked in the benevolent glow.

The Carriers has had a melancholy summer, but in the coming winter, I believe it will be a source of great comfort for customers from near and far.

Wine of the Week Parra Alta Chardonnay 2013, currently halved at Tesco from £10.99 to a very fair £5.49 is a crackingly good dry white from Argentina. It has an alluring lemon-gold colour, an aroma of ripe orchard fruits and a proper mouth-filling bunch of flavours, incorporating tropical tendencies, apricots and a note of brassica.

This is a very fresh wine from grapes harvested just six months ago. It’s made in the Andean region of Tupungato by the Argentinian branch of the Chilean giant Conchay Toro – a badge of dependable quality.

The Carriers, Stockton, Wiltshire BA12 0SQ

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Shopping Lisa Haynes

This mysterious look won’t cost a fortune from Tesco – Faux fur jacket, £40; lace body, £12; trousers, £20

Cooking & so Much More Come and see our selection of woodburning, gas and electric Esse range cookers on display, also available in oil, and with back boilers to heat your home.

We offer a full installation service We also have over 100 woodburning stoves on display along with wicker log baskets, companion sets, coal hods, spark guards, spares and accessories.

The high street is full of devilishly dark pieces this year to create that gothic vibe.

So there is no need to trawl the fancy dress shops for a Hallowe’en party frock or simply the latest “black” look to suit the chilly autumn days, as the nights draw in.

Bring on the dramatics with floaty fabrics that billow in the wind like Dracula’s cape, or channel Morticia Addams in alluring, bodyhugging lace.

Avoid scary extremes and your take on glamorous gothic will be all treat and no tricks. By choosing wickedly good staples, your outfit will go further than midnight on October 31. This is fashion for fright night and beyond...

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Sorry, but white witches just aren’t welcome at this season’s gothic party. Black is the only colour to covet.

An all-black look can be unforgiving but not

if you look for sheer, lace or cut-out velvet panelling to soften the intensity. If you prefer long sleeves and high necks for winter, this is the way to cover up but still expose a hint of skin. For daywear, try embracing the Hallowe’en spirit with cobweb-effect fine knits.

Texture is all-important with black – luxe matte fabrics are more gothic-appropriate, so seek out crushed velvets or silk crepe. Matte materials tend to be heavier, making them winter-friendly for LBDs, while also appearing to magically absorb light, making them an uber-slimming choice.

Up the glamour stakes with black lace, intricate beading or dramatic ruffles for afterdark.

Print hocus-pocus Gothic looks don’t have to mean top-to-toe black. Print is the accessible way to do goth by

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Shopping Eva Jones

We all require a little spice in our lives to feel good.

day. Thanks to designers like Mary Katrantzou, dark photographic woodland scenes are the modern means to inject some creepy couture into your look.

Stick to monochromatic prints or deep, moody hues like purple and navy that resemble a moonlit night.

Intricate baroque-style prints also fit the gothic brief if you stick to a cold colour palette and avoid the opulent gold and glitz reserved for Christmas dance floors.

For something more playful, bats are currently fashion’s nocturnal creature of choice.

Try a jumper with a statement bat motif or a repetitive bat print on a skirt or top and you’ll be flying high in the style stakes.

At home, the easiest way to do that is with an injection of colour – but not just any colour.

Orange, with its palette featuring shades associated with exotic sunsets and sultry settings, is the way to go. After all, the colour is credited with encouraging creativity and producing a reassuring sense of comfort – ideal at a time of year when we all need cosseting.

“Orange is such a versatile colour, yet many people are afraid of it because they think only of its more bold hues,” says Judy Smith, colour consultant for Crown Paints.

“But orange accents can bring warmth to a home, especially as the nights start to draw in and natural light fades.”

So ignore the gloomy, dull skies outside and lift your spirits with a shot of undiluted orange in eye-catching accessories or a full dose of the shade for a room scheme.

Accessory alchemy Ear cuffs are having a moment right now – just the one, mind – and if you want to experiment, Hallowe’en night is the perfect opportunity.

For statement neckwear, look to striking onyx black gems to set free your inner glamorous goth, or an oversized spider charm if you plan to freak out arachnophobics on your commute.

Veer into serious fright-night territory with more obvious accessories to turn your outfit up a notch for October 31. Go to town with elegant lace cat ears, ornate bat sunglasses and skeleton print leather gloves if you want to continue the devilish black vibe.

For a flash of brights against black, try a witchy green necklace or pumpkin orange mittens – check out ASOS.com for a wicked accessories edit.

Orange soother Muted, more sober tones of orange bring richness and a feeling of opulence to any setting, and won’t overwhelm a space.

“Burnished orange and copper shades are on-trend this year, and are particularly appropriate for this season,” says Liz Cann, design director of Sanderson and Zoffany. “Orange conjures a cosy atmosphere and teams wonderfully well with grey. Use the latter for walls and then choose orange and copper shades for upholstery fabrics, cushions and lamps.”

Zoffany is known for its mastery of pattern and colour. A rich orange Granada Copper fabric, £99 a metre, would team well with the deep gold of Stitch Damask, £99 a metre.

Double Harbour Grey paint, £35 for 2.5 litres of matt emulsion.

A foliage pattern Ambleside sofa in a rich red/orange colour, in Cowparsley Scarlet fabric, £1,799, MultiYork, would make a statement.

Styling sorcery The good news about the gothic trend is that you can go as spookily subtle or dramatic as you dare. Follow these styling tips for some twilight chic: ■ If you’re wearing all black, break up the gothic look with a flash of flesh. Keep either legs or arms/decolletage on show – and maybe get a cab to avoid the chill.

■ The right underwear is essential if you want to work black lace or sheer fabrics.

Unsightly strap marks and VPLs could turn the look into a horror story.

■ Don’t be afraid to mix up different blacks.

Working with different textures and tones will add interest to your look if you’re going top-totoe.

■ Nobody wants to look like they’re part of a funeral procession. Lighten up a gothic-heavy dark look with a contrasting bright bag or coat that you can leave on or off, depending on your mood.

■ Shoes will instantly transform your look.

For a witchy vibe, slip your feet into pointed toes, toughen up your look with ankle boots, or if you’re feeling really vampish, go with open toes and opt for a black or deep inky blue pedicure.

Orange punch The boldest, brightest shades are full of verve and the colour gives an instant injection of optimism.

“If you prefer a sleek finish and a modern style, pair orange with soft grey and white finishes like aluminium and lacquer. These will act as a cooling influence and give a fresh, crisp look,” says Judy Smith at Crown Paints.

“Orange gives rooms a lift and demonstrates that you’re confident in your taste.

Have fun with the colour, experiment and you’ll be surprised at the pleasing impact it has.”

Wallpaper Direct’s ‘By Lindholm’ paper, £35 a roll, shrieks “look at me” with its pink peony design on an orange background. Equally eyecatching is Crown’s Cuban Heat paint, matt emulsion, £13.99 for 1.25 litres, from Homebase, which would be a great candidate for a feature wall.

Fans of retro would find it hard to resist a swirly orange pattern mural; Joplin, from £19.80, at DigetexHome. Equally in keeping with the Fifties/Sixties theme is Magpie’s Backgammon china. Espresso set, £6.75; Backgammon board mug, £2.55.

Operation orange

Look stylish and classy in black with this merino and lace dress, £199; and snake print clutch, £75; both from Jaeger

Individual items in, you guessed it, zingy orange, can be an antidote to “room blues” which affect rooms that are overdue a revamp.

Make a room rock with a velvet tub chair in glowing orange Zinnia fabric, £445, Oliver Bonas, or get smart with a chair that doubles as a bed for guests. A Suku ottoman bed, in tangerine orange, £159, Made.com Accessorise a bathroom with luscious orange quick-drying Geo towels, £18 each, Best Bed Linen In The World, and enhance a “spa” atmosphere with orange patterned tealight holders, £9.95 each, Telling Tales.

Create a sense of warmth, comfort and brightness in the home by using the colour orange, clockwise from above, add a Conran Linnell Ceramic Table Lamp, £69, from Marks & Spencer, to a home; re-decorate with Inspired by Lindholm (flowers) £35 per roll wallpaperdirect and Leopold by Clarke & Clarke £42 per roll wallpaperdirect; kitchen crockery can look brighter with this Backgammon range Espresso set, £6.75; Backgammon board mug, £2.55; Circles mug, £2.55; ZigZag mug, £2.55; from Magpie; or light up the room with a Gisela Graham Hallowe’en Wax LED Candle, £6 each, from The Contemporary Home WCL-E01-S2

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Books Tina Rowe

Sampling stir-fried badger is just one of the duties undertaken

by Patrick Barkham.

This is all in Patrick’s exhaustive and enlightening foray into the English countryside in pursuit of that black and white conundrum, and notorious “movers of goalposts”.

Badgerlands, is subtitled The Twilight World of Britain’s Most Enigmatic Animal, and interviewees help to back up the claim. For almost every view, and many of the scientific claims, about badgers there always seems to be a counter view.

None of this would be a problem for the badger if it were not for the issue of bovine TB, growing through the last few decades of the 20th century and now a scourge which has cost the industry many millions, and put some farmers out of business.

Badgers, as carriers, have been public enemy number one in many farmers eyes for years. But is that fair? How much of the TB in cattle is caused by badgers? Will a cull work?

In criss-crossing the country to sit in farmers’ kitchens, meet scientists in offices and in the field, talk to people like Pauline Kidner, founder of Somerset’s Secret World wildlife rescue, and John Field of the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Barkham, gives us the fullest and most coherent picture to date.

No one knows how much of the TB that occurs in cattle is caused by badgers, despite decades of study. Chris Cheeseman, the biologist who set up the Government’s badger research station at Woodchester Park in the Cotswolds and studied the disease in badger for 25 years said: “The leading experts have a view – you can take an average and it is about 30 per cent.” Fellow scientist Tim Roper agreed, but added: “with a wry grimace, that the best scientific estimate was incredibly broad: ‘Anything between 15 and 75 per cent’.”

Knowledge of the size of the badger population is equally woolly, as the debacle over the numbers that needed to be killed in the current culls in West Somerset and West Gloucestershire show.

The original estimate was increased by Defra ahead of this year’s cull, and yet when cull numbers fell desperately short of those required to achieve a 70 per cent strike it was announced that the population had been seriously over-estimated. In West Somerset the population would have been entirely wiped out if it had reached its target.

But Barkham does not doubt farmers’ evid-

ence that numbers have increased dramatically over the years. Ironically it is farming practices that are partly the cause: “contemporary agriculture’s mix of earthworm-rich pasture and badger friendly crops such as maize means farmers are inadvertently farming badgers”.

Barkham’s grandmother, Jane Ratcliffe, was by his own admission obsessed with the creatures. “Much of her life was poured into rehabilitating wild animals. She nursed badgers back to health, gradually moving them from garage to artificial garden sett and then back into the wood. They ignited such passion that she wrote a book about them. It was called Through the Badger Gate and it read like a love letter to Bodger, her first badger.”

But by the time Barkham was born they had all gone back to the wild and the book opens with him walking a cold Mendip hillside near Wookey Hole, trying to get his first long look at a badger. He failed to see his quarry in Somerset, Devon, Gloucestershire, and the home counties. I will leave you to discover the place where he finally came face to face with one. It is a part of the world, which has suffered from almost as much adverse publicity as the badger, but maybe as a I was born only around 40 miles away I see it in a different light.

Barkham is a feature writer for the Guardian, who has reported on everything from the Iraq War to Climate Change.

His book is a summary of the current TBrelated scientific knowledge, a history of an animal which has been both persecuted villain and fictional hero, and an insight into public opinion during at an important moment in the TB debate.

He tasted badger at the home of celebrated cooker of roadkill, Jonathan McGown in Bournemouth. His verdict: “pungent, but not immediately repulsive”.

The book has been published just too early to deal with the alleged shambles of the population numbers, and the cull’s extension.

Looking back on his weeks following the cull as a journalist he says: “I found the lack of detailed information available really offensive as a taxpayer. There have been things that were damaging for both sides, people were demonising each other, and there was a feeling of suspicion and paranoia. I think it has made the situation worse.”

Journalist Patrick Barkham has written his badger book dealing with both sides of the arguments when it comes to the badger cull because of bovine TB, including public opinion and scientific knowledge, as well as a look at the history of this nocturnal animal.

Patrick says: ‘There have been things that were damaging for both sides, people were demonising each other’

Badgerlands The Twilight World of Britain’s Most Enigmatic Animal by Patrick Barkham, is published by Granta, £18.99

Books reviews Bridget Jones – Mad About The Boy by Helen Fielding is published in hardback by Jonathan Cape, priced £18.99 (ebook £7.20) Times may have changed, but Bridget Jones hasn’t. In the third eagerly anticipated instalment of her diaries, we find her older, though definitely not wiser.

She is now 51, with two children and a toyboy in tow.

While it is nice to have Bridget back, it feels like catching up with a friend you haven’t seen in years only to find them making the same gags and not that much fun any more.

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Cross and Burn by Val McDermid is published in hardback by Little, Brown, priced £16.99 (£8.49)

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb is published in hardback, priced £18.99 (ebook £7.49)

Fans of criminal psychologist Tony Hill and cop Carol Jordan will be delighted to see them pressed back into action in this, their eighth outing.

When we meet this time around, the devastating events of a previous investigation have left their private lives and careers in tatters.

As ever, McDermid’s gift for taking ordinary, everyday events and giving them a sinister twist, make for a truly gripping tale.

If this book was written by a 60-year-old politician it would be an impressive account of a remarkable life.

That it is the autobiography of a 16-year-old from Pakistan makes it all the more astonishing. Malala’s story is gripping, tragic and, at times, horrifying, and yet ultimately it is full of hope.

Her courage, stoicism and wisdom shine through.

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Books Hannah Stephenson

‘Just call me Sir David,’ says Sir David Jason, a twinkle in his eye, as the laughter begins.

The 73-year-old award-winning actor, whose credits read like a list of TV classics – Only Fools And Horses, Open All Hours, Darling Buds Of May, A Touch Of Frost, to name but a few – is in fine fettle as we meet to discuss his memoir, My Life.

There are too many amusing anecdotes to mention as he relives the fun he had with the late, great Ronnie Barker, who became his mentor and friend during his early days at the BBC, and his later escapades as the inimitable Del Boy alongside Nicholas Lyndhurst and Lennard Pearce. These, coupled with the scrapes he’s had while scuba diving – one of his favourite pastimes – and flying, all make for a riveting read.

Barker always saw Jason’s comic potential and wrote a number of parts with him in mind, including the hapless Granville in Open All Hours, a role Jason will be reprising in a Christmas special, along with Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, played by Lynda Baron. Filming starts in three weeks’ time.

“I always wondered what happened to Granville and thought that he might have taken over the shop – Roy Clarke [the writer] had the same thought,” says Jason.

“Of course, it will seem strange without Ronnie. I don’t believe I can stand up to his Arkwright but we are going to have Ronnie’s presence there. We refer to him all the time and his picture is there, looking down.”

They’re currently looking for a young actor to play Granville’s assistant – and Jason reveals that pop star Robbie Williams asked in jest if he might play the role.

“We did this interview with Robbie Williams, and he said, ‘I wouldn’t mind a part’ and I said, ‘All right, if you don’t mind being a walk-on’ and he said, ‘Yeah, I’d be a walk-on, or I could be Granville’s assistant!’ In a way, we couldn’t possibly do that. I mean, I wouldn’t stand a chance!”

For all his fame and fortune, Jason remains a private character living a quiet life away from the screen at his home in Buckinghamshire with his wife Gill Hinchcliffe, 20 years his junior, and their 12-year-old daughter, Sophie. He says theirs is not a celebrity lifestyle and on the odd occasion he and his wife find themselves on the red carpet, it’s generally not a comfortable experience.

“I’m normally clammy-palmed with a combination of fear and embarrassment, and we end up making a poorly disguised dash for it, rushing along the carpet, blinking blindly into the flashlights, hanging on to each other like a pair of silly old fogeys. I didn’t set out on this journey to chase fame. I chased success. I wanted to be better at my job than I was.”

He recalls being invited to watch tennis at Wimbledon one year and was relieved to see that Hollywood star Jack Nicholson was sitting in front of him.

“Gill and I thought, ‘Great, no question of us getting bothered here. People will be too busy bothering Jack’. Wrong. While Jack sat there, utterly untroubled, watching the tennis, a steady stream of well-wishers made their way along our row to say hello – to the point where, eventually, people around us felt obliged to intervene, ‘Leave the poor bloke alone’.

“Now, who’s the bigger star do you suppose?

Me or Jack Nicholson? Well, naturally, it’s Jack Nicholson. But he’s such a big star that there’s something slightly intimidating about him. People kept their distance. Whereas I’m Del, I’m Pop Larkin, I’m approachable.”

Of course, Only Fools And Horses remains the show for which Jason is most famous and

he recalls how the show raised his profile to new heights.

“When we walked out on the street, I would get people shouting, ‘Hello, Del Boy’, whereas Nick would get, ‘Rodney, you plonker!’ It was very difficult for him. I learned to live with it.”

His fame has impinged on his time with Sophie: he’s tried Legoland and Thorpe Park but is approached so much that it’s easier to stay at home or go to theatre matinees in the West End instead. “Anything with songs and ice cream is fine by us.”

He also opens up in the book about how he struggled when his girlfriend of 18 years, actress Myfanwy Talog, died of breast cancer in 1995.

“I didn’t cope very well,” he says. “I was very lucky that work helped me through it as a sort of therapy. When you’ve got to try to make people laugh, that bit [of your life] has to be put on the shelf because you’ve got to pretend that everything’s all right.”

Gill, who was a floor assistant at Yorkshire TV when they met, helped him cope with his grief. He became a father for the first time at the age of 61. “Sophie’s becoming a young person now. She’s very bright but when she was between four and seven was the funniest time. She used to make me laugh such a lot.

She’s very serious now. You girls, you’re an absolute pain!”

He was never worried about being an older dad, more about how his life would change.

“When I first discovered Gill was pregnant, that was the big worry. For three months after that I was wrestling with how it was going to change my life. There was a lot of heartsearching at first. But by that time my career was pretty firm. When I first started, I was footloose and fancy-free because I had to go where the work was. I’ve been very lucky.”

Looking back on his career, Jason says Ronnie Barker was a major influence and they worked together on such shows as Hark At Barker, Porridge and Open All Hours. Jason called him ‘The Guv’nor’.

“He taught me that you could be very famous but you don’t have to be a difficult, rotten so-and-so. The reputation of a lot of famous people was one of difficulty and Ronnie proved to me that if you enjoy what you’re doing, there’s no need to be difficult.”

He doesn’t see too many comic geniuses coming through, he confesses, because most of them swear too much.

“There’s a propensity in comics to swear. It’s the wrong road to take because it demeans the subtlety of the language and the performer.

“Have you ever heard anyone say to you, ‘I didn’t like that programme last night because they didn’t swear‘?”

He’s careful about the comedy he watches on TV because so often it’s not suitable viewing for his daughter, Sophie.

“James Corden is very good. [Michael] McIntyre is an absolute genius. He is brilliant and I love his work. We watch Strictly. I was asked to do that – no way, Pedro! Miranda’s good, my daughter loves that. We don’t watch EastEnders because it misses any sense of humour. There’s no light relief.”

While he clearly loves family life, Jason shows no signs of slowing down on the work front. He’s doing the voices for a series of new children’s cartoons on Five and has other projects in the pipeline. “How many people can say they wake up in the morning and look forward to spending the day at work? That’s been my life’s reward.” Lovely jubbly.

David Jason: My Life by David Jason is published by Century, priced £20

David Jason as DCI Jack Frost in a Touch of Frost with Kenneth Cope, above; and with Lennard Pearce and Nicholas Lyndhurst, above right, in Only Fools and Horses

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Books GF Newman

The cast from GFNewman’s The Corrupted which is currently being broadcast on Radio 4 - it’s the biggest ever drama commission the station has done, says the Wye Valley-based writer

I determined from an early age that I wanted to write, that I had something to say.

And what I had to say was about the sort of society we have in Britain.

My first book, Billy, was about cruelty to children. It was rejected by several publishers, and bought after publishing my second novel, Sir, You Bastard, which was about endemic corruption in the Metropolitan Police. Then my course was set. I was a writer who dealt with critical issues.

I like to think the writings of GFNewman have helped sharpen the cutting edge that has both shaped our pluralistic society and kept it better informed. Some of it has managed to enrage politicians and policemen; judges and prison officers; doctors and social workers, having exposed tardiness, indifference, incompetence and corruption. Not all are indifferent, incompetent or corrupt, but all are human, and like all humans, have that potentiality for those negative traits and a propensity for acting on them.

In the mid-70s I was asked by a BBC television producer if I would write a play about police corruption as I knew so much about it.

I wrote four in what was to become the epochmaking quartet Law and Order. This caused such a furore that politicians tabled questions in the House of Commons about the state of the criminal justice system, when government pressure was put on the BBC not to show the films again or sell them abroad. A well-known American producer said it was the best television drama ever made and took it to NBC where it formed the basis for the most successful television drama ever.

In 1982 the Attorney General warned the Royal Court Theatre management not to go ahead with the production of my first stage play, Operation Bad Apple, about a massive

investigation into police corruption inspired

by Operation: Countryman. The play went ahead and was a huge success, but an Old Bailey judge subsequently had to tell a jury in a police corruption trial not to see the play.

When I switched my attention to the medical professions with a close look at how hospitals functioned in the early ’80s, the result was a quartet of films for Channel 4 called The Nation’s Health. This caused another storm of controversy, health being something that most of us have some anxiety about. There were even threats from doctors, one of whom told me after a provocative lecture I had delivered at Oxford University, how he’d like me as his patient for two weeks!

Throughout the ’80s my novels speculated on J Edgar Hoover’s involvement in criminal acts, The List; the CIA’s involvement in the death of President Kennedy, The Men With The Guns (shortly to re-issue) and the British Gover nment’s “shoot to kill” policy in Northern Ireland, The Testing Ground.

In the early ’90s my novel, Circle of Poison, anticipated GM crops and their disastrous consequences.

But of course television has the most influence on public consciousness and so I was always drawn back to it. I wrote three political films, For The Greater Good, which Martin Shaw starred in. That was where we first met.

The dramas examined the doings of politicians and civil servants and found them wanting. Black and Blue was the first television film I both wrote and produced for the BBC, which in 1992 explored racism in the police force. This caused the sort of controversy that surprised even me. Perhaps as a result it was the most successful film in the season.

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And then a bomb-shell exploded. I was sued for plagiarism! We were four and a half weeks in court, with me having to pay all my own costs, where it was shown the claimant lied and altered details. Even his own barrister lost patience with him.

In 1999 I created, wrote and produced the 90minute pilot episode of a drama called Judge John Deed. This was based on that experience in the High Court and I modelled Deed on the very bright, young, good-looking judge.

Over the subsequent eight years I wrote and produced, through my company One-Eyed Dog, another 26 episodes in the series, having renewed my working relationship with Martin Shaw.

Novel-writing is where I started and it always holds a strong pull for me. Part of its attraction is that you speak directly to the reader, rather than having your words interpreted through actors for an audience. No matter how good they are, and I’ve worked with many fine actors, inevitably the words on their lips are not those in your head.

When I wrote my epic novel Crime and Punishment, I heard how it would play as an acted piece. It was the first of what is to be a trilogy chronicling a fictional history of crime from the Second World War to the present day.

Its ambition made it an unlikely candidate for television, but when Radio 4 offered me their biggest ever drama commission to tackle this, I jumped at it. Their only reservation was the title, concerned that listeners would think I was adapting some Russian’s work! Even if called GFNewman’s Crime and Punishment.

I’d foolishly ignored that concern the publisher had had. So it became GFNewman’s The Corrupted.

It was coincidental that at the time I was in the middle of Dark Heart, the first in a trilogy of novels looking at a number of current concerns in the Catholic Church. These are seen through the eyes of a radical Jesuit priest, Jake Mann, who is both a (hetro)sexual compulsive and an exorcist. He’s first gets into trouble in his teaching mission in Nigeria, where he goes against Big Oil, that is exploiting the people and the environment.

After challenging a sinister police captain, who is multi-possessed, Jake is forced to flee the country. He’s given a “poisoned chalice” of a parish in Bristol, where the previous incumbent accused of child-abuse has killed himself.

Here Jake is pursued by his own demons and those from other dimensions while he fights a rearguard action against his superiors who want the abuse scandal left unexplored.

Things just get worse for Jake, following a

PICTURE: BBC

series of savage and bizarre killings, when he finds himself as prime suspect.

Author profile GFNewman (I prefer GF or Gee) is a writer since 1970 when my books of endemic police corruption best-sold such as Sir, You Bastard; then I wrote Law and Order. I was living between Soho in London and West Cork at the time. I now live in the Wye Valley where I have my production company and I wrote all the episodes of my big TV series with Martin Shaw starring called Judge John Deed, a radical High Court judge who often took the side of the “little guy”. The series drew lots of complaints from vested interests. There I wrote Dark Heart, a novel about a Jesuit priest who’s both an exorcist and a sexual obsessive – he likes women.

GFNewman’s The Corrupted narrated by Ross Kemp is broadcast on BBC Radio Four on weekdays at 2.15pm. www.gfnewman.com

Known for penning the TV series Judge John Deed, Wye Valley writer GFNewman currently has a radio series and a new book out

Dark Heart by GFNewman is published as an ebook by One-Eyed Dog Books, priced £2.99, on November 4

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Travel Shereen Low

It’s almost 9pm, and people are starting to gather in Xianxia park in Shanghai’s Changning district.

Taking off their jackets, they limber up with stretching exercises: twisting, tilting and tur ning.

But this isn’t a flash mob of youngsters showing off the latest break-dancing moves; instead, the majority of these movers and shakers are over the age of 50.

Some locals use the dance sessions as a means of keeping fit and nimble while socialising, but some of the single men and widowers see the dances as a step-up to courtship.

When the music starts blaring from an iPod hooked up to a portable speaker, everyone grabs a partner and starts to dance. The couples move in unison, swinging and swaying as the music continues to play, ranging from recognisable Western classical tunes to old-school Chinese tracks.

This event takes place every night for around three hours without fail, even if the group leader is unable to make it.

Even though I decline offers to join in, this is certainly an experience I’ll never forget.

In the surrounding streets, late-night salons are still busy with customers, and the smell of delicious street food wafts from simple stalls.

But only a few blocks away, shiny new buildings are a sign that Shanghai, in east China, is a city that’s changing day by day.

Thanks to an economic boom, the largest city in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is growing at an exciting rate. With flights now servicing the destination with greater frequency (Cathay Pacific now fly to the former trading port via Hong Kong five times a day), tourist numbers are also set to rise.

But despite all the new developments, the city’s cultural core remains the same. For every fancy hair salon, there is a cheaper – and more basic – alternative next door, where 60 RMB (around £6.30) buys you a dry shampoo wash, cut, blow-dry, head and shoulder massage, a cup of tea and even ear wax removal (not for the sensitive).

And while Western practices are becoming more popular, locals still follow a very traditional Chinese way of life.

Away from the tourist centres of the Bund, Nanjing Road and Huaihai Road, at People’s Park in Huangpu, there are paper flyers advertising eligible bachelors and bachelorettes.

Parents are more than happy to “advertise” their child for a serious relationship and, hopefully, marriage at the Marriage Market, which takes place every Saturday and Sunday after noon.

The Chinese government still operates strict internet censorship controls – social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter are banned – so forget Instagram selfies and Facebook check-ins, and instead enjoy Shanghai the old-school way.

Start with the historical and beautiful Yu Garden, a haven of peace away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Built in 1559 as a private garden, during the reign of Ming Emperor Jiajing, it was declared a national monument in 1982. With stunning rock formations and intricate carvings, it’s a must for any visitor.

Surrounded by traditional shikumen (stone gate) houses, Xintiandi – which translates as “new heaven and earth” – was where the Communist Party of China first met in July 1921.

These homes have been redeveloped into an affluent area full of shops, eateries and bars, although history buffs can get their fill at the Museum of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

Likewise, the French Concession – the former settlement for the French in 1849 – has been turned into bars, restaurants and homes, frequented by expats and locals.

But I finish off my stay with a truly authentic Chinese massage experience at a local salon in the Changning district. This no-frills, hour-long treatment, complete with sparse decor, bright lighting and vigorous kneading and pummelling, costs just 78 RMB (£8).

I leave feeling relaxed and with a spring in my step.

It’s fair to say that for all the changes taking place in Shanghai, there are still plenty of traditions worth preserving.

The Bund in Shanghai, China, is one of the main tourist areas

Travel news How to grab an early bargain on the slopes Temperatures are already falling in the Alps and if you want the price of your 2013/14 season ski holiday to fall too, driving to the slopes could be one easy solution.

With airlines ever-keen to slap hefty charges on extra baggage (something that is inevitable with a ski holiday) travelling by car could save families hundreds of pounds. Stuart McLeod of Zenith Holidays, an operator catering for “savvy” skiers, explains: “This winter, we are seeing a significant increase in the number of people driving families to the slopes to cut costs. If we include free Channel ferry crossings, driving down to the Alps saves about £450 for a family of four, as opposed to flying and paying extra on baggage at check-in.”

At lesser-known French resorts like St Jean Montclar and Les 7 Laux, for example, a

family of four could enjoy a self-catering apartment with Channel crossings and lift pass from around a total £920 per week – or about £1,290 if they chose a four-star apartment with access to a pool (about £324 each).

McLeod says many skiers will also catch trains to the ski resorts this winter – some on Eurostar, and some catching trains direct to the Alps. These trains leave Paris at 10pm on Friday nights and arrive on the slopes the next mor ning.

Of course, not everyone can face the long car or rail trek across France, especially if you live further north, and for this reason Monarch Airlines has flights of barely two hours from Manchester, Gatwick and various regional airports into Italy, Spain, Germany and Austria. Monarch one-way flights into Munich, from Leeds Bradford, Luton and Manchester start at £39.99 (£83.98 return) with transfers to the resort of Kitzbuhel taking 90 minutes.

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Malta is booming

Skiers can save by loading up the car this season

The pretty Mediterranean island of Malta, and nearby Gozo, have enjoyed an 8 per cent rise of British visitors this year.

The figure will go even higher in 2014 too, when British Airways intends to restart daily flights to the island, ex-Gatwick, from March 30 – hand-baggage only tickets from £55, Euro Traveller seats for customers with bag from £67, and Club Class from £274, all one-way.

Alex Incorvaja, Malta Tourism director (UK & Ireland) says: “We are delighted BA is back, making the Islands more accessible to British travellers, for leisure or business.”

Even before BA’s return, Malta’s winter sun programme is looking very tempting too. At Malta Direct, prices lead in at £319 for seven nights’ B&B at the four-star waterfront Hotel on Sliema’s seafront prom. If you’re quick, you might grab a remarkable deal from the same operator: 21 nights’ B&B at the four-star ParaWCL-E01-S2

Travel take-off

Where to stay?

Peninsula Shanghai Located on the Bund, and overlooking the famous Pudong (east bank) skyline, the Peninsula Shanghai is on the site of the former staterun Friendship Store, which was only open to foreign tourists.

The grand hotel harks back to Shanghai’s glory days when the city was known as the Paris of the East, and is decorated with a roaring Twenties and Art Deco theme throughout.

Chauffeur-driven customised Rolls Royces (in the signature Peninsula green) or vintage BMWs can meet and greet guests from Hongqaio International Airport.

■ Doubles from 2,900 RMB (£304), excluding taxes. Visit www.peninsula.com

Where to shop?

Nanjing Road, Huangpu One of Shanghai’s most famous shopping streets, the 3.4 mile-long Nanjing Road starts at the Bund in the east and continues past People’s Square towards the Jing’an district.

Designer stores such as Tiffany & Co, Prada and Louis Vuitton sit alongside European brands such as Zara and L’Occitane, and local shops selling souvenirs.

Hongqaio Pearl Market, Hongmei Lu 3721

Each floor in this Aladdin’s Cave of goods specialises in certain products: clothes on the ground level, pearls on the second floor, while the third is for tailored clothes and fake goods.

If you’re lucky, the sales assistant will take you through a hidden sliding facade, where you can find good quality copies of luxury handbags, watches and more – be prepared to haggle over the price.

Where to eat?

Jardin De Jade, Block A, 2558 Yan‘an Road West

UK breaks Hideaways (01747-828170) offers three nights self-catering for four sharing Scarlett’s Barn on Devon/Cornwall border from total £384, with seven nights from £548; also through October, Colwall Park Hotel in Malvern Hills (01684 540000) offers three nights’ dinner, B&B for £190 per person. Shorefield Holidays (01590 648331) offers four-night mid-week or threenight weekend break from £99 through Nov/ Dec at Oakdene Forest Park, based on four sharing selected accom.

City breaks Citalia (0843 770 4443) offers five nights B&B at four-star Grand Hotel Bristol Resort & Spa, Liguria, from £629, ex-Gatwick by BA Oct 28.

Same operator offers three nights’ B&B at four-star Londra Palace, Venice, from £315, saving £196 per couple, ex-Gatwick with EasyJet Dec 1.

Christmas markets Fred Holidays (0808 250 7755) includes two nights’ B&B at three-star Hotel Ibis St Catherine, Brussels, from £239, incl return rail ex-St Pancras Internat’l; also two nights’ B&B at Rothenburg ob der Tauber from £439, incl return London- Frankfurt flights.

Short haul sun

Look beyond the grandiose interior, reminiscent of a flashy Las Vegas hotel, because the food on offer here is first class. The house speciality – xiao long bao (steamed soup dumplings filled with pork and crabmeat) – and jasmine tea-smoked duck are divine.

On The Beach (0871 474 3000) offers seven nights’ half-board at five-star hotel in Kusadasi, Turkey from £290, ex-Gatwick Nov 3; seven nights’ half-board at five-star Amir Palace Hotel, Monastir, Tunisia from £237, exEast Mids Nov 6; seven nights’ B&B at fourstar Sofianna Apartments in Paphos, Cyprus, from £273, ex-Leeds Bradford Nov 3.

Serving tribal food inspired by the legendary Ancient Tea Horse Trail which winds its way throughout the south-west province of Yunnan, Burma and Tibet, Lost Heaven is a gastronomic treat.

Thomas Cook (0844 412 5970) offers seven nights’ self-catering in three-star Cala Novo in Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria from £259, based on four sharing, ex-Manchester Feb 6.

Lost Heaven, 38 Gaoyou Road, Xuhui (www.lostheaven.com.cn)

Long-haul

Travel facts Cathay Pacific (020 8834 8888; www.cathaypacific.co.uk) flies five times daily between London Heathrow and Hong Kong, with interconnecting flights to Shanghai from £719 return, with business class priced from £3,349 return. Terms and conditions apply.

Kuoni (01306 747008) offers 10 nights’ B&B at four-star Bandos Island Resort & Spa, Maldives from £1399, saving up to £1,978 per couple, ex-Manchester Dec 1-5; 14-nights’ B&B at 4.5-star hotel in Phuket, Thailand from £1,049, ex-Birmingham by Emirates April 2130; and Sri Lanka, seven nights’ B&B at 4.5star Jetwing Sea from £1,339, saving up to £1,354 per couple, ex-Birmingham Mar 13.

Cruises Pop music puts billions into UK tourism

dise Bay Resort, with great views of Gozo and Comino, from £399, including direct flights and transfers.

Martin Zahra, chief executive of Malta Direct, says: “The return of British Airways is great news. We sold about 98 per cent of flights through packages with Air Malta a few years back, but now our capacity on other airlines covers about 30 per cent of bookings and continues to grow. BA is such a strong brand that it could attract new passengers.”

Zahra is confident that the range of UK regional departures – including regular Easyjet and Air Malta services ex-Gatwick and Manchester – will boost winter bookings, including city breaks in the capital Valletta, which has been lavishly refurbished with EU money. Winter car hire rates in Malta start around £13 per day.

■ For more information, www.maltadirect.com; www.visitmalta.com

Festivals like Glastonbury boost the UK economy

Music, particularly the big festivals like Glastonbury, give a massive boost to UK tourism by generating spending of around £2.6billion a year and creating about 24,000 jobs.

A new Wish You Were here report, from UK Music and Visit Britain, claims that visitors from abroad pay out, on average, £910 each attending festivals and £602 attending concerts, and domestic tourists spend £396 and £87 respectively.

UK hotels are starting to harness the potential of this “music tourism”. For example, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, which manages London’s Savoy Hotel among 105 others, has linked with Abbey Road Studios in North London to offer a record-a-song experience, with a tour of studios where The Beatles, Pink Floyd and U2 made music history.

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River Cruise Line (0844 544 6437) offers fourday Rhine Valley Christmas Markets Cruise from Dec 6 from £325, saving £104, on four-star MS Switzerland II from Bonn to Koblenz, with Christmas Market in old town, with regional coach pick-ups across the UK.

Skiing Ski Total (01483 791933) offers seven nights’ catered chalet accom from Jan 25 in Arcs 2000 in Paradiski area for £638 (two sharing), saving £100. Package incl return flights exGatwick to Geneva, transfers, plus free wifi.

Esprit Ski (01483 791900) offers seven-night catered chalet accom in idyllic village of Gressoney, Italy for just £469, saving £146, with family of four (two adults and two under-12s) paying from £1,876 (was £2,460). Package incl return flights into Turin, transfers, free WiFi, free babysitting, free ski hosting.

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Travel Rob Perkins

The Manor House Hotel needs to be experienced to fully appreciate its splendour.

No amount of words can really portray the sheer picturesque beauty of the place.

It sits at the end of a row of cottages – all but one owned by the hotel group – surrounded by a mature yew, oak and pine trees, with a lawn dotted with croquet hoops and deck chairs.

Its tranquility has been attracting visitors for years. And it is no doubt this effect that worked its magic on the Hollywood film director Steven Spielberg when looking for locations to film War Horse.

Looking for somewhere to transform into a 1914 English village, Spielberg was immediately hooked on just how little work would have to be done to create his illusion.

As Adrian Bishop, a member of the Castle Combe Parish Council, said: “They were here for three weeks. They converted the village back to 1914 and did it very accurately.

“They spared no pains in getting that right.

They took down all the modern lamp fittings and signs, they covered up postboxes and notice boards. They had quite a lot of animals, but we’ve had Dr Dolittle, so we were quite used to that.”

The Manor House Hotel has an array of rooms, from rooms within the hotel itself to suites in one of the many adjoining cottages.

Every room comes with the latest gadgetry from iPod docking stations to showers that can be individually lit from special lights placed throughout the bathroom.

While the Bybrook Restaurant – named after the nearby river – is where Richard Davies and his team strive to serve dishes using the freshest, local and seasonal produce in their Michelin-starred establishment.

To accompany such a magnificent hotel, the nearby Manor House Golf Club should also be high on any golfer’s list.

The course is set in 365 acres of rolling Cotswold countryside and while the course is a relative youngster compared to its neighbouring village, it has a very mature feel to it.

The course wends its way through stands of ancient oaks and pine and sympathetically uses the River Bybrook to feature in many of its holes – especially the par-threes. The second hole is a case in point – at just 132 yards off the yellow tees, the golfer has to negotiate not only the river, which borders the front and left of the green, but two strategically placed bunkers.

The par-five third hole is probably the most demanding hole on the course with the mature trees lining both sides of a fairway that slopes to the right. If you’re not feeling confident with the driver then keep it in the bag on this hole.

The final two holes on the front nine are memorable in different ways, the 276-yard par four eighth hole is reachable from the tee a couple of hundred feet above the fairway, while the par-three ninth hole is a classic short hole. At 172-yards it is a good hit to a wickedly sloping green which while it is large has three distinctive levels to it.

On the back nine, the par-five 12th is an interesting hole. The tee shot to this 446-yard hole only needs to be a long iron or hybrid club but it must find the fairway. Anything long will be in the rough, while anything left will be in danger of going out of bounds and anything right will find the trees.

But it is the second shot that is the most important as you have to decided how much to leave yourself for an approach to a green that sits way above the fairway.

The 17th is probably the most photographed hole in Wiltshire and again makes great use of

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The Manor House Hotel, at Castle Combe, with its pretty adjoining cottages and the 17th hole the Bybrook River. From an elevated tee way above the green, it is only 127 yards but plays considerably shorter.

Whatever you score on this hole, there is very little doubt you’ll walk off with a smile on your face for having played a simply breathtaking hole.

FactFile Manor House Golf Club is now offering the chance of becoming a member for the day. The £100 fee will include coffee and bacon roll on arrival, 15 minutes on the range with one of the PGA professionals, a polo shirt, a round of golf and a meal and a drink in the club bar. If you decide to join, the money will be deducted from your first year’s subscription. From November a round of golf will cost £30 per person.

■ The Manor House Golf Club Castle Combe, Wiltshire SN14 7JW, Tel: 01249 782206, www. manorhouse golf.co.uk

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Walks Sue Gearing

Charmouth.

This is a wonderful walk in Dorset east of Charmouth from Stonebarrow Hill, giving good views inland over the beautiful countryside before dropping down to the old Saxon hamlet of St Gabriel’s, past a healing well and then in the shadow of Golden Cap, reaching the coast path to head back westwards.

The coastal views are wonderful and it would be hard to beat this circle for an invigorating blow on a sunny autumn or winter day.

The stiles have doggy gates. There are ups and downs and a steady, but not difficult pull back up to the top at the end, so it’s a walk within most people’s capabilities.

There is no refreshment en route but one or two benches ideal for a picnic.

Start Take the bridleway on the left of the end of the parking area, signed to Morcombelake. It is a good stony track which soon gives you a view over Golden Cap on the coast and then later across inland. Drop downhill, through a gate and on to a Tarmac lane on the edge of Morcomeblake.

1 Morcombelake This leads on down towards the main road.

Before you get there, turn right on the footpath to St Wites Well and Golden Cap. It leads into a field.

Continue on and pass Wites Well, a holy well dating from at least the 17th century, believed to cure eye complaints.

Maintain direction, leaving the field and start to drop down getting better views of Golden Cap – which you are not going up today.

At a junction, turn left downhill and reach a crossing footpath by a house, Norchard.

2 Norchard Turn right on the crossing footpath into a field over a footbridge/stile and head down to the far bottom corner, ignoring a footpath left. Go over the stile and footbridge and continue on.

In the corner, cross another stile and footbridge over a stream and then turn right.

After another footbridge take the footpath right in woodland towards St Gabriel’s following a stream.

At the end of the long field go through a gate on to a track.

3 St Gabriel’s Go up left a yard or two to an information board about Stanton St Gabriel’s, the manor house and chapel. Then turn back down and continue down the track about 20 more yards and look carefully for a footpath somewhat hidden on the left, although there is a signpost in the hedge. Take this down into woodland over a stile.

Go down steps on to a crossing track and turn right down a rocky/stony track. This passes a thatched cottage and continue on.

Maintain direction down two fields until you reach the signpost showing the crossing South West coast path, marked with an acor n.

4 Coast path Follow this right in the field (the stile facing you leads down to the coast and St Gabriel’s Ledge but the path is now virtually impassable). Start to get really good views along the coast west towards Charmouth.

Continue now following the coast and the acorn signs of the coast path, making sure you don’t take any side paths.

Reach a kissing gate and signpost which is now positioned very close to the edge. This whole stretch of the coast is subject to massive erosion as you can see and the coast path gets closer to the edge all the time and often has to be moved.

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5 Footbridge Drop downhill, cross a footbridge over a stream and go up steps into another field.

Leave the coastpath and head diagonally right across the field to the far corner.

Go through into the next field and left along the hedge a yard or two, and turn left again.

Then it’s immediately right up the hedge-line, soon joining a path and start the ascent to Stonebarrow Hill.

Go over a stile and continue your climb up another field to a fingerpost you can see ahead.

6 Signpost Turn right and continue to climb, bending up left and on until you come up to the track which serves the car parking area on the hill and turn right a few yards to the very end where you started.

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Walks Martin Hesp

Once upon a time I clambered down the long descent to a beach.

And it was then I saw a fat naked man wobbling along in nothing but a sandal and a boot, neither of which seemed to fit him.

If that sorry image puts you off reading any further, then I only mention it because it gives a clue as to the whereabouts of one of the finest coastal hikes in the region.

I’ll admit that you’d need to be an ardent West Country-lover with the kind of brain that allows you to do difficult crossword puzzles.

But let’s take the clue apart…

For a start, you are only likely to see naked people on nudist beaches, of which there are several dozen dotted around the South West – and part of this coast is known to be, unofficially, one of those places where folk strut about in their birthday suits.

But why the odd footwear? Well, real West Country aficionados will recall that one curious feature of the infamous Boscastle flood of 2004 was the liquid release of hundreds of shoes which bobbed out to sea, having been washed out of some of the submerged tourist shops in the village.

A large flotilla of the floating footwear was carried north and deposited on the next sizeable, or at least reachable, beach up the coast – and all summer long healthy, hardy visitors to that bit of littoral would, for some reason, carry shoes, boots and sandals up to the top of the cliff and hang them on a wire fence.

I well remember a friend of mine walking up and down the wires having found a fine boot that matched his size exactly – alas, he searched in vain to find its partner.

The National Trust, which owns a great tract of the coast between Boscastle and Crackington Haven, in Cornwall, will probably not thank me for mentioning either the nudists or the habit of hanging washed-up shoes on its fences – but I would argue that every good bit of coast needs a good story.

Strangles probably has more than most.

Including its odd name, which many people believe has something to do with the tortuous and dangerous rocks that lie ready and waiting to throttle you should you be washed away from its mile-and-a-half length of sand and shingle. You have to hike to Strangles – there’s no easy way in or out. On the way you might see wild goats, there’s an outside chance of spotting Cornwall’s feathered emblem, a rare Mediterranean ant, an even rarer butterfly, stooping peregrines and a host of lost memories.

The littoral between Crackington Haven and lonely Strangles, which lies to the south, really is in the “must-see” section of Cor nwall’s unique and impressive inventory of coastal glory.

Let me put hike-hungry readers on the right track. Crackington Haven is a majestic indentation halfway along the savage and often perpendicular coast between Boscastle and Bude.

There’s a pub and a shop or two, a car park down by the beach, and the place is worth going to even if you have no intention of taking a step along the cliffs.

We’re heading west around tiny Bray’s Point and on to the vast and vertical headland of Cambeak, before turning south along the coast to the bay called Strangles, and from there inland past Trevigue to return via the woody depths of the Ludon Valley.

Don’t expect anything other than the South West Coast Path’s usual tricks. In other words, it goes up and down like a roller-coaster and introduces you to a couple of precipices along the way.

It’s a stiff climb to begin with, but you eventually reach the wilderness area around Cambeak. This is a particularly

important area as far as environmentalists are concerned. The secret of successful coastal management along these lonesome marches seems to lie in grazing. Stop the chewing and the shady stuff grows up. And that is no good for – among other things – a rare Mediterranean ant that used to live here.

These little blighters were the key to the happiness and the contentment of the Large Blue butterfly, which became extinct in our islands in 1979 – partly, it is thought, because of the under-grazing-shadiness problem. The ants didn’t like the gloom, and the butterflies – or at least their larvae – were reliant upon the ants.

Luckily, the Large Blue survived in a wild part of Finland and now there are programmes to reintroduce the species to properly grazed sections of the British coast. This area, I am told, offers an ideal location.

Between Cambeak and Strangles there is a tortured piece of ground. Like a very old person, it is profoundly wrinkled and about to fall off the twig. Literally, this is a part of Cornwall consigned to oblivion. It is actually hugely important for its geology, thanks to its many different beds and layers of this rock and that, which get lubricated by water and slip and slide.

It is a fascinating landscape to cross – especially when you learn that the deep fissures play home to all sorts of rare bats.

Just before Strangles there is a beach called Little Strand and I seem to remember that this is – or was – a nudist beach. When I was walking here in last month’s warmth there were no nude bodies in evidence, but I did see a peregrine which stooped at what looked to be well over 100mph.

High above Strangles you may spot a fence – it is this I can recall seeing covered in shoes.

These were victims of the infamous Boscastle flood disaster (the shoes I mean, not their owners), washed away by the small tidal wave that came down the valley that calamitous day.

Boscastle is just down the coast and, for some unknown reason, walkers at one time took to finding the lost shoes and hanging them on the fence. And at the said fence you have the choice of continuing with the walking route or taking the wearying but worthwhile opportunity to walk down to one of the peninsula’s finest and least-spoilt beaches. A small path will take you all the way down – but it is a big climb back. And be warned, it does get a little vertiginous down at the bottom.

As for the inland route back to Crackington – a track heads inland and joins the lane near Trevigue Farm and from there a footpath descends steeply towards the wooded depths of the Ludon Valley.

Just above the trees it swings north and crosses two fields before plunging into the deep oak woods that run all the way to Crackington. This is as fine a circular hike as you’ll find anywhere on the Cornish coast.

FactFile Basic Hike From Crackington Haven south-west along coast path to Strangles and inland to return via Ludon Valley.

Recommended Map Ordnance Survey Explorer 111.

Distance and going Five miles, steep in one or two places, can be very muddy in valley.

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Gardening Alan Down

It’s not often that I write about only one genera – but for many, Heuchera is not just a plant, it’s an addiction.

Far better known by their Latin name than common (it’s coral bells by the way), Heuchera have fantastically varied coloured leaves and very pretty flowers too.

All Heuchera come from North America where the parents of the new modern hybrids are to be found covering the forest floor below magnificent trees. Here they create a rather mundane and dull carpet that really only becomes interesting when the very dainty bell-shaped blooms open in spring and continue well into summer. The first ones that we grew in gardens were fairly mundane too, but they were reliable and tough little non-invasive plants that were perhaps regarded as edgeof-border work-horses and little more.

But modern plant breeders have changed all that. Suddenly we have easy-to-grow perennials with sumptuous leaves, often with great flowers atop too. Most good hybrids have come

Heuchera forms a great colour partnership with Euphorbia ‘Silver Swan’

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from either French or American plant enthusiasts and they have been really prolific plant breeders too. Three or four years ago I thought that a hybrid had been created for every colour, but then along come those shades that fill in the gaps or perhaps intensify the colours. Of course, some varieties change leaf colour with the seasons, so with Heuchera nothing is ever constant.

Last year I visited the principal American breeder Terra Nova Nurseries in Canby, Oregon, to look at their breeding programme, see their trial beds and their method of production. Guided by the world’s Heuchera guru and Terra Nova’s owner Dan Heims, we looked at these fabulous perennials and others that we might grow here in our UK gardens in the near future. At Cleeve Nursery we already grow many of their varieties.

So how do we “use” all these fabulously coloured leaf plants in our gardens? Well, growing in containers is the obvious answer but not the only one. Heuchera are great ground coverers and stay where they are put too. Such a variation of leaf colours leads to all sorts combinations to play with too; how about teaming silky silver narrow-leaf Convolvulus cneorum with almost black Heuchera Obsidian – or aptly named Caramel with Euphorbia Silver Swan?

Heucheras will tolerate some dryness but not drought. They tend to do best where the soil is well drained but retains plenty of moisture.

But after all this enthusiasm, there are a couple of small catches. There had to be, really.

In recent years we have seen a virulent strain of rust appear that disfigures the old leaves and spreads from plant to plant if the foliage is constantly wet. Thinning out dense leaves and promptly removing any that have raised spots on their undersides is a good non-chemical approach. However, were rust gets a hold, it will be necessary to spray your plants repeatedly until the disease is stopped using Westland Plant Rescue Fungus Control or Scotts Fungus Clear Ultra.

Deer and rabbits rarely show any interest in eating them and with the dramatic increase of deer in the UK we need more plants that they don’t eat.

More widespread and a challenge to every gardener is, of course, slugs and snails. Do they or don’t they get eaten by these major pests? Well you will often find these pests hiding among their leaves but they are often sheltering there waiting for nightfall and the chance to come out and raid some other plant that they find much tastier.

There is one pest that does like to eat Heuchera and that is the vine weevil. Plants from reputable sources will nowadays be grown in potting compost that no longer contains a pesticide to keep the grubs of this major pest at bay. It will now contain a very safe biological control agent in the form of tiny microscopic eelworms that are intent on invading vine weevil larvae and, while they are not the cause of the grubs’ demise, the fungal organism that they carry is. Of course, if you discover vine weevil larvae in your garden, smaller amounts of this biological control agent are available from Cleeve Nursery and we always incorporate the nematodes in our potting mixes.

With so many varieties to choose from, it’s not easy to list the best in each colour – but I will have a stab at it.

■ For buff or orange foliage – Caramel ■ For dark purple, almost black – Obsidian ■ For red foliage – Fire Chief ■ For lime yellow foliage – Lime Mar malade ■ For pink leaves – Berry Smoothie ■ For silvery leaves – Sugar Plum A nursery called Heucheraholics should tell you all there is to know about the growers of this most versatile plant.

This is truly an addictive plant in the mould of fuchsias, cacti or even dahlias, but heuchera are now not only for collectors, they are great garden plants too.

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Garden talks Ask Alan QUESTION I have just read your excellent article on periwinkles. I have moved to a house within 400 yards of the sea at Poole. There is some good cover from mature pines and the house is on a steep hill. A roughly level lawn is bordered by steep grassed bank – it must be 45 degrees. Aspect is SW. I suspect periwinkles will not flourish here. Can you suggest some plants/shrubs/small trees that would? The bank is 8ft deep and 60ft long. – from J Eyers ANSWER You make no mention of the soil type which I suspect might be sandy and well drained. It is very hard to recommend without seeing the site. We do have a border design service but sadly you are really too far away.

Periwinkles would probably not be the best choice but consider the following: hebes, but not for shade; euonymus fortune varieties such as Colorata, Emerald Gaiety, Emerald n Gold and others azaleas and rhododendrons, though the soil pH must be neutral or acidic; Rosemary, but not for shade; cistus – but not for shade; cotoneaster, ground cover varieties; gaultheria Shallon, , though the soil pH must be neutral or acidic; lonicera pileata or junipers if not too shady; and taxus and box plants if it is. Take a walk around and see if plants from this list are flourishing nearby.

Alan’s Plant of the Week Oak-leaf Hydrangea You would be forgiven for thinking that this plant is anything other than a hydrangea.

Hydrangea quercifolia resembles an oak, only in that its leaves are the same shape as oak’s.

Summer blooms are large and white but, instead of the familiar shape of common hydrangea, they are conical. As blooms age they tend to take on a pinkish hue.

But as the leaf colour changes in autumn, the whole bush becomes rich coppery red.

This is a tough, easy-to-grow medium shrub that doesn’t need special soil conditions. It will grow as happily in full sun as part shade.

Flowers are produced on older wood so if you want blooms, go easy with the secateurs.

Alan’s gardening jobs for the weekend

Heuchera sanguinea Firefly, main picture; H. ‘Lime Marmalade’, above left; and a selection in a trough show the possible range of colour

There are some things in gardening that never fail to delight, no matter how often you see them: seeds pushing through compost, the first snowdrops heralding spring – and right now the stunning colours of autumn.

Even under low cloud, on a rainy, dull day Batsford Arboretum, Gloucestershire, is a marvel, trees dressed in paintbox reds, yellows and pinks. In fact, seeing them on a grey day can heighten the effect, believes head gardener, Matt Hall. “It’s like turning on a light in a dark room,” he says. “On a foggy day there’s nothing better than looking at those crimson reds.”

And the colours are quite breathtaking. Top of the list are the acers, which take on hues of yellow, red, pink and crimson. Osakazuki has a particularly good autumn colour.

Two of the most photographed trees in the arboretum are a pair of paper-bark maples opposite the old house, which are already colouring up beautifully. The sugar maple, meanwhile, turns a glorious yellow, while the taxodium is a golden, cinnamon brown.

Batsford has the National Collection of Japanese flowering cherries and, although noted for their spring blossom, they too are worth seeking out in autumn, as their foliage becomes bright crimson red.

Then there’s scent. The Cercidiphyllum japonicum, or katsura, emits an unusual burnt toffee smell – discernible from some distance.

Up close, the delicate, heart-shaped leaves are soft yellow against dark branches but will soon change colour.

Batsford has several of these autumn stars and they add a new dimension to the display.

Batsford Arboretum holds the nation’s leading collection of Japanese cherries

■ Wrap the stems of Torbay palms, bananas and tender palms with fleece. Use their leaves to give added insulation to the all-important growing tip inside.

■ Put a generous handful of straw in the tops of tree ferns and wrap their stems too if they are in a very cold place. Wrap tender plants with a tent made of a tripod of bamboo canes and a covering of horticultural fleece.

■ Sow mustard and cress for a nutritious salad or garnish. Grow them on a windowsill in damp kitchen roll lined trays or punnets.

Sow each thickly but sow the mustard two days later. Cover the seeds with paper until the seeds are an inch high then remove the covering. Keep moist by regular watering. This is a good way to get young children interested in gardening and produces quick results for impatient minds.

■ If your borders look full and there appears to be no room for bulbs, pot them into largish pots or pond baskets so that they can be dropped into the gaps which will inevitably appear as winter approaches. Taller tulips and daffodils can easily be grown this way.

■ Lift dahlia roots and store them in a frostfree place for winter. Cut the tops back to about 8-10cm and stand them upside down for a few days to let the excess water drain out of the stems. Dust them with sulphur dust to prevent rotting. If you live in a sheltered area or garden near the sea, you may be able to leave the roots in the ground after covering them with a 15cm mulch of compost.

■ Step up the bird feeding – a variety of feeds will bring a variety of birds.

■ Don’t rush to cut off flower seed heads as these could provide free bird food.

■ Install a birdbath. Birds need to maintain their feathers as much in winter as summer.

■ Treat slippery paths with moss and algae killer.

■ Tidy up hedges and renovate those that have got out of shape. Some will tolerate this but others will not. If in doubt check with us.

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It’s not just trees that are worth hunting out, though. Vines are grown through several of the large yews, which provide a dark, green backdrop to the scarlet leaves of the vines.

There is euonymus, both E. alatus and the smaller E. alatus ‘Compactus’, which are glowing red, scarlet hips hang from Rosa moyesii ‘Geranium’ and hydrangeas are still covered in huge clusters of pink and white blooms.

Planning for future displays is an on-going task. A new section of woodland, created out of what was once a field, is slowly taking shape.

Four years after the project started the first hints of colour are beginning to show and Matt is confident that in another 10 years it will be making a real contribution to Batsford’s autumn. He and his team – another full-timer and an apprentice – plant between 40 and 70 trees and shrubs a year and he’s always on the look-out for something a bit different.

“My biggest enjoyment is bringing in plants we’ve not grown here before, a different species or cultivar, something new to the collection that we can put in and say ‘Wow, that’s beautiful, that’s different’. It goes back to the Victorian idea of growing things that nobody else has.”

Mandy Bradshaw

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Antiques Silver hits gold standard Lawrences

Auctions of silver and vertu in Crewkerne are now a firm fixture in most dealers’ and collectors’ schedules as Lawrences’ sales regularly comprise more than 800 lots, ranging in value from £50 to more than £10,000.

The recent sale comprised more than 830 lots and the variety ensured that the room was full for most of the eight-hour auction, with interest on the telephones and online.

Early highlights included a large canteen of cutlery by Tiffany & Co of New York (£6,570) and a remarkable £3,580 paid for a simple early 16th=century spoon. A suite of five Indian turban boxes, circa 1900-1920, were bought for £3,820; a rare two-handled Irish cup from about 1710-1720 made £2,500; and a slightly more elaborate silvergilt cup with cover from the same era took £2,980.

An unusual set of six small sauce tureens and covers, made by John Houle in 1817, made £7,170; a fine yachting trophy for the Royal Thames Yacht Club fetched £6,200; and the day’s highest price was paid for the largest object in the sale: a horse-racing trophy depicting a chivalrous medieval knight upon his steed before a maiden and a child. The trophy was awarded to the four-year old horse named Compromise at Northampton in 1870. The trophy stood taller than 22in (57cm) upon a plinth of similar size and exceeded its estimate to take £14,900.

Nearly all the 400 smaller treasures in the ensuing vertu section would have fitted individually in the palm of the hand: a nutmeg grater shaped like a strawberry (and of about the same size) sold to £3,940 (equivalent to £5,600 per ounce of silver); a miniature portrait of Commander Charles Talbot of HMS Algerian made £1,070; an Irish Freedom Box for Cork, which had been passed down through seven generations of one family, made £2,860; the highlight of a collection of fans was the £1,910 paid for a Chinese ivory ‘face screen’; a tiny silver game counter for the shooting sportsman fired up collectors who bid it to £5,250; and a card case by Nathaniel Mills showing Castle Howard, 1852, made an unexpected £3,100.

Almost the last lot in the sale yielded the after noon’s highest price: an 18th-century miniature on enamel by Christian Zincke, probably depicting Princess Mary (daughter of King George II), made £6,090 and was not even two inches (5cm) high. The day’s total exceeded £320,000 with very little unsold.

Oriental stars head West Lawrences Treasures from the East and West in Lawrences’ recent sale of Ceramics and Decorative Arts in Crewkerne ensured a keen response for the 300 lots on offer.

The auction began with a selection of furniture by contemporary designer Matthew Burt that had been made on commission for the Russell Cotes Museum and Art Gallery in Bournemouth. Following a refurbishment of the museum’s cafeteria, the furnishings were sent to Lawrences and sold very readily to eager bidders. Tables and chairs, made in elegant designs in English Ash, totalled £2,460; a large tapestry of Hengistbury Head

by Wendy Barber made £710; and even the café’s pottery (made by John Hinchcliffe with Wendy Barber) made £440.

Other highlights included £1,490 paid for a small Moorcroft box and cover; £1,250 for an opalescent dish in the Oeillets design by Rene Lalique; and £500 for a large Newlyn copper bowl.

Among the best prices in the European ceramics, £3,100 was paid for a pair of Bow vases and £1,190 for a small white Meissen bowl and cover. From further east, a Japanese bronze elephant (42cm/16 in long) trumpeted its sale at £2,150; a satsuma incense burner and cover was squeezed to £3,940; a meticulously carved Chinese tusk section took £1,550; a pale grey jade “pebble” snuff bottle, just 6.5cm high, made £2,620; a Doucai cup stand decorated with peony scrolls and emblems made £1,790; and a pair of Chinese celadon garden seats of hexagonal barrel form will allow their buyer to sit prettily at £3,100.

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Medals the pick of militaria Greenslade Taylor Hunt

A Second World War military medal awarded for bravery is part of a set of five presented to Lance Sergeant Leslie Comer of 4th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, which will feature in Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s specialist collectors’ sale on Friday, December 6.

The medal was awarded to Lance Sergeant Comer when he came under enemy fire. His actions were reported in the London Gazette of July 1945. The others include the 1939-45 France and Germany stars, ribbons, war and defence medals/ribbons together with a territorial medal/ribbon to 5672063 GNR R J Comer, R.A. They have a pre-sale guide of £1,500-£2,000. Consigned to the sale by a Somerset family, the medals are part of a large section of militaria.

Stunning replicas of ocean-going liners by the renowned specialist maker Bassett-Lowke will also feature. These 1:100 scale models are in excellent condition complete with their original boxes. One lot comprises the Majestic and Berengaria, while the other includes four ships. Each lot has a pre-sale estimate of £80£120.

Of local interest is a limited-edition Taunton Cider mug produced by Wade to coincide with the firm’s listing on the Stock Exchange on July 23, 1992. This has a guide of £40-£60. It is among 11 Taunton Cider lots in the sale.

For the cricket enthusiast, there is a selection of signed photographs featuring Ian Botham. Pick of the crop is a photo autographed by the England Ashes squad of 197879. This test team, which featured Botham, Boycott, Willis and Gower, retained the Ashes, winning the series 5-1. There are eight pictures on offer and each has an estimate of £20£40.

A fine late 20th century rocking horse made in Somerset is sure to appeal. It is being offered with a guide of £150-£200.

A George V full sovereign from 1913 is amongst a large section of coin lots. The sovereign is guided at £140-£180.

Entries are still being accepted for the December sale. Call Mike Hooper on 01823 332525 or email mike.hooper@gth.net The next monthly sale, to take place on Thursday, November 7, will include a fine selection of quality jewellery, which the auctioneers suggest may make an alternative to last-minute Christmas shopping.

A special paintings section will also feature at the November sale. Items for this sale will be on view on Saturday, November 2, from 9am-12.30pm, and on November 5 and 6, from 9am-5pm.

For further details, contact The Octagon Salerooms, East Reach, Taunton, on 01823 332525.

Collectors enjoy amber’s rise Lawrences

Anti-clockwise from main picture: A scene of a stag on Exmoor by Peter Biegel made £2,390; an opalescent dish in the Oeillets design by Rene Lalique; a George V full sovereign from 1913 is among a large coin section on December 6 at Greenslade Taylor Hunt, as is this early 20th-century rocking horse; a 17thcentury portrait of a noblewoman, possibly Elisabeth of France, sold for £13,740 at Lawrences, who also sold a looking glass surrounded by a ‘stump work’ frame depicting Charles II and his Queen, Catharine of Braganza for £10,750.

Above: Ocean-going liners

by Bassett-Lowk feature at Greenslade Taylor Hunt on December 6. This trophy for the Royal Thames Yacht Club fetched £6,200 at Lawrences

The quarterly jewellery sale at Lawrences was held on October 17, as part of the firm’s Autumn Fine Art sale of 2,200 lots. There were 400 lots on offer and buyers were keen to buy, with some unexpected prices helping to raise the total.

Sales of amber will have given vendors a golden glow in recent years, as prices have soared. A single row of graduated beads made £2,980 and an unusual necklace formed from five rugged chunks of amber in a silver setting was bought for £710. A more conventional but beautifully geometric silver necklace by Georg Jensen was bought for £2,270.

Items of animal interest caught buyers’ eyes. Two reverse-painted crystal stickpins of spaniels made £700; an enamel-and-diamond stick pin of a jockey upon a horse raced to £300; a gold stick pin of a duck flapped up to £230; a painted miniature brooch showing the head of an eager young terrier made £310; and an enamel-and-diamond bird brooch was bought for just over £1,000. To acknowledge all orders of the animal kingdom, mentions should be made of a diamond-and-gold cobweb brooch, without a spider but still attractive at £650.

The most interest was focused upon diamonds: a sapphire, diamond and pearl ring was bought for £2,500; an emerald-and-diamond cluster ring made £1,430; a diamond-set brooch in the form of a leaf fluttered up to £1,790; an Art Deco diamond bracelet doubled its estimate to make £4,300; and another very stylish Art Deco carved emerald and diamond clip made £4,780.

An 18ct gold cased pocket watch ticked away at £1,910 and a silver pair cased pocket watch was bid to £1,910 too but a Rolex Oyster watch made £2,270 among a number of other fourfigure prices for wristwatches and pocket watches. There were five commission bids above £5,970 and five telephone lines for lot 1408, a diamond wristwatch by Cartier on a simply understated black ribbon band. The combination of elegance, sophistication and quality ensured that this was bid to £10,600.

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Amber light gets auction going Stroud Auction Rooms The colour and beauty of amber has been appreciated since Neolithic times. Nowadays, this fossilised tree resin, often containing plant or animal material as inclusions, continues to be valued as a sought-after gemstone.

Women of all ages were captivated by a number of stunning amber necklaces at Stroud Auction Rooms’ October sale.

There was fierce competition for three amber necklaces, all with egg-shaped beads, that eventually went under the hammer for £2,600, while two graduated amber bead necklaces sold for £2,200.

Three vintage amber necklaces, one with amber drops, made £2,000 and a single necklace of graduated amber beads achieved £1,800.

Owner and auctioneer Nick Bowkett was extremely pleased with the results.

He said that although the value of amber has always been recognised, it was occasionally thought of as “unfashionable”.

“It is good to see these beautiful necklaces achieving the prices they deserve. Judging by the reaction of bidders, it would appear amber is now very fashionable indeed.”

Mr Bowkett is offering free valuations for amber jewellery and other items at Stroud Auction’s weekly sessions. They are held on Fridays from 9am-5pm and on Saturdays from 9.30am-12.30pm. Call 01453 873800 or email info@stroudauctions.com WCL-E01-S2

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ition at Titanic Branson and Titanic Pigeon Forge in the United States, the largest Titanic museums in the world where more than 31,5000 viewed it and also at Titanic Belfast, the award-winning visitor attraction in Northern Ireland, Belfast City Hall and made a final poignant journey to Dewsbury in Yorkshire, where Wallace Hartley lived.

The violin attracted interest from buyers around the world with numerous telephone lines booked and took a little more than ten minutes to sell, the new owner a private collector of Titanic and iconic items of historical significance is based in the UK and paid £1.1 million for the honour of owning the most important piece of Titanic memorabilia ever to be sold at auction.

The violin itself is German, probably Berlin or Dresden school, circa 1880, bearing a later label Giovan Paolo Maggini Brescia. It is a copy of a Maggini with double purfled back and front, the two piece back of medium curl descending from the joint.

The original varnish, now largely absent, is of a dark brown colour with a later golden brown covering. Its eventful life is reflected in the condition with signs of restoration and large cracks on the body of the instrument.

The tail plate fitted to the violin bears a silver

Oils and water mix well Lawrences

High prices met pictures from over five centuries as 300 lots went under the hammer at Lawrences in Crewkerne on October 18.

In the selection of prints on offer, £1,670 was paid for a Graham Sutherland etching of The Village from 1925; and £1,730 for James Whistler’s famous London etching of Rotherhithe from 1860. Among the watercolours, £3,580 was paid for a large Victorian watercolour of a railway in Turkey by D. H. McKewan, last sold at Lawrences in April 1988; £2,620 for a watercolour of the Beaufort Hunt at Badminton by Lionel Edwards; and £5,970 for a 1952 watercolour of a Fenland scene by Alan Reynolds.

In the section of oil paintings, portraits sold well with £13,740 paid for a 17th-century portrait of a noblewoman, possibly Elisabeth of France; £6,450 for a copy of Van Dyck’s portrait of King Charles I; and £8,000 for a charming portrait of an unknown girl, circa 1720, in the style of Bartholomew Dandridge.

A sentimental oil by John Emms of two donkeys looking at a terrier with her pups made £4,060; a scene of a stag on Exmoor by Peter Biegel made £2,390; and an elegant Japanese study of a girl with a fan by Jacob Kramer took £6200. A refined 1920 oil of a picnic party by Edmund Blair Leighton (18521922), depicting a view on the Waveney in Norfolk with figures in 18th-century dress, was consigned for sale by the family of an Irish clergyman. Its whereabouts were unknown to scholars and its re-discovery resulted in it just exceeding its top estimate to make just over £31,000 after some keen bidding on the telephone and via the internet.

hallmark Chester, 1910 and is engraved “For WALLACE on the occasion of our ENGAGEMENT from MARIA”.

It was given to Dewsbury resident Wallace as a gift from his fiancée Maria Robinson on the event of their engagement.

Regarded as a hero in Titanic folk lore, Hartley is credited with the decision to lead his eight-strong band into the historic hymn Nearer, My God, to Thee in an attempt to calm passengers as they boarded lifeboats. All eight men perished in the disaster, and Hartley’s remains were recovered on April 25 1912 by the crew of the ship, MacKay Bennett. His body was recorded as number 224.

Regarded as the world’s leading experts in the sale of RMS Titanic memorabilia, Henry Aldridge and Son described the Hartley Violin as “the Holy Grail”.

Since its discovery, the violin has been the subject of an extensive scientific and historical investigation by some of the leading experts globally in their respective fields. The provenance of the instrument and associated collection can be traced back to Maria Robinson, Wallace’s fiancée, its discovery in Halifax,

Table sells for 15 times estimate Wotton Auction Rooms A remarkable price was achieved for an Irish serving table at the Wotton Auction Rooms last week.

The mahogany table, rectangular in form with a heavily carved frieze and raised on hairy claw-and-ball feet had been entered for sale by a local couple moving to a smaller property.

Very strong interest was shown in the table prior to the sale and all phone lines were booked and a battle ensued between a Cotswold dealer and a substantial Irish buyer.

With pre-sale hopes of £2,000-£3,000, the bidding rose and rose before the hammer fell at £37,800 with the Cotswold trade winning the day.

“An excellent result”, said auctioneer Philip Taubenheim after the two-day sale which also saw a tiny Chinese terracotta pot which had been purchased elsewhere in a miscellaneous lot of ceramics at a few pounds, sell here to a specialist dealer at £6,200.

Call 01458 for details of forthcoming sales at the Gloucestershire saleroom.

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Violin smashes Titanic record Henry Aldridge & Sons Unless you have been living in the backwoods for the past week, you will know that the world’s media descended on the sleepy Wiltshire town of the Devizes on October 19 for the auction of the world-famous violin played by RMS Titanic bandmaster Wallace Hartley on board the ill-fated liner.

Henry Aldridge and Son spent seven years confirming the authenticity of the instrument, which was discovered in 2006 and played by second-class passenger Wallace Hartley on Titanic’s fateful night of April 14, 1912.

It was sold alongside a leather luggage case initialled W. H. H. (Wallace Henry Hartley), in which Wallace placed the violin before going into the cold North Atlantic on the morning of April 15, 1912.

The media scrum at the sale included live broadcasts throughout the day from BBC and Sky with additional crews from America and Europe including NBC. The sale itself was featured on prime-time television around the world from America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

Before the auction the violin went on exhib-

A large tapestry of Hengistbury Head, in Dorset, by Wendy Barber made £710 at Lawrences of Crewkerne. In the same sale, a refined 1920 oil of a picnic party by Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922), depicting a view on the Waveney in Norfolk sold for just over £31,000. A 16in Japanese bronze elephant sold for £2150, also at Lawrences. A Second World War bravery medal is among a set of five presented to Lance Sergeant Leslie Comer of the 4th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry which go on sale at Greenslade Taylor Hunt on December 6. The group includes the Military Medal that was awarded to Lance Sergeant Comer when he came under enemy fire WCL-E01-S2

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MEDALS & MILITARIA, TRANSPORT MEMORABILIA, TOYS & MODELS Friday 8 November commencing at 11.00 am Fully illustrated catalogues available £23 (by post). Bid live at this sale at www.the-saleroom.com

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heated bidding to make £10,500; a room-sized Persian carpet, covering nearly 200 square feet, made £1,310; and a near pair of George III mahogany library armchairs offered comfort and a masculine elegance of design at £13,380.

One lot that attracted keen bidding for its rarity, its condition and its exquisite Carolean charms was a looking glass surrounded by a “stump work” frame depicting Charles II and his Queen, Catharine of Braganza, as well as a lion and a leopard within wreaths. The moulding was of faux bamboo and the imposing size (39in by 22in overall) ensured that a keen group of bidders contested it to £10,750. The sale brought the firm’s total for the week of sales to just over £1.1 million.

Nova Scotia, through to the present day, an aspect of the archive that is covered in depth

by Dewsbury author Christian TennysonEkberg in his 400-page biography of Wallace Hartley and Maria Robinson, Nearer Our God to Thee.

An early part of the historical research into the collection was based around the fact that the violin and music case were not mentioned in the victim’s body effects list. Detailed research into an original copy of this list showed a number of anomalies and examples of inaccurate information proving that the list could not regarded as definitive.

The most likely explanation was that the case containing the violin was simply not regarded as a “body effect”, a term that was used in the preparation of the effects lists for all of the recovered bodies, which was corroborated in an interview with the captain of the ship that recovered Wallace’s body.

Henry Aldridge and Son employed the services of the British Government owned Home Office Forensic Science Service, a body providing scientific services to the police and other law enforcement agencies in the UK and overseas the scientific tests into the collection. Under the stewardship of Michael Jones, an FSS trace analysis and Crown Prosecution Witness expert with over 29 years’ experience in the field, the violin, music case and items recovered from Wallace’s body were subjected to numerous tests at the FSS Laboratory in Chepstow, Begbroke Nano, Oxford Materials Characterization Services at the University of Oxford and Ridgeway Clinic in Swindon, where a CT scan of the interior of the instrument was conducted. The results of the trace analysis were found to be compatible with material that had been recovered from other Titanic victims including Titanic postal worker Oscar Woody and Third class passenger Carl Asplund.

Andrew Aldridge said: “It’s an exceptional price for an exceptional item, proving that owners of iconic and collectable memorabilia do not have to travel to London to sell their items, this sale has put Devizes on the map.”

Other items in the sale included Wallace Hartley’s bag which the violin was held in which made £30,000, his music portfolio and music for £25,000 and a rare photo of Titanic victims being recovered at sea, fetching £18,000. More modest items in the auction included photographs for several thousand pounds, the violin that was played in James Cameron’s movie Titanic £12,000 and even a collection of woodwork from Titanic’s sister ship Olympic, £4,000.

Henry Aldridge and Son’s next auction of antiques and collectables is on December 14, entries are now being invited with full details released in the coming weeks. The next free valuation day is October 31. Call 01380 729199 or email andrew@henryaldridge.com for further details.

Antiques and sport sale double Mendip Auction Rooms The most recent sale at Mendip Auction Rooms was a sale of antiques, fine art and collectables which was immediately followed by the quarterly Sporting Sale and more than 600 lots went under the hammer.

Lots sold included a Victorian rosewood and Tunbridge Ware tea caddy inlaid with castle decoration, possibly Eridge Castle, and floral bands, with moulded-glass sugar liner and two tea compartments with lids that sold for £410. Other notable items include a pair of early 20th-century Japanese bronze vases of baluster form, decorated with bird and tree relief each six character mark to base sold for £750 and an Edwardian silver novelty pin cushion (lacking cushion) in the form of a goat

by Allday and Lovekin, Birmingham 1908, sold for £230.

A good number of shotguns, firearms and other sporting items were entered into the Sporting Sale with interest in the room and online. A flint lock brass barrel blunderbuss, Boyd of Limerick Ireland sold for £1,100 and an interesting pair of Kepple Bristol cricket candlestick holders, Richard and Ranjit Singh, sold above estimate for £70.

The next sale at the Mendip Auction Rooms will be a sale of Victorian and Later Effects on October 29, starting at 1pm. Entries include a good selection of furniture, pictures, ceramics and glassware. Viewing takes place on Monday October 28, from 10am-6pm, and on the morning of the sale from 8.30am.

The auction rooms are open from 10am to 5pm, Monday to Friday for deliveries, and collections and free valuations can be given, as well as home visits. Contact Gareth Wasp or Jake Smith on 01749 840770 or email enquiries @mendipauctionrooms.co.uk

Violin’s not the only £1.1m sale Lawrences Lawrences in Crewkerne rounded off their major 2,200-lot Autumn Fine Art week of sales with a selection of clocks, works of art, furniture and rugs. Bidding was keen for the lots on offer and the auctioneers reported brisk business, even for the unfairly maligned Victorian mahogany pieces that have been out of favour for a few years.

A mahogany bracket clock by Laidlaw of London (£2,980) and a Boulle bracket clock (£3,100) performed well in the clocks section, while a Scottish walnut longcase clock by David Craig doubled its high estimate to chime with a buyer at £2,860. Within a huge group of “works of art” (covering all manner of artefacts from jelly moulds and crucifixes to chess sets and chandeliers), high prices were paid for a bronze group by Moreau entitled La Reconnaissance (£1,430); and 14 puzzles in a black lacquer Chinese games box (also £1,430).

Among a host of four-figure prices in the furniture sale, a walnut writing desk from the era of King Charles II made £3,700, despite showing signs of its years; a gilt metal occasional table climbed to £8,120; a pair of fourfold leather screens with Chinoiserie decoration made £5,970; four massive Louis XV ormolu three-branch wall lights effected

Clockwise, from top right, an enamel-and-diamond bird brooch was bought for just over £1,000; a horse-racing trophy sold for £14,900; a Chinoiserie screen made £5,970; this Taunton Cider mug is among 11 to be going on sale soon; a two-handled Irish cup made £2,500; a pair of Bow vases sold for £3,100 and a strawberry nutmeg grater secured £3,940; while this Irish table was sold for £37,800, more than ten times its estimate WCL-E01-S2

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Television and radio FILM CHOICE

TOP TV CHOICE

An Education Carey Mulligan (recently seen in Sherborne filming Far From the Madding Crowd) plays Jenny a bright and ambitious 16year-old growing up in early 1960s suburban London who is aiming for Oxbridge – until she’s swept off her feet by charming businessman David.

He escorts her to numerous cultural events and treats her to a trip to Paris; even her discovery of his dodgy business deals can’t stop her falling for his charms. David eventually proposes marriage, Jenny accepts and leaves school – before learning that he already has a wife, forcing her to radically rethink her future.

This is an compelling film for which credit must go not only to Mulligan for her Oscarnominated turn but also to director Lone Scherfig, screenwriter Nick Hornby and Peter Sarsgaard, who is compelling as the man who steals Jenny’s heart. (Tonight, BBC Two, 10.40pm)

David Tennant is back on our screens, this time making a foray into the world of crime.

At the centre of the intriguing plot of The Escape Artist, which airs on BBC One at 9pm on Tuesday, Tennant plays Will Burton, a junior barrister on the rise, popular with everyone – except for jealous colleague Kate.

Expected to become a QC after a stellar run that has never seen him defeated in court, his latest client turns out to be a serial killer who, thanks to Will’s expertise, is about to be let out onto the streets to strike again...

“When Will doesn’t shake Foyle’s hand and walks off, I thought that was a story beat telling us something about Will,” says Tennant when asked about how the plot develops.

“I didn’t for a second think that we’d see Foyle again. I thought we’d be on to the next case and we’d see Will being an escape artist in some other extraordinary way. I thought it was a courtroom drama, I had no idea.”

But he’s keeping quiet about how he would describe the programme – he thinks viewers should be allowed to simply let it unfold.

Escape to Victory A group of Allied PoWs agree to take to the football field when the Nazis dream up the concept of pitting a team of German all-stars against a side made up from Allied captives. The Nazis see the match as just another way to reinforce their Aryan superiority in the eyes of the world media, but they’re in for a shock when the underdogs prove their worth on the pitch and plan their escape while off it.

Despite its silly script, the film works on the basis that the actors do the acting and the footballers earn their crust by performing on the pitch. Michael Caine and Max von Sydow are solid, while football fans will be pleased to see a whole host of football legends including Bobby Moore, Pele and Ossie Ardiles. Plus, there’s the added bonus of sticking it to the Germans (again).

By way of some trivia, Brazilian football superstar Pele assisted with choreographing the climactic game against the Germans in Nazi-occupied Paris. (Tuesday, Channel 4, 12.55pm)

DVD Before Midnight (15, 109 mins, Sony Pictures) Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) are married and have raised three children.

Friends they are visiting on the Greek coast offer to look after the children while Jesse and Celine enjoy a night together, but a romantic meal turns bitter as they are forced to confront fractures in the relationship.

Nine years after Before Sunset, the gorgeously romantic sequel to Before Sunrise, director Richard Linklater and actors Hawke and Delpy reunite for this third chapter in the lives of Jesse and Celine, who met by chance on a train and spent a magical day together in Vienna.

Unlike the previous two instalments, Before Midnight does not unfold entirely in real time, stitching together a handful of scenes which lay bare the precarious state of the couple’s relationship. The leads ease back into familiar roles with elan and the script, co-written by Hawke, Delpy and Linklater, rings true at every turn.

IN PROFILE Name Michaela Strachan Best known for The Really Wild Show

RADIO

Born Michaela Evelyn Ann Strachan in Surrey in 1966, she attended Claremont Fan Court School, Esher, a Christian Science school. Later, while at college, she had jobs as an Avon lady and kissogram. After studying at ArtsEd London, Strachan performed in theatre before moving to children’s television.

Strachan was prominent on British Saturday morning television in the 1980s, being involved in such programmes as TV-am and Wide Awake Club with Timmy Mallett, and in 1988 she hosted the pan-European music show Boogie Box on music channel Music Box. In 1993 Strachan joined the team of presenters of The Really Wild Show, a wildlife programme for children on BBC1, becoming one of the programme’s most prominent presenters and continuing until its cancellation in 2006. Strachan starred as “Her” in the music show The Hitman and Her alongside Pete Waterman. She has also featured in a small acting role in the BBC sitcom Game On. Since the 1990s, she has been heavily involved in wildlife television.

She was married to film-maker Duncan Chard, but they divorced after five years. On June 8, 2005, she gave birth to her son Oliver by partner Nick Chevallier. The couple live in Cape Town, South Africa.

Quote “I once dreamt I was being chased by giant guinea pigs, who were skinning humans for coats. They caught me and I struck a deal, that I would help them capture people.”

See Autumnwatch, BBC Two, Tuesday, 8pm.

In the first Living World of the autumn run, North Somerset wildlife expert Chris Sperring hunts down the large tube-web spider in Exeter Cathedral.

First found there as far back as 1890, Segestria florentina is the largest European spider from the Segestriidae family and one of the largest spiders found in the UK. Believed to be native to the Mediterranean region, the species was introduced on ships and first recorded in the UK in the mid-19th Century.

Chris is joined for the programme (Radio 4, 6.35am) by Plymouth University professor Peter Smithers on this quest (with a surprising array of props) to find the spider among the fabulous building’s gothic columns and arches.

The segestriidae family have six eyes rather than eight and their front six legs point forward in contrast to many arachnids which have only the front four legs pointing forward.

TV QUIZ

TV QUIZ ANSWERS ANSWERS 1. Victorian 2. Tales From Northumberland With Robson Green 3. Neil’s 4. Neil Oliver 5.

John Whaite

Peter Sarsgaard as David and Carey Mulligan as Jenny, in An Education, one of the film picks on television this week. Julie Delpy as Celine and Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Midnight, out on DVD this week, a tale of romance. And there are screen returns for two favourites, with David Tennant in The Escape Artist after his acclaimed Shakespearean turn, and Michaela Strachan, back in Autumnwatch

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1. Matthew Macfadyen is back with a second series of Ripper Street, starting on Monday, October 28 on BBC One. In which era is the crime drama set?

2. Robson Green stars in Strike Back, which returns to Sky1 on Monday, October 28 and a new factual ITV series which also airs on the same day. What’s the name of the ITV series?

3. Jessica Knappett, the writer and star of new E4 comedy Drifters, played whose girlfriend in The Inbetweeners Movie?

4. Comedian Ross Noble’s new series Freewheeling begins on Tuesday, October 28 on Dave. Ross says he’s often mistaken for which presenter of BBC Two’s Coast?

5. Cast Your Mind Back... Tuesday marked the finale of BBC Two’s The Great British Bake Off. Who won last year’s competition?

Answers on left of page

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Television Sophie Herdman

Robson Green in his Tales From Northumberland documentary, which begins this week on ITV, where Robson explores some secrets from his home county

After meeting his MI6 co-stars, Robson Green hit the gym. But near 50, it’s not so easy.

He is taking a break on the set of action series Strike Back in Budapest when he confides that it was “pretty intimidating” to meet his two Hulk-like co-stars, Philip Winchester and Sullivan Stapleton, for the first time.

“They’re hyper-fit and 6ft 2in. I’m a middleaged, 5ft 7in, follow-the-yellow-brick-road kind of guy,” says Green, who’s looking dashing in a blue-linen shirt that matches his famous twinkly eyes.

Green has more energy than a kid on Christmas Day but the flecks of grey in his hair betray his age – something of which he was reminded after slipping a disc after five days of training.

“I went to a chiropractor who said, ‘Oh yeah, it happens when you get to this age‘,” says 48year-old Green with a chuckle.

He joins series four of Strike Back as Lt Col Philip Locke, the boss of Section 20 (the se-

cretive branch of MI6) and it didn’t take long for him to realise that playing such a respected role has its advantages.

“We were doing a stunt where we pull up in a car and chase a suspect,” says Green with a wicked smile. I was supposed to run with [my co-stars], but they’re Strike Back’s answer to Usain Bolt, so I got out of the car and shouted, ‘Remember, we want them back alive’. Then I just waited.”

Green bursts into hysterical laughter. “I’d never have kept up with them. I’d look like the kid at the back of the cross-country run with red legs.”

Despite joining an established cast, Green has clearly fitted in, with Winchester and Stapleton regularly throwing joking insults in his direction.

The cast and crew have been shooting in a large, abandoned Cold War listening station

that’s hidden in a forest an hour from Hungary’s capital. But when filming’s wrapped for the day, Green doesn’t check in to a five-star hotel in the city – instead he retreats to a village where he rents a boat.

“I’m not comfortable in cities, I never have been,” he confides. “I’m a country boy from the remote parts of Britain and I just love solitude – that’s different from isolation in my opinion.”

Green is from one of the most sparsely populated counties in England – Northumberland, a place he is still proud to call home.

“Northumbrians have a sense of self-worth, identity, family and heritage and if you have all of those things it puts you at ease with who you are,” he says.

In fact, the actor is so proud of his home that he’s presenting a show dedicated to uncovering the area’s secrets – Tales From Northumberland With Robson Green.

During the series, the actor visits Seahouses, the seaside port where he holidayed as a child, sleeps in a bothy and visits the Farne Islands, inhabited by tens of thousands of birds and six rangers.

The actor met plenty of fascinating people along the way, including the youngest shepherdess in Britain, an ex-bricklayer who runs one of the greatest observatories in Europe and a GP who took Green diving with seals.

“All on my doorstep,” he says, grinning.

Green’s son Taylor, from his second wife Vanya Seager, whom he’s no longer with, is also a fan of the northern county.

“Taylor’s been coming here since he was a child. I’ve got a beautiful picture of my footprints and his in the sand on one of the beaches,” says Green, whose Northumbrian

ancestors date back around 300 years. They include his grandfather William Golightly, whose surname is Green’s middle name.

It’s also where his father Robson lived until his death in 2009 and where his mother and siblings still live.

Green describes his dad, a miner, as “a hardy man“, but his mother is also very strong. “She doesn’t suffer fools gladly,” he says, chuckling.

“And she instinctively knows a good person from a bad one. When I was a child, she always said [about other children], ‘Don’t knock about with them, they’re only trouble.’ And she was right, half of them ended up in the nick.”

Of her son’s shows, Mrs Green’s favourite is Extreme Fishing. “My mum and her friends have Extreme Fishing evenings. They all get together and watch it on a big TV. They don’t like the swearing though, so they watch an edited version.”

Green’s successful foray into documentary shows came late in his career. He started acting with a stint on Casualty, but it was Soldier Soldier that catapulted the actor to fame – and saw him release Unchained Melody as a single with co-star Jerome Flynn. It stayed at number one for seven weeks.

He’s since appeared in dramas including Reckless, Wire In The Blood, Touching Evil, Being Human and Mount Pleasant. As well as Extreme Fishing With Robson Green, he’s also presented Robson Green’s Wild Swimming Adventure. Not bad for someone who’s yet to reach half a century.

Looking to the future, would he be interested in Strike Back series five? “Did Barbara Cartland wear make-up?”

Let’s hope he goes easy on the training next time though.

PICKS OF THE WEEK

SPORT (BBC Three, 7pm, Saturday) Ellen White hopes to lead England’s women to glory over unbeaten Wales at The Den

DRAMA The excellent Warren Brown in the final episode of the gripping By Any Means (BBC One, 9pm, Sunday)

CHAT Judi Dench joins Graham Norton and other guests for a chat about new film Philomena (BBC One, 10.35pm, Friday)

DRAMA No Brody for two weeks? Thank goodness Carrie’s still about to keep Homeland true. (Channel 4, 9pm, Sunday) WCL-E01-S2

TOPICAL Anti-EDL campaigner face to face with nemesis Tommy Robinson in a fascinating documentary (BBC One, Monday)

DOCUMENTARY Alan Yentob traces the life of Jimi Hendrix for the Imagine arts strand (BBC One, 10.35pm, Tuesday)

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TV PICKS

Saturday television&radio Saturday’s Television Guide THE SARAH MILLICAN SLIGHTLY LONGER TELEVISION PROGRAMME 10pm, BBC2

Extended edition.

With Dan Cruickshank, Martin Lewis and Gabriella Ellis.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 8.30 Live Formula 1: Indian Grand Prix – Qualifying (S,HD).

10.45 Saturday Kitchen Live (S). 12.00 BBC News; Regional News and Weather (S,HD). 12.15 Football Focus (S,HD). 1.00 Formula 1: Indian Grand Prix – Qualifying Replay (S,HD). 2.00 Live Rugby League World Cup (S,HD). 4.30 Final Score (S,HD). 5.20 BBC News; Regional News and Weather (S,HD). 5.40 Pointless Celebrities (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

STRICTLY COME DANCING 6.30pm, BBC1

Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly present another ballroom battle as the pro-celebrity couples try to impress the judges and get their names at the top of the leaderboard Following last week’s elimination of Julien and Janette, the pro-celebrity couples dress up to the nines for another ballroom battle.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two (S). 6.25 Live Formula 1: Indian Grand Prix – Practice Three (S,HD).

7.35 Film: Carnival Boat (S) (1932). ●●● 8.35 Film: The Fallen Sparrow (S) (1943). ●●● 10.10 Reel History of Britain (R,S). 10.40 The Life of Birds (R,S). 11.30 Fred Dibnah’s Industrial Age (R,S). 12.00 Paul Hollywood’s Bread (R,S,HD). 12.30 The A to Z of TV Cooking (S). 1.15 EastEnders (S,HD). 3.05 Coast (S,HD). 3.30 The House That £100K Built (R,S,HD). 4.30 Live Rugby League World Cup (S,HD).

DIE HARD 2 9pm, Channel 4

A lone cop battles terrorists who have taken over an airport to force the release of a convicted drug baron.

Action thriller sequel, starring Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia and William Sadler.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Babar and the Adventures of Badou (R,S).

6.10 Matt Hatter Chronicles (R,S). 6.35 Dino Dan (R,S). 7.00 Canimals (R,S). 7.25 Sooty (S).

7.35 Horrid Henry (R,S). 7.50 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (S). 8.15 Bottom Knocker Street (S). 8.30 Munch Box (S). 9.25 ITV News (S). 9.30 Saturday Cookbook (R,S,HD). 10.25 Murder, She Wrote (R,S,HD). 11.25 ITV News and Weather (S).

11.30 Surprise Surprise (R,S,HD). 12.30 All Star Family Fortunes (R,S). 1.15 Doc Martin (R,S).

2.15 Catchphrase (R,S,HD). 3.00 Film: Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (S,HD) (2002). ●●●● 5.40 Regional News (S). 5.50 News (S).

THE X FACTOR 8pm, ITV

The battle for a recording contract continues as the remaining singers take to the stage in the third live studio round. Choosing songs from the movies, they’re hoping to win praise from the judges and the support of millions of viewers. Dermot O’Leary hosts.

The results are tomorrow at 8pm.

Channel Channel 4

6.15 The Hoobs (R,S). 7.05 British Rallycross (S). 7.30 FIM Superbike World Championship (S). 8.00 The Morning Line (S,HD). 9.00 The American Football Show (S). 10.05 Frasier (R,S). 10.35 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 11.05 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). 12.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 12.25 Heston’s Fairytale Feast (R,S). 1.30 Channel 4 Racing (S,HD).

Live coverage from Doncaster, Newbury and Aintree. 4.10 Come Dine with Me (R,S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 10.15 Power Rangers: Megaforce (S,HD). 10.50 Slugterra (S,HD).

11.20 Jungle Babies: Tarsier Tails (R,S,HD). 11.50 The Dog Rescuers (R,S,HD).

12.20 Animal Maternity (R,S,HD). 1.20 Film: Columbo: Murder by the Book (S) (1971). Detective drama, with Peter Falk. ●●●● 3.00 Film: Run Silent, Run Deep (S,HD) (1958). ●●●● 4.50 Film: Attack on the Iron Coast (S) (1968). Second World War drama, starring Lloyd Bridges. ●●

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Dad’s Army, 8.30pm

The Jonathan Ross Show, 10pm

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, 7.05pm

War Hero in My Family, 8pm

6.45 News (S).

6.35 Lost Heroes of World War One (R,S). 3/5. How the war affected life in Britain.

7.00 Flog It! (R,S). 13/80.

7.30 Killer Whales: Beneath the Surface – Natural World (R,S,HD). A look at research into the lives of the marine mammals.

6.00 New You’ve Been Framed!

(S).

6.30 Fool Britannia (S,HD). 4/6. A teacher takes on a martial arts champion to impress his girlfriend.

7.00 The Chase: Celebrity Special (S,HD). 4/11. With Jason Gardiner, Ashley Roberts, Linda Robson and Christopher Biggins. Presented by Bradley Walsh.

7.05 Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (R,S,HD). 5/22. The team heads to Asia to rescue a man with an unusual and dangerous power.

Comic-book drama, starring Clark Gregg and Chloe Bennet.

7.00 Nazi Titanic: Revealed (R,S).

1/4. The story of the 1943 German-made propaganda movie Titanic.

8.00 Grand Designs (R,S,HD). 8/11.

Kevin McCloud meets a master craftsman who plans to build a castle in rural Devon made entirely of mud, forming the huge property out of two curved roundhouses connected by glazing.

8.00 War Hero in My Family (R,S,HD). 3/6. Paddy Ashdown and Helen Lederer research stories of the Second World War. 8.55 5 News Weekend (S,HD).

9.00 Die Hard 2 (S,HD) (1990).

Tough cop John McClane arrives at an airport to pick up his wife but finds himself plunged into a bloody life-ordeath struggle. He must battle terrorists who have seized control of the terminal as part of a campaign to secure the release of a convicted drug baron. Action thriller sequel, starring Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Franco Nero, William Atherton, Reginald VelJohnson, John Amos and Dennis Franz. See Choices Above. ●●●

9.00 Stephen King’s Bag of Bones (R,S,HD). Best-selling novelist Mike Noonan is devastated when his wife Jo is killed in a road accident. Unable to stop grieving and gripped by writer’s block, he is inspired by a strange dream to return to the couple’s lakeside retreat in Maine to seek answers to some troubling questions. There he befriends widow Mattie Devore and becomes embroiled in her battle for custody of her daughter Kyra – but is also plagued by nightmares, ghostly visitations and messages from beyond the grave. Mystery horror based on the novel by Stephen King, starring Pierce Brosnan, Melissa George, Annabeth Gish and Jason Priestley. See Choices Above.

8.30 Dad’s Army (R,S). 5/14.

Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson are trapped in the bank vault with an unexploded bomb. Classic comedy, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn.

9.00 The National Lottery Live (S,HD). Chris Evans announces the results of the Lotto and the Thunderball, and reveals the locations of winning tickets for the lottery raffle.

9.10 Casualty (S,HD). A father and his sons get into trouble over a hidden bag of cash.

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8.15 Atlantis (S,HD). 5/13. See Choices Above.

10.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD).

10.20 Match of the Day (S,HD). Gary Lineker presents highlights of the latest Premier League clashes, including Liverpool v West Bromwich Albion and Manchester United v Stoke City.

Followed by National Lottery Update.

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6.30 Strictly Come Dancing (S,HD). See Choices Above.

11.40 The Football League Show (S). Manish Bhasin presents highlights and all the goals from today’s fixtures in the Championship, League One and League Two, including Burnley v Queens Park Rangers.

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Pointless Celebrities, 5.40pm

12.55 Weatherview (S). 1.00 BBC News (S,HD).

8.00 The X Factor (S,HD). 15/22.

Last week, another dramatic sing-off took place and Shelley got the chop. Now, the battle for a recording contract continues as the remaining singers take to the stage in the third live studio round.

Choosing songs from the movies, they’re hoping to win praise from the judges and the support of millions of viewers at home. At the end of the show, Dermot O’Leary has the unenviable job of announcing the act with the lowest number of votes. The results are tomorrow at 8pm. See Choices Above.

10.00 The Jonathan Ross Show (S,HD). 3/10. The host is joined by supermodel Naomi Campbell, X Factor judges Nicole Scherzinger, Gary Barlow and Louis Walsh, and writer and actor Stephen Merchant.

With music by Laura Mvula.

9.00 The 70s (R,S). 4/4. Dominic Sandbrook examines the final three years of the decade, focusing on the violence that plagued concrete housing estates and the launch of Grange Hill. Last in the series.

10.00 The Sarah Millican Slightly Longer Television Programme (S,HD). 5/6.

See Choices Above.

10.40 An Education (S,HD) (2009).

A hard-working, intelligent 16-year-old is on her way to gaining a place at Oxford University. However, her conventional education is called into question when an older, worldly suitor takes her under his wing and exposes her to some of the finer things in life. Drama, with Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Alfred Molina. See Choices Above. ●●●●

11.00 ITV News and Weather (S); Weather 11.15 Take Me Out (R,HD). 2/8. A firefighter, a sales assistant, a comic-book collector and a student take part. Paddy McGuinness presents.

11.20 Beverly Hills Cop II (S,HD) (1987). See Choices Above. ●●

12.15 Film: Stolen (S,HD) (2010). Factbased drama telling the story of the search for the kidnapped baby daughter of a New Zealand high-court judge and a prominent lawyer. Starring Miriama Smith and George Henare. ●●● 1.40 (GMT) This Is BBC Two (S). Preview of upcoming programmes.

4.30 Live MotoGP (S,HD). The Japanese Grand Prix (Start-time 5.00am).

12.30 Jackpot247. Viewers get the chance to participate in live interactive gaming from the comfort of their sofas, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team. 3.00 (GMT) The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R,S). The host takes his successful talk show stateside.

3.40 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Text-based information service.

1.20 Film: It’s Kind of a Funny Story (S,HD) (2010). Premiere. A teenager checks himself into a mental-health clinic for an observation, but finds he has to stay at least five days. Comedy drama, with Keir Gilchrist. ●●●● 2.00 (GMT) Hollyoaks (R,S,HD). 4.05 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD).

5.00 Countdown (R,S,HD). 5.45 Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard (R,S,HD).

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4.50 Roary the Racing Car (R,S). 5.00 Angels of Jarm (R,S). 5.10 Hana’s Helpline (R,S). 5.20 Angels of Jarm (R,S).

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STEPHEN KING’S BAG OF BONES 9pm, Channel 5

ATLANTIS 8.15pm, BBC1

A recently widowed novelist is plagued by disturbing dreams, ghostly visitations and messages from beyond the grave. Mystery horror, starring Pierce Brosnan and Melissa George.

ITV2 ITV2

6.00 Holiday Showdown (R).

6.50 Coronation Street (HD).

9.20 Emmerdale (HD). 12.10 The X Factor USA (R,HD). 1.10 James Arthur: The Hot Desk (HD).

1.25 Peter Andre: My Life (R,HD).

2.25 You’ve Been Framed! (R).

3.25 You’ve Been Framed! (R).

3.55 Film: Honey (HD) (2003). ●● 5.55 Film: The Flintstones (HD) (1994). ●●

Twister, 7.45pm

7.45 Twister (HD) (1996).

A storm-chaser and her estranged husband are brought together in a joint project to monitor the path of an oncoming tornado – but the pair face a race against the clock as a rival governmentbacked group with hi-tech resources tries to beat them to it. Action thriller, starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Abraham Benrubi.

Including FYI Daily. ●●●

A night-time messenger brings news from outside the city for Ariadne, who calls on Jason and his friends to help guide her to its source.

But leaving without raising the Queen’s suspicions seems like an impossible task – especially when it turns out the one who has written is Therus, Ariadne’s exiled brother.

E4 E4

6.00 Switched (R). 6.20 Being Erica (R,HD). 7.05 Make It or Break It (R,HD). 7.50 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.50 Charmed (R). 9.50 Glee (R,HD). 10.50 90210 (R,HD).

11.45 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 2.10 The Mindy Project.

2.40 The Big Bang Theory. 3.40 Made in Chelsea (R). 4.45 Film: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (HD) (2009). ●●

Sky1 Sky1

6.00 Glee (R,S,HD). 7.00 Glee (R,S,HD). 8.00 The Fantasy Football Club 9.00 Game Changers 10.00 Soccer AM 12.00 WWE Superstars 1.00 Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew (R,S,HD). 2.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 3.00 David Attenborough’s Galapagos (R,S,HD). 4.00 Modern Family.

5.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

FILM PICKS

Saturday television&radio AN EDUCATION 10.40pm, BBC2

BEVERLY HILLS COP II 11.20pm, Channel 4

A teenager questions the value of conventional education when a worldly older suitor takes her under his wing. Drama, with Carey Mulligan.

Gold GOLD

6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.10 The Good Life 7.50 Goodnight Sweetheart 8.30 Sykes 9.05 As Time Goes By 9.50 Last of the Summer Wine 11.05 Porridge 11.45 Jeeves and Wooster 12.55 Jeeves and Wooster 2.10 The Good Life 2.50 The Good Life 3.30 The Good Life 4.10 The Good Life 4.50 Only Fools and Horses

The Inbetweeners, 11pm

National Lampoon’s ... 9pm

Porridge, 8.20pm

6.35 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). Barbara returns to town with good news for Russell. Comedy, guest starring Heather Locklear.

6.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). Christmas is disrupted by the murder of an NCIS special agent.

Drama, starring Chris O’Donnell and LL Cool J.

6.00 Only Fools and Horses. Raquel is offered an audition.

Comedy, starring David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst.

7.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). Jennifer and Audrey practise their matchmaking skills.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

Homer gets a new assistant.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Bart and Lisa look into the future.

7.10 Only Fools and Horses.

Del becomes a showbiz entrepreneur after discovering a sensational Tom Jones-style singer.

David Jason stars.

8.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

8.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). Lily applies for a firearms licence after Marshall is mugged.

8.00 Arrow (R,S,HD). The fantasy drama returns. A broken Oliver has retired and gone back to Lian Yu, so Diggle and Felicity try to persuade him he is still needed in Starling City.

8.20 Porridge. Fletch is entrusted with a treasure map while sharing a ward with Blanco in the prison hospital. Comedy, starring Ronnie Barker and David Jason.

9.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). The flatmates are challenged to a robot duel. Guest starring John Ross Bowie.

9.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Sheldon develops a scientific procedure for making friends.

9.00 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (HD) (1989). An American householder finds his plans for a traditional family holiday are thrown into disarray by a succession of visitors.

Comedy, starring Chevy Chase. ●●●

9.00 Scary Movie 3 (2003).

The survivor of the first two films has finally found fame as a TV reporter – but her nightmare experiences return to haunt her.

Spoof horror, with Anna Faris and Pamela Anderson. ●●

Wisecracking detective Axel Foley returns to Los Angeles to investigate a spate of violent robberies.

Comedy, with Eddie Murphy.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1

6.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial (S). 6.30 FL72 Highlights (HD). 7.30 Premier League Preview (HD).

8.00 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). 9.00 Game Changers (HD).

10.00 Soccer AM (HD). 12.00 FL72 Live (HD). 2.30 Saturday Team Talk (HD). 3.00 Soccer Saturday (HD). 5.00 Live Saturday Night Football (HD). Southampton v Fulham (Kick-off 5.30pm).

FL72 Live, 12pm

BBC3 BBC3

7.00 Match of the Day Live (S).

England v Wales (Kick-off 7.05pm).

9.15 Deja Vu (S) (2006). A federal agent uses a topsecret device that allows him to see into the past to prevent a bombing taking place. Sci-fi thriller, starring Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer and Jim Caviezel. ●●● 11.15 Family Guy (R,S).

Bonnie gives birth to a girl.

11.45 Family Guy (R,S).

Peter participates in a medical experiment to make money.

12.05 Family Guy (R,S).

12.30 Family Guy (R,S).

12.50 Family Guy (R,S).

1.10 Family Guy (R,S).

1.30 Family Guy (R,S).

1.50 Family Guy (R,S).

1.15 (GMT) Staying In with Greg and Russell (R,S). 1.45 Sweat the Small Stuff: Extra Sweaty (S). 2.30 Some 8.00 Fight Night – Live (HD). Girls (R,S).

Kell Brook v Vyacheslav Senchenko. Coverage of the welterweight bout at the Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield, where British number one Brook puts his undefeated record on the line against his Ukrainian opponent, who ended Ricky Hatton’s brief comeback last year.

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 Africa (R). The challenges faced by the continent’s wildlife. Last in the series.

8.00 Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited (R).

Archaeologist Julian Richards revisits some of his most important digs.

9.00 Inspector Montalbano. A bombing brings Montalbano into contact with a mysterious woman. Drama, starring Luca Zingaretti.

10.55 Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10 (R). The evolution of the British singles chart.

12.25 Ultimate Number 1s at the BBC (R). 1.25 Top of the Pops: 1978 (R). 1.00 (GMT) Africa (R). 2.00 Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited (R).

10.40 The Catherine Tate 10.00 SNF – Match Choice 10.00 The Xtra Factor (R,HD). 10.00 Rude Tube (R,HD). Alex 10.55 A League of Their Show. Comedy sketches, Own: Unseen (R,HD).

(HD). Sarah-Jane Mee Caroline Flack and Matt Zane and his talking featuring Paul and Sam, James Corden introduces presents extended Richardson present the computer showcase 50 the foul-mouthed Nan more out-takes from highlights from the companion show, videos found online that and Bernie the series seven of the show, Premier League, getting the first feature a range of incompetent nurse. featuring team captains allowing viewers to reactions from the bizarre stunts, including Jamie Redknapp and access the latest round of contestants and judges an unorthodox way of Andrew “Freddie” top-flight fixtures, which following the evening’s eating a tomato.

Flintoff, plus regular included Aston Villa v live show. panellist Jack Whitehall.

Everton.

11.20 Bottom. Richie and 11.00 The Inbetweeners (R). 11.55 Brit Cops: Zero 11.30 FL72 Highlights (HD).

Eddie’s TV is repossessed, The gang goes on a field Tolerance (R,S).

Barnsley v Sheffield giving them ample trip to Swanage.

Following police officers Wednesday. opportunity to amuse in Hammersmith and 11.35 The Inbetweeners (R). themselves with a series Fulham as they try to Will is given a work of violent tit-for-tat catch criminals. experience placement at assaults. Rik Mayall and a garage.

Adrian Edmondson star.

12.45 Crazy Beaches (R,HD). The holiday reps share their experiences. 1.15 The X Factor (R,HD). The contestants perform songs from the movies. 2.15 (GMT) All Star Family Fortunes (R).

2.50 Teleshopping. Buying goods from home. 5.50 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.10 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 12.40 New Girl (R,HD).

1.40 Suburgatory (R,HD). 1.05 (GMT) The Cleveland Show. 1.25 How I Met Your Mother. 1.50 Rules of Engagement. 2.15 Happy Endings. 2.35 Bob’s Burgers. 3.00 Being Erica. 3.40 Ugly Betty. 4.25 Glee.

RADIO

11.00 Celebrity Juice (R,HD).

11.50 The Magaluf Weekender (R,HD).

Groups from Westonsuper-Mare and Windsor arrive. Last in the series.

Radio 1 5.00am Rob da Bank 7.00 Gemma Cairney 10.00 Matt Edmondson 1.00pm Huw Stephens 4.00 Radio 1’s Dance Anthems with Danny Howard 7.00 MistaJam 9.00 Charlie Sloth 11.00 DJ Target 1.00am Diplo and Friends 3.00 (GMT) Friction Radio 2 6.00am Anneka Rice 8.00 Sounds of the 60s 10.00 Graham Norton 1.00pm Pick of the Pops 3.00 Dermot O’Leary. Including a live session

by James Arthur. 6.00 Liza Tarbuck.

Music and chat. 8.00 Paul Gambaccini with America’s Greatest Hits. T10.00 Sounds of the 80s Midnight Bob Harris Sunday 3.00 (GMT) Richard Allinson

12.55 Ross Kemp: Middle East (R,S,HD). 1.50 Brit Cops: Zero Tolerance (R,S). 1.40 (GMT) Brit Cops: Zero Tolerance (R,S). 2.35 Road Wars (R,S). 3.00 John Bishop’s Only Joking (R,S,HD).

3.30 John Bishop’s Only Joking (R,S,HD). 4.00 Luton Airport (R,S).

5.00 Luton Airport (R,S).

Radio 3 7.00am Breakfast 9.00 News 9.03 CD Review 12.15pm Music Matters Live from Free Thinking 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Free Thinking Saturday Classics 4.00 Sound of Cinema 5.00 Jazz Record Requests 6.00 Jazz Line-Up 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert 10.00 Between the Ears at 20 10.30 Hear and Now Midnight Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz 1.00 Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 iPM 6.00 News and Papers 6.07 Ramblings 6.30 Farming Today This Week 6.57 Weather 7.00 Today 8.51 (LW) Yesterday in Parliament 9.00 Saturday

Live 10.30 Don’t Log Off 11.00 The Week in Westminster 11.30 From Our Own Correspondent Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 Money Box 12.30 The Now Show 12.57 Weather 1.00 News 1.10 Any Questions? 2.00 Any Answers? 2.30 Saturday Drama: Topaz 3.30 Madam Mao’s Golden Oldies 4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour 5.00 Saturday PM 5.30 The Bottom Line 5.54 Shipping Forecast 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.15 Loose Ends 7.00 Profile 7.15 Saturday Review 8.00 Archive on 4: Orson Welles and The War of the Worlds – Myth or Legend? The truth about an infamous American radio drama

12.00 The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer 12.35 The Comic Strip Presents: Four Men in a Plane 1.20 Bottom 1.50 Big Train 1.20 (GMT) The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer 1.50 The Green Green Grass 2.20 The Comic Strip Presents: Four Men in a Plane 3.00 Home Shopping broadcast in 1938. 9.00 Classic Serial: Sword of Honour – Officers and Gentlemen. By Evelyn Waugh.

Dramatised by Jeremy Front. Guy’s unit is posted to Egypt, where the men are surrounded more by rumour than action – and the chaos of war is approaching. 10.00 News and Weather 10.15 The Reith Lectures 2013. Grayson Perry challenges the common assertion that anything can be considered a work of art, in his second lecture. 11.00 Round Britain Quiz 11.30 Poetry Please Midnight News and Weather 12.30 The Pat Hobby Stories 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 (GMT) Shipping Forecast

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12.00 Saturday Reloaded (HD).

A round-up of the latest football goals. 1.00 SNF – Match Choice (HD). 1.30 (GMT) SNF – Match Choice (HD). 3.00 Football Gold (S). 3.15 Football Gold (S). 3.30 Spanish Football (HD). 4.30 Football Gold. 4.45 Football Gold. 5.00 Spanish Football (HD).

Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 6.00 Saturday Breakfast 9.00 The Danny Baker Show 11.00 Fighting Talk Noon 5 Live Sport 12.45 5 Live Sport: Premier League Football 2013-14 3.00 5 Live Sport 5.00 Sports Report 6.06 6-0-6. Phone-in on the day’s football action. 8.00 Saturday Edition 10.00 Stephen Nolan. A phone-in on the day’s events. 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 Alan Titchmarsh Noon Nicholas Owen 3.00 Jamie Crick 5.00 Saturday Night at the Movies 7.00 Alex James’s Magical Musical Tour 9.00 The New Releases Show 10.00 Smooth Classics Midnight Bob Jones

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Sunday television&radio Sunday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

BY ANY MEANS 9pm, BBC1

The team targets a gangland thug who walked free after murdering a young boy in broad daylight and is now marketing a hallucinogenic drug to children.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 (GMT) Breakfast (S,HD). 7.10 Match of the Day (R,S,HD). 8.30 Live Formula 1: Indian Grand Prix (S,HD). 11.45 Sunday Politics (S). 1.00 BBC News (S,HD). 1.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S). 2.00 Formula 1: Indian Grand Prix Replay (S,HD). 4.00 Points of View (S,HD). 4.15 Big Sing: The UK’s Top 10 Hymns (S,HD). 4.55 The Great British Year (R,S,HD). Wildlife throughout autumn. Last in the series. 5.55 BBC News; Regional News and Weather (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

HOMELAND 9pm, Channel 4

Carrie learns that, even in its crippled state, the CIA can still exert power when needed, and has breakfast with a new client. Saul and Fara follow the money trail to an unexpected location, and Jessica is forced to call the police when Dana goes missing. Claire Danes and Damian Lewis star in the American thriller.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 Film: (GMT) The Penguin Pool Murder (S) (1932). ●●● 7.05 Film: The 39 Steps (S) (1935). ●●●●● 8.30 Gardeners’ World (R,S,HD). 9.00 The Andrew Marr Show (S,HD). 10.00 Sunday Morning Live 2013 (S,HD). 11.00 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites (S). 12.15 MOTD2 Extra (S,HD). 1.00 MotoGP (S,HD). 2.30 Flog It! (R,S,HD). 3.30 Great British Railway Journeys (R,S,HD).

4.00 Boxing (S). 5.30 Britain’s Classroom Heroes (S,HD). See Choices Above.

BRITAIN’S CLASSROOM HEROES 5.30pm, BBC2

Clare Balding hosts an awards ceremony honouring the nation’s teachers at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with guests Mo Farah, Will.i.am, Ronnie Corbett and Terry Wogan.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 (GMT) Babar and the Adventures of Badou (R,S). 6.10 Matt Hatter Chronicles (R,S). 6.35 Dino Dan (R,S). 7.00 Canimals (R,S). 7.25 Sooty (S). 7.35 Horrid Henry (R,S). 7.50 Big Time Rush (S). 8.15 Bottom Knocker Street (S). 8.30 Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge (S). 9.25 ITV News (S). 9.30 Storage Hoarders (R,S,HD). 10.30 Sunday Side Up (S,HD). 11.30 Sunday Scoop (S). 12.30 ITV News and Weather (S). 12.35 Inside the National Trust (S,HD). 1.35 The FA Cup Draw (S). 2.05 The X Factor (R,S,HD). 4.05 Fool Britannia (R,S,HD). 4.35 Downton Abbey (R,S,HD). 5.40 Prize Island (S,HD) See Choices Above.

SCREAM: THE TRUE STORY 11.10pm, Channel 5

Exploring the real-life inspiration for Wes Craven’s 1996 horror film, which writer Kevin Williamson partly based on the exploits of serial killer Danny Harold Rolling. This documentary explores the impact Rolling’s killing spree, following the trials of the year-long police investigation to track down the killer.

Channel Channel 5

Channel Channel 4

6.10 (GMT) The Hoobs (R,S). 6.35 The Hoobs (R,S). 7.00 The American Football Show (R,S). 7.55 Killarney Adventure Race (S). 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 9.00 Frasier (R,S). 9.30 Sunday Brunch (S). 12.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). 12.55 The Simpsons (R,S). 1.55 Film: Maid in Manhattan (S,HD) (2002). Romantic comedy, with Jennifer Lopez. ●● 4.00 Channel 4 News (S). 4.30 American Football Live (S).

6.00 (GMT) Milkshake! 10.00 Great Run Series (S,HD). 12.00 Film: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (S,HD) (2009).

Comedy, with the voice of Bill Hader. ●●● 1.40 Film: The Ghost of Greville Lodge (S) (2000). Family drama, starring George Cole. ●●● 3.30 Film: The Canterville Ghost (S) (1996). Comedy, starring Patrick Stewart. ●●● 5.15 Film: Monster House (S,HD) (2006). Animated comedy horror, with the voice of Mitchel Musso. ●●●●

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6.30 The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek (S,HD). 5/6. The puppets share a romantic dinner.

7.20 Strictly Come Dancing: The Results (S,HD). Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman reveal which couples are in the danceoff, leaving their fates in the hands of the judges.

7.00 Dive WWII: Our Secret History (S,HD). 2/2. Part two of two. The divers uncover submarines sunk as part of the German surrender.

7.00 Surprise Surprise (S,HD). 6/10.

A stroke victim is introduced to his cycling hero Mark Cavendish. Presented by Holly Willoughby.

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6.20 Countryfile (S,HD). Matt Baker presents the One Man and His Dog sheepdog trials.

8.00 The Paradise (S,HD). 2/8.

Moray invites a business associate from Paris to visit, hoping he can strike a deal to sell the fireworks she has brought with her – but their intimacy arouses Denise’s jealousy.

8.00 Great Continental Railway Journeys (S,HD). 1/6. New series. Michael Portillo travels through Spain as he once again ventures onto the European rail network, visiting Madrid, Córdoba, Seville, Algeciras and Gibraltar.

8.00 The X Factor Results (S,HD).

15/22. Dermot O’Leary reveals the names of the acts who are safe, and the two least popular sing for survival, before one of them must leave. Plus, music by Lady Gaga and the Wanted.

8.00 Bigfoot Files (S). 2/3. Mark Evans travels to America’s Pacific Northwest to meet people who claim to have come face to face with a sasquatch, and Bryan Sykes reveals the results of his DNA tests.

8.55 5 News Weekend (S,HD).

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Downton Abbey, 9pm

9.00 By Any Means (S,HD). 6/6. See Choices Above.

9.00 A Very English Education (S,HD). Hannah Berryman catches up with former pupils of Radley College who featured in a 1979 documentary series to find out how their lives panned out after they left school.

9.00 Downton Abbey (S,HD). 6/8.

Rose’s surprise contribution to Robert’s birthday party ruffles feathers, Mary faces repercussions when a new farming venture is launched, and Edith receives more unwelcome news.

9.00 Homeland (S,HD). 4/12.

See Choices Above.

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10.00 BBC News; Regional News and Weather (S,HD).

10.25 Match of the Day 2 (S,HD).

Mark Chapman reviews the day’s Premier League action, including Chelsea v Manchester City at Stamford Bridge and Sunderland v Newcastle United at the Stadium of Light.

10.00 The Wrong Mans (R,S,HD).

5/6. Sam and Phil take a wounded Marat to Phil’s house, but with MI5 agent Smoke closing in on them, the hapless duo find they have become high-profile fugitives.

10.30 QI XL (S,HD). 8/16. Extended edition. With Isy Suttie, Tim Minchin and Bill Bailey.

10.05 ITV News and Weather (S); Weather 10.20 Women Behind Bars with Trevor McDonald (R,S,HD).

2/2. Part two of two. The journalist meets more inmates inside two of Indiana’s most dangerous women’s prisons, including Linda Darby, who spent 35 years as a fugitive.

10.05 Was It Something I Said?

(S,HD). 4/8. David Mitchell hosts the comedy panel show, with team captains Micky Flanagan and Richard Ayoade joined by guests Bob Mortimer and Katherine Ryan.

10.35 Toast of London (S,HD). 2/6.

Steven wins a part in a new play.

9.00 Scream 4 (S,HD) (2011).

Premiere. Three-time massacre survivor Sidney Prescott returns to her home town for the first time in years while on a book promotion tour. Her arrival coincides with a fresh batch of killings, as a mysterious masked figure seeks to mark the 15th anniversary of the original murders. Horror sequel, starring Neve Campbell, Emma Roberts, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Anna Paquin, Hayden Panettiere, Kristen Bell and Mary McDonnell. Edited for violence and language. Includes 5 News at 10.15pm. ●●●

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Countryfile, 6.20pm

11.50 Rugby League World Cup (S,HD). Tanya Arnold presents highlights of the opening weekend’s fixtures, which included Australia v England and New Zealand v Samoa.

11.15 Never Mind the Buzzcocks (R,S,HD). 5/13. Actress Kristen Schaal hosts the comedy music quiz.

11.45 Just Like Heaven (S) (2005).

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11.20 Premiership Rugby Union (HD). Highlights of the latest top-flight fixtures, which included London Wasps v Leicester Tigers, Northampton Saints v Saracens and Harlequins v Sale Sharks.

11.05 Alan Carr: Chatty Man (R,S,HD). 9/18. With Michael Sheen, Amanda Holden, Karl Pilkington, Jared Leto and Icona Pop.

11.10 Scream: The True Story (S,HD). See Choices Above.

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12.35 Weatherview (S). 12.40 BBC News (S,HD).

1.15 Sign Zone: Countryfile (R,S). John Craven learns about the Norber Erratics – giant boulders in the Yorkshire Dales – and Ellie Harrison visits industrial sites-turnednature reserves in Kent. 2.10 Sign Zone: Holby City (R,S). Harry is forced to confront an old friend when drugs go missing. 3.10 This Is BBC Two (S). Preview of upcoming programmes.

12.15 The Store. Home shopping. 2.20 British Superbike Championship Highlights (S,HD). Action from Brands Hatch, which featured the third and final round of The Showdown format, in which the top six riders from the regular season competed. 3.35 Motorsport UK (HD). 4.25 ITV Nightscreen (HD). 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S,HD).

12.10 American Football Live (S).

Minnesota Vikings v Green Bay Packers (Kick-off 12.30am). 3.45 FIM Superbike World Championship (R,S). Action from the 14th and final round of the campaign in Spain. 4.10 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD).

High-stakes game show, with Noel Edmonds. 5.05 Countdown (R,S,HD). 5.50 Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures (R,S,HD).

12.05 Film: The Wicker Man (S) (2006).● 1.55 SuperCasino. 4.00 Michaela’s Wild Challenge (R,S). 4.25 Make It Big (R,S).

4.50 Roary the Racing Car (R,S). 5.00 Angels of Jarm (R,S). 5.05 Hana’s Helpline (R,S). 5.20 Angels of Jarm (R,S).

5.25 The Funky Valley Show (R,S). 5.40 Roary the Racing Car (R,S). 5.50 Hana’s Helpline (R,S).

Was It Something I Said?, 10.05pm

6.55 Ghostbusters (S,HD) (1984).

Three eccentric scientists set up a ghost-catching business together and end up having to save the world. Supernatural comedy adventure, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts and William Atherton.

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PRIZE ISLAND 5.40pm, ITV

ARROW 8pm, Sky1

The fantasy drama returns four months on from the Undertaking. Events have taken their toll on local hero Oliver, who has retired and gone back to Lian Yu, the island where he was stranded and tortured for five years. Diggle and Felicity track him down – but can they persuade him he is still needed back home?

New game show set on a tropical island, where four teams partake in challenges for the chance to win £50,000 and a new car.

Presented by Alexander Armstrong and Emma Willis.

ITV2 ITV2

6.00 (GMT) Emmerdale (R,HD).

8.35 Coronation Street (R,HD).

11.05 The X Factor (R,HD). 1.10 The Xtra Factor (R,HD). 2.05 James Arthur: The Hot Desk (R,HD). 2.20 Film: Honey (HD) (2003). Urban dance drama, starring Jessica Alba. ●● 4.25 Film: Casper (HD) (1995). Family comedy, starring Christina Ricci and Bill Pullman. ●●●●

E4 E4

6.00 (GMT) Switched (R). 6.25 Make It or Break It (R,HD). 7.10 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 10.00 Hollyoaks (R,HD).

12.30 Made in Chelsea (R,HD).

1.35 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 2.35 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 3.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 4.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1

6.00 (GMT) Hour of Power (HD).

7.00 Glee (R,S,HD). 9.00 Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew (R,S,HD). 10.00 WWE Superstars (R). 11.00 WWE: Experience.

12.00 Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie (R,S,HD). 1.00 David Attenborough’s Galapagos (R,S,HD). 2.00 Modern Family (R,S,HD). 3.00 John Bishop’s Only Joking. 3.30 Futurama (R,S).

FILM PICKS

Sunday television&radio JUST LIKE HEAVEN 11.45pm, BBC2

GHOSTBUSTERS 6.55pm, Channel 5

A doctor returns to her apartment in spirit form following a car crash, but someone else is already living there. Drama, with Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo.

Gold GOLD

6.00 (GMT) 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.10 The Good Life 7.50 The Good Life 8.30 The Good Life 9.10 Porridge 9.50 Heroes of Comedy 10.55 Jo Brand’s Great Wall of Comedy 11.35 Last of the Summer Wine 12.15 Keeping Up Appearances 1.35 Only Fools and Horses 3.55 Only Fools and Horses 5.00 Jeeves and Wooster

Three eccentric scientists set up a ghostcatching business together and end up having to save the world. Comedy, with Bill Murray.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1

6.00 (GMT) FL72 Highlights (HD).

6.30 Spanish Football (HD). 7.30 Spanish Football Gold (HD).8.00 Game Changers (HD). 9.00 The Sunday Supplement (HD). 10.30 Goals on Sunday (HD). 12.30 Live Super Sunday (HD).

Sunderland v Newcastle United (Kick-off 1.30pm). 3.30 Live Super Sunday (HD). Chelsea v Manchester City (Kick-off 4.00pm).

The Xtra Factor, 9pm

Fantastic Four: Rise ... 8pm

Karl Pilkington: The ... 9pm

The Office, 9pm

Live Super Sunday, 3.30pm

6.25 The Perfect Storm (HD) (2000). The skipper of a fishing boat and his crew ignore severe weather warnings and head for a dangerous area of the North Atlantic in search of the last lucrative catch of the season, but end up fighting for survival in the worst storm of the 20th century. Fact-based disaster drama, with George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C Reilly, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Karen Allen, Allen Payne and William Fichtner.

Including FYI Daily. ●●●

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

Marge, Bart and Lisa taste success in the world of food blogging.

6.15 Jeeves and Wooster.

Bertie returns to New York in the hope of avoiding Aunt Agatha, Roderick Spode and Madeline Bassett.

7.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Leonard and Raj take a heartbroken Howard to Las Vegas.

7.30 Rules of Engagement (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Marge joins a women’s group.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

With the voice of Stephen Hawking.

7.25 The Magic of Tommy Cooper. Highlights from the comedian’s career.

6.55 Live Spanish Football (HD). Real Sociedad v Almeria. Second-half coverage of the La Liga match staged at the Anoeta Stadium, where two of this season’s struggling teams face each other.

8.00 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (HD) (2007). The superpowered team takes on a mysterious alien who has been sent by his planet-eating master to prepare Earth for obliteration. While the four heroes try to find a way to foil its plans, an old enemy returns, intent on seizing the extraterrestrial’s power.

Sci-fi adventure sequel, starring Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans and Jessica Alba. ●●●

8.00 Arrow (R,S,HD). See Choices Above.

8.25 Porridge. Fletcher objects to having a third cellmate foisted on him, especially as the newcomer seems to enjoy special privileges.

Comedy, starring Ronnie Barker.

9.00 Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life (S,HD).

Karl Pilkington tries to find out how people achieve happiness, meeting those who find pleasure in pain in Mexico and hanging out with hip-hop clowns in LA.

9.00 The Office. Brent is headhunted.

9.40 Knowing Me, Knowing You – With Alan Partridge. The Miss Norwich beauty contest.

With Steve Coogan.

9.00 The Xtra Factor (HD).

Caroline Flack and Matt Richardson go behind the scenes of the main results show to chat to the departing act and get opinions of the night’s performances.

8.00 Live Spanish Football (HD). Atletico Madrid v Real Betis (Kick-off 8.00pm). Coverage of the La Liga clash at the Estadio Vicente Calderon, where Atletico will look to continue their excellent form.

10.00 Rude Tube. Alex Zane looks at clips whose stars have become online celebrities in their own right, including a video featuring an impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Last in the series.

11.50 Tricked (R,HD). Ben Hanlin messes with the mind of Atomic Kitten’s Natasha Hamilton as he sends her on a creepy date, and also makes the earth move for boxer Joe Calzaghe.

11.00 Channel 4’s Comedy 11.00 Trollied (R,S,HD). The Gala. Comedians staff members think perform in aid of Great Gavin has been sacked.

Ormond Street Hospital. 11.30 Road Wars (R,S). Police 11.55 Misfits (R,HD). The officers combat vehicle comedy drama returns crime. for a final series.

11.00 The Thick of It. Nicola 11.30 Football Special (HD).

Murray struggles to cope Extended highlights with life in opposition. from the Premier 11.40 Nighty Night. Jill League. attempts to track down Don and Cath. Starring Julia Davis.

12.50 The Vampire Diaries (R,HD). Connor takes Jeremy, Matt and April hostage. 1.45 The Vampire Diaries (R,HD). Terrifying hallucinations leave Elena shaken and confused. 2.30 Life’s Funniest Moments (R). 2.50 Teleshopping 5.50 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.55 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.25 Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (R,HD).

Chloe tries to exact revenge on her first New York flatmate. Last in the series. 1.55 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 2.15 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 2.35 Channel 4’s Comedy Gala (R). 3.15 Hollyoaks (R,HD).

12.20 The Office. Brent’s ego gets a boost when he is headhunted by public speaking agency Cooper and Webb, and Trudy’s birthday party gets into full swing. 1.00 Knowing Me, Knowing You – With Alan Partridge 1.30 The Thick of It 2.00 The Thick of It 2.30 Nighty Night 3.00 Home Shopping

RADIO

7.00 (GMT) Formula 1: Indian Grand Prix Highlights (S). Action from the 16th round of the season.

8.00 Atlantis (R,S).

A night-time messenger brings shocking news for Ariadne.

8.45 Pop’s Greatest Dance Crazes (R,S).

9.00 Russell Howard’s Good News (R,S).

9.30 Russell Howard’s Good News (R,S).

10.00 Family Guy (S).

10.25 Family Guy (R,S).

10.45 Sweat the Small Stuff (R,S).

11.15 American Dad! (R,S).

11.40 American Dad! (R,S).

12.00 Some Girls (R,S).

12.30 Unsafe Sex in the City (R,S). 1.30 Sweat the Small Stuff (R,S). 2.00 Staying In with Greg and Russell (R,S). With Little Mix. 2.30 Some Girls (R,S).

3.00 Him & Her (R,S). 3.30 Him & Her (R,S).

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 (GMT) Serengeti: Unnatural Histories (R).

8.00 Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain (R). The stories behind some of the grandest designs never built.

9.00 The Golden Age of Steam Railways (R).

Part one of two.

A bid to rescue Britain’s narrow gauge railways.

10.00 The Golden Age of Steam Railways (R).

Part two of two.

Further efforts to rescue Britain’s standard gauge railways.

11.00 Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death (R).

12.00 Arena: The National Theatre (R). 1.00 The Who – The Story of Tommy (R). The making of the Who’s critically acclaimed 1969 album. 2.00 Quadrophenia – Can You See the Real Me? (R).

10.20 The Thick of It. Peter 10.00 Revolution (S,HD).

10.00 Football Special (HD).

Mannion takes charge of Miles and Sheriff Mason Extended highlights the Department of Social are captured by Titus from the Premier Affairs and Citizenship – Andover, and it soon League, allowing viewers but is hindered by a new becomes clear the Texas to access the latest topcolleague. Armando warlord means business. flight fixtures, including Iannucci’s satire, starring Rachel and her father try Tottenham Hotspur v Roger Allam, Geoffrey to revive Aaron.

Hull City.

Streatfeild and Vincent Franklin.

10.00 The Only Way Is Essex (HD).

10.50 Freshers (R,HD). The friends struggle to cope with living away from their parents, and head to a pool party in an attempt to cure their homesickness.

Radio 1 5.00am (GMT) Seani B 7.00 Gemma Cairney 10.00 Matt Edmondson 1.00pm Huw Stephens 4.00 The Official Chart Show with Jameela Jamil 7.00 Dan & Phil 9.00 The Surgery 10.00 Annie Mac Midnight BBC Introducing with Jen and Ally 2.00 Monki 4.00 Dev Radio 2 6.00am (GMT) The Sunday Hour 7.00 Hardeep Singh Kohli with Good Morning Sunday 9.00 Steve Wright 11.00 Weekend Wogan 1.00pm Elaine Paige on Sunday 3.00 Johnnie Walker 5.00 Paul O’Grady 7.00 Michael Ball 9.00 Clare Teal 11.00 Don Black Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester

BBC3 BBC3

12.00 Ross Kemp: Middle East (R,S,HD). 1.00 Brit Cops: Zero Tolerance (R,S). 2.00 Brit Cops: Zero Tolerance (R,S). 3.00 Brit Cops: Zero Tolerance (R,S,HD).

4.00 Luton Airport (R,S). 4.30 Luton Airport (R,S). 5.00 Luton Airport (R,S). 5.30 Luton Airport (R,S).

Radio 3 7.00am (GMT) Breakfast 9.00 News 9.03 Sunday Morning with Rob Cowan Noon Private Passions at Free Thinking 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 The Early Music Show 3.00 Choral Evensong 4.00 The Choir at Free Thinking 5.30 Words and Music at Free Thinking 6.45 Free Thinking Sunday Feature: Production Line Living 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert 10.00 Drama on 3: King David 11.30 David Matthews Symphonies 12.30am Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am (GMT) News Briefing 5.43 Bells on Sunday 5.45 Profile 6.00 News Headlines 6.05 Something Understood 6.35 Living World

6.57 Weather 7.00 News 7.07 Sunday Papers 7.10 Sunday 7.55 (LW) Radio 4 Appeal 7.55 (FM) Radio 4 Appeal 7.57 Weather 8.00 News 8.07 Sunday Papers 8.10 Sunday Worship 8.50 A Point of View 8.58 Tweet of the Day 9.00 Broadcasting House 10.00 The Archers 11.15 Desert Island Discs Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping 12.04 The Museum of Curiosity 12.30 The Food Programme 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World This Weekend 1.30 Women at War 2.00 Gardeners’ Question Time 2.45 The Listening Project 3.00 Classic Serial: Sword of Honour – Unconditional Surrender 4.00 Open Book 4.30 Lindisfarne: Poetry in

Progress 5.00 File on 4 5.40 Profile 5.54 Shipping Forecast 6.00 News 6.15 Pick of the Week 7.00 The Archers 7.15 My Teenage Diary 7.45 Stories from the South Downs 8.00 Feedback 8.30 Last Word 9.00 Money Box 9.26 (LW) Radio 4 Appeal 9.26 (FM) Radio 4 Appeal 9.30 Analysis 9.59 Weather 10.00 The Westminster Hour 11.00 The Film Programme 11.30 Something Understood Midnight News and Weather 12.15 Thinking Allowed 12.45 Bells on Sunday 12.48 Shipping 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Radio 5 Live 5.00am (GMT) Reports 5.30 The Non League Football Show

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1.00 Champions League Weekly (HD). A review of the matchday three fixtures. 1.30 Football Special (HD). Chelsea v Manchester City and Sunderland v Newcastle United. 3.00 Scottish Premiership Football (HD). Partick Thistle v Celtic. 3.30 Spanish Football (HD).

4.30 Football Special (HD) 6.00 Sunday Breakfast 9.00 5 Live Formula 1 11.30 5 Live Formula 1: Murray Walker at 90 Noon 5 Live Sport 12.15 MOTD2 Extra 1.00 5 Live Sport 4.00 5 Live Sport: Premier League Football 2013-14 6.06 6-0-6 7.30 On the Money 8.30 5 Live Formula 1 9.00 Pienaar’s Politics 10.00 Stephen Nolan 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am (GMT) More Music Breakfast 9.00 Aled Jones Noon Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen 3.00 Charlotte Green’s Culture Club 5.00 The Classic FM Chart 7.00 David Mellor 9.00 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Classical Music 10.00 Smooth Classics Midnight Bob Jones

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Monday television&radio Monday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

RIPPER STREET 9pm, BBC1

Reid is quick to act when a detective is hurled from a Whitechapel tenement window. Victorian police thriller, starring Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 11.00 Saints and Scroungers (S,HD). 11.45 Britain’s Empty Homes (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (S,HD).

1.00 News (S,HD). 1.30 Regional News (S) 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 Keeping Up Appearances (R,S). 3.15 Perfection (R,S,HD). 4.00 Escape to the Country (S).

4.30 Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (S,HD). 5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

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THE GADGET SHOW 8pm, Channel 5

Jason Bradbury and Rachel Riley build two tech-heavy Halloween costumes and take them out to the darkened streets of Birmingham to give the commuting public a scare, and Jason is joined by European downhill mountain bike champion Scott Beaumont to put off-road e-bikes to the test.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two (S). 6.05 Homes Under the Hammer 7.05 Real Rescues 7.50 Britain’s Empty Homes 8.20 Sign Zone: The A to Z of TV Cooking (R,S). 9.05 Watchdog (R,S). 10.05 James Martin’s Food Map of Britain (R,S). 10.35 Click (R,S,HD). 11.00 News (S,HD). 11.30 World News (S,HD). 12.00 Daily Politics (S). 1.00 Rugby League World Cup (R,S,HD). 1.45 Great British Menu 2.45 Floyd on Britain and Ireland (R,S,HD). 3.15 Are You Being Served? (R,S). 3.45 ’Allo ’Allo!

(R,S). 4.20 Cagney & Lacey 5.10 Flog It! (R,S).

OCD WARD 9pm, ITV

An insight into four severe cases of obsessive compulsive disorder, including two men who are receiving treatment at south London’s Springfield University Hospital.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S,HD). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (R,S,HD). From Leeds. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). Features, music and conversation. 3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars (R,S,HD). 5.00 The Chase (R,S,HD).

Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh.

TALES FROM NORTHUMBERLAND WITH ROBSON GREEN 8pm, ITV The actor explores the history and culture of his home county. He begins by spending a day on the remote Farne Islands a few miles off the coast, meeting the National Trust rangers who look after one of the nation’s largest bird colonies.

Channel Channel 4

6.05 The Treacle People (R,S). 6.15 The Hoobs (R,S). 7.10 According to Jim (R,S,HD). 7.35 Will & Grace (R,S). 8.00 Frasier (R,S). 9.05 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 10.05 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). 11.00 Undercover Boss USA (R,S). 12.00 Channel 4 News Summary (S). 12.05 Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cooking (S,HD). 12.35 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals (R,S,HD). 1.05 SuperScrimpers (R,S,HD). 1.10 Film: One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (S) (1942). See Choices Above. ●●● 3.10 Countdown (S,HD). 4.00 Deal or No Deal: Freaky Fun Fayre (S,HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (S,HD). 5.30 Come Dine with Me (S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 The Hotel Inspector (R,S).

12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 War Hero in My Family (R,S,HD). Paddy Ashdown and Helen Lederer research stories of the Second World War. 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD).

2.15 Delete (S,HD). 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD). 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD). Lauren and Brad set new ground rules for Josh and Amber.

Iceland Foods: Life in the ... 9pm

Emmerdale, 7pm

999: What’s Your Emergency?, 9pm

Under the Dome, 10pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather 6.30 Regional News (S); Weather

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather 6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 8/21. Mr Burns wins a professional basketball team in a poker game.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD).

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD).

Sasha finds out that Indi spent the night with Chris.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Hosted

by Alex Jones and Matt Baker.

7.30 Regional Programme (S).

Followed by BBC News; Regional News

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 85/140. Quiz show, hosted by Jeremy Vine.

6.30 Strictly Come Dancing – It Takes Two (S,HD). Zoe Ball chats to the latest couple to be eliminated.

7.00 The Great British Bake Off – The Final (R,S,HD). 10/16. Ruby, Kimberley and Frances battle it out for the title. Presented by Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc.

Last in the series.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD).

7.30 Coronation Street (S,HD). Rob offers to pay for the smashed window if Tina apologises to Tracy.

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S,HD). A week of talks by Heathrow’s airport chaplains.

7.00 Construction Squad: Operation Homefront (S,HD).

Building an equestrian therapy centre for children and adults with special needs. Followed by 5 News Update.

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Quitting the English ... 10.35pm

8.00 EastEnders (S,HD). Michael is on edge over Alice’s disappearance.

8.30 Our Dirty Nation – Panorama (S,HD). Joan Bakewell examines whether enough is being done to clean up Britain.

8.00 University Challenge (S,HD).

16/37. Two more highestscoring losers are given another chance.

8.30 Tom Kerridge’s Proper Pub Food (S,HD). 6/6. See Choices Above.

8.00 Tales from Northumberland with Robson Green (S,HD).

1/8. See Choices Above.

8.30 Coronation Street (S,HD).

David goes to Nick’s aid when he has a panic attack.

8.00 The Property Market Undercover: Channel 4 Dispatches (S). Tactics used by some estate agents to secure sales and commissions.

8.30 Health Freaks (S). 2/6. See Choices Above.

8.00 The Gadget Show (S,HD).

See Choices Above. Followed by 5 News at 9.

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9.00 Ripper Street (S,HD). 1/8. See Choices Above.

9.00 Iceland Foods: Life in the Freezer Cabinet (S,HD). 2/3.

CEO Malcolm Walker deals with the fallout from the horsemeat scandal, but his media strategy backfires badly, while a new store opens in the south Wales village of Treorchy.

9.00 OCD Ward (S,HD). See Choices Above.

9.00 999: What’s Your Emergency? (S,HD). 4/6.

Paramedics race to help a 76-year-old who has collapsed in his garden, an 18-year-old who has stopped breathing and a man found floating in the sea.

9.00 Pickpockets & Proud (S,HD).

Documentary about petty thieves making a living by picking pockets and snatching valuables in the street, with one man claiming to have stolen goods worth £100,000 in just one year.

10.00 Under the Dome (S,HD). 11/13.

Julia is rushed to hospital after being shot, Big Jim convinces Linda the real threat to the town is Barbie, and the dome sends Joe, Norrie, Angie and Junior a startling vision.

10.55 Final Destination (S,HD) (2000). A teenager’s grim premonition saves his schoolmates from dying in a plane crash, but despite their narrow escape, the vengeful spirit of death refuses to be outwitted and the survivors fall victim to a series of bizarre mishaps. Horror, starring Devon Sawa, Ali Larter and Kristen Cloke. See Choices Above. ●●●

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10.00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks (S,HD). 6/13. TV presenter Eamonn Holmes hosts the comedy music quiz, with Sarah Millican, Shaun Ryder, Greg McHugh and Jaymi Hensley joining team captains Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Followed

by Weather

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 The Agenda (S,HD). 4/8. ITV’s political editor Tom Bradby presents a discussion on the week’s main talking points, with guests from the worlds of politics and popular culture.

10.00 Embarrassing Bodies: Back to the Clinic (S). The doctors revisit memorable cases, including a woman whose excessive eating left her with a huge growth on her leg, and a man who underwent surgery to curb his high-calorie diet.

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S); Weather 10.35 Quitting the English Defence League: When Tommy Met Mo (S,HD).

Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson learns about British Islam.

11.20 BBC News: The Editors (S,HD). 7/11.

11.50 Citizen Khan (R,S,HD). 4/6.

Dave and Mr Khan see who can fast the longest. Comedy, starring Adil Ray, Shobu Kapoor and Matthew Cottle.

11.20 A Very English Education (R,S,HD). Hannah Berryman catches up with former pupils of Radley College who featured in a 1979 documentary series to find out how their lives panned out after they left school.

11.05 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories: Pete Waterman (R,S,HD). 5/6.

The pop mogul talks about life in the music industry, learning to read and write in his thirties, his three failed marriages and the death of his eldest son.

11.05 Educating Yorkshire (R,S).

8/8. An English teacher helps two students who pose different challenges. Last in the series.

12.20 The Graham Norton Show (R,S,HD). Graham bags a rare interview with big-screen superstar Robert De Niro, as well as Hollywood actress Michelle Pfeiffer, soon to be seen together in gangster comedy The Family. 1.05 Weatherview (S).

1.10 BBC News (S,HD).

12.20 Sign Zone: The Culture Show at Edinburgh: Funny Women (R,S). The highs and lows of being a woman in the world of stand-up comedy. 12.50 Sign Zone: The Story of the Jews (R,S). The influence of the shtetl on Jewish culture and the modern world. 1.50 This Is BBC Two (S). Preview of upcoming programmes.

4.00 BBC Learning Zone (R,S,HD).

12.05 Jackpot247 Interactive gaming.

3.00 Champions League Weekly (S,HD).

A review of the matchday three fixtures, which included Arsenal v Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United v Real Sociedad and Real Madrid v Juventus. 3.25 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Text-based information service. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S,HD).

12.10 How to Find the Perfect Flatmate (R,S,HD). Documentary about people entering the rental market in London. 1.05 Random Acts (S). A short film by Ester Johnson. 1.10 Film: Andaz (S) (1949).

Romantic Indian musical drama, starring Dilip Kumar and Nargis. ●●●● 3.45 Nashville (S,HD). 4.25 Countdown (R,S,HD). 5.10 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD).

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12.45 Campus PD (S,HD). Students are caught behaving suspiciously behind a dumpster. Last in the series. 1.15 SuperCasino Live interactive gaming. 3.05 The Butcher Boy: Countdown to Murder (R,S,HD). 3.55 HouseBusters (R,S). 4.20 House Doctor (R,S). 4.45 House Doctor (R,S). 5.10 Divine Designs (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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HEALTH FREAKS 8.30pm, Channel 4

TOM KERRIDGE’S PROPER PUB FOOD 8.30pm, BBC2

The chef makes family dishes inspired by British pub fare, preparing smoked haddock and parmesan omelette and giving the traditional roast chicken a farmyard twist by baking it in hay. He also demonstrates his take on the classic baked beans on toast and creates an apple toffee crumble pie.

Pixie McKenna, Ayan Panja and Ellie Cannon meet a man who claims drinking his own urine has cured a common ailment, and assess homespun ‘treatments’ for arthritis and bleeding gums.

ITV2 ITV2

E4 E4

6.00 Emmerdale 6.25 Coronation Street 7.25 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). 7.55 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R). 8.40 Dinner Date 9.40 The Real Housewives of New York City (R,HD). 10.35 The Real Housewives of Orange County (R,HD). 11.30 Big Rich Texas (R,HD). 12.30 Emmerdale (R,HD). 1.00 Coronation Street 2.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R). 4.10 The Real Housewives of Orange County 5.05 Big Rich Texas (R,HD).

6.00 Switched (R). 6.25 90210 (R,HD). 7.10 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 Glee (R,HD).

10.00 Suburgatory (R,HD). 11.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 11.30 Charmed (R). 12.30 Hollyoaks (R,HD). 1.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 Suburgatory (R,HD). 4.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD).5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 7.00 The Middle (R,S,HD).

8.00 Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew (R,S,HD). 9.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD). 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 1.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 2.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 2.30 Futurama (R,S). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD). 5.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 5.30 The Middle (R,S,HD).

FILM PICKS

Monday television&radio ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING 1.10pm, Channel 4

FINAL DESTINATION 10.55pm, Channel 5

A teenager’s premonition saves his friends from dying, but the vengeful spirit of death refuses to be outwitted. Horror, starring Devon Sawa and Ali Larter.

Powell and Pressburger’s Second World War drama, starring Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman and Hugh Williams.

Gold GOLD 6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.00 2point4 Children 7.35 Heroes of Comedy 8.40 Last of the Summer Wine 9.20 Keeping Up Appearances 10.40 Heroes of Comedy 11.40 Just a Minute 12.20 Jo Brand’s Great Wall of Comedy 1.00 The Return of the Borrowers 1.40 Porridge 2.20 As Time Goes By 3.00 Porridge 4.00 Last of the Summer Wine 5.20 One Foot in the Grave

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD).

8.00 Game Changers (HD). 8.30 FL72 Highlights (HD).9.00 Football Special (HD). 10.30 Game Changers (HD).

11.00 Scottish Premiership Football (HD). 11.30 FL72 Highlights (HD). 12.00 Football Special (HD). 1.30 Spanish Football (HD). 2.30 Football Special (HD). 4.00 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). 4.30 Game Changers (HD). 5.30 Soccer AM: The Best Bits (HD).

Peter Andre: My Life, 9pm

90210, 9pm

Arrow, 8pm

Not Going Out, 9pm

FL72 Live, 7.30pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R,HD).

A woman from Manchester takes part in the show. Narrated by Charlotte Hudson.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 The Middle (R,S,HD).

Sue is convinced her family is organising a surprise birthday party.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 6.30 Harry Hill’s TV Burp. A comic look at soaps and celebrities.

6.30 FL72 Review. A roundup of recent matches, featuring all the goals from League One and League Two.

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Featuring a man rollerskating off a roof.

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R).

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD).

7.35 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). Lily realises she still has doubts about becoming a parent.

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

Moe turns his tavern into a gay bar.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

Bart discovers a passion for American history.

7.00 The Good Life. Tom fears he and Barbara have no money set aside for their old age.

8.00 You’ve Been Framed!

Favourites (R). Comical clips, featuring Annette Bening and Kim Jong-il lookalikes. Harry Hill narrates.

8.00 New Girl (R,HD). The gang tries to attend three Christmas parties in a single night.

8.30 New Girl (R,HD). Nick’s conman father shows up. Comedy, starring Zooey Deschanel.

8.00 Arrow (HD). A killer escapes from prison and continues his evil trade of torture and murder, while Oliver is shocked that the DA is seeking the death penalty for his mother.

8.00 Porridge. Mackay and Barraclough discover Fletch is making booze in his cell and the crafty con seems certain to spend Christmas in solitary.

9.00 Peter Andre: My Life (HD). The Australian singer takes his children along as he promotes his two new fragrances, before he and pregnant girlfriend Emily present a segment on This Morning.

9.00 90210 (HD). Teddy joins the search for Michaela, while Naomi tries to protect Elizabeth’s reputation by taking the flack for an out-ofcontrol royal who causes trouble at an event.

9.00 Strike Back: Shadow Warfare (S,HD). New series. Tough soldiers Stonebridge and Scott (Philip Winchester and Sullivan Stapleton) discover a new threat in the shape of an Iranian terrorist. Robson Green joins the cast.

9.00 Not Going Out. Kate and Lee take in a lodger.

Sitcom, starring Lee Mack.

9.40 Not Going Out. Lee has to leave the flat when he gets a job as a caretaker, prompting Kate to look for new housemates.

7.30 FL72 Live (HD). Brighton & Hove Albion v Watford (kick-off 7.45pm).

Coverage of the Championship fixture at the Amex Stadium, between two clubs that reached the play-offs last season. Watford have recovered relatively well from losing in the final to Crystal Palace and are expected to challenge for promotion once again, while the Seagulls have taken longer to adapt under new manager Oscar Garcia.

10.00 Release the Hounds 10.00 Made in Chelsea.

(HD). Reggie Yates Louise reveals that presents a HalloweenJamie slept with Lucy themed game show in only days before asking which three contestants Phoebe out on a longembark on a quest to overdue date, while unlock chests full of new girl Stephanie prize money in a forest confronts Spencer over at dusk. his bachelor nights out.

10.00 Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life (R,S,HD). Karl Pilkington tries to find out how people achieve happiness, meeting those who find pleasure in pain in Mexico and hanging out with hiphop clowns in LA.

BBC3 BBC3

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S).

A daredevil organises every detail of his wedding.

8.00 Hotel of Mum and Dad (R,S).

A five-year-long relationship is put to the test.

9.00 Cherry Healey: Old Before My Time (S). The presenter looks at how drug abuse affects the human body, meeting a man whose cannabis addiction led to lung problems and a spell in rehab.

10.00 Some Girls (S).

10.30 EastEnders (R,S).

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 American Dad!

7.00 World News Today; Weather 7.30 Great British Railway Journeys (R).

8.00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

(R).

8.30 Only Connect.

Teams who lost their first heats compete.

9.00 Timeshift: Full Throttle – The Glory Days of British Motorbikes.

Motorcycling in Britain.

10.00 How the North West Was Won (R).

10.40 Africa (R).

11.40 Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited (R).

12.10 American Dad! (S).

12.30 Some Girls (R,S).

Viva has some troubling thoughts about Rocky. 1.00 Cherry Healey: Old Before My Time (R,S). 2.00 Hotel of Mum and Dad (R,S). 3.00 Cherry Healey: Old Before My Time (R,S).

12.40 Only Connect (R).

1.10 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 1.40 Great British Railway Journeys (R). 2.10 Britain on Film: Country Living (R). 2.40 Timeshift: Full Throttle – The Glory Days of British Motorbikes (R).

10.20 Outnumbered. Sue 10.00 The Footballers’ finds an inappropriate Football Show (HD). image on the family Dave Jones is joined by computer, Pete is guests including horrified at the thought footballers, managers of having a heart-toand club chairmen to heart with Gran, and discuss all the major Ben puts his own spin on stories in the week’s a game of chess. football news.

11.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp.

11.00 Big Fat Quiz of the 00s 11.00 A League of Their 11.00 House of Wax (HD) 11.00 FL72 Review. A roundThe quirky comic takes a (R,HD). Alan Carr, David Own: Unseen (R,HD).

(2005). Five teenagers up of recent matches, surreal look at soap Mitchell, Richard More out-takes from find themselves trapped featuring all the goals sagas and celebrities, Ayoade, Sarah Millican, series seven of the show. in a sinister wax from League One and subjecting them to his Kevin Bridges and Noel museum with a League Two. unique brand of scrutiny.

Fielding answer terrifying secret. Horror, questions about the starring Elisha Cuthbert.

11.30 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 2000s. Jimmy Carr hosts. ●●●

RADIO

1.15 The Only Way Is Essex (R,HD). Reality programme following a group of people in Essex, with each episode filmed just a few days before transmission.

2.00 Life’s Funniest Moments (R). Candid moments captured on camera. 2.20 Teleshopping 5.50 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.40 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.45 Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (R,HD).

2.05 Suburgatory (R,HD). 2.30 Happy Endings (R,HD). 2.55 Rules of Engagement (R,HD).

3.15 Glee (R,HD). 4.00 Life Unexpected (R,HD). 4.40 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 4.00 Greg James 7.00 Zane Lowe 9.00 Radio 1’s Stories 10.00 Phil Taggart and Alice Levine Midnight Rock Show with Daniel P Carter 2.00 B.Traits 4.00 Dev Radio 2 5.00am Anneka Rice 6.30 Patrick Kielty 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Vanessa Feltz 2.00 Rhod Gilbert 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Paul Jones 8.00 Craig Charles 10.00 Hugh Laurie’s Blues Changes. The relationship between blues and country music.

11.00 Jools Holland Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester

12.00 Spartacus: Vengeance (R,S,HD). Lucretia recruits one of her husband’s former gladiators.

1.15 Road Wars (R,S,HD). 2.10 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,HD). 3.10 Road Wars (R,S,HD). 4.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 4.30 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 5.00 Airline (R,S). 5.30 Airline (R,S).

Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composer of the Week: Franz Joseph Haydn 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 4.30 In Tune 6.00 Opera on 3: Wagner 200 – Die Feen 10.00 Free Thinking 10.45 The Free Thinking Essay: New Generation Thinkers 11.00 Jazz on 3. Trumpeter Peter Evans’ Zebulon Trio, recorded at Vortex. 12.30am Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 9.00 Start the Week 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth

12.00 Not Going Out 12.40 Not Going Out 1.15 The Comic Strip Presents: Five Go Mad on Mescalin First sequel to the team’s spoof of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five.

1.45 The Comic Strip Presents: The Bullsh**ters 2.30 Yes, Prime Minister 3.00 Home Shopping Armchair buys.

10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 Grey Shorts and Sandals 11.30 Dilemma Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 You and Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: GF Newman’s The Corrupted 3.00 Round Britain Quiz 3.30 The Food Programme 4.00 Prisoner Soul 4.30 The Digital Human 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 The Museum of Curiosity 7.00 The Archers.

Darrell is caught red-handed. 7.15 Front Row. Mark Lawson speaks to Sandra Bullock. 7.45 Petite Mort 8.00

The Invention of Italy 8.30 Analysis 9.00 Shared Planet. Monty Don investigates whether the endangered Duke of Burgundy butterfly species can survive in a world with a growing population and an ever-increasing demand for space. 9.30 Start the Week. With Catherine Merridale and Michael Chaplin. 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Goldfinch 11.00 The Curse of The Confederacy of Dunces 11.30 Today in Parliament Midnight News 12.30 Book of the Week: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

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12.00 SPFL Round-Up (HD).

A review of the latest round of fixtures from the Scottish top flight.

12.30 Soccer AM: The Best Bits (HD). 1.30 FL72 Highlights (HD).

2.30 SPFL Round-Up (HD). 3.00 FL72 Review 4.00 The Footballers’ Football Show (HD).

5.00 FL72 Highlights (HD).

Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Tony Livesey 2.00 Richard Bacon 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport: The Monday Night Club.

Football debate with Mark Chapman.

9.00 The Ashes: The Tuffers and Vaughan Cricket Show. With Michael Vaughan. 10.00 5 Live Sport: 5 Live Rugby League 10.30 Phil Williams 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Nick Bailey

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Tuesday television&radio Tuesday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

AUTUMNWATCH 2013 8pm, BBC2

The nature programme returns, with Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan and Martin Hughes-Games at RSPB’s Leighton Moss nature reserve in Lancashire.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 11.00 Saints and Scroungers (S,HD). 11.45 Britain’s Empty Homes (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). 1.00 BBC News (S,HD). 1.30 Regional News (S) 1.45 Doctors (S,HD).

2.15 Keeping Up Appearances (R,S). 3.15 Perfection (R,S,HD). 4.00 Escape to the Country (S). 4.30 Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE CLEANERS 8pm, Channel 4

A new series of the programme in which people who love cleaning visit properties around Britain in dire need of attention. A mother and daughter with a strict cleaning routine visit a Hampshire woman living among 20 years’ worth of clutter, while a gym owner helps a Kent man with six dogs.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two (S). 6.05 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 7.05 Saints and Scroungers (R,S,HD). 7.50 Britain’s Empty Homes (R,S). 8.20 Sign Zone: The A to Z of TV Cooking (R,S). 9.05 Sign Zone: Antiques Roadshow (R,S). 10.05 Sign Zone: James Martin’s Food Map of Britain (R,S). 10.35 HARDtalk (R,S,HD). 11.00 BBC News (S,HD). 11.30 BBC World News (S,HD). 12.00 Daily Politics (S). 1.00 Cash in the Attic (R,S).

1.45 Great British Menu (R,S,HD). 2.45 Floyd on Britain and Ireland (R,S,HD). 3.15 Are You Being Served? (R,S). 3.45 ’Allo ’Allo! (R,S). 4.20 Cagney & Lacey (R,S,HD). 5.05 Flog It! (R,S).

ON THE RUN 9pm, ITV

THE ESCAPE ARTIST 9pm, BBC1

Natasha Kaplinsky and Mark Williams-Thomas attempt to track down two wanted men and apprehend them with the help of police officers, undercover stings and subterfuge.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (R,S,HD). From Derby. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). Features, music and conversation. 3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars (R,S,HD). 5.00 The Chase (R,S,HD).

Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh.

A highly talented junior barrister who is in great demand, having never lost a case, much to the frustration of his courtroom rival Maggie Gardner. But when his talents lead to the acquittal of Liam Foyle, who was standing trial for a high-profile murder, he has reason to regret his peerless legal skills.

Channel Channel 4

6.05 The Treacle People (R,S). 6.15 The Hoobs (R,S). 7.05 According to Jim 7.30 Will & Grace (R,S). 8.00 Frasier (R,S). 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 10.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). 11.00 Undercover Boss USA (R,S).

12.00 News Summary (S). 12.05 Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cooking (S,HD). 12.35 River Cottage Bites 12.55 Film: Escape to Victory (S,HD) (1981). See Choices Above. ●●● 3.10 Countdown (S,HD). 4.00 Deal or No Deal: Freaky Fun Fayre (S,HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (S,HD). 5.30 Come Dine with Me (S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 The Hotel Inspector (R,S).

12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 Animal Maternity (R,S,HD). Frankie the giraffe’s calf struggles to get milk. 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.20 NCIS (R,S). 3.15 Film: Trust (S) (2009). Mystery, starring Jamie Luner, Nels Lennarson and Steven Cree Molison. ●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD). 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

Later Live – with Jools ... 10pm

The Chase, 5pm

London Irish, 10.10pm

Castle, 10pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather 6.30 Regional News (S); Weather

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather 6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 9/21. Lisa loses control of her imagination when she makes a new friend.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Phoebe asks Vincent to marry her.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD). The residents of Summer Bay swing into action to help with the wedding preparations.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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7.00 The One Show (S,HD).

7.30 EastEnders (S,HD). Michael is given the opportunity to execute his murderous plan.

Followed by BBC News; Regional News

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 86/140.

6.30 Strictly Come Dancing – It Takes Two (S,HD). Zoe Ball is joined by the couple who narrowly avoided elimination on Sunday.

7.00 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass (S,HD). 12/16. Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry give the first of four tutorials.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Laurel and the wounded man are arrested.

7.30 Aussie Animal Island (S,HD).

3/6. The Tasmanian devils spend their first night in the wild.

Narrated by Jason Donovan.

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S,HD). One of Heathrow’s Catholic chaplains talks about supporting bereaved passengers.

7.00 Jungle Babies: Tarsier Tails (S,HD). 4/25. A storm heading for Sulawesi spells danger.

Bernard Cribbins narrates.

7.30 The Dog Rescuers (S,HD).

Followed by 5 News Update

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Holby City, 8pm

8.00 Holby City (S,HD). 3/52.

Chantelle’s expectations are challenged on her first day back at work, Zosia speaks out of turn while helping a patient and Mary-Claire tries to pull the wool over Harry’s eyes.

8.00 Autumnwatch 2013 (S,HD).

1/4. See Choices Above.

8.00 Looking for Love – A Tonight Special (S,HD). Jonathan Maitland reports on the popularity of internet dating and asks what impact this is having on the nature and longevity of relationships.

8.00 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners (S). 1/8. See Choices Above.

8.00 Cowboy Builders (S,HD).

Dominic Littlewood and Melinda Messenger help a couple in Macclesfield, Cheshire, who were left with a leaky and incomplete loft.

Followed by 5 News at 9.

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9.00 The Escape Artist (S,HD). 1/3.

See Choices Above.

9.00 The Wrong Mans (S,HD). 6/6.

See Choices Above.

9.30 The Sarah Millican Television Programme (S,HD). 6/6. With Suzi Perry, Bruno Tonioli, Matt Baker and Alex Jones. Last in the series.

9.00 On the Run (S,HD). See Choices Above.

9.00 Masters of Sex (S,HD). 4/12.

Johnson is shocked when her ex-husband decides to take part in the sexual response study, while a visit from his mother stirs up painful memories for Masters.

9.00 The Mentalist (S,HD). 1/22.

See Choices Above.

10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S). Followed

by National Lottery Update 10.35 Imagine – Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin’ (S,HD). 1/7.

New series. Profile of the guitarist, who had only four years of mainstream exposure and recognition but whose influential music and riveting stage presence left an enduring legacy.

10.00 Later Live – with Jools Holland (S,HD). 7/8. With altrockers the National, indie trio London Grammar, veteran rock band Graham Parker & the Rumour, singer-songwriters John Mayer and Lissie and kora player Ballaké Sissoko.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Followed

by Weather

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather 10.35 Words of Everest (R,S,HD).

Stars including Stephen Campbell Moore and John Hannah read from the diaries and letters of climbers who were determined to be the first to conquer the world’s highest mountain.

10.10 London Irish (S,HD). 6/6.

Packy’s brothers Matthew and Mark pay him a visit, asking for his help in dealing with their younger sibling Aidan, who seems to be spiralling out of control. Last in the series.

10.40 8 Out of 10 Cats Uncut (S,HD). 4/9. An extended edition of last Friday’s show.

10.00 Castle (S,HD). 5/24. Two bodies are discovered in the coffin at a funeral service. Crime drama, starring Nathan Fillion.

10.55 Body of Proof (R,S,HD). 5/9.

Megan investigates a fatality at the hospital where she used to work, while Ethan and Curtis are baffled by a woman’s mysterious death.

11.20 Iceland Foods: Life in the Freezer Cabinet (R,S,HD). 2/3.

CEO Malcolm Walker deals with the fallout from the horsemeat scandal, but his media strategy backfires badly.

11.35 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R,S). The host takes his successful talk show stateside, where he invites American guests to air their differences, and dispenses his own judgment on the situation.

11.25 Sean Lock: Lockipedia Live (R,S,HD). The comedian’s standup show at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in 2010, featuring his audience interaction section called Lockipedia.

11.55 The Butcher Boy: Countdown to Murder (R,S,HD). 3/6. The story of Roderick Newall, who was convicted of killing his parents.

12.05 Film: Archipelago (S,HD) (2010).

See Choices Above. ●●●● 2.00 Weatherview (S). 2.05 BBC News (S,HD).

12.20 Sign Zone: Horizon – Monitor Me (R,S). Dr Kevin Fong explores the boom in apps and gadgets designed to help people monitor their health and meets a man who self-diagnosed a life-threatening disease from his own data. 1.20 This Is BBC Two (S). Preview of upcoming programmes from BBC Two. 4.00 BBC Learning Zone

12.25 Jackpot247 Viewers get the chance to participate in live interactive gaming from the comfort of their sofas, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team. 3.00 Loose Women (R,HD). Topical debate from a female perspective. 3.45 ITV Nightscreen (HD).

Text-based information service. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S,HD).

12.25 Random Acts (S). A short fashion film. 12.30 Poker (S). 1.25 KOTV Boxing Weekly (S). 1.55 Volleyball (S). 2.50 British Rallycross (R,S). 3.15 Killarney Adventure Race (R,S). 3.45 SuperScrimpers’ Challenge (R,S,HD).

4.40 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD). 5.35 Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures (R,S,HD).

5.40 Countdown (R,S,HD).

12.50 SuperCasino Viewers get the chance to take part in live interactive gaming, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team.

3.05 Saving Britain’s 70-Stone Man (R,S,HD). 3.55 HouseBusters (R,S). 4.20 House Doctor (R,S). 4.45 House Doctor (R,S). 5.10 Divine Designs (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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THE MENTALIST 9pm, Channel5

The return of the American drama about a former showbiz-style medium who acts as a consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation. A police officer is shot dead during a hostage situation.

ITV2 ITV2

6.00 Emmerdale (R,HD). 6.25 Coronation Street (R,HD). 7.25 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 7.55 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R). 8.40 Dinner Date (R,HD). 9.40 The Real Housewives of New York City (R,HD). 10.35 The Real Housewives of Orange County (R,HD).

11.30 Big Rich Texas (R,HD). 12.30 Emmerdale (R,HD). 1.00 Coronation Street (R,HD). 2.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R). 4.10 The Real Housewives of Orange County (R,HD). 5.05 Big Rich Texas (R,HD).

THE WRONG MANS 9pm, BBC2

To expose the conspiracy, save Bracknell, uncover double agents and rescue their loved ones, the hapless duo realise they must put themselves right in the line of fire. Can Sam step up and prove himself to be the man that Lizzie wants him to be, or will Phil’s childish antics finally prove their undoing?

E4 E4

6.00 Switched (R). 6.25 90210 (R,HD). 7.10 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 Glee (R,HD).

10.00 Suburgatory (R,HD). 11.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 11.30 Charmed (R). 12.30 Hollyoaks (R,HD). 1.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 Suburgatory (R,HD). 4.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 7.00 The Middle (R,S,HD).

8.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD).

10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

1.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

2.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 2.30 Futurama (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD). 5.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

5.30 The Middle (R,S,HD).

FILM PICKS

Tuesday television&radio ARCHIPELAGO 12.05am, BBC1

ESCAPE TO VICTORY 12.55pm, Channel 4

A man attends a family get-together before leaving for Africa.

Drama, starring Tom Hiddleston, Kate Fahy, Amy Lloyd and Christopher Baker.

Gold GOLD 6.15 2point4 Children 6.45 Sykes 7.30 2point4 Children 8.05 Sykes 8.45 Just Good Friends 9.20 As Time Goes By 10.00 Green Green Grass 10.40 Last of the Summer Wine 12.00 One Foot in the Grave 12.40 Ever Decreasing Circles 1.20 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 2.20 As Time Goes By 3.00 Only Fools and Horses 3.40 Last of the Summer Wine 5.00 Good Life

Allied PoWs take on the Nazis in a propagandist football match, but plan to escape during the game. Second World War adventure, starring Michael Caine.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans 8.00 Game Changers 8.30 SPFL Round-Up 9.00 FL72 Highlights 10.00 FL72 Review. 11.00 SPFL Round-Up 11.30 Football Gold (S). 11.45 Football Gold (S). 12.00 Soccer AM: The Best Bits (HD). 1.00 FL72 Highlights (HD). 2.00 SPFL Round-Up (HD). 2.30 Soccer AM: The Best Bits (HD). 3.30 FL72 Review.

4.30 The Footballers’ Football Show (HD). 5.30 Football Asia (S).

The Vampire Diaries, 9pm

Good Luck Chuck, 10pm

NCIS: Los Angeles, 10pm

Miranda, 9.40pm

Live Capital One ... 7.30pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R,HD).

Elaine from Leicestershire chooses three blind dates.

Narrated by Charlotte Hudson.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Sheldon receives acting lessons.

6.00 The Middle (R,S).

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

Lisa finds a classroom hidden beneath Springfield Elementary.

6.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 6.30 Harry Hill’s TV Burp. A comic look at soaps and celebrities.

6.00 Football Gold (S).

6.15 Football Gold (S).

6.30 Premier League Review (HD).

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). A cat that uses a fork to eat.

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Harry Hill narrates camcorder calamities.

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD). Nancy turns the tide in her ongoing battle with Sienna.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Homer is appointed bodyguard to Mayor Quimby.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

7.00 You, Me & Them 7.40 Outnumbered. Sue finds an inappropriate image on the family computer.

8.00 Peter Andre: My Life (R,HD). Pete and his girlfriend present a segment on This Morning.

8.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Marshall and Lily are concerned about Ted’s new girlfriend.

8.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). With guest star Jodi Lynn O’Keefe.

8.00 A League of Their Own (R,S,HD). James Corden hosts the sports quiz, with guests Jimmy Carr, Olympic skeleton champion Amy Williams and Dutch footballer Edgar Davids.

8.20 Only Fools and Horses.

Rodney becomes a wanted man. Comedy, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and David Jason.

9.00 The Vampire Diaries (HD). New series. After spending the summer in Damon’s arms and helping Jeremy adjust to the land of the living, Elena prepares for college and moves into her dorm room with Caroline.

9.00 Rules of Engagement (HD). Jeff and Audrey set out to prove they can still have fun. Comedy, with Patrick Warburton and Megyn Price.

9.30 Happy Endings (HD).

Chase swears revenge on Max for ruining his life.

9.00 Revolution (R,S,HD).

Miles and Sheriff Mason are captured by Titus Andover, and it soon becomes clear the Texas warlord means business.

Rachel and her father try to revive Aaron.

9.00 Only Fools and Horses.

A decorating disaster befalls the Trotters.

9.40 Miranda. The singleton tries to learn French.

Comedy, guest starring Peter Davison, with Miranda Hart and Sarah Hadland.

7.30 Live Capital One Cup Football (HD). Arsenal v Chelsea (kick-off 7.45pm). Coverage of the fourth-round encounter at the Emirates Stadium, where a place in the quarter-finals is at stake.

On paper this is the tie of the round, although Arsene Wenger has traditionally used the competition to blood the young talent at the club, and Jose Mourinho may also choose to rest his leading players due to league and European commitments taking priority.

10.20 Mrs Brown’s Boys.

10.00 Celebrity Juice (R,HD). 10.00 Good Luck Chuck (HD) 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles Cathy refuses to (R,S,HD). The agents Comedy quiz.

(2007). A single man introduce her boyfriend, manage to track down tries to break a curse 10.50 Tricked (R,HD). Ben Mark will not reveal why the culprits of an that means anyone he Hanlin messes with the his wife threw him out, armoured-car heist sleeps with will find true mind of Atomic Kitten’s and Dermot lies about along with the entire love with someone else Natasha Hamilton as he his job – all of which seized haul, but their soon afterwards – even sends her on a creepy convinces Agnes her luck is short lived when though the situation has date, and also makes family is too secretive. they take a closer look. its perks in the form of a the earth move for stream of women boxer Joe Calzaghe. seeking him out for onenight stands. Comedy, 11.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp.

11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 11.50 Freshers (R,HD). The with Dane Cook, Jessica The quirky comic takes a (R,S,HD). Christmas is friends struggle to cope Alba and Dan Fogler. surreal look at soap disrupted by the murder with living away from ●● sagas and celebrities, of an NCIS special agent. their parents, and head subjecting them to his Drama, starring Chris to a pool party in an unique brand of scrutiny.

O’Donnell and LL Cool J. attempt to cure their homesickness.

11.30 Harry Hill’s TV Burp

RADIO

12.50 The Vampire Diaries (R,HD). Elena and Caroline prepare for a fresh start at college. 1.40 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA The host takes his successful talk show stateside. 2.20 Teleshopping.

Buying goods from home. 5.50 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD). Textbased information service.

12.05 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 12.35 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.00 Misfits (R,HD). The comedy drama returns for a final series. 2.00 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 2.25 90210 (R,HD). 3.05 Bob’s Burgers (R,HD). 3.30 Glee (R,HD). 4.10 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 4.00 Greg James 7.00 Zane Lowe 9.00 The Review Show with Edith Bowman 10.00 Phil Taggart and Alice Levine Midnight Punk Show with Mike Davies 2.00 Nihal 4.00 Dev Radio 2 5.00am Anneka Rice 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Vanessa Feltz 2.00 Rhod Gilbert 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Jamie Cullum 8.00 Craig Charles 10.00 O Brother – The Story of T-Bone Burnett 11.00 Mark Radcliffe’s Music Club Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester

12.00 Road Wars (R,S,HD). 1.00 Brit Cops: Zero Tolerance (R,S,HD). Following police officers in Hammersmith and Fulham. 2.00 Road Wars (R,S,HD). 3.00 Road Wars (R,S,HD). 4.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R). 4.30 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 5.00 Airline (R,S). 5.30 Airline (R,S).

Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composer of the Week: Franz Joseph Haydn 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composer of the Week: Franz Joseph Haydn 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester in Brahms’ Third Symphony, and his First Piano Concerto with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, live from the Barbican in London. 10.00 Free Thinking. Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Zamyatin’s 1919 novel We. 10.45 The Free Thinking Essay: New Generation Thinkers 11.00 Late Junction

12.00 The Vicar of Dibley The Songs of Praise crew visits the village. 12.40 The Comic Strip Presents: The Strike A film about the miners’ strike is turned into an action movie. 1.45 Just Good Friends 2.15 The Green Green Grass 2.45 Cr*pston Villas 3.00 Home Shopping

12.30am Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 8.31 (LW) Yesterday in Parliament 9.00 The Reith Lectures 2013 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 Shared Planet 11.30 Jamaica: The Harder They Come Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 Call You and Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: GF Newman’s The Corrupted 3.00 Short Cuts 3.30

Costing the Earth 4.00 Law in Action 4.30 A Good Read 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 It’s Your Round 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 7.45 Petite Mort 8.00 File on 4 8.40 In Touch 9.00 Inside Health 9.30 The Human Zoo. Michael Blastland observes thought and behaviour. 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Goldfinch 11.00 Small Scenes 11.30 Today in Parliament Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

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BBC3 BBC3

7.00 Top Gear (R,S).

8.00 Gavin & Stacey (R,S). The happy couple return from their honeymoon.

8.30 Gavin & Stacey (R,S). Gavin sets out to help Smithy accept his responsibilities.

9.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (S). English teacher Grantt creates a storybook wedding.

10.00 Sweat the Small Stuff (S). Panel show, hosted by Nick Grimshaw.

10.30 EastEnders (R,S).

Michael is given the opportunity to execute his murderous plan.

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 American Dad! 12.10 American Dad! (R,S). 12.30 Sweat the Small Stuff (R,S). 1.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S).

2.00 Some Girls (R,S). 2.30 Staying In with Greg and Russell (R,S). 3.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S).

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 World News Today; Weather.

7.30 Great British Railway Journeys (R).

Michael Portillo examines Felixstowe’s role as the UK’s biggest container port.

8.00 Lost Cities of the Ancients (R).

9.00 Disowned & Disabled. Part one of two. An insight into the care system following the Second World War. 10.00 Mini: A Life Revisited (R).

Documentary aired in 1975 following an 11-year-old serial arsonist.

11.00 The Golden Age of Steam Railways (R).

12.00 The Golden Age of Steam Railways (R). 1.00 Lost Cities of the Ancients (R). 2.00 Great British Railway Journeys (R). 2.30 Disowned & Disabled (R).

10.00 Sportswomen. The biggest talking-points in the world of women’s sport.

10.30 Football Gold (S).

10.45 Football Gold (S).

Manchester United v Arsenal from February 2001.

11.00 Premier League Review (HD). A look back at recent fixtures in the English Premier League.

12.00 Football Gold (S). Everton v Liverpool from the 2000/01 season.

12.15 Football Gold (S).

Manchester United v Arsenal from February 2001. 12.30 Capital One Cup Football (HD). Arsenal v Chelsea. 1.30 Spanish Football (HD). 4.35 Football Asia (S). 5.05 Capital One Cup Football (HD).

Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Tony Livesey 2.00 Richard Bacon 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 7.45 5 Live Sport: League Cup Football 2013-14. Arsenal v Chelsea (kick-off 7.45pm). Commentary on the fourth-round encounter at the Emirates Stadium, where a place in the quarterfinals is at stake. 10.30 Phil Williams 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Nick Bailey

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Wednesday television&radio Wednesday’s Television Guide AUTUMN’S SUPERMARKET SECRETS 9pm, BBC1

Gregg Wallace finds out how retailers source, make and move autumn produce, from millions of Halloween pumpkins to own-label pies.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 11.00 Saints and Scroungers (S,HD). 11.45 Britain’s Empty Homes (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD).

1.30 Regional News (S) 1.45 Doctors (HD). 2.15 Keeping Up Appearances (R,S).

3.15 Perfection (R,S,HD). 4.00 Escape to the Country 4.30 Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (HD). 5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

AMBASSADORS 9pm, BBC2

Minor royal Prince Mark of Bath travels to Tazbekistan in his capacity as trade envoy, and soon makes himself unpopular with his demands for luxurious accommodation and high-level service. His arrival coincides with the escape of one of the dissidents Amil Zarifi, who asks for sanctuary in the embassy.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 Homes Under the Hammer 7.00 Saints and Scroungers 7.45 Britain’s Empty Homes 8.15 Sign Zone: The A to Z of TV Cooking 9.00 Super Giant Animals 10.00 Plan It, Build It 10.30 See Hear 11.00 BBC News 11.30 Daily Politics 1.00 Cash in the Attic 1.45 Great British Menu 2.45 Floyd on Britain and Ireland 3.15 Are You Being Served? 3.45 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 4.20 Cagney & Lacey (R,S,HD). 5.05 Flog It! 5.55 Party Political Broadcast (S).

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT 8pm, ITV

The sleuth’s old friend Ariadne Oliver stages a game of murder hunt at a summer fete, but things take a dark twist when the girl playing the victim turns out to be dead.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (R,S,HD). From Tatton Park in Cheshire. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). Features, music and conversation.

3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars (R,S,HD). 5.00 The Chase (R,S,HD).

THE CULTURE SHOW: SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013 10pm, BBC2

A look at the shortlist for the non-fiction award, which features biographies of Margaret Thatcher, Gabriele d’Annunzio and Fabian Ware, as well as an account of the first Anglo-Afghan war and books on Roman Britain and bumblebees.

Channel Channel 4

6.25 The Treacle People 6.35 Hoobs (R,S).

7.05 According to Jim 7.30 Will & Grace (R,S). 7.55 Frasier (R,S). 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 10.00 The Big Bang Theory 11.00 Undercover Boss USA (R,S).

12.00 News Summary (S). 12.05 Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cooking (S,HD). 12.35 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals (R,S). 1.10 Film: The Great Sioux Massacre (S,HD) (1965). ●● 3.10 Countdown (S,HD). 4.00 Deal or No Deal: Freaky Fun Fayre (S,HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (S,HD). 5.30 Come Dine with Me (S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 The Hotel Inspector (R,S).

12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 Cowboy Builders (R,S). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD).

2.15 NCIS (R,S). 3.10 Film: The Ghost of Greville Lodge (S) (2000). See Choices Above. ●●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD). 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD). Chris is shocked to learn about his sleepwalking and admits he has been taking the pills again.

The Great British Bake Off ... 7pm

James Nesbitt’s Ireland, 11.35pm

River Cottage to the Core, 8pm

Wentworth Prison, 10pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather.

6.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.55 Party Political Broadcast (R,S). By the Labour Party.

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 87/140. Quiz show, hosted by Jeremy Vine.

6.30 Strictly Come Dancing – It Takes Two (S,HD). Ian Waite analyses the couples’ training.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.25 Party Political Broadcast (S).

By the Labour Party.

6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S,HD). 10/21.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Nancy’s Halloween fundraising idea seems to turn the tide of her battle with Sienna.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD).

Casey and Maddy are run off the road by another car.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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by Matt Baker and Alex Jones.

Followed by BBC News; Regional News.

7.00 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass (S,HD). 13/16.

Tutorial on making trifle, floating islands, custard tarts and spanakopita.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Alan’s daughter Steph makes a surprise appearance at his funeral.

7.30 Coronation Street (S,HD).

Nick begs Leanne to give their relationship another chance.

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S,HD). A man talks about his roles as a ramp agent and a Sikh chaplain at Heathrow.

7.00 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge (R,S,HD). The actor travels to the east coast of America. Followed by 5 News Update.

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Watchdog, 8pm

8.00 Watchdog (S,HD). 7/8. Anne Robinson interviews Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey and presents an investigation into BT Openreach’s promises to keep the nation connected.

8.00 Autumnwatch 2013 (S,HD).

2/4. Chris Packham, Kate Humble and Martin HughesGames present the latest wildlife action at RSPB Leighton Moss and there is a report from Brighton about urban foxes.

8.00 River Cottage to the Core (S).

3/4. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tries to tempt people in the local pub with his pear and Stilton pizzas, and spreads the joy of eating hedgerow food as he goes blackberry-picking with a group of children.

8.00 Ben Fogle’s Animal Clinic (S,HD). See Choices Above.

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9.00 Autumn’s Supermarket Secrets (S,HD). 2/4. See Choices Above.

9.00 Ambassadors (S,HD). 2/3. See Choices Above.

9.00 Grand Designs (S,HD). 9/11.

See Choices Above.

9.00 I Lost Weight but Lost My Husband! (S,HD). Documentary examining the result of weightloss surgery on relationships, including a woman whose husband left her for someone more than twice her new dress size. Part of the Supersized season.

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10.00 The Culture Show: Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 (S,HD).

19/32. See Choices Above.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Followed

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10.25 Regional News (S). Followed

by National Lottery Update.

10.35 A Question of Sport (S,HD).

3/36. With England and Yorkshire cricketer Tim Bresnan, boxer Amir Khan, football pundit Mark Bright and former heptathlon star Kelly Sotherton.

11.05 The League Cup Show (S,HD).

Manish Bhasin presents highlights of the fourth-round fixtures, which included Arsenal v Chelsea, Newcastle United v Manchester City and Manchester United v Norwich City.

11.20 Great Continental Railway Journeys (R,S,HD). 1/6. Michael Portillo travels through Spain as he once again ventures onto the European rail network, visiting Madrid, Córdoba, Seville, Algeciras and Gibraltar.

12.05 Weatherview (S). 12.10 BBC News (S,HD).

12.20 Sign Zone: See Hear (R,S). Internet stars and guest presenters Tammy and Micole celebrate Halloween with ghost stories, a supernatural investigation and a look back at the ancient history of this pagan feast day. Andre Hedger’s house is haunted, but will cameras turn up any evidence? With voiceover. 12.50 This Is BBC Two (S). 4.00 BBC Learning Zone

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8.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot (S,HD). 3/5. The sleuth is reunited with old friend Ariadne Oliver, who has been commissioned to stage a game of murder hunt at a summer fete in the grounds of Nasse House, the recently purchased home of wealthy financier Sir George Stubbs. However, the novelist’s instincts tell her she’s getting involved in something much darker – and she’s proved right when the girl volunteering to play the part of the victim really does turn out to be dead.

Whodunit, starring David Suchet, with Zoe Wanamaker.

See Choices Above.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 Exposure: Too Late to Save Your Life (S,HD). 5/8. Current affairs documentary shedding light on social, political and economic issues.

10.00 Mercury Prize Live Winner Announcement (S). Hosted by Lauren Laverne and Nick Grimshaw.

10.05 Gogglebox (S). 6/13.

10.50 The Town That Caught Tourette’s (R,S,HD). An outbreak of the syndrome among teenage girls in a small American town.

10.00 Wentworth Prison (S,HD).

10/10. Bea learns the identity of Debbie’s secret boyfriend and attacks Jacs in a fit of uncontrollable rage as the taunts about her daughter’s death become unbearable. Last in the series.

11.35 James Nesbitt’s Ireland (R,S,HD). 6/8. The actor meets a baker at the heart of the country’s growing artisan food movement, tries his hand at spear-fishing and pays a visit to the Burren perfumery.

11.55 Up All Night: The Minicab Office (R,S). 2/4. The second documentary about life after dark across Britain follows the employees and customers of a taxi firm operating in the centre of Norwich.

11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (R,S). 15/23. A 14-year-old’s death is linked to a man in prison.

11.55 Inside Hollywood. Magazine show.

12.05 Jackpot247 Interactive gaming.

3.00 Film: Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (S) (2001). Jessica Fletcher uncovers home truths about her own family while investigating the death of a slave.

Mystery, starring Angela Lansbury in a dual role alongside Phylicia Rashad. ●● 4.30 ITV Nightscreen (HD). 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S,HD).

12.50 Random Acts (S). A short film presenting a fresh take on an old classic.

12.55 Film: Celluloid Man (HD) (2012).

Premiere. Documentary about the National Film Archive of India. ●●● 3.25 Film: The Good Die Young (S) (1954). Crime thriller, starring Laurence Harvey. ●●● 5.05 Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures (S,HD).

5.10 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD).

12.00 The Big Game (S,HD). Poker tournament in which amateurs compete against world-class professionals. 12.55 SuperCasino 3.05 Benidorm ER (R,S,HD).

3.55 HouseBusters (R,S). Changes in the home that may benefit people’s lives. 4.20 House Doctor (R,S). 4.45 House Doctor (R,S). 5.10 Divine Designs (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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BEN FOGLE’S ANIMAL CLINIC 8pm, Channel 5

GRAND DESIGNS 9pm, Channel 4

In this new series, the adventurer and broadcaster follows the work of vets at the University of Liverpool’s Leahurst campus, as an 18-year-old pony undergoes surgery for colic.

This week, our urbane host meets Michael Butcher and Phil Palmer who want to bring a touch of urban glamour to their new home at Christmas Farm near Newbury. They intend to create a modern farmhouse that combines an open-plan party pad with functional spaces below.

ITV2 ITV2

E4 E4

6.00 Emmerdale 6.25 I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Now! Top Trials 7.25 You’ve Been Framed! 7.55 Jeremy Kyle Show USA 8.40 Dinner Date 9.40 Real Housewives of New York City (R,HD). 10.35 The Real Housewives of Orange County (R,HD).

11.30 Big Rich Texas (R,HD). 12.30 Emmerdale (R,HD). 1.00 I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Now! Top Trials (R). 2.00 Jeremy Kyle Show (R). 4.10 Real Housewives of Orange County 5.05 Big Rich Texas (R,HD).

6.00 Switched (R). 6.25 90210 7.10 Ugly Betty 8.00 Charmed 9.00 Glee 10.00 Suburgatory 11.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 11.30 Charmed (R). 12.30 Hollyoaks (R,HD). 1.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 Suburgatory (R,HD). 4.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD).5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 7.00 The Middle (R,S,HD).

8.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD).

10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

2.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 2.30 Futurama (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD). 5.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

5.30 The Middle (R,S,HD).

FILM PICKS

Wednesday television&radio THE GHOST OF GREVILLE LODGE 3.10pm, Channel 5

THE SEEKER: THE DARK IS RISING 8pm, E4

An orphan staying at his great-uncle’s house finds himself caught up in the middle of events from the past. Drama, with Prunella Scales.

Gold GOLD 6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.10 2point4 Children 7.50 Sykes 8.30 Ever Decreasing Circles 9.10 As Time Goes By 9.50 The Green Green Grass 11.10 Last of the Summer Wine 12.35 Ever Decreasing Circles 1.10 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 2.10 As Time Goes By 2.50 Jeeves and Wooster 4.00 Last of the Summer Wine 5.20 Only Fools and Horses

A teenager embarks on a quest to prevent dark forces seizing the six parts of a mystical artefact. Fantasy, with Alexander Ludwig.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Premier League Review (HD). 7.00 Game Changers. 7.15 Sporting Greats. A profile of Donald Bradman. 7.45 Live International One-Day Cricket (HD). India v Australia. 4.30 Premier League Review (HD). A look back at recent fixtures in the English Premier League. 5.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial (S). International football magazine.

Freshers, 9pm

Made in Chelsea, 11.05pm

Harrow: A Very ... 8pm

You, Me & Them, 9pm

Live Cricket, 7.45am

6.00 Dinner Date (R,HD).

Londoner Julie Ann picks three blind dates from five potential partners, based entirely on the menus they have created.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow (S). Short animation.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 6.30 Harry Hill’s TV Burp A comic look at soaps and celebrities.

6.00 Football Gold (S).

6.15 Football Gold (S).

6.30 Football’s Greatest (S).

The career of Zinedine Zidane.

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R).

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). A Gordon Brown lookalike gets hammered.

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD). Lindsey struggles to keep her dark secret from a suspicious Joe. 7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

Homer befriends a former CIA agent.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Bart creates a range of novelty T-shirts.

7.00 Porridge Fletch tries to shirk his duties.

7.40 The Vicar of Dibley The Songs of Praise crew visits the village.

8.00 You’ve Been Framed and Famous! (R). Harry Hill narrates a selection of the best celebrity lookalike clips sent in by viewers, featuring people resembling Tom Cruise and Prince Harry.

8.00 The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (HD) (2007). A teenager discovers he is the last in a long line of warriors destined to defend the world from dark forces. His duty now is to embark on a perilous journey through time to recover the six parts of a powerful mystical artefact and ensure it is returned to safe hands.

Fantasy adventure, starring Alexander Ludwig and Ian McShane. See Choices Above. ●●

8.00 Harrow: A Very British School (S). Emotions run high as house master Martin Smith prepares to retire after 30 years at Harrow. Last in the series.

8.20 Miranda The singleton joins an evening class to learn French, hoping to make Gary see her in a different light, but her plans take a turn for the worse. Guest starring Peter Davison.

9.00 Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life (R,S,HD). Karl Pilkington tries to find out how people achieve happiness, meeting those who find pleasure in pain in Mexico and hanging out with hip-hop clowns in LA.

9.00 You, Me & Them Debs invites Tim to dinner in the hope that spending more time around him will cure Ellie’s infatuation with him.

9.40 Mrs Brown’s Boys Agnes worries her family is too secretive.

7.00 Football Gold (S).

7.15 Football Gold (S).

7.30 Live Capital One Cup Football (HD).

Newcastle United v Manchester City (Kick-off 7.45pm). All the action from the fourth-round clash at St James’ Park, where the clubs look to book a place in the last eight. City strolled past Wigan Athletic in the previous round to gain a modicum of revenge for their defeat in last season’s FA Cup final, while the Magpies beat Leeds United 2-0.

9.00 Freshers (R,HD). In the final episode, the six students try to figure out how to balance their work, study and social lives effectively. Last in the series.

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7.00 Total Wipeout (R,S).

8.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S).

English teacher Grantt creates a storybook wedding.

9.00 Unsafe Sex in the City (S). A 25-year-old girl faces the prospect of her second STI. 10.00 Staying In with Greg and Russell (S). With Nicole Scherzinger, Dynamo and John Newman.

10.30 Russell Howard’s Good News (R,S). The comedian’s perspective on stories dominating the media.

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 American Dad! (S).

12.10 American Dad! (R,S). 12.30 Unsafe Sex in the City (R,S). 1.30 Staying In with Greg and Russell (R,S). 2.00 Cherry Healey: Old Before My Time (R,S). 3.00 Unsafe Sex in the City (R,S).

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 World News Today; Weather.

7.30 Great British Railway Journeys (R).

8.00 Nelson’s Caribbean HellHole: An Eighteenth Century Navy Graveyard Uncovered (R).

9.00 Disowned & Disabled. Part two of two.

Disabled people’s battle for equality.

10.00 The Dark Matter of Love Documentary exploring whether it is possible to teach a child how to love.

11.00 The Somme: Secret Tunnel Wars (R).

12.00 Entertaining the Troops (R). 1.00 Nelson’s Caribbean Hell-Hole: An Eighteenth Century Navy Graveyard Uncovered (R).

2.00 Great British Railway Journeys (R).

2.30 Disowned & Disabled (R).

10.20 Blackadder Goes Forth 10.15 What’s the Story? (HD).

10.00 The Only Way Is Essex 10.00 Misfits (HD). While the 10.00 Strike Back: Shadow Captain Blackadder is Warfare (R,S,HD). Tough Sarah-Jane Mee presents (HD). Reality gang is out picking up put on trial for killing soldiers Stonebridge and a discussion show programme following a litter, Rudy discovers his and eating General Scott (Philip Winchester focusing on recent sports group of people in dad is having an affair Melchett’s carrier and Sullivan Stapleton) developments.

Essex, with each episode and has a superpower of pigeon, and faces death discover a new threat in filmed just a few days his own – a dark secret by firing squad. Rowan the shape of an Iranian before transmission. he has kept hidden from Atkinson stars. terrorist. Robson Green his family.

10.50 Hannibal (HD) (2001). joins the cast.

Fugitive serial killer Dr Hannibal Lecter has gone into hiding as an academic in Italy, but a 11.05 Made in Chelsea (R).

11.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 11.00 Brit Cops: Zero 11.15 Sporting Heroes: Gary disfigured victim is The quirky comic takes a Louise reveals that Jamie Tolerance (R,S).

Newbon Interviews determined to find him surreal look at soap slept with Lucy only days Following police officers Nick Skelton (HD). The and inflict a gruesome sagas and celebrities, before asking Phoebe in Hammersmith and presenter speaks to the revenge. Ridley Scott’s subjecting them to his out on a long-overdue Fulham as they try to show jumping great. thriller sequel, starring unique brand of scrutiny. date. protect the public from Anthony Hopkins and dangerous and persis11.30 Harry Hill’s TV Burp Julianne Moore. ●●● tent criminal offenders.

RADIO

1.25 Lemon La Vida Loca (R,HD).

The presenter is newly single after his split from girlfriend Rosie, and has decided to turn his back on his television career in favour of music.

2.05 Life’s Funniest Moments (R). Candid moments captured on camera. 2.30 Teleshopping Buying goods from home.

12.10 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 12.40 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.05 Rude Tube (R). 2.10 Suburgatory (R,HD).

2.35 Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (R,HD). 3.00 Being Erica (R,HD). Erica catches Brent and Julianne kissing. 3.40 Glee (R,HD). 4.25 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 3.30 The Official Chart Update 4.00 Alice Levine 7.00 Zane Lowe 9.00 My Playlist 10.00 Phil Taggart Midnight Huw Stephens 2.00 Benji B 4.00 Dev Radio 2 5.00am Anneka Rice 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Vanessa Feltz 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe 8.00 Craig Charles 10.00 The People’s Songs 11.00 Trevor Nelson’s Soul Show Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester

12.00 Road Wars (R,S,HD). The work of the Proactive Squad from Thames Valley Police. 1.00 Road Wars (R,S). A pursuit through residential gardens. 2.00 Road Wars (R,S,HD). 3.00 Road Wars (R,S,HD). 4.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 5.00 Airline (R,S).

5.30 Airline (R,S).

Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composer of the Week: Franz Joseph Haydn 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 3.30 Choral Evensong 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composer of the Week: Franz Joseph Haydn 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert 10.00 Free Thinking. Anne McElvoy chairs a debate on social media. 10.45 The Free Thinking Essay: New Generation Thinkers 11.00 Late Junction 12.30am Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 8.31 (LW) Yesterday in Parliament

9.00 Midweek 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 Silk 11.30 Hard to Tell Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 You and Yours 12.57 News and Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: GF Newman’s The Corrupted 3.00 Money Box Live 3.30 Inside Health 4.00 Thinking Allowed 4.30 The Media Show 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 Tom Wrigglesworth’s Hang-Ups 7.00 The Archers. Edward expresses his

12.00 The Comic Strip Presents: More Bad News A heavy metal band reunite for a one-off gig. 1.05 Yes, Prime Minister Modern update of the classic comedy, starring David Haig. 1.35 The Green Green Grass 2.05 The Comic Strip Presents: More Bad News 3.00 Home Shopping feelings. 7.15 Front Row. Mark Lawson presents. 7.45 Petite Mort. By Beatrice Hitchman, dramatised by Miranda Davies. 8.00 The Moral Maze. With Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, Giles Fraser and Matthew Taylor. 8.45 Four Thought 9.00 Costing the Earth 9.30 Midweek 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Goldfinch 11.00 Before They Were Famous 11.15 Irish Micks and Legends 11.30 Today in Parliament Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

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12.15 Capital One Cup Football (HD). Newcastle United v Manchester City. 1.15 Spanish Football (HD). Real Madrid v Sevilla. 3.20 What’s the Story?

(HD). 4.20 Sporting Heroes: Gary Newbon Interviews Nick Skelton (HD). 5.20 FIFA Futbol Mundial (S). I5.50 Football Gold.

Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Richard Bacon. News, sport, entertainment and guests. 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport. Mark Pougatch presents the day’s sports news. 7.45 5 Live Sport: League Cup Football 201314. Commentary and updates on tonight’s fourth-round matches. 10.30 Phil Williams 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Nick Bailey

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Thursday television&radio Thursday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

WATERLOO ROAD 8pm, BBC1

Nicola Adams visits to help raise funds for Kacey’s boxing scholarship, while new supply teacher Frankie McGregor strikes up an unlikely friendship with the lonely Lenny.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 11.00 Saints and Scroungers (S,HD). 11.45 Britain’s Empty Homes (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). 1.00 BBC News (S,HD). 1.30 Regional News (S). 1.45 Doctors (S,HD).

2.15 Keeping Up Appearances (R,S). 3.15 Perfection (R,S,HD). 4.00 Escape to the Country (S). 4.30 Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

WORLD’S BUSIEST MATERNITY WARD 9pm, BBC2

On a busy day 100 babies are born at Manila’s Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital and women in labour lie four or five to a bed. Anita Rani travels to the capital of the Philippines to see how the countries of the developing world are facing a future with a rapidly growing population and follows the lives of three expectant mothers.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two (S). 6.05 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 7.05 Saints and Scroungers (R,S,HD). 7.50 Britain’s Empty Homes (R,S). 8.20 Sign Zone: The A to Z of TV Cooking (R,S). 9.05 The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors (R,S). 10.05 Plan It, Build It (R,S). 10.35 HARDtalk (R,S,HD). 11.00 BBC News (S,HD). 11.30 BBC World News (S,HD). 12.00 Daily Politics (S). 1.00 Cash in the Attic (R,S). 1.45 Great British Menu (R,S,HD). 2.45 Floyd on Britain and Ireland (R,S,HD). 3.15 Are You Being Served? (R,S). 3.45 ‘Allo ‘Allo! (R,S). 4.20 Cagney & Lacey (R,S,HD).

5.10 Flog It! (R,S).

BREATHLESS 9pm, ITV

Charlie fears he will be struck off in the wake of the patient’s death, Otto asks Angela to join him on a trip and Mulligan offers to give the files to Elizabeth – on one condition.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S,HD). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (R,S,HD). From Bristol. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). Features, music and conversation. 3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars (R,S,HD). 5.00 The Chase (R,S,HD).

Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh.

PERSON OF INTEREST 10pm, Channel 5

In this second episode, Carter (Taraji P Henson) goes through the files of Hanna (Emily Robinson), a 14-year old who walked out of a Texas library in 1991 and apparently vanished without a trace. Believing this is Root, Reese reckons if they can find out what happened to her they will find Finch.

Channel Channel 4

6.05 Treacle People 6.15 Hoobs 7.10 According to Jim 7.35 Will & Grace 8.00 Frasier 9.05 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S).

10.05 The Big Bang Theory 11.00 Undercover Boss USA (R,S). 12.00 News Summary (S).

12.05 Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cooking (S,HD). 12.35 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals (R,S,HD). 1.10 Hugh’s 3 Good Things: Best Bites. 1.20 Film: The Bravados (S,HD) (1958).

See Choices Above. ●● 3.10 Countdown (S,HD).

4.00 Deal or No Deal: Freaky Fun Fayre (S,HD).

5.00 Four in a Bed 5.30 Come Dine with Me

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 The Hotel Inspector (R,S).

12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge (R,S,HD). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD).

1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.15 The Mentalist (R,S,HD). 3.15 Film: The Canterville Ghost (S) (1996). See Choices Above. ●●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD). 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD). Bailey tries to apologise to Callum.

Mock the Week – Again, 10pm

Britain’s Secret Treasures, 8.30pm

Hollyoaks, 6.30pm

Stalked to Death ... 9pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather.

6.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 88/140. Quiz show, hosted by Jeremy Vine.

6.30 Strictly Come Dancing – It Takes Two (S,HD). A look ahead to the weekend’s action.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S,HD). 11/21.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Lindsey struggles to keep her dark secret from a suspicious Joe.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD).

Sally receives a donation from an anonymous benefactor.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Topical stories from around the UK. 7.30 EastEnders (S,HD). Michael sends Alice to Janine’s as part of their murderous plan. Followed

by BBC News; Regional News.

7.00 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass (S,HD). 14/16.

Tutorials on making tuiles with chocolate mousse, brioche tete and apricot couronne.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Cain is tempted by the wounded man’s money-making plan.

7.30 Christmas Shopping Wars: Tonight (S,HD).

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S,HD). Rabbi Hershi Vogel talks about his work ensuring Heathrow’s Jewish community is safe and well looked after.

7.00 Police Interceptors (R,S,HD).

Two officers deal with a suspected gunman. Followed by 5 News Update.

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Truckers, 9pm

8.00 Waterloo Road (S,HD). 9/20.

See Choices Above.

8.00 Autumnwatch 2013 (S,HD).

3/4. Martin Hughes-Games goes out and about at RSPB Leighton Moss, exploring the reserve with infra-red and thermalimaging cameras as he tries to get close to the action.

8.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Cain steals Declan’s car.

8.30 Britain’s Secret Treasures (S,HD). 3/8. A Capricorn figurine, an 18th-century ring, a coat of arms badge and a gold locket.

8.00 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces (S,HD). 2/9. The architect meets a couple who have remortgaged their house to build a prototype apartment inspired by a beehive, and a man planning to convert an old car into a cocktail bar.

8.00 Benidorm ER (S,HD). Doctors treat a great-grandfather whose vital organs have begun to shut down, and Dr Ismael Torres deals with a man with chronic back pain and a swimmer with badly cut legs.

Followed by 5 News at 9.

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9.00 Truckers (S,HD). 4/5. Wendy is an outwardly tough and confident trucker, giving as good as she gets in a maledominated world, although a battle with alcoholism and constant criticism from her hypochondriac mother don’t help. Sian Breckin stars.

9.00 World’s Busiest Maternity Ward (S,HD). See Choices Above.

9.00 Breathless (S,HD). 4/6. See Choices Above.

9.00 Bedlam (S,HD). 1/4. See Choices Above.

9.00 Stalked to Death: Countdown to Murder (S,HD). 4/6. Docu-drama using witness testimony, crime reports, forensic evidence and expert commentary to examine the events that led Jonathan Vass to murder his ex-partner Jane Clough.

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10.00 Mock the Week – Again (R,S).

3/12. An edition of the comedy show from 2012, with Marcus Brigstocke, Gary Delaney and Zoe Lyons joining regulars Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons and Chris Addison. Dara O Briain hosts.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Followed

by Weather.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 The Jonathan Ross Show (R,S,HD). 3/10. The host is joined by supermodel Naomi Campbell, X Factor judges Nicole Scherzinger, Gary Barlow and Louis Walsh, and writer and actor Stephen Merchant.

With music by Laura Mvula.

10.00 Up All Night: Britain on Call (S,HD). 3/4. The third of four documentaries about life after dark across Britain goes on the road with night workers in Manchester, from plumbers to GPs, mechanics to vets.

10.00 Person of Interest (S,HD).

2/22. See Choices Above.

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 Question Time (S,HD). 8/38.

David Dimbleby chairs a debate from St Austell, Cornwall, as a panel of guests faces topical questions from the audience.

11.35 This Week (S). Andrew Neil introduces a round-table chat, in which he, Michael Portillo and other guests take a lighthearted romp through the political and parliamentary developments of the past seven days.

11.20 Trust Me I’m a Doctor (R,S,HD). 3/3. Gabriel Weston examines a novel cure for migraines. Last in the series.

11.40 Wild Britain with Ray Mears (R,S,HD). 7/10. The survival expert observes the wildlife of the Isle of Wight’s south coast, including smooth-hound sharks, ravens and the rare Glanville fritillary butterfly.

11.05 Mercury Prize Awards Show (S). Coverage of yesterday’s music ceremony, hosted by Lauren Laverne and Nick Grimshaw.

11.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (S,HD). 7/8. A Broadway star falls to his death after his flying harness fails.

11.55 Inside Hollywood Magazine show.

12.20 Holiday Weatherview (S). 12.25 BBC News (S,HD).

12.20 Sign Zone: Our Dirty Nation – Panorama (R,S). Joan Bakewell examines whether enough is being done to clean up Britain, arguing that people need to take more pride in their surroundings and confronting litter louts. 12.50 This Is BBC Two (S). Preview of upcoming programmes from BBC Two. 4.00 BBC Learning Zone.

12.05 Jackpot247 Viewers get the chance to participate in live interactive gaming from the comfort of their sofas, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team. 3.00 Christmas Shopping Wars: Tonight (R,S,HD). 3.25 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Text-based information service. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S).

12.30 Random Acts 12.35 999: What’s Your Emergency? 1.30 Embarrassing Bodies: Live from the Clinic (R,S,HD).

2.25 Unreported World (R,S). 2.50 The Property Market Undercover: Channel 4 Dispatches (R,S). 3.20 SuperScrimpers’ Challenge (R,S,HD). 4.15 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD). 5.10 Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures 5.15 Countdown (R,S,HD).

12.00 SuperCasino Viewers get the chance to take part in live interactive gaming, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team.

3.05 Criminals: Caught on Camera (R,S,HD). 3.55 HouseBusters (R,S). 4.20 House Doctor (R,S). 4.45 House Doctor (R,S). 5.10 Divine Designs (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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BEDLAM 9pm, Channel 4

New documentary series following patients at the South London and Maudsley psychiatric institution, exploring different aspects of mental health, beginning with the most extreme cases of anxiety.

DRIFTERS 9pm, E4

New comedy about three female graduates who are struggling to find jobs and boyfriends in Leeds, while also searching for a place to live. Meg and her cousin Bunny return home to West Yorkshire after cutting short their gap-year trip around India and are greeted at the airport by best friend Laura.

ITV2 ITV2

E4 E4

6.00 Emmerdale 6.25 Coronation Street 6.55 You’ve Been Framed! (R).

7.55 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R).

8.40 Dinner Date (R,HD). 9.40 The Real Housewives of New York City (R,HD).

10.35 The Real Housewives of Orange County (R,HD). 11.30 Big Rich Texas (R,HD). 12.30 Emmerdale (R,HD). 1.00 Coronation Street 1.30 You’ve Been Framed! 2.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show 4.10 Real Housewives of Orange County 5.05 Big Rich Texas (R,HD).

6.00 Switched 6.25 90210 (R,HD).

7.10 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 Glee (R,HD).

10.00 Suburgatory (R,HD). 11.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD).

11.30 Charmed 12.30 Hollyoaks 1.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 Suburgatory (R,HD).

4.00 Rules of Engagement 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 7.00 The Middle (R,S,HD).

8.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD).

10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

2.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 2.30 Futurama (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD). 5.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

5.30 The Middle (R,S,HD).

FILM PICKS

Thursday television&radio THE BRAVADOS 1.20pm, Channel 4

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST 3.15pm, Channel 5

A widower kills the escaped convicts he believes murdered his wife, but has doubts that what he is doing is right. Western, with Gregory Peck.

Gold GOLD

Supernatural comedy based on Oscar Wilde’s classic ghost story, starring Patrick Stewart, Neve Campbell, Ed Wiley and Cherie Lunghi.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1

6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.10 2point4 Children 7.50 Brittas Empire 8.30 Ever Decreasing Circles 9.10 As Time Goes By 9.50 Green Green Grass 10.30 Last of the Summer Wine 11.50 Porridge 12.30 Ever Decreasing Circles 1.10 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 2.10 As Time Goes By 2.50 Jeeves and Wooster 4.00 Last of the Summer Wine 5.20 One Foot in the Grave

6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD).

8.00 Game Changers (HD). 8.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial (HD).9.00 Capital One Cup Football (HD). 10.00 What’s the Story? (HD). 11.00 Football’s Greatest (S). 11.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial (S).

12.00 Capital One Cup Football (HD).

1.00 What’s the Story? (HD). 1.55 Spanish Football 4.00 Capital One Cup Football (HD). 5.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 5.30 Football Gold (S).

Celebrity Juice ... 10pm

Drifters, 9.30pm

Trollied, 9pm

Only Fools and Horses, 9pm

Live Victory Shield ... 7.30pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R,HD).

Katherine from Nottingham chooses three blind dates.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Penny hosts a Halloween party.

6.00 The Middle (R,S,HD).

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

Another trilogy of Halloween-inspired stories.

6.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 6.30 Harry Hill’s TV Burp A comic look at soaps and celebrities.

6.00 Premier League World (S,HD). A round-up of the latest news.

6.30 Capital One Cup Football (HD).

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). A dive-bombing baptism and a dog that eats gas bills.

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R).

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD).

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Marshall feels guilty about firing his assistant.

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

The family suffers from nightmares.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Homer is possessed by an evil toupee.

7.00 Porridge Fletcher becomes an agony aunt.

7.40 Blackadder Goes Forth Captain Blackadder faces a firing squad.

8.00 You’ve Been Framed!

Calendar Special (R).

Harry Hill delves into the archive and comes up with a whole year of merry mishaps.

8.00 Suburgatory (HD).

Dalia tries to help Mr Wolfe recover from his break-up.

8.30 The Big Bang Theory (HD). New series.

Sheldon and Penny bond as they miss Leonard.

8.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Another trio of spirited Halloween tales.

8.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Homer is paralysed by a venomous spider.

8.20 Yes, Prime Minister After exposing Sir Humphrey’s scheme to get Britain into the euro, Jim holds a dinner to welcome the Kumranistan foreign secretary.

7.30 Live Victory Shield Football (HD). Wales v Scotland (Kick-off 7.35pm). Coverage of the second match of the competition for both nations, staged at Park Avenue, Aberystwyth.

9.00 Tricked (HD). Magician Ben Hanlin goes undercover to scare Helen Flanagan, and takes star of Shameless Jody Latham on a nasty fishing trip.

9.00 Drifters (HD). See 9.00 Trollied (S,HD). Gavin Choices Above. returns to work, determined to be more 9.30 Drifters (HD). Meg lands forward-thinking. herself a hot date while out promoting a 9.30 A League of Their smartphone.

Own: Best Bits (R,S,HD).

Sport-based comedy quiz show, hosted by James Corden.

9.00 Only Fools and Horses Del encounters an old flame, and Rodney experiences the joys of dating.

9.40 Gavin & Stacey Dave is unhappy about Nessa’s plans to let Smithy see the baby.

10.20 You, Me & Them Debs 10.30 Brit Cops: Zero 10.00 Celebrity Juice: 10.00 Educating Essex (R). invites Tim to dinner in Tolerance (R,S,HD).

Halloween Special Deputy headteacher Mr the hope that spending Following police officers (HD). With guests Paddy Drew has to deal with more time around him in Hammersmith and McGuinness, Kara two cases of bullying will cure Ellie’s Fulham as they try to Tointon, Emma Willis when a girl begins infatuation with him. protect the public from and boy band Union J. receiving threatening dangerous and text messages and a boy 10.50 Release the Hounds persistent criminal falls out with a close (R,HD). Halloweenoffenders. friend. themed game show, presented by Reggie Yates.

12.30 Tricked (R,HD). Magician Ben Hanlin scares Helen Flanagan, and takes star of Shameless Jody Latham on a nasty fishing trip. 1.35 The Vampire Diaries (R,HD).

Jeremy turns to Matt for help when he begins having vivid nightmares.

2.20 Teleshopping 5.50 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.00 Road Wars (R,S,HD). The Proactive team looks for a burglar.

1.00 Road Wars (R,S). A driver refuses to hand over her correct details. 2.00 Road Wars (R,S,HD).

3.00 Road Wars (R,S). 3.30 Road Wars (R). 4.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R). 5.00 Airline (R,S). 5.30 Airline (R,S).

12.00 The Comic Strip Presents: Mr Jolly Lives Next Door Two would-be male escorts are mistaken for hitmen. 1.05 The Comic Strip Presents: The Yob. A director has his brain crossed with a hooligan’s.

2.05 The Comic Strip Presents: Mr Jolly Lives Next Door 3.00 Home Shopping

RADIO

11.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 11.00 Football Gold Everton v The quirky comic takes a Liverpool from the surreal look at soap 2000/01 season. sagas and celebrities, 11.15 Football Gold subjecting them to his unique brand of scrutiny. 11.30 Sportswomen (HD).

11.30 Harry Hill’s TV Burp

Band Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composer of the Week: Franz Joseph Haydn 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composer of the Week: Franz Joseph Haydn. The Military Symphony goes down well in Britain in 1794. 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert 10.00 Free Thinking 10.45 The Free Thinking Essay: New Generation Thinkers 11.00 Late Junction 12.30am Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today

5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 8.31 (LW) Yesterday in Parliament 9.00 In Our Time 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 From Our Own Correspondent 11.30 I Found a Tenor: Richard Tauber Revived Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 You and Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: GF Newman’s The Corrupted 3.00 Open Country 3.27 (LW) Radio 4 Appeal 3.27 (FM) Radio 4 Appeal 3.30 Open Book 4.00 The Film Programme 4.30

Inside Science 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 Clare in the Community 7.00 The Archers. Kirsty suggests a big change. 7.15 Front Row. John Wilson presents. 7.45 Petite Mort.

By Beatrice Hitchman. 8.00 Law in Action 8.30 The Bottom Line 9.00 Inside Science 9.30 In Our Time 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Goldfinch 11.00 Seekers 11.30 Today in Parliament Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

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12.10 American Dad! (R,S). 12.30 Staying In with Greg and Russell (R,S). 1.00 Sweat the Small Stuff (R,S). 1.30 Hotel of Mum and Dad (R,S). 2.30 Unsafe Sex in the City (R,S). 3.30 Some Girls (R,S).

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 World News Today; Weather.

7.30 Top of the Pops: 1978 (R).

8.00 Survivors: Nature’s Indestructible Creatures (R).

Species that have survived for millions of years.

9.00 Arena: The National Theatre. Part two of two. Former directors share their experiences of running the company.

10.30 Timeshift: Full Throttle – The Glory Days of British Motorbikes (R).

Motorcycling in Britain.

11.30 How the North West Was Won (R). The history of the North West 200.

12.10 Top of the Pops: 1978 (R). 12.50 Survivors: Nature’s Indestructible Creatures (R). 1.50 Britain on Film: War and Peace (R). 2.20 Arena: The National Theatre (R).

10.30 Premier League World (S,HD). A round-up of the latest news surrounding the Premier League, featuring interviews with managers and players.

11.30 Road Wars (R,S,HD).

Video footage of dangers on the road.

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 4.00 Alice Levine 7.00 Zane Lowe 9.00 In New DJs We Trust. With producer and DJ T Williams. 10.00 Phil Taggart Midnight The Residency: Kutski 2.00 Toddla T 4.00 Dev Radio 2 5.00am Anneka Rice 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Vanessa Feltz 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Bob Harris Country 8.00 Craig Charles 10.00 Radio 2 Young Choristers of the Year 2013 11.00 Nigel Ogden: The Organist Entertains 11.30 Listen to the

7.00 Top Gear (R,S).

8.00 Motorway Cops (R,S).

9.00 Hotel of Mum and Dad (S).

10.00 Live at the Apollo (R,S).

With Al Murray, Chris Addison and Tim Vine.

10.30 EastEnders (R,S).

Michael sends Alice to Janine’s as part of their murderous plan.

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

Stewie discovers a pop star’s surprising secret.

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

Quagmire takes responsibility for a baby who looks like him.

11.45 American Dad! (S). Stan creates an alter ego to bond with his son.

9.30 Capital One Cup Football (HD). Highlights from the fourth round, as the clubs looked to progress to the quarterfinals, with matches including Arsenal v Chelsea and Newcastle United v Manchester City.

11.50 The Only Way Is Essex 11.10 Rude Tube (R). Clips that have made their (R,HD). Reality stars online celebrities. programme following a Last in the series. group of people in Essex, with each episode filmed just a few days before transmission.

12.15 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 12.45 Happy Endings (R,HD). Chase swears revenge on Max for ruining his life. 1.10 Misfits (R,HD). 2.10 Educating Essex (R). 3.05 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 3.25 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 3.50 Glee (R,HD).

4.30 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

BBC3 BBC3

12.00 NFL – A Football Life (HD).

A profile of Don Shula. 1.00 Live NFL (HD). Miami Dolphins v Cincinnati Bengals (Kick-off 1.25am). 4.30 Capital One Cup Football (HD). Highlights from the fourth round. 5.30 Premier League World (S,HD). A round-up of the latest news.

Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Richard Bacon 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport. Eleanor Oldroyd presents the day’s sports news. 7.30 5 Live Sport: 5 Live Rugby. Matt Dawson and guests look ahead to the autumn internationals. 9.00 5 Live Formula 1 10.00 Question Time Extra Time 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Nick Bailey

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Fr iday Television television&radio Friday’s Guide TV PICKS

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW 10.35pm, BBC1

Elton John heads tonight’s line-up, chatting and singing.

He is joined by actress Judi Dench and scouse comedian John Bishop.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer 11.00 Saints and Scroungers (S,HD). 11.45 Britain’s Empty Homes (S).

12.15 Bargain Hunt (S,HD). 1.00 BBC News; Weather (HD). 1.30 Regional News (S); Weather. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD).

2.15 Keeping Up Appearances (R,S). 3.15 Perfection (HD). 4.00 Escape to the Country (S). 4.30 Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (HD). 5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

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EASTENDERS 8pm, BBC1

Janine and Michael face each other for the final time – however, in a cruel twist of fate, Alice finds herself caught in the middle of the warring couple. As the rest of the locals celebrate Halloween in the Square, a murder takes place – and for the survivors, things will never be the same again.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 7.00 Saints and Scroungers (R,S,HD). 7.45 Britain’s Empty Homes (R,S). 8.15 Sign Zone: The A to Z of TV Cooking (R,S). 9.00 Flog It! Trade Secrets (R,S). 10.00 Question Time (R,S,HD). 11.00 BBC News (S,HD). 11.30 BBC World News (S,HD). 12.00 Daily Politics (S). 1.00 Cash in the Attic (R,S). 1.45 Great British Menu (R,S,HD). 2.45 Floyd on Britain and Ireland (R,S,HD). 3.15 Are You Being Served? (R,S). 3.45 ‘Allo ‘Allo! (R,S). 4.10 Cagney & Lacey (R,S,HD). 5.00 Flog It! (R,S).

STAND UP FOR THE WEEK 11.05pm, Channel 4

CHRIS TARRANT GOES FISHING 7pm, Channel 5

The satirical comedy show returns, with Seann Walsh and Josh Widdicombe joined by new team members Simon Evans, Romesh Ranganathan and Angela Barnes.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S,HD). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (R,S,HD). David Dickinson heads to Wrexham. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). Features, music and conversation. 3.59 Regional Weather (S).

4.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars (R,S,HD).

5.00 The Chase (R,S,HD).

The broadcaster explores some of the world’s best fishing grounds in the company of guide John Horsey and local professional anglers. In the first episode, Chris and John visit the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, where the waters contain marlin, sailfish and barracuda, as well as the highly prized giant trevally.

Channel Channel 4

6.00 The Treacle People (R,S). 6.10 The Hoobs (R,S). 7.05 According to Jim (R,S,HD). 7.25 Will & Grace (R,S). 7.55 Frasier (R,S). 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 10.00 Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). 11.00 Undercover Boss USA (R,S). 12.00 News (S). 12.05 Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cooking (S,HD). 12.30 SuperScrimpers (R,S,HD). 12.35 Film: The Quiet Man (S) (1952). See Choices Above. ●●●● 3.10 Countdown (S,HD). 4.00 Deal or No Deal: Freaky Fun Fayre (S,HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (S,HD). 5.30 Come Dine with Me (S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 The Hotel Inspector (R,S).

12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 Construction Squad: Operation Homefront (R). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.20 The Mentalist (R,S,HD). 3.15 Film: Committed (S,HD) (2011). Thriller, starring Andrea Roth. Edited for daytime broadcast. ●●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD). 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

Citizen Khan, 9.30pm

Gardeners’ World, 8pm

Tipping Point: Lucky Stars, 4pm

Man Down, 9.30pm

Neighbours, 5.30pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD). Followed by Weather.

6.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 89/140. Quiz show, hosted by Jeremy Vine.

6.30 Strictly Come Dancing – It Takes Two (S,HD). A look ahead to tomorrow’s live show.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S,HD). 12/21.

Ned comes to the rescue when Homer is unable to pay his mortgage.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD).

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD).

Brax maintains a vigil at Casey’s bedside.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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7.00 The One Show (S,HD).

7.30 A Question of Sport (R,S,HD).

With Tim Bresnan, Amir Khan, Mark Bright and Kelly Sotherton. Followed by BBC News; Regional News.

7.00 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass (S,HD). 15/16.

Tutorials on making a wheatfree rye loaf, pretzels, suet pudding and religieuses.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Moira realises Cain stole the cars.

7.30 Coronation Street (S,HD).

Nick reaches breaking point as the kids race around him at Faye’s party.

7.00 News (S).

7.30 Unreported World (S). 5/8. An Indian newspaper’s campaign on the problems faced by street children.

7.55 4thought.tv (S,HD).

7.00 Chris Tarrant Goes Fishing (S,HD). See Choices Above.

Followed by 5 News Update.

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8.00 EastEnders (S,HD). See Choices Above.

8.30 Room 101 (R,S,HD). 6/8. With Nick Hewer, Carol Vorderman and Rhod Gilbert.

8.00 Gardeners’ World (S,HD).

29/31. Esther Rantzen gives Joe Swift a guided tour of her garden.

8.30 Autumnwatch 2013 (S,HD).

4/4. The challenges that winter will bring for the UK’s wildlife.

Last in the series.

8.00 Off the Beaten Track (S,HD).

1/6. New series. Christine Bleakley explores the UK’s lesser-known destinations.

8.30 Coronation Street (S,HD).

Anna calls the party to a premature end.

8.00 Embarrassing Bodies (S,HD).

6/22. Documentary exploring physiological concerns surrounding men and women’s more intimate areas.

8.00 Criminals: Caught on Camera (S,HD). Nick Wallis joins police forces across the nation to discover how CCTV and technological advances are helping to fight the huge rise in street theft. Last in the series.

Followed by 5 News at 9.

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9.00 Have I Got News for You (S,HD). 5/11. Kirsty Young hosts the quiz, with Paul Merton and Ian Hislop.

9.30 Citizen Khan (S,HD). 5/6. Mr Khan tries to secure a famous cricketer to operate the Eid festival tombola.

9.30 Autumnwatch 2013 – Unsprung (S,HD). Naturalist Nick Baker joins Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan and Martin Hughes-Games to discuss and analyse subjects from the main programme.

9.00 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories: Michael Flatley (S,HD). 6/6.

See Choices Above.

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9.00 8 Out of 10 Cats (S,HD). 5/9.

Irreverent panel show, hosted

by Jimmy Carr.

9.30 Man Down (S,HD). 3/6. Dan learns he has not been invited to his niece’s birthday party.

Comedy, starring Greg Davies, with Rik Mayall, Deirdre Mullins and Roisin Conaty.

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S). Followed

by National Lottery Update.

10.35 The Graham Norton Show (S,HD). 4/20. See Choices Above.

10.00 QI (S,HD). 9/18. Jo Brand, Marcus Brigstocke and Danny Baker join regular panellist Alan Davies as host Stephen Fry asks a range of unusual questions on all things kinetic.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD).

10.00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man (S,HD). 10/18. James Corden talks about the DVD release of The Wrong Mans, Tom Hiddleston discusses Thor: The Dark World and Joan Collins shares some of her memoirs.

With music by Tinie Tempah.

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11.20 Bluestone 42 (S,HD). 5/8. Mary reveals a secret about her life before she was a padre.

11.50 Halloween: Resurrection (S,HD) (2002). See Choices Above. ●

11.00 Weather (S).

11.05 Later with Jools Holland (S,HD). 7/8. Extended edition.

With the National, London Grammar, John Mayer and Graham Parker & the Rumour.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 TT: Closer to the Edge (S,HD) (2011). Premiere. Documentary following the annual Tourist Trophy motorcycle race held on the Isle of Man. The event has a reputation as one of the most dangerous motorcycling events in the world, with riders frequently being killed on the course. The film follows several competitors in the 2010 TT, including reigning champion John McGuinness. ●●●●

9.00 Britain’s Funniest Comedy Characters (R,S). Olivia Colman narrates this countdown of the nation’s top 50 TV comic creations, both new and old.

Those featured include neurotic hotel owner Basil Fawlty, disillusioned executive Reginald Perrin, seedy landlord Rigsby, the generation-hopping Blackadder, Ab Fab’s Patsy and Eddy, David Brent from The Office, love’s young dream duo Gavin & Stacey, crazy joke-shop owner Miranda, the even crazier Keith Lemon, Irish matriarch Mrs Brown and sexmad virgin Jay from The Inbetweeners.

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11.05 Stand Up for the Week (S).

1/8. See Choices Above.

11.55 Was It Something I Said?

(S,HD). 4/8. Extended edition, with guests Bob Mortimer and Katherine Ryan.

11.55 Inside Hollywood. Magazine show, with location reports and showbusiness news from behind the scenes in Tinseltown.

1.15 Weatherview (S). 1.20 BBC News (S,HD).

12.10 Film: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly (2007). Premiere. Drama based on the life of paralysed magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who dictated a book about his life and his dreams. With Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Seigner. ●●●● 1.55 Sign Zone: Question Time (R,S). 2.55 Sign Zone: The Paradise (R,S).

3.55 This Is BBC Two (S).

12.40 Jackpot247. Interactive gaming.

3.00 Film: Captivity (S) (2007). A successful model is captured by a sadistic madman and subjected to a series of twisted torments in his underground lair.

Horror, starring Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gillies, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael Harney and Laz Alonso. ●● 4.25 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Text-based information service.

12.40 Gogglebox (R,S). 1.25 London Irish (R,S,HD). 1.50 Random Acts (S). 1.55 The Big C (S,HD). 2.25 The Ricky Gervais Show (R,S,HD). 2.55 2 Broke Girls (S,HD).

3.20 Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (S,HD). 3.40 SuperScrimpers’ Challenge (R,S,HD).

4.35 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD). 5.30 Countdown (R,S,HD).

12.00 SuperCasino. Viewers get the chance to take part in live interactive gaming, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team.

3.05 Pickpockets & Proud (R,S,HD). 3.55 Motorsport Mundial (HD). 4.20 House Doctor (R,S). 4.45 House Doctor (R,S).

5.10 Divine Designs (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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PIERS MORGAN’S LIFE STORIES: MICHAEL FLATLEY 9pm, ITV

KARL PILKINGTON: THE MOANING OF LIFE 9.30pm, Sky1

The creator of Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, whose legs are insured for £25million, talks to Piers about his life, reputation and career.

Karl Pilkington tries to find out how people achieve happiness, something he isn’t sure it is worth pursuing. In Mexico, he joins members of a tribe who enjoy running ultramarathons. In LA he hangs out with some hip-hop clowns and experiences a day of beauty with a plastic-surgery addict.

ITV2 ITV2

E4 E4

6.00 Emmerdale (R,HD). 6.55 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 7.55 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R). 8.40 Dinner Date (R,HD). 9.40 Real Housewives of New York City (R,HD). 10.35 The Real Housewives of Orange County (R,HD). 11.30 Big Rich Texas (R,HD).

12.30 Emmerdale (R,HD). 1.30 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 2.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R). 4.10 The Real Housewives of Orange County (R,HD). 5.05 Big Rich Texas (R,HD).

6.00 Switched (R). 6.25 90210 (R,HD). 7.10 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 Glee (R,HD).

10.00 Suburgatory (R,HD). 11.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 11.30 Charmed (R). 12.30 Hollyoaks (R,HD). 1.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 Suburgatory (R,HD). 4.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 7.00 The Middle (R,S,HD).

8.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD).

10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

2.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 2.30 Futurama (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD). 5.00 The Simpsons (R,S,HD). 5.30 The Middle (R,S,HD).

FILM PICKS

Friday television&radio HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION 11.50pm, BBC1

THE QUIET MAN 12.35pm, Channel 4

A prizefighter returns to his native Galway, where his romance with a local woman causes conflict. John Ford’s romantic comedy, with John Wayne.

Teenagers spend a night in Michael Myers’ childhood home and broadcast it live on the internet. Horror sequel, starring Brad Loree.

Gold GOLD 6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 The Brittas Empire 7.00 2point4 Children 7.40 The Brittas Empire 8.20 Ever Decreasing Circles 9.00 As Time Goes By 9.40 Goodnight Sweetheart 10.20 Last of the Summer Wine 11.40 One Foot in the Grave 12.20 Porridge 1.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 1.30 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 2.00 As Time Goes By 2.40 Goodnight Sweetheart 4.00 Last of the Summer Wine 5.20 Only Fools and Horses

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 8.00 Game Changers (HD). 8.30 Football’s Greatest (HD).9.00 Capital One Cup Football (HD).

10.00 Victory Shield Football (HD).

12.00 Capital One Cup Football (HD). 1.00 Football’s Greatest 1.30 Football Gold 1.55 Spanish Football (HD). 4.00 Capital One Cup Football (HD). 5.00 Football Gold (S). 5.30 Premier League World (S,HD).

You’ve Been Framed!, 7pm

How I Met Your ... 8.30pm

League of Their ... 9pm

I’m Alan Partridge, 9.40pm

FL72 Live, 7.30pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R,HD).

Tony from Leeds chooses three blind dates.

Narrated by Charlotte Hudson.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Sheldon decides to make new friends.

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 The Middle (R,S,HD).

Part one of two. The return of the family comedy.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp.

6.35 Gavin & Stacey. Pam and Mick host a beer and curry night.

6.00 Champions League Weekly (HD). A look ahead to matchday four.

6.30 The Fantasy Football Club (HD).

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). A gorilla auditions for King Kong.

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R).

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD). A piece of damning evidence seems to prove Martha’s suspicions about Will.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

The 500th episode of the long-running animation.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Bart does community service.

8.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). A compilation of clips including a dog on a slide, a cat trying to take part in a game of table tennis, and an elderly woman falling foul of a micro-scooter.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

8.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). Ted’s friends advise him to break up with his girlfriend.

8.00 Modern Family (R,S,HD). Phil shares the secrets of selling houses on school career day.

8.30 Modern Family (R,S,HD). The family gathers at the roller rink.

7.15 You, Me & Them. Debs invites Tim to dinner.

7.55 Only Fools and Horses.

Del-Boy becomes a yuppie, complete with red braces, Filofax and chrome briefcase.

Meanwhile, Rodney begins attending a computer course at night school, where he meets Cassandra.

Comedy, starring David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst.

7.30 FL72 Live (HD). Ipswich Town v Barnsley (Kick-off 7.45pm). All the action from the Championship fixture at Portman Road, where the struggling Tykes are looking to secure a surprise away win. The Tractor Boys have been inconsistent so far this season, but have kept in touch with the play-off places, and are aiming to extend their unbeaten record against the visitors to six matches.

BBC3 BBC3

7.00 Pop’s Greatest Dance Crazes (R,S).

7.15 Doctor Who (R,S).

8.00 Barely Legal Drivers (R,S).

9.00 Orphan Black (S). Dr Leekie gives Sarah pause for thought about seeking revenge.

9.45 Orphan Black (S). Sarah’s hope of helping Helena is ruined. Last in the series.

10.30 EastEnders (R,S).

Janine and Michael face each other for the final time.

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 Going Native (S).

12.10 American Dad! (R,S). 12.35 American Dad! (R,S). 12.55 American Dad! (R,S). 1.05 American Dad! (R,S). 1.40 American Dad! (R,S). 2.00 Staying In with Greg and Russell XL (S). 2.45 Unsafe Sex in the City (R,S). 3.45 Pop’s Greatest Dance Crazes (R,S).

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 World News Today; Weather.

7.30 Symphony (R).

How the political climate of late 19th-century Europe inspired composers.

8.30 Transatlantic Sessions. Jerry Douglas and Aly Bain’s final instalment of tunes. Last in the series.

9.00 Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (R). The creation of the rock band’s ninth studio album.

10.00 Pink Floyd: A Delicate Sound of Thunder.

Footage from the musicians’ A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour in 1988.

11.35 A Pink Floyd Miscellany: 1967-2005 (R).

12.35 Prog Rock at the BBC (R). 1.35 Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (R).

2.35 A Pink Floyd Miscellany: 1967-2005 (R).

9.00 Aliens (HD) (1986). Lone 9.00 A League of Their 9.00 The Office. The staff survivor Ripley is rescued celebrate Red Nose Day. Own: Rally Special in deep space decades (S,HD).

9.40 I’m Alan Partridge. after an alien creature Alan accepts a large sum 9.30 Karl Pilkington: The wiped out her ship’s of money to host a Moaning of Life entire crew. She is corporate sales (R,S,HD). See Choices recruited to accompany conference and Lynn falls Above. a military expedition to a out with Michael over his colony on the planet dubious habits. where she first encountered the 10.00 The Fantasy Football 10.50 House of Wax (HD) monster, only to find the 10.30 Trollied (R,S,HD). Gavin 10.20 Come Fly with Me. FlyLo passengers are is back at work and Club (HD). John Fendley (2005). Five teenagers aliens have been delayed on a journey to determined to be more and Paul Merson present on a road trip are forced reproducing and there Malaga when there is a forward-thinking, but it a discussion on key to make an unscheduled are now hordes of them. wing malfunction on could be too late as fantasy football issues, as stop because of car James Cameron’s sci-fi their flight, while Richard refuses to speak well as the weekend’s trouble. Unluckily for thriller sequel, with Melody and Taaj get to him. Colin and Lisa Premier League matches. them, the small town Sigourney Weaver, tough with the new celebrate their stag and Also featuring guests they end up in boasts a Michael Biehn, Lance baggage allowance hen dos. from the worlds of sport bizarre tourist attraction Henriksen, Bill Paxton, policy. and showbiz. in the form of a sinister Paul Reiser, Carrie Henn, wax museum with a William Hope, Jenette terrifying secret. Horror, Goldstein and Alison 11.00 Jingle All the Way (HD) 11.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp. A 11.00 Premier League starring Elisha Cuthbert, Matthews. ●●●●● comic look at soaps and (1996). A workaholic Preview (HD). A look Jared Padalecki, Chad celebrities. father competes with ahead to the weekend’s Michael Murray, Paris rival parents to get his 11.30 The Two Ronnies fixtures.

Hilton, Brian Van Holt, son a popular action Sketchbook. Featuring 11.30 Champions League Jon Abrahams, Robert figure for Christmas. a performance by Katie Weekly (HD). A look Ri’chard and Murray Comedy, starring Arnold Melua. ahead to matchday four.

Smith. ●●● Schwarzenegger. ●●● 9.00 Paranormal Activity (HD) (2007). A couple become convinced their new home is haunted, and set out to capture evidence of their ghostly encounters on film.

Horror, starring Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat. ●●●●

RADIO

1.10 Release the Hounds (R,HD).

Reggie Yates presents a Halloweenthemed game show in which three contestants embark on a quest to unlock chests full of prize money in a forest at dusk. 2.00 Life’s Funniest Moments (R). 2.25 Teleshopping. 5.55 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.05 Rude Tube (R). 1.10 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Sheldon decides to make new friends. 1.40 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 2.10 Drifters (R,HD). 2.35 Drifters (R,HD). 3.05 PhoneShop (R). 3.30 Full English (R,HD). 4.00 Show and Tell (R). 4.40 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 4.00 Greg James 6.00 Radio 1’s Dance Anthems with Greg James 7.00 Annie Mac 9.00 Pete Tong 11.00 Skream and Benga 1.00am Radio 1’s Essential Mix 3.00 Annie Nightingale Radio 2 5.00am Anneka Rice 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Vanessa Feltz 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round 8.00 Friday Night Is Music Night 10.00 The Radio 2 Arts Show with Claudia Winkleman Midnight Huey

12.45 Brit Cops: Zero Tolerance (R,S,HD). 1.45 Brit Cops: Zero Tolerance (R,S,HD). 2.45 Futurama: Welcome to the World of Tomorrow (R,S). 3.00 Road Wars (R,S,HD). 4.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 4.30 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 5.00 Airline (R,S). 5.30 Airline (R,S).

Morgan 3.00 Richard Allinson Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composer of the Week: Franz Joseph Haydn 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composer of the Week: Franz Joseph Haydn 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert 10.00 The Verb at Free Thinking. With poets Daljit Nagra and Kate Fox and singer Nadine Shah.

10.45 The Free Thinking Essay: New Generation Thinkers 11.00 World on 3 1.00am Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today

12.35 Rev. There is a hole in the church accounts, so when a wealthy City banker (Richard E Grant) joins the Alcoholics Anonymous group, it seems financial salvation has arrived.

1.10 The Office 1.40 I’m Alan Partridge 2.10 Come Fly with Me 2.40 Rex the Runt 2.50 Rex the Runt 3.00 Home Shopping.

8.31 (LW) Yesterday in Parliament 9.00 Desert Island Discs 9.45 (LW) Act of Worship 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 Overwhelming China 11.30 The Gobetweenies Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 You and Yours 12.52 The Listening Project 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: GF Newman’s The Corrupted 3.00 Gardeners’ Question Time 3.45 Edinburgh Haunts 4.00 Last Word 4.30 Feedback 4.56 The Listening Project 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping

Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 The Now Show 7.00 The Archers. A new Mrs Archer arrives in Ambridge. 7.15 Front Row. Kirsty Lang presents. 7.45 (LW) Petite Mort. By Beatrice Hitchman. Dramatised

by Miranda Davies. 7.45 (FM) Petite Mort 8.00 Any Questions? 8.50 A Point of View 9.00 Friday Drama: Rio Story 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Goldfinch 11.00 A Good Read 11.30 Today in Parliament 11.55 The Listening Project Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC

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12.00 FL72 Highlights (HD).

Ipswich Town v Barnsley. 1.00 Spanish Football (HD). Barcelona v Espanyol. 3.05 FL72 Highlights (HD). Ipswich Town v Barnsley. 4.00 Premier League Preview (HD).

4.30 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). 5.30 Champions League Weekly (HD).

World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review.

The week’s movies. 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport. Dan Walker looks ahead to the weekend’s sport. 10.00 Stephen Nolan. News and debate.

1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert. Rossini, Chelleri, Mozart and Xinghai. 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Bob Jones

SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 2013 WEST COUNTRY LIFE 53

Puzzles and poetry

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I allowed a half a day to get to Buryan In case I met a charabanc or hearse Which the narrowness of country lanes dictated Meant spending half the morning in reverse.

By the church, the great examiner was waiting With a scowl that matched his clipboard and his tie, He was shivering and snuffling in a hanky As he wiped the tractor’s smoke-specks from his eye.

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Mister Clipboard duly beckoned me to join him And, through his snuffles, told me I was clear And I gathered by the speed of his departure That he wanted to be anywhere but here.

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I ambled home, anticipating glory As I brought the flagging Fordson to its rest, ’slow down a bit,’ said Dad, as I dismounted, ’don’t go speedin’ just because you’ve passed your test.’

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I had to demonstrate my starting with the handle, A commonplace routine of no concern, Then I coaxed my roaring beast along the highway And impressed him with my 23-point turn.

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He despatched me for a spin around the churchyard While he waited, sipping coffee from a flask, He could have had a three-course meal with extras In the time required for finishing the task.

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Then, comically, he gestured with his clipboard As he called on me to stop from where he hid, So lethargic was the speed at which I travelled, I doubt he knew the difference when I did.

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ACROSS ACROSS 1 You can see these homeless

hanging around outside 1 You people can see these homeless people hanging the hotels and the jobjob centre in around outside the hotels and the the centre of Camborne centre (5) in the centre of Camborne (5)

chess Bob Jones In spite of several key absentees, Somerset managed to inflict a heavy defeat over rivals Devon last Saturday, by 10½-5½.

Devon names first: 1 D Mackle 0-1 P Krzyzanowski; 2 A Boyne 0-1 P Chaplain; 3 J Stephens 0-1 D Littlejohns; 4 S Homer 0-1 M Payne; 5 T Paulden 0-1 A Wong; 6 P Medina 1-0 C Purry; 7 K Hurst 0-1 A Footner; 8 D Regis 1-0 J Fewkes; 9 A Brusey 01 G Crockart; 10 J Underwood 0-1 P Cusick; 11 B Hewson 0-1 G Jepps; 12 J Fraser 1-0 D Peters; 13 T Thynne 1-0 A Champion; 14 P Brooks 0-1 M Baker; 15 G Body 1-0 D Freeman; 16 S Martin ½-½ N Senior.

Devon fared better in the second team match, winning 8-4; 1 J Gorodi 1-0 C McKinley; 2 M Stinton-Brownbridge 1-0 R Knight; 3 A Kinder 0-1 C Strong; 4 I Annetts ½-½ T West; 5 B Gosling ½-½ U Effiong; 6 J Duckham

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My right turn at the village shop would follow Though it took another lifetime to complete, A manoeuvre offered critical approval By the clapping of the locals on the seat.

For book enquiries, ring 01752 600366.

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1-0 G Daniel; 7 S Murray ½-½ R Challoner; 8 K Atkins 0-1 C Fewtrell; 9 R Wilby 1-0 J Wilkinson; 10 N Mills ½-½ S Pickard; 11 P Dobber 1-0 N Mills; 12 W Taylor 1-0 R Fenton.

This win by a Bath University student was an impressive start to his West Country chess career.

White: S J Homer (188). Black: M J Payne (184). French Defence – Guimard Var. [C04] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nc6 4.Ngf3 Nf6 5.e5 Nd7 6.Bd3 f6 7.Ng5 “Beware Greeks bearing gifts” – Black would be in terrible trouble if he took the knight e.g. 7...fxg5 8.Qh5+ g6 9.Bxg6+ Ke7 10.Qxg5+ forcing 10...Nf6 11.Qxf6+ Kd7 12.Qxh8 etc. 7…Ndxe5 Black can afford to ease the pressure by taking on e5, and also releasing d7 for his king, if required. 8.dxe5 fxg5 9.Qh5+ g6 10.Bxg6+ Kd7 11.Bd3 Nxe5 12.Nf3 Nxf3+ 13.Qxf3 h6 14.0–0 Bd6 15.Bd2 Qf8 White is much better developed at this point, but now helps Black’s cause. 16.Qg4 Kd8 17.f4 e5 18.f5 Qf6 19.h4 e4 20.hxg5 Qd4+ 21.Rf2 Bc5 22.Raf1 exd3 23.Qh5 dxc2 24.Bc1 Bxf5 Black’s bishops proceed to work well from the centre of the board. 25.g6 Qg4 26.g7 Rg8 27.Qf7 Be6 28.Qf6+ Kd7 29.Bxh6 Bd4 White must now exchange his queen and lose a rook. 0–1 Probably the shortest ever game in the history of the championship was this one.

White: D Freeman (151). Black: G Body (160).

1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 c6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.Nxe5??

Qa5+ winning the knight 0-1.

In last week’s position, White can win immediately with 1.Kc3 when 2.Qb2 mate cannot be avoided.

This week’s position is a hitherto unpublished two-mover by reader David Howard of East Harptree.

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When I took my tractor test on Father’s Fordson, Discretion held no fears for me at all, That old machine was slower than a carthorse With a top speed just a notch above a crawl.

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You know you are happy with things because you feel good when you are involved with them. Why have you not tried to do anything about the events and people who bring you down? Find your voice. Ring now for support.

The past is in the way of your future. You can gain the upper hand if you act quickly, but don’t let others try to force you to drag your feet. It can only cast you in a naive light. Relationships get interesting from Thursday. Call for a message from the stars.

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Try not to judge new faces too harshly. You may have met people who were similar in the past, but you have not met them before. Messages from a work contact put an opportunity before you. Life this week is opportunity. Phone me to delve into your future.

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1 Soaked up (8) 2 Wildcat (6) up (8) 3 1 Soaked Undergarment (8) 4 2 Wildcat Sport (6) (6) 5 3 Undergarment Cooking utensil (8) (8) 6 4 Sport Public transport vehicle (10) (6) 7 5 Cooking Scurry (7) utensil (8) 8 6 Public Royal house (6) transport vehicle (10) 11 Venetian boat (7) (7) coat (6) 167 Scurry Weatherproof house (6) 198 Royal Trivial (5) Venetian 2011 Father (3) boat (7) Weatherproof 2216 Manservant (5) coat (6) 2319 Use (6) (5) Trivial 2520 Artificial (4,2,4) Fatherrespiration (3) 2622 Rodent (3) Manservant (5) 27 Fabricate (7) Use (6) (8) 3023 Hindrance Artificial 3125 Feasts (8) respiration (4,2,4) Rodent(8)(3) 3226 Famous 3327 Law (7) Fabricate (7) 3530 Sports official (6) Hindrance (8) 3631 Card suit (8) (6) Feasts 3732 Beginning Famous(6) (8) 33 Law (7) 35 Sports official (6) 36 Card suit (6) 37 Beginning (6)

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Some will be going out of their way to spend time in your company as no one really knows where they stand. A career setback in your career midweek can turn out to be a blessing. Phone for more predictions.

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I know that things were a little prickly yesterday, but no change comes without a transition. Make each day count and relish the restrictions which have lifted.

You’re about to find you again and you’ll like what you see. Give me a ring to hear why this is your year.

Stop remembering the past as you’d have liked it and take a reality check. A break-up brings surprise and makes you realise that things are not always as they seem. Venus makes you more emotional about a tiff than you need to be. Ring for tips on reconciliation.

You’ve been working hard but feel as if you’re not getting anywhere. You’re making plenty of progress, you just have to stop and take in how far you’ve come. Contracts form the base for a better future.

Call to hear why it’s imperative to dress well.

You must try to be more honest about your feelings.

Tuesday sees you finding your self-confidence and hands you the power to speak from the heart, so use this day for any close talks you want to have. Phone to hear how legal links must be embraced, not feared.

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You’ve come so far yet you fail to give yourself credit.

If you don’t think you’re worth making an effort for, why should anyone else. Sticking to plans midweek can ensure you see someone you’ve missed. Give me a call to hear which signs you can trust.

This is a really good week to kick bad habits. You have the power of the stars to help you find longevity.

Family use your strength but make sure you keep time to live your own life. I can help you to better accept who you are and what you want from your future.

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 2013 WEST COUNTRY LIFE 55

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Can you name and locate these five wellknown West Country landmarks, as seen by Fran Stothard and Clare Green?

Solutions below.

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Across: 1 Hobos, 4 Pubs, 8 Parkham, 9 Lease, 10 Yo-yo, 11 Trevance, 13 Sloths, 14 Labour, 16 Greenway, 17 Idea, 20 E coli, 21 Willand, 22 Oggy, 23 Meets.

Down 1 Happy, 2 Berry Pomeroy, 3 Soho, 4 Pymore, 5 Bolivian, 6 Taunton Deane, 7 Meteor, 12 Thinking, 13 Signet, 15 Farway, 18 Andes, 19 Plym.

1 Old sundial at Barrington Court, Somerset.

2 Ruined church on Burrow Mump, Burrowbridge, Somerset. 3 War memorial in Chippenham, Wiltshire. 4 Pero’s Bridge, Bristol. 5 The white horse at Hackpen Hill, Wiltshire.

Crossword solutions

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Across: 9, Eye-opener 10, Tr-avest-y 12, I-van 13, Scream 14, Decline 15, Van-dalise 17, S-event-een 18, Slips on 20, Thrash 21, Ra-I-n 24, Makes for 26, But-tress 28, Meet 29, C-L-aret 31, Chipper 34, Addressed 36, B-ought-out 38, Scratch 39, O-racle 40, Peke (peak) 41, Ref-erred 42, Lashed out Down: 1, Be-liev-es 2, Regain 3, In ac-tion 4, Breeze 5, Ato-miser 6, Paid a visit 7, Be-a-co-ns. 8, Strike 11, Me-aniN-g 16, Answer 19, Imag(in)e 20, To-R 22, A-esop (rev) 23, Wra-I-th 25, Fall’s short 26, Bit 27, I-m-pass-e 30, Redwoods 31, Clueless 32, Re-treats 33, Settled 35, Darned 36, B-R-awls 37, O-re-gon

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Across: 9, Brainwave 10, Atrocity 12, Onus 13, Picnic 14, Lumbago 15, Barbarous 17, Prevented 18, Deplore 20, Danube 21, Evil 24, Attacked 26, Resemble 28, Onyx 29, Escort 31, Bolster 34, Courteous 36, Honeymoon 38, Capital 39, Abacus 40, Stew 41, Truthful 42, Tête-à-tête Down: 1, Absorbed 2, Jaguar 3, Camisole 4, Tennis 5, Saucepan 6, Trolleybus 7, Scamper 8, Stuart 11, Gondola 16, Anorak 19, Petty 20, Dad 22, Valet 23, Employ 25, Kiss of life 26, Rat 27, Concoct 30, Obstacle 31, Banquets 32, Renowned 33, Statute 35, Umpire 36, Hearts 37, Outset

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