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EYES ON THE PRIZE

The famous World Cup trophy that 48 teams are eager to get their hands on

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FROM THE EDITOR

WELCOME TO OUR World Cup special, complete with the famous Radio Times wall chart. Expanding tournaments may be good news for football administrators, but less so for magazine art departments. But our art editor Jake Howard has somehow managed to squeeze every one of the 104 fixtures into the space available. I certainly couldn’t navigate a World Cup without one.

Add to the mix Caroline Frost’s interview with Gary Lineker and what emerges is a reminder that the World Cup has always been about more than football. It’s also about memory: where we watched, who we watched with and the optimism that arrives every four years regardless of previous evidence.

Lineker himself has become part of that tradition. This tournament may find him broadcasting live from New York rather than a BBC studio, but what comes across is that he has the same enthusiasm for the game that he’s had for each one since Mexico 86. And perhaps that’s why the World Cup still matters in a way few television events do. It remains one of the last occasions when millions gather around a TV at the same time simultaneously celebrating or despairing.

So pin up the wall chart, clear your evenings and settle into the strange rhythms of another tournament. Television does many things brilliantly, but few events quite match the collective drama of a World Cup. Let’s just hope it’s the football that gets our hearts racing.

SHEM LAW Editor Radio Times

IN THE ISSUE

4 Opening shot

Welcome to Tiger Island

6 10 Questions

Rupert Everett is glad to be growing old and grey

9 Caroline Frost

It’s not all happy holidays in Two Weeks in August

11 Viewpoint

The murder case that still haunts Rob Rinder

12 Simon Barnes

The scene is set for a World Cup unlike any other...

14 Gary Lineker

He may have left the BBC, but he’s still at the heart of the World Cup coverage

16 The RT pundits

Our panel of experts make their tournament predictions

18 Paul Scholes

The former England star ruminates on life’s priorities

21 Sports science

Meet the backroom boffins who make teams tick

24 Alice and Steve

Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker have redefined the age-gap romcom

29 Brexit revisited

Ten years on, the main players recall key moments of the referendum

110 The Archers Live

On the road with Ambridge

favourites Tracy, Brian and Susan-from-the-shop

132 Books

Billionaires are ripe for satire, says Andrew Hunter Murray

134 Gardening

Foxgloves will bring colour and shape to your garden

136 Travel

Nothing beats the slow pace of a languid canal cruise

138 Money

Expert advice from Paul Lewis

139 Puzzles

All your favourite brainteasers

142 Feedback

You have your say

144 RT revisits

Matthew Parris on taking over Weekend World

146 View from my sofa

Football pundit Karen Carney

WHAT’S WORTH WATCHING 30

32 Streaming

Your guide to on-demand TV

39 Sport

The best of this week’s fixtures

40 Television

The week’s programmes

WEEK IN

ON THE APP

Keep up with the World Cup with a hub for each day’s games and what’s worth watching if you’re not a football fan

112 Podcasts

Our pick of the latest releases

114 Radio

The best daily guide

DISCLOSURE DAY

Watch interviews with the cast of Spielberg’s sci-fi epic, including Eve Hewson (left) on the Radio Times YouTube channel

WORLD CUP Match previews, odds and exclusive insights as the tournament gets under way, at radiotimes.com

OPENING SHOT

A drone films a male Bengal tiger crossing a river in Western Nepal

TIGER TEAM

“Big cat scientist” Dan O’Neill, centre, with cinematographers Anna Dimitriadis and Max Hug Williams, and, below, tigress “Goma” with her two cubs – plus one other

EYES ON THE TIGERS

Advanced techniques have given film-makers game-changing insights into these big cats

In pursuit of elusive tigers, award-winning cinematographer Max Hug Williams has endured extremes. He’s faced temperatures of minus 40 in the Russian Far East in search of Siberian tigers; on a tree platform in Bhutan, home to Bengal tigers, he was nearly struck by lightning. Shortly afterwards, he was almost shot when mistaken for a poacher.

Happily, for Tiger Island, a new two-parter from the BBC’s Natural History Unit, Williams neither risked electrocution nor perforation. Not that the striking footage wasn’t still challenging to capture: in monsoon season on the eponymous island in western Nepal, it’s 40 degrees, 90 per cent humidity and too hot to work from 9am until after midnight. But the reward of capturing tigers’ previously hidden behaviours made the challenge worth it. Williams, who won an Emmy for his work on Planet Earth II, says “Every day, I didn’t think we would see what we saw – and it blew my mind.”

For what Williams, fellow cinematographer Anna Dimitriadis and scientific consultant Dan O’Neill saw changed received wisdom about tigers to such an extent that O’Neill, who has travelled 300 miles up the

Amazon and seen majestic jaguars lounge riverside, tells RT: “From a scientific perspective, it was completely mad.”

For the precise nature of these discoveries, you’ll have to watch Tiger Island, but they were made possible by the use of remotely triggered cameras and advanced drone technology. These techniques enabled access to the tigers that would have been impossible for humans, and allowed the uninterrupted charting of their behaviour over long periods of time, including overnight, and all without troubling the tigers much.

“They barely glance at the drones, which probably sound like a fly to them,” Williams says.

“What we’ve just done with Tiger Island, I would call a study, to be brutally honest, because it’s the first of its kind,” O’Neill says, sure that the drone technology is nothing short of a game-changer for making nature documentaries. “It’s allowing us into the natural world in a way that we’ve never had before. What we’ve captured in this programme is extremely valuable and will hopefully advance tiger conservation.”

GARETH McLEAN

Tiger Island starts Sunday 7.15pm on BBC One

10 QUESTIONS WITH RUPERT EVERETT

The actor and author on no longer playing leading men, letting go of his vanity and the joys of Jilly Cooper

Actor, writer and director

Rupert Everett first came to prominence more than 40 years ago in Another Country, becoming a household name in films like My Best Friend’s Wedding alongside Julia Roberts, The Next Best Thing with Madonna and An Ideal Husband with Cate Blanchett. Now 67, Everett has written three memoirs including Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, which The Times called “the most truthful, witty and beautifully written celebrity memoir you will ever read”. His latest film Madfabulous co-stars Callum Scott Howells and Ruby Stokes and tells the story of the extravagant 5th Marquess of Anglesey. Everett plays the Marquess’s butler, Gelert.

In the past you’ve played leading men, but now you do more character roles – is that a conscious choice?

I’ve enjoyed myself much more as I’ve got older. I think it has made acting much more fun for me. I don’t look very nice these days and it doesn’t bother me. Vanity was always being concerned about not looking good enough –letting go of all that was a great release. I feel lucky that I’ve stopped being as vain as I was. It started making me into a better actor. I feel like I’m kind of hitting my stride and I find acting much more exciting now.

In Madfabulous you play Gelert, the butler of the 5th Marquess of Anglesey – what appealed about the role? The butler is always a great part in things like this because you’re an observer, and that’s always quite cinematic. I loved the idea of the faithful retainer, a character who’s been in service all their life

‘I don’t look very nice these days and it doesn’t bother me. I’ve stopped being as vain as I was’

who is kind of falling apart but keeps going. That was very appealing to me.

Who was the Marquess, Henry Paget?

He was a classic British eccentric. He didn’t see anybody’s rules as being applicable to himself and he was able to live his dream life. I don’t know if he was gay. From what I could grasp he seemed more asexual than sexual, possibly. I don’t think there are any records of lovers he had. So, whether he was gay and wasn’t able to express it, or whether he did express it and it’s been kept secret, I don’t know.

Dance and that he converted his church into a kind of theatre. And he’d spent, I think, the equivalent of about £90 million in today’s money –everything he had – on performing.

You’re also in the new series of Rivals – what was that like?

Wonderful! I’ve always been a great fan of Jilly Cooper. When I saw the first series I loved it, and did my best to muscle my way in.

OBSERVER

As Gelert the butler in his latest film, Madfabulous

Did you know much about him beforehand?

I knew the fact that he’d invented the Butterfy

Did you know Jilly Cooper? I did and I loved her. She was clever, humble, funny, curious, great fun and a hard worker. She wrote all day and evening. I was gutted when she died but thrilled to be part of Rivals So, she lives on.

You starred opposite Bob Dylan in the

1987 rock movie Hearts of Fire. What was he like to work with? He was a very warm character. He was very, very sweet to me and very funny. He had a totally different existence because he went to bed at maybe 4pm and got up again at 7, and then stayed up till 2, and maybe slept till 5, and then stayed up till noon. He was on a schedule that was just his own. I remember we played a big rock stadium together before a Bon Jovi concert. We went to film our concert scenes before this Bon Jovi concert in a stadium in Toronto packed with people. That was such a thrill for me.

The books you have written have all been well received – is that a different kind of validation from acting?

I’ve been very lucky in terms of validation from my writing. I haven’t had the same kind of bumpy, up-anddown experience in my writing that I had in my acting. So I’ve enjoyed it a lot. We all love praise, as opposed to condemnation! I’m working on another two books at the moment – a memoir and a novel.

What are you looking for in future acting roles?

In a way, there’s no such thing as a good actor. A good actor is only as good as the role. You can’t come out well in a bad part, even if you’re the best actor in the world. Whereas you can be in a good part and not be such a good actor, and you’ll come out looking good because it’s really in the writing.

You’ve said previously you like playing people who are older than you – why is that?

Trying to play older is my new thing. I copied that from Shirley MacLaine because when she was 50, instead of trying to have facelifts and go on playing 30-year-olds, she decided to play 70-year-olds. It seemed to me like a good idea because I’ve got quite weathered skin and can play 90 quite easily but still remember the lines. I thought it was possibly a winning strategy. SARFRAZ MANZOOR

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO… CREATE THE SOUNDS OF AMBRIDGE

Vanessa Nuttall is a freelance sound engineer and Foley artist, using weird and wonderful techniques to create sound effects in the studio for The Archers “live”, alongside the actors when they’re recording their lines.

GETTING TECHNICAL I was a PA on religious programmes and outside broadcasts but I was always more interested in what the sound engineer was doing, so I retrained as an audio assistant at the BBC centre near Evesham, Worcestershire. It covered TV, but radio is my first love. I do all sorts of other radio drama, but half of me lives in Ambridge – it’s as if I exist in the spot-effects cupboard between recording blocks!

ON THE STUDIO FLOOR I don’t wear headphones – I’m completely analogue! I need to have a great sense of perspective, be behind or in line with the actor, and be aware of how quiet or loud to make a sound. It’s very intuitive. For instance, a glass being put down: how hard, what’s the mood, what surface is it on?

AURAL ART You have to be dextrous and learn from others. Radio is a real art. I’m the interface between the sounds supervisor and the studio floor – rigging speakers, moving the set and the mics, understanding the choreography as actors move around so the listener always feels and understands where they are. We paint pictures through the ears.

UNUSUAL EQUIPMENT People laugh about using squelching sounds with yoghurt

and using crumpled tapes [above] as straw, but I’m always inventing things. Lilian’s dog Ruby was at the vet’s, so for claws on a metal table, I got a garden glove, pushed in drawing pins and wore that to tickle the metal top while the actors were speaking. My prop cupboard has shelves full of golf clubs, cricket pads, boxes of food (generally out of date), metal and wooden bits. A baby doll is really useful. People like to cradle a doll when they’re talking about a baby or putting a nappy on. It has moving eyelids, but we taped them shut because they rattle!

OFF SCRIPT I watch the actors all the time and sometimes see that the tiniest movement or moment might need something. If they’re texting, I have a prop phone and tap the tiny sound. Without it, the illusion might not be complete. It’s very direct, immediate, dramatic. I’m part of it. It’s a physical job and I’m on my feet all day; I have to look after myself.

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

I will be beside the sofa bed we use [above left], rustling the duvet, your intimacy coordinator for the day! The actors have to trust me. It’s a big family on The Archers. We work very closely and it can get emotional. When Rob was dying, asking Helen to put a pillow over him... I go all goosey thinking about it. When the red [on air] light went off, we all had to take a breath.

LIBBY PURVES

The Archers is on Radio 4 from Sunday to Friday. See feature: page 110; Ambridge Diary: page 112

Madfabulous is in UK cinemas from 5 June. Rivals series 2 is streaming on Disney+

NINETIES HIT

In My Best Friend’s Wedding with Julia Roberts

FROSTBITE CAROLINE FROST

The BBC’s new drama serves as a timely reminder that holidaying with friends isn’t always the best idea

IT’S THAT TIME of year, when thoughts invariably turn to pastures exotic. When, programmed to forget queues at the airport and arriving at your destination at midnight without teabags, we go seeking adventure, emotional transformation, spiritual enlightenment or, at the very least, an ice cream in the sun. So Two Weeks in August serves as a timely reminder: all that glistens under the Aegean sky is not gold.

Man-made disaster in God’s own paradise is nothing new. Long before Michael White’s award-winning White Lotus series turned it into a franchise, Somerset Maugham delighted in the French Riviera’s paradox of “a sunny place for shady people”, while Agatha Christie explored the same theme with A Caribbean Mystery, Death on the Nile and my fave, Evil Under the Sun –especially Jane Birkin’s beachwear advice, “Don’t forget your bathing cap.”

IT’S EASY TO see why authors, film-makers and TV producers all land on the conceit of a group of troubled people being thrown together somewhere beautiful. Holidays give everyone time to reflect, always a guarantee of imminent upheaval. The pressure to feel deeply happy, or at least fortunate, in such an idyll conjures up its own demons. And, of course, there’s the intense claustrophobia of it all. No human is equipped to spend that many hours in collective hedonism when their ideal evening is the solitary splendour of a takeaway and Midsomer Murders. I’m sure I speak for everyone… Someone described Two Weeks in

August to me as “White Lotus on a BBC budget” and, for sure, there are some very familiar aspects: a group of relatively wealthy holidaymakers (even the poorest isn’t dodging gunfire or filling in a food voucher) descend on a Grecian island where, you won’t be surprised to learn, they soon discover that they can’t escape themselves.

In this version, it’s a group of university friends now in their 40s, plus various partners and children. Writer Catherine Shepherd has great fun playing with some grotesque, very familiar clichés: vain actor Solomon (Nicholas Pinnock) making a big show of “turning off his phone” only to spend the next day recording an audition tape; French nanny Léa (Florence Banks), far more interested in distracting the adults than tending to her bairns; glamorous singleton Nat (Leila Farzad) competing for the attention of her gay bestie Jacob (Hugh Skinner) with his irritatingly confident on-off boyfriend… hell is other people, and they’re all in this villa. We don’t need them dressed

‘Manmade disaster in God’s own paradise is nothing new’

HEAVEN ON (MIDDLE)

EARTH

Leo Woodall (right) says of his role in Lord of the Rings: the Hunt for Gollum (due next year), where he plays new character Halvard: “It’s a boyhood dream to join that world, and to join it with Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis and Elijah Wood.”

FRESH

BLOOD IN SHERWOOD

Sherwood writer James Graham tells RT that the BBC drama’s third series has finished filming, with new cast members. “We have a brand-new family that I put through a brand-new trauma – we really put these guys through the wringer.”

up as ancient gods for an impromptu bacchanalian romp halfway through to get the message – people have always behaved badly and always will.

But despite such universal, timeless elements, I’m enjoying Two Weeks… best when it plays to our singularly British hang-ups. How familiar is that sinking feeling when someone brightly suggests, “I thought we’d do a kitty. Everyone sticks in, what, 200 Euros for now?” For now? And Jessica Raine is on fire as harangued wife Zoe, doing her best to keep smiling even while her depressed husband Dan (Damien Molony) complains, “Nothing fun ever happens when someone says it’ll be fun.” Her Doctor Foster dinner-table moment is hard-earnt and thrilling.

THE SERIES ALSO brings some lessons for any groups thinking of flying away ensemble this summer: don’t go on holiday with anyone a lot wealthier, or less wealthy, than you; don’t take aromatic substances with your friend’s attractive wife or, if you do, don’t climb up to the roof together to look at the moon; don’t accept any invitation from an over-friendly couple you keep bumping into at the market, it won’t end well. Oh, and one more thing – don’t forget your bathing cap.

Two Weeks in August is available to stream as a boxset on BBC iPlayer

Caroline Frost presents the Radio Times podcast every week. To listen visit radiotimes.com/ audio/podcasts

NEW TESTAMENT

Elisabeth Moss’s cameo in The Testaments was kept secret until she popped up in The Handmaid’s Tale spin-off series. Ahead of series two, showrunner Bruce Miller hints at more returns. “We do flashbacks and stuff, so even characters who aren’t around can have stories.”

PADDINGTON FOR PM? Paddington is set to return to cinemas for a fourth outing, with two rather surprising new scriptwriters – The Thick of It and Veep’s Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell. So, will it be Paddington for PM? Stranger things have happened... LEWIS KNIGHT

HOLIDAY BLUES

The cast of Two Weeks in August, led by Jessica Raine (centre)

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THERE ARE SOME cases that follow you home. Not immediately. At first they exist only as paperwork, evidence and legal argument. You tell yourself you’ve done your job professionally. You move on. Another client. Another trial. But every so often, years later something returns uninvited: a face, a photograph, a fragment of testimony, a mother’s voice. For nearly 20 years that case for me has been the unsolved murder of Lucy Hargreaves Lucy was 22 when she was shot dead in her home in Liverpool in 2005. Afterwards, the killers set fire to the house. Upstairs, her partner and small child escaped through a window. Even now, writing those words, I feel the same chill I felt when I first read the case papers as a young criminal defence barrister.

TVIEWPOINT

UNFORGOTTEN

The family of Lucy Hargreaves are still waiting for her killers to be held accountable

HE TRIAL ITSELF carried an atmosphere I have never forgotten. This was Liverpool at a moment of deep distrust between parts of the community and the police. Rumour travelled faster than evidence. Fear sat everywhere. Witnesses changed accounts or disappeared. Around the case hung the presence of organised criminality and intimidation. At the same time, investigators were relying on relatively new forms of mobile phone evidence – cell site analysis, call patterns – the digital breadcrumbs of movement and association that have since become commonplace in trials. I was junior counsel for the defence team. At the close of the prosecution case, the defence submitted there was no case to answer: in other words, that even taken at its highest the evidence could not properly sustain a conviction before a jury. The judge agreed. The case was stopped before the defence was ever called.

To non-lawyers that can sound like a trick, like justice interrupted by procedure, but it is one of the system’s

THE MURDER TRIAL

I CAN’T FORGET

There is one case that still haunts ROB RINDER from his years as a criminal defence barrister

terrible. The answer is because the alternative is infinitely worse. Once a state starts imprisoning people because of suspicion, atmosphere or public certainty, freedom becomes conditional. I grew up conscious that freedom and the rule of law are not inevitable things My grandfather survived Nazi tyranny. He understood where societies can drift when fear overtakes principle and when states cease to be properly accountable. Perhaps that is one reason I have always believed so deeply in juries and due process. Yet those principles do not make Lucy Hargreaves’s death any less horrifying. None of them erase what her family have lived with for 20 years

RETURNING TO THIS case for my new documentary forced me to confront something lawyers are trained to suppress: the emotional afterlife of a case. Criminal courts are designed to reach verdicts. Human beings do not work so neatly. Cases may conclude. Grief does not. Legal process has an ending. Loss doesn’t.

‘You realise that justice is not a television ending’

most important safeguards. A jury should never be asked to convict on evidence incapable of safely sustaining guilt.

Afterwards I did what the profession requires of us. I said nothing publicly. Barristers are not pundits offering emotional commentary after the event. But silence does not mean indifference and Lucy’s case remained with me in ways I found difficult fully to explain even to myself.

People often ask how a barrister can defend somebody accused of something

Meeting Lucy’s family for the first time was one of the most moving experiences of my professional life. There was extraordinary dignity in them but also something else: the exhaustion of people forced to carry unanswered questions for two decades You realise quickly that justice is not a television ending where everything resolves itself in a final act. Sometimes the law reaches the only conclusion it properly can and still leaves pain radiating in every direction.

Rob Rinder: the Crime I Can’t Forget is on Monday at 9.00pm on Crime + Investigation

THE HEAT

IS O !

Mexico v South Africa

Thursday, kick-off 8.00pm ITV1/STV/ Radio 5 Live/Talksport

IT HAS BECOME a custom hallowed by tradition. Before any major international sporting event can take place, there must be loud predictions of ruin, violence, hatred, fear, loathing and the end of sport as we know it. The men’s football World Cup begins this week and the potential for real disaster has never been more acute.

Football’s world governing body presented its inaugural peace prize to a man who had performed “exceptional and extraordinary actions for peace” and “united people across the world”. In a

As the World Cup kicks off, let’s hope it’s the players who make all the headlines and not the President of the USA, says SIMON BARNES

decision that signals the death of irony, the recipient was the President of the United StatesofAmerica,Donald Trump. Fifa is committed by its constitution to political neutrality and human rights. You don’t need to be a graduate in political science to spot the potential for contradiction. The two previous World Cups under the current president Gianni Infantino have been held in Russia and Qatar, respectively.

When a three-country bid for the 2026 World Cup was accepted in 2018, it seemed a comfortable and uncontroversial decision – the successful nations being Mexico, Canada and the United States, the last the dominant partner. But times have changed. The World Cup of 2026

will be the first time a major event has taken place when two of the participating nations are at war with each other, so no one knows quite what to expect or how to behave. The situation is particularly fraught because one of the countries is hosting the event.

On 28 February this year, the United States, in partnership with Israel, began a war with Iran, who have qualified for this grandiose tournament of 48 teams, a marked upgrade from 32 last

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time round. Trump said: “The Iran international soccer team is welcome to the World Cup but I really don’t believe it is appropriate that they be there, for their own life and safety.” Is that a threat?

It’s been estimated that the last World Cup attracted global audiences of 1.41 billion. Such figures are dazzlingly attractive to those who wish to publicise a cause by way of disruption: boycotts, peaceful demonstrations, cyber-attacks or out-and-out violence. It’s been said that aggressive actions could be carried out by Iran’s proxy organisations, putative sleeper units or a lone wolf.

But people from other nations have increasing reasons to be wary of the United States – including the two co-hosts. Trump has threatened to take over Canada as the 51st state and hasn’t been too kind about Mexican immigrants. Unfortunately, everywhere you

‘We are living in a nervous time – and for 39 days, the World Cup will be at the heart of it’

look there is potential for trouble.

Intense restrictions on immigration to the United States and their violent enforcement have created global unease. Those who wish to travel there have problems far beyond Fifa’s ticket prices and the extortionate costs of hotels and travel. (The BBC estimates that an England supporter travelling for the group stage matches must find £6,500.)

PEOPLE FROM SOME of the participating nations are banned altogether from the USA: Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, Senegal and of course, Iran. Meanwhile, South American nations are increasingly mistrustful after the USA military intervention in Venezuela, when they removed the head of state, Nicolás Maduro.

European members of Nato have been subjected to sustained abuse from

CURRENT CHAMPIONS

Trump, most recently for their refusal to join him in his war of choice against Iran. Trump has also threatened to annex Greenland by force.

Trump’s volatility and unpredictability has filled the world with uncertainty. We are living in a nervous and jumpy time – and for 39 days the World Cup will be the heart of it.

Now add this to the mix. Iran are in a group with New Zealand, Belgium and Egypt, so it’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that they could get through to the knockout stage. If they finish second in their group and the United States do the same in theirs, we’ll have a match in Texas on 3 July between Iran and the United States. Would it were August and all well...

Don’t miss any of the action with our World Cup wall chart

Lionel Messi (holding the trophy) led Argentina to victory in the last World Cup in Qatar in 2022

ALIVE AND KICKING

Having

left the BBC, broadcaster and legendary England striker

GARY LINEKER is keen to enjoy the freedom of the World Cup on his own terms

THE RT INTERVIEW BY CAROLINE FROST

IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE, Gary Lineker would be packing his suitcase and heading up the motorway from London to Salford, to lead the BBC’s World Cup presenting team. Seamlessly, he would be juggling live match feeds from three countries across four time zones, reporting on the latest full-time scores and bantering with his studio guests. It’s what he’s done for the previous seven World Cups, and what he’d announced he’d be doing as his final hurrah before taking leave of the Corporation he’d called home for 30 years.

Instead, this month will see him swap Manchester for Manhattan, from where he will broadcast his The Rest Is Football podcast three times a week. In addition he’ll host, along with Alan Shearer and Micah Richards, a separate daily TV show of the same name, every morning of the tournament, to be shown across the world via the Netflix streaming platform. He sounds undaunted: “I’ve done World Cups, and we did a podcast every day for the Euros. This will just be a bit glossier, so I’ll manage,” he smiles.

“There will be lots of prep and long days, but they’re long days watching football so I’m not complaining.”

Such a broadcasting deal is a testament to the success of Lineker’s postBBC career; as well as hosting The Rest Is Football, he is a co-founder and director of Goalhanger, the company that boasts a string of hit podcasts: The Rest Is… History, Politics and Entertainment as well as William Dalrymple’s Empire. But he bats away the idea he is some kind of media prophet: “It’s really my partners Tony Pastor and Jack Davenport who run the show. Just like my whole life, whether it be football or television, other people do all the hard work and then I get, well, the praise – and sometimes the blame. Tony and Jack are like Peter Beardsley and John Barnes. They create a lot of things for me and I go in and finish them off.” He beams at this extremely tidy football analogy.

HE’S EQUALLY KEEN to stress that his World Cup show won’t be in competition with the BBC, that it won’t have the live matches aired by the national broadcasters, that his offering – overlooking Times Square – is a complementary one, albeit with slightly fresher language if the occasion demands. Lineker drew headlines in 2024, calling an England performance at the Euros “s**t”. He says now: “I didn’t do that deliberately. I hope I won’t have to swear, that it’ll all be very positive,

because we really want England to do well and win it. But we can be a bit more honest.”

It’s clear talking to him that he is more than ready for this new chapter. When I ask if he misses the BBC, he sighs. “I think I’d had my time. It was like a wonderful marriage that kind of petered out a bit at the end. I love the BBC, I always will. I have a huge amount of respect for it. It turns out some incredible television and I think we did in sport. But I’m enjoying life without having to tread on eggshells and everything’s going really well. So no, I don’t miss it at all.”

It’s now just over a year since Lineker signed off from his very last Match of the Day, departing the BBC prematurely after he apologised for inadvertently reposting a message on social media that contained an anti-Semitic trope.

That was in addition to other controversies that had piled up around him in recent years, including that Saturday in March 2023 when he was suspended from Match of the Day for commenting publicly on government policy, and dozens of sports professionals went on strike in support, leading to a firstever presenter-less highlights show. One year on, what’s been the biggest

benefit? He says simply, “Freedom.”

I ask him to expand. “Freedom of speech. It had become quite difficult. It was always fine for anyone outside of news and current affairs to have an opinion on other things in the world and then suddenly it wasn’t.

“They moved the goalposts, changed the guidelines and it became tricky because I’ve always cared about humanitarian issues, I don’t think they’re ever really political ones. Suddenly, they didn’t want you doing this or that, and [my departure] became inevitable because I have to live with myself.”

IT’S HARD TO believe, but Gary Lineker has been a household name for 40 years. June 1986 saw his unforgettable hat-trick for England against Poland in the Mexico World Cup otherwise dominated by “Hand of God” headlines. He says today: “It changed my life. Everything was different afterwards.”

I’ve heard Lineker, and other retired footballing greats, lament that nothing in their lives will ever compare with the euphoria of scoring for England, but that

WORLD CUP 2026

‘My departure from the BBC was inevitable – I have to live with myself’

GARY’S PREDICTIONS

Winner? Spain.

How far will England go?

Hopefully a471ll the way. What about Scotland?

I think they’ll get to the knockout stage for the first time ever. Who’s your dark horse?

Can I have Portugal?

The teams other than England or Scotland you’re most looking forward to watching? Spain and Argentina.

feeling seems to have been tempered.

“No, I much prefer this. When you score a big goal in an important game, you don’t know if you’re going to do it again, there’s no guarantee. In my day, one goal every other game would have been an excellent ratio. So that’s a few seconds of absolute joy amid three hours of misery. That day in Mexico, it was 43 degrees. It was unbearable, I thought I was going to die in the second half. When the hat-trick came, I was dizzy from heat exhaustion. You’re getting kicked and you’re not getting the ball. But then you get this explosion of absolute joy, relief and exhilaration, for a few seconds, once in two hours. Whereas now, we have a bit of fun, we talk football, we’re serious about the game but not about ourselves. And no one’s trying to kick us.”

Final question then: he doesn’t need the money, he’ll be exhausted, why not sit back and watch with the rest of us?

“I love football, and I want to be part of the World Cup. I’ve either played in or worked at every World Cup since 1986. You said it, it’s been 40 years.”

Well, what else would you do?

“Exactly...”

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GAME ON Gary Lineker (centre) with his The Rest Is Football teammates, Micah Richards (left) and Alan Shearer

MEXICAN WAVE Lineker on the way to his hat-trick against Poland in the 1986 World Cup

GAME OF CHANCE

TV pundits offer their predictions and reveal what viewers can expect from the biggest-ever World Cup

MARK POUGATCH

will lead ITV Sport’s World Cup coverage alongside Laura Woods and Semra Hunter

You’ll be broadcasting from a New York studio –what will that be like?

Our studio is in Brooklyn with Lower Manhattan over our shoulders. It will look spectacular. We can absorb the rhythms of the place, right at the heart of it. ITV will show England’s first and last group games, their first knockout game and their quarter-final, if they get that far – is that a big responsibility?

Nothing in British TV comes close to the England men’s football team at a major tournament. England knockout matches can reach audiences of up to 20 million people minimum. England are third favourites to lift the trophy, can they do it? Since 2018, England have done everything but win a major tournament. They’ve earned the right to be in the top-tier conversation – but it’s the hardest

step forward. In the knockout stage, they could play four games in 11 days, so the squad will be key. Has Thomas Tuchel captured the fans’ imagination like former manager Gareth Southgate?

Well, we haven’t had a tournament with him yet. The German mentality is much closer to the British mentality than the French or Spanish. He completely gets us. Do England’s men have something to learn from the multi-trophy-winning women? Yes, not least because the Lionesses proved that when you win it once, you could win it again. Scotland are in a tough group. How difficult is their task?

It’s thrilling. Their first game, against Haiti, is massive. Win that and they have a great chance to qualify. Otherwise, it’s difficult. There will be three-minute hydration breaks, 22 minutes into each half of every match... Yes, it’s sensible. Viewers will just get used to us talking over the breaks, as ITV will not be showing picture-in-picture adverts. Thunderstorm warnings may also cause delays.

ITV’s coverage starts Thursday on ITV1, with the opening game, Mexico v South Africa, kick-off 8pm

KELLY CATES AND MARK CHAPMAN

will be presenting on BBC television and radio, from Salford and the US

What does the biggest-ever World Cup mean for viewers and listeners?

KC It means they’ll get so much more – more games, access to the players, the squads, the teams. You’ll be presenting the majority of TV coverage from an immersive studio in Salford, as happened with the Women’s Euros – how will you provide a taste of the atmosphere?

KC My first match will be Scotland v Haiti. We’ll have Eilidh Barbour with the Scotland camp, bringing all the atmosphere from inside the stadium, giving that perspective and sense of place. The match is at 2am BST, with bars at home open late and a bank holiday in Scotland the next day.

We can’t drink beers before we go on air, but we can get that sense of place and bring in some Irn-Bru and Tunnock’s Caramel Wafers for a sugar hit to peak at 2am. Sixty years on from ’66, is this England’s time?

KC There’s no reason why it can’t be. The biggest obstacle for everybody will be the conditions – altitude, heat, humidity, travel. MC I don’t think you can say that at the moment. They’re up there with maybe six to eight countries. How momentous is this World Cup for Scotland?

KC After 28 years, it’s huge. Getting out of the group would make it Scotland’s most successful World Cup ever. But we don’t want to get too carried away just yet.

MC I think they will get out of the group to the knockout stage. But it’s Morocco who fascinate me in that group because they reached the semi-finals last time.

Is your ultimate nightmare Scotland v England during the knockouts?

KC A dream! Every gene in my body is Scottish so I want Scotland to win. But professionally, England doing well is fantastic.

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WAYNE ROONEY

played at the World Cup in 2006, 2010 and 2014. He will be a studio analyst on BBC TV, while episodes of his podcast The Wayne Rooney Show will drop twice weekly throughout the tournament

This is the first World Cup where you’ve had a major broadcast/ podcast role. Excited?

Yes! I did a bit at the Euros two years ago, to give me a taste of how it works.

Do pre-match broadcasting nerves compare with pre-match playing nerves?

I like being prepared. There’s some players from different teams where you want to get the name right. I said a Leeds player’s name wrong this season [he pronounced Pascal Struijk’s surname as “Stoke” in footage that went viral].

Sixty years on from ’66, is this England’s time?

Winning it is extremely hard – that’s why we’ve only done it once. I think we’re in good shape, and Gareth Southgate got the

team to a place where now Thomas Tuchel’s come in as a world-class manager, he’ll hopefully give us that little bit more. Other sides should fear us. We’re one of the top four, with Spain, France and Portugal. What about Scotland?

Steve Clarke’s done a fantastic job. I see them going through to the knockout stage, and it’s always great seeing Scotland fans at a big tournament. They’re a lot of fun. From your own experience at three World Cups, what advice would you give the players? Enjoy it, which is more difficult than it sounds. I didn’t enjoy them as much as maybe I should have. You put a lot of pressure on yourself, and then you forget to enjoy. When you’re enjoying it, you tend to play better. Should fans dread penalties in the knockout stages?

Jordan Pickford is one of the best goalkeepers in the world who’s done well in England shoot-outs before, and we’ve fantastic outfield players to take the penalties. I’d be confident with this group of players. As a player, it’s worse watching your team-mates take their penalties. With your own, you’re in control and you know what you’re doing.

ALAN SHEARER

played 63 times for England but only at one World Cup Finals, in 1998. He will be based in New York while travelling to different matches throughout this tournament for the BBC

What does the biggest-ever World Cup mean for viewers?

My one small concern is that the quality is not diluted because of the number of countries that are in it. But I think it’ll be brilliant. I’m going to be out there with the BBC and [podcast] The Rest Is Football, flying here, there and everywhere with whatever the draw brings. I love the pressure of having to call it within a couple of seconds – that’s what makes co-comms [commentating in the stadium alongside the main commentator] a lot tougher than being a pundit.

Sixty years on from ’66, is this England’s time?

It could be. I’m hopeful quarter- or semi-final but I’m not sure they’ll go on and win it. I hope I’m wrong.

Deep into the tournament, defensively I think we might come unstuck. But up front and in midfield, if everyone stays fit we’ve as good a chance as any. It’s Scotland’s first World Cup Finals in 28 years – how momentous is it for them? It’s pretty tough, but if they win one game they’ll likely qualify. So beating Haiti would be a great way to start.

From your own World Cup experience, what advice would you give the players? Try and take it in, try and somehow enjoy it, tough as it is. The noise for these guys is a lot louder than it was for us because of social media. But you might never play in another one. Should fans dread penalties in the knockout stages?

You have to blank out what’s happening all around you, stick to your usual routine and have belief where you’re going to put the ball. But I wouldn’t wish a penalty shoot-out on my worst enemy. That walk from the halfway line to the spot is bloody long, and it’s even longer on the way back if you haven’t scored. Fortunately, in shoot-outs I scored all of mine.

IN IT TO WIN IT

From left to right: France’s Rayan Cherki, England’s Nico O’Reilly and Harry Kane, Scotland’s Scott McTominay and John McGinn, France’s Désiré Doué

HIS OWN GOALS

Former England star PAUL SCHOLES reflects on the highs and lows of his international career – and how his son, Aiden, changed his life

PAUL SCHOLES KNOWS all about England World Cup campaigns. He was 23 in France during the summer of 1998; asthmatic, pale skinned and famously ginger, he overcame 28°C heat in Marseille to score in the 2-0 defeat of Tunisia. “To be there in front of the England fans was just amazing,” Scholes says of the moment he curled in a shot from the edge of the penalty area. “As a kid, the thought of playing in the World Cup wasn’t even a dream for me. If anyone had asked I would have said, ‘Don’t be stupid. That’ll never happen.’” Grey-haired now, but still recognisably the man that once dazzled in midfield for Manchester United and England, Scholes is talking to me before recording The Good, the Bad and the Football, his podcast with fellow ex-Manchester United player Nicky Butt and the comedian and actor Paddy McGuinness. Throughout the 2026 World Cup, there will be two episodes a week as the team follows what – for England and a newly

confident Scotland side – looks like a promising opportunity.

France 98 was also promising; before the tournament, England manager Glenn Hoddle said, “Hotels are already booked for England’s appearance in the final.” The campaign ended some time before that, with defeat to Argentina on penalties after David Beckham, another Manchester United teammate, was sent off. Such was the dismay in England, effigies of Beckham were publicly burned. One was ceremoniously hung outside a south London pub.

“The crowds were on the streets, but when you’re away you are a bit shielded from it,” says Scholes of the fevered national atmosphere at the time. “A lot of it was about David, of course, because of what happened [he retaliated after being fouled]. We were teammates, so you made sure he was OK, but there was no special treatment for him. When you’re a footballer, you’re very good at hiding feelings

FAMILY FIRST

Paul Scholes gave up his TV commentary work so he wouldn’t be away from his son, Aiden

and emotions until you’re no longer on the pitch – that’s when it comes out.”

In retrospect, young men being under such intense scrutiny and keeping their feelings locked away doesn’t seem entirely healthy. “It was just normal,” Scholes says of those different times. “Whether it was healthy or not, that was the life of a footballer back then.”

In his career Scholes won, among other things, 11 Premier League titles, three FA Cups and two Champion’s League winners’ medals with manager Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United, but even as the honours piled up around him, he was keeping something else locked away inside.

Scholes’s son Aiden, born in 2004, has severe autism. He is non-verbal and requires regular care. Scholes is separated from his wife Claire, who he

HOT STUFF Scholes scores England’s second goal against Tunisia in scorching Marseille in the 1998 World Cup

SEEING RED David Beckham gets sent off against Argentina in France ’98, as Scholes looks on

met in a pub when they were both 18, but still lives in Manchester and the couple share parenting duties. “It’s hard,” says Scholes, who gave up television commentary work so he wouldn’t be away from his son. “Sometimes when I look at Aiden, I think, ‘There can’t be anybody else like him.’”

SCHOLES, WHO HAS two other adult children, had said little publicly about Aiden until last year, when he appeared on The Overlap (Stick to Football) podcast and he began to quietly describe the reality of looking after his son. “It just all came out,” he says now. “I never speak about it to anyone, so nobody really knows how difficult it is.”

It was one of those moments when someone’s innermost feelings connect with a wider public. “I got an unbelievable number of messages afterwards,” he says. “I hadn’t realised so many other people are in the same situation but don’t have anyone to talk to about it. Helping so many people was something I took very seriously, I was emotional.” Rather than a burden, Scholes talks

‘Footballers are very good at hiding feelings and emotions’

about parenting Aiden as a responsibility that he is committed to – “Aiden probably takes up 90 per cent of my life.”

Despite this, and his footballing achievements, Scholes admits to being nothing more than, “a typical northern working-class lad”. He’s so unassuming I have to tell him how successful The Good, the Bad and the Football is. So far, 15 million people have viewed the podcast online, and viewed social media clips many millions of times. “That’s brilliant,” he says, “I just hoped three lads talking about football would come across well, though we do go off on random subjects like biscuits.

“We’re quite dry and might come across as a bit miserable to a lot of people,” he adds, with the flat vowels of a man born in Salford in 1974.

His family moved to an overspill council estate when he was 18 months old. His father Stewart was a gas pipe fitter and amateur footballer. Scholes junior would watch Stewart play at weekends and kick a ball about the pub car park

when his parents had a drink afterwards. Though he says he wasn’t “athletically blessed”, by the age of 19 Scholes had developed into a brilliant attacking midfielder, something he gives a lot of credit to Ferguson for. “He’s still the boss to me,” he says. When I ask who his dream podcast guest is, he replies, “Sir Alex”.

England’s current manager, Thomas Tuchel, has several midfield options –Scholes highlights Jude Bellingham, Declan Rice and Elliot Anderson – but, arguably, none quite as good as Scholes was at his best. They will have to operate in fearsome heat in North America, just as Scholes did when England lost a 2002 World Cup quarter-final against Brazil in Japan and the temperature reached 30°C.

England have an apparently easy group: Croatia, Ghana and Panama. Scotland have an ominous appointment with Brazil, plus Morocco and Haiti. But Scholes is upbeat about their chances to progress further than some might think. “This isn’t a Brazil team you would shout about from the rooftops,” he says. “Scotland have a talented group of young players, and their manager Steve Clarke has done a great job. But just being satisfied with getting to the World Cup isn’t enough now, they want to win games.”

REALISTICALLY, ENGLAND HAVE the better opportunity to win the whole tournament. “I’m hoping for big things,” says Scholes, who was given a glimpse of World Cup glory at that 2002 quarter-final. “I think expectation was high because of the quality of players we had and we definitely didn’t live up to it.” Yet football, like fate, hands out its prizes in surprising ways.

Two days after we talk, when his former teammate David Beckham is declared English football’s first billionaire, Scholes will be in Manchester, looking after his son Aiden. A different kind of winner. MICHAEL HODGES

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WORLD CUP 2026

‘THAT’S

THE SCOTTISH WAY – EUPHORIA OR CATASTROPHE’

RACHEL CORSIE

captained Scotland to their first win over England in 34 years in 2011, and led the team into their first ever World Cup finals in 2019. She retired last year with 155 international caps and will now be in Salford as a BBC analyst for coverage of Scotland’s first and last group games.

Scotland’s opener against Haiti will be played at 2am BST, with the next day a bank holiday. Will the anticipation be off the scale?

It will. This squad is culturally very connected to the incredible feeling in the nation – lots of great career journeys, bringing humbleness. The players enjoy relating to the fans, and in return the fans can do their part.

You were eight when Scotland last qualified for the World Cup finals in 1998 – do you remember it at all?

I do! Scotland played defending champions Brazil in the opening match. We had a kickabout in the park beforehand, then we all piled back to a mate’s for the game.

DETERMINED

I remember our penalty most of all. [It drew Scotland level at 1-1, before an

own goal gave Brazil victory.] That’s the Scottish way – euphoria or catastrophe, not much in between. What’s your take on Steve Clarke’s achievements since he became Scotland manager in 2019? He’s been phenomenal getting us to the last two Euros finals, now this. He has a stability and calm about him, always very measured, which helps the players. He’s stuck to what he believes is his recipe for success, and it can’t be questioned because that’s three major tournaments Scotland have reached in his time. What does men’s international football have to learn from women’s?

Like the men, Scotland’s women have endured a difficult time qualifying for the biggest tournaments. The lesson is to cherish the moment. Enjoy it together.

KATE BATTERSBY

CLASS OF 92

Sir Alex Ferguson with Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, David Beckham, Gary Neville, Phil Neville and Paul Scholes

WORLD CUP 2026

THE SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST

Dan Abrahams has worked with Premier League clubs and international men’s and women’s players, as well as Formula 1 teams, to help individuals and teams stay motivated, confident and focused on their game.

What role does psychology play in sport?

There’s the day-to-day wellbeing, which is managing thoughts and feelings, as well as mental health issues like anxiety, depression and personality disorders. Sport psychologists work alongside clinical psychologists to help with all of this.

What’s the most common issue that players struggle with at a tournament like the World Cup?

Performance anxiety. This is their dream and the world is watching, but they don’t know how it’s going to go and they’re not playing with their regular team-mates, so the cues are less familiar.

How do you help footballers to get ‘in the zone’?

The biggest myth is that psychology applies from the neck upwards. It’s embedded in a player’s entire behaviour. You’re trying to strip away the noise, help them relax about performance and focus on their mindset.

Basic action-based word cues can help. One of the people I work with, who was in contention to play in the World Cup, has two words that are really important to him and they are ‘dominant’ and ‘relentless’. Whether he’s running with the ball or has given it away, he strives to retain that sense of purpose, almost like a mantra.

How did former England manager Gareth Southgate’s use of sports psychologists change attitudes? He normalised their use at every level. With [psychologist] Pippa Grange, he changed the narrative around penalty kicks: the team had seen them as luck rather than skill, but through developing pre-penalty routines they felt the outcome was more under their control. Not completely, but a little bit.

BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS

Gareth Southgate comforts Marcus Rashford after England’s semi-final defeat by Croatia at the 2018 World Cup

From

inflatable unicorns and sensible

snacking to hydration and power naps – we ask the experts how winners are made

EAT, SLEEP, WIN

Previous England teams were incredible, but under-performed because they lacked an identity – they were competitive enemies who identified themselves by their league team rather than as England players. Southgate tried to break down those barriers through activities and conversations.

What role does sport psychology play between matches?

One criticism of Southgate’s predecessor, Fabio Capello, in the 2010 World Cup was that his players were bored between games. Southgate kept that at the forefront of his mind –famously symbolised by giving them inflatable unicorns in the swimming pool. But you have to give each player some autonomy, and recognise that they range in age from about 20 to their early 30s with a range of maturities, cultural backgrounds and personalities. Some with more introverted tendencies might say the unicorn’s not for them.

THE SPORTS NUTRITIONIST

Ian Perkins has worked with football academies, international rugby players, endurance athletes and Paralympians, advising on diet, nutrition, hydration, recovery programmes and weight management.

‘Some players might say that unicorns are not for them’

What work does the team put in ahead of the World Cup to ensure nutrition needs are met?

Club nutritionists will do body composition testing, tracking and monitoring, checking players’ weights before and after training and matches, and track how much sweat they lose. To stay hydrated, they have to take in about 1.5 times what they lose.

How do you optimise a footballer’s nutrition on match day itself?

FOOD OF CHAMPIONS

Pancakes with maple syrup are an ideal breakfast, while kiwi fruit are great for postmatch recovery

Breakfasts might be Scotch pancakes with maple syrup, toast with butter, or eggs with avocado and some smoked salmon. Some players may not want a large lunch, so they might go for higher-carb food than usual, relying a bit more on juices, smoothies and sauces.

The half-time snack is a famous ritual. How important is that mid-game recharge?

These footballers are covering kilometres of high-speed running and sprinting; there’s a lot of anaerobic work and bursts of intense energy. They need to get their liquids in – a carbohydrate gel and an energy drink. If a player stays under-fuelled, fatigue can set in, which can lead to cramp – their body isn’t able to perform the actions that it needs to.

As a nutritionist, how would you advise players to prepare for a penalty shoot-out? ▷

WORLD CUP 2026

◁ They can be beset by a high cognitive fatigue in those critical moments. Any energy you can get into them, you should. It settles them down and keeps them hydrated and their bodies cool down, especially in a humid environment. Caffeine chewing gum can be effective here as a means of taking a large energy hit for a small action that lasts a second.

What’s the biggest challenge in persuading players to get their nutrition right? It can be hard to get across the effect of what they are consuming in the moment. A player said to me he wasn’t taking his supplements because he didn’t feel they were doing anything. I told him he shouldn’t feel anything if they were doing their work. Changing habits is hard – one player ate loads of sweets, telling me he’ll eat what he wants. Sweets may be great for energy, but I had to nudge him into thinking about maybe trying more fruit.

Such as?

Keep it diverse and colour-rich. Kiwi fruits are great for post-match recovery as they’re high in tryptophan, which can induce sleep. If players don’t want to eat them as they are, offer kiwi ice lollies or yogurt.

THE SLEEP SPECIALIST

Dr David Garley works with Premier League teams, Olympians, international rugby teams, Formula 1 teams and professional athletes to help them get a good night’s sleep.

Why does sound sleep matter in football in particular?

Sleep is one of the cornerstones of performance, but it’s harder to control than nutrition or training. In the pressure cooker of football, any form of stress is often reflected in sleep, which is a sensitive barometer for other things going on in an athlete’s life.

How do you help athletes prepare to get rest before the big games?

Match anxiety is a common worry. Most people aren’t going to sleep properly on the night before a World Cup match. Get into bed too early and all you’re going to do is look at the ceiling with your

LIQUID ENERGY

escalating worries. You’re much better off going to bed an hour later than usual, maybe even two, and falling asleep quickly.

Are naps a good idea?

Yes – because players get up so early to train, a series of shorter naps throughout the day can help. But they should only be 20-30 minutes, when you’re still in shallow sleep and waking up is pretty easy. Beyond that, you risk ending up with sleep inertia, where you feel like a zombie for an hour.

Are there telltale signs that a player is sleep-deprived?

Lack of sleep can have a cognitive effect: the same amount of work feels like more. Your muscles are working the same, but it feels like you may start to flag at the end. You may not read changes in strategy early on, or you might not reach your opposite player in the way that you want.

How do you prepare players to recover and rest after a game, particularly if they’ve lost the match, or have missed a penalty? Suppress an intrusive thought and it springs back even bigger. Instead, lean into it, but in a structured way. Write down what’s on your mind and promise yourself to think about it again after your morning shower or coffee. Scheduling a debrief with your coach the next day can also unburden the mind.

What’s your one essential piece of advice if sleep plans go wrong? Trust all other aspects of your training. Humans have built-in resilience. The World Cup schedule is heightened, but if you have a few nights of bad sleep, you will probably still be OK. If you want to have an affogato at 10pm, have one. It’s important to be realistic and flexible. Strive for perfection with sleep and it’ll usually go the other way.

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THEM’S THE RULES

From new VAR rules to yellow card amnesties, expect some regulation changes – and talking points – at this year’s tournament

SET PIECE/SUB/ MEDICAL TIMERS

Fifa has introduced what it calls “landmark changes to reduce tempo disruption” at this year’s World Cup. This will mean a five-second countdown on throw-ins and goal kicks, a 10-second timer for substituted players, and a one-minute wait off the pitch for players who receive medical treatment.

DRINKS BREAKS

To counteract high temperatures and a longer tournament, all 104 matches will include three-minute drinks breaks in each half – at the 22 and 67-minute mark. BBC and ITV will not show trails or ads during these breaks.

RED CARDS FOR COVERING MOUTHS

In an attempt to stamp out discrimination on the pitch, players who cover their mouths and insult opponents can be red-carded. “It’s a very discretionary decision,” says ITV rules analyst Christina Unkel. “It’s not automatic, it’s not if someone covers their mouth they’re out. Context is going to be very important.”

YELLOW CARD SUSPENSIONS

Players who accumulate two bookings will still

get an automatic one-match ban. However, so that fewer players are suspended for key elimination games, both cards will be cancelled after both the group stage and the quarter-finals. They were wiped only once at previous tournaments.

EXTENDED VAR POWERS

The powers of VAR have been extended to include reviewing second yellow cards, incorrectly awarded corners, and incidents where the wrong player is shown a card in a case of mistaken identity.

HANDBALL

Referees are expected to be more lenient on handballs than in Uefa competitions, such as the Champions League, and implement the law like Premier League officials. “The thresholds for handball are higher at an international competition,” Unkel says. “If referees are making a gamechanging decision, they have to believe in it.” NED HOLMES

England captain Harry Kane (right) and defender Nico O’Reilly keep hydrated

Alice and Steve

Boxset available on Monday Disney+

THE FLIGHT OF THE CLEMENT

Musical comedian, writer, director, Hollywood star… JEMAINE CLEMENT keeps pushing himself ever higher INTERVIEW

BY SARFRAZ MANZOOR

JEMAINE CLEMENT HAS no trouble recalling his first scene with Nicola Walker for their new comedy drama, Alice and Steve. “It was us singing karaoke,” he explains. “We were singing Total Eclipse of the Heart. It was 10 in the morning and we were complete strangers. That was our baptism.”

BEST FRENEMIES

Below: Clement and Nicola Walker play close friends whose relationship turns sour in Alice and Steve

Awkward, embarrassing and with the potential to descend into chaos, the early morning karaoke session was the ideal way for Clement and Walker (see interview overleaf) to start filming their six-part Disney+ series, a story about two life-long friends whose relationship descends into a full-on feud after he starts dating her 20-something daughter Izzy (played by Yali Topol Margalith).

“The script [by Sophie Goodhart] was from the producers of Baby Reindeer,” Clement explains. “I had just watched that and thought it was brilliant and brave, so I had trust in them.”

‘I don’t think I ever want to be completely comfortable, but luckily I never am’

Still, any story that involves an older man being in a relationship with a younger woman is going to be fraught with risk – not least the ever-present possibility of losing the audience by coming across as a creep. Clement, 52, had the same fears. “My biggest concern was, is it going to be too awkward to watch a man in his 50s having a relationship with a young woman?” he says. “When I’ve described the premise to people, some are still offended. Even people I know have called me a b*****d.”

To help prepare for the role, Clement watched The Rewrite – a romantic comedy in which Hugh Grant plays a college lecturer who has a relationship with one of his students. “I thought of Steve as a bit of a jerk, insecure and arrogant,” says Clement. “I was imagining kind of a bad Hugh Grant, but he ended up being nicer than I planned and more gentle.”

IN THE SERIES, it’s made clear that Steve, struggling after a divorce, isn’t actively looking to date a younger woman and it’s Izzy who makes the first move. This feels like a preemptive attempt to counter accusations of an unhealthy power imbalance in the relationship, or at least to create a grey area ripe for drama. After filming the series, I wonder if playing Steve changed Clement’s own views on age-gap relationships?

“I know couples who have significant age gaps,” he says. “It might look unusual at first, but I’ve always felt after hanging out with them that I can see why they’re together. There’s something about them that matches.”

Being a writer himself, most memorably on Flight of the Conchords, was it a

relief to only have to act in Alice and Steve and not worry about turning in the scripts? “I played around with it a bit and some of those things have made it in here and there, but it’s a huge relief not to have to write the script,” he agrees. “On a job like this, I don’t have to do anything other than be that one guy and that’s much more fun than writing.” Clement is perhaps best known for

AWKWARD Steve (Jemaine Clement) and Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith) fall for each other in Alice and Steve

big reader. And my uncles played guitar and trumpet and sang. But because we weren’t rich there was no expectation to be anything.”

Clement and McKenzie began performing together in Wellington in the late 1990s, developing their musical comedy act through live shows, which led to them being nominated for the Perrier at Edinburgh, which in turn led to that BBC radio commission.

“The BBC was fantastic because we hadn’t written anything long form,” says Clement. “I used to be a sketch writer before Flight of the Conchords, but for a TV show we had to learn how to sustain a story for half an hour. We got a chance to do that with the radio show, and then we felt able to write the TV show.”

WHAT BEGAN AS an oddball cult act playing tiny comedy venues in Wellington grew into a successful global phenomenon –in 2018, the pair sold out three consecutive nights at London’s O2 Arena.

what he does write, as one half of the New Zealand musical comedy duo, Flight of the Conchords, with his countryman Bret McKenzie. Nominated for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2003, the pair went on to have a hit BBC radio show, which then became a cult phenomenon as an HBO TV series, winning a devoted global fan base between 2007-09. Flight of the

Conchords formed after Clement met McKenzie when studying drama at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he grew up, but there was no guarantee he’d go into the arts.

“I grew up very poor and working class, but art was around,” he says of his childhood. “My dad always carried a flute around. My mum [who is of Maori descent] was a very good drawer and a

A MAN OF MANY TALENTS

Jemaine Clement has added many strings to his bow since becoming part of musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords in the late 1990s

“We get asked why it’s successful in the UK and US, and I think we just had a lot of influences from both those places,” he muses. He recalls watching The Young Ones as a boy and cites it as a key influence. “I don’t think I’d be doing this were it not for that show. I wouldn’t be talking to you. In Flight of the Conchords there’s a scene where Brett’s character is sad and my character tries to cheer him up by making the stove talk. That was directly inspired by us thinking, ‘If this was The Young Ones, the stove would just talk.’”

Having not performed for eight years, Flight of the Conchords recently reunited for two shows in Los Angeles. How did that feel? “It was really difficult, but it was still fun and it’s coming back to us,” he says. “It was kind of a memory challenge because I haven’t performed in front of people that much – I’ve been doing film and writing.”

He’s definitely been busy – in recent years Clement has appeared in huge ▷

TRAVEL

CLASSIC GREECE

Eight days from £1,599pp Departures Sept 2026-Nov 2027

Greece has drawn visitors for centuries with all extolling the purity and clarity of its skies, the overwhelming hospitality rooted in its ancient civilisation and the zest for life of the Greeks themselves. Blend this with the stunning beauty of the Greek Islands and a unique

cuisine, and you have a week of outstanding discovery.

TOUR INCLUDES

◼ Return flights plus transfers

◼ Seven nights in three-star to four-star accommodation

◼ Daily breakfast and two dinners

◼ The services of our experienced

TUSCANY, FLORENCE AND SIENA

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Departures September 2026–October 2027

Home to artwork by Italian masters, historic architecture and mouthwatering food and wine, Tuscany has something for everyone.

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◼ Daily breakfast, one lunch and seven dinners

◼ Expert Riviera Tour Manager looking after you throughout YOUR EXPERIENCES

◼ Four visits, including the historic towns of San Gimignano, Lucca, Pisa and Volterra

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◼ Rural lunch at a farmhouse in the Tuscan countryside

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◼ Daily breakfast and four dinners

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YOUR EXPERIENCES

◼ Four guided tours including Budva, Kotor, Shkodër and King Nikola’s palace

◼ Boat trip on beautiful Lake Skadar

◼ Five visits including the Baroque town of Perast, Ostrog Monastery, ancient Stari Bar and Cetinje

◼ Tour and tasting at one of Montenegro’s most unusual wine cellars

FUNNY GUYS

Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie in HBO’s Flight of the Conchords

◁ Hollywood films such as The BFG, Men in Black 3 and animation Moana. Clement has worked with both Steven Spielberg in The BFG (who told him: “You guys changed comedy in America.”) and James Cameron, on Avatar: the Way of Water and its sequel Fire and Ash. “What I love about both of those guys is they’re very elastic with how they work,” he says. “I’ll probably never be as meticulously planned as either of them, but they’re also able to adapt to the moment. It was very inspiring.”

ALONGSIDE THE BLOCKBUSTER acting, in his post-Conchords life Clement made his directorial debut with vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, which he also co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in with Taika Waititi, and later adapted into a TV show. In other words, he does a lot of different things – so what’s the method behind it all? Simple – there isn’t one. “I haven’t decided what to do and I’m not sure what I’m good at,” he admits, “so I have a go at everything. I’m attracted to that challenge. If it makes me nervous, there’s part of me that finds it hard to turn down. I don’t think I ever want to be completely comfortable, but luckily I never am.”

Certainly, Clement should feel comfortable about how Alice and Steve will be received. It’s funny and thought-provoking, and was the breakout hit at the Canneseries TV Festival in April, taking the prize for best series. And perhaps we haven’t seen the end of this toxic friendship –along with co-star Nicola Walker, Clement hopes the series will be back for a second run.

“I had such a great time making this. I’d love to be back and working with those people again.”

‘I FEEL A BIT LIKE ALICE’

Getting to work with Clement on a script she loved and related to was a dream job for NICOLA WALKER

“My first reaction to reading the script was that I really, really wanted to be Alice. I hadn’t read a version of a woman like that for a very long time, if ever. I would describe her as a brilliant mother but an underachiever in her career. She’s also a brilliant best friend.

“In my real life I have a version of Steve – a friend that’s been with me forever. His name’s Rick and he’s an actor, and we are sort of the male and female version of each other. We are maybe the same person that’s been split into a male and a female.

“What I liked about Alice was that she wasn’t completely in control of her actions, although she’s totally convinced that her judgements are all correct. I liked that combination: total conviction

MEMORABLE Walker with Sanjeev Bhaskar in Unforgotten

and behaviour that is rather questionable. By having a relationship with her daughter, her best friend has created a Venn diagram that should never exist. It’s a terrible betrayal – Steve should know that is a line not to be crossed.

“In preparation, I didn’t watch any other TV shows with age-gap relationships

‘I hadn’t read a woman like Alice in a very long time, if ever’

because I’m an inherently lazy actor! Or to put it another way, I always say ‘everything is in the script.’

“I’m a huge fan of Jemaine but I didn’t tell him that immediately as I thought that he might find it frightening. He took it very well. I’m sure it’s not his first barbecue in terms of having actors saying they think he’s incredible!

“I know that playing Steve and Izzy was a tough balancing act for Jemaine and Yali [Topol Margalith], and I think they do it brilliantly. Watching that scene on the sofa when

they have that first kiss, as Alice I’d probably be running in and trying to hit them over the head with something. But as a viewer I could really understand why they’re kissing each other. There is something there between them.

“The intergenerational stuf in Alice and Steve is completely brilliantly observed. The great thing is that culture moves on. For example, I love that in our business, the culture of how we view women is changing in a really interesting way. When I was starting out, previous generations of actresses had told me that if I hadn’t established a name for myself by the time I was 35 my career would be over.

“But TV started changing, and that was simply because there were more women in positions of power running production companies. In my own career I feel a bit like Alice. I’m not at the beginning, I’m not in the middle. I’m in whatever the next bit is, and that’s OK. But I am openly canvassing for a second series of Alice and Steve. I would love to do another one – I hope that we’re allowed to.” AS TOLD TO SARFRAZ MANZOOR

LIGHT AND SHADE

Nicola Walker plays a woman betrayed in Alice and Steve

Too hot to Handel

Brexit: a Very British Civil War

Monday 9.00pm (11.00pm N Ireland) BBC Two

BREXIT: ‘IT’S PERSONAL’

10 years on, documentary-maker Norma Percy talks to the key players at the heart of an issue that remains divisive – although, despite her best efforts, one eluded her…

Norma Percy is an award-winning film-maker whose subjects, over 50 years, have spanned Watergate, Vladimir Putin, the Iraq War and Obama’s White House. Now, she has used her tried-and-tested technique of “talking to the people in the room when the decisions were made” to explore the febrile Brexit referendum campaign.

Brexit: a Very British Civil War reflects 13 months in which politics and the country were riven with conflict. Small wonder that, as series director Max Stern says, “some contributors told us that the interviews were like therapy sessions”. Here, Percy reveals what inspired the two-parter and how it took shape.

It’s 10 years since the UK voted to leave the EU – is that what prompted you to revisit Brexit?

Yes, but it was a particularly good time to tell the story, because most of the main players are still alive and they remember everything. When we started, we didn’t realise how relevant it would still be, but EU membership is starting to rear its head in politics again.

Our series starts with the 2015 general election, David Cameron triumphant and Nigel Farage resigning after not winning a seat. When it ends, Cameron has resigned and Farage has won. You could see it as the first chapter of Farage’s journey to today.

Some of your interviewees arouse strong feelings on all sides. How do you manage yours?

Our programmes don’t specialise in nice people and you can feel what you feel about them. We have no politics, we don’t point fingers and if people give you a good interview, you take them on their own terms. The spin can be different, but we find that people’s stories confirm each other. Even so, there’s something personal about Brexit and the EU. We try to give a multi-sided account. That’s what helps us get the interviews.

Boris Johnson’s former top adviser Dominic Cummings is the only major figure you didn’t talk to... Oh, there’s always someone! I have this reputation for persistence, and boy, did

we try. He firmly said no, in a way that… he feels that he has to control the story and he thinks everybody else lies. It’s his problem; he decided to let other people talk for him.

Did you have any qualms about including Peter Mandelson after he was sacked as ambassador to the US?

‘We don’t specialise in nice people – you can feel what you feel about them’ NORMA PERCY

We filmed him before he was arrested, but he set up the Remain campaign, he was a former EU commissioner, a very senior Labour figure, a very compelling campaigner, and that’s what you need to know in the programme. What happened to him afterwards is really of no interest.

You’ve interviewed many of these politicians previously. How have they changed?

David Cameron was much more relaxed about talking about his dealings with Putin, but this is such a personal subject for him. He found it painful – and who wouldn’t? Boris just becomes more Boris: he realised the importance of this in his life. I was really pleased with George Osborne’s account of going for the economic case against Brexit rather than talking about immigration. When he talks about bringing in an

NO

AGREEMENT

The 2016 Brexit campaign caused bitter argument across Britain

imaginary budget of how Brexit would hit people’s households and pockets, and that being the day he threw away his leadership ambitions, that was a moment. He probably wouldn’t have admitted that even five years ago.

What, for you, was the biggest revelation from the series?

The genuine indecision of Michael Gove and Boris Johnson. I had felt, probably like everybody else, that it was a political decision for them. You can question their motives, but you really feel Boris, in particular, is looking back and describing how racked he was as to which way to go. Even before he went out and talked to the press, he asked his press adviser: what should I do? I remember, we on the production team all looked at each other mid-interview when he told us, “I didn’t go for Leave in order to become prime minister, I would have been prime minister anyway.”

What subjects would you still like to cover?

Everybody wants to do Trump’s foreign policy, but it’s got to reach the right moment to tell it. I certainly hope I’ll still be making programmes when the time comes. GABRIEL TATE

WHAT’S WORTH WATCHING

10 BEST SHOWS TO WATCH, STREAM & LISTEN TO THE

TELEVISION

Tiger Island Sunday 7.15pm BBC One

Using the latest drone and camera technology to gain unprecedented access to two tigresses and their cubs in western Nepal, the latest dispatch from the BBC Natural History Unit is thrilling and revelatory. SEE REVIEW P50

2 STREAMING The Witness

Available 4 June Netflix

The murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992 is sensitively handled in a three-part drama that does follow the police investigation, but is more concerned with the struggle of her partner and son (the two-year-old who was the only witness) to carry on with their lives. SEE REVIEW P33

3 STREAMING Alice and Steve

Available Monday Disney+

Nicola Walker (right) and Jemaine Clement are feuding friends in this comedy drama. As they battle over an inappropriate romance, career sabotage escalates to hospital visits, gunfire and houses in flames... REVIEW P32

4 TELEVISION Brexit: a Very British Civil War Monday 9.00pm BBC Two (11.00pm Northern Ireland)

Documentary-maker Norma Percy gathers all the main players of the Brexit referendum (with the exception of government adviser Dominic Cummings) for a two-part debrief. SEE REVIEW P60

5 TELEVISION 1966 World Cup in Colour Saturday 4.45pm C4

A re-run of the last time the England men’s team won anything, in superior quality to what TV viewers of the day would have seen. From the dodgy goal to people on the pitch via Alf Ramsey’s “go and win it again” pep talk, modern technology restores the action to full colour.

SEE REVIEW P41

6–12 June 2026

6 FILM p All of Us Strangers

5 j Mon 10pm C4

Fabulously moody, moving film in which a lonely writer (Andrew Scott) begins a romance with his new neighbour (Paul Mescal) at the same time as he encounters the ghosts of his own long-dead parents. SEE REVIEW P67

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TELEVISION World Cup 2026

Thursday from 6.15pm ITV1 Mexico v South Africa, kick-off 8.00pm. The World Cup begins at the Mexico City Stadium (above) as co-hosts Mexico get the ball rolling. It’s the first of 104 matches to be played over the next 39 days, so hunker down with our wall chart and plan your viewing. The opening ceremony starts at 6.15pm; match coverage starts at 7.50pm. SEE FEATURES STARTING ON P12

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Saturday 9.20pm BBC Four

This ravishing Italian drama is set in a remote Alpine village during the months before and after the end of the Second World War. It focuses on a family who start to feel the winds of change when an escaped prisoner of war comes into their little world. Writer/director Maura Delpero based parts of her film on the reminiscences of her late father, and crafts something beautiful and authentic, with just the right amount of grit.

SEE REVIEW P47

... AND WORTH LISTENING TO

9 RADIO Ten Years after Brexit

Monday–Friday 1.45pm Radio 4

Any Questions’ Alex Forsyth asks some pertinent questions herself, about the impact of the UK leaving the EU, with the economy, trade and immigration all scrutinised. SEE REVIEW P112

10 PODCAST A History of the United States in 100 Objects

Available now

The format of Neil MacGregor’s History of the World in 100 Objects is copied and pasted on to the USA. SEE REVIEW P113

COMEDY DRAMA

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MLOVE TRIANGLE

Can Alice (Nicola Walker, centre) keep daughter Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith) and friend Steve (Jemaine Clement) apart?

Edited by FRANCES TAYLOR

Alice and Steve All six episodes available from Monday Disney+

Forget love stories – this is a true hate story, about how an escalating feud causes chaos (but in a comic way, not a Channel 5 original drama way). Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement star as the eponymous Alice and Steve, whose decades-long friendship grew from a fizzled-out romantic relationship when they were students.

Today, Alice is a cool but self-centred fashion designer; Steve a witty, recently divorced hairdresser. On a night out, Alice encourages

him to find a new, younger girlfriend, and Steve demurs. But when he sleeps on Alice’s sofa, there’s immediate chemistry with her recently dumped 20-something daughter, Izzy. Uh-oh.

It’s an impressively wrong-footing premise that challenges prejudices about age-gap relationships... and then reminds us how creepy it is that Steve is dating his ex’s daughter, whom he knew as a child... and then makes him sympathetic by just how extreme Alice’s reaction

is (another neat twist – Alice is herself more than a decade older than her husband).

Soon, in an arms race of petty revenge, careers are sabotaged, videos leaked and damaging secrets revealed. It’s a miracle the pair haven’t killed each other by the sixth episode, which ends abruptly, perhaps with a hint that we may see these monstrous BFFs return.

HUW FULLERTON

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SCI-FI HORROR

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Available now Netflix

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This speculative yarn doesn’t quite deliver on every front, but offers a watchable look at the perils and pitfalls of artificial intelligence. Married couple John Cho and Katherine Waterston are persuaded to try a new home system, AIA, hoping it will streamline the running of their busy household of three young kids. But as AIA becomes more involved in family life, the parents begin to suspect it has sinister ulterior motives. Essentially a cautionary tale in the vein of TV’s Black Mirror, this is a good exercise in low-key tension.

TERRY STAUNTON

COMEDY DRAMA

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Available 4 June Netflix

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An Asian American teenager experiences growing pains in this tender portrait of adolescence. It follows Chris (Izaac Wang) –nicknamed Dìdi – a Taiwanese American in California who has a combustible relationship with his family and struggles to navigate friendships and dating. Writer/ director Sean Wang captures the 2008 setting with aplomb, nodding to various films from the era, including Superbad and A Walk to Remember. Meanwhile, the film is anchored by a terrific performance from Wang, who never overstates the painful emotions that wash over his character.

JAMES MOTTRAM

SPORT

DRAMA The Witness

Available 4 June Netflix

WHAT’S WORTH WATCHING ON DEMAND

ALSO STREAMING THIS WEEK

Will Trent

Season 4 available 3 June

FATHER AND SON

Jordan Bolger, (right) and Max Fincham play

André and Alex Hanscombe

Sadly, there are many reasons for the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell to live on in infamy, but this careful three-part drama finds a new angle on it. It does cover the brutality of the crime and the farrago of the police investigation, which pursued an innocent man and only caught the real culprit more than a decade later. The focus here, though, is on Nickell’s partner André and her young son Alex, the only witness. As they cope with grief, anger, frustration and intrusion from the tabloid press, a delicate story about a father and son unfolds. Also released on 4 June, Netflix has an extensive new documentary (The Murder of Rachel Nickell) about the case itself. JACK SEALE

DRAMA

Sweet Magnolias

Season 5 available Thu Netflix

The Rest Is Football Daily from Wednesday Netflix

Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards are in New York for the duration of the World Cup, reacting to results and news, having moved their hit podcast to a new home, Netflix. As with any major podcast these days it’s all filmed, so it’ll position itself as the best place on TV, not just on podcast apps, to debate which team looks to be the likely trophy-winner.

As well as the banter – at previous tournaments, the trio haven’t been shy to criticise players, while some of their studio guests have been much more forthcoming in the company of Lineker and co than they are elsewhere – you can expect interviews and reports from the England training camp and fan zones. JS

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BIG APPLE CALLING

Is it time for the Serenity ladies to swap their margaritas for cosmopolitans? Season five of a soapy saga about a group of 40-something female friends tackling life, love and loss together moves the action from South Carolina to New York, following Maddie (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) as she pursues her professional dream. Can she cut it in the big city, or is a Serenity girl meant to live the sweet life for ever? The year’s big event, though, is set to be Helen (Heather Headley) finally marrying Erik (Dion Johnstone) after years of will-theys and won’t-theys. When Helen wobbles, which she will, her pals will be there to keep her head up. JS

Disney+

The extremely observant detective (Ramón Rodríguez, above) deals with the reappearance of the man who killed his mother.

Best of the World with Antoni Porowski

Available Monday Disney+

The Queer Eye food and wine aficionado hunts for the very finest experiences in major global cities, beginning with London.

The Idaho Student Murders

Available Friday Disney+

A true-crime documentary about the shocking quadruple murder of a group of college students in Moscow, Idaho in 2022.

HIDDEN

GEM

River Available now ITVX

An unusual crime drama, first shown on BBC One in 2015. Stellan Skarsgård (above) is a detective whose partner (Nicola Walker, who stars in Alice and Steve, see left) was recently murdered. As he hopes to find her killer, visions of her help him solve his cases of the week.

Gary Lineker heads to New York for the World Cup

BIOGRAPHICAL THRILLER

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Available from Friday 5 June Now Cinema

qA sublime Bill Skarsgård leads this gripping based-on-fact kidnap drama. He plays Tony Kiritsis, an Indianapolis businessman who, in 1977, snaps and abducts a mortgage broker, Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery), after a business deal goes sour. Taking Hall to his apartment in full view of the police, Kiritsis puts a “dead man’s wire” around his captive’s neck, attached to a shotgun that will trip if the cops intervene.

Director Gus Van Sant pays tribute to film-maker Sidney Lumet, notably Dog Day Afternoon, and especially with a pleasing cameo from that film’s star Al Pacino as Hall’s unsympathetic father. There are potent turns, too, from Colman Domingo and future Celebrity Traitor and Industry star Myha’la.

JAMES MOTTRAM

THRILLER

Criminal Record

Ep 8 available Wed Apple TV

The title of this episode – “Nobody Dies” – comes without a question mark attached. So, is it a statement of fact, a tease, or another example of this series’s recurring fascination with language being bent to suit the speaker’s agenda?

No spoilers here, but we begin with the truly loathsome bombing mastermind Cosmo (Dustin Demri-Burns) remaining bullish despite his arrest and refusing to reveal the locations he’s targeting. However, when Hegarty (Peter Capaldi) and Lenker (Cush Jumbo) lace their interrogation with talk of extradition to countries that still employ the death penalty, Cosmo’s brow starts to glisten. But will the implied threat produce more than just sweat?

DAVID BROWN

COMEDY HORROR Widow’s Bay

Ep 9 available Wed Apple TV

Widow’s Bay takes a battering in more ways than one this week. As a torrential storm rolls in, everyone must take shelter, while troublesome trio Tom (Matthew Rhys), Wyck (Stephen Root) and Patricia (Kate O’Flynn) desperately attempt to stop the supernatural forces that are still plaguing the town. As the truth finally comes to light, Tom must make an impossible decision.

After last week’s rather deadly afair, this show’s ofbeat comedy is back in full force, courtesy of bumbling lighthouse keeper Garrett (Fred Robbins) and his complete lack of urgency in a crisis. But an ominous final scene casts a dark shadow as it sets the stage for next week’s finale.

LOUISE GRIFFIN

THRILLER Cape Fear

Ep 3 available Friday Apple TV

The story of Max Cady may be decades old, but this latest take on Cape Fear (starring Javier Bardem as Cady) reframes it through a distinctly 21st-century lens. Here, he teeters on the brink of true-crime celebrity, aided by a persistent documentary-maker. Away from the spotlight, however, his methods feel even more insidious: it seems as though he’s catfishing the Bowdens’ son Zack and deploying drones to spy on daughter Natalie. Matriarch Anna (Amy Adams), meanwhile, is granted greater agency. Her work with the wrongly incarcerated leads her into a provocative position – advocating for Cady to receive a settlement, keeping her enemy closer than ever. But will he believe she’s truly on his side? DB

BREAKING POINT

Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) is looking for justice

SCI-FI DRAMA

Star City

Ep 4 available Friday Apple TV

Masks start to slip in this week’s action-packed episode, with Anna Maxwell Martin’s Colonel Raskova facing pressure from Moscow, and her protégé Irina (Agnes O’Casey) getting her first taste of danger. Elsewhere, Sasha’s (Solly McLeod) problems are piling up as he grapples with guilt after that ill-fated lunar mission, while wife Anastasia’s (Alice Englert) glossy public facade finally dissipates. Then there’s a new arrival, scientist Lakshmi, who stirs things up in Star City as the Chief Designer (Rhys Ifans) makes a controversial call. But it’s Tanya (Ruby Ashbourne Serkis) who should be most worried, as she’s left reeling from last week’s devastating discovery. Her troubles could be far bigger than she ever imagined. LG

THRILLER

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Available now Prime Video

qMel Gibson hardly does his best to lift this unimaginative crime drama about a grizzled backwoods survivalist type whose peaceful existence is interrupted by an injured young woman on the run from some very bad men. The plot’s nice and lean, while the actors are in solid enough form to carry some attention. But it’s all so clichéd and underdeveloped; by the end, you still won’t know a jot about Gibson’s character beyond his sheer macho competence. That said, fans of silly screen violence should stick around for one droll scene involving a lawnmower. CALUM BAKER

DISASTER THRILLER

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Available now Prime Video

qFans of The Perfect Storm may enjoy this similarly themed dramatisation of a true story. In 2009, Nick Schuyler (Shazam’s Zachary Levi) and friends go fishing of the Florida coast. When an accident causes their boat to capsize, they’re left clinging to the upturned hull in a storm. Director Joe Carnahan nails the shivery misery of their plight. But he also delivers unintended comic beats, such as one character detailing the symptoms of hypothermia as though he’s reading from Wikipedia. Pity, as these shipwrecked sailors deserved a far clearer vision for their emotional voyage. JAYNE NELSON

ROMANTIC DRAMA

Every Year After

All 8 episodes available Wednesday Prime Video Carley Fortune’s bestselling romance novel Every Summer After becomes a TV drama full of intense conversations and longing looks. When Persephone “Percy” Fraser (Sadie Soverall) left the picturesque waterside town of Barry’s Bay for a glamorous city life in Seattle, she abandoned Sam (Matt Cornett), the childhood friend who became the the one who got away. She’s back in town for a funeral, but he’s moved on – or have they always been destined to be together? From the first moment they’re reunited we know the answer, but tears, recriminations, meaningful sunset swims and some looks back to the summers they previously shared will decide once and for all. JACK SEALE

WHAT I’M STREAMING

NORMA PERCY

“I enjoyed The Tony Blair Story,” says the documentary-maker, “because it is the opposite of the programmes we make, in that it asked people, including Blair, to psychoanalyse Blair. It was fascinating.” Watch on C4 streaming. Percy’s Brexit: a Very British Civil War, Mon 9pm BBC Two (11pm N Ireland). See p29

DRAMA

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Available now Prime Video

qCaptivating performances help to anchor this choppy drama of trauma and tentative hope from actor-turned-director Joseph Millson. Sarah-Jane Potts plays Anne, a woman struggling in the wake of an undisclosed loss. Travelling alone in Lanzarote, Anne is selectively mute. Yet when she encounters garrulous divorcee Bill (David Ganly), the two slowly bond. Potts gives a finely etched turn as a woman closed in on herself, striking sharp contrasts with Ganly’s all-in portrait of a man with no filters, while Millson teases out engaging nuances from their wary exchanges. Though well-crafted and beautifully scored, Millson’s debut is a little too studied to fully convince as a portrait of damaged lives in turmoil.

KEVIN HARLEY

Despicable Me 3

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Reformed villian Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) meets his long-lost brother Dru, while the Minions (above with Gru’s daughter Agnes) leave home to find new employment.

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Available until Thursday C4 streaming

q Director Mark Jenkin crafts a lovingly retro folk horror about the hallucinations of a wildlife volunteer living and working on a remote island.

Imitation of Life

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Lana Turner leads this classic 50s melodrama from Douglas Sirk, charting the relationship between two mothers – one white, one Black – over the course of 10 years.

Silo

Season 3 available 3 July Apple TV

The hit sci-fi series, led by Rebecca Ferguson, is set to step back in time in its latest run: how did the silo-dwellers find themselves living underground? Jessica Brown Findlay (above) joins the cast.

YOUNG LOVE Percy and Sam (Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett)

LIFE LESSONS

Andrea Riseborough, Stephen Graham and Anson Boon star

BLACK COMEDY

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Stephen Graham plays a father who finds a unique way to deal with teen delinquency in this black comedy, far removed from the weighty dramatics of his work in Adolescence. Family man Chris (Graham) takes exception to local lout Tommy (Anson Boon) and so kidnaps the

lad, chaining him up in the basement of his isolated country pile – also occupied by his ailing wife (Andrea Riseborough) and young son (Kit Rakusen) – in order to begin reforming the monster. It’s an intriguing set-up, especially as the days wear on and, with Stockholm syndrome taking hold,

Tommy grows from angry captive to surrogate family member. Though the final act doesn’t quite pay off, director Jan Komasa keeps the tension bubbling nicely – and he’s blessed with cast-iron performances, especially from Graham and Boon.

JAMES MOTTRAM

HISTORICAL DRAMA

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Available now Paramount+

qThe tragic events that unfolded at the 1972 Munich Olympics – when 11 Israeli athletes were taken captive by Palestinian Black September militants – are depicted through the lens of ABC TV’s horrified sports crew in this tense, Oscar-nominated, 2024 thriller. When shots ring out from the Olympic village, John Magaro’s fledgling producer is left to take his team out of their comfort zone and cover the crisis live. The film’s 94-minute running time and the fact we rarely depart the confines of the studio ensures there’s no slackening in the edge-of-the-seat tension, while the crew’s use of old-school tech is staggering to consider. Magaro is excellent, as are Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch and Peter Sarsgaard. JEREMY ASPINALL

DRAMA

Dutton Ranch

Episode 6 available Friday

Paramount+

What it means to be a cowboy – in other words, what it means to be a man – is a big part of Dutton Ranch and now, with Beth and Beulah (Kelly Reilly and Annette Bening) away on a boozy business trip where their uneasy alliance deepens, the men are left alone to showcase their best and worst instincts. Good Texas menfolk are humble, hardworking and honest, knowing that they have to earn their spurs – or in the case of Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba) this week, a lovely new hat from the top shelf of the special cowboy hat shop. But the bad Texas men, the ones who are resentful, impulsive and who want rewards without putting the effort in to get them? Those guys have got guns. JACK SEALE

DRAMA The Pitt

Season 2 ep 12 available Thursday

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Nothing is forgotten about in The Pitt, with that awful attack on charge nurse Dana Evans in season one continuing to reverberate in the second, most notably in her concerns over staff safety. Now, as her mentee Emma Nolan comes under threat from a patient, Dana’s protective instincts erupt with startling ferocity. But are her efforts to safeguard her colleague ethically sound?

The theme of compromised judgement surfaces elsewhere, too, as Trinity Santos is seen stealing a scalpel. Quite why, we don’t yet know. But it’s a strong hint that beneath the cynicism and cool detachment lies a degree of psychological turmoil.

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CRIME DRAMA

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qA white Frenchman is arrested for fatally wounding a local at an Algiers beach in this seductive, expertly realised take on Albert Camus’s 1942 existential classic. “I killed an Arab,” notes Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) as he arrives in jail, before the film rewinds to events before the act: his mother’s funeral; his affair with the radiant Marie (Rebecca Marder); and the encounter that leads him down a darker path. Adapted by director François Ozon, the French language script makes subtle adjustments to Camus’s work without ever demystifying its more enigmatic elements. Shot in exquisite black and white, the sweltering feel, especially in the courtroom scenes, creates a hothouse atmosphere that plays well on screen. JM

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Jessica Rothe gets put through the ringer again – and again – in this sci-fi horror from first-time writer/director BT Meza. After getting run down on a country road, her character wakes up at home, confused and unable to recognise her daughter (Julianna Layne) or husband (Joseph Cross). With just three cast members and a simple set-up, there’s only so much room for the narrative to manoeuvre and Meza never really escapes over-familiarity. The final act brings some impressively gruesome makeup effects, at least. MATT GLASBY

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The “eat the rich” subgenre gains a serviceable addition with this thriller from writer/director John Patton Ford. Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell) recounts to a priest how he murdered his aristocratic family to claim $28 billion in inheritance. A light-on-its-feet dark comedy follows, as Becket “prunes a few branches from the family tree”, going after relatives played by the likes of Ed Harris and Bill Camp. Unfortunately, the film remains, ironically, a distant relative rather than heir apparent to its obvious ancestor, the 1949 Ealing classic Kind Hearts and Coronets. MAX COPEMAN

GAME OF THE WEEK

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

Available now PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

The biggest Lego game yet might also be the best. This is a comedic mishmash of Batman’s greatest hits, from the Adam West years all the way through to the current Robert Pattinson incarnation. It’s a wonderfully silly parody of the Caped Crusader’s canon, all told with the witty humour that games developer Traveller’s Tales is renowned for. Coupled with a vast, open world Gotham City to get lost in, it could even be the best Batman game, as well as the best Lego one. ALEX RAISBECK

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In 2014, Silje Evensmo Jacobsen embarked upon a documentary about Norwegian photographer-cum-blogger Maria Vatne and her bid to live off-grid with English husband Nik and their four offspring. However, with the tragic loss of Maria in 2019, Nik feels grief and guilt at being unable to honour their plans to home-educate the kids, grow their own food, and not harm the planet. Without Maria’s income, he is forced to shift direction, including enrolling his brood in school. Using discretion and empathy, Jacobsen records the family’s gradual changes without intrusion or sentimentality. DAVID PARKINSON

COMEDY DRAMA

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q30 years since its cinema release, Todd Solondz’s sweetly transgressive comedy is a certified classic of US independent film-making. Heather Matarazzo stars as unpopular 12-year-old Dawn Wiener, who develops a crush on an older jock at the same time as she begins a tentative and complicated dalliance with one of her bullies. Despite its abrasive characters and deceptively blasé approach to several serious themes – including a prominent subplot about a child kidnapping – there’s a real sincerity to the film’s sardonic perspective. Solondz’s layered screenplay dissects the creepy logic behind social conformity and beauty standards with acuity and, better still, a ton of laughs. CALUM BAKER

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CRICKET

Women’s T20 World Cup Opener: England v Sri Lanka Friday 6.30pm Sky One/Sky Mix/ Sports Cricket/Main Event, R5 Live Sports Extra

Expect fireworks as the hosts bid to make an explosive start to the 12-team tournament.

England’s pursuit of a first Women’s T20 World Cup title since they last hosted the event in 2009 begins at Edgbaston, where they face Sri Lanka in their opener.

Ireland and Scotland have been drawn alongside Charlotte Edwards’s side in Group B, but holders New Zealand and West Indies look set to be their biggest competition for one of the two semi-final spots. Tournament favourites Australia and India are expected to progress from Group A, though South Africa will fancy their chances after reaching the 50-over World Cup final last year.

All home nations matches are free-to-air on Sky Mix or SS app.

TENNIS

French Open Finals

Women’s Saturday 2pm TNT Sports 1/HBO Max, R5 Live

Men’s Sunday, 2pm TNT Sports 1/ TNT 2/HBO Max, R5 Live Extra 2

All eyes will be on Roland-Garros this weekend as the second tennis grand slam of the year signs off in style. After two weeks of toil on the red dirt in Paris, the French Open reaches its climax and we say au revoir to the clay court season. Coco Gauff beat Aryna Sabalenka and Carlos Alcaraz downed rival Jannik Sinner to lift the singles silverware in the French capital last year. Saturday and Sunday’s showpiece clashes will see the new champions crowned on Court PhilippeChatrier.

ALL SMILES Will England be celebrating after their T20 World Cup opener?

F1

Monaco GP

Sun, 2pm Sky Sports F1/Sky Sports ME, Radio 5 Live

Can anyone stop Italian ace Kimi Antonelli (below)? That’s the question as Formula 1 arrives in Monte Carlo for the Monaco Grand Prix. The 2026 pacesetter won the battle of the Mercedes drivers at the Canadian Grand Prix, where his team-mate George Russell was forced to retire mid-race due to a power issue and now has a first win at the renowned city circuit in his sights.

Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who have five Monaco wins between them, will look to build on podium finishes in Montreal.

TENNIS Queen’s Club: WTA 500 Tournament

starts Mon, 1pm BBC Two

For many of the tennis elite, the road to Wimbledon goes through west London. The Queen’s Club Championships begin at the West Kensington venue with the women’s tournament, which returned in 2025 after a break of more than 50 years. Tatjana Maria, 37, shocked Amanda Anisimova to seal a fairytale victory last year. Out-of-form British star Emma Raducanu (right) is among those hoping to succeed the German as the new Queen of Queens. The men’s tournament follows next week.

FOOTBALL Women’s World Cup 2027 Qualifiers

N Ireland v Switzerland Tue, k/o 6pm iPlayer; Israel v Scotland Tue, k/o 6pm BBC Alba/BBC iPlayer; Wales v Czech Rep Tue, k/o 6pm BBC Two Wales, R5 Live

Extra; England v Ukraine Tue, k/o 8pm ITV1, R5 Live

With a little more than a year to go until Brazil 2027 kicks off, the first phase of qualifying for next summer’s tournament concludes. England, who host Ukraine, have been in the running for one of the four automatic qualification spots, while the rest of the home nations are among the 32 teams heading into the autumn play-offs.

SATURDAY

PAINTERLY

Director Maura Delpero’s film is an ode to the South Tyrolean region in which she grew up

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qNo matter the recent heat, this will cool you down, with its snow-blanketed Alpine vistas. Italian writer/director Maura Delpero returns to the South Tyrolean region in which she was raised, for a painterly and emotionally subtle drama charting the life of one family over a few months during 1944-45. Schoolteacher Cesare presides over his large

HISTORY

D-Day Remembered

from 10.00am U&Yesterday

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U&Yesterday commemorates the 82nd anniversary of D-Day by devoting the entirety of today’s schedule in tribute. Some programmes, such as Churchill’s Toy Shop (3pm) and Guy Martin’s Battle of Britain (4pm), are slightly peripheral, but on the whole it’s an engrossing compendium.

Most moving comes first, with the two-part D-Day: Last Words (10am and 11am), in which veterans recall the longest day. The Normandy beaches episode of Robson Green: World’s Most Amazing Walks (8pm) visits some spectacular scenery, while the Tony Robinson-narrated World War Two from Above (1pm) sees drone technology re-examining the seemingly impregnable German trench network. JOHN AIZLEWOOD

GAME SHOW

brood, including eldest daughter Lucia, who falls for an escaped PoW hiding in the village. There are subplots and lovingly observed details aplenty in a film inspired by memories of Delpero’s late father, as well as those of fellow locals she spoke to before writing the script. “I mix things and fictionalise,” she says, while aiming to preserve and document some

GAME SHOW

Celebrity Bridge of Lies

5.35pm BBC One

Catch up via iPlayer

As entertaining as this quiz is, it’s still nice when Ross Kemp gets time off his hosting duties to pop back to EastEnders. Having just finished his most recent soap stint, Kemp has hung up Grant Mitchell’s leather jacket for now – but all roads lead back to Albert Square, as one of the famous faces navigating the bridge this week is a fellow Walford alumni.

Louisa Lytton played Ruby Allen, whose on-screen dad Johnny had many a showdown with the Mitchell brothers. Expect her reunion with Kemp to be more cordial, although the stakes are still high as she teams up with Greg Rutherford, Janet Ellis and Sanjeev Kohli to deduce fact from fiction and win money for their chosen charities. JOHNATHON HUGHES

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of the traditions associated with her region. The result is an impressively nuanced film, affectionate yet also clear-eyed, about the struggles of women and girls in a bygone era. Among the many highlights is a poignant scene in which Cesare and his wife discuss which daughter will be the one to attend an upper school. CALUM BAKER Film reviews: p47

SPORT

6.20pm BBC One (BBC Two in Wales) Catch up via iPlayer

On Bradley Walsh’s watch, this show has become even more surreal and anarchic than ever. As the celebrity panellists become increasingly rowdy and the object of the game is somewhat lost amid the chaos, there’s an air of Just a Minute madness – even more so this week with the presence of Sue Perkins. Can she keep order as members of the public attempt to fill in the blanks and win not-very-exciting prizes?

Joining the unflappable Perkins are a promising bunch – actor Emmett J Scanlan, DJ and presenter Melvin Odoom, MasterChef host Grace Dent, actor Vanessa Williams and the reliably caustic comedian Chris McCausland, who will no doubt have something scathing to say about the prizes on offer. JH

Romania v Wales

6.30pm (k/o 6.45pm) BBC One Wales; England v New Zealand 8.15pm (k/o 9pm) ITV1; Bolivia v Scotland 8.30pm (k/o 9pm) (not Wales) BBC Two; Catch up via ITVX/iPlayer

As World Cup fever starts to take hold, the home nations step up their preparations for the tournament, which starts on Thursday. Both England and Scotland will want to take some momentum into the group stages, but today’s warm-up games will also help the players get used to the North American climate. While the Three Lions face New Zealand in Tampa in the first of two pre-tournament friendlies (they play Costa Rica on Wednesday), Steve Clarke’s side take on Bolivia in New Jersey. And in a friendly encounter, Wales are off to Bucharest for a first meeting since 1994. NED HOLMES

DRAMA Casualty

8.25pm BBC One Catch up: iPlayer

SPORT

1966 FIFA World Cup Final – in Colour

SATURDAY 6 JUNE

Colonel Jack Bard (Mark Womack) may preach discipline as the backbone of military life, but it’s clear his strict regime has tipped into outright bullying. Last week bruised young recruit Rory Dickson (Gwion Morris Jones) was spirited away by his superiors before he could formally speak out. Now he’s back – distressed, vulnerable but seemingly still not considered at risk by the professional assessing his mental health. A concerned Flynn (Olly Rix) is convinced Rory faces real danger if he returns to barracks. But keeping someone safe within the chaos of the ED proves to be easier said than done.

DRAMA

DAVID BROWN

Monsieur Spade

9.00pm, 10.10pm U&Drama

Full series available on U

SERIES

The intriguing notion of re-locating Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett’s very American private detective, to the south of France saunters to its elegant conclusion with a final double bill. The body count is high; new characters and last minute-twists bamboozle until the murderous denouement; Clive Owen as Spade has “a wisecrack for every occasion”, according to his fellow PI Mr Kahn; and many heels are clicked in the dead of night on the cobbles of the town of Bozouls, as all is (just about) revealed. JA

DRAMA

Two Weeks in August

9.15pm BBC One

Full series available on iPlayer

After her tragically low-key split from husband Dan (Damien Molony) at the end of last week’s episode, Zoe (Jessica Raine) continues her spiral of self-destruction – or, potentially, emancipation. At this point, the jury’s still out.

Tonight’s episode plays out like a holiday from the holiday, as the group (minus Dan) visit a lavish fancy-dress bash hosted by wealthy ex-pats James (Tom Goodman-Hill) and Flick (Dolly Wells).

Unsurprisingly, the dynamics go from bad to worse for the group’s camaraderie – and we get a hint that things are about to get even more complicated... JAMES HIBBS

Frostbite: page 9

4.45pm C4 Catch up via C4 streaming

Here’s how long it is since England won a football tournament: the last win was in black and white. A whole 60 years ago, England faced West Germany at Wembley in a game that was already a four-goal thriller before what are now two very famous goals in extra time. A re-watch in full – which comes with reflections from modern-day England stars including Harry Kane, Michael Owen and Jill Scott – brings the drama of the Germans taking the lead, losing it, and then bundling in an equaliser in the dying minutes of the regular 90.

This colourised version – first shown during the European Championships in 2021 – is an eerily vivid trip back in time, a vibrant view of the game that most TV viewers on the day didn’t have. The tech does have its limits, though: you still won’t know whether England’s third goal is over the line. JACK SEALE

Weather Hits at the BBC

11.15pm BBC Two

From 2024, Carol Kirkwood and Tomasz Schafernaker (above) present a playlist of weatherthemed music from the vaults.

Expedition Rhino: the Search for the Last Northern White 7.00pm BBC Four

2022 documentary following a team of experts as they go in search of northern white rhinos in war-torn South Sudan.

Football Fantastics

8.45am CBeebies

The comedy is back for a fresh series, with Lucy aiming to be the first to nutmeg Georgie.

WHEN IT CAME HOME

From left: Alan Ball, Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore and George Cohen on their 1966 victory lap

SITCOM

Red Dwarf

10.00pm, 10.40pm U&Gold

Catch up via Now

It’s back to the beginning for the sci-fi comedy – though not for much longer. Prior to his death in February, co-creator Rob Grant completed a prequel novel, Red Dwarf: Titan, with publication set for July. And so, for those in need of a refresher, this repeat of the first series is ideally timed, as it establishes the central tension between underdog uber-slob Dave Lister (Craig Charles) and officious hologram failure Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie).

There’s an air of grey, strippedback bleakness to this opening run that sets it apart from what followed, but it suits the desolate premise of Lister being the last human alive, adrift on a vast mining vessel in deep space. DB

Men’s Test Cricket

England v New Zealand 10.15am Sky ME/Cricket , highlights 7.30pm BBC Two Day three of the first Test in the three-match series at Lord’s.

International Football

Romania v Wales 6.30pm (k/o 6.45pm) BBC One Wales

England v New Zealand 8.15pm (k/o 9.00pm) ITV1 Scotland v Bolivia 8.30pm (k/o 9pm) (not Wales) BBC Two See page 40.

Tennis: French Open

1.30pm TNT Sports 1 Day 14, including the women’s singles final.

SPORT HIGHLIGHTS

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FILM REVIEWS

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SATURDAY MAIN CHANNELS

BBC One 6.00am Breakfast With Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt. (S) (HD)

BBC One

10.00 Saturday Kitchen Live In a 20th anniversary edition, Matt Tebbutt is joined by chefs Theo Randall, Rick Stein, Ching-He Huang, Gennaro Contaldo and Andi Oliver, and guests Liz Carr and Chris Stark. Helen McGinn picks the drinks to go with the dishes. (S) (HD)

11.30 Anna Haugh’s Big Irish Food Tour Eilish O’Carroll joins Anna to explore Dublin. (R) (S) (HD)

12 noon Homes under the Hammer Properties in Northampton, Leeds and Coventry. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.00pm BBC News Weather (S) (HD)

1.15 Bargain Hunt Danny Sebastian presents from Wetherby Racecourse in West Yorkshire. (R) (S) (HD)

2.15 Money for Nothing A smashed-up wardrobe poses a conundrum for Bruce Kenneth. (R) (S) (HD)

3.00 Escape to the Country Sonali Shah helps a couple looking for a home in West Sussex. (R) (S) (HD)

3.45 Garden Rescue Charlie Dimmock and Florence Headlam create an Islamic-themed garden. (R) (S) (HD)

4.30—5.15 The Bidding Room People try to sell lightning rods and African birthing chairs. (R) (S) (HD)

5.15pm BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

5.35 Celebrity Bridge of Lies

6 8/10 Series 4. With Greg Rutherford, Sanjeev Kohli, Janet Ellis and Louisa Lytton. See page 40.

Director John Smith; Producer Elena Miles Rptd Thursday 11.40pm (S) (HD)

6.20 Blankety Blank

4.15pm Rugby League

Wakefield Trinity v Hull Kingston Rovers

Live coverage of the Super League match from Belle Vue (kick-off 4.30).

BBC Two

BBC Two 6.50am Piripenguins (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Big Lizard (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 7.10

The Weasy Family (R) (S) (HD) 7.15 Super Happy Magic Forest (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 7.30 Grizzy and the Lemmings (R) (S) (HD) 7.35 Duck & Frog (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.45 Pokémon Horizons: Rising Hope (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

8.05 Bro’s in Control (R) (S) (HD) 8.25 Gladiators: Epic Pranks (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 8.40 Newsround (S) (HD)

8.50 Blue Peter A World Cup preview. (R) (S) (HD)

9.15 Gardeners’ World Celebrating Longmeadow’s roses. Shown yesterday Signed repeat Thursday 8am (S) (HD) 10.20 Great Expectations 5 Oscar-winning q adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel, starring John Mills. The life of a poor orphan suddenly changes when he comes into a fortune from an unknown benefactor. On iPlayer for 60 days. Film of the Day: page 47. Director David Lean (1946, PG) (BW) (S) (HD)

12.15pm The Wooden Horse HHH Second World q War drama starring Leo Genn. Realising that the tunnelling distance from their barracks to the outside is too great, the inmates of Stalag Luft III hit upon an ingenious plan. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 47. Director Jack Lee (1950, U) (BW) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.55—4.15 Ice Station Zebra HHH Adventure q based on the novel by Alistair MacLean, starring Rock Hudson and Ernest Borgnine. When a film capsule from a Russian spacecraft lands near Station Zebra, the tiny weather base is plunged into the shadowy world of the Cold War. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 47. Director John Sturges (1968, U) (S) (HD)

ITV1

ITV1 6.00am Dermot’s Taste of Ireland 5/10 A visit to Londonderry. Shown last Saturday (S) (HD)

6.30 Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh With Stephen Tompkinson. Shown last Sunday (S) (HD) 8.25 Ainsley’s Fantastic Flavours 5/12 Series 3 Comforting recipes. More tomorrow 8.25am. (S) (HD)

9.25 ITV News (S) (HD)

9.30 Racing: the Opening Show Oli Bell presents a look ahead to the Derby. Simulcast on ITV4 (S) (HD)

10.30 James Martin’s Saturday Morning James is joined by singer Natasha Hamilton, chef Mike Reid and chocolatier Mark Tilling. Repeated tomorrow 6.50am (S) (HD) 12.15pm Dermot’s Taste of Ireland 6/10. Dermot O’Leary travels to Letterkenny, Donegal, where he goes foraging for golden mushrooms. (S) (HD)

12.45 ITV News Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD)

1.00—5.00 LIVE Racing: the Derby Coverage of the meeting at Epsom. For details see right. (S) (HD)

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7/9. Bradley Walsh welcomes Chris McCausland, Emmett J Scanlan, Melvin Odoom, Sue Perkins, Grace Dent and Vanessa Williams to the quiz. See p40.

Director Barbara Wiltshire; Series producer Aoife Bower

Repeated Wednesday 12.10am (S) (HD)

6.55 Pointless Celebrities

Olga Koch, Chloe Petts, Arabella Weir, Jon Culshaw, Ted Robbins, Justin Moorhouse, Neil Delamere and Loyiso Gola take part in a comedy edition from 2022.

Director Richard van’t Riet; Series producer Laura Turner (R) (S) (HD)

7.40 The Weakest Link

Romesh Ranganathan is joined by Mel B, Shobna Gulati, Eamonn Holmes, Denis Lawson, Arielle Free, Briony May Williams, Nick Pickard and Rob Bent. From 2025. Director Janine O’Connor; Producer Olivia Clark (R) (S) (HD)

8.25 Casualty

6

Flynn opens up about his history with Bard. A box set of previous episodes is on iPlayer. See p41.

Flynn Byron Olly Rix

Stevie Nash Elinor Lawless

Jodie Whyte Anna Chell

Dylan Keogh William Beck

Matty Linlaker Aron Julius

Rashid Masum Neet Mohan

Cam Mickelthwaite Barney Walsh

Indie Jankowski Naomi Wakszlak

Siobhan McKenzie Melanie Hill

Iain Dean Michael Stevenson

Jan Jenning Di Botcher

Jacob Masters Charles Venn

Theodore “Teddy” Gowan Milo Clarke

Rida Amaan Sarah Seggari

Nicole Piper Sammy T Dobson

Jack Bard Mark Womack

Rory Dickson Gwion Morris Jones

Claire Byron Elisabeth Hopper

Jessica Priceman Jamila Wingett

Laura Beech Katie Redford

George Hulme Moe Idris

Calvin Hodgins Richard Pryal

Iona Hodgins Laura Rollins

Elif Aksoy Sofia Asir

Newsreader Benjamin Bryant

Writer Erin Kubicki; Producer Erika Hossington

Director Paul Riordan (S) (AD) (HD)

9.15 Two Weeks in August

6 4/8. Zoe feels liberated at a party hosted by eccentric expats, while Dan spirals into a dark place. The whole series is on iPlayer. See p41.

Tom Goodman-Hill

Zoe Jessica Raine

Dan Damien Molony Lea Florence Banks Will Dylan Brady Nat Leila Farzad Clotho Tiana Formosa

Solomon Nicholas Pinnock

Jacob Hugh Skinner

Jess Antonia Thomas

Avery Maria Almeida

Henry Joe Dixon

Two of the league’s pacesetters go head to head in a big clash at the top of the table. The hosts enter the match on the back of a gritty 22—18 win at Toulouse, while the Robins’ last league outing saw them thrash an understrength Wigan line-up 62—4 in a rehearsal for last Saturday’s Challenge Cup final. (S) (HD)

6.30 Hidden Treasures of the National Trust 4/6 Series 4. Following the work of people who look after two of the National Trust’s most unusual houses. In the Cotswolds lies Snowshill Manor, which is home to an eccentric collection of 22,000 objects, including a samurai suit in need of repair, while at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, taxidermy experts restore the feathers of several fragile birds so they can remain on display. Continues Friday 9pm. The whole series is on iPlayer. Shown yesterday Signed repeat Friday 8am (S) (AD) (HD)

7.30 Today at the Test

The best action from the third day of the First Test between England and New Zealand at Lord’s. (S) (HD) 8.30 International Football

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Scotland v Bolivia

Live coverage of the friendly from the Sports Illustrated Stadium in New Jersey (kick-off 9.00). Steve Clarke’s men complete their preparations for their first World Cup finals in 28 years with a friendly against the South Americans, who lost out to Iraq in a play-off to reach the tournament. Scotland kick off their Group C matches against Haiti in this city next Saturday, before encounters with African champions Morocco and five-times World Cup winners Brazil. With commentary from Liam McLeod and James McFadden. See page 40. (S) (HD) Opening ceremony and Mexico v South Africa Thursday 6.15pm ITV1 World Cup special: page 12

11.15 Weather Hits at the BBC

Carol Kirkwood and Tomasz Schafernaker exchange the meteorological charts for the pop charts as they present a playlist of weather-themed tracks from the BBC vaults, from Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers to Why Does It Always Rain on Me? by Travis, alongside hits by Katrina and the Waves and the Weather Girls.

Producers Shelley Talton and Simon Catt

Dolly Wells

Eve Eliza Lambon

Writer Catherine Shepherd; Producer Rhonda Smith; Director Tom George

Signed repeat Thursday 3.35am BBC Two (S) (AD) (HD) Frostbite: page 9

Series producer Simon Goretzki (R) (S) (HD) 1.40am Paris, 13th District HHHH Romantic drama. New q flatmates Emilie and Camille start a no-strings-attached sexual relationship, but run into complications when she falls for him. When they part ways, he begins seeing a new partner, Nora, while also trying to rekindle his friendship with Emilie. French, Mandarin +subtitles. On iPlayer for 60 days. Emilie Lucie Zhang

Camille Makita Samba

Nora Noémie Merlant

Amber Sweet Jehnny Beth Eponine Camille Léon-Fucien

Director Jacques Audiard (2021, 18) (BW) (HD)

Channel 4

Channel 4 6.00am The King of Queens Four episodes. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.15 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.05 Frasier Four episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.05 The Simpsons Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD)

12.35—3.10pm Four in a Bed The competition features accommodation options in the counties of Norfolk, Kent and Oxfordshire. (R) (S) (HD)

LA blade runner Officer K uncovers a shocking secret that puts him on the trail of Rick Deckard, who has been missing for 30 years. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 47. Rick Deckard Harrison Ford Officer K Ryan Gosling Niander Wallace Jared Leto

3.20—5.15am Sign Zone 3.20 Death Valley 3/6. Janie and John probe a suspected overdose on the set of a big-budget Welsh TV drama. Shown last Sunday

Two Weeks in August 9.15pm Zoe (Jessica Raine) embraces her freedom at a wild party

Weather Hits at the BBC 11.15pm Walking on sunshine: Carol and Tomasz share their playlist

1.00pm Racing: the Derby Francesca Cumani and Ed Chamberlin present live coverage of the 4.00 Derby from Epsom, plus races at 1.30, 2.05, 2.40, 3.15 and 4.40

With analysis from Ruby Walsh, Jason Weaver and Adele Mulrennan, reports by Matt Chapman, Rishi Persad, Oli Bell and Mick Fitzgerald, betting news with Brian Gleeson, and commentary by Richard Hoiles. Director Tim Goodden; Editor Richard Willoughby (S) (HD)

5.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars

Linda Robson, Max George and Jess Phillips take part in the quiz. Ben Shephard hosts.

Director Richard van’t Riet; Executive producers Sara Doyle, Kate Lownds and Hugh Rycroft (R) (S) (HD)

5.55 ITV News

Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

6.15 Celebrity Catchphrase

With soap stars Natalie Cassidy and Sam Aston, and comedian Lou Sanders. Director Geraldine Dowd Series producer Aaron Morgan (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.15 The Chase Celebrity Special

With Jayde Adams, Tony Cottee, Naughty Boy and the Vivienne. Bradley Walsh presents. Executive producers Michael Kelpie, Martin Scott and Helen Tumbridge (R) (S) (HD)

8.15 International Football

6 England v New Zealand

Mark Pougatch presents all the action from the friendly match at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida (kick-off 9.00).

This is the first of two warm-up games for England before their World Cup campaign begins on 17 June, and their opponents have also qualified for this year’s finals. These two teams last met back in 1991, when England won 1—0 in Auckland and 2—0 in Wellington. With analysis from Roy Keane and Karen Carney, pitchside reports by Ian Wright and Gabriel Clarke, and commentary from Sam Matterface and Lee Dixon. See page 40.

Director Lewis Hurt; Editor Phil Heslop (S) (HD) England v Costa Rica Wednesday 8pm

The view from Karen Carney’s sofa: p146 11.30 ITV News

Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD)

11.40 Taken 2 HHH

qAction sequel. Former CIA agent Bryan Mills plans a trip to Istanbul with his daughter and ex-wife. But the father of a kidnapper he killed is hellbent on revenge. Review page 47. Bryan Mills Liam Neeson

Kim Maggie Grace Lenore Famke Janssen

Murad Krasniqi Rade Serbedzija Sam Leland Orser Casey Jon Gries

Director Olivier Megaton (2012, 15) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.25am Home Shopping (HD)

3.00 Josie’s Taste of the West Country 4/5. Josie Gibson visits an organic lamb farm. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD) 5.05—6.00am Alan Titchmarsh’s Gardening Club A visit to the Malvern Spring Festival. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

3.10pm Location, Location, Location

Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are in Northern Ireland to help buyers in Belfast and Down.

Directors Adriana Bevir and Simon Joslin

Producers Harriette Powell and Craig Reece (R) (S) (HD)

4.15 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)

4.45 The 1966 World Cup Final — in Colour

6A full replay of England’s famous 4—2 victory over West Germany in the World Cup Final on 30 July 1966 to raise awareness and funds for the Alzheimer’s Society. David Baddiel introduces the action with hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst reflecting on the match and remembering his teammates. See p41.

Director Anton Sensky; Executive producers Colin Hopkins and Neil Canetty-Clarke (S) (HD)

World Cup 2026 begins Thursday 6.15pm ITV1

7.30 Formula One: Monaco Grand Prix — Qualifying Highlights

Steve Jones is joined by David Coulthard, Mark Webber and Lawrence Barretto to present action from the battle for grid positions in round six at Circuit de Monaco. Race highlights tomorrow 6.30pm. (S) (HD)

9.00 Bohemian Rhapsody HHH

q

Biographical music drama starring Rami Malek. London, 1970: living with his parents, Farrokh Bulsara dreams of becoming a rock star. So when local group Smile loses its lead singer, he convinces guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor to give him a shot. With the addition of bassist John Deacon and Bulsara changing his name to Freddie Mercury, the band Queen is born — but the path to world domination is a bumpy one. Review p47.

Freddie Mercury Rami Malek

Roger Taylor Ben Hardy

Mary Austin Lucy Boynton

John Deacon Joseph Mazzello

Brian May Gwilym Lee

Paul Prenter Allen Leech

Director Bryan Singer (2018, 12) (S) (AD) (HD)

Also showing Thursday 9pm 4seven

11.35 BlackBerry HHHH

qComedy drama based on a true story. In the mid-90s, Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin pitch their BlackBerry pager device to potential investors. With the help of ambitious CEO Jim Balsillie, the result is a game-changer phone. But their rapid rise is followed by a fall. Available to stream for 30 days. Review p47.

Mike Lazaridis Jay Baruchel

Jim Balsillie Glenn Howerton

Doug Matt Johnson

Purdy Michael Ironside Paul Rich Sommer

Rick Brock Martin Donovan

Director Matt Johnson (2023, 15) (S) (AD) (HD)

Also showing tomorrow 10pm 4seven

1.45am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The Burger Kitchen restaurant in Los Angeles. (R) (S) (HD)

2.35 Make That Movie 3/6. A pair of schoolgirls ask Sam to make a movie. Shown last Thursday (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

3.05 4/6. A fan of a hopeless football team wants to see them win. Shown last Thursday (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

3.30 The Simpsons Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD)

4.45 Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country The family works on Sarah’s dad’s caravan. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

5.40—5.55am Find It, Fix It, Flog It An extraordinary collection of memorabilia. (R) (S) (HD)

5.35am Milkshake! See page 46

9.05 Entertainment News (S) (HD)

9.10 Susan Calman’s Summer by the Sea Visiting Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. Shown last Mon (S) (HD)

9.55 Secrets of the Royal Palaces Behindthe-scenes tales of Windsor Castle. (R) (S) (HD)

10.55 A look at Hampton Court Palace. (R) (S) (HD)

11.55 Catching Up with the Royals with Rev Richard Coles and Emily Andrews Exploring the world and daily lives of royal nannies. (S) (HD)

12.55pm Carol Klein’s Summer Gardening

The horticultural expert welcomes viewers to her garden in Devon during summer. (R) (S) (HD)

1.50 A look at the plants that thrive due to being planted in the right place. (R) (S) (HD)

2.50 Loch Lomond: a Year in the Wild The impact of spring’s arrival on the wildlife in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. (R) (S) (HD)

3.50 In summer, young Eurasian beavers emerge from their lodge for the first time. (R) (S) (HD)

4.50pm Yorkshire Great and Small with Dan and Helen

1/6 Series 1. Dan Walker and Helen Skelton explore Yorkshire’s natural beauty and seek out its hidden gems, beginning in Malham. (R) (S) (HD)

5.50 2/6. Exploring Yorkshire’s coastline and discovering the dark past of Robin Hood’s Bay. Series producer Andrew Painten Executive producer Mark McMullen (R) (S) (HD)

6.30 5 News (S) (HD)

6.35 Cornwall: a Year by the Sea 2/10 Series 2. On the hills above Port Quin Bay, the Williams family enter the most demanding season of their year — lambing time. First shown last Thursday (S) (HD)

7.30 Kate Middleton: Her Life in Pictures

A portrait of Catherine, Princess of Wales’s life, delving deep into the most famous photographs of her. Royal commentators, journalists and experts explore what image reveals about her life at the time. (R) (S) (HD)

9.00 Meghan vs Kate: the Meeting That Changed the Monarchy

A look at the 2018 showdown, between the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, that sowed the seeds for the two households dramatically splitting. Series director/producer Stuart Strickson (R) (S) (HD)

10.30 When Sex on TV Goes Horribly Wrong

A compilation of scandalous moments, including a couple who used a marital aid at the dinner table in Married at First Sight. Director/Producer Jamie Sutcliffe (R) (S) (HD) 12.20am Adults Only: Hurts So Good A look inside the world of BDSM.

Moore lifts the Jules Rimet

Vermiglio 9.20pm Villager Lucia falls for fugitive army deserter Pietro

All programmes on BBC Four are repeats unless otherwise stated 7.00pm Expedition Rhino: the Search for the Last Northern White With the death of the last captive male in 2018, the northern white rhinoceros was declared extinct. But possible sightings in Africa have given conservationists hope. This film follows a dedicated team of experts on an expedition to war-torn South Sudan. First broadcast in 2022. Executive producer Doug Mackay-Hope Repeated 1.50am (S) (HD)

7.45 The Good Old Days

Leonard Sachs hosts an edition from 1976, with Ken Dodd, Sheila Steafel, Valerie Masterson, Johnny Hart and members of the Players’ Theatre, London, entertaining an audience at the Leeds City Varieties. Producer Barney Colehan Repeated 12.15am (S)

8.30 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

How Time Flies. A forgetful clock-mender contacts the sleuth when he becomes the target of a couple of small-time crooks. Armed with advice from DCI Adams, Hetty starts her investigation at a video store and soon discovers that there is more to the case than meets the eye. From 1998. A box set is on iPlayer. Hetty Wainthropp Patricia Routledge

Robert Wainthropp Derek Benfield

Geoffrey Shawcross

Dominic Monaghan

Frank Wainthropp Frank Mills

Janet Frazer

Suzanne Maddock

DCI Adams John Graham Davies

Monty Francis Charles Kay

Donald Matthews

Tom Chadbon

Conchita Flintoff Shirin Taylor

Writer Jeremy Paul; Director David Giles Rptd 1am (S)

9.20 Vermiglio HHHH

oPeriod drama. An Alpine village teacher and his family feel the winds of change after a Sicilian army deserter arrives during the closing months of the Second World War. Italian +subtitles. On iPlayer for 12 months. Review page 47.

Cesare Graziadei Tommaso Ragno

Pietro Riso Giuseppe De Domenico

Lucia Graziadei Martina Scrinzi

Adele Roberta Rovelli

Zia Orietta Notari

Virginia Carlotta Gamba

Director Maura Delpero (2024, 15) (HD)

11.10 Butterflies

1/6 Series 1. When Ria Met Leonard

The first of two programmes being shown following the 10th anniversary of screenwriter Carla Lane’s death. Middle-aged housewife Ria worries that life is passing her by. Starring Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer. From 1978.

Writer Carla Lane; Producer Gareth Gwenlan Shown last Tuesday (S)

11.45 ATribute to Carla Lane: Artsnight

To mark the 10th anniversary of her death on 31 May, another chance to see this 2016 portrait of TV writer Carla Lane.

Director/Producer Dina Mufti Shown last Tuesday (S) (HD)

12.15am The Good Old Days Shown 7.45pm (S)

1.00 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Shown 8.30pm (S)

1.50—2.35am Expedition Rhino: the Search for the Last Northern White Shown 7pm (S) (HD)

7.00pm Doctor Who

9/12 Series 8. Clara must fight her own battle against a multidimensional menace when the Doctor is trapped. Starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. (S) (AD) (HD)

7.45 10/12. The world awakes one morning to the sight of Mother Nature appearing to reclaim the Earth. First shown in 2014. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.30 Miranda

5/6 Series 2. Miranda and Penny give a therapist food for thought. With Miranda Hart and Patricia Hodge. (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 6/6. Miranda plans a quiet holiday. From 2010. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)

9.30 Mrs Brown’s Boys

When a family heirloom is stolen, Buster and Dermot are determined to find the perpetrators. Starring Danny O’Carroll and Paddy Houlihan. From 2021. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 The Browns receive a visit from Grandad’s jailbird brother Mickey. From 2022. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.30 The Nice Guys HHHH q Crime comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. A burned-out PI is hired to investigate the death of a porn star but, while navigating the underbelly of 1970s Los Angeles, he collides with a violent enforcer. On iPlayer for 54 days.

Director Shane Black (2016, 15) (S) (AD) (HD)

12.20am FILM Bodies Bodies Bodies HHHH Black comedy horror with Amandla Stenberg (S) (HD) 1.50 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (S) (AD) (HD) 2.20 Cable Tied (S) (HD) 2.30—4.00am Doctor Who (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

6.00am Inspector Morse: Series 5. Greeks Bearing Gifts. Morse and Lewis investigate a murder in Oxford’s Greek community (S) (SL) (AD) (HD); 8.10 Series 6. Dead on Time. The detective investigates the apparent suicide of a terminally ill Oxford don (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 10.25 Endeavour: 2/3 Series 7. Raga. Racial tensions escalate and a clash between two rival gangs spirals out of control (S) (AD) (HD)

12.20pm Agatha Christie’s Marple: Towards Zero. Miss Marple finds herself in the midst of a group of people where sexual tensions and unresolved jealousies lead to murder (S) (AD)

2.20pm Midsomer Murders

Series 20. The Lions of Causton. A death at the local rugby club sends Barnaby and Winter into a muddle of old grudges and new romances. (S) (AD) (HD)

4.15 Till Death Do Us Part. Reluctantly joining Sarah at a family friend’s wedding, Barnaby finds himself on the trail of a killer with a penchant for brides. (S) (AD) (HD)

6.10 Send in the Clowns. There are gruesome consequences when Ferabbees Circus comes to town, including sinister clown sightings, threatening notes and deathly-dangerous circus acts. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.05 Series 21. The Point of Balance Midsomer is buzzing with excitement at the Paramount Dance Extravaganza. But behind the sequins and smiles are longrunning feuds and passions. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.05 Vera

2/4 Series 1. Telling Tales. DCI Vera Stanhope sets out to resolve a teenage girl’s murder retrospectively. As secrets and lies are exposed, she tries to lay ghosts from the past to rest. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.55 Inspector Morse Series 2. Last Seen Wearing. Morse investigates the case of a missing schoolgirl — and learns some unpleasant truths about her family. (S) (AD) (HD) 2.05—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)

Helena and Sam learn of a boy’s mysterious abilities

7.15am Birds of a Feather: 1/15 Series 6 Sharon and Tracey prepare for royal neighbours (S); 7.50 2/15. Garth falls for an older woman (S); 8.25 3/15. Tracey becomes an agony aunt (S) 9.05 Lovejoy: 1/10 Series 6 Charlotte is attacked by a robber (S); 10.15 2/10. Charlotte is kidnapped (S); 11.25 3/10 Tinker’s odd behaviour causes concern (S) 12.35pm Father Brown: 2/10 Series 8. The Queen Bee. The priest investigates the death of a beekeeper (S) (AD) (HD) 1.35 New Tricks Repeated 11.45pm (S) (AD) (HD); 2.35 2/10 Series 10 Brian faces a disciplinary hearing (S) (AD) (HD) 3.35 Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced When a macabre prediction in a village newspaper proves accurate, Miss Marple is enlisted to help solve the crime (S) (AD)

7.00pm The Brokenwood Mysteries 4/6 Series 11. How the Other Half Dies Strange occurrences are unfolding, but most perplexing is the mysterious death of a man crushed by a chandelier. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. Monsieur Spade

6 5/6. Spade gets more than he bargained for when he questions his neighbours and learns more about the boy’s mysterious abilities. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.10 New. 6/6. Spade discovers who has been following him. Meanwhile, Philippe sets up a deal for the boy that quickly goes sideways — leading to a dangerous confrontation. See page 41. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.45 New Tricks

1/10 Series 10. The Rock 1/2. The discovery of an Argentinian pistol in the Thames reopens the unsolved 1998 murder of a playboy shipping heir and leads the team to the Rock of Gibraltar. Shown 1.35pm (S) (AD) (HD)

1.05am Sister Boniface Mysteries: 1/12 Series 2 The nun investigates a murder on the set of a TV show (S) (AD) (HD) 2.15—4.00am The Brokenwood Mysteries: 3/6 Series 11 A Halloween seance turns deadly (S) (SL) (HD)

6.00am Deal or No Deal (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Backyard Builds (S) (SL) (HD) 7.30 Dress to Impress: double bill (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 9.30 Million Dollar Listing: LA: three editions (S) (HD)

12.20pm Britain’s Got Talent: Live Final (S) (AD) (HD) 2.55 Celebrity Catchphrase (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 FILM Flushed Away HHH Animated comedy adventure (S) (AD) (HD)

5.50pm FILM Addams Family Values HHHH Comedy horror starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia and Christopher Lloyd. The arrival of baby Pubert leads to some “deadly” games in the Addams household as the jealous Wednesday and Pugsley try to dispose of their new sibling. (S) (AD) (HD)

7.40 FILM How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days HH Romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. When journalist Andie Anderson attempts to woo and lose advertising executive Benjamin Barry in 10 days for an article she’s working on, she’s unaware that he’s out to make her fall in love with him as part of a bet. (S) (HD)

10.00 New. Love Island: Unseen Bits Iain Stirling shares exclusive content from an action-packed first week in the Villa. (S) (HD)

11.05 Family Guy Series 4. Peter grows bored with his job at the beer factory. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.35 Peter sells Meg to pay a debt. (S) (AD) (HD)

12.05am American Dad!: double bill (S) (AD) 1.05 G’wed (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 1.40 Plebs (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 2.10 Totally Bonkers Guinness World

6.00am Football Rivalries (S) (HD) 6.15 The Big Match Revisited (S) (HD) 7.25 World Superbike Highlights (S) (HD) 8.25 World Rally Highlights (S) (HD) 9.30 New. Racing: the Opening Show: a look ahead to the Epsom Derby (S) (HD) 10.30 The Big Match Revisited (S) (HD) 11.30 Isle of Man TT Highlights (S) (HD) 12.30pm Sharpe (S) (HD) 2.45 LIVE Prem Rugby Union: coverage of a match from the last round of regular-season fixtures, as the final league positions are decided (kick-off 3.15) (S) (HD) 5.45 Goals of the 1990s (S) (HD) 6.00pm LIVE World Series of Darts Day two of the Nordic Darts Masters at Forum Copenhagen, featuring the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. Stephen Bunting was the victorious player last year, overcoming Jonny Clayton, Nathan Aspinall and Rob Cross on the final day to secure his second title of the 2025 series, having previously triumphed in the opener in Bahrain. (S) (HD) 10.00 New. Isle of Man TT Highlights Action from the Senior TT, as the week’s racing continued with the most prestigious event. Repeated tomorrow 9.10am (S) (HD) 12 midnight New. All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite (S) (HD) 2.00—3.00am Two and a Half Men (S) (HD)

7.00am James May’s Cars of the People (AD) 7.50 Storage Hunters UK: from Royston, Hertfordshire 8.20 Would I Lie to You?

3.00pm The Way Out Two teams of comedians race to complete themed escape rooms. (AD) 4.00 Mel Giedroyc sends the teams on a daring break-in to steal the Mona Lisa (AD) 5.00 The teams are trapped in an off-the-scale world where nothing is as it seems. (AD)

6.00 It’s a fiery finale as the teams race to rescue a woman from a burning flat. (AD) 7.00 Would I Lie to You? With David Baddiel, Ed Balls, Jo Brand and Kimberly Wyatt. 7.40 Rob Brydon welcomes Mark Bonnar, Sheila Hancock, Stephen Mangan and Anita Rani. 8.20 With James Acaster, Gabby Logan, Melvin Odoom and Fay Ripley. 9.00 Clash of the Comics Professional wrestling action featuring top comedians. (AD) 11.40 Not Going Out 3/6 Series 11. Lee’s father announces his engagement. 12.20am 4/6. Lee joins Facebook. 1.00 5/6. A piece of family history is unearthed.

Agatha Christie’s Marple 12.20pm The sleuth visits an old friend

The Nice Guys 10.30pm Holland and Jackson take on the underworld

Monsieur Spade 9.00pm

24 Hours in A&E 10.00pm Tilly takes a tumble at gymnastics

8.55am Four in a Bed 11.35 A Place in the Sun 3.40pm Come Dine with Me (AD)

6.20pm Four in a Bed Roy and Brian welcome their rivals to the Plough Inn in Ripple, Kent, and treat them to a seal-spotting trip.

6.55 Simone and Anke play host at the Old Crown Coaching Inn in Oxfordshire, where some guests question the cleanliness.

7.25 The extra little touches in the rooms at Richard and Colleen’s B&B in Essex leave the guests singing their praises.

7.55 At her Samsara Retreat in Kent, Lori hopes to relax her guests with yoga, meditation and a gong-bath session.

8.25 An eventful week draws to a close.

9.00 24 Hours in A&E At St George’s Hospital, 95-year-old Sylvia is brought to A&E after losing balance on her stairlift and falling down a flight of stairs. The doctors are concerned about injuries to her hip. (AD)

10.00 This visit to St George’s features people who have experienced tragic events. Filippo, 86, is rushed in having suffered a suspected stroke, while 80-year-old Susan is seen after sustaining an open fracture to her leg. (AD) 11.05 999: on the Front Line West Midlands paramedics and the air ambulance rush to help an elderly man who has life-changing injuries following a fall from a ladder. In Birmingham, a paramedic treats a man who has suffered three major epileptic fits.

12.05am 999: on the Front Line 1.10 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 3.20—3.50am The Perfect Pitch

Isle of Wight Festival 2025

9.00pm The Corrs take to the stage

6.00am Pavarotti in Central Park 8.15 Tales of the Unexpected: five episodes (AD) 11.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: double bill

1.00pm Classic FM Live: Great British Classics 3.00 Discovering: Charles Laughton

4.00 Classic Movies: the Story of The Lion in Winter: Ian Nathan examines the 1968 drama

5.00pm Queen: Is This the Real Life?

Documentary looking at the extraordinary career of the British rock band, whose music has ensured a legacy that has lived on long after the death of charismatic frontman Freddie Mercury in 1991.

6.05 The Eagles: Live from the LA Forum

The six-time Grammy winners take to the stage at the Forum in California over three nights, delighting fans with hits including Hotel California and Take It Easy.

9.00 Isle of Wight Festival 2025

Coverage of the Corrs’ set on the Main Stage at Seaclose Park in Newport.

10.30 Coverage of the performance by veteran Glasgow pop-rock band Texas on the Main Stage at Seaclose Park in Newport.

11.45 Billy Idol Should Be Dead The musician’s journey from punk rocker to pop star, featuring interviews with Idol himself, his bandmates, family and fellow artists such as Miley Cyrus and Billie Joe Armstrong.

2.05am Women Who Rock: a look at female pioneers of the 1990s (AD) 3.25 The Great Songwriters 4.30 Auction: George Michael Special 5.00—6.00am Freddie Mercury: Auction Special

Robson Green: World’s Most Amazing Walks 8.00pm In Normandy

6.10am How Britain Worked 8.00 Flipping Bangers 10.00 D-Day: Last Words 12 noon Antiques Roadshow: D-Day 1.00pm World War II from Above 2.00 Train Truckers

3.00 Churchill’s Toyshop: scientists working on secret weapons in the Second World War 4.00 Guy Martin’s Battle of Britain

6.00pm Guy Martin’s D-Day Landing Guy undertakes a challenge to re-create a Second World War parachute jump. Review p40.

8.00 Robson Green: World’s Most Amazing Walks The actor walks along the north coast of Normandy, remembering the soldiers of the D-Day landings. (AD) 9.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics

The team buy a confusing 1984 French Matra Murena and send it to Citroën specialists. (AD)

10.00 Canal Boat Diaries Robbie sets off from Runcorn on the Bridgewater Canal, but encounters a series of mishaps. (AD)

11.00 Robbie slips and falls overboard on Heartbreak Hill, and Eddie “the Stove Man” fixes the fireplace on the old Naughty Lass. (AD) 12 midnight—3.00am Bangers and Cash (AD)

9.00am Cops 9.20 Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent 10.10 Blue Bloods 1.10pm Bull 6.00pm Bull: Triple bill. Series 3. One of Bull’s friends is tried for murder 7.00 The consultant’s faith in a lawyer is tested 8.00 Chunk represents his first legal client 9.00 NCIS Series 22. Torres receives intel from a confidential informant 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: four episodes. Series 10 A woman claims to have been raped by a stranger 11.00 The unit is brought into conflict with the Pentagon 11.55 Series 9 Benson goes under cover in a prison 12.50am An investment banker is found dead 1.45 Bull 3.35—4.00am Cops

6.00am Lego Masters Australia (SL) (AD) 7.05 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.25 The Amazing Race Australia 8.30 Married at First Sight USA 11.35 FILM Sonic the Hedgehog HHH Fantasy action adventure starring James Marsden (AD) 1.30pm The Simpsons (AD) 6.30pm FILM Moonfall HHH Sci-fi action adventure starring Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson. When the Moon’s orbit starts to change, Earth is threatened with destruction. Two former astronauts and an amateur lunar researcher blast off to try to save the day — but the source of this astronomic anomaly is much tougher to fight than they realise. English, Chinese +subtitles. (AD)

9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox The famous faces watch Antiques Roadshow and My Gay Dog and Other Animals From July 2020. (AD) 10.00 Gogglebox The armchair critics’ thoughts on Bridgerton, The Apprentice, Secret Genius and The Floor (AD)

11.05 The Goggleboxers watch Gladiators, The Summit and Bridgerton (SL) (AD)

9.00am Come Dine with Me: 10 editions

2.00pm Couples Come Dine with Me: from Blackpool 3.00 George Clarke’s Beautiful Builds (AD) 4.00 A Place in the Sun

6.00pm A Place in the Sun A couple seek their very own characterful bolthole on Crete.

7.00 Complementary therapist Penny wants to relocate her business to Málaga.

8.00 Location, Location, Location Ep 5

Former Olympian Michael, aka Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards, and partner Karen want a home in Hampshire. Shown last Wednesday C4

9.00 Grand Designs In Cornwall, Kevin McCloud meets former skydivers Leigh and Richard, who have fallen in love with a listed but derelict 17th-century flour mill. (AD)

10.00 Sarah Millican: Bobby Dazzler The comedian waxes lyrical about attempting to lose weight, offers advice on how to eat a kiwi fruit and recalls a humorous smear test. 11.00 Taskmaster 9/10 Series 21. Armando Iannucci proves why it’s important not to curtail his nap time. Shown last Thursday C4 (AD)

12.05am Celebrity Gogglebox (AD)

1.05 Gogglebox (AD) 2.05 First Dates (AD) 3.05 Emergency Helicopter Medics (AD) 4.05—5.00am 24 Hours in A&E (AD)

6.00am Chasing Classic Cars (AD) 8.00 Wheeler Dealers (AD) 3.00pm MotoGP: the Grand Prix of Hungary sprint race held at Balaton Park 4.00 Shed and Buried

6.00pm Shed and Buried A shed full of vintage motorcycles and memorabilia.

6.30 A magnificent collection of Second World War vehicles, including a Norton 16H.

7.00 Some classic motorcycles catch Henry Cole’s eye on a trip to Bolton.

7.30 A visit to motocross lover Terry in Hereford, who has a hangar of automotive horrors.

8.00 A rare 1972 Yamaha TX500.

8.30 The lads visit Martin in Worcestershire and find a Lister D Stationary Engine.

9.00 The Repair Shop Electronics expert Mark and bookbinder Chris are tasked with fixing up a radio hidden inside a book.

10.00 The crafting experts resuscitate a worn-out suitcase from Ukraine.

11.00 Aussie Gold Hunters As time runs out, the Poseidon Crew calls in a trusted ally.

12 midnight Outback Crystal Hunters: double bill 2.00am Combat Dealers: Second World War British RAF gear 3.00—5.00am How It’s Made

8.00am Friends (AD) 10.00 Car Pound Cops 11.00 Rogue Claimers: five editions 4.00pm FILM The Count of Monte Cristo HHH Period adventure starring Jim Caviezel 6.40pm FILM Stargate HHHH Sci-fi adventure starring Kurt Russell and James Spader. The top brass in the US Government suspects that a structure discovered in Egypt could be a teleportation device. Review p47. 9.00 FILM Prometheus HHHH Sci-fi horror with Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender. A group of scientists embark on a mission to a planet millions of miles away that could hold the key to civilisation on Earth. Review p77. 11.30 FILM Signs HHH Sci-fi fantasy thriller starring Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix. A farmer suspect that an alien lifeform is preparing to reveal itself. Review page 47. 1.40am Piers Morgan: Uncensored 3.25 Friends (AD) 3.45—4.00am Entertainment News

12.05am First Dates: two editions (SL) (AD) 2.15 Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 4.05—6.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL) 6.00am Border Patrol 8.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line 10.00 Nothing to Declare UK 12 noon Caught on Dashcam 2.00pm Caught Red Handed 4.00 New series. Deep Dive Australia: an in-depth look at the marine life of Australia First shown on Sky Nature 5.00 New series. Deep Dive North America: biologist Lizzie Daly explores Alaskan wildlife First shown on Sky Nature 6.00pm Reef Wrecks: shipwrecks and the ecosystems they support 7.00 New series. Coral City: marine life, seascapes, and animal behaviours of the Great Barrier Reef First shown on Sky Nature 8.00 Caught on Dashcam 9.00 FILM The Last Stop in Yuma County HHH Crime drama starring Jim Cummings 11.00 Caught on Dashcam: two editions 1.00am Killer in My Village 2.00 Motorway Patrol: double bill 4.00—6.00am Border Patrol

9.00am Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders: three back-to-back editions (AD) 12 noon FILM Black Horse Canyon HH Western starring Joel McCrea 1.45pm FILM The Dam Busters 5 Classic Second World War drama starring Richard Todd (BW) 4.25 FILM They Who Dare HH Second World War drama starring Dirk Bogarde 6.40pm FILM The Glenn Miller Story HHHH Musical biographical drama starring James Stewart. When the young Glenn Miller leaves university, he finds work as a musician on Broadway. Eventually he forms his own band and begins searching for the sound that will make him a household name. Review p47.

9.00 Police: Night Shift 999 Sgt Gladwin stops a car that is being driven dangerously.

10.00 Cops Officers pursue an armed suspect and a hit-and-run driver’s truck catches fire. 10.25 The Air Unit and K-9 “Buddy” help capture a burglary suspect.

11.25 The X-Files A series of mysterious deaths may have been the work of killer cockroaches.

12.25am The X-Files: three further episodes 2.50 Police Interceptors: Taking Down the Shoplifting Gangs 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

9.00am Murder, She Wrote (AD)

7.00pm World War II: Secrets from Above The story of the Battle of the Atlantic. (AD)

8.00 New. Battlefront: WWII Road to Victory How the development of the B-17 bomber enabled Allied strategic bombing.

8.30 New. A look at German U-boats — the deadliest threat to Allied Atlantic convoys.

9.00 D-Day: Invasion The events of 6 June 1944, when more than 150,000 troops took part in the largest amphibious invasion in history.

10.00 D-Day: Victory Chronicling the events of 6 June 1944, from 7.30am onward.

10.55 Three Days in June: the Story of the D-Day Forecast How the launch of D-Day was determined by Maureen Sweeney’s work at a remote weather station in Ireland. 12.05—4.00am Wentworth Prison (AD)

SATURDAY FREEVIEW & FILMS

5.35am Paw Patrol 5.45 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 6.00 Peppa Pig: double bill 6.10 Milkshake! Monkey

6.15 Milo 6.25 Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! 6.35 Fireman Sam 6.45 The Adventures of Paddington 6.55 Tim Rex in Space 7.05 Pip and Posy

7.20 Peppa Pig: double bill 7.35 Paw Patrol 8.10 Animal Care Club 8.25 New series. The Smurfs 8.35 The Creature Cases 8.50—9.05am SpongeBob SquarePants

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6.00am Colourblocks 6.05 Puffin Rock

6.15 Bing 6.20 Love Monster 6.30 Piggy Builders 6.40 Vegesaurs 6.45 Roots and Fruits 6.55 Mojo Swoptops

7.05 Chuggington: Tales from the Rails

7.15 Supertato 7.25 Bing 7.40 Hey Duggee 7.55 Go Jetters 8.10 Peter Rabbit 8.20 Octonauts 8.35 Mojo Swoptops 8.45 New series. Football Fantastics: Elvis is torn between staying in goal or playing outfield. He excels at both but misses goalkeeping. Lucy aims to be the first to nutmeg Georgie, who has never been nutmegged before 9.00 Something Special: We’re All Friends 9.20 Bluey 9.35 Hey Duggee 9.50 Zog 10.05 Piripenguins 10.15 Rafi the Wishing Wizard 10.25 The Weasy Family 10.30 Vegesaurs 10.35 Spidey and His Amazing Friends 11.00

Octonauts: above and Beyond 11.10 Stan Can 11.20 Supertato 11.30 Talking

Tom Heroes: Suddenly Super 11.40 Small Potatoes 11.45 Monster Makes

12 noon Big Cook Little Cook 12.20pm Let’s Go for a Walk 12.35 Balamory 12.50 Hey Duggee 1.05 Octonauts 1.15 Vida the Vet 1.25 Go Jetters 1.40 Rafi the Wishing Wizard 1.45 Yukee 1.55 Froglets 2.00 Something Special 2.20 Balamory 2.35 Vegesaurs 2.40 What’s in Your Plant Pot? 2.50 Our Family

3.05 Stan Can 3.10 The Game Catchers

3.20 Numberblocks 3.25 Colourblocks

3.30 Monster Makes 3.45 Froglets 3.50 Get Set Galactic 4.15 Hey Duggee’s Squirrel Club 4.20 Tiny Tunes 4.30 Vegesaurs 4.35 Nick Cope’s Popcast

4.40 Vida the Vet 4.50 Zog 5.00 Rafi the Wishing Wizard 5.10 Bluey 5.20

Nikhil & Jay 5.30 Sarah & Duck 5.40

Charlie and Lola 5.50 Moon and Me

6.10pm BeddyByes 6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm

CBeebies Bedtime Stories: Orlando Bloom reads We Are Together

CBeebies Freeview 202 Freely 352 Freesat 601 Sky 608 Virgin 702

CBBC 201

7.00am Shaun the Sheep: Fleece Navidad 7.10 Danger Mouse 7.20 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 7.35 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45 New. Newsround: topical news magazine for children 7.55 SpongeBob SquarePants

8.05 Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.15

Sketchy Comedy 8.20 Duck & Frog

8.35 New. Counterfeit Cat: Max and Gark meet virtual versions of themselves 8.50 Bro’s

Are You Being Served?

7.00pm Great TV Holiday vibes

6.10am The Bill 1.00pm 999 Rescue Squad: six back-to-back editions

6.00pm 999 Rescue Squad A truck driver is trapped in his crushed cab after a motorway crash.

7.00 First Responders A farmer is trapped under his rolled quad and a stroke patient needs urgent help. 8.00 A motorbike crash leaves a man in a critical condition and a five-year-old fights an asthma attack.

9.00 Ghosts 4/7 Series 2. Mike makes a discovery among some old relics in the garden. (AD)

9.40 5/7. Alison goes out for the night, leaving Mike alone in the house — with the ghosts. (AD) 10.20 6/7. As the big day arrives at Button House, freak weather looks set to disrupt everyone’s plans. (AD)

11.00 The Catherine Tate Show Nan is introduced to her grandson’s girlfriend. Lauren gets a tattoo. (AD) 11.40 Elaine seeks true love. (AD)

12.20am Mouthy schoolgirl Lauren questions her teacher’s sexuality. (AD) 1.00—3.00am Absolutely Fabulous

6.00am Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

8.00 The Pioneer Woman 11.00 Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen 12 noon Jamie’s Money Saving Meals: double bill. A paella with chicken thighs, spicy chorizo and prawns, then a Mexican omelette 1.00pm James Martin’s Islands to Highlands 3.00 Rachel Allen’s Everyday Kitchen 8.00 Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen: chef Tommy Banks joins Prue, cooking home-reared hogget with faggots, greens and pesto 9.00 New. Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: Four editions. Guy Fieri is savouring signature catfish in North Carolina 9.30 New Amped-up pork tacos California 10.00 New. Lamb curry in North Carolina 10.30 New. Guy continues his search for the best cheap eateries 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: double bill. A sausage café in Kentucky 11.30 Guy samples Guinness beef stew in Florida 12 midnight—3.00am Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: six further editions

8.00am as 6pm 9.20 as 7.15pm

10.30 as 8.25pm 11.45 as 9.35pm

1.00pm Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 1.40 Jungle War

6.00pm Vichy and the Nazis: a Deal with the Devil A look at the collaboration between the Vichy regime and the Nazis in the 1940s.

7.15 Ambassadors in Berlin: the Whistleblowers of WWII The diplomats who tried to point out the dangers of the Nazi Party in 1933.

8.25 Peleliu: WWII’s Most Well-Preserved Battlefield The impact of the war on the island.

9.35 Village of Death: Oradoursur-Glane 1944 The German invasion of the French village, during which 643 civilians were killed.

10.50 Women of World War II: the Untold Stories American women involved in the conflict. 12 midnight as 6pm 1.20—2.00am Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands

8.00am Air Rescue 8.30 Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye 11.30 Lost Letter Mysteries: Truth be Told: Oliver has issues when his father comes to visit 1.20pm Picture Perfect Mysteries: Newlywed and Dead 3.15 Picture Perfect Mysteries: Dead over Diamonds 5.10 Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death 7.05pm The Chronicle Mysteries: Deep End When a man’s body is discovered in a pond, his wife finds herself involved in a complex trial. 9.00 True Justice HH A law student has to find the real killer to clear her brother of murder in this mystery thriller. Katherine McNamara (2024) 10.55 Martha’s Vineyard Mysteries: Poisoned in Paradise A waitress is found dead and a mysterious deposit appears in Zee’s bank account. Jesse Metcalfe stars. 12.50am Ex-Wife Killer HH A man is caught between two wives in this nicely restrained thriller. Marguerite Moreau (2017) 2.30 Too Close to Home: the Baby Kidnapper HH A new mother faces danger from someone in her past. Linsey Godfrey, Alicia Leigh Willis (2018) 4.00—4.50am Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

6.00am Sherlock Holmes (BW)

7.00 The Fenn Street Gang 8.00 The Lovers 8.30 Press Gang 9.00 The Gaffer 10.00 Doctor at Large 10.30 Space 1999 11.35 Two’s Company

12.35pm Mother’s Ruin 1.05 Second Thoughts 2.05 The Champions 3.05 The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs 3.35 Father Brown 4.35 The Fenn Street Gang 5.35 Agony 6.05 Mother’s Ruin 6.35 The Gaffer 7.05 The Gaffer 7.35 Doctor at Large 8.05 Second Thoughts 9.05 Riders 10.15 Hot Girls for Men Only 11.05 FILM Night of the Living Dead 5

Classic horror directed by George A Romero and starring Judith O’Dea (BW)

12.50am Stereo Underground 1.50

We Had One of Those 2.00 Rik Mayall Presents 3.00 The Champions: Sharron disappears 4.00 Bubblegum and Cheese 5.00—6.00am Stereo Underground

8.00am Highway to Heaven 9.00 Little House on the Prairie 7.00pm FILM Are You Being Served? H Comedy starring Mollie Sugden and John Inman. The staff of Grace Brothers department store go on holiday 9.00 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: drama starring Colin Firth and Robert Urquhart. A mutilated body is found on the moor and the landowner becomes obsessed with finding the beast responsible 12.10am FILM The Bounty HHHH Historical drama starring Mel Gibson. In 1787, William Bligh and his crew set sail for Tahiti, but the journey ends in mutiny when the pleasures of the island prove too tempting for the crew 3.00—4.50am Highway to Heaven

7.00am Young Sheldon 10.00 Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage: double bill. Mandy tries to make things right with Pastor Jeff, then Georgie’s plan to make new clients backfires 11.00 The Big Bang Theory: twenty back-to-back episodes (AD) 9.00pm Dr Pimple Popper: four editions. Brent has a tricep bump that could be intertwined in his muscle 10.00 A mysterious bump on James’s cheek bleeds often 11.00 Katherine’s large ear cluster puts her neighbourhood watch job at risk 12 midnight Shane wants to get a lump removed from his back

1.00am Young Sheldon: double bill 2.00 My 600lb Life: Latonya’s weight has made her almost immobile 4.00— 6.00am Curvy Brides Boutique (AD)

9.00am Abandoned Engineering (AD) 5.00pm The Two Ronnies 6.55 The Two Ronnies: five episodes. The duo have fun in spoof adventure Tinker Tailor Smiley Doyle 8.00 Sketches include Send in the Clones 9.10 With Barbara Dickson and Debbie Arnold 10.20 Featuring An Appeal on Behalf of the Indecisive 11.20 With music by Elaine Paige 12 midnight The Two Ronnies 5.00—6.00am Abandoned Engineering: Tskaltubo in Georgia (AD)

8.05am On the Buses (BW) 9.10 Man about the House 1.20pm Rising Damp 4.50 Birds of a Feather 6.20 Birds of a Feather 7.55 Minder: Arthur is persuaded to buy 2,000 tickets for an England v Scotland football match 9.00 Benidorm: Sam gets free tickets for the dinosaur park 9.55 Shameless: Shane’s music festival plans are thrown into jeopardy 10.55 Man about the House: Mrs Roper gives Robin dancing lessons 11.30 Mind Your Language: when the term begins, Jeremy is surprised to find many of his new students appear strangely familiar 12 midnight Benidorm 12.55am Minder 2.00 Duty Free 2.25 Man about the House 2.50 Kenny Everett Video Cassette 3.15 That’s 60s: Best Music Live! 4.00–5.00am Nearest and Dearest

6.00am Storage Wars Canada 8.20 The UnXplained with William Shatner 10.10 World’s Most Unexplained 12.05pm The Proof Is Out There 3.05 What on Earth? 6.00pm Secrets of the Lost Liners 8.00 Hazardous History with Henry Winkler 9.00 Hitler’s Handmaidens: the women who trained Hitler in the methods of high society 10.00 Hitler’s Secret Sex Life 11.00 Weird Britain 1.00am The Proof Is Out There 2.00—6.00am Evidence of the Unexplained

9.10am Around the World in 80 Days 11.20 The Monuments Men HH Affectionate wartime caper. George Clooney, Matt Damon (2013, 12) 12.20pm Showdown HHH Escaped convicts Audie Murphy and Charles Drake become involved in a robbery in this gritty western. (1963) 2.10 Union Pacific HHH Epic railroad tale from Cecil B DeMille, with Barbara Stanwyck as a tomboy postmistress. (1939, U) 5.05 Mercenary for Justice H Action thriller. Steven Seagal (2006, 18) 7.05pm End of a Gun HH Security guard Steven Seagal gets mixed up in a bunch of ludicrous trouble. (2016, 15) 9.00 The Expendables 3 HHH Wisecracking, starry “geriaction” thriller led by Sly Stallone. See review p107. Mel Gibson, Jason Statham (2014, 12) 11.35 Death Wish HHH Bleak, violent, entertaining reboot of the urban vigilante thriller from goremeister Eli Roth. Bruce Willis (2017, 15) 1.55am Dragon Ball Super 2.55 Coast Guard Alaska 3.40 Firequake HH Long-winded sci-fi thriller. Alexandra Paul (2014, 12) 5.15—5.40am Air Rescue

7.00am The Chase (AD) 9.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 11.00 Blockbusters 12 noon Celebrity Catchphrase 1.00pm Tenable 2.00 Bridge of Lies (AD) 3.00 The Family Chase 4.00 The Chase (AD) 5.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 7.00 The Chase 9.00 The Chase Celebrity

6.00am Westminster Hall 11.00 PMQs 11.35 Scottish FMQs 12.35pm Welsh FMQs 1.25 NI Assembly 2.10 House of Commons 2.55 Lords 3.40 Scottish Parliament 4.25 Senedd Cymru 5.15 NI Assembly 6.00 Select Committees 12.05am PMQs (SL) 12.40 Scottish FMQs (SL) 1.40 Welsh FMQs (SL) 2.30 Defence (SL) 3.30 Energy Security and Net Zero (SL) 4.30 NI Office (SL) 5.00—6.00am House of Commons (SL)

8.10am Finding Santa HH Cute romance. (2017) 10.05 Oh Christmas Tree HH Predictable romance. (2013) 12 noon It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas HH Fun romcom. (2019) 1.50pm Christmas Comes Home HH Romance (2020) 3.45 Fixing Up Christmas HH A CEO and a party planner bond while preparing a big festive bash. Natalie Dreyfuss (2021) 5.40

7.05am i As 6.20pm 8.50 Honey

Don’t! HHH Pulpy black comedy

Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza (2025, 15) 10.30

We Bury the Dead HHH Blend of apocalypse drama and zombie thriller.

Daisy Ridley (2024, 15) 12.15pm As 10pm

2.05 As 8pm 4.05 The Running Man HHH Big-budget remake of the Stephen King story. Glen Powell (2025, 15) 6.20pm i Sisu: Road to Revenge HHH Queasily visceral but inventive wartime action sequel. Jorma Tommila, Stephen Lang (2025, 15) 8.00 Dead Man’s Wire HHHH Gripping kidnap drama that sees a businessman take his corrupt broker hostage. Review p34. (2025, 15) 10.00 Fuze HHH Bank robbers take advantage of an unexploded bomb in this effectively twisty thriller. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James (2025, 15) 11.40 The Bride! HHH Bold if uneven riff on the Frankenstein legend. Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale (2025, 15) 1.50am One Last Deal HHH Drama. Danny Dyer (2026, 18) 3.25 The Plague HHH Powerful and unsettling coming-of-age drama. Everett Blunck, Joel Edgerton (2025, 15) 5.10—7.00am As 8pm

11.00am D-Day the Sixth of June

HHH Showing to mark the anniversary of D-Day, this stirring romance stars Robert Taylor as the American serviceman recalling his affair with an Englishwoman around the time of the Normandy landings in 1944. Richard Todd, Dana Wynter (1956, PG) (S)

1.10pm The Longest Day HHHH

Epic dramatic overview of the D-Day landings that delivers the big picture in spectacular fashion thanks to a massive all-star cast that includes John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and Henry Fonda. (1962, PG) (S) (AD)

4.45 Spies in Disguise HHH

Charming animated comedy about a secret agent (Will Smith) who inadvertently gets turned into a pigeon. Tom Holland, Ben Mendelsohn (2018, PG) (S)

6.50pm Sister Act HHHH

Irreverent comedy about a brassy lounge singer who hides out in a convent after witnessing a murder.

Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith (1992, PG) (S) (AD)

9.00 Django Unchained HHHH Quentin Tarantino’s audacious western mash-up stars

Jamie Foxx as the slave-turnedbounty hunter on a mission to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio (2012, 18) (S) (AD)

12.20—3.00am The Entity HHH

7.00am The Six Million Dollar Man: five episodes 12 noon Troy: the Odyssey H Fantasy adventure. Dylan Vox (2017, 15) 2.00pm Two Rode Together HHH Well-cast John Ford western. James Stewart (1961, PG) 4.05 Shalako HH Slow-moving but oddly watchable western. Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot (1968, PG) 6.10pm The Gambler, the Girl and the Gunslinger HH Insubstantial comedy western. Dean Cain (2009) 8.00 The Twilight Zone A dancer confined to bed has a recurring dream.

8.30 A jetliner crew travels in time.

9.00 Uncommon Valor HHH Gene Hackman leads a platoon into Laos to find his missing son in this gung-ho action drama. (1983, 15) 11.10 Drop Zone HHH Implausible but enjoyable thriller in which a US marshal hunts a gang of skydiving crooks. Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey (1994, 15) 1.15am Lucky Number Slevin HHH Convoluted thriller in which Josh Hartnett is caught up in a gang war. (2006, 18) 3.25—5.15am A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die HHH Spaghetti western. James Coburn (1972)

Atmospheric horror in which a young widow is repeatedly assaulted by an evil spirit. Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa (1981, 18) (S)

9.00am The Twilight Zone 10.00 Andromeda: five episodes 3.00pm The Day of the Triffids HH Uneven but often tense adaptation of John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel. Howard Keel (1962, 15) 5.00 Wild Horses HHH Western drama with Kenny Rogers as a bored former rodeo star who longs to return to the good ol’ days. (1985, PG) 7.00 Princess of Mars HH Erratic sci-fi mockbuster take on Edgar Rice Burroughs. Antonio Sabàto Jr, Traci Lords (2009) 9.00 Internal Affairs HHHH Investigator Andy Garcia is out to prove police officer Richard Gere is corrupt in this gripping thriller. (1990, 18) 11.25 We Still Steal the Old Way HH Violent crime drama about an ageing gang who attempt to break a friend out of prison. Ian Ogilvy (2017, 18) 1.25am The Golem HHH Gory period horror that sees a grief-stricken mother summon a violent protector to defend her community. Hani Furstenberg (2018, 15) 3.20 The Poseidon Adventure 5.00—6.00am The Twilight Zone

6.00am Jackpot HH An ex-con plans a nightclub heist in this crime drama. William Hartnell (1960) (S) 7.20 Runaround Children’s game show. 7.50 Legend of the Hidden City TV drama. 8.25 The Adventures of Sir Lancelot TV adventure. (S) 9.00 Saturday Morning Pictures Classic serials. (S) 12 noon Bela Lugosi

Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla H Inept comedy horror B-movie. (1952) (S)

1.30pm Busy Bodies Laurel and Hardy short. (S) 1.55 Jigsaw HHH Satisfying murder mystery set in Brighton, starring Jack Warner as a detective. (1962, PG) (S) 4.00 Whiplash TV western. (S) 4.35 Mr Denning Drives North HHH Genteel drama in which John Mills accidentally bumps off his daughter’s lover. Phyllis Calvert (1951, 12)

6.25pm Dick Turpin A boy posing as Turpin robs the man himself. (S) 7.00 Maigret A woman is found dead near a canal. (S) 8.00 The Duchess of Duke Street

A special evening ends in scandal. (S) 9.05 The Curse of Frankenstein HHHH Peter Cushing’s mad doctor creates life in this seminal Hammer horror. Review p77. (1957, 12) (S)

10.45 Tales of Frankenstein Pilot episode for an unmade series. (S) 11.20 Fortean TV A woman who claims to be possessed by a spirit. 11.55 One Step Beyond A woman has recurring nightmares. (S)

12.30am Eurotrash An interview with photographer Jean Paul Goude. 1.05 Satan’s Slave HHH Michael Gough turns in a typically grandstanding performance in cult director Norman J Warren’s lurid horror. Candace Glendenning (1976, 18) (S) 3.00 The Veil TV drama. (S) 3.30 The Starlost: the Invasion TV sci-fi. 4.35 The Green Hornet Strikes Again! Adventure. (S) 5.00 The Adventures of Sir Lancelot TV adventure. (S) 5.30—6.00am Honey West TV crime drama.

SATURDAY

FILM REVIEWS

Great Expectations 5

10.20am-12.15pm

BBC Two g

PERIOD DRAMA David Lean’s adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel is a masterpiece. It’s a carefully pruned version of the book that excises entire characters but retains Dickens’s magical spirit as it tells the tale of orphaned Pip (played as an adult by John Mills) who comes into an unexpected fortune. From the opening sequence, when the young Pip encounters escaped convict Magwitch (Finlay Currie), through to his love for Estella (played by Jean Simmons as a child and Valerie Hobson as an adult), this is superlative film-making from one of Britain’s greatest directors. ANDREW COLLINS (UK 1946, BW, HD)

The Wooden Horse HHH

12.15-1.55pm BBC Two y

WAR DRAMA This take on a real Second World War story sees PoWs using a vaulting horse to hide their getaway tunnel. Directed by former documentary-maker Jack Lee (A Town like Alice), the film’s authenticity is reinforced by a fine cast led by Leo Genn and David Tomlinson. The action really picks up outside the camp, as the escapees make for the coast. DAVID PARKINSON (UK 1950, BW, HD)

Ice Station Zebra HHH

1.55-4.15pm BBC Two y ADVENTURE Based on the novel by Alistair MacLean, this Cold War yarn sees a polar outpost become a magnet for Russian and US forces as they race after some satellite photographs. The stiff action thaws when Patrick McGoohan’s British agent arrives on the scene, stirring Rock Hudson out of his cryogenic slumber. TOM HUTCHINSON (US 1968, HD)

Stargate HHHH

6.40-9.00pm 5 Star g

SCI-FI ADVENTURE Aliens colonised ancient Egypt via a space-time portal, according to this enjoyable cosmic tale. James Spader is great as the code-cracking archaeologist who joins soldier Kurt Russell

focuses on life in a small Alpine village at the tail-end of the Second World War. It follows the routines of a family of seven, headed by patriarch Cesare (Tommaso Ragno). Winner of the Grand Jury prize at the Venice film festival, it’s a finely tuned drama with astounding vistas.

JAMES MOTTRAM (It/Fr/Bel 2024, sexual references, nudity, HD)

Blade Runner 2049

5

10.20pm-12.50am

BBC One j

SCI-FI THRILLER Dune

director Denis Villeneuve’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic is a real achievement. Ryan Gosling’s droid officer investigates the existence of a replicant child, only to discover a link to missing cop Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford). Villeneuve blends epic scale with poignant questions about what it is to be human.

TOM FOLLEY (US/UK/Can 2017, violence, swearing, nudity, HD)

Signs HHH

11.30pm-1.40am 5 Star h

to fight a galactic tyrant. The film evokes the feel of 1940s serials even as director Roland Emmerich piles on the effects. ALAN JONES (US/Fr 1994, may be edited for content, HD)

The Glenn Miller Story HHHH

6.40-9.00pm 5 Action y

MUSICAL BIOPIC This drama about the legendary band leader is one of the most fondly remembered collaborations between director Anthony Mann and star James Stewart. Whether struggling to find his signature style of swing, enjoying the benefits of fame or romancing June Allyson, Stewart is perfect for the role. DP (US 1953, HD)

Bohemian Rhapsody

HHH 9.00-11.35pm C4 h

MUSICAL BIOPIC The success of this story of rock royalty Queen is down to Rami Malek’s Oscar-winning turn as Freddie Mercury, the former airport baggage handler who fronted one of the world’s biggest bands. The film really comes into its own when re-creating Queen’s live shows. JAMIE HEALY (US/UK 2018, swearing, discriminatory language, HD) i Vermiglio HHHH 9.20-11.10pm BBC Four j PERIOD DRAMA This

from Italy

SCI-FI THRILLER Mel Gibson stars in director M Night Shyamalan’s offbeat tale as a farmer who discovers crop circles in his wheat field, leading him to believe that an alien invasion is imminent. The film loses its way in the final act, but credible performances combine with a spooky ambience for an admirably original work. JASON CARO (US 2002, violence, some swearing, HD)

BlackBerry HHHH 11.35pm-1.45am C4 j

COMEDY DRAMA The rapid rise and fall of mobile-phone manufacturer BlackBerry is compellingly chronicled in this darkly humorous truelife drama. Jay Baruchel and Matt Johnson are good value as the tech wizards and Glenn Howerton plays their fearsome executive in a cautionary tale that’s more akin to The Big Short than The Social Network MAX

COPEMAN (Can 2023, swearing, HD)

Taken 2 HHH 11.40pm-1.25am ITV1 j

ACTION DRAMA This sequel hardly deviates from the successful formula of the first film. The only twist this time is that it’s former CIA agent Liam Neeson himself who gets snatched along with his ex-wife (Famke Janssen), leaving it to their daughter (Maggie Grace) to free them. The action moves along nicely under director Olivier Megaton. DAVE ALDRIDGE (Fr 2012, violence, swearing, HD)

SATURDAY SATELLITE, CABLE & SPORT

Boxing 7.00pm Cruiserweight Chris Billam-Smith competes

6.00am Hawaii Five-0 9.00 Africa’s Hunters (AD) 12 noon The Simpsons

3.00pm La Brea 1/10 Series 1

A sinkhole opens in Los Angeles and people find themselves trapped in a mysterious land. (AD)

4.00 2/10. With Josh’s life on the line, Eve traverses dangerous wilderness to try to save him. (AD)

5.00 New. Formula One Action from the Monaco Grand Prix, as the battle for grid positions in the sixth round of the season takes place.

7.00 LIVE Boxing Coverage of the Zuffa cruiserweight bout between Chris Billam-Smith and Ryan Rozicki from Bournemouth International Centre. Billam-Smith is a former WBO world champion, and previously held the European, British and Commonwealth straps. Some of the most memorable nights of his career have taken place at this venue.

11.00 Escape from New York HHH

q Futuristic action thriller from John Carpenter, starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef and Donald Pleasence. The year is 1997 and the island of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. When the US president’s plane crashes into this lawless hell, new convict Snake Plissken is called in to help. (AD)

1.00am Chris Ramsey: Live from London 2.00 Brit Cops: Frontline Crime UK 3.00 Road Wars

5.00—6.00am Highway Patrol

6.00am Most Haunted 8.00 Home

Shopping 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise

4.00pm Star Trek: Voyager

22/26 Series 4. Chakotay finds himself unable to remember a woman he fell in love with the week before.

5.00 23/26. The crew becomes the subject of a legend told by an alien museum curator.

6.00 24/26. Paris and Kim face danger as they visit an unexplored planet in search of fuel supplies.

7.00 25/26. Seven of Nine’s views about social interaction undergo a change when she experiences human weakness.

8.00 26/26. The crew finds a prototype Starfleet vessel and a map suggesting there may be a quicker way back to the Alpha Quadrant.

9.00 The Walking Dead 12/16 Series 4. Beth forces a reserved Daryl to leave their camp and search for alcohol because she wants to have a drink before she dies.

10.00 13/16. Bob, Maggie and Sasha follow signs that supposedly lead to a sanctuary, while Daryl and Beth find a house with food in the cupboards.

11.00 14/16. Tyreese and Carol take refuge in a cabin in the woods, but they face growing problems with Lizzie’s troubling behaviour.

12 midnight Grimm 2.00am Britannia (AD) 5.00—6.00am Most Haunted: at Coalhouse Fort in Essex

True Detective: Night Country 10.00pm Peter Prior

6.00am Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets (AD) 8.00 Billions (AD) 10.15 Homicide: Life on the Street

3.15pm The Gilded Age 1/9 Series 1 Period drama set against the backdrop of the American Gilded Age, following the fortunes of a young woman who begins a new life in New York City. (AD) 4.45 2/9. Tom Raikes visits New York, Oscar van Rhijn homes in on Gladys Russell and drama rips through a charity bazaar. (AD) 5.45 3/9. An unfortunate development finds George’s new rail station under threat. (AD) 6.50 4/9. George agrees to help Bertha, and a visit has an impact on the staff of Russell House. (AD)

7.55 5/9. Bertha, Marian and Aurora visit Dansville. (AD)

9.00 The Miniature Wife 9/10 Time rewinds to Les and Lindy’s wedding day 20 years earlier.

10.00 True Detective: Night Country 5/6 Series 4. Prior digs into the links between Tsalal and mining company Silver Sky. (AD)

11.15 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 1/6. Fantasy prequel to Game of Thrones, starring Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell. (AD)

12.05am A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: two further episodes (AD)

1.25 Homicide: Life on the Street 4.10—6.00am The Guest Wing (AD)

Comedy

Hope Springs 10.45pm Recapturing the old magic

8.00am Will & Grace (AD) 10.30 Avenue 5 (AD) 11.45 Two Weeks to Live (AD) 1.30pm Community

4.00 Will & Grace: four episodes (AD)

6.00pm Will & Grace 1/18 Series 10. Jack’s attempts to look younger end in disaster. (AD)

6.30 The Office US 1/25 Series 9 Grace has a run-in with a man she follows on Twitter.

7.00 2/25. Jim and Pam receive an invitation to Roy’s wedding.

7.30 3/25. Andy learns he may be a distant relative of Michelle Obama.

8.00 4/25. Dwight rents a temporary work space after Jim convinces him that the building is unsafe.

8.30 5/25. Andy invites his former college a cappella group Here Comes Treble to perform for the staff.

9.00 Rob Beckett: Giraffe A stand-up show by the comedian at the London Palladium.

10.45 Hope Springs HHH q Romantic comedy drama starring Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell and Meryl Streep. Kay and Arnold Soames have been married for over 30 years but are unable to communicate. So when Kay reads a self-help book by Dr Feld, she decides to enrol them both in a week-long counselling session.

12.35am Kevin Hart: Reality Check: a stand-up special 1.45 Upright (AD) 4.00—5.00am Sort Of (AD)

Red Dwarf 10.00pm Rimmer, Kochanski and Lister Hudson and Rex 7.00pm Drowned spirits and secrets

7.30am dinnerladies diaries

8.20 Only Fools and Horses (AD)

4.25pm Only Fools and Horses Del puts the teachings of a self-help book into practice and the Trotters’ cash flow sinks to an all-time low.

5.45 An old watch promises to hold the key to the Trotters’ fortunes, but there’s a nasty shock in store. (AD)

7.05 Del and Rodney get the chance to leave Peckham behind for a holiday in the Florida sun — but it means Del leaving his newborn son behind. (AD)

8.10 The Trotters arrive in America and promptly suffer a setback when their camper van is burgled, and a Mafia gang targets Del. (AD)

10.00 Red Dwarf First episode

6 of the sci-fi comedy. After three million years in suspended animation, Dave Lister wakes to find he is the last surviving member of the human race. (AD)

10.40 The crew sees glimpses of the future, but while Rimmer gets a pleasant surprise, Lister is shocked to witness what appears to be his own violent death. See p41. (AD)

11.20 Harry Enfield and Chums Comedy sketches, with Harry as Il Postino Pat, and Dawn French as his beloved Signora Goggins. Also featuring the Self-Righteous Brothers and Kevin the Teenager. (AD) 12 midnight—4.00am Only Fools and Horses: triple bill (AD)

7.10am Murdoch Mysteries

10.00 Miss Scarlet and the Duke (AD) 12 noon Death in Paradise (AD) 1.00pm Father Brown (AD)

5.00 Death in Paradise: a coffee plantation owner is shot dead (AD)

6.00pm Saint-Pierre 7/10 Series 1 Arch and Fitz race against time to save a kidnapped flight attendant, and things get tense when one of their own is kidnapped next. (AD)

7.00 Hudson and Rex 4/8 Series 8 Rex sniffs out the secrets of the heirs to a distillery after the patriarch is drowned in his own spirits. (AD)

8.00 Allegiance 9/10 Series 1

A shooting thrusts Sabrina into the life of a community volunteer trying to curb the violence. (AD)

9.00 Death in Paradise 5/8 Series 8. Jack’s all set to enjoy his first Mahi Mahi celebration on the island when the festival queen is found stabbed on a small boat. (AD)

10.00 6/8. After another killing connected to the festival queen case, the team heads to nearby Rosalie Island to follow up a new lead. (AD)

11.00 Father Brown 8/10 Series 4 The priest is determined to find out why the body of a young man was taken from his graveyard. (AD) 12 midnight 9/10 Father Brown sets out to solve the murder of a local aeronautics magnate’s son. (AD) 1.00—4.00am Murdoch Mysteries

6.00am Bondi Rescue 8.00 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 9.00 UK Border Force 10.00 Caught on Dashcam 12 noon Caught Red Handed 2.00pm Nothing to Declare

6.00pm Nothing to Declare

Four editions of the fly-on-the-wall documentary accessing the world of security at Australia’s airports.

8.00 Caught on Dashcam Road disasters captured on video by drivers’ dashboard cameras.

9.00 Blue Bloods 19/20 Series 12 Erin is stalked by a man who was recently released from prison. Meanwhile, Jamie is caught driving under the influence. (AD)

10.00 Doc 18/22 Series 2. Amy and Michael take Katie on a road trip to her college orientation and decide hike a trail, on which they discover an injured man whose life hangs in the balance. (AD)

11.00 Chicago Fire 13/13 Series 12

Boden’s decision affects the race for deputy commissioner, while a tense call brings up painful memories for Carver and Damon. 12 midnight The Equalizer (AD)

1.00am The Good Doctor 2.00 New Watson 17/20 Series 2. Repeated tomorrow 9pm (AD) 3.00 Brit Cops: Rapid Response (AD) 4.00 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 5.00—6.00am Road Wars

6.00am Stop, Search, Seize (AD) 7.00 UK Border Force (AD) 8.00 Road Wars 9.00 Caught on Dashcam (AD) 10.00 Caught Red Handed 12 noon Forensics: Catching the Killer (AD) 1.00pm The Beverley Allitt Tapes (AD) 4.00 Murder Uncut (AD) 5.00 What the Killer Did Next (AD) 6.00 Killer in My Village 7.00 Forensics: Catching the Killer (AD) 9.00 Murder Next Door (AD) 10.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers: Robert Napper, known as the Plumstead Ripper 11.00 Killing Mum and Dad (AD) 12 midnight What the Killer Did Next (AD) 1.00am How I Caught the Killer (AD) 2.00 New The Vanishing of Debbie Griggs 4.00—6.00am Caught Red Handed

8.00am Friends (AD) 11.00 FILM The Angry Birds Movie HHH 12.50pm Bradley and Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad 1.50 Friends (AD) 8.00 Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel: Will Mellor guests 9.00 Lee Evans: Monsters 10.00 FILM White Men Can’t Jump HHHH Sports comedy drama starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson 12.15am Eight out of 10 Cats Uncut: two editions 1.55 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA 2.25 Al Murray: The Pub Landlord — Live at the Palladium 3.20 Modern Horror Stories 3.25 Impractical Jokers 3.50 Utopia 4.15—5.00am Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel

6.00am How Do Animals Do That? 9.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 12 noon Alaskan Bush People 5.00pm Sara Price: Chasing Dakar 6.00pm Deadliest Catch 7.00 The Woodland Workshop: woodworker Saf and stained-glass artist Aimee build a spectacular storage unit (AD) 8.00 Maine Cabin Masters 9.00 Naked and Afraid: two survivalists spend 21 days in the wilds of Botswana 10.00 In the Eye of the Storm: Chasers: a violent EF2 blows up a farm 11.00 Expedition Files: Josh Gates explores American history 12 midnight Conspiracies and Coverups 1.00am How the Universe Works 3.00—5.00am American Chopper (AD)

6.00am On the Case with Paula Zahn 8.55 Court Cam 3.40pm My Strange Arrest 5.00 Witness to Murder: Digital Evidence 6.00 The Real Murders of Atlanta: a naval reservist is gunned down in her car 7.00 The Real Murders of Orange County: a young mother is killed in her bed 8.00 Murder in the 21st: a peaceful town is rocked by the brutal murder of a young couple 9.00 Staged: Deadly Deception 10.00 Crime in Progress 11.00 Interview with a Killer 12 midnight Predator Hunters 1.00am Interrogation Raw 2.00 I Met My Murderer Online 3.00—6.00am On the Case with Paula Zahn: triple bill

8.00am Blowing Up History (AD) 10.00 How It’s Made 12 noon How Do They Do It? 2.00pm Truth behind the Moon Landing 4.00 Alien Highway 6.00 How It’s Made: four editions. Making lemon tarts 6.30 How traditional ropes are made 7.00 Making the world’s smallest car 7.30 Robotic medication dispensers 8.00 Paranormal Declassified 10.00 Curse of the Bermuda Triangle: double bill. Investigating a sea monster, then the disappearance of 306 US Navy crewmen 12 midnight In Search of Monsters 2.00am The Alaska Triangle: reports of a sea monster in Alaska 3.00 Alien Highway 4.00—6.00am How Do They Do It?

7.00am Expedition Unknown (AD) 9.00 Combat Dealers (AD)

Sky Documentaries Sky Nature

Bo66y 9.00pm The life and times of Bobby Moore Shark Squad 9.00pm Great White sharks off Guadeloupe

6.00am Discovering: Al Pacino (AD)

7.00 Discovering: Bill Murray (AD)

8.00 The Directors (AD) 9.00 MoviePass, MovieCrash (AD) 11.00 Laurel and Hardy: Their Lives and Magic (AD) 1.00pm After the Bite (AD)

2.45 My Icon: Thierry Henry (AD)

3.00 FILM McEnroe HHHH Tennis star John McEnroe takes us on a late-night walk through New York City, reflecting on his life and career 5.00pm Benetton Formula The history of the Formula One team led by Alessandro Benetton, told through the memories of its key members and archive footage.

7.00 Busby HH

q Football documentary about Manchester United’s hugely successful manager, Matt Busby. (AD)

9.00 Bo66y HHHH

q Portrait of footballer Bobby Moore, England’s finest defender and the country’s only World Cup-winning captain. Review page 97. (AD)

11.00 Lionesses: How Football Came Home The inside story of the England team’s triumph at the Women’s Euro 2022. (AD)

12.30am QPR: the Four Year Plan: an insight into the running of Queens Park Rangers (AD) 2.20 Stasi FC: chronicling the East German secret service’s control of BFC Dynamo 4.10—6.00am The Loneliest Whale: the Search for 52

6.00am Baby Animals 8.00 Battle of the Alphas (AD) 10.00 Coral City

12 noon Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit 1.00pm Wolves and Lions: Old Enemies 4.00 David Attenborough’s First Life

6.30pm David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive

The broadcaster presents a unique tour of the institution, in which some of the exhibits spring to life. (AD)

8.00 Jaguar Journals Lizzie Daly uses the latest technology to follow a group of jaguars in the Pantanal region of South America to gain insight into their daily lives.

9.00 Shark Squad Leading shark ecologist Mauricio Hoyos attempts a TV first as he attaches a camera to the dorsal fin of a Great White shark off Guadalupe Island.

10.00 Wild Dogs: Pack vs Pride Roaming with the pups of the Manzi and Kakumbi packs in South Luangwa, Zambia. (AD) 11.00 Julz runs into a lion-hyena showdown and Henry goes on a house call to the Kakumbi den, where a pup has gone missing from the Kakumbi den. (AD)

12 midnight Jaguar Journals 1.00am Shark Squad 2.00 New. High Life in the Dead Mountains: exploring the Totes Gebirge 3.00 New series Wild Science 4.00 Becoming Elephant: the Orphans of Reteti 5.00—6.00am Ocean Parks

SPORT

Sky Main Event

Sky 401 Virgin 501 EE 419/HD 439

6.00am Sky Sports News 7.00 Sky Sports

Breakfast 10.00 Test Cricket Bitesize

10.15 LIVE Test Cricket Coverage of the third day of the First Test in the three-match men’s series between England and New Zealand at Lord’s. 2.30pm LIVE Monaco Grand Prix Qualifying coverage (start 3.00). 4.00 LIVE Test Cricket Further coverage of the third day of the First Test in the three-match men’s series between England and New Zealand. 7.00 LIVE Boxing Chris Billam-Smith v Ryan Rozicki, a cruiserweight bout. 11.00 LIVE US Women’s Open Golf Coverage of day three of the Major from Riviera Country Club, California. 3.00—6.00am Sky Sports Catch Up

Sky Football

Sky 403 Virgin 503 EE 421/HD 441

6.00am Classic Play-Offs (AD) 9.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 10.00 Classic Play-Off Final (AD) 12 noon League Two Highlights 3.00pm League One Highlights 6.00 Championship Highlights 9.00 EFL: the Play-Offs at 40 (AD) 10.30 League Cup Highlights 11.30 EFL Trophy Football 12 midnight Classic League Cup Final (AD) 2.00am Scottish Premiership Football (AD) 3.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Championship Season Review (AD) 5.00—6.00am Classic Play-Offs (AD)

Sky Sports +

Sky 404 Virgin 504 EE 427/HD 447

6.00am Sky Sports News

7.00 Sky Sports Breakfast

8.00 LIVE Super Rugby A match from the southern hemisphere. 10.00 Sky Sports News

10.30 LIVE Super Rugby Another game from the southern hemisphere.

12.30pm Sports Saturday

2.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf Featured groups on day three of the Memorial Tournament from Dublin, Ohio. 5.30 LIVE Super League Catalans Dragons v Wigan Warriors from Stade Jean Bouin (kick-off 6.30).

Sky Premier League

Sky 402 Virgin 502 EE 420/HD 440 6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 7.00 Years 9.00 Review 2.00pm Netbusters 4.30 Stories 5.00 Review 11.00 Years 1.00am Retro 3.00 Greatest Games (AD) 4.00—6.00am Best Goals (AD)

Sky Cricket

Sky 405 Virgin 505 EE 422/HD 442

6.00am Test Cricket Highlights 10.00 Test Cricket Bitesize 10.15 LIVE Test Cricket England v New Zealand, coverage from day three of the First Test at Lord’s. 6.45pm LIVE T20 Blast Cricket Durham v Northamptonshire Steelbacks from Chester-le-Street. 10.30 Test Cricket Highlights 11.30 Best of the World T20 (AD) 12 midnight Test Cricket Bitesize 12.15am Best of the World T20 (AD) 12.30 International T20 Cricket 4.30 Best of the World T20 (AD) 5.00 Classic Women’s World Cup (AD) 5.30—6.00am Best of the World T20 (AD)

Sky Action

8.00am Air Crash Investigation (AD)

10.00 Inside Sydney Airport (AD) 12 noon Engineering by Catastrophe (AD) 1.00pm Air Crash Investigation (AD) 3.00 Construction Fails 5.00 Seconds from Disaster: a 1998 train disaster in Germany 6.00pm D-Day Revealed: Drain the Oceans (AD) 7.00 Eyewitness: D-Day: five D-Day heroes share their brave stories of the Normandy landings 8.00 Liberation: D-Day to Berlin (AD) 10.00 Tucci in Italy: Stanley immerses himself in the myths and mysteries of Sardinia (AD) 11.00 Amsterdam Central 24/7: the city hosts an electronic music festival 12 midnight Inside Melbourne Airport (AD) 2.00—5.00am Air Crash Investigation

8.00am Animal Fight Club 9.00 Critter Fixers: Country Vets 10.00 Secrets of the Zoo 11.00 The Incredible Dr Pol 1.00pm Wild Life: Resurrection Island 2.00 Birth of Europe 3.00 Ice Road Rescue 5.00 Snakes in the City: double bill. A forest cobra terrorises a shopping mall, then a deadly boomslang is seen on a train 7.00 Critter Fixers: Country Vets: the vets try to save a chicken 8.00 Pole to Pole with Will Smith 9.35 Queens: an orca family’s success relies on the experience of their 60-year-old matriarch 10.35 The Lakeshore Killers 11.35 Lawless Island: two editions 1.30am When Sharks Attack and Why 2.00 When Sharks Attack: two editions 4.00—5.00am Yukon Vet

6.00am History’s Greatest Aircraft 8.00 Kevin Costner’s The West 10.00 The Curse of Oak Island (AD) 11.00 Storage Wars 1.00pm World War II: Witness to War 2.00 Combat Ships: an appraisal of the dramatic D-Day story, 3.00 D-Day: 100 Days to Beat the Third Reich 5.00 Apocalypse D-Day: two editions

7.20 Digging for Britain: double bill. A monument that has been hidden for 2,000 years, then an investigation into the mystery surrounding Stonehenge 9.15 D-Day: 100 Days to Beat the Third Reich 11.15 Apocalypse D-Day 1.35am Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny 2.35 Strange Evidence 5.30—6.00am Chaos Uncut

8.00am My Cat from Hell (AD) 9.00 Crikey! It’s the Irwins 10.00 Lone Star Law 11.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 1.00pm Pit Bulls and Parolees (AD) 3.00 My Cat from Hell (AD) 5.00 Treehouse Masters 6.00 Preposterous Pets: a Texan cowboy who lets buffalo roam in his house 7.00 How Do Animals Do That?: double bill. Why slugs are so slimy, then why dogs tilt their heads 8.00 Tiger Shark King 9.00 Edge of Alaska: the battle for McCarthy wages on 10.00 Tanked 12 midnight Edge of Alaska 2.00am The Haunted 3.00 Tiger Shark King: the secret lives of tiger sharks 4.00—5.00am My Extreme Animal Phobia

8.45 My Icon: Keegan Hirst (AD) 9.00 Sky Sports Catch Up 12 midnight— 6.00am EFL Greatest Games (AD)

Sky Golf

Sky 406 Virgin 506 EE 423/HD 443

6.00am PGA Tour 10.00 Rose Ladies Series 11.00 US Women’s Open Golf

12 noon LIVE European Tour Golf Day three of the Dutch Open.

4.30pm LIVE PGA Tour Golf Day three of the Memorial Tournament. 11.00 LIVE US Women’s Open Golf Day three of the Major at Riviera Country Club in California.

3.00am PGA Tour Golf: the Memorial Tournament 4.00 School of Golf (AD)

5.00—6.00am US Women’s Open Golf

Sky Sports Mix

Sky 416 Virgin 511 EE 429/HD 449

2.30—4.45pm LIVE Netball Coverage of a Super League match.

5.00—7.00 LIVE Netball Action from another Super League game. 10.00—3.00am LIVE US Women’s Open Golf Day three of the Major at Riviera Country Club in California.

Premier Sports 1

Sky 419 Virgin 528

2.00—8.00pm LIVE United Rugby Championship The first semi-final; 5.00 The second semi-final. 8.00—10.00 LIVE Top 14 Rugby Union Coverage of a match from the French top-flight (kick-off 8.00).

TNT Sports 1

Sky 410 Virgin 521 EE 408/HD 430

5.00am LIVE AFL Coverage of North Melbourne Kangaroos v Fremantle Dockers (bounce-up 5.15). 8.00 Champions League Football (AD) 8.30 French Open Tennis 10.00 LIVE French Open Tennis The men’s doubles final in Paris.

12.30pm

TNT Sports 2

Sky 412 Virgin 510 EE 426/HD 446 6.00am NBA: Western Conference action 8.30 LIVE NRLCowboys v Dolphins; 10.35 Broncos v Titans. 12.35pm Women’s Super League 1.05 NBA 3.00 NFL 4.00 Super League 4.45 Rugby League 5.00 NBA on Fire 5.30 Boxing 6.30 The Gloves Are Off 7.00 LIVE Boxing Chris Billam-Smith v Ryan Rozicki, a cruiserweight bout. 11.00 Super League 11.15 Women’s Super League 11.30 Super League 12 midnight NFL Highlights (AD) 1.00am Super League 1.45 Rugby League 2.00 Super League 5.00—6.00am NFL Highlights (AD)

Sky F1

Sky 407 Virgin 507 EE 424/HD 444 9.40—10.40am LIVE Formula Three Monaco Grand Prix sprint race. 11.15 LIVE Monaco Grand Prix The third practice session. 1.10pm LIVE Formula Two Monaco Grand Prix sprint race (start 1.15). 2.15—5.00 LIVE Monaco Grand Prix Qualifying session (start 3.00). 5.30—6.30 LIVE IndyCar The Bommarito Automotive Group 500 first practice session in Illinois. 9.30—10.30 LIVE IndyCar The Bommarito Automotive Group 500 qualifying session (start 9.30). 1.00—3.00am LIVE IndyCar The Bommarito Automotive Group 500 second practice session in Illinois; 2.00 The final practice session.

Premier Sports 2

Sky 420 Virgin 529 7.30—9.30pm LIVE International Football USA v Germany, coverage of the friendly match (kick-off 7.30).

TNT Sports 3

1.15 Giro d’Italia 2.15 LIVE Giro d’Italia The eighth stage of the women’s event. 5.00 MLB Highlights

6.00 LIVE Major League Baseball Detroit Tigers v Seattle Mariners from Comerica Park (start 6.10).

TNT Sports 4

Nat Geo Wild

Geographic

SUNDAY

NATURE

Tiger Island 7.15pm BBC One Both episodes available on iPlayer

While making Tiger Island – in which we follow the perilous lives of Goma and Mala, two tiger mothers raising cubs in the western Nepalese jungle – cinematographer Anna Dimitriadis was often working in what she calls “unideal conditions for humans” –40 degrees and 90 per cent humidity, “Capturing that 30 seconds of something

DOCUMENTARY

The Mother of all Cons

9.00pm BBC Two

Full series available on iPlayer

So far this documentary series has only given us hints, suspicions and vague references to the alleged wrongdoing of Meghan, her mother Jean and the “fairy godmother” charity they set up for other children with terminal cancer.

Their frequent and lengthy trips to Disneyland do sound questionable (in 2015 a private jet flew them at low altitude across the Atlantic, costing around £130k) but there’s no solid evidence of fraud or financial mismanagement yet, nor does there seem any doubt that Meg was ill and on a ton of prescription drugs.

Meanwhile, two angry parents – Nick and Joanna – obsessively keep digging and things are about to become very unpleasant.

JANE RACKHAM

Goma cools off in western Nepal

amazing makes the hours and weeks of utter pain all worth it,” Dimitriadis says, as she and her colleagues Max Hug Williams and big cat scientist Dan O’Neill are aided by the latest drone technology, stabilised zoom lenses and remotely triggered cameras. The result is unprecedented insight into tigers’ previously hidden lives, which makes this

DRAMA Tip Toe

9.00pm C4 Full series: C4 streaming

We’re only at the halfway point of Russell T Davies’s disturbing and suspenseful series but we see at the start of this third episode how far and horribly matters will escalate between neighbours Leo and Clive. Recent events are replayed from Clive’s point of view, and David Morrissey gives a powerhouse performance as a troubled and dangerous-to-know homophobe.

We get a window into his disintegrating marriage and how he deals badly with the fact that his gay teenage son George has made free with the keys to next door.

Viewers will be urging Leo, “Call the police! Get your locks changed!” – just as his buddies do, but events move fast in a night of nasty discoveries for both Leo and Clive. More tomorrow. PATRICK MULKERN

COMEDY Mock the Week

9.00pm TLC

Catch up via Discovery+

latest, two-part dispatch from the BBC Natural History Unit thrilling and revelatory. With a male tiger arriving on the island, Goma and Mala and their cubs are in even more danger than usual. Here, we are closer to the action, red in tooth and claw, like never before. GARETH McLEAN

See feature: page 4

DRAMA Death Valley

9.15pm BBC One Full series: iPlayer

In a vote of confidence for this panel show revival, it’s being brought back early for a five-part series of summer specials promising to tackle the latest news stories including the “political chaos” and all the action of the World Cup. Politics and football arguably being the UK’s two biggest team sports.

Back in the host’s chair is Dara O Briain, with sidekick Rhys James on hand alongside a rotating cast of old MTW favourites like Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard, Ed Gamble and Sara Pascoe. As for the content of this first instalment, it’s anyone’s guess – episodes are filmed close to transmission to keep things topical. Even then, the way things are going they might be out of date on who’s prime minister. HUW FULLERTON

Having established its central dynamic in the first series, this second run has begun to probe the limits of John (Timothy Spall) and Janie’s (Gwyneth Keyworth) working relationship. That tension is brought into focus with the return of Janie’s estranged father Michael (Owen Teale), who walked out on his family years ago to join a commune. Janie sees him as feckless and unreliable; John, by contrast, believes he’s more misguided than malicious. Their uneasy reunion comes after a murder within Michael’s new-age community – prompting John to arrive on the scene in what he confidently describes as “practical farming wear”. Janie, however, has a different verdict: it’s more Toad of Toad Hall. DAVID BROWN

SUNDAY 7 JUNE

MUSIC

Later... with Jools Holland

10.00pm BBC Two Catch up: iPlayer

Among the debutantes tonight is Japanese/American Mitski, whose calming, emotional songwriting has struck a chord – her fanbase has been described as “cultish”. Also on for the first time are a pair of “indie” bands that this year’s Mercury Prize panel must be sniffing around.

Skintight outfit Westside Cowboy sound older than they look and have impressive live dynamics; Pigeon are an interesting hybrid of Ghanaian/dancehall-style vocals and electro-krautrock rhythms — based in Margate. GARY ROSE

DOCUMENTARY

Kevin Bridges: in Search of the Beautiful Game

10.30pm BBC One Catch up: iPlayer

An hour scarcely feels sufficient for an investigation of football’s grip over cultures around the world, but that is how long comedian Kevin Bridges has to showcase his travels to nations including Brazil and the USA, meeting players and fans to understand the contemporary relevance of the Beautiful Game.

Never fear, he won’t be neglecting his homeland – this year will see Scotland continuing their quest to progress from the group stages of the World Cup for the first time, albeit with Brazil and Morocco in their way, as they were for the Scots’ previous appearance at the tournament in 1998. GABRIEL TATE

FACTUAL Antiques Roadshow 8.15pm BBC One

TROPHIES

Fiona Bruce hosts a sports special

Even if you’re not a huge sports fan, you can still enjoy this one-off programme that visits famous venues such as Lord’s and Wimbledon, meets four gold medal winners to hear their Olympian stories as well as showing us sporting relics including a metal tennis racket, Nobby Stiles’s football shirt and the oldest-known written rules of cricket, dating back to 1727. Perhaps the most extraordinary report is the one concerning the Lost Lionesses. This female England team played in the unofficial World Cup in Mexico in 1971, having only played previously in front of a tiny home crowd. Shockingly, when they returned, they were suspended and rarely spoke about their experiences. JANE RACKHAM

FILM

i The Beautiful Game 111 h

3.35pm C4 Catch up via C4 streaming

qPremiering just before the Fifa version gets under way, this 2023 tale stars Bill Nighy (above) as the manager of an England football team made up of unhoused men. The feel-good drama may all seem fanciful, as the squad sets out to win their own World Cup in Rome. And yet the annual Homeless World Cup has been going (and growing) since 2003, when host team Austria beat England in the final. Last year’s tournament, won by Egypt, had 500 players from 48 nations, while a women’s competition was inaugurated in 2008. As for England, the team lost 6-5 to Mexico in the nail-biting 2024 final, so the bragging rights as far as the home nations are concerned lie with two-time winners Scotland. JEREMY ASPINALL Film reviews: p57

FILM i The Gentlemen 11 z 10.45pm ITV1 Catch up via ITVX

qGuy Ritchie’s 2020 crime comedy sees the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director on familiar if uneven ground. Luckily, he attracts a fun-loving cast, led by Matthew McConaughey as the drugs boss whose efforts to sell his empire attract all sorts of lowlife. Stealing the film, though, is Hugh Grant as tabloid hack Fletcher, who tells the whole rambling story as his pitch for a screenplay. Grant went full-on Cockney for his role, a world away from the posh romcom tones that made his name. You get the sense he was trying to amuse himself; while promoting the film, Grant described being on set as “long periods of boredom, dispersed with tiny moments of terror.”

TOM FOLLEY

Film reviews: page 57

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

9.00pm ITV1

Jeremy Clarkson (above) puts more hopefuls in the hot seat. Will anyone hit the jackpot?

Hudson and Rex

8.00pm U&Alibi

Catch up via Now

A contestant is found mauled to death in a reality show about wilderness survival.

The Assembly: More Unseen 10.00pm ITV1

The last in the series features further out-takes from the unfiltered interviews with Sir Stephen Fry, Nicola Sturgeon, Sir Lenny Henry, Anna Maxwell Martin, Aitch and Rylan.

Men’s Test Cricket

England v New Zealand

10.15am Sky ME/Cricket, highlights 7pm BBC Two

Coverage of day four of the first Test at Lord’s.

Tennis: French Open

1.30pm TNT Sports 1

The men’s singles final at Roland Garros, Paris.

Formula One: Monaco Grand Prix

12.30pm (starts 2pm) Sky Sports F1, 1pm Sky Sports Main Event

All the action from the streets of the principality.

SPORT HIGHLIGHTS

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SUNDAY MAIN CHANNELS

BBC One 6.00am Breakfast With Sarah Campbell and Ben Thompson. (S) (HD)

9.00 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (S) (HD)

10.00 Politics England Regional reports. (S) (HD)

10.30 Prayer and Reflection From St John’s Wood United Synagogue in north London. (R) (S) (HD)

11.00 Spirit Untamed HH Animation with the voice of qIsabela Merced. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review p57. Directors Elaine Bogan and Ennio Torresan (2021, U) (S) (HD) 12.20pm Zog and the Flying Doctors Animated sequel. From 2020. Watch now on iPlayer. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 12.45 Bargain Hunt In Herefordshire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.15 BBC News Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 1.30 Songs of Praise Sean Fletcher hears from presenter Simon Thomas in Cromer, Norfolk, on how love, loss and faith have shaped his life. (S) (HD)

2.05 Points of View Viewers’ comments. (S) (HD)

CONTACT email: pov@bbc.co.uk; telephone 0370 908 3199 40; or write to Points of View 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1DA

2.20 Escape to the Country Ginny Buckley helps a couple find a home in Dorset. (Revised repeat) (S) (HD) 3.00 The Americas 6/10. In Florida’s Crystal River, manatees gather to practise courtship. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

3.40 7/10. Exploring the Andes. Narrated by Tom Hanks. The whole series is in UHD on iPlayer. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

4.25—5.50 Shrek the Third HHH Animated fantasy qcomedy with the voice of Mike Myers. On iPlayer for 90 days. Review p57. Directors Chris Miller and Raman Hui (2007, U) (S) (AD) (HD) Also showing Friday 7.35pm BBC Three BBC Two 6.30am A to Z of TV Gardening Subjects starting with F. (R) (S) (HD)

7.15 Glorious Gardens from Above Christine Walkden flies over Oxfordshire in a balloon. (R) (S) (HD)

8.00 Countryfile A visit to the Balmoral Show in Lisburn. Shown last Sunday Signed rpt tomorrow 1.55am (S) (HD)

9.00 Landward Dougie Vipond helps a youth hostel warden in Glencoe. Shown last Thursday BBC Scotland (S) (HD)

9.30 Beechgrove Garden Calum Clunie plants up hanging baskets. Shown last Thursday BBC Scotland (S) (HD)

10.00 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites McFly singer Danny Jones faces his food heaven or hell. (S) (HD)

11.30 Mary Berry: Cook and Share Mary visits Bristol and serves up a prawn stir-fry. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

12 noon Andi Oliver’s Fabulous Feasts The cook organises an arts festival in Folkestone. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.00pm Cat on a Hot Tin Roof HHHH Drama q starring Elizabeth Taylor. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review p57. Director Richard Brooks (1958, 15) (S) (AD) (HD)

2.40—4.15 An Ideal Husband HHHH Comedy of q manners with Cate Blanchett. On iPlayer now. Review p57. Director Oliver Parker (1999, PG) (S) (AD) (HD)

ITV1

6.00am James Martin’s French Adventure The chef visits Arles. (R) (S) (HD)

6.50 James Martin’s Saturday Morning With guest Natasha Hamilton. Shown yesterday 10.30am (S) (HD)

8.25 Ainsley’s Fantastic Flavours 6/12 Series 3

Ainsley Harriott demonstrates spicy recipes. (S) (HD)

9.25 ITV News (S) (HD)

9.30 Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh Guests include Judy Parfitt and Brian Conley. (S) (HD)

11.30 Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen Guest Angela Griffin is treated to a Cambodian dish. (R) (S) (HD)

12.30pm Love Your Garden In Dudley. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.00 ITV News Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD)

1.15 Dr No 5 Spy adventure starring Sean qConnery as secret agent James Bond. Review page 57. Director Terence Young (1962, PG) (S) (AD) (HD)

3.25—4.25 Lingo Word game. (R) (S) (HD)

Channel 4 5.55am The King of Queens Three episodes. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.10 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

8.30 Frasier Triple bill of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Sunday Brunch With Adrian Lester, Sam C Wilson, Fearne Cotton and music from Talia Mar. (S) (HD)

1.00pm The Simpsons Three episodes. (R) (S) (AD)

2.30—3.35 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces

A man attempts to build a miniature canal. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

5.50pm BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

6.15 Countryfile

Joe Crowley, Margherita Taylor and Adam Henson explore the Isle of Wight. The island’s rare geology and southerly location have shaped a landscape rich in surprises. Includes Weather for the Week Ahead.

Series producer Becky Pratt; Series editor Mark Beech (S) (HD)

7.15 Tiger Island

6

1/2. In western Nepal, cinematographers, wildlife guides and a big cat scientist document the lives of tigers. Focusing on mothers Goma and Mala, the film looks at how these solitary animals are raising their young on an island full of dangers. Both episodes are available on iPlayer from today. See page 50.

Series producer Matthew Wright; Exec producer Roger Webb (S) (AD) (HD) See feature: page 4

8.15 Antiques Roadshow

6

The roadshow team present a special episode on the history of sport to coincide with the World Cup, celebrating both men’s and women’s football, rugby, cricket, tennis and the Olympics. See page 51.

Producer Christopher Boreham; Series editor Robert Murphy (S) (HD) World Cup Special: page 12

9.15 Death Valley

6

4/6 Series 2. When the founder of a new-age commune is found impaled on a horse plough, Janie seems uncharacteristically keen to put the case to bed quickly. Her reasons become clear when one of the community members is revealed to be her estranged father. A box set is on iPlayer. See page 50.

John Chapel Timothy Spall

DI Janie Mallowan Gwyneth Keyworth

DCI Barry Clarke Steffan Rhodri

Helen Baxter Alexandria Riley

DC Evan Chaudhry Rithvik Andugula

Michael Mallowan Owen Teale

Minerva Maddox Rhiannon Clements

Chloe Ele McKenzie Lowri Griffiths Lynn Hunter

Amanda Sahni Tori Allen-Martin

Omar Sahni Asim Chaudhry

Nick Gareth Snook

Jack Zak Douglas

Aled Griffiths Joshua McCord

Writer Nina Metivier; Producer Nikki Wilson

Director Claire Winyard (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

10.30 Kevin Bridges: in Search of the Beautiful Game

6

The comedian embarks on a journey to explore whether football can still unite people. He starts in Clydebank, where he meets Scotland vice-captain John McGinn, before visiting Brazil and New York City. Back in Scotland, he asks if young people talk about the sport with the excitement he once felt. See p51.

Director Tommy Forbes; Executive producer Iain Wimbush (S) (AD) (HD)

World Cup opening ceremony and Mexico v South Africa Thursday 6.15pm ITV1

World Cup Special: page 12

11.30 The Damned United HHHH

Football drama. After guiding Leeds United to the First Division title in 1974, Don Revie leaves Elland Road to become manager of England. In a surprise move, the Leeds board turns to outspoken coach Brian Clough as his replacement. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review p57.

4.15pm Flog It!

The team heads to Ushaw, County Durham. (R) (S) (HD)

5.00 Athletics

Live coverage of the Diamond League meeting from the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, Sweden. The home fans will be cheering on double Olympic champion Armand Duplantis as the Swede returns to the arena where he set a new pole-vault world record in last year’s event with a jump of 6.28m. On the track, US double Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek heads an impressive field in the men’s 200m. (S) (HD) Diamond League Oslo is on Wednesday 7pm BBC Three

7.00 Today at the Test

The best action from the fourth day of the First Test between England and New Zealand at Lord’s. (S) (HD)

8.15 Expedition with Steve Backshall 4/6 Series 2. The naturalist travels to Gabon, a nation described as the Eden of Africa due to its incredible biodiversity. Steve and his guides venture deep into the Moukalaba-Doudou National Park on a quest to locate an undiscovered community of chimpanzees within its rainforests. The whole series is on iPlayer. Series producer Susanna Handslip; Executive producers Richard Watsham and Wendy Darke First shown on U&Dave (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 The Mother of All Cons

6 2/3. The true story of charity Believe in Magic continues in 2015, as its founder Megan Bhari takes a group of sick children to Walt Disney World in Florida for Christmas, while sceptical parents try to prove that her charity was built on a lie. But then a tragedy makes them question everything they’ve uncovered. The whole series is on iPlayer. See p50. Directors Luned Tonderai and Ruth Mayer; Producers Ruth Mayer and Eloise Millard Repeated tomorrow 11pm (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Later...with Jools Holland

6 4/6. Jools presents the musical showcase from Alexandra Palace, featuring sets from pop idol Ellie Goulding, singer/songwriter Mitski, rapper and singer Wesley Joseph, Manchester rockers Westside Cowboy and Margate quintet Pigeon. See page 51. Director Janet Fraser Crook; Series producer Caroline Cullen (S) (HD)

10.45 Unforgiven 5

q Western directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Following the death of his wife from smallpox and the failure of his farm, former gunfighter William Munny is tempted back to his old ways by the bounty offered for killing the cowboys who badly scarred a prostitute. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 97. William Munny Clint Eastwood Sheriff “Little Bill” Daggett Gene Hackman Ned Logan Morgan Freeman English Bob Richard Harris “Schofield Kid” Jaimz Woolvett WW Beauchamp Saul Rubinek (1992, 15) (S) (HD) Also showing Thursday 9pm BBC Four 12.50—4.45am Sign Zone 12.50 Question Time Fiona Bruce presents the topical discussion from the Makerfield constituency. Shown last Thursday BBC One (S) (HD) 1.50 Expedition with Steve Backshall 3/6. Searching for snow leopards in Kyrgyzstan. Shown last Sunday (S) (AD) (HD)

Tiger Island 7.15pm Goma draws on all her experience to keep her cubs out of harm’s way

Expedition with Steve Backshall 8.15pm The naturalist searches the rainforest for chimpanzees

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 9.00pm Jeremy Clarkson quizzes the contestants

4.25pm Deal or No Deal Celebrity Special

Sam Thompson takes on the ruthless Banker. Series producer Sarah Timbury (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

5.25 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars

Lucrezia Millarini, Danny Miller and Russell Watson put their wits to the test. (R) (S) (HD)

6.30 ITV News

Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

7.00 The Chase Celebrity Special Len Goodman, Nicki Chapman, Will Kirk and Joe Pasquale take on a Chaser. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Emmerdale

Charity tries to find a way to pay off Dr Todd, whose malicious nature has resurfaced.

Writer Jo Maris Cast Monday/Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.30 Coronation Street

Summer resorts to drastic measures. Daniel guesses who called in the social worker. Summer Spellman Harriet Bibby

BBC ONE SCOTLAND

10.00—10.30am The Sunday Show: the main issues from the world of politics, presented by Gary Robertson

More cast Friday (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Jeremy Clarkson presents as six contestants hope to claim a spot in the hot seat.

(S) (HD)

Maxwell Martin, Aitch and Rylan. Series producer Steve Earley

Executive producers Michelle Singer and Stu Richards (S) (HD)

10.25 ITV News Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD) 10.45 The Gentlemen HH oComedy starring Matthew McConaughey. An American expat builds a drugs empire in the UK by growing marijuana in the grounds of stately homes. After years in the business, he plans to shut up shop — but his retirement attracts the attentions of an assortment of underworld figures. Review page 57.

Director Guy Ritchie (2020, 18) (S) (HD)

Also showing Friday 10.45pm

12.45am Home Shopping (HD)

3.00 DMV: Department of Motor Vehicles 13/20 Colette urges Gregg to mentor a teenager. (S) (SL) (HD) 3.25 14/20. The staff await pay day. (S) (SL) (HD)

3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD)

5.05—6.00am Motorsport UK Including action from Donington Park. Shown last Monday ITV4 (S) (HD)

Tip Toe 9.00pm Clive (David Morrissey) lashes out against Leo (Alan Cumming)

3.35pm The Beautiful Game HHH

oFootball drama. Once a professional football manager, Mal has now retired but continues to coach a team of homeless men. During a training session, Mal encounters Vinny, who demonstrates some deft skills. With the Homeless World Cup in Rome on the horizon, Mal sets out to convince the troubled and reluctant Vinny to join his “dream team” and bring the trophy home. Available to stream for 30 days. Review page 57.

Mal Bill Nighy

Vinny Micheal Ward

Sister Protasia Susan Wokoma

Nathan Callum Scott Howells

Cal Kit Young Jason Sheyi Cole Kevin Tom Vaughan-Lawlor Aldar Robin Nazari

Director Thea Sharrock (2023, 12) (S) (AD) (HD)

Also showing tonight 12.20am 4seven

6.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)

6.30 Formula One: Monaco Grand Prix — Highlights

Steve Jones is joined by David Coulthard, Mark Webber and Lawrence Barretto to present action from the sixth round of the campaign, at Circuit de Monaco. (S) (HD)

9.00 Tip Toe

3/5. When Clive meets Diane at work, the chance of a romantic relationship leads him to confess secrets that he’s kept quiet about for years. But when Clive and Leo discover the truth about Calico Road, they’re thrown into open warfare. Continues tomorrow 9pm. The whole series is available to stream following this episode. See page 50.

Writer Russell T Davies Cast Tuesday Repeated Wednesday 1.05am 4seven and signed Thursday 12 midnight C4 (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Celebrity Gogglebox

1/7 Series 8. A rolling cast of famous faces sit down to offer their sharp, insightful and funny thoughts on the week’s TV.

Shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 Gogglebox

Shows scrutinised include The Great British Bake Off, Coronation Street, Educating Yorkshire, The Inheritance, Stranded on Honeymoon Island, The Guest, The Dog House and BBC News coverage of Donald Trump’s tariffs. From September 2025. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

12 midnight First Dates A weightlifter and a bodybuilder take part. Shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am Nomadland 5 Road movie. Following

qthe death of her husband and the loss of her job, a sixty-something Nevadan woman sells her belongings and buys a van, which she uses to travel the United States while working odd jobs. Available to stream for 30 days. Review page 67.

Fern Frances McDormand

Dave David Strathairn

Gay Gay DeForest Patty Patricia Grier Linda Linda May Swankie Swankie

Director Chloé Zhao (2020, 12) (S) (AD) (HD)

Also showing tomorrow 1.05am 4seven

2.45 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA A familyrun Greek restaurant in California. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

3.40 The Simpsons Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD)

4.50—5.45am Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country Sarah visits Dumfries House. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

5.35am Milkshake! See page 56

9.00 Entertainment News (S) (HD)

9.05 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun Ross’s brother tackles a breakfast challenge. (R) (S) (HD)

9.30 Happy Campers: the Caravan Park Staff at Tencreek prepare for summer. (R) (S) (HD)

10.20 A lorry crashes into barriers. (R) (S) (HD)

11.20 Cruising the Americas with Susan Calman Highlights. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)

1.10pm Inside the Tower of London The series covers the events of 2024. (R) (S) (HD)

2.05 Focusing on the Constable’s Dues. (R) (S) (HD)

3.05 Expedition: Search for the Nile with Ben Fogle The presenter follows Dr Livingstone’s 19th-century expedition. (R) (S) (HD)

4.05 Charting Henry Stanley’s search. (R) (S) (HD)

5.05pm The Divine Judi Dench: National Treasure

A profile of the Oscar-winning actor, tracing her life from her strict Quaker upbringing to her breakthrough in acting. (R) (S) (HD)

6.30 5 News (S) (HD)

6.35 Holidaying in the 70s: Wish You Were Here!

Charting the rise of package holidays in the 1970s, discovering how Brits swapped staycations for fun in the Mediterranean sun.

Director/Producer Elliot Kew (R) (S) (HD)

8.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly

Ep 11 Series 8. Mini poodle Reggie hates being handled and appears to have a grudge against his owners. Can Graeme Hall help?

Directors/Producers Michael Nuvoletta, Owen Griffiths and Gyorgy Nanasi (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Rich House, Poor House

Ep 1 Series 10. Millionaire entrepreneur Maxine McCarthy and her three children swap homes and lives with Danny and Nicky, who work in low-paid jobs and have five children.

Directors/Producers Matthew Dolan, Darren Green (R) (S) (HD)

10.00 Air India Disaster: One Year On

The crash of Air India Flight 171, when the plane went down less a minute after take-off, killing all passengers and crew — except for one man.

Producer Supriya Sobti

Executive producers Caroline Short and Andy Dunn (R) (S) (HD)

10.55 Forensics: Crash Scene Investigators

A man is killed by a 20-ton trailer, and a woman is hit head-on by a driver on a country road.

Series director/producer Simon Meehan Shown last Mon (S) (HD)

11.55 Traffic Cops

Officers try to bring a young driver to a stop.

Series director/producer Simon Meehan (R) (S) (HD)

1.00am Home Shopping (R) (S) (HD)

2.30 A Very British Sex Scandal: the Earl and the Escort The murder

FILM: Shrek the Third

21st Century TV with Lucy Owen: news and entertainment clips from 2008 S4C

Freesat 120 Sky 134 Virgin 164 6.00am Cyw 9.00 Y Fets 10.00 Gwesty Aduniad 11.00 Garddio a Mwy 11.30 Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol

Ffermio

Pobol y Cwm: omnibus edition, with English subtitles

Newyddion; Tywydd

Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol 8.00 Am Dro!: walks

National Eisteddfod sets the challenge of creating a special sculpture 11.00—11.35 Sain Ffagan: the Aberfan disaster exhibition comes together

SUNDAY FREEVIEW CHANNELS

John Wilson’s American Greats at the Proms 8.15pm The conductor

All programmes on BBC Four are repeats unless otherwise stated 7.00pm Reel History of Britain

Melvyn Bragg travels to Osterley Park in west London, the site of the first Home Guard training school, and Dad’s Army creator Jimmy Perry explains why he signed up. First shown in 2011.

Series producer Dympna Jackson

Executive producer Ruth Pitt

7.15 The Golden Age of Coach Travel

Charting the history of the coach, which offered a cheaper alternative to rail travel on its arrival in the 1950s, giving greater freedom to people with limited funds. Narrated by June Whitfield. From 2011.

Series producer Ben Southwell; Executive producer Michael Poole Repeated 2.20am (S) (HD)

8.15 John Wilson’s American Greats at the Proms

The Sinfonia of London perform a selection of US favourites from the Royal Albert Hall, including Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Barber’s Adagio for Strings. First shown in 2024.

Copland Suite: Billy the Kid Barber Adagio for strings Gershwin, orch Grofé Rhapsody in Blue Ives The Unanswered Question

John Adams Harmonielehre

Director John Williams

Producer Hattie McCall Davies (S) (HD)

10.35 The Magic of Dance

6/6. Out in the Limelight, Home in the Rain. Margot Fonteyn explores the life of a dancer, from rigorous ballet classes, rehearsals and preparation to the moment of judgment that comes with the performance. First shown in 1979. The whole series is on iPlayer.

Producer Patricia Foy (S)

11.35 Peaky Blinders: Rambert’s The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

The dance company Rambert perform the stage show inspired by TV drama Peaky Blinders. The show opens in the trenches of Flanders and unfolds in postwar Birmingham. Filmed at the Birmingham Hippodrome, with the voices of Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson and Tom Hardy, and a soundtrack by Roman GianArthur. First broadcast in 2024. Watch now on iPlayer. Thomas Shelby Guillaume Queau

Grace/Ensemble Naya Lovell

Ada/Ensemble Adel Balint

Widow Changretta/Ensemble Aishwarya Raut

Jeremiah/Ensemble Alex Soulliere

Polly/Ensemble Angelique Blasco

Changretta/Ensemble Antonello Sangirardi

Inspector/Ensemble Archie White

Arthur/Ensemble Conor Kerrigan

Factory foreman/Ensemble Dylan Tedaldi

John/Ensemble Joseph Kudra

Follies/Ensemble Max Day

Barney/Ensemble Musa Motha

Writer Steven Knight; Executive producers Helen Shute, Steven Knight, Emma Cahusac and Fiona Morris

Director Benoit Swan Pouffer (S) (HD)

1.20am Reputations: a profile of movie star

John Wayne Shown last Thursday (S)

2.20—3.20am The Golden Age of Coach

Travel Shown 7.15pm (S) (HD)

Everest 10.30pm Rob Hall’s final push may cost him everything Sister Boniface Mysteries 8.00pm A couples’ retreat proves interesting

7.00pm EastEnders

Denise processes life-changing news.

Shown last Monday BBC One (S) (AD) (HD)

7.30 Ian’s world comes crashing down. Shown last Tuesday BBC One (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Yolande covers for Denise.

Shown last Wednesday BBC One (S) (AD) (HD)

8.30 George makes a decision. Shown last Thu BBC One Cast Mon/Thu BBC One (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

3/6 Series 2. Pip’s day in court proves harder than she imagined. A lead about Jamie comes from an unlikely source. Pip has a confrontation with Cara. (S) (AD) (HD)

9.45 4/6. Fresh evidence forces Pip back to her first line of inquiry with renewed urgency. Meanwhile, Max Hastings’s testimony causes shockwaves in court.

A box set is in UHD on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.30 Everest HHHH

qAdventure thriller based on a true story. In 1996, climbers from two expeditions embark on a final push to reach Everest’s summit. But with this being one of the harshest and most unforgiving environments on earth, where too long on the mountain will kill you, the last thing the explorers need is a life-threatening blizzard. On iPlayer for 25 days.

Beck Weathers Josh Brolin

Scott Fischer Jake Gyllenhaal

Rob Hall Jason Clarke

Peach Weathers Robin Wright

Helen Wilton Emily Watson

Director Baltasar Kormákur (2015, 12) (S) (HD)

12.20am Daisy Maskell: Insomnia and Me (S) (AD) (HD) 1.20 Just Act Normal (S) (AD) (HD) 2.35—4.00am Sunny D: four episodes (S) (HD)

Midsomer Murders 2.05pm Barnaby is not playing around

6.00am On the Buses (S) (SL) 6.35 Inspector Morse: Series 6. Happy Families. The Press hounds Morse (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.50 Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb. An archaeologist is found dead (S) (AD) (HD); 9.55 The ABC Murders. The sleuth looks into a series of deaths (S) (AD) (HD) 12.05pm Agatha Christie’s Marple: Nemesis. Miss Marple is sent on a mysterious mission (S) (AD) (HD) 2.05pm Midsomer Murders

Series 21. The Miniature Murders A real-estate mogul is murdered during the opening of a doll’s house exhibit at the Midsomer Museum of the Family. (S) (AD) (HD)

4.05 The Sting of Death. Barnaby and Winter investigate after a beekeeper and aristocrat are attacked. (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00 With Baited Breath. Anglers and mud-runners clash at the village of Solomon Gorge, with the bitterness leading to someone dying. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Series 22. The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy. A local photographer wins an urban myth competition with his creation of the Wolf Hunter, unexpectedly gaining a cult following. But when a man is killed, Barnaby has to investigate. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Vera

3/4 Series 1. The Crow Trap. A woman is murdered in the remote Northumberland countryside, which leads DCI Vera Stanhope back to a place from her past where shadowy liaisons, conflicting sympathies and injustices emerge. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.50 Protection 3/6. Pressure. With pressure from above threatening Liz’s investigation, she finds disturbing information. (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 12.50am 4/6. Sabotage. Liz fights to prove foul play and faces unwelcome attention from Wheatley. (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

1.50 On the Buses: Stan has money worries (S) (SL) 2.15—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)

7.00am The Bill: five episodes. Klein tracks down a Rwandan war criminal (S); 7.50 Proctor tries to trap a burglar (S); 8.50 Lennox’s loyalties are tested (S); 9.50 Smith makes a wrongful arrest (S); 10.50 Glaze probes a possible Masonic conspiracy (S) 11.50 Call the Midwife: 2/8 Series 9. Dr Turner puzzles over a mysterious string of symptoms Rptd 12.20am (S) (AD) (HD); 1.10pm 3/8. Lucille is trapped in a lift with a woman in labour while working at St Cuthbert’s (S) (AD) (HD) 2.35 Catherine Cookson’s The Dwelling Place: drama starring James Fox. A 16-year-old struggles to keep her five brothers and sisters out of the workhouse (S) 5.55 Home Fires: 3/6 Series 1. War starts to have an effect on life in the village (S) (HD) 7.00pm Hetty Wainthropp Investigates 4/6 Series 1. Widdershins. Hetty investigates the apparent suicide of Robert’s uncle, and discovers the whole village where he lived is gripped by superstition. (S)

8.00 Sister Boniface Mysteries 2/12 Series 2. The Shadow of Baron Battenberg. A sighting of the mysteriously missing Baron Battenberg sends the press and police into a frenzy. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Silent Witness

3/5 Series 21. A Special Relationship An American diplomat is shot dead and an argument quickly ensues between the police and the US embassy, which claims the crime falls under its jurisdiction. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.05 New Tricks

1/10 Series 10. The Rock 1/2. Brian’s future at Ucos is left hanging in the balance when an incident from his past comes back to haunt him. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.20am Call the Midwife Shown 11.50am (S) (AD) (HD) 1.40 2 Point 4 Children: 1/6 Series 1 The first episode of the sitcom about ordinary parents coping with life in the 1990s (S) (AD) 2.25—4.00am The Brokenwood Mysteries: 4/6 Series 11. Strange occurrences unfold when a man is crushed by a chandelier (S) (SL) (HD)

6.00am Deal or No Deal (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00

Backyard Builds (S) (SL) (HD) 7.30 Dress to Impress (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.30 Million Dollar

Listing: LA (S) (HD) 10.20 Deal or No Deal: triple bill of the game show (S) (AD) (HD)

1.20pm Wheel of Fortune (S) (AD) (HD) 2.25

Celebrity Catchphrase (S) (AD) (HD) 3.30

FILM Charlotte’s Web HHH Family fantasy based on the classic book by EB White, starring Dakota Fanning and featuring the voice of Julia Roberts (S) (HD) 5.20 FILM Ice Age HHH Animated comedy adventure featuring the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary (S) (AD) (HD)

6.55pm FILM Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde HH Comedy sequel starring Reese Witherspoon. Ditzy blonde socialite Elle Woods has graduated and is now a rising lawyer directly challenging the legal system to end animal experimentation. (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 New. Love Island Relationship-based reality show in which singletons seeking a romance compete in the hope of finding love — and winning a £50,000 prize. (S) (HD)

10.00 New series. Love Island: Aftersun Companion programme to the dating show, featuring the latest Love Island gossip. (S) (HD)

11.05 Family Guy Series 4. Peter launches his own television channel. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.35 Lois is sent to prison. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.05am American Dad!: double bill (S) (AD) 1.05 G’wed (S)

6.00am World of Sport (S) (HD) 6.10 Minder (S) (SL) (AD) 7.10 Motorsport Mundial (S) (HD) 7.40 New. Auto Mundial (S) (HD) 8.10 Ninja Warrior UK (S) (AD) (HD) 9.10 Isle of Man TT Highlights (S) (HD) 11.10 River Monsters (S) (HD) 11.40 LIVE British Touring Car Championship: coverage of the 10th, 11th and 12th races of the season from Oulton Park in Cheshire (S) (HD) 6.05pm Ice Road Truckers Jack Jessee traverses steep mountain passes. (S) (HD)

7.05 Made in Britain Featuring a Sheffield man who makes safety razors. (S) (AD) (HD)

7.30 British Touring Cars Spectacular crashes. Shown last Wednesday (S) (HD)

7.50 LIVE International Football Coverage of the men’s friendly between Morocco and Norway from the Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, New Jersey (kick-off 8.00). (HD) 10.10 Goals of the 1990s Classic goals from the decade. Shown yesterday 5.45pm (S) (HD) 10.30 New. Isle of Man TT Highlights Action from the first Sportbike TT race. 11.35 FILM London Has Fallen HH Action thriller starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman. (S) (HD) 1.25am The Protectors: drama series (S) 2.00—3.00am Isle of Man TT Highlights (S) (HD)

7.10am Pointless 8.00 Storage Hunters UK: double bill 9.00 Top Gear: two editions

The Emergency Ward 9.00pm Dr Emma and Dr Jonathan are on duty

8.55am Come Dine with Me: from Nottingham and Derby (AD) 11.30 A Place in the Sun

4.05pm Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It (AD)

5.15 George Clarke’s Old House, New Home: transforming an Edwardian mock-Tudor house into a modern family home (AD)

6.20pm Four in a Bed The week begins at the Dog Inn in Longridge, Lancashire.

6.55 The group braves a windy boat trip on a trip to Ullswater View in the Lake District.

7.25 Sue and Judith hope their guests feel the community at the String of Horses, Cumbria.

7.55 The week’s final visit is to East Lothian, where Gavin and Rosie host at Cove Farm.

8.25 Payment day promises to be a fiery affair, thanks in particular to two sets of B&Bers.

9.00 New. The Emergency Ward 11/11 Series 6

Dr Emma fears for a cyclist who has been trapped under a tram for 15 minutes after a car clipped her wheel and launched her over the handlebars of her bike. (AD)

10.00 24 Hours in A&E A 74-year-old man is brought in with signs of a brain injury, leading his children to reveal the tragedy that befell their father and the shattering effect it has had on his life. (AD)

11.05 Telling the story of 22-year-old police officer Hazel, who is rushed to St George’s after crashing her motorbike. (AD)

12.10am The Emergency Ward (AD) 1.15 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 3.25—3.55am Supermarkets Unwrapped: the Vegan Aisle (AD)

Agatha Christie’s Sparkling Cyanide 6.10pm Iris and Tony

6.00am English National Ballet in Paris

7.15 Gene Kelly: an American in Hollywood

8.30 Tales of the Unexpected: double bill (AD)

11.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: double bill

1.00pm Cirque du Soleil: Varekai: the circus company tells the story of Icarus 3.00 The Michelangelo Code: Secrets of the Sistine Chapel: Waldemar Januszczak searches for the code hidden in the ceiling of the chapel

5.15 Elvis: Summer of ’56: home-movie footage of Elvis Presley when he was 21 6.10pm FILM Agatha Christie’s Sparkling Cyanide HH Murder mystery starring Anthony Andrews. Journalist Tony Browne is a guest at a couple’s anniversary dinner, during which the wife is found dead of cyanide poisoning — and it seems that everyone attending the dinner had a motive.

8.00 Isle of Wight Festival 2025 The set by former X Factor runner-up Olly Murs on the Main Stage at Seaclose Park, Newport.

9.00 Coverage of veteran Manchester indie band James’s headline set in the Big Top at Seaclose Park in Newport.

11.15 Opry Live A selection of performances by Carrie Underwood, Hardy, Breland and Ben Fuller from the famous Nashville music venue the Grand Ole Opry.

12.15am Greatest Guitar Riffs: with Nancy Wilson of Heart (AD) 1.10 Live from Abbey Road

3.05 The Great Songwriters 4.05 Classic Albums 5.05 Auction: David Gilmour Special 5.30—6.00am Auction: David Bowie Collector

Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em 8.00pm Frank has plumbing problems

6.10am How Britain Worked: double bill 8.00 Great Continental and Indian Railway Journeys 9.00 Great American Railroad Journeys 11.00 Canal Boat Diaries (AD) 2.00pm Jennifer and Joanna: Absolutely Champers 3.20 Seven Worlds, One Planet (AD) 6.00pm Canal Boat Diaries A series of unfortunate mishaps strike Robbie Cumming on the Bridgewater Canal. (AD)

7.00 Eddie “the Stove Man” and his German Shepherd fix the Naughty Lass’s fireplace. (AD)

8.00 Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em Frank wrecks his brother-in-law’s latest gadget.

8.35 Frank sets out to call the doctor.

9.15 The Spencers go on a second honeymoon.

10.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics

The team buy a confusing 1984 French Matra Murena and send it to Citroën specialists. (AD)

11.00 Bangers and Cash Making Dave go weak at the knees is a very rare 1980s hot hatch — a Citroën Visa GT Tonic. (AD) 12 midnight Derek is heading to Scotland to collect a “special” Bentley. (AD)

1.00—3.00am Flipping Bangers

6.00am New. Hollyoaks: omnibus (AD) 7.10 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.25 Married at First Sight USA 9.30 The Simpsons (AD) 10.55 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA

2.50pm The Simpsons: six episodes (AD) 5.55 New The Great Australian Bake Off: twelve amateur bakers get creative with cupcakes and create a passion fruit chiffon 7.20pm FILM The Simpsons Movie HHHH Feature-length outing for America’s most dysfunctional family. Homer sparks an environmental disaster that has dire consequences for the whole of Springfield. (AD) 9.00 FILM Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol HHHH Action spy thriller starring Tom Cruise and Paula Patton. The elite Impossible Missions Force is disbanded after being blamed for a botched operation, forcing agent Ethan Hunt and his crack team to go off grid to prevent a terrorist from causing a nuclear disaster. Review p107. (AD) 11.40 Naked Attraction Flight attendant Alex hopes he can find the perfect man. (AD) 12.40am Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 2.45 Naked Attraction (AD) 3.35 Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 4.30—6.00am Hollyoaks (SL) (AD)

9.00am Four in a Bed: ten editions

2.00pm Location, Location, Location

4.00 A Place in the Sun: double bill

6.00pm A Place in the Sun A pair seek a winter retreat in Spain’s Balearic Islands.

7.00 A holiday home on the Costa Almería.

8.00 Bake Off: the Professionals 2/10 Series 11. The remaining teams channel their experience to create 24 identical, classic battenberg cakes. Shown last Tuesday C4 (AD)

9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox A cast of famous faces sit down to offer their sharp, insightful and funny thoughts on the week’s TV.

Shown last Friday Channel 4 (AD)

10.00 FILM BlackBerry HHHH Comedy drama based on a true story, starring Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton. In the mid-90s, Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin pitch their BlackBerry pager device to potential investors. But their rapid rise is followed by a disastrous fall. Review p47. (AD)

Shown yesterday 11.35pm Channel 4

12.20am FILM The Beautiful Game HHH Football drama starring Bill Nighy and Micheal Ward (AD) 2.50 Taskmaster (AD)

3.55—4.55am Will My Summer Holiday Be Cancelled? A Dispatches report (AD)

6.00am Combat Dealers: double bill (AD)

8.00 Money for Nothing 9.00 Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House (AD) 11.00 The Yorkshire Auction House: two editions (AD)

1.00pm The Repair Shop: four editions

5.00pm The Yorkshire Auction House A widow discovers her late husband’s collection is worth a fortune.

6.00 Angus Ashworth clears a garage packed to the brim with rare antiques.

7.00 Angus uncovers a rare coin collection and some vintage hair-cutting gear. (AD) 8.00 The Repair Shop Cobbler Dean restores a pair of running spikes from the 1940s.

9.00 The team works wonders on a bent trass key ring, a toy turkey and a gold ring.

10.00 A hefty family heirloom needs the restoration skills of bookbinder Chris.

11.00 Bookbinder Chris is tasked with fixing a 50-year-old kite made of paper. 12 midnight The experts work to restore a china dog and handmade kennel.

1.00am Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic: double bill

3.00 Wheeler Dealers World Tour 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made: two editions

9.00am Cops: two editions 9.50 Blue Bloods: triple bill 12.40pm Columbo: three episodes 6.30pm Columbo: two episodes. Series 1 A lawyer murders her husband, then makes it look like he was killed by kidnappers (AD) 8.30 Series 5. The detective ventures into a foreign embassy in California to solve a murder 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: four episodes. Series 10. Benson and Stabler investigate a serial rapist 11.00 A woman claims to be a family’s missing daughter 11.55 Series 9. Benson and Stabler are drawn into a series of mind games 12.55am A woman’s body is found in a burnt-out building 1.50 Bull: two episodes 3.35—4.00am Cops

6.00am Border Patrol 7.00 Nothing to Declare 9.00 UK Border Force (AD) 10.00 Nothing to Declare 12 noon Caught on Dashcam 2.00pm FILM Adventures In Love & Birding HH Romance starring Rachel Boston and Andrew Walker 4.00 Ocean Parks 5.00 Super Shark Highway 6.00pm New series. Secrets of the Enchanted Waters: Earth’s most captivating bodies of water First shown on Sky Nature 7.00 Football’s Funniest Moments (AD) 9.00 Rob and Romesh vs the Three Lions: Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan meet the England men’s football team (AD) 10.00 i FILM Ferrari HHHH Biographical drama starring Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz. Film of the Day, p57 12 midnight Caught on Dashcam 1.00am Killer in My Village 2.00 Motorway Patrol: four episodes 4.00—6.00am Border Patrol

8.00am Friends: four episodes (AD) 10.00 Car Pound Cops 1.00pm Traffic Cops

5.00pm Police Interceptors An alcoholfuelled crash ruptures a gas main. (AD) 6.00 A stick of dynamite is brought into Carlisle’s main police station. (AD)

7.00 Ross and John put their armedresponse training to the test. (AD)

8.00 Duggie and Mark chase a serial offender who is giving them the runaround. (AD)

9.00 The Surgeon Cameras follow consultant breast surgeon Sascha Dua. (AD)

10.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts Paramedics bring in care-home manager Kirsty. 11.00 A&E after Dark Security must manage an abusive man who refuses to leave.

12 midnight New. Accused: Guilty or Innocent?: a boy is shot by a veteran 1.00am My Lover, My Killer (AD) 2.00 Skin A&E 2.45 Babies 24/7: the Maternity Ward 3.35—4.00am Friends (AD)

9.00am Outback Truckers: four episodes

12.55pm FILM The Lone Gun HH Western starring George Montgomery 2.30 FILM The Unforgiven HHHH Western starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn 5.00 FILM Vera Cruz HHHH Western starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster. A former Confederate soldier and an outlaw head for Mexico in search of mercenary work

6.55pm FILM Shanghai Noon HHH Western action comedy starring Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson and Lucy Liu. When a runaway Chinese princess is held for ransom in the Wild West, a palace guard and an outlaw team up to rescue her.

9.00 FILM Armageddon HHH Sci-fi action adventure starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Ben Affleck. When a giant asteroid threatens Earth’s survival, Nasa hatches a plan to drill into the rock and plant a nuclear device that will blow it apart. With time running out, the task of saving mankind falls to ace oil man Harry S Stamper and his band of unlikely heroes. Review p57. 12 midnight—4.00am Seconds from Death: Caught on Camera: four episodes (AD)

9.00am Draining Loch Ness: in Search of the Monster 10.00 Draining the Thames: What Lies Beneath 11.00 Drain the Oceans 12 noon Sue Perkins: Discovering Thailand 3.00pm The Good Ship Murder: double bill (AD) 5.00pm The Madame Blanc Mysteries Double bill. Jean investigates the death of a young woman on a cabin cruiser. (AD) 6.00 Jean takes centre stage to uncover a family drama when tragedy strikes. (AD)

7.00 Strictly Come Dancing: Secrets and Scandals The BBC series’ highs and lows.

9.00 The Sweets and Treats We Loved and Lost Much-missed treats from years gone by.

10.00 Sweets and snacks from the 1980s. 11.00 Taggart A murder suspect goes missing. 1.40am Alexander Armstrong in India: Alexander arrives in Mumbai (AD) 2.40 Nazi Megastructures 3.35—4.00am Walking Wartime Britain

SUNDAY FREEVIEW & FILMS

Paddington 6.55 Tim Rex in Space 7.05 Pip and Posy

7.20 Peppa Pig 7.35 Paw Patrol

8.10 Animal Care Club 8.25 New. The Smurfs: Handy builds an overpowered exoskeleton 8.35 The Creature Cases 8.50—9.00am The Patrick Star Show

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6.00am Colourblocks 6.05 Puffin Rock

6.15 Bing 6.20 Love Monster 6.30 Piggy Builders 6.40 Vegesaurs 6.45 Roots and Fruits 6.55 Mojo Swoptops

7.05 Chuggington: Tales from the Rails

7.15 Supertato 7.25 Bing 7.40 Hey Duggee 7.55 Go Jetters 8.10 Peter Rabbit 8.20 Octonauts 8.30 Mojo Swoptops 8.45 New. Football Fantastics: the Fantastics are in the reception hall discussing their favourite moves including bicycle kicks and scissor kicks 9.00 Something Special: We’re All Friends 9.20 Bluey 9.35 Hey Duggee 9.50 Zog 10.05 Piripenguins 10.15 Rafi the Wishing Wizard 10.20 The Weasy Family 10.30 Vegesaurs 10.35 Spidey and His Amazing Friends 11.00 Octonauts: above and Beyond 11.10 Stan Can 11.20 Supertato 11.25 Talking Tom Heroes: Suddenly Super 11.40 Small Potatoes 11.45 Monster Makes

12 noon Big Cook Little Cook 12.15pm Let’s Go for a Walk 12.30 Balamory 12.45 Hey Duggee 1.00 Octonauts 1.15

Vida the Vet 1.25 Go Jetters 1.35 Rafi the Wishing Wizard 1.45 Yukee 1.55 Froglets 2.00 Something Special 2.20 Balamory 2.35 Vegesaurs 2.40 What’s in Your Plant Pot? 2.50 Our Family 3.05 Stan Can 3.10 The Game Catchers 3.15 Numberblocks 3.25 Colourblocks 3.30 Monster Makes 3.45 Froglets 3.50 Get Set Galactic 4.10 Hey Duggee’s Squirrel Club 4.20 Tiny Tunes 4.25 Vegesaurs 4.30 Nick Cope’s Popcast 4.40 Vida the Vet 4.50 Zog 5.00 Rafi the Wishing Wizard 5.10 Bluey 5.20 Nikhil & Jay 5.30 Sarah & Duck 5.35 Charlie and Lola 5.50 Moon and Me 6.10 BeddyByes 6.20 In the Night Garden...

6.50—7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories: actor Celia Imrie reads Bee: Nature’s Tiny Miracle CBeebies Freeview 202 Freely 352 Freesat 601 Sky 608 Virgin 702

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7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.10 Danger

Mouse 7.20 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 7.35 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45 New. Newsround

7.50 SpongeBob SquarePants 8.05 Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 Sketchy Comedy 8.15 Duck & Frog 8.35 New.

Counterfeit Cat: Betty and Gark surprise Max with a birthday party 8.45 Bro’s in Control 9.00 Blue Peter 9.30 Deadly 60 9.55 Jamie Johnson FC 10.25 Girl Troop vs Aliens 10.55 The Lady Grace Mysteries 11.20 Go Get Arty 11.35

Buddies 11.55 Operation Ouch! 12.25pm Horrible Histories: Wily Winston Churchill Special: charting the life of the former British prime minister 12.50 Horrible Science: Big Brain has a chemical catastrophe 1.20 SpongeBob SquarePants

Riders 9.00pm Rewind TV Helen has news for Rupert

6.20am My Family: six episodes (AD)

10.00 Tipping Point 1.00pm The Supervet 3.00 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick 4.00 The Supervet

6.00pm Inside the Ambulance Crews visit a convent to treat a nun with chest pain. (AD)

7.00 In Oxford, crews help a child with signs of meningitis and take an injured cyclist to hospital. (AD)

8.00 Inside the Operating Theatre A man needs an ultrasound to confirm whether he has cancer. (AD)

9.00 A 15-year-old has four baby teeth that have not fallen out and need removing. (AD)

10.00 The Catherine Tate Show Potty-mouthed Nan meets her grandson’s girlfriend. (AD)

10.40 Guest-starring Paul Whitehouse as Sam’s dad. (AD) 11.20 Lauren questions her teacher’s sexuality, and guest star Peter Kay pays Nan a visit. (AD)

12 midnight Who Killed Jenni Rivera? 1.00—3.00am Absolutely Fabulous: three back-to-back editions of the sitcom (AD)

6.00am Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

8.00 Man v Food 1.00pm James Martin’s Islands to Highlands

3.00 The Great British Bake Off

6.00pm The Great British Bake Off: two editions. Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig host a festival-themed round, then the remaining bakers’ knowledge of pastry is tested 9.00 James Martin’s Spanish Adventure: James samples the food of Spain, starting in San Sebastián 10.00 Man v Food: double bill. Adam Richman is challenged to eat 12 of the spiciest hot wings in San Jose, California, without having a drink, then tackles a giant breakfast burrito containing seven potatoes, a pound of ham and 12 eggs in Denver, Colorado

11.00 James Martin’s Great British Adventure: double bill. James Martin is joined by chef Galton Blackiston in Norfolk, then in London he visits Clare Smyth’s restaurant Core and spends time at a knife forge

1.00—3.00am Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

8.00am Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 8.40 Bronze Age Apocalypse

10.45 Lost World of Angkor Wat

1.00pm Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 1.55 Bronze Age Apocalypse

3.55 Lost World of Angkor Wat

6.10pm Ancient Greece: the Dark Chronicles 1/5. Documentary tracing the roots of ancient Greece, beginning in the Bronze Age.

7.20 2/5. Tracing Greece’s emergence from the Dark Ages — and the era of change that followed.

8.30 3/5. The era of Athenican democracy — and the blood and violence that accompanied it.

9.45 4/5. Charting the Civil war, plague and decline that marked the end of Greece’s golden age. 10.50 5/5. The rise of Alexander the Great, who became a legend through a series of cruel conquests.

12 midnight Mr Polaroid: the story of Edwin Land, co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation 1.10—2.00am Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands

8.10am Diagnosis Murder: TV drama 9.10 Garage Sale Mysteries: the Novel Murders 11.00 Murder, She Wrote: seven back-to-back episodes 6.00pm Murder, She Wrote The death of a San Francisco reporter provides a tricky case for Jessica. 7.00 Jessica is amused by a drama unfolding before her eyes on TV — until she realises she is watching the commissioning of a murder. 8.00 During a stay on Martinique, Jessica is called upon to clear the name of private eye Charlie Garrett, who has been accused of murder. 9.00 Hailey Dean Mysteries The sleuthing therapist investigates a succession of missing persons cases connected by a dating app. 10.55 The Gourmet Detective: Roux the Day Secrets hidden in a book prove deadly for its owners. 12.50am My Terrorized Teen HH Insipid thriller about a mother’s bid to deal with her daughter’s bullying ordeal. Aria Sirvaitis, Liz Fenning (2021) 2.35 Ring of Deceit HH Minor potboiler. Rebecca Mader, Cameron Bancroft (2009) 4.00—4.50am Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

6.00am Sherlock Holmes (BW)

7.00 Hank the Cowboy 7.30 The Lovers 8.30 Press Gang 9.00 Doctor at Large 10.00 Bubblegum and Cheese 11.00 Two’s Company

12.30pm Mother’s Ruin 1.00 Second Thoughts 2.30 The Champions 3.30 The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs 4.00 Father Brown 5.00 Agony

6.00pm Mother’s Ruin: Wendy’s son Clive gets in the way 6.30 Doctor at Large: two episodes of the comedy 7.30 Second Thoughts: triple bill 9.00 Riders 10.10 FILM Massage Parlour Hookers HHH 11.50 FILM Virgin Witch HH Supernatural horror starring Ann and Vicki Michelle 1.35am Stereo Underground: with Richard Latto 2.35 Rik Mayall Presents 3.30 A Day in the Life of Beryl Cook 4.00 Bubblegum and Cheese 5.00—6.00am Stereo Underground

8.10am A Fine Romance 8.40 The Waltons 5.40pm FILM A Passage to India 5 Period drama directed by David Lean and starring Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft. See review p97 9.00 FILM No Way Out HHHH Thriller starring Kevin Costner and Sean Young. See review p107 11.25 M*A*S*H: four episodes. Hawkeye donates his long johns to Trapper 11.55 The 4077th tackle an unexploded bomb 12.25am Hawkeye has a crisis of confidence 12.55 Frank threatens to transfer to another unit

1.25 Man about the House: Larry moves into the flat 2.05 Rumpole of the Bailey

3.00—4.50am Highway to Heaven: double bill starring Michael Landon

7.00am Young Sheldon: six editions 10.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 6.00pm The Big Bang Theory: four episodes The arrival of Sheldon’s sister causes a stir, then Penny plans a party for Leonard 8.00 New Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage: double bill. Georgie and Fagenbacher go head to head, then Georgie’s plan to get on the news sparks a feud between Mandy and a rival weathergirl 9.00 New series. Mock the Week: Dara O Briain introduces topical chat and hilarious games. Review p50 10.00 Mock the Week 12 midnight Zero Stars 1.00am Young Sheldon 1.30 Dr Pimple Popper 2.30 Curvy Brides Boutique 3.00 My 600lb Life 4.00—6.00am Curvy Brides Boutique: double bill (AD)

9.00am Wild Scandinavia (AD) 11.00 New Zealand: Earth’s Mythical Islands (AD) 1.00pm Wild Scandinavia (AD) 3.00 New Zealand: Earth’s Mythical Islands (AD) 5.00 Wild Scandinavia (AD) 7.00 New Zealand: Earth’s Mythical Islands (AD) 9.00 Wild Scandinavia (AD) 11.00 New Zealand: Earth’s Mythical Islands (AD) 1.00am Wild Scandinavia (AD) 3.00 as 7pm 4.40 Expedition with Steve Backshall (AD) 5.25—6.00am David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (AD)

8.00am The Kenny Everett Video Show 8.20 On the Buses (BW) 1.05pm Are You Being Served? Again! 4.45 Rising Damp

7.55pm Minder: Arthur finds himself immersed in a fracas between a wealthy girl’s family and a friend

9.00 Benidorm: the Oracle sees an opportunity to hone his sleuthing skills when Pauline confesses to an eventful murder mystery weekend

9.55 Shameless: Frank spots Lip not far from the estate and wonders why his son hasn’t let on that he’s been living nearby 10.55 Man about the House 11.25 Mind Your Language

12 midnight Benidorm 12.55am Minder: Arthur helps protect a friend 2.00 Duty Free 2.25 Man about the House

2.50 Kenny Everett Video Cassette

3.15 That’s 60s: Best Music Live! 4.00—5.00am Nearest and Dearest

6.00am Hardcore Pawn 8.20 Outback Wreckers 9.15 Money for Nothing 11.10 Pawn Stars 1.05pm Junk and Disorderly: Henry’s Wreck-trospective 4.05 Storage Wars 7.00 History’s Greatest Mysteries 8.00 Curse of Skinwalker Ranch 9.00 Hazardous History with Henry Winkler 10.00 Medieval Murder Mysteries 11.00 What on Earth? 12 midnight What on Earth? 1.00am World’s Most Unexplained 3.00 Discovered by Disaster 4.00—6.00am Walking through History

(AD) 9.00

9.00am Gung Ho! HHH Macho wartime drama with impressive action scenes. Randolph Scott (1943, PG) 11.00 Raid on Entebbe HHH Well-staged drama. Peter Finch (1977, PG) 2.00pm Run Silent Run Deep HHHH Tense, brilliantly directed submarine drama. Clark Gable (1958, U) 4.05 Chinese Zodiac HH Fast-paced martial arts adventure. Jackie Chan, Kwone Sang Woo (2012, 12) 6.30pm Parker HHH Entertainingly silly revenge thriller about a doublecrossed crook and the woman who helps him. Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez (2013, 15) 9.00 Death Wish HHH Bleak but entertaining reboot of the violent vigilante thriller from goremeister Eli Roth. Bruce Willis, Vincent D’Onofrio (2017, 15) 11.20 First Kill HH Hayden Christensen is forced to help a bank robber in order to save his son in this bloody kidnap drama. Bruce Willis (2017, 15) 1.30am Dragon Ball Super 2.30 Coast Guard Alaska 3.20 Super Eruption HH Help is offered from the future in this hammy disaster movie. Richard Burgi, Juliet Aubrey, MyAnna Buring (2011, 12) 4.45—6.00am Air Rescue: triple bill

8.10am A Chance for Christmas HH Romance about mismatched professionals stuck in a timeloop. (2021) 10.05 Falling in Love at Christmas HH Business rivals bond over an app. Alicia Dea Josipovic (2021)

6.00am Westminster Hall 11.00 NI Assembly 11.45 Senedd Cymru 12.35pm Scottish Parliament 1.20 House of Commons 2.05 House of Lords 2.50 PMQs 3.25 Scottish FMQs 4.25 Welsh FMQs 5.15 NI Assembly 6.00 Select Committees 12.05am Commons (SL) 1.05 NI Office (SL)

7.00am As 2.10pm 8.50am Gabby’s

Dollhouse: the Movie HHH Cute children’s adventure. Laila Lockhart Kraner (2025, U) 10.35 As 6.15pm 12.20pm As 8pm 2.10 p The Internship 11 Flat action flick. Lizzy Greene (2026, 15) 4.00 The Running Man HHH Big-budget thriller remake. Glen Powell (2025, 15)

6.15pm Fuze HHH Bank robbers take advantage of an unexploded bomb in this effectively twisty thriller. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James (2025, 15)

8.00 Dead Man’s Wire HHHH Gripping kidnap drama that sees a businessman take his corrupt broker hostage. Review p34. (2025, 15)

10.00 Sisu: Road to Revenge HHH Inventive wartime action sequel, with Jorma Tommila’s lethal hero pursued by a Red Army commander. (2025, 15)

11.40 One Last Deal HHH Danny Dyer melts down fabulously in a drama about a sports agent. (2026, 18)

1.15am The Bride! HHH Bold horror comedy. (2025, 15) 3.25 Him HHH So-so horror. Tyriq Withers (2025, 18) 5.05 The Cinema List: Race against Time 5.30—7.00am Tafiti — across the Desert HH Animation. (2025, PG)

11.00am The Mark of Zorro

HHHH Tyrone Power is on fantastic form as the dashing masked avenger in this wonderful adaptation of the swashbuckling legend. Review p87.

Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone (1940, U) (S)

1.05pm The Andromeda Strain HHHH Robert Wise’s direction keeps the tension mounting in this cult sci-fi thriller about a group of scientists trying to save humanity.

Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson (1970, PG) (S)

3.45 Midway HHH A landmark

Second World War battle gets the blockbuster treatment from Roland Emmerich in a war drama that favours spectacle over subtlety. Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson (2019, 12) (S) (AD)

6.25pm Battleship HHH This bonkers alien-invasion tale loosely based on the board game features wanton destruction and dumb fun.

Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård (2012, 12) (S)

9.00 Bad Boys for Life HHH

Fast-paced comedy thriller with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as wisecracking cops hunting a Miami drug lord. (2020, 15) (S) (AD)

11.25 Alita: Battle Angel HH

Flashy live-action take on the dystopian manga adventure.

Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz (2018, 12) (S) (AD)

7.00am TJ Hooker: five episodes

12 noon MegaFault HH Largely substandard disaster movie. (2009, 12)

2.00pm The War Lord HHHH Period epic about an 11th-century knight assigned to oversee a village, who falls in love with a local girl. Charlton Heston (1965, PG) 4.15 The Curse of the Werewolf HH Rather tame Hammer horror. Oliver Reed (1961, 12)

6.05pm Night of the Big Heat HH Sci-fi horror about a remote British island afflicted by a freak heatwave. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing (1967, 15)

8.00 The Twilight Zone A timid man gains superhuman strength.

8.30 A vintage radio broadcasts programmes from 20 years ago.

9.00 The International HH Stylish thriller in which an Interpol agent and a district attorney uncover shady banking goings-on. Clive Owen (2009, 15)

11.20 Blitz HH London cop Jason Statham is after a serial killer. (2010, 18) 1.20am Drive HHHH Intense and stylish crime drama. Ryan Gosling (2011, 18) 3.15—5.00am Robin Hood: the Rebellion H Action adventure. (2018)

1.45—3.55am Small, Slow but Steady HHHH Refreshing truestory boxing movie about a deaf Japanese fighter and her struggling elderly mentor. Yukino Kishii (2022, 12)

FILM REVIEWS

SUNDAY 7 JUNE

Shrek the Third HHH

i Ferrari HHHH 10.00pm-12 midnight Sky Mix j

BIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA Michael Mann’s hefty portrait of daredevil ambition takes us deep into the world of one of the most iconic names in motorsport. A silver-haired Adam Driver plays Enzo Ferrari, who together with his wife Laura (Penélope Cruz) started the Italian automobile company in 1947. The film takes place a decade later, as Ferrari builds towards throwing his team into endurance race the Mille Miglia. While the film doesn’t quite stack up alongside Mann’s finest work, it is filled with his usual bravura film-making, and there’s at least one jaw-dropping set piece. JAMES MOTTRAM (US/UK/It/Chi 2023, violence, swearing, a sex scene, HD)

Spirit Untamed HH

11.00am-12.20pm

BBC One y

ANIMATED ADVENTURE

9.00am The Twilight Zone

10.00 The Fall Guy: four episodes

2.00pm The A-Team: TV drama

3.00 Warbirds H Absurd wartime horror fantasy. Brian Krause (2008, 15) 5.00 Double Dragon HHH Dated but diverting take on the martial artsbased video game. Robert Patrick (1994, 12)

7.00pm The Virginian HH Trace Adkins makes for an appealing hero in this enjoyable update of the classic TV western. Ron Perlman (2014, 12) 9.00 The Game HHH A man’s life is shattered by an extreme reality game in this tense psychological thriller. Michael Douglas, Sean Penn (1997, 15) 11.40 Blind Fury HHH A blind Vietnam veteran helps the son of an army buddy in this tongue-in-cheek action thriller. Rutger Hauer (1990, 18)

1.30am Age of Kill H Clunky thriller starring Martin Kemp as a sniper blackmailed into killing six strangers within six hours. Dexter Fletcher (2015, 15) 3.15 The Poseidon Adventure

5.00—6.00am The Twilight Zone

6.00am The Man in the Mirror HH Fun but forgettable fantasy. Edward Everett Horton (1936, U) (S) 7.35 The Shop at Sly Corner HHH Splendid blackmail drama. Oscar Homolka, Derek Farr (1946, PG) (S) 9.25 Busy Bodies Comedy short. (S) 9.50 Powderkeg HH Rod Taylor leads this rollicking western about a pair of troubleshooters-for-hire in 1914. (1971, U) (S) 11.40 The Beverly Hillbillies TV sitcom. (S) 12.10pm Batman TV adventure. (S) 12.40 The Card HHH Stylish if rather empty rags-toriches story. Review p77. Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns (1952, U) (S) 2.30 Discovering Westerns Ian Nathan, Neil Norman and Stephen Armstrong select their favourite Westerns. (S) 4.00 The Man from UNCLE TV spy drama. (S) 5.00 The Footage Detectives Wise words from Margaret Lockwood. (S) 6.00pm The Directors The life and work of Federico Fellini. (S) 7.00 That’s My Boy Mrs Price joins a cult and hands over her wealth. (S) 7.30 The Vise A woman never returns from a date. (S)

8.00 Sergeant Cork A maid catches her employer with a dead body. (S)

9.05 Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate H Unpleasant British sex comedy. Christopher Neil (1978, 18) (S) 10.50 The Heritage Chart Show Songs from popular artists, live and on video with the odd interview. 11.55 The Best of Benny Hill HHH

This saucy compilation comes from sketches that originally appeared in the comedian’s Thames TV series between 1969 and 1972. (1974, PG) (S) 1.35am Medway Queen

Documentary about the paddle-driven steamship. (S) 2.55 Scotland Yard TV police drama. 3.30 The Rogues TV drama. (S) 4.30 The Adventures of Robin Hood TV adventure. (S) 5.00 The Buccaneers TV drama. (S)

5.30—6.00am The Adventures of William Tell TV swashbuckler. (S)

Horse-mad young ones will love every whinny of this simple yarn. It follows young Lucky (voiced by Isabela Merced), who befriends a wild horse she names Spirit. When the stallion’s family is horsenapped, they ride to the rescue. This lacks the sophistication of Disney but the visuals are attractive.

JAYNE NELSON (US 2021, HD)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

HHHH 1.00-2.40pm

BBC Two j

DRAMA This is Tennessee Williams at his most fiery, with familial strife in the Deep South coming alive during the birthday celebrations for dying patriarch Big Daddy (Burl Ives). Elizabeth Taylor overdoes the Southern accent as his daughter-inlaw, “Maggie the Cat”, but Paul Newman is splendid as the only upright member of a dislikeable clan. SUE HEAL (US 1958, sexual references, HD)

Dr No 5

1.15-3.25pm ITV1 g

ADVENTURE The James Bond series began in great style, with director Terence Young setting the super-spy standard with terrific action, witty humour and exotic

4.25-5.50pm BBC One (starts 3.55pm in Wales) y

ANIMATED FANTASY The first two Shrek movies were a delight, but the franchise is flagging here. This time, Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) searches for the true heir to the throne of Far Far Away, who turns out to be a whiny teen (Justin Timberlake). Half-baked storyline aside, there is still lots to enjoy.

JAMIE RUSSELL (US 2007)

Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol

HHHH 9.00-11.40pm E4 h

See review p107. (US 2011, violence, HD)

Armageddon HHH 9.00pm-12 midnight 5 Action j

locations. Sean Connery is perfect as the debonair secret agent investigating a fellow operative’s death in Jamaica, where he also befriends a bikini-clad Ursula Andress. ALAN JONES (UK 1962, may be edited for content, HD)

An Ideal Husband

HHHH 2.40-4.15pm

BBC Two g

PERIOD COMEDY Writer/ director Oliver Parker’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy of manners is a visual treat and benefits from impeccable casting. Rupert Everett is the standout as philandering man-abouttown Arthur Goring, while Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Julianne Moore and Jeremy Northam also give splendid performances. DAVID PARKINSON (UK/US 1999, HD)

i The Beautiful Game

HHH 3.35-6.00pm C4 h

FOOTBALL DRAMA This somewhat feel-good British drama is inspired by the Homeless World Cup, a little-known but very real annual football competition. Here, manager Mal (Bill Nighy) oversees an English team made up of homeless people as they prepare for the next tournament in Rome. Director Thea Sharrock avoids clichés and Nighy imbues this low-key charmer with his usual gravitas. JM (UK/US 2023,

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ADVENTURE This typically flashy blockbuster from director Michael Bay sees a meteor heading for Earth, leaving it to Bruce Willis and his oil-drilling gang to blast off and save us all. It’s all too glossy, but there’s knowing irony in the script and in the performances of Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Steve Buscemi. ANDREW COLLINS (US 1998, violence, swearing, HD)

Unforgiven 5 10.45pm-12.50am BBC Two (starts 11.15pm in N Ireland) j See review p97. (US 1992, violence, swearing, HD) i The Gentlemen HH 10.45pm-12.45am ITV1 z

CRIME COMEDY Guy Ritchie directs this tale of geezers and gangsters, with Matthew McConaughey as a drugs kingpin who plans to retire, triggering plots by a rabble of underworld figures. The plot barrels through a succession of wilfully un-PC and often just irritating jokes, which is a pity, because Hugh Grant and Colin Farrell are terrific in support.

TERRY STAUNTON (US 2020, violence, swearing, sexual references, drug abuse. HD)

The Damned United HHHH 11.30pm-1.00am

BBC One j

FOOTBALL DRAMA Director Tom Hooper and screenwriter Peter Morgan gleefully re-create the fag-smoking pre-Premiership days of English club football in this account of Brian Clough’s 44 days at Leeds United in 1974. Michael Sheen is pitch-perfect as the arrogant manager in a stirring, tragicomic portrait of one of soccer’s great figures.

AC (UK/US 2009, swearing, HD)

La Brea 8.00pm An unlikely mission for Levi Brooks

6.00am S.W.A.T. (AD) 9.00 Formula

One 11.00 Ted’s Notebook 11.30 The Office US 1.30pm The Simpsons

3.30 FILM Eddie the Eagle 5 Sports drama based on a true story, starring Taron Egerton 5.30 Formula One: Monaco Grand Prix action

6.30pm New. Ted’s Notebook Ted Kravitz shares his thoughts on the Monaco Grand Prix.

7.00 Rob and Romesh vs the Three Lions 5/5 Series 5. The comedians meet the England men’s football team. (AD)

8.00 La Brea 3/10 Series 1. As an unlikely rescue mission comes to fruition, Gavin must put his faith and the fate of his family in the hands of an old friend. (AD)

9.00 4/10. The sight of a crashing plane spreads a wave of unexpected hope through the clearing as Eve and the others search for its fallen pilot.

10.00 Pitch Black HHHH q Science-fiction thriller starring Radha Mitchell and Vin Diesel. When a transport ship crashes on a seemingly deserted planet, things seem bad enough for the few survivors. But with this desolate world about to be plunged into darkness by an eclipse, their nightmare is only just beginning.

12 midnight Evil 1.00am The Force: North East 2.00 Brit Cops: Frontline Crime UK 3.00 Road Wars

5.00—6.00am Highway Patrol

6.00am Most Haunted: double bill

8.00 Home Shopping 11.00 Stargate

SG-1 4.00pm Stargate Atlantis

6.00pm Stargate Atlantis 1/20 Series 2. Colonel Caldwell saves Major Sheppard from his suicide run on the Wraith ships. McKay and the team race to protect Atlantis before their enemies arrive.

7.00 2/20. The battle cruiser Daedalus becomes infected with a virus that may allow the Wraith to take over the ship.

8.00 3/20. Teyla and Sheppard are taken captive by a former soldier, and McKay has a close encounter with Ford.

9.00 The Walking Dead 15/16

Series 4. Glenn and Tara are determined to reach Terminus, but Abraham is reluctant, and Daryl finds it hard to adjust to the Claimers’ rules.

10.00 16/16. The survivors discover whether Terminus is really as peaceful and safe as promised. However, lessons learned at Woodbury weigh heavily on everyone’s minds.

11.00 Grimm 21/22 Series 3. Nick and Trubel receive a trunk full of relics from a fellow Grimm who has recently been murdered, and Renard orders Wu to spy on Adalind.

12 midnight Grimm: two further episodes 2.00am Britannia: double bill (AD) 4.00—6.00am Most Haunted: two editions

Prisoner 9.00pm Amber’s plans come under threat

6.00am Fish Town 8.00 Billions (AD) 10.15 Homicide: Life on the Street

4.30pm The Gilded Age 6/9

Series 1. As George fights to protect his public image, Agnes’s status quo is disrupted and Armstrong intensifies her campaign. (AD)

5.35 7/9. As Edison’s electricity demonstration sparks conversation, Bannister plots revenge. (AD)

6.40 8/9. Peggy reveals the truth about her past and Gladys and Carrie practise for the ball. (AD)

7.45 9/9. As Ada and Aurora rush to stop Marian from making a huge decision, Bertha and Mrs Astor’s clash impacts New York society. (AD)

9.00 Prisoner 6/6. Amber’s plan to get Tibor to court is put in jeopardy as a game of cat and mouse unfolds across London, with the fate of her family becoming paramount. (AD)

10.00 Euphoria 8/8 Series 3

Drama offering a look at the complexities of life in a socialmedia obsessed world. Starring Zendaya and Jacob Elordi. (AD)

11.45 The Fear Index 1/4

Thriller starring Josh Hartnett. A scientist-turned-Wall Street tycoon is the target of a plot to destroy the world’s financial markets. (AD)

12.45am Under Salt Marsh (AD) 1.50

Homicide: Life on the Street 3.40

Heated Rivalry (AD) 4.35 Sort Of (AD) 5.05—6.00am The Guest Wing (AD)

The Office US 6.30pm Missed the boat: Erin

8.00am Will & Grace (AD) 10.30 Avenue 5 (AD) 11.45 Two Weeks to Live (AD) 1.30pm Community

4.00 Will & Grace: four episodes (AD)

6.00pm Will & Grace 6/18

Series 10. Will learns Noah has a child he hasn’t told Grace about. (AD)

6.30 The Office US 6/25 Series 9 Andy offers help to his family after his father loses all of their money.

7.00 7/25. The female staff help Dwight improve his sales skills.

7.30 8/25. Angela learns her husband is having an affair with Oscar.

8.00 9/25. Dwight organises a Pennsylvania-Dutch-themed office party, which he is forced to cancel.

8.30 10/25. Pam accidentally brings lice into the office.

9.00 Ricky Gervais: Politics

Another showing of the comedian’s second live stand-up film. As well as gags galore, there’s behind-thescenes footage from the sell-out tour.

10.30 Josh Widdicombe: Bit Much... Recorded live at the London Palladium, Josh performs stand-up in which he tackles advent calendars, weddings and the closing time of his local park.

11.45 Paul Chowdhry: Family Friendly Comedian Paul Chowdhry performs stand-up at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre.

1.05am Avenue 5: four episodes (AD) 3.30—5.00am Sort Of (AD)

The Vicar of Dibley 5.10pm David Horton: in the money?

7.40am dinnerladies diaries 8.35

Only Fools and Horses (AD) 11.30 The Vicar of Dibley (AD) 3.55pm Red Dwarf (AD) 5.10 The Vicar of Dibley (AD)

6.05pm The Vicar of Dibley Alice suggests an unconventional nativity play starring herself and Hugo as Mary and Joseph. (AD)

7.00 Alice and Hugo’s baby is christened amid chaos, and David asks Geraldine to marry him. (AD)

8.00 Red Dwarf After three million years in suspended animation, Dave Lister finds he is the last surviving member of the human race. (AD)

8.40 The crew sees glimpses of the future, but Lister is shocked to witness what seems to be his own death. (AD)

9.20 Dad’s Army Tired of Frazer’s incessant moaning, Mainwaring puts him in charge. But will a taste of authority improve his attitude?

10.00 Red Dwarf Lister feels frustrated so decides to sit the chef’s exam in a bid for promotion. (AD) 10.40 Lister discovers that he is God to the ship’s monotheistic felines. (AD)

11.20 Harry Enfield and Chums Kevin and Perry try to befriend some girls at a party. (AD)

12 midnight Mrs Brown’s Boys

12.40am dinnerladies diaries

1.40 Harry Enfield and Chums (AD)

2.25 Mrs Brown’s Boys

3.00—4.00am The Two Ronnies: Old Fashioned Christmas Mystery

Death in Paradise 9.00pm Jack and JP investigate

7.10am Murdoch Mysteries: three episodes 10.00 Death in Paradise (AD) 12 noon Father Brown (AD) 4.00pm Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators (AD) 6.00pm Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators 2/10 Series 5. Frank, Lu and Sebastian go under cover at a remote team-building centre. (AD)

7.00 Allegiance 1/10 Series 2. On Sabrina’s first day with Serious Crimes, a murder investigation leads her into the sinister side of the tech world. (AD)

8.00 Hudson and Rex 5/8 Series 8. A death on a survival show’s live broadcast uncovers a murder disguised as a bear attack (AD)

9.00 Death in Paradise 6/8 Series 8 After another killing linked to the festival queen case, the team follows up a new lead on Rosalie Island. (AD) 10.00 Father Brown 1/15 Series 5 The priest has to contend with a tramp, a missing donkey, an outbreak of laryngitis in the church choir and a kidnapped baby. (AD) 11.00 Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators 10/10 Series 4. Frank and Lu must unmask a “Voice in the Dark” threatening to destroy Wintermas. (AD) 12 midnight 1/10 Series 5. Tensions rise as Frank and Lu are forced to reunite and work together. (AD) 1.00—4.00am Murdoch Mysteries

6.00am Caught Red Handed 8.00

A1: Britain’s Longest Road 9.00 Send in the Dogs 10.00 Border Patrol

12 noon Border Security USA (AD)

1.00pm Stop, Search, Seize (AD)

2.00 Nothing to Declare

6.00pm Nothing to Declare Four editions following the work of customs officers in Australia.

8.00 Caught on Dashcam Road disasters captured on video by drivers’ dashboard cameras.

9.00 Watson 17/20 Series 2

After a key member of the team disappears, the rest of them rush to find them before it is too late. (AD)

10.00 The Rookie 16/18 Series 8 Nolan has to protect a man he does not trust, Lucy and Celina follow a promising lead, and Lopez finds herself conflicted about Wesley’s new position. (AD)

11.00 Blue Bloods 20/20 Series 12 Jamie and Joe search for an undocumented teenage girl who has been sex-trafficked. Frank calls out the district attorney’s office. (AD)

12 midnight Law & Order: Criminal Intent 1.00am Fire Country (AD)

2.00 New. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 3/21 Series 27. See review, p60 Repeated tomorrow 9pm 3.00 Brit Cops: Rapid Response (AD) 4.00 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 5.00—6.00am Road Wars

6.00am Send in the Dogs 7.00 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 8.00 Road Wars 9.00 Caught on Dashcam (AD) 11.00 Caught Red Handed 2.00pm Forensics: Catching the Killer (AD) 4.00 Murder Uncut (AD) 5.00 What the Killer Did Next (AD) 6.00 Forensics: Catching the Killer 7.00 The Suzy Lamplugh Mystery: documentary exploring one of the most baffling cases in recent history 9.00 The Vanishing of Debbie Griggs 11.00 Murder Next Door (AD) 12 midnight Murdered at First Sight (AD) 1.00am What the Killer Did Next (AD) 2.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers 3.00 The Real Manhunter (AD) 4.00—6.00am Caught Red Handed

8.00am Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel 9.00 Friends (AD) 5.00pm Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad 6.00 Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel 7.00 FILM Three Men and a Baby HHHH Comedy starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson 9.00 FILM Runaway Bride HHH Romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere 11.20 Kevin Bridges: the Brand New Tour 12.20am Eight out of 10 Cats Uncut 2.00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA 2.30 Michael McIntyre: Live and Laughing 3.20 Modern Horror Stories 3.25 Utopia 3.50 Teachers

4.15—5.00am Stupid Central (AD)

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (AD) 12 noon Building off the Grid 2.00pm Homestead Rescue: Raney Ranch (AD) 5.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue: two editions 7.00pm New. Alaska: Homestead Rescue: a stalled dream in California’s fire country pushes the Raneys to their limit, as they urgently need defensible space — but Marty must leave early 9.00 Barnwood Builders: Mark finds a cabin from when pioneers started using sawmills 10.00 Deadliest Catch: Sig and Jake find themselves on a collision course 11.00 Supercar Showroom: Ellie hits the runway on her first ever test drive 12 midnight Kindig Customs 3.00—5.00am American Chopper

6.00am Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan 8.00 Cops Gone Bad with Will Mellor 10.00 #Dead2Me: double bill 12 noon When Missing Turns to Murder 2.00pm Crimes That Shook Britain 4.00 Hometown Tragedy: six editions 7.00pm Meet, Marry, Murder 8.00 Cold Case Files: Murder in the Bayou 9.00 The Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher 10.00 Cold Case Files 11.00 Crime in Progress 12 midnight Staged: Deadly Deception 1.00am Cold Case Files: DNA Speaks 2.00 New. Rob Rinder: the Crime I Can’t Forget 3.00 Accident, Suicide or Murder? 4.00—6.00am Killer in Plain Sight

8.00am Blowing Up History 10.00 How It’s Made 12 noon How Do They Do It? 2.00pm Savage Builds 4.00 How the Universe Works: double bill 6.00pm How It’s Made: four editions. How matches are made 6.30 A look at how mosquito coils are made 7.00 How laboratory furnaces are made 7.30 A look at shrimp farming 8.00 Legendary Locations: four back-to-back editions with Josh Gates 10.00 American Titans: the influence of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick 11.00 The

Sky Documentaries Sky Nature

Gascoigne 9.00pm The highs and lows of football Secret World of Sound 7.00pm Communicating

6.00am Discovering: Clint Eastwood (AD) 7.00 Discovering: Michael Caine (AD) 8.00 The Directors (AD) 9.00 Jackie Stewart (AD) 11.00 FILM Man on Wire 5 The preparation for and execution of one of the most daring stunts of all time. English, French +subtitles 1.00pm Schmeichel (AD) 3.00 FILM Val HHH A portrait of Val Kilmer and his nearly 40-year stage and screen career (AD) 5.00 Williams and Mansell: Red 5: the rise of F1 driver Nigel Mansell (AD)

6.50pm My Icon: Leon Pryce The former Bradford Bulls star discusses his inspirations. (AD)

7.00 Bobby Robson: More than a Manager HHHH q

The life and career of the beloved football manager and former England player. (AD)

9.00 Gascoigne HHH

q The life of footballer Paul Gascoigne, using a range of interviews and archive material to track his spectacular rise to stardom and subsequent struggles.

10.50 Premier League 360: Big Sam’s Bolton Sam Allardyce’s iconic Bolton Wanderers team. (AD)

12.50am Everton: Howard’s Way (AD) 2.50 FILM I Am Bruce Lee HHHH Profile of the actor and martial arts star, who tragically died in 1973 at the age of 32 (AD) 4.50 My Icon: Michael Holding (AD) 5.00—6.00am The Directors (AD)

6.00am Animals at Play 8.00 Bugs

That Ruled the World 10.00 Into the Wild: India 12 noon Airborne (AD)

2.00pm Monkeys: an Amazing Animal Family (AD) 5.00 High Life in the Dead Mountains

6.00pm Wild Science Using CGI, and science, to witness how creatures from deep seas to land predators hunt and survive.

7.00 Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough The broadcaster explores the ways different creatures hear and produce sound, and how it can influence their decisions. (AD)

8.00 From melodic songs to strange hums, David Attenborough shares the sounds that gibbons, lyrebirds, bull elk and more use to find a mate — and warn off the competition. (AD)

9.00 A look at how baby animals communicate in their quest for survival, using sound to beg and call for help in the early days of life. (AD)

10.00 High Life in the Dead Mountains The unique mountain habitat that runs through Austria and Europe — the Totes Gebirge, also known as “Dead Mountains”.

11.00 Wild Science As 6pm. 12 midnight Matsalu Moose: Wild Giants of the Baltics 1.00am How the Wild Things Sleep 2.00 Undiscovered Vistas 4.00—6.00am The Wild Wild East: double bill

SPORT

Sky Main Event

Sky 401 Virgin 501 EE 419/HD 439

6.00am Sky Sports Catch Up 7.00

Sky Sports Breakfast 9.00 Boxing

10.00 Test Cricket Bitesize

10.15 LIVE Test Cricket England v New Zealand, the fourth day of the First Test in the three-match series from Lord’s Cricket Ground, London.

1.00pm LIVE Monaco Grand Prix Coverage of the sixth round of the F1 season from Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo (start 2.00).

4.00 LIVE Test Cricket England v New Zealand, coverage of the fourth day of the First Test from Lord’s.

7.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf Day four of the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio. Scottie Scheffler won a second consecutive title last year after finishing four strokes clear of Ben Griffin. American golfers have dominated this tournament in recent years, with eight of the previous 10 winners coming from the US.

8.00 LIVE US Women’s Open Golf Coverage from day four of the Major at Riviera Country Club in California.

1.00am Sky Sports Catch Up

2.00 LIVE IndyCar Coverage of the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 from Madison, Illinois (start 2.00).

4.30—6.00am Sky Sports Catch Up

Sky Football

Sky 403 Virgin 503 EE 421/HD 441

6.00am Championship Highlights 7.00 League One Highlights 8.00 League Two Highlights 9.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 10.00 Championship Retro (AD) 12 noon German Football 1.00pm How the Scot Prem Was Won 2025/26 2.30 Scottish Premiership Best Goals 3.00 EFL: the Play-Offs at 40 (AD) 4.30 League Cup Highlights 7.30 League Cup Best Goals 8.00 EFL Trophy Football 9.30 How the Scot Prem Was Won 2025/26 11.00 German Football 12 midnight Classic League Cup (AD) 2.00am Scottish Premiership Football (AD) 2.30 Scottish Premiership Best Goals (AD) 3.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Championship Season Review (AD) 5.00 EFL Rivalries (AD) 5.30—6.00am Jimmy Glass: the Great Escape (AD)

Sky Premier League

Sky 402 Virgin 502 EE 420/HD 440

6.00am Greatest Games 7.00 Premier League Years 9.00 Premier League Review 2.00pm Netbusters 4.30 Premier League Review 5.30 Premier League Stories 6.00 Premier League Review 11.00 Premier League Years 1.00am Premier League Retro 3.00 Greatest Games 4.00—6.00am Best Goals

Sky Cricket

Sky 405 Virgin 505 EE 422/HD 442

6.00am Test Cricket Highlights 10.00 Test Cricket Bitesize 10.15 LIVE Test Cricket England v New Zealand, day four at Lord’s. 7.00pm Lauren Bell Masterclass 7.30 Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup (AD) 8.00 Test Cricket Highlights 9.00 Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup (AD) 9.30 Test Cricket Bitesize 9.45 Best of the World T20 (AD) 10.00 Test Cricket Highlights 11.00 Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup (AD) 11.30 Test Cricket Bitesize 12 midnight— 6.00am Test Cricket Highlights

Sky Action

TNT Sports 1

8.00am Border Protection Spain: double bill 10.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) 12 noon Ancient Structures: Secrets Revealed (AD) 1.00pm Drain the Titanic: a Ship Reborn 2.00 Titanic: Case Closed 4.00 Back to the Titanic 5.00 Air Crash Investigation: two editions 7.00pm New series. Hidden beneath the Cities: historical worlds lying just below modern urban centres 8.00 New. Engineering by Catastrophe (AD) 9.00 New. Inside the CIA: Secrets and Spies 10.00 Nazi Death Camp: the Great Escape 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) 12 midnight New Amsterdam Central 24/7 1.00am Car SOS (AD) 3.00—5.00am Megafactories

8.00am The Incredible Dr Pol 10.00 Amazonia 1.00pm Land of the Iberian Lynx 3.00 Wild Transylvania: Dracula’s Hidden Kingdom 4.00 Untamed: double bill. The wildlife of the islands, then swimming with whale sharks 6.00pm New series. Heartland Docs: the Schroeders reel in an unexpected catch during a boating trip 7.00 New Nature’s Glow Sticks: a look at bioluminescence in nature 8.00 FILM Ocean with David Attenborough HHHH Exploring the beauty of our blue planet 9.45 Super Reefs 10.40 Monsters of the Deep: the unique physical characteristics of cephalopods 11.35 Lawless Island 1.30am When Sharks Attack 4.00—5.00am Yukon Vet

Animal Planet

Sky Sports +

Sky 404 Virgin 504 EE 427/HD 447

6.00am Sky Sports

TNT Sports 2

6.00am What on Earth? 9.00 Storage Wars 11.00 Storage Hunters 1.00pm Pawn Stars 4.00 The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd: two editions. The most unbelievable jobs in history, then stories of survival against all odds

6.00pm The Abyss: Rise and Fall of the Nazis: four back-to-back editions 10.00 World War II with Tom Hanks: double bill. The actor looks back at Pearl Harbor, then how America’s battle to control the seas turned the tide of the war 11.50 Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo: the unpredictable nature of animals 12.45am The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd 2.40 Pawn Stars 4.30—6.00am Storage Hunters

Sky Golf

8.00am My Cat from Hell (AD) 9.00

Crikey! It’s the Irwins 10.00 Lone Star Law 11.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 1.00pm Pit Bulls and Parolees 3.00 My Cat from Hell: double bill (AD) 5.00 Treehouse Masters: Pete builds a treehouse with its own hot tub 6.00 Meet the Penguins 7.00 How Do Animals Do That? 8.00 Little Giants 9.00 Edge of Alaska: Neil breaks through to the Mother Lode mine 10.00 Tanked: double bill. Magic duo Penn and Teller need an aquarium, then Howie

Mandel wants a tank 12 midnight

Fish or Die 1.00am Sharks of the Shadowlands 2.00 The Haunted 3.00 Treetop Cat Rescue 4.00—5.00am My Extreme Animal Phobia

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Sky 412 Virgin 510 EE 426/HD 446 6.00am Rugby League 9.00 Boxing 10.00 NBA on Fire 10.30 NFL Bitesize 10.45 Super League 11.00 Rugby League 12 noon Boxing 1.00pm NBA (AD) 3.00 Boxing 4.00 Super League 4.45 Rugby League 5.00 NBA 7.00 Boxing 8.00 Rugby League 9.00 Boxing 10.00 NBA 12.30am NFL Bitesize 1.00 Women’s Super League 1.30 Rugby League 1.45 Super League 5.00 Women’s Super League 5.15—6.00am Super League

Sky Sports Mix

Sky 416 Virgin 511 EE 429/HD 449 8.00pm—1.00am LIVE US Women’s Open Golf Day four of the Major from Pacific Palisades, California.

Sky F1

Sky 407 Virgin 507 EE 424/HD 444 6.50—7.55am LIVE Formula Three Coverage of the Monaco Grand Prix feature race (start 6.55). 8.30—9.50 LIVE Formula Two The Monaco Grand Prix feature race from Monte Carlo (start 8.35). 10.50—11.40 LIVE Motor Racing Porsche Supercup action from Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo. 12.30—5.00pm LIVE Monaco Grand Prix Coverage of the sixth round of the season at Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo (start 2.00). 10.30—11.30 LIVE Indy NXT The World Wide Technology Raceway race in Madison, Illinois (start 10.30). 2.00—4.30am LIVE IndyCar The Bommarito Automotive Group 500 in Madison, Illinois (start 2.00).

TNT Sports 3

TNT Sports 4

Nat Geo Wild Nat Geographic

MONDAY

DOCUMENTARY

Brexit: a Very British Civil War 9.00pm (11.00pm N Ireland) BBC Two Both episodes available on iPlayer Norma Percy has a well-founded reputation for drawing global figures into her documentaries – Vladimir Putin, Slobodan Milosevic, Barack Obama – and her latest two-parter is no exception. Of all the big players in the campaigns that preceded Britain’s vote to leave the EU, only Dominic Cummings is absent; for those with long memories and high blood pressure, that may

DRAMA

The Brokenwood Mysteries

8.00pm U&Drama Catch up via U When it comes to potential motives, we’re not at a loss tonight – at times, it seems as though Agatha Christie’s back catalogue has been speedread and condensed into a single case. There’s a long-lost relation, questions of paternity and the provenance of valuable artwork, even whispers of espionage.

The masquerade party setting, with Brokenwood’s great and good gathered under one roof, only adds to the sense that this could have come straight from the Queen of Crime. But once all the golden-age tropes have been ticked off, there remains one extra mystery: what was Detective Sims up to on New Year’s Eve? And why is she suffering so much the morning after the night before?

DAVID BROWN

The famous “Brexit Bus” that promised so much

be for the best. With Boris Johnson, Peter Mandelson and Jeremy Corbyn among the contributors, this two-parter doesn’t want for divisive figures, but the most telling insights come from more unexpected sources.

The opening sequence from 2015 is, with hindsight, especially striking: David Cameron triumphant, Labour’s leadership soon to take a left turn and Nigel Farage

DRAMA Tip Toe

9.00pm C4 Full series: C4 streaming

In the penultimate episode, there’s a keen sense of parallel universes colliding. It’s almost a long night of the soul for warring neighbours Leo and Clive, who air their differences in a taut two-hander, beautifully played by Alan Cumming and David Morrissey. As we witness more of Leo’s compassion and resolve, we also learn of Clive’s embarrassment and shame –as well as his ability to surprise.

There’s also a chance for the younger cast to shine: Jackson Connor as George enjoying his first night as an “out” lad on Manchester’s gay scene, and Iz Hesketh as his new pal, trans woman Zee. But it’s a flare before an inferno. Concludes tomorrow.

PATRICK MULKERN

DOCUMENTARY

disconsolate after another failed parliamentary campaign. It wouldn’t stay that way for long. Crucial to the success of this series is its studied neutrality – no mean feat on so charged an issue. Some seek to justify, others atone; some are regretful, others unrepentant. Another rivetingly told evocation of a troubling but significant era.

GABRIEL TATE See feature: page 29

Jeremy Bamber: Proof of Innocence – the Missing Phone Call

9.00pm 5 Catch up via 5 streaming

In August 1985 five members of one family, including two young children, were massacred at White House Farm and, although he has always protested his innocence, Jeremy Bamber was found guilty. However, new – and overlooked –evidence suggests it was a massive miscarriage of justice.

This documentary steadily dissects the case, studying the disturbing letter Sheila Bamber wrote beforehand, whether a silencer was used and, if so, why it was replaced in a cupboard afterwards (and by whom) as well as the local police’s inefficient handling of the case. Bamber is still in prison but it’s compelling evidence. JANE RACKHAM

DRAMA Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

9.00pm Sky Witness Catch up: Now A fertility clinic is the destination of Detectives Griffin and Bruno, who are dispatched to retrieve DNA evidence connected to a rape suspect. But before the material can be secured, a bomb blast obliterates it. At first, extremists opposed to IVF are assumed to be responsible. But a plot pivot sends the investigation in an entirely new direction.

Amid the incendiary storytelling comes what appears to be a quiet exit for Velasco, who accepts an assignment with the Drug Enforcement Administration. A shame, because he’s proved a more multi-faceted character than first impressions suggested, though at least the door has been left open for a future return should a case involve illegal narcotics. DB

DOCUMENTARY

Rob Rinder: the Crime I Can’t Forget

9.00pm Crime+Investigation

The murder of Lucy Hargreaves, 22, in Liverpool in 2005 has haunted Rob Rinder for 20 years. He was the defence barrister for one of the accused, who was – he believes rightfully – acquitted. However, there was no justice for the victim because the perpetrators have never been convicted so he wonders what this has done to her friends and family.

Many believe it was a gang murder gone wrong and, after talking to a family member for the first time, Rinder’s obviously emotional. But there’s still no justice for Lucy. JR Viewpoint: page 11

FACTUAL

The Sky at Night 10pm BBC Four Catch up: iPlayer

An extreme space-weather event was first recorded in 1859, when a solar storm played havoc with the planet’s telegraph systems. Given our reliance on telecommunications today, a similar event could be destructive. It sounds like fuel for script writers, but it’s an issue scientists are taking seriously, and this edition explores what measures are being taken to mitigate the effects of an onslaught of supercharged plasma. It’s a fascinating topic, and although there’s nothing we can do to control the Sun’s tantrums, at least we can be more prepared.

GARY ROSE

DOCUMENTARY

Hamza Loves

Animals: Africa

10.55am CBeebies

In the first episode of this new series, the cameraman (above) learns about elephants.

TIED TOGETHER

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal as neighbours Adam and Harry

FILM

i All of Us Strangers 5j

10.00pm C4 Catch up via C4 streaming

qTaichi Yamada’s Strangers, the novel on which this Bafta-nominated 2023 film is based, was far more ghastly than the beautiful ghost story conjured by writer/director Andrew Haigh. Interpreting the shadows of the past as malevolent parasites, Yamada’s tale was spiked with grisly detail and a conclusion that leaned more fully into the horror genre. Dodging cliché, All of Us Strangers is a masterful pivot, turning the ghostliness of the original tale into a tender parable about loneliness and vulnerability, with Andrew Scott doing careerbest work as a writer who seems to reunite with his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell). Though a veil of grief lightly covers the film, it still allows the light of hope to penetrate, with Haigh’s script exploring how love manifests in all its intricacy.

CALUM RUSSELL Film reviews: page 67

SITCOM

G’wed

10.35pm ITV2 Catch up via ITVX

Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men 9.00pm BBC One Catch up via iPlayer

After resignation or redundancy, England managers tend to retire or move back into the more lucrative, marginally less exposed world of club football. Not Gareth Southgate. This honourable man has carried his transformative impact on the England men’s national team out to the country at large, specifically helping young men and boys who are struggling for direction and uncertain about the future.

This one-off finds Sir Gareth travelling across the UK to learn about the realities for those he speaks to, some growing up without a father figure, others in prison or struggling at school, many grappling with mental-health issues. Expect candid conversations, moving testimony and possible ways forward. GT

The Liverpool-set teen sitcom has been a rare success for ITV’s comedy slate, winning awards and acclaim while building a fanbase. Now it returns for a third series, bolder and more relevant in its themes than ever.

We open with nuptials which put the “wed” into G’wed, complete with a cameo from footballer John Barnes. Reece (Bafta nominee Dylan Thomas-Smith) is aghast when mum Jodie (Leanne Best) becomes the prize in a tug-of-love. It’s Refugee Awareness Week at school but Reece prioritises problems closer to home.

Throw in a viral football video, a Magic Mike tribute act, a Cilla Black biopic and a surprise party, and it all makes for a cracking comeback.

MICHAEL HOGAN

Policing Paradise

2.00pm BBC One

Kicking off the second season of the documentary following police officers in Bermuda, airport staff find a suspicious package.

Springwatch

8.00pm (BBC One in Northern Ireland) BBC Two

Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan have more from Fermanagh, while Iolo Williams monitors seabirds in East Yorkshire.

Men’s Test Cricket

England v New Zealand

10.15am Sky Sports Main Event/Cricket, highlights 7pm BBC Two

Coverage of the fifth and final day of the first Test at Lord’s.

Tennis: Queen’s 1pm BBC Two

Day one of the women’s grass-court tournament in west London.

Baseball

Toronto Blue Jays v Philadelphia Phillies

12 midnight (starts 12.07am)

TNT Sports 1

Major League action from the Rogers Centre.

SPORT HIGHLIGHTS

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FILM REVIEWS

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MAN ON Gareth Southgate connects with Britain’s young men

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BBC Two 6.45am Bargain Hunt Charlie Ross presents the contest from Kingston upon Thames. Shown last Friday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys On the last leg of his Belgian journey, Michael Portillo heads to Namur, capital of Wallonia. Shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD)

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7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.10 Frasier Four episodes of the comedy. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.10 American Pickers A mysterious businessman’s collection. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 12.05pm News (S) (HD)

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1.10 Help! We Bought a Village A Scottish lawyer with Italian ancestry falls in love with the abandoned village left behind by his forebears. (R) (S) (HD)

2.10 Countdown Sports presenter Mark Chapman joins Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner. (S) (HD) Mark Chapman: page 16

3.00—4.00 A Place in the Sun Leah Charles-King helps a couple find a property in Málaga. (R) (S) (HD)

5.15pm Pointless

With Alexander Armstrong and Ria Lina. (R) (S) (HD)

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6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD)

7.00 The One Show

Presented by Alex Jones and Roman Kemp. (S) (HD)

7.30 EastEnders

Things take a turn when George spars in the boxing gym. Meanwhile, Ian struggles with recent events.

George Knight Colin Salmon

Ian Beale Adam Woodyatt

Denise Fox Diane Parish

Mark Fowler Jr Stephen Aaron-Sipple

Bea Pollard Ronni Ancona

Howie Danes Delroy Atkinson

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Sharon Watts Letitia Dean

Kim Fox Tameka Empson

Zack Hudson James Farrar

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Billy Mitchell Perry Fenwick Vicki Fowler Alice Haig

Harry Mitchell Elijah Holloway

Vinny Panesar Shiv Jalota

Avani Nandra-Hart Aaliyah James Lauren Branning Jacqueline Jossa Kojo Asare Dayo Koleosho

Peter Beale Thomas Law Jasmine Fisher Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness Josh Goodwin Joshua Vaughan

Writer Richard Davidson More cast Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Panorama

Another in-depth current affairs report.

Signed repeat Friday 3.15am BBC Two (S) (HD)

8.30 Scam Interceptors

Fraudsters claiming to be phone company BT have a couple in Yorkshire on the hook for thousands of pounds, using the cover of uploading new security software to gain access to their victims’ computers and bank accounts. However, the team have a tough job to convince the targets that they are being scammed.

Series producer Sherry Knight; Executive producer Rowland Stone (R) (S) (HD)

9.00 Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men

6After time spent working with the country’s brightest footballing talent, the former England manager looks at how boys and young men are struggling with identity and hope. He meets men facing unemployment in Middlesbrough, then asks how boys are coping with education at a secondary school in Essex. He also speaks with young prison inmates about what led them into crime, before exploring potential solutions for school, work and beyond. See page 61.

Director Samuel Palmer;

Producers Lorraine Evans and Louise Carroll (S) (AD) (HD)

World Cup opening ceremony and Mexico v South Africa Thursday 6.15pm ITV1 World Cup Special: page 12

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

10.40 Have I Got News for You

With David Tennant, Michael Gove and Chloe Petts.

Shown last Friday (S) (HD)

11.10 Reported Missing

2/4 Series 5. Fears grow for missing 19-year-old Chinese student Xiaoqiang, and 20-year-old Daniel.

Shown last Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

12.10am Who Do You Think You Are? 2/8. With Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden. Shown last Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD)

1.10 Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 1.15—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

6.00pm Richard Osman’s House of Games

Simon Armitage, Josie Gibson, Ardal O’Hanlon and Adele Roberts test their general knowledge skills.

Director John Smith

Executive producers Breid McLoone and Tamara Gilder (R) (S) (HD)

6.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys 1/20 Series 8. Michael Portillo begins a tour of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina at a Roman amphitheatre.

Director Dave Minchin

Executive producer John Comerford (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Today at the Test

Highlights from the fifth and final day of the First Test between England and New Zealand at Lord’s. (S) (HD)

8.00 Springwatch

9/12. Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan return to their base on the Crom estate in Fermanagh, as they begin their final week monitoring the wildlife dramas of the season caught by their remote cameras, while Iolo Williams watches the seabirds at Bempton Cliffs in East Yorkshire. Continues tomorrow 8pm. (S) (HD)

9.00 Brexit: a Very British Civil War

61/2. On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU. Ten years on, this documentary recounts the turbulent run-up to the referendum and the explosive political fall-out from the result. Featuring interviews with leading players, including David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Gordon Brown, Michael Gove, Nigel Farage and George Osborne, the programme chronicles the political rifts and rivalries that changed British history. Both episodes are on iPlayer from today. See page 60.

Producers Max Stern and Olivia Bernhardt Brogan

Series producer Norma Percy Repeated tomorrow 11pm (S) (AD) (HD) See feature: page 29

10.00 Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing

Series 8. Bob and Paul travel to Hampshire for a spot of fly fishing on an unspoilt stretch of the River Itchen. It’s Paul’s birthday, but the only gift he really wants is to catch a brown trout. The whole series is on iPlayer. Director Robert Gill Series producer Stephanie Fyfe (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

10.30 Newsnight With Victoria Derbyshire. (S) (HD) Weather (S) (HD)

11.00 The Mother of All Cons

2/3. Parents turn detective to learn the truth behind charity Believe in Magic, as its founder takes a party of sick children to Walt Disney World. See review, p50. Shown yesterday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)

12 midnight If Beale Street Could Talk 5 Romantic q drama. In early 1970s New York, “Tish” Rivers visits her boyfriend “Fonny” Hunt, who is in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Flashbacks depict their lives up to this point, and the true reason for Fonny’s wrongful arrest. Meanwhile, in the present day, Tish and her mother Sharon seek the real criminal responsible. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 67. Clementine “Tish” Rivers KiKi Layne Alonzo “Fonny” Hunt Stephan James Sharon Rivers Regina King Frank Hunt Michael Beach Ernestine Rivers Teyonah Parris Joseph Rivers Colman Domingo Director Barry Jenkins (2018, 15) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.55—4.50am Sign Zone 1.55 Countryfile The Balmoral Show in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Shown last Sunday (S) (HD) 2.50 Springwatch 3/12. Iolo Williams explores the lives of rare species at the Knepp estate in Sussex. (R) (S) (HD) 3.50 Cher Meets Rylan The celebrated singer and actor discusses her career in this interview from 2023. (R) (S) (HD)

Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men 9.00pm Behind a generational crisis

Brexit: a Very British Civil War 9.00pm How the bitter fight over Europe unfolded 10 years ago

Emmerdale 8.00pm An unhappy Lydia (Karen Blick) confronts Sam (James Hooton) All of Us Strangers 10.00pm Harry (Paul Mescal) charms Adam (Andrew Scott)

4.00pm Tipping Point

Quiz presented by Ben Shephard. (R) (S) (HD)

5.00 The Chase

With Alex, Wendy, Nigel and Candice. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)

6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)

7.30 Fletchers’ Family Farm

4/10 Series 2. The family gathers in their flock of sheep as they carry out a worming treatment that involves a rather smelly job. Series producer Kim Metcalfe; Executive producers Ben Harris and Paul Stead (Revised rpt) (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Emmerdale

Lydia’s worst fears appear to be confirmed. Lydia Dingle Karen Blick

Sam Dingle James Hooton

Aaron Dingle Danny Miller Angelica King Rebecca

Johnny Woodfield Jack Jennings

Writer Caroline Mitchell More cast Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.30 Coronation Street

Tyrone burdens Fiz with a double confession. Writer Chris Fewtrell This week’s episodes produced by Kate Brooks, directed by Kevin Boyle and Gary Williams Cast Sunday/Friday (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Unbelievable Moments Caught on Camera

Remarkable footage captured by members of the public, including an off-piste skier who found someone buried alive and an ex-RAF pilot who steered a malfunctioning plane away from a beach. Narrated by Roger Allam.

Producer Chris Thornton; Executive producers Ceri Aston and Laura Caveney-Morgan (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

10.45 Peston

Political magazine show with Robert Peston.

Executive producer Andrew Dagnall (S) (HD)

11.30 Sorry, I Didn’t Know

Guests Desiree Burch, Nick Helm, Tez Ilyas and Sikisa answer questions about Black history.

Executive producers Fraser Ayres, Minnie Ayres and Jimmy Akingbola (R) (S) (HD)

12 midnight Home Shopping (HD)

3.00am DMV: Department of Motor Vehicles

15/20. Ceci attempts to repay Barb. (S) (SL) (HD)

3.25 16/20. Gregg and Vic go head to head. (S) (SL) (HD)

3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD)

5.05—6.00am Alan Titchmarsh’s Gardening Club A spectacular coastal garden. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

4.00pm Narrow Escapes

Josh, Hayley and their children leave Lincoln to cruise closer to family in Milton Keynes.

Series director Chris Hailes; Series producer Heidi Gomes

Repeated tomorrow 10am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

5.00 Château DIY: Australia

New series. Australians restore historic French estates. In Occitanie, Janet and Philip start work on restoring a towering 20-metre stairwell.

Repeated tomorrow 3pm 4seven (S) (HD)

6.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

In Alicante, Sophie and Charlotte Rodriguez look for a holiday bolthole for a pair of sisters. Repeated tomorrow 11am 4seven (R) (S) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)

8.00 The Dog House

1/7 Series 7. Can glamorous poodle cross Lola match up to five-year-old Violet’s dream of the ideal dog? Frankie the Chihuahua plays it cool when he meets friends Paulette and Jackie. Couple Liam and Tabitha meet two very different pooches — Barley the bouncy labradoodle and cuddly staffie puppy Peanut.

Series producer Claudia Webster; Exec producer Nick Mirsky

Rptd tomorrow 7pm and Friday 7pm 4seven (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Tip Toe

64/5. Clive and Leo go face to face on a night of terror, while George embarks on an adventure that will have terrible consequences. Zee reaches out to help George, and they embark on a joyous voyage of discovery. Concludes tomorrow 9pm. See p60.

Writer Russell T Davies Cast tomorrow Repeated Wednesday

2.10am 4seven and signed Thursday 1am Channel 4 (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 All of Us Strangers 5

oRomantic fantasy drama. Lonely screenwriter Adam, who lives in a near-empty London tower block, finds connection in a burgeoning relationship with his mysterious neighbour, Harry. Soon afterwards, Adam revisits his suburban childhood home, where he has a surreal encounter: his parents, who died decades ago, appear to still be living there. Available to stream for 30 days. Film of the day: page 67.

Adam Andrew Scott

Mum Claire Foy

Harry Paul Mescal

Young Adam Carter John Grout

Dad Jamie Bell

Waitress Ami Treadrea

Director Andrew Haigh (2023, 15)

Also showing Thursday 11.45pm 4seven (S) (HD)

12.10am Gypsy Rose: Life after Lock Up 4/11

Series 2. Gypsy is told that Ryan will be listed as her baby’s legal father. Rptd tomorrow 1.10am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

1.00 5/11. Gypsy awaits her paternity test results. Both episodes first shown on Crime+Investigation

Repeated tomorrow 2.05am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

1.50 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Park’s Edge restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

2.40 Falling 5/6. Anna feels out of place, and David finds his feet. Shown last Tuesday (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

3.30 6/6. Both Anna and David try to find a fresh start. Shown last Wednesday (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

4.20 Find It, Fix It, Flog It In Norfolk. (R) (S) (HD)

4.35—5.45am Hollyoaks Omnibus edition. Shown yesterday 4.30am E4 (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

5.35am Milkshake! See page 66

9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)

11.30 Storm and Alexis Discussion. (S) (HD)

12.45pm 5 News (S) (HD)

12.50 Matt Allwright Debate. (S) (HD)

2.00 Vanessa Discussion show. (S) (HD)

3.00 Castle 10/23 Series 4. The author wakes up handcuffed in a locked room. (R) (S) (HD)

3.55 11/23. The case of a man who mysteriously fell to his death from a hotel window. (R) (S) (HD)

4.50 Love Nature A look at the rivers of the Cairngorms, which are alive with wildlife. (R) (S) (HD)

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)

6.00 Norfolk and Suffolk: Country and Coast

1/6. Bill Nighy narrates a drift through England’s eastern counties, with their wild coastlines, deep forests and rich farmland. This episode follows crab fishing in Cromer.

Directors Joseph Cunningham and Richard Hughes Series producer Ed Booth (R) (S) (HD)

6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

7.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders

PC Tommy Wade witnesses a Micra flying around a roundabout in Sunderland.

Directors Sam Knowles and Emma Fraser Series producer Johnny Perks (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 Police Interceptors

Officers conduct a high-speed cross-county pursuit of a drunk driver, while Lucy and police dog Bryn are called to track down men suspected of stealing goods from lorries.

Directors/Producers David Richardson, Christiaan Bailey and Mike Parmenter Repeated Friday 11.50pm (S) (HD)

9.00 Jeremy Bamber: Proof of Innocence — the Missing Phone Call

6

Documentary raising questions about the conviction for the White House Farm murders, and whether crucial details, including a potential 999 call, could finally change everything. See page 60.

Director/Producer Stuart Strickson Rptd Thu 11.35pm (S) (HD)

10.30 Police: Suspect No 1

Norwich detectives arrest the person they think is leading a county lines drugs gang.

Directors/Producers Glenn Dance, Richard Davies and Leanne Chuter (R) (S) (HD)

11.30 Police: Night Shift 999 Officers deal with trouble from racegoers.

Directors/Producers Greg Ashcroft, Dominic Longmuir and Sam Wilkinson (R) (S) (HD)

12.30am Cops A car full of young men swear they were trying to escape an imminent threat. (R) (S) (HD)

12.55 Entertainment News (S) (HD)

Home Shopping (R) (S) (HD) 2.30 Getting Away with Murder: the Killing of Mary Gough

BBC ONE SCOTLAND

12.10am Scotcast: discussion on Scotland’s biggest news stories

12.40 Who Do You Think You Are? 1.40 Weather for the Week Ahead 1.45—6.00 BBC News

BBC

SCOTLAND

2.00pm This Farming Life: signed 3.00 Landward: signed 3.30—4.00 Beechgrove Garden: signed 7.00 Reporting Scotland 7.30 The Great Food Guys: chef Nick Nairn and Dougie Vipond focus on Scottish lamb 8.00 The Harbour: double bill. Dive-support vessel the Bibby Sapphire heads out to the North Sea, then lorry driver Kenny Watson reveals his love of country singing 9.00 Surgeons: at the Edge of Life: a surgeon must remove his patient’s voice box to save his life 10.00 Only Child: the diggers move in at the allotments, forcing the protest group to take action 10.30 Two Doors Down: Michelle and Alan are redecorating, so they take refuge from the mess at Beth and Eric’s house 11.00 Scotcast: discussion on Scotland’s news stories 11.30—12 midnight The Journey to Scotland’s Remotest Pub: two friends take on a treacherous trip

BBC ONE

WALES

8.30—9.00pm Swipe

Right for Sperm: Gemma Dunstan investigates the unregulated world of sperm donation 10.40—11.10 Feast of Football: a look ahead to Wales’s Women’s World Cup qualifier against Czech Republic S4C Freesat 120 Sky 134 Virgin 164 6.00am Cyw 12 noon Newyddion; Tywydd

12.05pm Cartrefi Cymru

12.30 Heno

1.00 Straeon Harri Parri

2.00 Newyddion; Tywydd 2.05 Prynhawn Da

3.00 Newyddion; Tywydd

3.05 Cynefin

4.00 Awr Fawr

5.00 Stwnsh

6.00 Codi Hwyl

6.30 Rownd a Rownd; Newyddion

7.00 Heno

7.30 Newyddion; Tywydd

8.00 Y Byd ar Bedwar: unlawful tanning jabs and nasal sprays

8.25 Garddio a Mwy: Sioned Edwards pays plant expert Ian Keith Jones a visit

8.55 Newyddion; Tywydd 9.00 Ffermio: the world of agriculture across Wales 9.33 Y Tywydd

9.35 Ceffylau, Sheikhs a Chowbois: Sue and Emrys Jones visit one of the world’s largest Arabian horse auctions

Y Cyfweliad: Bronwen Lewis is interviewed by individuals with additional learning needs

Cartrefi Cymru: homes and buildings in Newtown 11.10—11.45 Pysgod i Bawb

MONDAY FREEVIEW CHANNELS

The Sky at Night 10.00pm Maggie Aderin explores space weather peril

All programmes on BBC Four are repeats unless otherwise stated 7.00pm University Challenge

Two more teams battle it out for a place in the quarter-finals as the second-round matches continue. Jeremy Paxman hosts. From 2023. More tomorrow 7pm. Director Martin Lord; Producer Peter Gwyn (S) (HD)

7.30 Only Connect

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the second semi-final as the Chessmen take on the Rugby Boys, making connections between things that initially do not appear to be linked. From 2009. More tomorrow 7.30pm. Repeated 1.30am (S)

8.00 Art on the BBC

4/4 Series 1. Constable: the Rural Rebel Art historian Rose Balston explores the BBC archives to discover how six decades of programmes have influenced our understanding of the painter John Constable. First shown in 2020.

Director Kieron Townend; Exec producers Emma Parkins and Ed Stobart Signed repeat Tuesday 2.20am (S) (HD)

9.00 Art of America

2/3. Modern Dreams. Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the role of artists and architects in the development of American cities and culture. First shown in 2011. The whole series is on iPlayer. Director/Producer Paul Tilzey Signed repeat 2am (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 New. The Sky at Night

6 Space Weather: the Perfect Storm

The team examines the threat of space weather, meeting people working to keep the Earth safe from the very worst that the Sun can throw at it. Chris Lintott meets Jim Wild, the president of the Royal Astronomical Society, learns about the Carrington Event of 1859, when a solar storm caused aurorae in the Caribbean. Maggie Aderin drops into Warwick University to discover how Dr Ravindra Desai’s research is helping people grasp how the matter spat out by the Sun interacts with the Earth. See p60.

Producer Benjamin Smith; Series producer Amena Hasan Repeated tomorrow 1.20am (S) (HD)

10.30 American Visions

3/8. The Wilderness and the West Robert Hughes shows how the rise of the railroad opened up a world of discovery while inaugurating America’s industrial future. First broadcast in 1996. Director/Producer Christopher Spencer Repeated Thursday 1.20am (S)

11.30 Vienna: Empire, Dynasty and Dream

1/3. Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the Habsburg family’s rise to power, and how the royal house transformed the Austrian capital. First shown in 2016. Director/Producer Dominic Ozanne (AD) 12.30am Forest, Field and Sky: Art Out of Nature: Dr James Fox meets artists whose work explores our relationship with the natural world. First broadcast in 2016 (S) (AD) (HD)

1.30 Only Connect Shown 7.30pm (S) 2.00—3.00am Art of America Shown 9pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

International Football 7.30pm Northern Ireland’s Jamie Donley

7.00pm New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)

7.05 Deadly 60

Steve Backshall dives into the world of the caiman, learns about the plight of the world’s biggest parrot and tries to find the giant river otter. First shown in 2025. (S) (HD)

7.30 LIVE International Football

France v Northern Ireland

Stephen Watson presents all the action from the friendly at Decathlon Arena — Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Lille (kick-off 8.10).

This is France’s final warm-up match before they get their World Cup campaign under way against Senegal on 16 June, and they will go into the tournament among the leading contenders once again after finishing as runners-up to Argentina four years ago and lifting the trophy in 2018. Northern Ireland failed to qualify for the finals, but head coach Michael O’Neill will see this as an opportunity to assess how his side measures up against one of international football’s elite teams. (S) (HD) 10.15 Top Gear

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May find themselves entered in a French ice race. From 2009. (S) (HD) 11.15 Ibiza: Secrets of the Party Island 3/4. Zara McDermott explores the island’s excessive drugs trade. (S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight 4/4. Zara joins the Spanish Civil Guard. First shown in 2024. The whole series is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)

12.40am High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule: triple bill (S) (AD) (HD) 2.35 Brickies (S) (AD) (HD) 3.35—3.50am Dave’s Games (S) (HD)

Law & Order: UK 10.00pm A death is discovered following an evacuation

6.00am On the Buses (S) 7.05 Classic Emmerdale (S) (AD) 8.05 Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD) 9.10 Inspector Morse: Series 6 Cherubim and Seraphim. Tragedy strikes Morse’s family (S) (AD) (HD) 11.20 Heartbeat: 7/24. Blaketon investigates an outbreak of fleas (S) (AD); 12.25pm 8/24. Mike uncovers a case of blackmail involving a newcomer (S) (AD) 1.30pm Midsomer Murders: Series 14. A Rare Bird. The ornithological society’s president is killed (S) (AD) (HD) 3.35 Classic Emmerdale: double bill. Ashley is upset, then Andy finds out that Jo doesn’t want him at the farm (S) (AD)

4.40pm Classic Coronation Street

Marcus starts packing to leave. (S) (AD)

5.15 A pensive Mel embarks on her first day as a fully fledged policewoman. (S) (AD)

5.50 Heartbeat

9/24 Series 8. A girl is kidnapped. (S) (AD)

6.55 10/24. A cyclist dies in mysterious circumstances on the moors. (S) (AD)

8.00 Midsomer Murders

Series 22. The Stitcher Society. A local outcast, who was controversially acquitted of murder years previously, joins a cardiac rehabilitation group. However, following his arrival, his fellow members’ dreams of a second chance at life begin to be mysteriously cut short. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Law & Order: UK

1/7 Series 1. Care. The evacuation of a London hospital leads to the discovery of a tragic death. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 2/7. Unloved. A defence strategy that challenges the whole nature of the British legal system. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.50 Scott & Bailey

8/8 Series 4. Evie Pritchard tries to discredit the slavery investigation. (S) (AD) (HD)

12.50am 1/3 Series 5. Rachel steps up to acting DI on a developing case. (S) (AD) (HD)

1.55 On the Buses: Olive goes on a spending spree (S) 2.20—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)

The Brokenwood Mysteries 8.00pm A murderer hides in plain sight

7.20am The Bill Repeated 11.55am (S) 8.15 Doctors: double bill. Melody visits a friend undergoing cancer treatment, then Lily finds herself in a hostage crisis (S) 9.30 Classic Holby City: Diane travels to Ghana in search of Ric (S) 10.55 Casualty: a traffic accident and a gas leak stretch the staff (S) (AD) (HD) 11.55 The Bill: a Sun Hill local finds £500,000 Shown 7.20am (S) 12.55pm Classic EastEnders: two episodes. Darren’s extreme measures to woo Jodie pay off, then Heather takes the first step in her new life (S) 2.10 Tenko: 3/10 Series 1. The women are captured by the Japanese (S) 3.15 The Doctor Blake Mysteries: 5/8 Series 4 Blake once again crosses swords with his old nemesis Major Derek Alderton (S) (HD) 4.20 Lovejoy: 8/12 Series 2. A teenage girl exposes a blackmail case Repeated 1.15am (S) 5.25 Waiting for God: 1/10 Series 2. Tom and Diana disagree over the existence of God (S) 6.00pm Last of the Summer Wine Series 19. Nowhere Particular. Howard asks Wesley to customise his van. (S) (AD) 6.40 From Audrey Nash to the Widow Dilhooley. Truly’s sweetheart returns. (S) (AD) 7.20 Support Your Local Skydiver Compo changes his image. (S) (AD)

8.00 New. The Brokenwood Mysteries

6 3/6 Series 12. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Ungood. A recluse is found dead at a New Year’s Eve masquerade ball. See page 60. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 New Tricks

1/10 Series 10. The Rock 1/2. The discovery of a gun in the Thames reopens the murder case of a playboy shipping heir. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Silent Witness 2/5 Series 13. Voids. When a wealthy banker dies, Harry and Nikki end up on opposing sides after their post-mortem results reach different conclusions. (S) (AD) 1.15am Lovejoy Shown 4.20pm (S) 2.25—4.00am The Brokenwood Mysteries: 2/6 Series 12 A young priest joins the parish (SL) (HD)

6.00am Backyard Builds (S) (SL) (HD) 6.25

Deal or No Deal (S) (AD) (HD) 7.25 Dress to Impress (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.20 Billie and Greg: the Family Diaries (S) (HD) 9.20 The Only Way

Is Essex (S) (HD) 10.20 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (S) (HD) 11.15 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)

12.05pm The Real Housewives of Cheshire (S) (HD) 1.05 Celebrity Catchphrase (S) (AD) (HD)

2.05 The Floor (S) (AD) (HD) 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 4.10 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (S) (HD) 5.00 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)

6.00pm Celebrity Catchphrase James Jordan, Fiona Wade and Louis Walsh compete for good causes. (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 New series. The Floor USA Rob Lowe hosts the American version of the dramatic and fast-paced game show. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Million Dollar Listing: LA Flagg goes all-out for his listing in Long Beach. (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Love Island Reality show. (S) (HD)

10.05 New. Love Island: the Debrief

Daily Love Island reactions. (S) (HD)

10.35 New series. G’wed 1/7 Series 3. Reece struggles with Disneyland Darren’s return. Review p61. Rptd Thu 11.20pm ITV1 (S) (AD) (HD)

11.10 Family Guy Series 4. Brian gets a job at The New Yorker magazine. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.40 Lois becomes a model. (S) (AD) (HD)

12.10am American Dad!: double bill (S) (AD) 1.10 Bob’s Burgers (S) (AD) (HD) 2.05 Plebs (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 2.30—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

6.00am The Protectors (S) (SL) 6.35 Magnum, PI (S) (HD) 8.45 The Saint (S) (SL) (HD) 9.50 Boon (S) 11.00 Isle of Man TT Highlights (S) (HD) 12 noon The Protectors (S) 12.30pm BattleBots (S) (HD) 1.30 Magnum, PI (S) (HD) 3.40 Boon (S) 4.50 The Sweeney (S) 5.55 Minder (S) (AD)

7.00pm American Pickers Mike and Frank meet a man who claims to be psychic. (S) (HD)

8.00 New. World Cup Countdown A look ahead to Thursday’s big kick-off. (S) (HD)

8.30 Millionaire Hot Seat A new batch of six contestants attempt to answer Jeremy Clarkson’s multiple-choice questions. (HD) 9.00 New. Isle of Man TT Highlights The best action from the second Sportbike TT race, a sportbike event that rewarded riders who were able to stay disciplined over 113 miles. Repeated 1am and tomorrow 11am (S) (HD) 10.00 FILM Skyscraper HHH Action adventure starring Dwayne Johnson. Former FBI agent Will Sawyer now works in security at high-rise buildings. When a Chinese skyscraper is set ablaze, Sawyer is blamed and fights to prove his innocence. (S) (AD) (HD)

12.05am Lost (S) (HD) 1.00 Isle of Man TT Highlights (S) (HD) 1.55 Motorsport UK (S) (HD) 2.45—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

7.30am Pointless 8.20 Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers (AD) 10.20 Rick Stein’s Spanish Christmas (AD) 11.20 Rick Stein’s Cornish Christmas (AD) 12.20pm Top Gear (AD) 2.20 Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (AD) 3.00 Ireland with Simon Reeve 4.00 Hairy Bikers’ Best of British 5.00 Rick Stein’s Spanish Christmas (AD) 6.00pm Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Paul and Bob fish for pike on the River Test in Hampshire. (AD) 6.40 Would I Lie to You? With Greg Davies, Guz Khan, Claudia Winkleman and Lucy Worsley. 7.20 Steph McGovern, Richard Osman, Jennifer Saunders and Joe Sugg take part. 8.00 The Way Out The teams race to rescue a woman from a burning flat. (AD) 9.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You Stephen Mangan hosts the quiz. 10.00 QI XL Hosted by Sandi Toksvig. 11.00 Eight out of 10 Cats With Alex Brooker, Katherine Ryan, Natalie Cassidy and Tom Allen. 11.50 Mock the Week Guests include Angela Barnes, Catherine Bohart and Ed Gamble. 12.30am Would

Lie to You? 1.50

4.00am Dave Gorman: Modern

999: on the Front Line 11.05pm Adi and Mark help a woman in labour

8.55am Heir Hunters 9.55 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) 10.55 Four in a Bed: five episodes 1.35pm Come Dine with Me: in Liverpool (AD) 4.15pm Four in a Bed The contest begins at North Bridge Street B&B in Hawick, and continues with visits to the Golden Fleece in Cumbria, the Bubble Inn in Derbyshire and Ayuda House in Greater Manchester.

6.50 Location, Location, Location Kirstie Allsopp searches for a property for jaded renters Tom and Liz to buy in the trendy Newcastle suburb of Heaton. Over in the Tyne Valley, Phil Spencer is working to a tight deadline for Michael and Sorrel.

7.55 PopMaster TV Ken Bruce puts another five players through their paces, as they face the toughest music questions.

9.00 24 Hours in A&E A 61-year-old woman is rushed to St George’s after falling off her mobility scooter and being knocked unconscious, with doctors concerned she may have sustained a serious head injury. (AD) 10.00 It’s a bank holiday weekend and doctors at St George’s are concerned that 42-year-old Mark may have suffered internal injuries and a bleed on the brain. (AD)

11.05 999: on the Front Line Paramedics try to stop hypothermia from setting in when a woman collapses in the snow.

12.05am Emergency Helicopter Medics: helping a man trapped under a pallet of granite (AD) 1.10 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 3.20—3.50am Supermarkets Unwrapped: the Freezer Aisle (AD)

Gods of the Game 9.50pm Opera set in the world of football

6.00am Classic FM Live: Great British Classics 8.00 Watercolour Challenge 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.00 Discovering: Matthew Broderick: a profile of the actor (AD) 12 noon Beyond the Brush (AD) 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 3.00 Classic Albums 4.00 Discovering: William Hurt (AD) 5.00 Portrait

Artist of the Year 2019: with celebrity sitters Eddie Hall, Jodie Kidd and James Purefoy

6.00pm Tales of the Unexpected A swindler buys a painting from a sweet old lady. (AD)

6.30 A man is shot in a locked room. (AD) 7.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents A woman is involved in an accident and her husband is confronted about his possible involvement.

7.30 A chicken farmer murders his girlfriend.

8.00 André Rieu: Romantic Paradise

The violinist and his Johann Strauss Orchestra perform in Cortona, Tuscany.

9.50 Gods of the Game Opera telling the story of two childhood friends and football stars who join forces to front their nation’s bid to host the World Cup tournament. 11.35 Academy of Ancient Music: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons A performance of Vivaldi’s most popular work, featuring the sounds of wintry blizzards and hazy summer days.

1.00am Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy 3.00 50 Years on Film: David Hockney 4.00 Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir (AD) 5.00—6.00am Beyond the Brush (AD)

Operation Gold Rush with Dan Snow 9.00pm Traversing rapids

6.10am Speed with Guy Martin 8.00 Bangers and Cash 10.00 The World at War 11.00 Secret Nazi Bases: a huge Nazi bunker 12 noon Vintage Antiques Roadshow 2.00pm Bangers and Cash (AD) 4.00 The World at War 5.00 Secret Nazi Bases

6.00pm Vintage Antiques Roadshow From the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. 7.00 New. Canal Boat Diaries 7/10 Series 7 Robbie helps rescue a runaway narrowboat on the Macclesfield Canal. (AD) 8.00 New. 8/10. Fallen trees block Robbie’s journey on the Peak Forest Canal. (AD) 9.00 Operation Gold Rush with Dan Snow The team builds a wooden boat using original designs from the Gold Rush. 10.00 Bangers and Cash Derek lands himself a 1947 Lea-Francis. (AD) 11.00 Dave and Jack head to East Yorkshire to pick up a dusty Alfa Romeo and a Jowett. (AD) 12 midnight Derek heads to Suffolk to collect two Bentleys with a majestic pedigree. (AD) 1.00am Find It, Fix It, Flog It 2.00—3.00am

Speed with Guy Martin: a bicycle speed record

9.00am Entertainment News 9.10 NCIS

12 noon Law & Order 12.55pm Entertainment News 1.00 Law & Order 2.55 Entertainment News 3.00 Law & Order 4.55 Entertainment News 5.00 Law & Order: crime drama

6.00pm NCIS: triple bill Series 16. A search for a missing military ID bracelet 7.00 A malnourished girl is found hiding in a storage unit 8.00 A murder case obliges McGee to visit his former high school 9.00 New series. NCIS: Hawaii Series 3. Jane Tennant is cleared to return to work 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: four episodes 1.40am Blue Bloods 2.35 Criminal Minds: Evolution 3.35—4.00am Cops

6.00am Hollyoaks Shown last Tuesday/Wednesday (AD) 6.55 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.00 Couples Come Dine with Me 8.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL) 10.00 Don’t Tell the Bride 11.00 Modern Family: double bill (AD) 12 noon The Simpsons (AD) 2.00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 3.00 Modern Family: four episodes (AD) 5.00 The Simpsons (AD) 6.00pm The Simpsons Series 26. Homer gets arrested for bullying Ned Flanders. (AD) 6.30 Lisa joins a mathematics quiz team. (AD) 7.00 New. Hollyoaks Imran and Leah return. Repeated tomorrow 6.30am (AD)

7.30 The Simpsons Series 24. Another trilogy of Halloween-inspired stories. (AD) 8.00 New series. Below Deck: Mediterranean Captain Sandy and three familiar faces return for another wild charter season. (AD) 9.00 Gogglebox Two editions from 2023. (AD)

11.05 Naked Attraction A model and a veterinary student choose dates. (AD)

12.05am Dating Naked UK: hosted by Rylan Clark (AD) 1.05 Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 2.10 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD) 3.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL) 4.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 4.50—6.00am Don’t Tell the Bride: Revisited

9.00am Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country (AD) 10.00 Narrow Escapes (AD)

11.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

12 noon A Place in the Sun: triple bill 3.00pm Château DIY (AD) 4.00 A Place in the Sun

4.30 Come Dine with Me: five episodes

7.00pm George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces A man attempts to build a miniature canal and lock to house a narrow boat. (AD)

8.00 George Clarke’s Beautiful Builds Ep 2 Series 2. In the east London suburb of Woodford Green, George helps widow Shaz preserve the Victorian terrace she shared with her late husband and futureproof it for their children. Shown last Thursday Channel 4 (AD) 9.00 Grand Designs Transforming a derelict 17th-century flour mill in Cornwall. (AD) 10.00 First Dates A weightlifter and a bodybuilder weigh up their options. (AD) 11.00 Celebrity Gogglebox A cast of famous faces offer their thoughts on the week’s TV. Shown yesterday 10pm Channel 4 (AD) 12 midnight Gogglebox (AD) 1.05am FILM Nomadland 5 Road movie starring Frances McDormand and David Strathairn. Review p67. (AD) 3.10 In the Footsteps of Killers (AD) 4.10—5.10am Emergency (AD)

6.00am Salvage Hunters: the Restorers 7.00 Salvage Hunters 9.00 Aussie Gold Hunters

11.00 Outback Opal Hunters: two editions

1.00pm Wheeler Dealers 2.00 Shed and Buried 4.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It

5.00pm The Yorkshire Auction House

A huge haul of designer watches sets pulses racing on auction day. (AD)

6.00 Angus Ashworth helps a couple slim down their wacky collection. (AD)

7.00 Antiques Road Trip Philip Serrell and Stephanie Connell compete.

8.00 Shed and Buried: Classic Cars Henry Cole and Fuzz Townsend visit Burnham-onCrouch to revive a rare military vehicle.

9.00 New. Shed and Buried Trying to make a profit from the UK’s abandoned vehicles.

9.30 New. Henry Cole and friends Fuzz Townshend and Guy Willison hit the road.

10.00 MotoGP Highlights New. Action from the Grand Prix of Hungary at Balaton Park. 11.00 How Do They Do It? Four editions.

1.00am Wheeler Dealers (AD) 3.00 Shed and Buried 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made

8.00am Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (AD) 10.00 Car Pound Cops 11.00 Traffic Cops 2.00pm Police Interceptors: triple bill 5.00 Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up 6.00pm Home and Away David and Cash walk Alf to the police car. Shown last Friday (AD) 6.30 New. Cash can’t escape Richie. Alf is desperate for a result. Rptd tomorrow 6pm (AD) 7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors Patients include a girl with a genetic condition. (AD) 8.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts Severe weather creates stress in Barnsley. 9.00 Ambulance: Code Red Responding to a double stabbing in Birmingham. (AD) 10.00 A&E after Dark Night-time challenges. 11.00 Skin A&E Treating skin conditions.

12 midnight 999: Emergency Call Out: a hit-andrun incident 1.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors (AD) 2.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts 2.45 Skin A&E 3.35—4.00am Friends (AD)

9.00am Deal or No Deal (SL) (AD) 10.00

Tipping Point 1.00pm Lingo 2.00 Tenable

3.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 4.00

Riddiculous 5.00 Deal or No Deal (AD)

6.00pm Lingo: three editions 9.00 The Celebrity Chase 10.00 Tipping Point 12.55am Tenable: a team answers questions on top 10 lists 1.50 Riddiculous 2.45—3.00am Unwind

7.00am Motorway Patrol 8.00 Border Security: America’s Front Line 9.00 Nothing to Declare 11.00 Highway Patrol 12 noon Border Security: Canada’s Front Line 1.00pm Border Patrol 2.00 Nothing to Declare 4.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 5.00 Stargate SG-1 6.00pm Stargate Atlantis 7.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation: the Enterprise encounters a temporal rift 8.00 Star Trek: Voyager: Neelix hears of Paris’s plans to leave 9.00 FBI: Most Wanted: double bill. The team hunts for a vicious and vengeful cyber-stalker, then a criminal father and son duo escape from prison (AD) 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise: Archer is transformed into a primal life form 12 midnight Warehouse 13: self-replicating robotic spies are discovered in the warehouse 1.00am Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 2.00 Road Wars 3.00 Highway Patrol 4.00 Border Patrol 5.00—6.00am Highway Cops

9.00am Police Interceptors 10.50 FILM Red River 5 Western with John Wayne (BW) 1.35pm FILM The Last Sunset HHH Western starring Rock Hudson 4.00 Trucking Hell (AD) 5.00 Traffic Cops: an insight into the working life of officers patrolling Britain’s roads 6.00pm Police Interceptors A petrol thief’s stealing spree comes to a halt. (AD) 7.00 The Operational Support Unit has to evade a guard dog during a drugs raid. (AD) 8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders PC Brian Camsell goes in pursuit of a suspect who is refusing to stop.

9.00 Police Interceptors: Taking Down the Shoplifting Gangs Detectives in Cheshire investigate a prolific international criminal gang responsible for stealing £160,000 worth of premium goods from Asda over 81 raids. 10.00 Highway thru Hell Jamie’s team springs into action when a trailer of pharmaceuticals runs into a block of ice. (AD) 11.00 The X-Files Mulder and Scully pursue a murderer with the power to mentally force people to do his bidding.

12 midnight Seconds from Death: Caught on Camera (AD) 1.00am Outback Truckers 2.00—4.00am Trucking Hell

9.00am The Yorkshire Vet (AD) 10.00 Yorkshire Great and Small with Dan and Helen 11.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 1.00pm Murder, She Wrote (AD) 3.00 Columbo 5.00 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys

6.00pm Drain the Oceans A treasure hunt.

7.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild A home on a floating island in Canada.

8.00 Ben meets an American widow who built her own farm in North Africa.

9.00 Spain with Michael Portillo The presenter travels to Palma in Mallorca. 10.00 Sardinia: Jewel of the Med Exploring the Italian island of Sardinia.

11.00 Nazi Megastructures Nazi Germany’s rail network, including Hitler’s personal train.

12 midnight Wentworth Prison: crime drama (AD) 1.10am The Yorkshire Vet (AD) 3.10—4.00am World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys

MONDAY FREEVIEW & FILMS

5.35am Paw Patrol 5.50 Mixmups

6.00 Peppa Pig 6.10 Tweedy & Fluff

6.15 Odo 6.20 Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! 6.30 Fireman

Sam 6.40 Peppa Pig 6.45 Pip and Posy 6.55 Paw Patrol 7.00 Move It Milkshakers! 7.20 Rubble & Crew 7.30

Peppa Pig 7.45 Tim Rex in Space 8.00

New. Stan & Gran 8.15 Paw Patrol 8.25

The Adventures of Paddington 8.40 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 8.50 Kangaroo Beach 9.00 Peppa Pig 9.10—9.15am Milkshake! World Oceans Day

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6.00am Roots and Fruits 6.05 Bing 6.15 Teletubbies 6.30 Tee and Mo 6.35 Supertato 6.45 Bing 6.55 Mojo

Swoptops 7.05 Hey Duggee’s Squirrel

Club 7.15 Hey Duggee 7.20 Bluey 7.35

Go Jetters 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.00

Octonauts 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20 Alphablocks 8.25 Piripenguins 8.35

New. Playtime Towers: Bella and Lift visit Hettie in the Ice Disco 9.00 Bing 9.05 Yakka Dee! 9.15 Lu and the Bally Bunch 9.20 Kiri & Lou 9.25 New. Froglets: the Froglets use shoelaces to create a maze game 9.30 Twirlywoos

9.45 Something Special 10.10 Teletubbies 10.25 The Baby Club 10.40 New. Tiny Tunes 10.45 What’s in Your Plant Pot? 10.55 New series. Hamza

Loves Animals: Africa: an incredible animal adventure 11.05 Vegesaurs 11.15 Bluey 11.20 Hey Duggee 11.30 Colourblocks 11.35 Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.50 Our Family

12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm Maddie’s Do You Know? 12.30 Dog

Squad 12.40 Aneeshwar and Lizzie Go Wild 12.45 Waffle the Wonder Dog

1.00 Puffin Rock 1.05 Small Potatoes

1.10 Yukee 1.20 Maddie & Triggs 1.25

Hey Duggee 1.35 Numberblocks 1.40 Alphablocks 1.45 Something Special

2.10 Teletubbies 2.25 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures 2.40 Football Fantastics 2.55 Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.10 Waffle’s After School Club 3.20 Our Family 3.25

Octonauts: above and Beyond 3.35

Peter Rabbit 3.50 Hey Duggee 3.55

Vida the Vet 4.10 Supertato 4.15 The Weasy Family 4.25 Mojo Swoptops

4.35 Bluey 4.50 New. Zog 5.05 Andy’s

Dino Island 5.20 Waffle the Wonder Dog 5.30 Rafi the Wishing Wizard 5.40 JoJo & Gran Gran 5.50 Sarah & Duck

6.00pm Clangers 6.10 BeddyByes 6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm

CBeebies Bedtime Stories: Tom Hardy reads Don’t Worry, Little Crab

CBeebies Freeview 202 Freely 352 Freesat 601 Sky 608 Virgin 702

CBBC 201

7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.10 Danger Mouse 7.20 Super Happy Magic Forest

7.35 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45 New. Newsround 7.55 Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 OOglies Funsize 8.15 Duck & Frog 8.35 Odd Squad 8.45 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 9.00 Bitesize: 7—9 Year Olds 9.20 One Zoo

Three 9.40 Go Get Arty 10.00 Art Ninja

10.25 Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom 10.55 Horrible Histories 11.25 Deadly 60 11.55 Operation Ouch!

12.25pm Stage Stars 12.50 The

Be My Guest with Ina Garten 6.00pm Food Network

6.10am MasterChef Australia 7.00

Tipping Point 10.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build 1.00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 3.00 Tipping Point 4.00 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick

6.00pm DIY SOS: the Big Build Nick Knowles helps a woman who was left with a run-down cottage in the Scottish countryside when her partner died of a heart attack on Christmas Day 2003.

7.00 Nick Knowles helps a Dudley family whose three children have a learning disorder, by building an extension in sub-zero temperatures.

8.00 Tipping Point Ben Shephard hosts a double bill of the quiz in which contestants drop tokens down a choice of four chutes in the hope of winning a £10,000 jackpot.

10.00 The Supervet The team treats a newfoundland puppy with a painful knee and shoulder.

11.00 Noel Fitzpatrick treats a persian cat that has been hit by a car.

12 midnight Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 1.00—3.00am Absolutely Fabulous: three episodes (AD)

6.00am River Cottage Road Trip

7.00 Mary Berry Everyday (AD) 8.00 The Pioneer Woman 9.00 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals 10.00 Be My Guest with Ina Garten 11.00 The Great British Bake Off 12.30pm Rachel Allen: Bake! 1.00 James Martin’s Great British Adventure 3.00 Mary Berry Everyday (AD) 4.00 The Pioneer Woman 5.00 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals 6.00pm New series. Be My Guest with Ina Garten: double bill. Tina Fey joins Ina Garten at the barn for a fun-filled day, then Christine Baranski shares Broadway stories 7.00 The Great British Bake Off: the amateurs make choux doughnuts and a pie for pastry week 8.30 Rachel Allen: Bake!: Rachel prepares a coconut macaroon tart 9.00 James Martin’s Spanish Adventure: two editions. James visits a huge food market, then meets a family who live off grid 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives 1.00am Man v Food: with Adam Richman 2.00—3.00am Cake Boss (AD)

8.00am Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 8.35 Full Steam Ahead 9.55 Battlefield America 10.55 Women under Hitler’s Flag 1.00pm Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 1.55 Full Steam Ahead 3.10 Battlefield America 4.15 Women under Hitler’s Flag 6.25pm Full Steam Ahead 1/6 Reliving the golden age of steam railways, starting in the 19th century. 7.40 Battlefield America 1/3 Chronicling the pivotal battles of the American Civil War.

8.50 Women under Hitler’s Flag 1/2. Female participants in the Nazi regime, many of whom were as brutal as their male counterparts. 9.50 2/2. Female participants’ role in the “Final Solution”. 10.55 Battlefield America As 7.40pm.

12 midnight Plunderer: the Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief: art dealer Bruno Lohse 1.10—2.00am Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands

8.10am An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: Dead over Heels 10.05 In Plain Sight 11.05 Castle 12.05pm Chronicle Mysteries 2.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Murder, She Wrote 6.00pm Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye A man claims he turned to crime to pay for his son’s heart surgery. 7.00 Castle The tension between Castle and Denning intensifies. 8.00 Unforgettable Carrie, Al and the team are sent to investigate a probable gang shooting.

9.00 In Plain Sight Mary is assigned to protect a New York art dealer, as well as his wife and mistress. 10.00 An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Game of Cat and Mouse A criminal taunts Aurora by leaving clues at crime scenes. 11.55 Lost Letter Mysteries: The Impossible Dream The team of postal detectives works against the clock to decode a letter. 1.50am Mommy’s Little Boy HH Surprisingly intense TV thriller. Bree Williamson (2017) 3.25—4.50am Crimes of Passion HH By-the-numbers mystery. Dina Meyer, Jonathan Higgins (2005)

6.00am Rewind Time Machine 6.05

Tony Hancock 6.35 Flash Gordon (BW)

7.00 Danger Man (BW) 8.00 as 4.30pm 8.30 The Lovers 9.00 Bubblegum and Cheese 10.00 Doctor at Large 10.30 Two’s Company 11.00 Second Thoughts 11.30 Agony 12 noon as 8pm 1.00pm The Lovers 1.30 The Dustbinmen 2.00 The Champions 3.00 Rewind Time Machine 3.05 Hank the Cowboy 3.20 Rewind Time Machine 3.25 Boon 4.30 Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country 5.00 Stereo Underground 6.00 The Dustbinmen 6.30 Second Thoughts 7.00 Two’s Company 7.30 Doctor at Large 8.00 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 9.00 The New Statesman 10.00 Mary Millington’s True Blue Confessions 11.00 Hot Girls for Men

Only 11.50 Stereo Underground 12.50am Boon 1.55 Rewind Time Machine 2.00 The Day Pele Came to Town 2.30 The Champions 3.30 The New Statesman 4.30 Stereo Underground 5.30—6.00am Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country

8.00am Bramwell 9.00 Highway to Heaven 11.00 Little House on the Prairie 1.00pm The Waltons 3.00 Ballykissangel 4.10 Down to Earth 5.20 Bramwell 6.30 Rumpole of the Bailey: a former pupil needs help 7.30 M*A*S*H: seven episodes. Hawkeye avoids a flu bug 8.00 Hawkeye and Trapper go on a quest for an incubator 8.30 Radar has an accident 9.00 Hot Lips dumps Frank 9.35 The medics get an officers’ club 10.10 Henry falls in love 10.45 Hawkeye plays the market 11.20 as 7.30pm 11.55 as 8pm 12.30am as 8.30pm 1.00am The Avengers 2.00 Rising Damp 2.25 A Fine Romance 3.00—4.50am Highway to Heaven

7.00am Mike and Molly 8.30 Young

Sheldon 10.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00pm Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage 3.00 Young Sheldon 5.00 The Big Bang Theory: eight episodes (AD) 9.00 Mock the Week: Dara O Briain introduces topical chat and hilarious games with two teams of stand-up comedians 10.00 FILM

The Italian Job HHH Crime thriller based on the 1969 British caper movie, starring Mark Wahlberg and Edward Norton. A gang run by Charlie Croker and veteran thief John Bridger pull off a bold gold bullion robbery in Venice, only for a colleague to steal the loot 12 midnight Mike & Molly 1.00am Dr Pimple Popper 2.00 My 600lb Life 4.00—6.00am Curvy Brides Boutique (AD)

9.00am Train Rescue Down Under (AD) 5.00pm Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?: five episodes. Terry tracks down his ex-girlfriends 5.40 Bob throws a party 6.20 Bob and Terry seek sanctuary 7.00 Bob invites Terry to a dinner party 7.35 Terry helps Bob move 8.20 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?: 14 back-to-back episodes

5.05—6.00am Train Rescue Down Under: a high-stakes engine rebuild (AD)

8.00am That’s 60s: Best Music Live! 8.05 Rising Damp 8.35 Duty Free 9.10 Upstairs, Downstairs 10.15 Bread 10.50 Steptoe and Son (BW) 11.30 Oh, Doctor Beeching! 12.05pm Rising Damp 12.35 Man about the House 1.05 Goodnight Sweetheart 1.45 When the Boat Comes In 2.45 Minder 3.50 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 4.25 Man about the House 4.55 Bread 5.30 Birds of a Feather 6.10 Rising Damp 6.40 Steptoe and Son (BW) 7.15 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 7.55 Minder 9.00 Benidorm 9.55 Shameless 10.55 Man about the House 11.25 Mind Your Language 11.55 Benidorm 12.55am Minder 2.00 Duty Free 2.25 as 10.55pm 2.45 Kenny Everett Video Cassette 3.10 That’s 60s: Best Music Live! 4.00—5.00am Nearest and Dearest

6.00am Dickinson’s Real Deal 6.40 Pawn Stars 7.30 Money for Nothing 8.25 Junk & Disorderly 9.20 Storage Wars: eight episodes 1.05 Pawn Stars 2.05 Junk and Disorderly 3.05 Money for Nothing 4.00 Ancient Aliens 5.00 UFO Conspiracies 6.00 Storage Wars 7.00 Money for Nothing 8.00 Real Deal 9.00 Curse of Skinwalker Ranch 10.00 History’s Greatest Mysteries 11.00 Hazardous History 12 midnight Discovered by Disaster 1.00am UFO Conspiracies 2.00 The Proof Is Out There 3.00 Junk and Disorderly 3.45 Hardcore Pawn 5.00—6.00am Real Deal

9.00am Showdown HHH Western starring Audie Murphy and Charles Drake as escaped convicts. (1963) 10.50 Tombstone Territory 11.20 Wanted: Dead or Alive 11.50 The High Chaparral 1.50pm Eye for an Eye HHH Watchable homage to film noir about an investigator who gets too deep into a case. John Travolta, Morgan Freeman (2019, 15) 3.55 The Persuaders! 4.55 The New Avengers: double bill 6.55pm Black Water H Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a deep-cover agent held captive on a submarine in this action thriller. Dolph Lundgren (2018, 15) 9.00 Transporter: Refuelled HH

Ed Skrein takes over from Jason Statham as the driver for hire in this assured reboot. Review, right. (2015, 15) 11.00 American Heist HH Watchable drama in which the scheme of an excon to rob a bank involves his brother. Review, right. Hayden Christensen (2014, 15) 1.00am Dragon Ball Super 2.00 Coast Guard Alaska 3.00 Meteor Storm HH Limp disaster movie. Michael Trucco, Kari Matchett, Kirsten Prout (2010, 12) 4.40—5.40am Air Rescue

7.00am The Chase 9.00 Tenable 10.00 Bidding Room 11.00 Real Deal 12 noon Crystal Maze 1.00pm Supermarket Sweep 2.00 The Chase (AD) 3.00 Celebrity Catchphrase 4.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Celebrity Special (AD) 5.00 Bidding Room 6.00pm Tenable 7.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 8.00 The Chase (AD) 10.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 11.00 Bullseye (AD) 12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (AD) 1.00am The Chase 4.00—6.00am Bullseye

6.00am Westminster Hall 9.00 NI Assembly: Education Questions 9.45 Welsh FMQs 10.35 Scottish FMQs 11.35 Prime Minister’s Questions 11.55 Select Committees 2.00pm Live NI Assembly: Executive Office Questions 2.30 Live Home Office Questions 3.30 Live House of Commons 10.30 NI Assembly: Executive Office Questions 11.15 Lords Questions 12 midnight—7.00am House of Lords

8.10am The Christmas Swap HH Comedy drama. Jackie Seiden (2018) 10.05 A Date by Christmas Eve HH Fantasy. Vanessa Lengies (2019) 12.10pm Christmas Love Letter HH Quirky romantic drama. Ashley Newbrough (2019) 2.00 Write before Christmas HH Romantic drama. Torrey DeVitto (2019) 3.55 A Storybook Christmas HH Heart-warming romance. (2019) 5.45pm Christmas at Maple Creek HH A romance novelist tries to save a charming pioneer town in time for the holidays. (2020) 7.40 Santa’s Squad HH A former art teacher helps a rich widower and his children rediscover the joys of Christmas. Aaron Ashmore (2020) 9.40 Mingle All the Way HH A woman taking a swipe at a dating app strikes gold. Jen Lilley, Brant Daugherty (2018) 11.35

7.00am Gabby’s Dollhouse: the Movie HHH Cute part-animated fantasy adventure. Laila Lockhart Kraner (2025, U) 8.50 The Internship 11

A group of assassins turn against their shady bosses. (2026, 15) 10.40 The Bride! HHH Bold if uneven period horror comedy. Jessie Buckley (2025, 15) 12.50pm As 8pm 2.40 The Plague HHH Unsettling coming-of-age drama. Everett Blunck, Joel Edgerton (2025, 15) 4.25 As 9.50pm

6.15pm Sisu: Road to Revenge HHH Queasily visceral but inventive wartime action sequel. Jorma Tommila, Stephen Lang, Richard Brake (2025, 15) 8.00 Dead Man’s Wire HHHH

An enraged businessman takes his corrupt broker hostage with a tripwired shotgun. Review p34. (2025, 15) 9.50 Fuze HHH Bank robbers take advantage of an unexploded bomb in this effectively twisty thriller. (2025, 15) 11.30 As 6.15pm

1.10am Him HHH So-so horror. Tyriq Withers, Marlon Wayans (2025, 18) 2.50 As 2.40pm 4.35—6.15am We Bury the Dead HHH Melancholy horror thriller. Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites (2024, 15)

11.00am The Siege at Red River HHH Routine but watchable western. Van Johnson, Joanne Dru (1954, U) (S)

12.45pm Apache Drums HHH

No-good gambler Stephen McNally redeems himself in this tense lowbudget western. (1951, PG) (S) (AD)

2.20 3:10 to Yuma 5

Gripping western in which a farmer agrees to hold a cocksure outlaw until the prison transport arrives. Glenn Ford, Van Heflin (1957, PG) (S) (AD)

4.10 The Major and the Minor HHH Daft but sparkling romantic comedy that marked Billy Wilder’s Hollywood directing debut. Review, right. Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland (1942, U) (S)

6.15pm The Old Man & the Gun

5 Poignant crime tale with Robert Redford as an elderly criminal making his way across 1980s America. Casey Affleck (2018, 12) (S) (AD)

8.00 Bridge of Spies HHHH

Steven Spielberg’s classy factbased espionage drama stars Tom Hanks as the lawyer who goes to a divided Berlin to negotiate a prisoner exchange. (2015, 12) (S) (AD)

11.00 Rescue Dawn HHH

8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00 TJ Hooker 10.00 The Six Million Dollar Man 11.00 Sinbad and the War of the Furies H Retro fantasy throwback with ropey effects. John Hennigan (2016, 12) 1.00pm Distant Drums HH Period adventure. Gary Cooper (1951, U) 3.00 September Gun HHH Sweet comedy western. Review, right. (1983) 5.00 Star Trek 6.00pm The Six Million Dollar Man Steve investigates a plot to kill a prince. 7.00 Babylon 5: the Gathering Sci-fi drama starring Michael O’Hare. 9.00 Battle Los Angeles HHH

A burnt-out marine leads a misfit platoon against alien invaders in this frantic sci-fi flick. Review, right. (2011, 12) 11.25 Impostor H Mindlessly repetitive chase thriller with cheap sci-fi trappings, based on a short story by Philip K Dick. Gary Sinise (2001, 15) 1.25am Double Team HH Action adventure. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman (1997, 18) 3.15—5.00am The Most Dangerous Game HH Thriller remake with a better cast than it deserves. Chris “CT” Tamburello (2022, 15)

Christian Bale plays a US fighter pilot who is shot down and captured during his inaugural mission in Vietnam. (2006, 12) (S)

1.25—4.00am The Mission HHH

Roland Joffé’s Palme d’Or-winning historical drama. Robert De Niro (1986, PG) (S)

FILM REVIEWS

MONDAY 8 JUNE

i All of Us Strangers 5 10.00pm-12.10am C4 j

ROMANTIC DRAMA This dreamy, Bafta-nominated fantasy from British writer/director Andrew Haigh (45 Years) cleverly blurs the lines between past and present. After beginning a romance with his neighbour (Paul Mescal), screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott) takes a trip back to his home town. There, he meets his mother and father (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), both of whom died years before. Quite how they can commune across the years is never explained, but the intimacy of the encounters is often heartbreaking in an elegant and profound film. MATT GLASBY (UK/US 2023, swearing, sex scenes, drug abuse, HD)

Brats HHHH

11.05-11.30am

Talking Pictures TV y

bullish performance of Leslie Phillips as the medicturned-steward on board a luxury liner. DP (UK 1970)

Locker in this alien-invasion flick, in which Aaron Eckhart leads a misfit platoon against the enemy. The allegorical nods to the Afghanistan conflict do wear a bit thin, but this is still a watchable yarn with the odd visual punch along the way. ALAN JONES (US 2011, violence, swearing)

Kickboxer HHH 9.0011.00pm Legend Xtra z

MARTIAL ARTS Jean-Claude Van Damme had a proper hit with this adventure, in which he plays the brother of an injured kickboxing champion who enters the ring seeking revenge. The fight sequences are staged with such élan that it is easy to overlook the hackneyed script and rather wooden performances. JOHN FERGUSON (US 1989, violence, swearing, a sex scene)

American Heist HH 11.00pm-1.00am

Great Action j

9.00am The Poseidon Adventure 11.00 Andromeda 12 noon Alien Convergence H Trashy sci-fi about a team using a fighter jet to battle flying lizards. Caroline Ivari (2017) 2.00pm Magma: Volcanic Disaster HH Tired and clichéd disaster movie. Xander Berkeley (2006) 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger 5.00 Triassic Hunt H Low-budget Jurassic World-style sci-fi horror. Michael Paré, Linnea Quigley, Sienna Farall (2021) 7.00pm Andromeda Members of the crew attempt to rescue the dying members of a colony.

8.00 The A-Team The gang is captured by guerrilla soldiers.

9.00 Kickboxer HHH Jean-Claude Van Damme seeks revenge in this well-staged martial arts adventure. Review, right. Dennis Alexio (1989, 18) 11.00 No Mercy HHH Watchable thriller with a slick performance from Richard Gere as a Chicago cop who travels to Louisiana. Kim Basinger (1986, 18) 1.10am As 9pm 3.10 As 5pm 4.55—6.00am Andromeda

6.00am The Vise TV drama. (S) 6.30 Your Money or Your Wife H Misfiring farce with Donald Sinden. (1960, PG) (S) 8.20 Tiger by the Tail H Tatty British thriller starring Larry Parks. (1955, PG) (S) 10.00 Z Cars Quilley and Skinner are accused of falsifying evidence. (S) 11.05 Brats HHHH Laurel and Hardy struggle with their irksome kids. Review, right. (1930, U) (S) 11.30 Four Star Theatre A doctor’s history catches up with him. (S) 12 noon Sergeant Cork A woman is arrested for shooting two men. (S) 1.05pm Richard the Lionheart Richard discovers an abbey has been taken over by bandits. (S) 1.35 Cartoons and Cartoonists Short film from 1956.

1.55 The Naked Hills HH Downbeat western starring David Wayne as a man whose quest for riches alienates him from his family. (1956) (S) 3.25 Doctor in Trouble HH The final entry in the medical comedy series. Review, right. (1970, PG) (S) 5.30 The Directors The work of Federico Fellini.

6.30pm The Veil The sons of a dying farmer quarrel over the man’s will. (S)

7.00 The Footage Detectives Footage of Vincent Price. (S) 8.00 Maigret A judge is caught dragging a corpse along the ground.

9.55 Mother Love Bafta-winning drama series starring Diana Rigg. (S) 11.05 The Lawless Years A woman on parole seduces her way through the criminal underworld.

11.35 Blonde Fist H Glass-jawed comedy drama about a girl with a mess of a life but a socking right hook. Margi Clarke, Carroll Baker (1991, 15) (S) 1.40am Murder in Batz French crime drama. 3.30 Four Star Theatre An actor helps a suicidal woman. (S) 4.00 Star Treatment Show Showcase for new entertainers from 1979. 4.30 Honey West The private eye searches for a missing man. 5.00—6.00am Danger UXB Ash gets some time off.

COMEDY Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their own sons in this gleeful short, in which it’s not always easy to spot the grown-ups. A quiet night at home falls into slapstick chaos as the juniors try to stay up late. Director James Parrott makes inspired use of scaled sets and props to emphasise the father-son divide. DAVID PARKINSON (US 1930, BW)

September Gun HHH

3.00-5.00pm Legend

COMEDY WESTERN Robert Preston brings a welcome grizzled edge to this movie. He plays the gunslinger well past his draw-by date who helps a nun trying to reclaim a church from outlaws. The byplay between Preston and Patty Duke as they trek across the plains is decidedly spicy, while Christopher Lloyd pops up as a baddie. DP (US TVM 1983)

Doctor in Trouble HH

3.25-5.10pm

Talking Pictures TV g

COMEDY The seventh and last movie to be culled from Richard Gordon’s bestselling series was based on a book called Doctor on Toast, which would have been an apt title for this innocently smutty film. Any enjoyment there is comes from the

The Major and the Minor HHH

4.10-6.15pm Film4 y ROMCOM This wittily titled comedy marked Billy Wilder’s Hollywood directing debut. Ginger Rogers plays a grown woman masquerading as a 12-year-old girl on a train, who awakens the concern of army officer Ray Milland. Robert Benchley offers fine support, as does Ginger’s mother, Lela. Daft, sparkling entertainment. ROBYN KARNEY (US 1942, BW, HD)

Transporter:

Refuelled HH 9.0011.00pm Great Action j

ACTION THRILLER Ed Skrein replaces Jason Statham in this attempt to revive the kick-ass franchise. The story revolves around vengeful sex workers plotting to take down their boss, but apart from Ray Stevenson as Skrein’s roguish old dad, the punch-ups and over-the-top baddies are business as usual. TREVOR JOHNSTON (Fr/Chi 2015, violence, swearing)

Battle Los Angeles HHH

9.00-11.25pm Legend h SCI-FI ACTION War of the Worlds meets The Hurt

CRIME A mechanic trying to bury his past is dragged back into the criminal underworld in this gritty, low-rent drama. Adrien Brody plays the ex-con who needs to pay off some debts and forces his now reformed ex-criminal brother (Hayden Christensen) into the role of a getaway driver for a bank robbery. The film is well-acted but its slow-burn melodrama is predictable. DAVE GOLDER (Can/Lux/US 2014, violence, swearing, sex scenes)

If Beale Street Could Talk 5 12 midnight1.55am BBC Two j

ROMANTIC DRAMA Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) helms this fabulous Harlem-set film, based on James Baldwin’s novel. Central couple KiKi Layne and Stephan James are kept apart, not by warring families but by the systemic racism of everyday life. This is a rich work, both in its excellent cast and in Jenkins’s visual poetry. ANDREW COLLINS (US 2018, violence, swearing, sex scenes, nudity, HD)

Nomadland 5

1.05-3.10am 4seven h

ROAD MOVIE A journey across the American West unfolds with utter majesty in Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-winning film. Reeling from losing both her home and her husband, free-spirited Fern (Frances McDormand) hits the road in a converted van and befriends others who have been cast adrift. Nomadland salutes the resilience of humankind in unforgettable style. EMMA SIMMONDS (US 2020, swearing, HD)

Sky One Sky Atlantic Sky Comedy

Never Mind the Buzzcocks 9.00pm A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 9.00pm Duncan The Office Movers 10.10pm Carla and Everett

6.00am Mornings 8.00 Stargate

SG-1 9.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 10.00 Will & Grace (AD) 11.00 The Simpsons 12 noon Macaque Island

1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 2.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 3.00 S.W.A.T. (AD)

5.00 The Simpsons: double bill

6.00pm The Office US 12/25 Series 9. Jim loses a major investor.

6.30 13/25. Dwight is tasked with finding a replacement for Jim.

7.00 The Simpsons Mr Burns suffers from amnesia.

7.30 A psychiatrist recommends the family rehomes Santa’s Little Helper.

8.00 David Attenborough’s Galapagos 1/3. The broadcaster explores the Pacific archipelago.

9.00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks 5/10 Series 4. With Perrie Edwards, Bradley Simpson, Duncan James and Sam Campbell. (AD)

10.00 New. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver A satirical look at news and pop culture with the comic. 10.45 New. Andor 12/12. Cassian returns for Maarva’s funeral. (AD)

11.45 Grimm 9/22 Series 4. Wu finally learns the truth about Nick. 12.35am Road Wars 1.00 New Bear Grylls Is Running Wild 6/8

With actor Elizabeth Banks Repeated tomorrow 10pm 2.00 New series. Best Medicine 1&2/13. Double bill. See review, p70 Repeated tomorrow 8pm/9pm 4.00—6.00am S.W.A.T. (AD)

6.00am Most Haunted 8.00 Home

Shopping 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise

12 noon Star Trek: Voyager 1.00pm Stargate Atlantis 2.00 Primeval 4.00

Stargate SG-1 5.00 Star Trek: Voyager

6.00pm Star Trek: Enterprise

24/26 Series 1. Archer and Trip are lured to a desert-like planet.

7.00 Stargate Atlantis 4/20 Series 2. McKay is rescued from a Wraith ship with a security officer, but an unforeseen technical malfunction causes a problem.

8.00 Stargate SG-1 3/22 Series 6

The team becomes trapped on a Goa’uld mothership and accidentally activates the self-destruct mechanism.

9.00 Grimm 2/22 Series 4. Monroe and Rosalee search for a way to restore Nick’s powers, while Trubel spies on the creature behind the recent murders.

10.00 The Walking Dead 1/16 Series 5. Rick and the group become trapped in a train car, forced to await a grim fate at the hands of the Terminus inhabitants.

11.00 Britannia 2/8 Series 3. Aulus struggles to remain in control now that Hemple is on the scene. (AD) 12 midnight Primeval 2.00am The Walking Dead 3.00 Britannia (AD)

4.00—6.00am Most Haunted

6.00am Fish Town 8.00 Homicide: Life on the Street 10.00 Hacks (AD) 11.15 Westworld (AD) 12.15pm

Deadwood: double bill 2.30 The Regime (AD) 3.30 Westworld (AD) 4.35 Deadwood: double bill

6.50pm The Gilded Age 1/8 Series 2. Bertha Russell learns that her bid for a box at the Academy of Music has been rejected. (AD) 7.55 2/8. George informs Oscar of his decision and sends Clay to meet with union leader Mr Henderson at his steel mill. (AD)

9.00 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 1/6. On his way to a tournament, Ser Duncan the Tall meets a clever young boy who offers to be his squire. (AD) 9.50 2/6. Dunk appeals to various lords in order to gain entrance into the tournament and the Targaryens arrive at Ashford. (AD) 10.30 3/6. After Egg tries to train Dunk’s horse, the knight teaches his new squire an important skill, and a proposition from a steward could help secure his future. (AD) 11.10 Hacks 1/8 Series 2. Deborah eagerly anticipates trying out her new material on the road. (AD) 11.45 2/8. Deborah embraces tour life. Meanwhile, Ava grapples with the value of honesty. (AD)

12.20am The Gilded Age (AD)

2.20 Homicide: Life on the Street 5.05—6.00am Urban Secrets

8.00am Will & Grace (AD) 9.00 Sort Of (AD) 10.00 Avenue 5 (AD) 11.15 Will & Grace (AD) 12.15pm Upright (AD)

1.30 Avenue 5 (AD) 2.45 Will & Grace (AD) 3.45 Upright (AD) 5.00 Community

6.00pm Will & Grace 2/27 Series 4 Karen embarrasses Grace. (AD) 6.30 3/27. Will tires of Karen’s constant false alarms. (AD)

7.00 The Office US 11/25 Series 9 Dwight and Clark pose as father and son to win an account.

7.30 12/25. Jim is forced to miss Cece’s first recital after a major investor exits his company.

8.00 Resident Alien 3/8 Series 3 Harry tags along on Ben, Kate and Max’s family trip to Yellowstone. (AD)

9.00 New. Real Time with Bill Maher The comedian and guests discuss the week’s events.

10.10 New. The Office Movers 5/6. Everett and Carla try to persuade a Zenithon representative to make an offer on Shazam. 10.40 New. 6/6. It is Everett’s birthday and Zenithon is set to make a momentus decision.

11.10 Avenue 5 5/9 Series 1. Billie seeks her moment in the limelight after stepping in to help Ryan. (AD) 11.50 6/9. Ryan and Billie try to identify the incessant beeping. (AD)

12.30am Resident Alien (AD) 1.30 Community 2.30 Upright (AD) 3.40—5.00am Sort Of (AD)

7.50 Ever Decreasing Circles 8.25 Porridge 9.05 The Green Green Grass

9.45 Are You Being Served? 10.20 Last of the Summer Wine 11.35 Porridge

12.15pm Keeping Up Appearances (AD) 12.55 The Green Green Grass 1.35 Dad’s Army 2.15 Ever Decreasing Circles 2.55 Are You Being Served?

3.30 Red Dwarf (AD) 4.50 Dad’s Army

5.30pm Last of the Summer Wine Seymour invents a safety device.

6.05 A heatwave descends.

6.45 Keeping Up Appearances Richard demonstrates his skills. (AD)

7.25 Dad’s Army The blundering platoon guards the bank’s money.

8.00 Red Dwarf Lister yearns for intelligent conversation. (AD)

8.40 Holly recovers an unidentified pod floating in space. (AD)

9.20 Not Going Out Bloopers Special Unscripted moments.

10.00 Red Dwarf Lister’s hallucinations cause chaos. (AD) 10.35 Rimmer duplicates himself. (AD) 11.15 Harry Enfield and Chums The Wobbly Randy Old Ladies take a trip to the petrol station. (AD) 11.55 Not Going Out Bloopers Special Unscripted moments.

12.35am Men Behaving Badly 1.10 Harry Enfield and Chums (AD) 1.50 Men Behaving Badly 2.30 The Two Ronnies: Old Fashioned Christmas Mystery 3.20—4.00am Inside No 9

7.10am Murdoch Mysteries 9.00 Father Brown (AD) 10.00 The Mentalist 11.00 Hudson and Rex (AD) 12 noon Unforgettable 1.00pm Death in Paradise (AD) 2.00 Murdoch Mysteries 4.00 The Mentalist 5.00 Hudson and Rex (AD)

6.00pm Father Brown 5/10 Series 8 Flambeau seeks Father Brown’s help to get rid of an unwanted rival. (AD)

7.00 Unforgettable 2/13 Series 2 Carrie goes under cover as a chemical engineer with a band of professional bank robbers planning a multimillion-dollar heist.

8.00 Death in Paradise 8/8 Series 6. Jack and the team are puzzled when a candidate in the local mayoral elections is stabbed to death in the polling booth. (AD)

9.00 Return to Paradise 2/6 Series 1. DI Mackenzie Clarke delves into the world of wellbeing as she and the team investigate the murder of a famous wellness influencer during a busy fun run. (AD)

10.20 Death in Paradise 1/9 Series 10. A TV news presenter is found dead in her pool and suspicion falls on her co-host. It proves a tricky case — until a former member of the team turns up to lend a hand. (AD)

11.40 As 8pm.

1.00am Hudson and Rex (AD) 2.00—4.00am Murdoch Mysteries

6.00am Sun, Sea and A&E (AD) 7.00 Border Patrol 8.00 UK Border Force (AD) 9.00 Motorway Patrol 10.00 Brit Cops: Frontline Crime UK 11.00 Chicago Fire 12 noon FBI (AD) 2.00pm The Rookie (AD) 3.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent

4.00pm Nothing to Declare Eight editions following the work of customs officers in Australia.

7.00 Police 24/7 Police must figure out the rightful owner of a stolen bike.

8.00 Caught on Dashcam Outrageous road disasters caught on dashboard cameras. (AD)

9.00 Law & Order: Special 6 Victims Unit 3/21 Series 27 Bruno suspects a bomb was planted to destroy DNA evidence in a rape case, while Benson takes on a murder investigation connected to the blast. See page 60.

10.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent 12/22 Series 1. A heart surgeon is murdered during his son’s bar mitzvah.

11.00 The Rookie 17/20 Series 2 Nolan’s confidential informant has returned to her criminal ways. (AD)

12 midnight FBI (AD) 2.00am New. The Rookie 17/18 Series 8. Lucy’s friendship with Jackson is tested Rptd Tue 9pm (AD) 3.00 Road Wars 4.00 Border Security: America’s Front Line 5.00—6.00am The Real A&E (AD)

6.00am Brit Cops (AD) 7.00 Highway Cops 8.00 Caught Red Handed 10.00 Caught on Dashcam 11.00 Most Evil Killers 12 noon Killer in My Village 1.00pm Murder Next Door (AD) 2.00 The Cult of the Family 3.10 How I Caught the Killer (AD) 4.05 Murdered at First Sight (AD) 5.00 Killer in My Village 6.00 Killing Mum and Dad (AD) 7.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers 8.00 Forensics (AD) 9.00 The Real CSI 10.00 What the Killer Did Next (AD) 11.00 The Real Manhunter (AD) 12 midnight World’s Most Evil Killers 1.00am Killing Mum and Dad (AD) 2.00 Murders That Shocked the Nation 3.00 Most Evil Killers 4.00 Border Security USA (AD) 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol

8.00am Impractical Jokers 10.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 1.00pm Friends (AD) 9.00 Michael McIntyre: Hello Wembley! 10.00 New. Impractical Jokers: the guys steal babies at the mall and Sal, Q and Murr look at previously unseen clips 10.30 Amy Schumer: Comedy Central Live 11.00 New. Utopia: the government stalls the NBA’s move to independent status 11.35 Iain Stirling’s Roast the Internet (AD) 12.35am Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA 1.35 South Park 2.35 Michael McIntyre: Hello Wembley! 3.30 Al Murray: the Pub Landlord — Live at the Palladium 4.15—5.00am Friends (AD)

6.00am How It’s Made 7.00 Treehouse Masters 9.00 Gold Rush: White Water 11.00 Extreme RVs 1.00pm Nature’s Strangest Mysteries: Solved 3.00 How Do They Do It? 5.00 The Last Alaskans 7.00pm Wheeler Dealers World Tour: turning a VW Beetle into a Baja Bug 8.00 The Woodland Workshop: Ciarán creates a gothic-style bookshelf with a series of secret compartments (AD) 9.00 Maine Cabin Masters: rebuilding an old oyster shack for a working farm 10.00 Expedition X: double bill (AD) 12 midnight Border Control Sweden (AD) 1.00am Maine Cabin Masters 2.00 Expedition X (AD) 3.00 Gold Divers (AD) 4.00—5.00am Moonshiners

6.00am The First 48 7.00 Green Eyed Killers 8.00 Homicide Hunter 9.00 Fugitives Caught on Tape 9.30 My Strange Arrest 10.30 Court Cam 11.00 Judge Rinder 2.00pm Hometown Tragedy 3.00 Green Eyed Killers 6.00pm On the Case with Paula Zahn 7.00 The First 48 8.00 Hometown Tragedy 9.00 Rob Rinder: the Crime I Can’t Forget. Review p61 10.00 Look What You Made Me Do 11.00 The Death Investigator 12 midnight Britain’s Darkest Taboos 1.00am Interrogation Raw 2.00 New. The Death Investigator 3.00 Imperfect Murder 5.00—6.00am Hometown Tragedy: two editions

8.00am How the Universe Works 11.00 Savage Builds 12 noon Incredible Engineering Blunders: Fixed 1.00pm Cooper’s Treasure (AD) 3.00 How the Universe Works: three editions 6.00pm How It’s Made: six editions. Detachable IndyCar steering wheels 6.30 How blast doors are made 7.00 Carbon fibre, rail-car movers

Sky Documentaries Sky Nature

Terry Venables: a Man Can Dream 8.00pm Dawn to Dusk 8.00pm Beating the heat: a rock hyrax

6.00am One Shot: the Football Factory (AD) 7.00 Discovering: Susan Sarandon (AD) 8.00 The Directors 9.00 The Story of Late Night 9.50 Edge of the Earth (AD) 11.00 Dark Horses: Italy’s World Cup Triumph 12 noon Dave Not Coming Back 2.00pm The Two Escobars (AD) 4.00 The Directors 5.00 Discovering: Susan Sarandon (AD) 5.55 Edge of the Earth: athletes embark on four neverbefore-accomplished missions (AD)

7.00pm Dark Horses: Italy’s World Cup Triumph Fresh from a string of poor performances, Italy start their World Cup out of favour, but advance from the group stage with ease. See feature: page 12.

8.00 Terry Venables: a Man Can Dream A look at the life of the football player-turned-manager, who died in 2023, intertwined with the story of England’s unforgettable run at Euro 96. (AD)

10.00 Brazil 2002 Following the Brazilian national team through the 2002 World Cup, which culminated in the country’s fifth victory in the tournament. See feature: page 12.

11.45 Giroud A profile of footballer Olivier Giroud, who is France’s leading goalscorer and has played for Arsenal, Chelsea and AC Milan.

1.15am Villeneuve Pironi: Racing’s Untold Tragedy 3.15 After the Bite (AD) 5.00—6.00am Discovering: Susan Sarandon (AD)

6.00am Waterworld Africa 7.00

Monkey Life 8.00 Orang-utan Jungle

School 9.00 Valley of Flood and Fire

10.00 Zambia Untamed 11.00 Into the Wild: Colombia 12 noon Secrets of Wild Australia (AD) 1.00pm

Monkey Life 2.00 Orang-utan Jungle School 3.00 Valley of Flood and Fire 4.00 Zambia Untamed: the Luangwa Valley 5.00 Into the Wild: Colombia

6.00pm Secrets of Wild Australia The striking variety of snakes to be found in Australia. (AD)

7.00 Monkey Life The next stage of lemur introductions keeps the primate care staff on their toes.

7.30 In Dao Tien, a group of doucs needs to be relocated.

8.00 Dawn to Dusk The animals that have adapted to survive the heat of the Arabian peninsula. (AD)

9.00 High Life in the Dead Mountains Cameras explore the Totes Gebirge in Austria, also known as “Dead Mountains”.

10.00 Secrets of Wild Australia As 6pm.

11.00 Into the Wild: Colombia Some of the remarkable animals that call Colombia home.

12 midnight Brazil Untamed: the Pantanal 1.00am Waterworld Africa 2.00 Dawn to Dusk (AD) 3.00 High Life in the Dead Mountains 4.00 Orangutan Jungle School 5.00— 6.00am Valley of Flood and Fire

SPORT

Sky Main Event

Sky 401 Virgin 501 EE 419/HD 439

6.00am Sky Sports Catch Up

7.05 LIVE NRL CanterburyBankstown Bulldogs v Parramatta Eels at Stadium Australia (k-o 7.05). 9.05 World Cup Breakfast

10.00 Test Cricket Bitesize

10.15 LIVE Test Cricket Coverage of the fifth and final day of the First Test in the three-match men’s series between England and New Zealand from Lord’s Cricket Ground, London. 7.00pm World Cup Show

10.00 World Cup Report

12 midnight LIVE WNBA Coverage of Washington Mystics v Indiana Fever (tip-off 12.00).

2.30am World Cup Report

3.00 LIVE WNBA Las Vegas Aces v Seattle Storm (tip-off 3.00).

5.30—6.00am World Cup Report

Sky Football

Sky 403 Virgin 503 EE 421/HD 441

6.00am Classic Play-Off Final: Sheffield United v Sunderland (AD) 7.00 League

One Highlights (AD) 8.00 League Two Highlights (AD) 9.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 10.00 Classic Play-Off Finals (AD)

2.00pm EFL Greatest Games (AD)

4.00 League Cup Highlights (AD)

5.30 Championship Best Goals (AD)

6.00 Classic League Cup Final: Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur from 2008 (AD)

8.45 EFL Greatest Games (AD)

10.00 Championship Season Review: a look at the 2013/14 season (AD) 11.00 There’s Only One Sauzée (AD) 11.30 Dundee United: Champions 83 (AD)

12 midnight Classic League Cup Final (AD) 2.45am EFL Greatest Games (AD)

4.00 Championship Season Review (AD) 5.00—6.00am EFL Rivalries (AD)

Sky Sports +

Sky 404 Virgin 504 EE 427/HD 447

6.00am Sky Sports Catch Up 7.00 World Cup Breakfast 9.30 Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup (AD) 9.50 LIVE International T20 Cricket A Women’s World Cup warm-up match between West Indies and India from Cardiff.

Sky Premier League

Sky 402 Virgin 502 EE 420/HD 440 6.00am Greatest Games 7.00 Review 9.00 Highlights 6.00pm Premier League 360: Big Sam’s Bolton (AD) 8.00 Netbusters 9.00 Review 11.00 Years (AD) 1.00am Retro 3.00 Greatest Games 4.00—6.00am Best Goals

Sky Cricket

Sky 405 Virgin 505 EE 422/HD 442

TNT Sports 1

Sky 410 Virgin 521 EE 408/HD 430

6.00am LIVE Test Cricket

Continued coverage of the third day of the one-off men’s Test between India and Afghanistan from Maharaja Yadavindra Singh PCA Stadium. The only previous Test between these teams came in 2018, when India prevailed by an innings and 262 runs in Bengaluru with the help of centuries from openers Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan.

1.00pm TNT Sports Cricket Reload (AD) 1.15

Cycling: the first stage of the men’s Tour Auvergne Rhône Alpes 2.15 LIVE Cycling Coverage of the second stage of the men’s Tour Auvergne Rhône Alpes event, a 234.3km race from Saint-MartinLe-Vinoux to Le Puy-en-Velay. 4.15 Giro d’Italia 5.15 No Filter

Football: Crystal Palace’s run to the Conference League final 5.45 Champions League Goals Reload (AD) 6.00 LIVE Pool Finals night of the Ultimate Pool Pairs Cup, as some of the country’s leading eightball players battle it out for this year’s title.

9.30 What Went Down (AD) 9.45 The Breakdown 10.00 Europa League

Football: SC Freiburg v Aston Villa in this year’s final (AD) 10.30 LIV Golf

8.00am Europe from Above (AD) 9.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) 10.00 Drain the Oceans 11.00 Lost Treasures of Egypt 12 noon World War II: Secrets from Above (AD) 1.00pm Seconds from Disaster 2.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) 3.00 Engineering by Catastrophe (AD) 4.00 New series. Best of the World with Antoni Porowski 5.00 Inside Melbourne Airport (AD) 6.00 Hitler’s Last Stand 7.00 Air Crash Investigation 8.00 New. Amsterdam Central 24/7 9.00 Air Crash Investigation

10.00 New. To Catch a Smuggler 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) 12 midnight Ultimate Airport Dubai 1.00am Inside the CIA 2.00 Primal Survivor 2.30 Made in a Day (AD) 3.20 Food Factory

4.10 Exotic Animal ER: Double Dose

4.35—5.00am Prairie Dog Dynasty

8.00am Yukon Vet 9.00 National Parks: USA 10.00 Monster Fish 11.00 Savage Kingdom 12 noon The Incredible Dr Pol 1.00pm Yukon Vet 2.00 Heartland Docs 3.00 Shark Men 4.00 Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina 5.00 Rocky Mountain Railroad: a grain train travels through ice-encrusted tunnels 6.00pm Yukon Vet 7.00 New. The Incredible Dr Pol: an insight into a busy Michigan veterinary practice 8.00 New. The Incredible Dr Pol Compilation 9.00 Rare Cat Skills 10.00 Lawless Island 11.00 Ice Road Rescue 12 midnight When Sharks Attack 1.00am Last of the Giants: Wild Fish 2.00 The Incredible Dr Pol 3.00 Yukon Vet 4.00—5.00am Savage Kingdom

1.30pm World Cup Report 2.30 Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup (AD) 2.50 LIVE International T20 Cricket England v Australia, a Women’s World Cup warm-up match from Sophia Gardens in Cardiff.

6.30 World Cup Report 7.00 World Cup Show 10.00 World Cup Report

12 midnight EFL Greatest Games (AD)

1.00am Tennis 3.00 Super League

5.45—6.00am EFL Greatest Games (AD)

Sky

Golf

Sky 406 Virgin 506 EE 423/HD 443

6.00am PGA Tour

6.00am Hardcore Pawn 9.15 Pawn Stars

10.10 Storage Wars 12 noon New History’s

Greatest Picks with Mike Wolfe 1.00pm New Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny 2.00 World’s First Battlefield 3.00 Digging for Britain 6.00 American Pickers 7.00 Forged in Fire 8.00 History’s Greatest Picks with Mike Wolfe 9.00 Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny 10.00 New. The Proof Is Out There: Unexplained Edition 11.00 What on Earth? 12 midnight Digging for Britain 2.00am New. World War II with Tom Hanks

4.00 Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny 5.00—6.00am Storage Wars

8.00am My Cat from Hell (AD) 9.00 Preposterous Pets 10.00 Tanked 11.00 Animal Cops Phoenix (AD) 1.00pm Alaska: Homestead Rescue 2.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees 3.00 My Cat from Hell (AD) 5.00 Lone Star Law

6.00pm Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 7.00 Treehouse Masters 8.00 Sharks of the Shadowlands 9.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier: for the first time, the Kilchers film themselves (AD) 10.00 Alaskan Bush People (AD) 11.00 Mountain Monsters

12 midnight Alaska: Homestead Rescue 1.00am 100 Days Wild 2.00 Treehouse Masters 3.00—5.00am

Animal Cops Houston (AD)

Sky Sports Mix

6.00am Test Cricket Highlights 10.00 Test Cricket Bitesize 10.15 LIVE Test Cricket The fifth and final day of the First Test in the three-match men’s series between England and New Zealand at Lord’s. The hosts have won two of the last three series in this format against the Kiwis, including a 2—1 win in New Zealand at the end of 2024. The last time the visitors played against England in this country the hosts won a three-match series 3—0, as the Ben Stokes/Brendon McCullum era got under way in spectacular style. 7.00pm Best of the World T20 (AD) 7.30 Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup (AD) 8.00 Test Cricket Highlights 9.00 Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup (AD) 9.30 Test Cricket Bitesize 10.00 Test Cricket Highlights 11.00 Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup (AD) 11.30 Test Cricket Bitesize 12 midnight— 6.00am Test Cricket Highlights

Sky Action

Sky 412 Virgin 510 EE 426/HD 446 6.00am NFL Highlights 7.05 LIVE NRL CanterburyBankstown Bulldogs v Parramatta Eels, coverage of a match from the 14th round of fixtures, from Stadium Australia in Sydney (kick-off 7.05). 9.10 Super League 9.30 NBA on Fire 10.00 NBA 12 noon Super Bowl LX Highlights (AD) 1.00pm Good Morning Football 3.00 NFL Highlights 4.00 Super League 4.45 Rugby League 5.00 Boxing

6.00 Pro-Football Talk 8.00 Boxing 9.00 NBA (AD) 11.00 NFL Highlights 12 midnight LIVE WNBA Coverage of Washington Mystics v Indiana Fever from CareFirst Arena in Washington (tip-off 12.00). 2.30am Super League 2.45 Women’s Super League

3.00 LIVE WNBA Las Vegas Aces v Seattle Storm from Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas (tip-off 3.00). 5.30—6.00am Super League (AD)

Sky Tennis

Sky 408 Virgin 508 EE 425/HD 445 10.00am—6.00pm LIVE Tennis The ATP Stuttgart Open and the ATP and WTA S-Hertogenbosch Open grass-court tournaments, held in Germany and the Netherlands.

12 midnight LIVE Major League Baseball Coverage of Toronto Blue Jays v Philadelphia Phillies, an inter-league match from Rogers Centre (start 12.07am). These two teams last met in a three-match series last June in Philadelphia as the Phillies picked up a 3—0 victory over the three games thanks to 8—0, 3—2 and 11—4 victories.

3.00am MLB Classic

3.30 TNT Sports Cricket Reload (AD) 3.45 Test Cricket Highlights 4.45—6.00am LIVE Test Cricket The fourth day of the one-off Test between India and Afghanistan from Maharaja Yadavindra Singh PCA Stadium. Continues until 1pm.

TNT Sports 2

TNT Sports 3

TUESDAY

SOAP

EastEnders

7.30pm BBC One Catch up: iPlayer

DOCTOR’S ORDERS

Dr Martin Best (Josh Charles)

COMEDY DRAMA

Best Medicine

8.00pm, 9.00pm Sky One Catch up via Now

For those familiar with Doc Martin, this initially feels less like a re-imagining and more like a repeat prescription. The setting may have shifted from Cornwall to Maine and Martin Clunes has made way for Josh Charles (formerly of The Good Wife), but the essentials remain intact. Martin – who’s been given the surname Best rather than Ellingham – is still the exasperated fish-out-ofwater MD, still battling a blood phobia, and still circling a tentative romance with schoolteacher Louisa (Abigail Spencer).

NEW SERIES

So why bother at all? Well, the same was once asked about The Office, which went on to carve out a distinct identity of its own. And here, there are early signs of something rather similar. This time, there’s a suggestion that Martin’s bluntness will be unpacked: a childhood bully resurfaces, and hints of a deeper sadness begin to emerge.

Perhaps, then, this is a version willing to probe where its predecessor largely observed. For now, it may just require a quality the doctor himself lacks: patience. DAVID BROWN

As Vicki Fowler’s chaotic love triangle finally reaches a conclusion, poor Oscar Branning remains trapped in a romantic minefield of his own. Albert Square’s love rat is hopelessly tangled between Slater twins Jasmine and Josh, with actor Pierre Counihan-Moullier injecting every scene with a wonderfully exaggerated flair.

After attempting to dive deeper into Jasmine’s troubled past, Oscar lands a stinging slap across the face and retreats to Josh for comfort. Consolation soon gives way to temptation, and the pair share a kiss – oblivious to Kat Moon outside the window.

FOOD

MICHAEL ADAMS

Bake Off: the Professionals

8.00pm C4 Catch up: C4 streaming

The disappointed look on the face of one of the patisserie chefs says it all. So much goes wrong for them as they make savoury laminated tarts and cream buns with a twist. The flavours of their fillings are intriguing and include one I’d not heard of before, but their presentation is, as Benoit Blin so charmingly says, “too rustic”.

Two showpieces – to craft a landmark such as Tower Bridge, a Japanese pagoda, the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower from biscuits with accompanying petit gateaux – make a real statement. JANE RACKHAM

HISTORY

Modern Marvels: WWII

8.00pm Sky History Catch up via Now

NEW SERIES

Horror and innovation went hand-in-hand during the Second World War. Consider the Nazi V-2 rocket: a ballistic missile that hit the ground with such speed that people didn’t even have time to blink. Years later, the same technology served as the prototype for space rockets. This three-part US documentary frames the conflict as a war of engineering. The American B-29 Superfortress doubled the range of conventional bombers; Britain’s bouncing bomb breached previously impregnable dams; and Germany’s Elektroboot became the blueprint for the modern submarine. STEPHEN KELLY

DOCUMENTARY

Who Do You Think You Are? 9.00pm BBC One Catch up via iPlayer

As he starts off on his ancestry adventure, actor and TV personality Joe Swash grins, “If I can’t be related to royalty, then the next best thing would be the criminal underworld.”

Although born in London, Joe has some Italian in his family tree so he’s hopeful there might be a Mafia connection. It’s not quite that, however, although he discovers that his three-times great grandfather Donato was jailed in a prison near Naples, while his five-times great grandfather was murdered.

“I’ve read every bit of the story wrong,” he realises, as he picks apart the jigsaw of their lives. JR

DRAMA

The Fortune

9.00pm 5 Catch up via 5 streaming

After a corker of a cliffhanger last week, this third episode follows on in a decidedly frantic fashion with Amanda (Eleanor Tomlinson) left in a terrifying, moral conundrum.

As events turn deadly, she must lean on those she trusts the most – her husband Jimmy (Matthew Lewis) and best friend Sandy (Danielle Walters). But with the pair now acting oddly, and Jimmy knowing more than he’s letting on, should Amanda be suspicious?

Martin’s (Denis Lawson) family also continue to look for answers.

MORGAN CORMACK

JUDGEMENT DAY

DESIGN

Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr

8.00pm

BBC One Catch up via iPlayer

LAST IN SERIES

Spoiler alert. Both finalists in the contest like maximalist design, so don’t expect beige walls or bland upholstery when they revamp two holiday cottages in the grounds of Longleat. Instead, there are dark colours, animal prints and heavily patterned wallpaper, so it’s just as well that the guest judge is the flamboyant Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. “Nice is a word I hope never to use,” he says about his impending critiques. He doesn’t, although he does refer to one designer as a “colour witch – but in a good way”.

There are also a lot of positive sounding “oohs” from him and Michelle Ogundehin before the winner is announced. JR

DRAMA

Tip Toe 9.00pm C4

SERIES FINALE

Full series available on C4 streaming Life seems relatively normal as this final episode begins. Leo has his best mate Stephanie round for a boxset binge, while next door Clive and his sons have a boozy mob round for a footie match. But gay teenager George is freaked out when his new friend Zee calls by.

The start of each episode has told us where this is leading: the death by hanging of Leo. That doesn’t make his killing any less shocking. Heated exchanges turn with speed into hate, and culminate in an act of extreme homophobia. Russell T Davies’s cry from the heart is not just sobering; it’s terrifying viewing for all queer people and everyone who loves and supports us. PATRICK MULKERN

DOCUMENTARY

England 2006: the Golden Generation

10.40pm (11.10pm in N Ireland)

BBC One Available on iPlayer

English football seldom passes up a chance to reminisce about glorious defeat, but the men’s 2006 World Cup campaign was a little different; hubris abounds in this retrospective, as told by journalists, FA bigwigs and ex-players.

This was the summer of the Wags, who enjoyed the shopping and nightlife of Baden-Baden, egged on by the press pack, while the so-called “Golden Generation” laboured through sub-par performances undermined by injuries and a weight of entitled expectation that arguably only lifted in the Gareth Southgate era. Only at the end, down to 10 men, did they rise to the occasion. And then came penalties... GABRIEL TATE

Reuben Owen: Life in the Dales

8.00pm 5

Reuben (above) is hired to turn a hole in the ground into a vibrant pond, while freezing temperatures reach Jess’s farm.

Only When I Laugh

6.30pm Rewind TV

The first episode of the late-70s hospital-set sitcom from Rising Damp creator Eric Chappell, with a cast including James Bolam and Richard Wilson.

Springwatch

8.00pm BBC Two

Chris and Michaela keep watch of the wildlife in Fermanagh, while Iolo Williams reports from Bempton Cliffs as seabirds flock for breeding season.

Tennis: Queen’s 1.00pm BBC Two Day two of the women’s grass-court tournament in West London.

Men’s T20 Cricket

Essex v Kent Spitfires

6.55pm Sky Sports Cricket, 7pm Sky Sports ME

T20 action from Chelmsford.

Football: Women’s World Cup 2027 Qualifier

England v Ukraine

7.30pm (k/o 8pm) ITV1

The Lionesses head to Everton’s Hill Dickinson stadium for their final group-stage qualifier against Ukraine.

SPORT

HIGHLIGHTS

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FILM REVIEWS

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Guest judge

Laurence LlewelynBowen with Michelle Ogundehin and Alan Carr

AT WAR

Leo (Alan Cumming)

BBC One 6.00am Breakfast Presented by Jon Kay and Sally Nugent. (S) (HD)

BBC One

9.30 Morning Live Gethin Jones and Helen Skelton host the weekday magazine show. (S) (HD)

10.45 Doorbell Detectives Matt Allwright hears from Ann, who woke up one morning to find her home had been robbed while she was asleep. (S) (HD)

11.15 Homes under the Hammer Featuring properties bought at auction in Merseyside, Suffolk and Yorkshire. Repeated Friday 6.30am BBC Two (S) (AD) (HD)

12.15pm Bargain Hunt Natasha Raskin Sharp presents from her home city of Glasgow. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

2.00 Policing Paradise The drugs unit arrests a man on a cruise ship in a major bust, and there’s a mystery missing phone at the golf course. (S) (HD)

2.30 Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes

The presenter joins up with Sheli McCoy, aka Gladiator Sabre, to explore Fife. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

3.00 Escape to the Country A property expert helps with another search for a rural home, this time in Powys. Repeated Thursday 6.30am BBC Two (S) (HD)

3.45 Garden Rescue Lee Burkhill and Flo Headlam transform an unloved plot in Winchester. (R) (S) (HD)

4.30—5.15 Bridge of Lies Friends Phoebe, Katie, Sam and Cal aim to win. Ross Kemp hosts. (R) (S) (HD)

BBC Two

BBC Two 6.30am Bargain Hunt David Harper hosts from an antiques fair in Detling, Kent. Shown yesterday 12.15pm BBC One (S) (AD) (HD)

7.15 Garden Rescue Diarmuid Gavin and Chris Hull transform plots in Oxford. Shown last Friday BBC One (S) (HD)

8.00—9.00 Sign Zone 8.00 Farm 999 Farmland and livestock are threatened by a wildfire in Antrim. (R) (S) (HD)

8.30 Lost and Found in the Lakes The team searches for a bracelet given to a woman by her late father. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 BBC News (S) (HD)

12.15pm Politics Live Analysis and debate. (S) (HD)

1.00—6.00 LIVE Tennis Coverage from day two of the women’s Queen’s Club Championship in London, featuring matches from the first round of the singles competition. British hope Emma Raducanu was in fine form at this stage last year, overcoming Cristina Bucsa in straight sets. Her compatriots Sonay Kartal, Heather Watson and Katie Boulter also booked their places in the second round, beating Daria Kasatkina, Yulia Putintseva and Ajla Tomljanovic respectively. Additional coverage on the red button, iPlayer and at bbc.co.uk/sport from 11.30am—7.30pm. (S) (HD)

ITV1

ITV1 6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD) 9.30 Lorraine Guests and gossip. (S) (HD)

10.00 This Morning Celebrity interviews, fashion and lifestyle advice. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD) 12.30pm Loose Women Forthright opinions. (S) (HD)

1.30 ITV News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal David and the team are in Hartlepool, where James Layte haggles over an execution poster and Tim Hogarth is disappointed after losing out on a classic Gibson guitar. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00—4.00 Lingo Chelsea and Jony, Ryan and Zoe, and James and Hannah compete. Hosted by Adil Ray. (R) (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather (S) (HD)

Who Do You Think You Are? 9.00pm Joe Swash travels to Italy to walk in his ancestors’ footsteps

5.15pm Pointless

Quiz with Alexander Armstrong and Ria Lina. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)

6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD)

7.00 The One Show

Presented by Alex Jones and Roman Kemp. (S) (HD)

7.30 EastEnders

6

Kat plans a birthday dinner for Jasmine. See p70. Writer Richard Davidson Cast Monday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr: the Final

6

8/8 Series 7. The two finalists head to Longleat, where they take inspiration from the safari park and the surrounding countryside to transform rental cottages. Judges Michelle Ogundehin and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen assess how much their design ability has evolved, before one of the contestants wins the competition and a partnership with retailer Next for their own homewares range. See page 71. Director Jess Reid; Producers Rosie Saunders and Mark Stanton Repeated Thursday 8pm BBC Three (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Who Do You Think You Are?

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3/8. Joe Swash. The former EastEnders actor and reality TV star goes in search of his Italian roots. He begins near to where he grew up in Islington, where he learns that his great-great-grandfather Giuseppe worked as a street piano player. He traces his ancestors to Senerchia, where he uncovers stories of murder and banditry, and stops by a family bar in southern Italy. Narrated by Angela Griffin. See p71.

Director Sue Hills; Producer Lizzy Laycock (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

10.40 England 2006: the Golden Generation

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The summer of 2006 was meant to be England’s moment, so why did the World Cup end in agony on-field and acrimony off? Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Cole, Wayne Rooney, Owen Hargreaves and Paul Robinson reflect on the pressures, the injuries and more. On the pitch, selection controversies and tactical uncertainty fuelled the tension. The film captures the moment when football, fame and the media collided, and asks why such gifted players unravelled on football’s biggest stage. Watch now on iPlayer. See page 71.

Springwatch 8.00pm Michaela Strachan follows the natural wonders of the season in Fermanagh

6.00pm Richard Osman’s House of Games

Simon Armitage, Josie Gibson, Ardal O’Hanlon and Adele Roberts test their general knowledge. (R) (S) (HD)

6.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys 2/20 Series 8. Michael Portillo hunts for truffles in the Croatian countryside, aided by an expert labrador. In Rijeka, he learns the history of a military coup led by an Italian poet after the First World War. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Marcus Wareing Simply Provence 5/7. The cook heads for a local farmers’ market where Provençal chefs give a weekly cooking demo. Marcus is challenged to take the stage — but can he convince the locals that Brits know how to cook? He also dives into the region’s history to seek culinary inspiration as he serves dinner for the mayor’s sister at a VIP event.

Director Duncan Thompson

Series producer Bridget Gregory (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)

8.00 Springwatch

10/12. Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan deliver the latest news as they keep watch on the springtime wildlife at the Crom estate in Fermanagh. Meanwhile, Iolo Williams reports from the breathtaking Bempton Cliffs in East Yorkshire as thousands of seabirds flock for breeding season. Continues tomorrow 8pm. (S) (HD)

9.00 QI XL

Sandi Toksvig asks the questions as David Mitchell, Zoe Lyons and Richard Osman join regular panellist Alan Davies for a spooky edition of the panel game. Director Diccon Ramsay Series producer Piers Fletcher (R) (S) (HD)

9.45 Live at the Apollo

13/14 Series 19. Chris McCausland introduces fellow stand-up comedians Sophie Duker and Emmanuel Sonubi on stage at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. Director Paul Wheeler; Series producer Anthony Caveney (R) (S) (HD)

10.30 Newsnight With Victoria Derbyshire. (S) (HD) Weather (S) (HD)

11.00 Brexit: a Very British Civil War 1/2. On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU. Ten years on, this documentary recounts the run-up to the referendum and the explosive political fall-out from the result. Featuring interviews with key players, the programme charts the political rifts and rivalries that changed British history. See review, page 60. Shown yesterday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)

Channel 4 5.45am Countdown With guest Mark Chapman. (R) (S) (HD)

Channel 4

6.25 Cheers Triple bill of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)

7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.10 Frasier Four episodes. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.10 American Pickers Mike Wolfe flips for a VW bus that has been transformed into a hunting lodge on wheels in Texas. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 12.05pm News (S) (HD)

12.10 Car SOS Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend take on a neglected 1980 Jaguar XJ-S V12. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.10 Help! We Bought a Village The owners of a restored village in Italy prepare to welcome a large group of visitors from overseas. (R) (S) (HD)

2.10 Countdown Mark Chapman guests. (S) (HD)

3.00—4.00 A Place in the Sun Ben Hillman meets Barbara and Leigh on Cyprus, showing them five holiday homes for their £120,000 budget. (R) (S) (HD)

Director Paul Hodkinson; Producers Rohan Sethi and Paul Hodkinson World Cup opening ceremony and Mexico v South Africa Thursday 6.15pm ITV1 (S) (AD) (HD) World Cup special: page 12

11.40 Escape Room: Tournament of Champions HHH

qHorror sequel. The survivors of an elaborate “locked room” game are determined to discover the author of their ordeal, but their quest only plunges them into another series of fiendish death traps. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 77.

See feature: page 29

12.05am Ali & Ava HHHH Drama. Amiable, music-loving q landlord Ali lives in Bradford, where his marriage is coming to a painful end. He meets widowed teaching assistant Ava and the two become close. But their own insecurities and family opposition threaten to undermine their relationship. On iPlayer for 12 months. Review page 77. Ali Adeel Akhtar Ava Claire Rushbrook Runa Ellora Torchia Shaun Shaun Thomas Dawn Natalie Gavin

Director Clio Barnard (2021, 15) (S) (HD)

1.35—3.35am Sign Zone 1.35 Springwatch 4/12. Chicks must evade predators as they prepare to fledge. (R) (S) (HD)

2.35 Surgeons: at the Edge of Life 5/8. A surgeon has to remove a patient’s voice box. Shown last Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD) BBC iPLAYER 5.45—8.00pm Women’s World Cup Qualifiers Northern Ireland v Switzerland from Lurgan (kick-off 6.00) Wales v Czech Republic from Cardiff (kick-off 6.00)

International Football 7.30pm Alessia Russo and the Lionesses take on Ukraine

4.00pm Tipping Point

Ben Shephard hosts the arcade-themed quiz.

Director Richard van’t Riet; Series producer Chris Hale (R) (S) (HD)

5.00 The Chase Will, Jim, Arrianne and Katie take part.

Executive producers Helen Tumbridge, Michael Kelpie and Martin Scott (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)

6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)

7.30 International Football England v Ukraine

Seema Jaswal introduces all the action from both teams’ final Women’s World Cup Group A3 qualifier, held at Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool (kick-off 8.00). England started their campaign with a 6—1 win over Ukraine in March and will expect another comfortable victory this evening. With analysis by Anita Asante and Fran Kirby, reports from Katie Shanahan, and commentary by Ellen Ellard and Lucy Ward.

Director Adam Maynard; Editor Phil Heslop (S) (HD)

10.25 ITV News

Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

11.10 Terminator 2: Judgment Day

q5 Sci-fi action thriller. Tormented by the threat of a nuclear holocaust from which machines will crush human existence, Sarah Connor has been institutionalised. Informed of the future, she knows that her son John will become leader of the human race. However, the machines of 2029 know it too, sending a cyborg assassin to terminate him. The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sarah Connor Linda Hamilton

John Connor Edward Furlong T-1000 Robert Patrick Dr Silberman Earl Boen Miles Dyson Joe Morton Tarissa Dyson S Epatha Merkerson Director James Cameron (1991, 15) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.25am Home Shopping (HD)

3.00 DMV: Department of Motor Vehicles 17/20 Vic is trying to avoid seeing a doctor. (S) (SL) (HD)

3.25 18/20. Colette agrees to oversee Ceci’s grandmother’s upcoming driving test. (S) (SL) (HD)

3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD)

5.05—6.00am Fern Britton: inside the Vet’s Fern meets a rescue cat with diabetes. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL

In March, Jess Park scored the last two goals to seal a 6—1 victory for England over tonight’s opponents Ukraine. The Lionesses’ World Cup qualifying campaign concludes this evening at Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool.

2.30—3.00pm

Bake Off: the Professionals 8.00pm Who will dazzle pastry expert Benoit Blin? BBC ONE

4.00pm Narrow Escapes

Tom officially moves aboard his own boat. Repeated tomorrow 10am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

5.00 Château DIY: Australia

In Bordeaux, Deanne and Richard hoist a very expensive 1950s chandelier into place.

Executive producer Joff Hatfield-Powell; Series editor Richard Park Repeated tomorrow 3pm 4seven (S) (HD)

6.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

A couple seek a holiday home in Almería.

Repeated tomorrow 11am 4seven (R) (S) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)

8.00 Bake Off: the Professionals

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3/10 Series 11. The teams create 24 savoury laminated tarts, get creative with 24 cream buns and build modern landmark showpieces out of biscuit. See page 70.

Director Nicholas Berry; Executive producers Kieran Smith and Oliver Manley Repeated tomorrow 8pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Tip Toe

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5/5. The war between Leo and Clive reaches a shocking climax. See page 71.

Leo Struthers Alan Cumming

Clive Goss David Morrissey

Stephanie Dale Elizabeth Berrington

Marie Goss Pooky Quesnel

Melba Paul Rhys

Roddy Boxall George Miller

Kofi Musah Munya Mswaka

Billy Booth Nathan Lea

Bradley Tuckshop Tucker Jack Craig

Saul Goss Joseph Evans

George Goss Jackson Connor

Zee Malone Iz Hesketh

Mikey Driscoll Gabriel Clark Trent

Olly Charles Humphreys

Monty Callum Burbidge Kabir Sharma Hamza Medley

The Fortune 9.00pm Amanda confronts Jimmy about some suspicious behaviour

5.35am Milkshake! See page 76

9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)

11.30 Storm and Alexis Discussion. (S) (HD) 12.45pm 5 News (S) (HD)

12.50 Matt Allwright Debate. (S) (HD)

2.00 Vanessa Discussion show. (S) (HD)

3.00 Castle 12/23 Series 4. The investigation of a dead woman leads to the mayor. (R) (S) (HD)

4.00 13/23. A dog trainer is murdered. (R) (S) (HD)

4.50 Love Nature Sutton Park in Birmingham, one of Europe’s largest urban nature reserves. (R) (S) (HD)

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)

6.00 Norfolk and Suffolk: Country and Coast

2/6. Shepherds Poppy and Joe check on lambs born overnight on their Suffolk farm. (R) (S) (HD)

6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

7.00 A Yorkshire Farm

1/3 Series 2. In Barnsley, farmers Rob and Dave Nicholson pick sloes from their farm hedgerows before turning them into artisanal chocolate.

Executive producers Paul Stead and Mark McMullen (R) (S) (HD)

Reporting Scotland: news reports

Banjo and Ro’s Grand Island Hotel: a storm closes in on Ulva 8.00 This Farming Life: in Fife, Jo and Andy prepare for lambing season 9.00 Reported Missing: in Edinburgh, police mount searches for two teenagers who are missing from care 10.00 Inside Barlinnie: after 18 months behind bars, Sean returns to Cambuslang. Last in series 11.00 Scotcast: discussion 11.30—12 midnight Life on the Bay: Amanda works to make everything perfect for a couple’s big day

ITV1 BORDER SCOTLAND

Ollie Roddy

Ayomide Shakeel Kimotho

Khumalo

Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo

Alex Badderley Jake Waring

Kwame Mbusi Imran Adams

Tommo Brookes Steven Hillman

Beryl Lily Best Regime Dominic Holmes Bridget Ania Marson

Aayushi Sonya Nisa Connor Brady Colin Connor Rajesh Alex Williams

Diane Vazey Denise Welch

Hashim Habib Hassan Maarfi

Craig Calloway Dale Monie Molly Sophia Smith Taxi driver Gbenga Jempeji Taxi driver’s girlfriend Kevwe Emefe

Vivaan Sharma Garon Akbar Clark John George Kent Jon Isaac Turner Tom Ole Madden Yan Lee Harding

Writer Russell T Davies; Producer Phil Collinson; Director Peter Hoar Repeated tomorrow 3.10am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 24 Hours in A&E

A woman is in resus after an asthma attack.

Director/Producer Sarah Conti

Repeated Friday 9pm 4seven (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.05 Emergency

3/4 Series 3. After a head-on collision, plasterer Lee, 56, is placed in an induced coma.

Series director Matt Haan

Series producer Rebecca Arnold (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

12.10am In the Footsteps of Killers Investigating the disappearance of Georgina Gharsallah. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA At Mike and Nellie’s Steakhouse in New Jersey. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

1.55 Couples Come Dine with Me Three couples from the Lake District compete to win £1,000. (S) (HD)

2.50 Will My Summer Holiday Be Cancelled? A Dispatches report about how the cost of fuel has led to uncertainty over holidays. Shown last Fri (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

3.45 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces Transforming an ambulance into a camper van. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

4.40 Sunday Brunch Highlights. (R) (S) (HD)

4.50—5.45am Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country The family go on a barge holiday. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 Reuben Owen: Life in the Dales

Ep 6 Series 3. Reuben and the team are hired to turn a hole in the ground into a vibrant pond. Elsewhere, a tanker has seized up overnight due to temperatures reaching freezing on Jess’s family farm.

Director/Series producer Kate Fraser (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 The Fortune 6 3/4. A terrified Amanda flees the cottage and manages to make her way back home. At Brackburn, Fiona and Anthony receive Martin’s suitcase from the hotel. Concludes tomorrow 9pm. See page 71.

Amanda Blakefield

Eleanor Tomlinson

Jimmy Brent Matthew Lewis

Luke Brent James Younger

Anthony Worrall Callum Woodhouse

Linda Blakefield Paula Wilcox

Boots Maddison

Stephen Tompkinson

Fiona Worrall Rebecca Front Martin Worrall Denis Lawson Laura Mistry Nina Wadia Sandy Danielle Walters

Writer Aschlin Ditta; Series producer Lesley Douglas

Director Andy De Emmony (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Inheritance: Murder in the Family

Dr Thomas Kwan’s elaborate plot to murder his mother’s partner, Patrick O’Hara.

Director/Producer Luke Rufo (R) (S) (HD)

11.35 Prime Suspect: Hunting the Predators

Following National Crime Agency officers as they observe and arrest a university lecturer.

Director Joe Lister

Series producers Kayleigh Smith and Joe Lister (R) (S) (HD)

1.00am Home Shopping (R) (S) (HD)

2.30 Murder My Sweetheart: the Killing of Dolores McCrea Exploring the murder of Donegal mother of four, Dolores McCrea. (S) (HD)

3.25 Friends Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

4.35 The Highland Vet Bridget and Vicky receive a report of a prolapsed sheep. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

5.25—5.35am Entertainment News (S) (HD)

BBC TWO WALES 5.45—8.00pm Match of the Day Wales: Wales v Czech Republic, a women’s World Cup Group B1 qualifier at Cardiff City Stadium (kick-off 6.00) 11.00—12.05am First Minister’s Questions ITV1 WALES 11.10pm Sharp End: political discussion 12.10am Wheel of Fortune 1.00—1.25 Face to Face S4C Freesat 120 Sky 134 Virgin 164 6.00am Cyw 12 noon Newyddion; Tywydd 12.05pm Cymru, Dad a Fi 12.30 Heno 1.00 Bwyd Epic Chris 1.30 Ffermio 2.00 Newyddion; Tywydd 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion; Tywydd 3.05 Am Dro! 4.00 Awr Fawr 5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Cymoedd

Keeping Up Appearances 8.00pm

A double helping of social climbing

All programmes on BBC Four are repeats unless otherwise stated 7.00pm University Challenge

Two more teams return for a secondround match. Jeremy Paxman hosts. From 2023. More tomorrow 7pm. (S) (HD)

7.30 Only Connect

Three chess players challenge the Mathematicians in a bid to win third place in this 2009 edition. Victoria Coren Mitchell presents. More tomorrow 7.30pm. Repeated 1.50am (S)

8.00 Keeping Up Appearances

9/11 Series 2. Hyacinth is waiting for a new three-piece suite to be delivered. (S) (HD) 8.30 10/11. Hyacinth decides to take Daddy out for a picnic, but her plans soon backfire. Both episodes first broadcast 1991. Writer Roy Clarke

Director/Producer Harold Snoad (S) (HD)

9.00 A History of Britain by Simon Schama

3/4 Series 3. The Empire of Good Intentions. The historian investigates how the noble ideals behind the British Empire failed to match the reality. While British society believed it was delivering the benefits of modern Western civilisation, in truth the inhabitants of India and Ireland suffered privation due to a laissez-faire economic policy. From 2002. A box set is on iPlayer. Director/Producer Jamie Muir (S) (AD) 10.00 Muhammad Ali 5/8. Round Three: the Rivalry 1/2 Showing following the 10th anniversary of the boxer’s death on 3 June 2016, this documentary looks at how the boxer faced his fiercest rival Joe Frazier in the “Fight of the Century”. Ali also became a focal point for Americans who were disillusioned with the Vietnam War. (S) (HD) 10.50 6/8. Round Three: the Rivalry 2/2 The Supreme Court overturns the boxer’s conviction, validating his refusal to serve in the war in Vietnam. In 1974, to complete his comeback, he must face the fearsome George Foreman. (S) (HD) 11.40 7/8. Round Four: the Spell Remains 1/2. The boxer shocks the world when he defeats George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire. He then faces Joe Frazier for a third time in the brutal Thrilla in Manila. (S) (HD) 12.30am 8/8. Round Four: the Spell Remains 2/2. A look at how the boxer retired from fighting in 1981, before being diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1984. The documentary concludes by looking at how he became a symbol of peace and hope, his final two fights and his lighting of the Olympic torch in 1996. From 2022. Directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon (S) (HD)

1.20 The Sky at Night: the team examine the threat of space weather. See review, page 60 Shown yesterday 10pm (S) (HD)

1.50 Only Connect Shown 7.30pm (S)

2.20—3.20am Art on the BBC 4/4. How TV has influenced our understanding of John Constable Shown yesterday 8pm (S) (SL) (HD)

Movie 9.00pm

7.00pm New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)

7.05 Deadly 60

Steve Backshall heads to Snake Island in Brazil. First shown in 2025. (S) (HD)

7.30 Steve Backshall heads to Slovenia in search of the nose-horned viper. First shown in 2025. More Friday 7.05pm. (S) (HD)

8.00 Top Gear

The hosts are each given a budget of £5,000 to find a car that can hold its own on a racetrack and handle everyday tasks. Alastair Campbell tries out the reasonably priced car. First shown in 2010. (S) (HD)

9.00 Louis Theroux: My Scientology Movie HHH

qInvestigative journalist Louis Theroux tries to shine a light on the secretive organisation, mostly by robust questioning of the church’s former officials. On iPlayer for 30 days. Director John Dower (2015, 15) (S) (AD) (HD)

10.40 Top Gear

Searching for the world’s best four-seat supercar. First shown in 2010. (S) (HD)

11.40 Charlie Cooper’s Myth Country 1/3. The writer and actor explores local legends, myths and folklore. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.10am 2/3. Examining why humans leave marks on the landscape. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.40 3/3. The actor goes in search of King Arthur’s buried treasure. The whole series is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD) 1.10 Peacock (S) (AD) (HD) 2.05 Birdsong: short film (S) (HD) 2.20—3.55am FILM Louis Theroux: My Scientology Movie HHH (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

Classic Coronation Street 4.40pm A business deal angers Liam

6.00am On the Buses (S) 7.05 Classic Emmerdale (S) (AD) 8.05 Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD) 9.10 Inspector Morse: Series 7 Deadly Slumber. Is Morse’s sympathy for a troubled murder suspect clouding his judgement? (S) (AD) (HD) 11.20 Heartbeat: 9/24. A girl is kidnapped (S) (AD); 12.25pm 10/24. UFO sightings shock the village (S) (AD) 1.30pm Midsomer Murders: Series 15. The Dark Rider. Barnaby investigates reports of a headless horseman (S) (AD) (HD) 3.35 Classic Emmerdale: double bill. Jo worries that she will be forced off the farm, then Ross is horrified by Marlon’s announcement (S) (AD)

4.40pm Classic Coronation Street

Liam discovers Carla is now a business partner and wants her out of the deal (S) (AD)

5.15 John expresses his gratitude. (S) (AD)

5.50 Heartbeat

11/24 Series 8. A series of jewel thefts rocks the village. Jason Durr stars. (S) (AD) 6.55 12/24. Blaketon is appointed to the post of nuclear warning officer. (S) (AD)

8.00 Vera

4/4

Series 1. Little Lazarus. A woman is brutally murdered. Her son escapes and DI Vera Stanhope, usually awkward around children, finds a kindred spirit in the boy. Could the key to solving the case be locked in the child’s memory? (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Law & Order: UK

3/7

Series 1. Vice. A former vice cop is found beaten to death, setting Brooks and Devlin off on an investigation. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 4/7. Unsafe. A body is found in a shallow grave by the Thames. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.50 Scott & Bailey

2/3 Series 5. Rachel receives an email of video footage of a murder. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.50am 3/3. Janet’s attempts to help Taisie result in a complaint. (S) (AD) (HD)

1.50 On the Buses: the depot football team play for money (S) 2.20—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)

team

7.20am The Bill Repeated 11.55am (S) 8.15

Doctors: double bill. A patient confronts his fears, then Archie and Heston disagree over a disturbed boy (S) 9.30 Classic Holby City: Diane asks for her job back (S) 10.50 Casualty: a family returns to the ED with unexplained injuries (S) (AD) (HD) 11.55 The Bill: Cryer shows the value of experience Shown 7.20am (S) 12.55pm Classic EastEnders: two episodes. Janine and Ryan’s wedded bliss is short-lived, then Janine makes a call (S) 2.15 Tenko: 4/10 Series 1. A group of Dutch women arrives (S) 3.20 The Doctor Blake Mysteries: 6/8 Series 4 A reporter is found dead on a golf course (S) (HD) 4.20 Lovejoy: 9/12 Series 2. A corpse is found in a suit of armour Repeated 1.55am (S) 5.25 Waiting for God: 2/10 Series 2 Tom and Diana move in together (S) 6.00pm Last of the Summer Wine Series 20. The Pony Set. The trio offer advice to a hen-pecked husband. (S) 6.40 How Errol Flynn Discovered the Secret Scar of Nora Batty. Billy sets Nora’s heart a-flutter with a Robin Hood outfit. (S) 7.20 Who’s Thrown Her Tom Cruise Photographs Away? Marina decides the time has come to give up on men. (S) 8.00 ’Allo ’Allo! 2/6 Series 3. Gruber Does Some Mincing Gruber is interrogated. (S) 8.40 3/6. The Sausage in the Wardrobe The General discovers the sausage. (S) 9.20 4/6. Flight of Fancy. The Resistance arrange a parade to provide a diversion. (S) 10.20 New Tricks

2/10 Series 10. The Rock 2/2. Sandra suspects Harry Truman — but that does not stop her joining him for lunch. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.40 Silent Witness

3/5 Series 13. Run. Leo suspects a cover-up is hampering an investigation. (S) (AD) 1.55am Lovejoy Shown 4.20pm (S) 3.00—4.00am Monsieur Spade: 5/6. Spade questions his eccentric neighbours (SL) (HD)

6.00am Backyard Builds (S) (SL) (HD) 6.25

Deal or No Deal (S) (AD) (HD) 7.25 Dress to Impress (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.25 Billie and Greg: the Family Diaries (S) (HD) 9.25 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 10.25 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (S) (HD) 11.15 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)

12.10pm The Real Housewives of Cheshire (S) (HD) 1.10 Celebrity Catchphrase (S) (AD) (HD)

2.10 The Floor USA (S) (AD) (HD) 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 4.10 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (S) (HD) 5.00 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)

6.00pm Celebrity Catchphrase Kelvin Fletcher, Heather Small and Chris Ramsey try to guess the famous phrases. (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 New. The Floor USA Rob Lowe hosts the fast-paced game show. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Million Dollar Listing: LA David and James host a barbecue for a new estate. (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Love Island Reality show. (S) (HD)

10.05 New. Love Island: the Debrief Daily Love Island reaction show. (S) (HD)

10.35 Family Guy Series 1. Peter invites Joe to join the company’s softball team. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.05 Series 4. Stewie loses sleep. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.35 American Dad! Series 1. Stan reveals his real father is a super-suave spy. (S) (AD)

12.05am Series 3. Francine becomes a surrogate mother for Terry and Greg. (S) (AD) (HD)

12.35 Bob’s Burgers: double bill (S) (AD) (HD)

1.30 G’wed (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 2.05 Plebs (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 2.30—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

6.00am The Protectors (S) (SL) 6.35 Magnum, PI (S) (HD) 8.45 The Saint (S) (SL) (HD) 9.50 Boon (S) 11.00 Isle of Man TT Highlights (S) (HD) 12 noon The Protectors (S) 12.30pm BattleBots (S) (HD) 1.35 Magnum, PI (S) (HD) 3.40 Boon (S) 4.45 The Sweeney (S) 5.55 Minder (S) (AD)

7.00pm New. World Cup Preview Show A look at the qualifying campaigns of Scotland, Turkey, Sweden and Czech Republic. (S) (HD) 7.30 New. Exploring the legacies of France, Argentina, Portugal and Spain. (S) (HD) 8.00 New. World Cup Countdown A look ahead to Thursday’s big kick-off. (S) (HD) 8.30 Millionaire Hot Seat Big-money quiz show hosted by Jeremy Clarkson. (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Isle of Man TT Review The first of two programmes looking back at the highlights of this year’s TT races. (S) (HD)

10.00 New. Butcher: Invisible Wounds Former England captain Terry Butcher confronts his devastating loss after his army veteran son dies from severe PTSD. (S) (HD) 11.00 All Elite Wrestling: Collision Hard-hitting action from the USA. (S) (HD) 1.00am Isle of Man TT Review (S) (HD) 1.55 BattleBots: Claw Viper and Overhaul do battle (S) (HD) 2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

7.30am Pointless 8.20 Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers (AD) 10.20 Rick Stein’s Cornwall 12.20pm Top Gear: double bill (AD) 2.20 Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (AD) 3.00 Mediterranean with Simon Reeve 4.00 The Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure: Hong Kong 5.00 Rick Stein’s Cornwall: two editions 6.00pm Rick Stein’s Cornwall Rick meets chef Tom Adams, who runs Combeshead Farm. 6.30 Rick discovers an unusual superstition and a rare type of Norman castle. 7.00 Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Brown trout in the River Usk. (AD)

7.40 Would I Lie to You? With Tom Allen, Geoff Norcott, Vicki Pepperdine and Esme Young. 8.20 With Jo Brand, Simon Day, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Henning Wehn. 9.00 Have I Got a Bit More 2024 for You A look back at the big news of the year. 10.00 QI XL Extended episode with Jo Brand. 11.00 Eight out of 10 Cats Guests include Jordan Stephens and Desiree Burch. 11.40 Mock the Week With Angela Barnes. 12.20am Would I Lie to You? 1.40 QI

2.40 Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish 3.30—4.00am Parks and Recreation

Louis Theroux: My Scientology

Behind the scenes

New Tricks 10.20pm The Gibraltar murders continue to baffle the

Castle Secrets 10.00pm A look at Predjama Castle in Sloveina

8.55am Heir Hunters 9.55 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) 10.55 Four in a Bed: five episodes 1.35pm Come Dine with Me: in Bournemouth (AD) 4.15 Four in a Bed: five editions

6.50pm Location, Location, Location After seven years in Switzerland, Duncan, Anna and their three daughters are looking for a home in Hove, East Sussex. Phil Spencer, meanwhile, is helping Mick and Bernie downsize from Lancashire to the South Downs.

7.55 PopMaster TV Ken Bruce hosts the penultimate episode, and the last chance for players to secure a place in the grand final.

9.00 Ancient Greece by Train with Alice Roberts On the island of Paros, in the middle of the Aegean Sea, Alice joins an archaeologist on a tour of the ancient sites he has discovered in 38 years of digging. Alice takes a boat to the island of Delos to visit the Temple of Apollo site. (AD)

10.00 Castle Secrets A look at a fortification where a knight was trapped, as well as a fortress that was the site of a dynasty’s gruesome form of punishment. (AD) 11.00 999: on the Front Line Paramedics rush to save a woman with osteoporosis who fell down the stairs carrying her baby grandson. Someone makes an emergency call, but ends up being a patient themselves.

12.05am 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 2.10 999: on the Front Line 3.15—3.45am Supermarkets Unwrapped: Fruit and Veg Aisle (AD)

I Am Richard Pryor 9.00pm Recalling the comedian’s career

6.00am Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy 8.00 Watercolour Challenge 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected: double bill (AD)

10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: double bill

11.00 Discovering: William Hurt (AD)

12 noon Beyond the Brush (AD) 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 3.00 Classic Albums

4.00 Discovering: George Clooney (AD)

5.00 Portrait Artist of the Year 2019

6.00pm Tales of the Unexpected A gossip columnist gets his comeuppance. (AD)

6.30 A selfish woman needs help. (AD)

7.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents After 20 years, a widow recovers her husband’s body.

7.30 An angry young man accurately predicts an impending death.

8.00 Discovering: Gene Wilder A profile of the American actor, writer and director, best known for his roles in The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. 9.00 I Am Richard Pryor Documentary reflecting on the comedian and actor’s life, featuring interviews with Mike Epps, Tiffany Haddish and his widow Jennifer Lee.

11.00 Science Fiction in the Atomic Age A celebration of science fiction’s ability to foretell the shape of future society.

12 midnight FILM The Lion in Winter 5 2.35am Discovering Romance on Film (AD) 4.00 Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir (AD) 5.00—6.00am Beyond the Brush (AD)

Bangers and Cash 8.00pm An old Navy ambulance attracts attention

6.10am Speed with Guy Martin 8.00 Bangers and Cash 10.00 The World at War 11.00 Secret Nazi Bases: a massive complex 12 noon Vintage Antiques Roadshow

2.00pm Bangers and Cash (AD) 4.00 The World at War 5.00 Secret Nazi Bases

6.00pm Vintage Antiques Roadshow The experts visit Beverley in East Yorkshire. 7.00 Canal Boat Diaries A journey from Wolverhampton to Anglesey Basin. (AD) 8.00 Bangers and Cash Paul hits the road to collect an old Navy ambulance that has served its time as a holiday camper. (AD) 9.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics

The team buys a 1984 French Matra Murena and sends it to Citroën specialists. (AD) 10.00 Bangers and Cash Derek Mathewson picks up a 1925 Calthorpe motorbike. (AD) 11.00 Dave Mathewson collects a stylish Volvo P1800S from an RAF base. (AD)

12 midnight Dave heads to Bolton to pick up a classic Lancia Fulvia 1.3 Sport. (AD)

1.00am Find It, Fix It, Flog It: Henry Cole restores two quad bikes and a stylish sun lounger

2.00—3.00am Speed with Guy Martin

6.00am Hollyoaks Shown last Wednesday/yesterday (AD) 6.55 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.00 Couples Come Dine with Me 8.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL) 9.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 10.00 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD) 11.00 Modern Family (AD) 12 noon The Simpsons (AD) 2.00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 3.00 Modern Family: four episodes (AD) 5.00 The Simpsons (AD) 6.00pm The Simpsons Series 27. Patty moves in with Homer and Marge. (AD) 6.30 Lisa is traumatised. (AD) 7.00 New. Hollyoaks Jack pleads with Beth over the feuding. Repeated tomorrow 6.30am (AD) 7.30 The Simpsons Series 24. Marge is forced to replace the family car. (AD) 8.00 New. Below Deck: Mediterranean The guests bombard chef Josh with requests. (AD) 9.00 Gogglebox Two episodes from 2023. (AD) 11.05 Naked Attraction A 23-year-old virgin from Kent picks a partner. (AD)

12.10am Dating Naked UK: reality dating show (AD) 1.10 Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 2.15 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD) 3.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL) 3.50 The Goldbergs (AD) 4.40—6.00am Don’t Tell the Bride: Revisited

9.00am Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country (AD) 10.00 Narrow Escapes (AD) 11.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

12 noon A Place in the Sun 3.00pm Château

DIY: Australia 4.00 A Place in the Sun

4.30 Come Dine with Me: five episodes

7.00pm The Dog House Can glamorous poodle cross Lola match up to five-year-old Violet’s dream of the ideal dog? (AD)

8.00 Location, Location, Location The duo are in bustling Belfast and on the beautiful coast of Down to help Jennifer in Belfast, who needs help finding a new property.

9.00 24 Hours in A&E Queen’s Medical Centre staff are shocked when their colleague, 55-year-old Sister Lou, is rushed in after being knocked off her bike. (AD)

10.00 Emergency Teenager Louie has undergone emergency surgery to repair an artery in his leg that was severed at school. (AD)

11.05 Gogglebox Educating Yorkshire is appraised. From September 2025. (AD) 12.05am Ep 17. The households’ opinions on recent TV. Shown last Friday Channel 4 (AD) 1.10 Gypsy Rose: Life after Lock Up: double bill (AD) 3.00 Location, Location, Location 4.00—5.00am The Dog House (AD)

6.00am Salvage Hunters: the Restorers

7.00 Salvage Hunters 9.00 Aussie Gold Hunters 11.00 Outback Opal Hunters

1.00pm Wheeler Dealers 2.00 Shed and Buried 4.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It

5.00pm The Yorkshire Auction House

A widow needs help to clear her late husband’s collection of militaria. (AD)

6.00 Angus Ashworth helps a widow find new homes for her husband’s paintings. (AD)

7.00 Antiques Road Trip Steph Connell has a surprise for Phil Serrell on his birthday.

8.00 Shed and Buried Henry Cole tries to make a profit from abandoned automotive gems.

8.30 More abandoned automotive gems.

9.00 FILM Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen HH Sci-fi action sequel starring Shia LaBeouf. The history of the Transformers’ presence on Earth is revealed as the human race battles the first ever Decepticon, and Sam Witwicky is in the thick of the action.

12 midnight Mock the Week 1.00am Wheeler Dealers: double bill (AD) 3.00 Shed and Buried: double bill 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made

6.00pm NCIS: triple bill (AD) 9.00 New. Law & Order Series 24. A rising basketball star is shot dead 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: four episodes. Series 10. A man is found beaten in a strip club’s car park 11.00 The team try to solve the murder of a paediatrician 11.55 A teenager disappears after making a shocking confession 12.55am Stabler discovers a relative’s link to a robbery 1.50am Beauty and the Beast 3.35—4.00am Cops

9.00am Deal or No Deal (SL) (AD) 10.00

Tipping Point 1.00pm Lingo 2.00 Tenable 3.00 The Celebrity Chase 4.00 Riddiculous 5.00 Deal or No Deal: with Stephen Mulhern (AD)

6.00pm Lingo 9.00 The Celebrity Chase 10.00 Tipping Point: hosted by Ben Shephard 12.55am Tenable: hosted by Warwick Davis 1.50 Riddiculous 2.40—3.00am Unwind

7.00am Motorway Patrol 8.00 Border Security: America’s Front Line 9.00 Nothing to Declare 11.00 Highway Patrol 12 noon Border Security: Canada’s Front Line 1.00pm Border Patrol 2.00 Nothing to Declare 4.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 5.00 Stargate SG-1 6.00pm Stargate Atlantis: the team is put in jeopardy 7.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation: Data creates an android daughter 8.00 Star Trek: Voyager: the ship stalls in a plasma cloud 9.00 FBI: International: double bill. A US player from a Lithuanian basketball team goes into cardiac arrest, then the Fly Team search for a kidnapped American teen in Austria (AD) 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise 12 midnight Warehouse 13: light-hearted sci-fi drama 1.00am Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 2.00 Road Wars 3.00 Highway Patrol 4.00 Border Patrol 5.00—6.00am Highway Cops

8.00am Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun: double bill (AD) 10.00 Car Pound Cops 11.00 Traffic Cops 2.00pm Police Interceptors 5.00 Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up 6.00pm Home and Away Eden and Remi test their talent. Shown yesterday 6.30pm (AD) 6.30 New. It’s all hands on deck for Archie’s birthday. Repeated tomorrow 6pm (AD) 7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors A patient is concerned about ongoing chest pains. (AD)

8.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts Staffing problems hit the department. 9.00 FILM Prometheus HHHH Sci-fi horror starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender. See review, page 77. 11.30 FILM Signs HHH Sci-fi fantasy thriller starring Mel Gibson. See review, page 47. 1.40am Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts: a pensioner has a bad fall 2.35 Skin A&E 3.20 Friends (AD) 3.45—4.00am Entertainment News

9.00am Winter Road Rescue 9.35 Traffic Cops 10.35 Police Interceptors

12.30pm FILM Man without a Star HHHH Western starring Kirk Douglas 2.20 FILM The Cimarron Kid HHH Western starring Audie Murphy. See review, page 77 4.00 Trucking Hell (AD) 5.00 Traffic Cops

6.00pm Police Interceptors Twenty officers descend on a hotel to arrest gang members, while Jon and Maya raid a cannabis farm. (AD) 7.00 Members of the operational support unit of Lincolnshire’s Roads Policing Unit smash through a bedroom window in a raid. (AD) 8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders PC Martain Anderson hunts for a van linked to drug dealing and organised crime. 9.00 Officers pursue suspects who are armed with a crowbar and an air rifle. 10.00 Police Code Zero: Officer under Attack A driver is pulled over, having been suspected of driving under the influence.

11.00 The X-Files People connected to a cursed South American urn are killed.

12 midnight Seconds from Death: Caught on Camera: a terrifying life-or-death encounter (AD) 1.00am Outback Truckers 2.00 Trucking Hell 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

9.00am The Yorkshire Vet (AD) 10.00 Yorkshire Great and Small with Dan and Helen 11.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 1.00pm Murder, She Wrote (AD) 3.00 Columbo: the apparent suicide of a journalist 5.00 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys 6.00pm Drain the Oceans How Texas, against all odds, secured its independence. 7.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild An ex-academic living off the New Zealand coast.

8.00 A couple breeding alpacas in Andalusia.

9.00 Ellis DCI Ellis and assistant DS Harper are sent to help troubled investigations. (AD) 11.00 Keeping Faith The lawyer defends a priest accused of theft. Eve Myles stars.

12.10am Wentworth Prison: Lou warns Allie to return the money (AD) 1.10 Nazi Megastructures 2.10 The Yorkshire Vet (AD) 3.10—4.00am World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys

5.35am Paw Patrol 5.50 Mixmups

6.00 Peppa Pig 6.10 Tweedy & Fluff

6.15 Odo 6.20 Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! 6.35 Fireman Sam 6.45 Peppa Pig 6.50 Pip and Posy 6.55 Paw Patrol 7.10 Move It Milkshakers! 7.20 Rubble & Crew 7.30 Peppa Pig 7.45 Tim Rex in Space 8.00

New. Stan & Gran: a heatwave means the annual Porthole sandcastle contest is cancelled 8.15 Paw Patrol 8.25 The Adventures of Paddington 8.40 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 8.50 Kangaroo Beach 9.00 Peppa Pig 9.05—9.15am Milkshake! Story Den

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6.00am Roots and Fruits 6.05 Bing 6.15 Teletubbies 6.30 Tee and Mo 6.35 Supertato 6.45 Bing 6.55 Mojo Swoptops 7.05 Hey Duggee’s Squirrel Club 7.15 Hey Duggee 7.20 Bluey 7.35 Go Jetters 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.00 Octonauts 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20 Alphablocks 8.25 Piripenguins 8.35 New. Playtime Towers 9.00 Bing 9.05 Yakka Dee! 9.15 Lu and the Bally Bunch 9.20 Kiri & Lou 9.25 New. Froglets: With a bit of Froggie help, Pipp turns into a queen 9.35 Twirlywoos 9.45

Something Special 10.10 Teletubbies

10.25 The Baby Club 10.40 New. Tiny Tunes: Lisa and the children paint bright rainbows and sign and sing I Can Sing a Rainbow 10.45 What’s in Your Plant Pot? 10.55 New. Hamza Loves Animals: Africa 11.05 Vegesaurs 11.15 Bluey 11.20 Hey Duggee 11.30 Colourblocks 11.35 Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.50 Our Family

12 noon My World Kitchen 12.10pm Maddie’s Do You Know? 12.25 Dog Squad

12.40 Aneeshwar and Lizzie Go Wild

12.45 Waffle the Wonder Dog 1.00 Puffin Rock 1.10 Small Potatoes 1.15 Yukee 1.20 Maddie & Triggs 1.30 Hey Duggee 1.35 Numberblocks 1.40 Alphablocks 1.45 Something Special 2.10 Teletubbies

2.25 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures 2.40 Football Fantastics 2.55 Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.10 Waffle’s After School Club 3.20 Our Family 3.25 Octonauts: above and Beyond 3.35 Peter Rabbit

3.50 Hey Duggee 3.55 Vida the Vet

4.10 Supertato 4.15 The Weasy Family 4.25 Mojo Swoptops 4.35 Bluey 4.50

New. Zog: the doctors send everyone to Fergus’s bog 5.05 Andy’s Dino Island

5.20 Waffle the Wonder Dog 5.30 Rafi the Wishing Wizard 5.40 JoJo & Gran Gran 5.50 Sarah & Duck

6.00pm Clangers 6.10 BeddyByes

6.20 In the Night Garden...

6.50—7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories: Cat Burns reads Finn’s Little Fibs

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7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.10 Danger Mouse 7.20 Super Happy Magic Forest 7.35 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

7.45 New. Newsround 7.55 Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 OOglies 8.20 Duck & Frog 8.35 Odd Squad 8.45 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 9.00 Bitesize: 9-11

Year Olds 9.20 One Zoo Three 9.40 Go Get Arty 10.00 Art Ninja 10.25 Absolute Genius with Dick & Dom 10.55 Horrible Histories 11.25

The Post War Recovery 8.40pm PBS America

6.10am MasterChef Australia 7.00

Tipping Point 10.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build 1.00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 3.00 Tipping Point 4.00 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick

6.00pm DIY SOS: the Big Build The home of a former paratrooper who struggles to walk unaided. 7.00 The team transforms a family home in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

8.00 Pete Wicks: for Dogs’ Sake Pete returns to Dogs Trust, facing a suitcase of abandoned pups on day one and falling for Theo, an italian mastiff with a heart condition. (AD)

9.00 New. Hashtag Homicide 3/8. The case of London police officer Gordon Semple, killed during a Grindr meetup. (AD) 10.00 New. 4/8. Ana Abulaban and her friend, who were killed by Ana’s estranged husband. (AD)

11.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Amir Khan and Trisha Goddard tour the Home Counties.

12 midnight With reality stars Sam Thompson and Pete Wicks. 1.00—3.00am Absolutely Fabulous (AD)

6.00am James Martin’s Spanish Adventure 7.00 Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking 8.00 The Pioneer Woman 9.00 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals

10.00 Be My Guest with Ina Garten

11.00 The Great British Bake Off

12.30pm Rachel Allen: Bake! 1.00

James Martin’s Great British Adventure

3.00 Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking

4.00 The Pioneer Woman

5.00 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals

6.00pm New. Be My Guest with Ina Garten: double bill. Violinist Itzhak Perlman joins Ina Garten, then designer Daniel Roseberry guests

7.00 The Great British Bake Off: the bakers show what they can do with caramel 8.30 Rachel Allen: Bake!: preparing a traditional Provençal tart 9.00 Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen: with YolanDa Brown 10.00 New series. 100 Cooks: over 50 of the 100 cooks compete in five challenges

12 midnight Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives 1.00am Man v Food 2.00—3.00am Cake Boss (AD)

8.00am Full Steam Ahead 9.40

Battlefield America 10.50 France: the Post War Recovery 1.00pm Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 1.40 Full Steam Ahead 2.55 Battlefield America

4.00 France: the Post War Recovery

6.20pm Full Steam Ahead 2/6

Examining the impact the railways had on the cottage industries.

7.35 Battlefield America 2/3

A look at the strategic decisions made at Vicksburg and Gettysburg.

8.40 France: the Post War Recovery 1/2. Examining French industry and agriculture in the wake of the Second World War.

9.50 2/2. The story of how division hindered France’s recovery after the Second World War.

10.55 Battlefield America As 7.35pm.

12 midnight Plunderer: the Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief: Nazi art dealer Bruno Lohse 1.10—2.00am Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands

8.10am An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: a Bundle of Trouble 10.05 In Plain Sight 11.05 Castle 12.05pm True Justice HH Mystery thriller. Katherine McNamara (2024) 2.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Murder, She Wrote 6.00pm Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye The agents strike a deal with a prisoner. 7.00 Castle The duo investigate what appears to be the murder of a spy. 8.00 Unforgettable The team is called when a ghost hunter’s body is discovered at an abandoned asylum. 9.00 In Plain Sight Mary suspects a witness has a gambling problem. 10.00 Martha’s Vineyard Mysteries: a Beautiful Place to Die Former detective Jeff Jackson is forced into retirement and returns to a quiet life — until a body washes up. 11.55 An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: an Inheritance to Die For Aurora investigates poisonings at a wedding — and alterations to a victim’s will soon arouse suspicion. 1.50am April Flowers HH Breezy romantic drama. Celina Jade, Jon Fletcher, Keir Dullea (2017) 3.20—4.50am Crisis Point HH Watchable thriller. (2012)

6.00am Rewind Time Machine 6.05 Tony Hancock 6.35 Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (BW) 7.00 Danger Man (BW) 8.00 as 4.30pm 8.30 The Lovers 9.00 Bubblegum and Cheese 10.00 Doctor at Large 10.30 Two’s Company 11.00 The Fenn Street Gang 11.30 Agony 12 noon Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 1.00pm The Lovers 1.30 The Dustbinmen 2.00 The Champions 3.00 Rewind Time Machine 3.05 Hank the Cowboy 3.20 Rewind Time Machine 3.25 Boon 4.30

Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country 5.00 Stereo Underground 6.00pm The Dustbinmen 6.30 Only When I Laugh 7.00 Two’s Company 7.30 Doctor at Large 8.00 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 9.00 The New Statesman 10.00 FILM Vampire Hookers HH 11.35 FILM Night of the Living Dead 5 (BW) 1.20am Stereo Underground 2.20 We Had One of Those 2.30 The Champions 3.30 as 9pm 4.30 Stereo Underground 5.30— 6.00am Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country

8.00am Bramwell 9.00 Highway to Heaven 11.00 Little House on the Prairie 1.00pm The Waltons 3.00 Ballykissangel: Quigley is all set to open his new golf course 4.10 Bramwell: double bill. There is joy in the air as Robert Bramwell and Alice prepare to wed, then Eleanor is adjusting to life on her own after her father’s wedding 7.30 M*A*S*H: triple bill. Hawkeye tackles a nose job 8.00 A Korean family arrives in the camp 8.30 The 4077th is overrun with casualties 9.00 Brush Strokes: three episodes 11.00 Robin’s Nest 12 midnight M*A*S*H 1.30am Rising Damp 2.00 Air Rescue 3.00—4.50am Highway to Heaven: two episodes

7.00am Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage 8.00 Young Sheldon 10.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00pm Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage 3.00 Young Sheldon 5.00 The Big Bang Theory: eight episodes 9.00 New. 1000-lb Sisters: Amy makes a decision for the wedding and Chris tries to orchestrate peace between Tammy and Amy, then Chris hosts a BBQ to celebrate Brittany’s weight loss 11.00 Dr Pimple Popper: Patrick’s nose is covered by huge bumps and he can barely breathe, and Matt has suffered from neurofibromatosis his entire life and is in incredible pain

12 midnight Mike & Molly 1.00am Dr Pimple Popper 2.00 My 600lb Life 4.00—6.00am Curvy Brides Boutique (AD)

9.00am Inside the Ambulance (AD) 5.00pm James May’s Cars of the People: triple bill. Japanese cars (AD) 6.00 4x4 vehicles (AD) 7.00 Ideas that never caught on (AD) 8.00 Hornby: a Model World (AD) 10.00 James May’s Cars of the People (AD) 1.00am Hornby: a Model World (AD) 2.55 James May’s Cars of the People (AD) 4.35 Inside the Ambulance (AD) 5.25—6.00am David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (AD)

8.05am Rising Damp 8.40 Duty Free 9.10 Upstairs, Downstairs 10.15 Bread 10.55 Steptoe and Son (BW) 11.30 Oh, Doctor Beeching! 12.05pm Rising Damp 12.40 Man about the House 1.05 Goodnight Sweetheart 1.40 When the Boat Comes In 2.45 Minder 3.50 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 4.25 Man about the House 4.55 Bread 5.30 Birds of a Feather 6.10 Rising Damp 6.40 Steptoe and Son (BW) 7.15 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 7.55 Minder 9.00 Benidorm 9.55 Shameless 10.55 Man about the House 11.25 Mind Your Language 11.55 Benidorm 12.55am Minder 1.55 Duty Free

2.20 Man about the House 2.45 Kenny Everett Video Cassette 3.05 That’s 60s: Best Music Live! 4.00—5.00am Nearest and Dearest: double bill

6.00am Dickinson’s Real Deal 6.45 Pawn Stars 7.30 Money for Nothing 8.25 Junk & Disorderly 9.20 Storage Wars: eight episodes 1.05 Pawn Stars 2.05 New. Outback Wreckers 3.05 Money for Nothing 4.00 Ancient Aliens 5.00 UFO Conspiracies 6.00 Storage Wars 7.00 Money for Nothing 8.00 Real Deal 9.00 Outback Wreckers 10.00 Junk and Disorderly 11.00 Swamp People 12 midnight Wrestling 12.30am Wrestling 1.00 UFO Conspiracies 2.00 The Proof Is Out There 3.00 Junk and Disorderly 3.45 Hardcore Pawn 5.00—6.00am Dickinson’s Real Deal

9.00am Four Fast Guns HH Lean B-western. (1960, PG) 10.40 Tombstone Territory 11.10 Wanted: Dead or Alive 11.40 The High Chaparral 12.40pm Bunraku HH Flimsy action fantasy in which a drifter and a samurai team up to bring down a crime boss. Josh Hartnett (2010, 15) 4.10 The Persuaders! 5.10pm The New Avengers The agents come up against a man who carries deadly diseases. 6.10 An ecologist is threatened. 7.10 The Forger HH Heist caper in which John Travolta’s ex-con must copy a Monet and rebuild family bridges. Christopher Plummer (2014, 15) 9.00 Parker HHH Entertainingly silly revenge thriller with some cracking action scenes, starring Jason Statham. Jennifer Lopez (2013, 15) 11.30 Son of a Gun HHH Ewan McGregor plays against type as a bank robber in this decent Aussie drama. Brenton Thwaites, Alicia Vikander (2013, 15) 1.50am Dragon Ball Super 2.50 Coast Guard Alaska 3.45 Deadly Voltage HH Low-budget disaster drama. Mike Dopud (2015) 5.15—5.40am Air Rescue

7.00am The Chase 9.00 Tenable 10.00 Bidding Room 11.00 Real Deal 12 noon Crystal Maze (AD) 1.00pm Supermarket Sweep 2.00 The Chase (AD) 3.00 Celebrity Catchphrase 4.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Celebrity Special 5.00 Bidding Room 6.00 Tenable 7.00 Chase Celebrity Special 8.00 The Chase (AD) 10.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 11.00 Bullseye (AD) 12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (AD) 1.00am The Chase 4.00—6.00am Bullseye

7.00am Home Office Questions 8.00 House of Commons: recorded coverage 9.30 Live Select Committees 11.30 Live Health and Social Care Questions 12.30pm Live House of Commons 7.30 Live House of Lords 10.00 Welsh First Minister’s Questions: questions to first minister Rhun ap Iorwerth 10.50 Scottish First Minister’s Questions 11.20 Lords Questions: recorded coverage 12.05—7.00am House of Lords

8.10am The Christmas Set Up HH Sweet romantic drama. Ben Lewis (2020) 10.15 Switched at Christmas HH Convoluted drama. Candace Cameron Bure (2017) 12.10pm Holiday Hotline HH Romance. Emily Tennant (2023) 2.00 Hope at Christmas HH Romancing the Santa proves a good move. Scottie Thompson (2018) 3.55 Belle’s Christmas Gift HH Romance. Desiree Ross (2024) 5.45pm The Perfect Christmas Village HH Corny romantic comedy with a Groundhog Day theme. (2018) 7.40 Christmas at the Greenbrier HH Past lovers reunite at a hotel over the festive season, where feelings start to rekindle. Alicia Leigh Willis (2022) 9.35 Snowmance HH Thoroughly soppy romance in which a woman finds love with a snowman who comes to life. Ashley Newbrough (2017)

6.15am Tafiti — across the Desert HH Familiar animated adventure. (2025, PG) 7.40 The Internship HH Ropy action flick. Lizzy Greene (2026, 15)

9.30 As 8pm 11.10 The Plague HHH Psychological drama.Joel Edgerton (2025, 15) 12.55pm As 9.45pm 2.45 As 8pm 4.30 We Bury the Dead HHH Melancholy blend of apocalypse drama and zombie thriller. Daisy Ridley (2024, 15)

6.15pm Sisu: Road to Revenge HHH Queasily visceral but inventive wartime action sequel. Jorma Tommila, Stephen Lang, Richard Brake (2025, 15) 8.00 Fuze HHH Bank robbers take advantage of an unexploded bomb in this effectively twisty thriller starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson. (2025, 15) 9.45 Dead Man’s Wire HHHH An enraged businessman takes his broker hostage with a wired shotgun. Review p34 Bill Skarsgård (2025, 15) 11.35 One Last Deal HHH Danny Dyer melts down fabulously in a realtime drama about a sports agent fielding a mounting crisis. (2026, 18) 1.15am As 6.15pm 2.50 As 7.40am 4.30—6.05am Honey Don’t HH Black comedy. Margaret Qualley (2025, 15)

11.00am For Whom the Bell Tolls

HHH Romance looms for Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman in this adaptation of the novel. (1943, U) (S)

2.10pm The Battle at Apache Pass HHH Well-staged western about the battle to thwart Apache warrior Geronimo. Jeff Chandler (1952, U) (S)

3.50 Howards End 5

Elegant, insightful period drama about class and society in Edwardian England, based on the novel by EM Forster. Film of the day, right. Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson (1992, PG) (S) (AD)

6.40pm Deep Impact HHHH

A great cast deals with disaster in this chilling, convincingly staged drama that sees an asteroid heading for Earth. Robert Duvall (1998, 12) (S) (AD)

9.00 The Fabelmans 5

Lively late-career masterpiece from Steven Spielberg, a semiautobiographical reflection on teenage life in Arizona. Review, right. Michelle Williams (2022, 12) (S) (AD) 11.55 Mean Streets 5 New York’s Little Italy is the backdrop for small-time hustlers Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro in this atmospheric, breakthrough drama from Martin Scorsese. (1973, 15) (S) (AD)

2.10—4.00am Little Monsters

8.00am TJ Hooker 9.00 Babylon 5: the Gathering 11.00 Polar Storm H TV-movie sci-fi action. Jack Coleman (2009) 1.00pm When Worlds Collide HHH Well-mounted sci-fi parable. Review, right. Richard Derr, Barbara Rush (1951, U) 2.35 The Arrival HHH Polished sci-fi thriller. Charlie Sheen (1996, 12) 5.00 Star Trek 6.00pm The Six Million Dollar Man A government plane is targeted.

7.00 Babylon 5 The Narns launch an attack on a Centauri colony. 8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger The body of a lawyer is discovered.

9.00 The Client HHHH Susan Sarandon plays a little-league lawyer in this adaptation of John Grisham’s bestseller. Review, right. (1994, 15) 11.30 Kiss of Death HHH Gripping remake of the 1947 film noir classic, in which an ex-con becomes a police informer. David Caruso (1994, 18) 1.35am Dragon Blade HH Lavish but muddled Chinese-made action epic. Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody (2015, 15) 3.30—5.15am Blood on Satan’s Claw HHH Stylish supernatural shocker. Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden (1970, 18)

HHHH Horror comedy in which Lupita Nyong’o shows off impressive comic chops as a teacher protecting her pupils from zombies. (2019, 15) (S)

FILM REVIEWS

TUESDAY

Howards End 5

3.50-6.40pm Film4 g

PERIOD DRAMA This adaptation of EM Forster’s novel has an elegance that never hides its grim insights into the upper middle classes. Matriarchal Vanessa Redgrave dies after writing a letter bequeathing her country home, Howards End, to new friend Emma Thompson. But the note is destroyed by the family snobs, whose head (Anthony Hopkins) falls in love with Thompson. Meanwhile, the low expectations of the clerking classes are exemplified by meek Samuel West, whose affair with Helena Bonham Carter ends in tragedy. This Merchant Ivory production remains one of the finest conversions of a book to film. TOM HUTCHINSON (UK 1992, HD)

When Worlds Collide HHH

6.00am The Adventures of Jim Bowie TV western. (S) 6.35 Once a Thief HHH A chemist is accused of theft. John Stuart (1935) (S) 7.55 A Touch of the Sun HH Over-plotted comedy that stifles Frankie Howerd’s style. (1956, U) (S) 9.35 The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp HH Fantasy comedy in which Diane Cilento’s angel is sent to Earth. (1954, U) (S) 11.05 Below Zero Laurel and Hardy comedy. (S) 11.30 Four Star Theatre A sea captain learns there is a bomb on his ship. (S) 12 noon Sergeant Cork A kindly priest puts his life on the line to help the desperate. (S) 1.05pm The Adventures of William Tell A doctor invents explosive powder. (S) 1.35 Pink String and Sealing Wax HHH Roaring melodrama adapted from Roland Pertwee’s stage success. Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers (1945, PG) (S) 3.20

9.00am Magma: Volcanic Disaster HH Tired and clichéd disaster movie. Xander Berkeley (2006) 11.00 Andromeda 12 noon Triassic Hunt H Low-budget Jurassic World-style sci-fi horror. Michael Paré, Linnea Quigley, Sienna Farall (2021) 2.00pm The Blood Beast Terror H Clumsy Victorian yarn. Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng (1967, 12) 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger 5.00 Riddles of the Sphinx HH Familiar treasure-hunting sci-fi adventure. Dina Meyer, Lochlyn Munro (2008, 15) 7.00pm Andromeda Beka attempts to locate the Engine of Creation. 8.00 The A-Team A girl is held hostage by a violent religious cult.

9.00 Maximum Conviction HH Steven Seagal and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin team up for this hit and miss action flick. Michael Paré (2012, 15) 11.00 Red Heat HHH Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Soviet cop is sent to the US to apprehend a drug dealer. Review, right. James Belushi (1988, 18) 1.10am As 9pm 3.10 As 5pm 5.00—6.00am Andromeda

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open Profile of the Hollywood star. 4.25 The Card HHH Stylish rags-to-riches story. Review, right. Alec Guinness (1952, U) 6.25pm Whiplash Cobb’s employee plans to hunt down a killer. (S)

7.00 The Man from UNCLE A coin causes people to commit murder. (S)

8.00 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder

The investigator searches for a missing bank manager. (S) 9.05 The Racing Game A horse dies in a suspicious road accident. (S)

10.10 The Curse of Frankenstein HHHH Peter Cushing’s mad doctor creates life in this seminal horror. Review, right. Christopher Lee (1957, 12) (S) 11.50 Fortean TV Sweden’s answer to the Loch Ness monster.

12.25am Arizona Dream HHH Sprawling, eccentric drama. Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis (1991, 15) (S) 3.30 Target: the Corruptors Paul Marino investigates the mob. 4.30 Tell Me Another Stories about embarrassments and disasters. (S) 5.00—6.00am Danger UXB A time bomb is discovered.

1.00-2.35pm Legend y SCI-FI ADVENTURE From War of the Worlds producer George Pal, this paranoid parable about Earth’s imminent collision with a runaway planet is a prime example of 1950s science fiction. Compensating for the bland script and uninspired cast are the Oscar-winning special effects and Rudolph Maté’s arresting direction.

ALAN JONES (US 1951)

The Cimarron Kid HHH

2.20-4.00pm 5 Action y WESTERN The Dalton gang rides again in a movie that, unusually, has Audie Murphy in the role of outlaw. Genre expert Budd Boetticher draws a fine performance from his star, who hides out with Noah Beery Jr and his gang after being accused of a train heist, but has the prospect of a new life with rancher’s daughter Beverly Tyler.

DAVID PARKINSON (US 1951, HD)

The Card HHH

4.25-6.15pm

Talking Pictures TV y

COMEDY DRAMA Adapted from Arnold Bennett’s novel, Ronald Neame’s movie is a stylish rags-to-riches story set in the author’s beloved Five Towns. Eric Ambler’s script is full of witty lines, but

lawyer who takes on the case of a boy (Brad Renfro) who has witnessed a Mob-related suicide and finds herself up against Tommy Lee Jones’s ruthless federal attorney. Director Joel Schumacher presents a believable bond between the lawyer and her young client. JOHN FERGUSON (US 1994, violence, some swearing)

The Curse of Frankenstein HHHH 10.10-11.50pm

Talking Pictures TV h

HORROR This was the film that placed the “Hammer House of Horror” on the map. Peter Cushing is the demented Baron who yearns to resurrect the dead, while Christopher Lee plays the creature who proves his theories correct. With its gruesome atmosphere and design, this set a standard that Hammer struggled to live up to. AJ (UK 1957, violence)

Red Heat HHH 11.00pm1.10am Legend Xtra z

Alec Guinness is hardly stretched as “Denry” Machin, who wins respectability and wealth through his scheming ways. DP (UK 1952, BW)

Prometheus HHHH 9.00-11.30pm 5 Star j

SCI-FI HORROR Ridley Scott’s film shares much of its DNA with his 1979 classic Alien, though it’s more of a precursor than a prequel to that genre landmark. Noomi Rapace and Logan MarshallGreen are the archaeologists who set out to find an extraterrestrial race that may hold the key to the origins of man. TERRY STAUNTON (US 2012, violence, swearing, HD)

The Fabelmans 5

9.00-11.55pm Film4 h

PERIOD DRAMA Steven Spielberg looks to his own childhood experiences for this semi-autobiographical drama. The film follows Sammy Fabelman, a boy growing up in mid-century America who aspires to become a film-maker. A stoic Paul Dano and brittle Michelle Williams excel as Sammy’s parents. MAX COPEMAN (US 2022, violence, swearing, drug abuse, discriminatory language, HD)

The Client HHHH 9.00-11.30pm Legend j

THRILLER Susan Sarandon stars as the little-league

ACTION THRILLER Walter Hill’s fish-out-of-water movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in one of his more interesting 1980s action roles. Playing a stony Soviet cop poses no acting problems for the big man, and in James Belushi he has an agreeably foulmouthed foil, as the pair team up to hunt for an escaped drug dealer. JF (US 1988, violence, swearing, a sex scene, nudity)

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions HHH

11.40pm-1.00am BBC One (not in N Ireland; starts 12.10am in Scotland) j

HORROR THRILLER This sequel to the 2019 “lockedroom” horror returns with more elaborate traps. Survivors from the first film (Taylor Russell and Logan Miller) are trapped in another maze of rooms created by occult organisation Minos. Hazards include acid rain, lasers and quicksand. AJ (US 2020, violence, swearing, HD)

Ali & Ava HHHH 12.05-1.35am BBC Two j

DRAMA This love story from writer/director Clio Barnard offers an ode to connection. Ali (Adeel Akhtar) struggles after his divorce until he meets widowed Ava (Claire Rushbrook). The pair grow close, but they soon face adversity from their families. Barnard’s love story finds tender joy in its small moments. KELLY-ANNE TAYLOR (UK 2021, violence, swearing, HD)

Best Medicine 8.00pm Doc Martin goes stateside

6.00am Mornings 8.00 Stargate

SG-1 9.00 NCIS: Los Angeles

10.00 Will & Grace (AD) 11.00 The Simpsons 12 noon Wildlife ER

1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 2.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 3.00 S.W.A.T. (AD)

5.00 The Simpsons: double bill

6.00pm The Office US 14/25 Series 9. Someone vandalises Pam’s warehouse mural.

6.30 15/25. Erin decides that she is going to break up with Andy.

7.00 The Simpsons Marge is reunited with three old friends.

7.30 Moe achieves massive success when his tavern turns into a gay bar.

8.00 Best Medicine 1/13. Comedy

6 drama based on ITV series Doc Martin. A surgeon leaves his career in Boston to become the doctor in a quaint fishing village.

9.00 2/13. Martin identifies a contagious disease, forcing him to cancel the town’s monthly bean supper. See page 70.

10.00 Bear Grylls Is Running Wild 6/8. Bear takes actor Elizabeth Banks on a journey through a frigid wilderness, navigating the challenges posed by a melting glacier.

11.00 Grimm 10/22 Series 4

The Wesenrein put Monroe on trial for marrying outside his bloodline.

12 midnight The Walking Dead: Daryl is injured 1.00am The Force: North East 2.00 Hawaii Five-0 4.00—6.00am S.W.A.T. (AD)

6.00am Most Haunted 8.00 Home

Shopping 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise

12 noon Star Trek: Voyager 1.00pm Stargate Atlantis 2.00 Primeval 4.00 Stargate SG-1 5.00 Star Trek: Voyager

6.00pm Star Trek: Enterprise

25/26 Series 1. Hoshi grapples with a new language. Archer, Trip and Reed have mysterious encounters.

7.00 Stargate Atlantis 5/20 Series 2. The team stumbles upon a planet whose inhabitants have a far superior technological know-how.

8.00 Stargate SG-1 4/22 Series 6

O’Neill contracts a deadly virus from a woman who has been frozen in ice — and only a symbiote from the Tok’ra can save his life.

9.00 Grimm 3/22 Series 4. Nick and Hank investigate a Wesen boxing gym, while Chavez tries to recruit Trubel to a secret society.

10.00 The Walking Dead 2/16

Series 5. Rick leads a mission to a food bank as their supplies run low, and the leader is unsure whether he can really trust those around him.

11.00 Britannia 3/8 Series 3. Aulus follows Hemple’s guidance to return to the Underworld and find a new link to Cait. (AD)

12 midnight Primeval 2.00am The Walking Dead 3.00 Britannia (AD) 4.00—6.00am Most Haunted

The Gilded Age 6.50pm Bertha is caught off guard

6.00am Fish Town: double bill

8.00 Homicide: Life on the Street

10.00 Hacks: two episodes (AD) 11.15 Westworld (AD) 12.15pm Deadwood 2.25 The Regime (AD) 3.35 Westworld (AD) 4.40 Deadwood: two episodes of the western series

6.50pm The Gilded Age 3/8 Series 2. The opera war escalates, there is a surprise guest at Bertha’s fundraiser, Peggy offers to cover the Tuskegee story and Ada hosts a luncheon for Mr Forte. (AD) 7.55 4/8. Bertha deals with rumours circulating about Larry after receiving discouraging news about the Met, while Ada asks Marian to cover for her as she continues to see Mr Forte. (AD)

9.00 Prisoner 6/6. Amber’s plan to get Tibor to court is put in jeopardy as a game of cat and mouse unfolds across London, with the fate of her family becoming paramount. (AD) 10.00 Ponies 3/8. Bea strengthens her cover during her date with Andrei, while Twila dives into an offthe-books investigation of a string of murders of sex workers. (AD) 11.00 4/8. Twila runs her first asset Vera, a Russian fixer with secrets tied to her husband’s death.

12 midnight Hacks: double bill (AD)

1.10am The Gilded Age (AD) 3.15 Homicide: Life on the Street 5.05—6.00am Urban Secrets

Funny Cow 9.00pm Mike lets his feelings be known

8.00am Will & Grace (AD) 9.00 Sort Of (AD) 10.00 Avenue 5 (AD) 11.15 Will & Grace (AD) 12.15pm Upright (AD)

1.30 Avenue 5 (AD) 2.45 Will & Grace (AD) 3.45 Upright (AD) 5.00 Community

6.00pm Will & Grace 4/27 Series 4 Will proves to be a gifted actor. (AD) 6.30 5/27. Karen dispenses relationship advice. (AD)

7.00 The Office US 13/25 Series 9

Dwight is tasked with finding a part-time replacement for Jim.

7.30 14/25. Someone vandalises Pam’s warehouse mural.

8.00 Resident Alien 4/8 Series 3

Harry gets distracted from his mission as he gets closer to Heather, while Mike and Liv make a huge discovery. Alan Tudyk stars. (AD)

9.00 Funny Cow HHH q Comedy drama starring Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine and Tony Pitts. Through the 1970s and 80s, a mistreated housewife in the north of England attempts to pursue a career as a stand-up comic on the working men’s club circuit.

11.00 Avenue 5 7/9 Series 1. Judd calls on Ryan to help him charm an uber-wealthy passenger. (AD) 11.40 8/9. Matt learns of Judd’s plan to make the “ultimate sacrifice”. (AD) 12.20am Resident Alien (AD) 1.20 Community 2.20 Upright (AD) 3.30—5.00am Sort Of (AD)

Keeping Up Appearances 6.40pm Hyacinth Bucket

7.45am Ever Decreasing Circles

8.20 Porridge 9.00 The Green Green Grass 9.35 Are You Being Served?

10.15 Last of the Summer Wine 11.30 Porridge 12.10pm Keeping Up Appearances (AD) 12.50 The Green Green Grass 1.25 Dad’s Army 2.05 Ever Decreasing Circles 2.40 Are You Being Served? 3.20 Red Dwarf (AD) 4.40 Dad’s Army

5.20pm Last of the Summer Wine Compo and Clegg hatch a plan.

6.00 Seymour offers his talents and services to the local vicar.

6.40 Keeping Up Appearances Hyacinth helps with a day-trip. (AD)

7.20 Dad’s Army The platoon helps out Godfrey’s widowed friend.

8.00 Red Dwarf Lister’s hallucinations cause chaos. (AD)

8.35 Lister is horrified when Rimmer duplicates himself. (AD)

9.20 Not Going Out Lee grows suspicious of Guy’s motives.

10.00 Red Dwarf The crew answers a distress call. (AD) 10.35 The crew plug themselves into a computer game. (AD)

11.15 Harry Enfield and Chums Stan and Pam flash their cash. (AD)

11.55 Not Going Out As 9.20pm.

12.35am Men Behaving Badly

1.10 Harry Enfield and Chums (AD)

1.50 Men Behaving Badly 2.20 Inside No 9 2.50—4.00am Hi-de-Hi!

The Hunting Party 10.00pm Bex learns who she can trust

7.10am Murdoch Mysteries

9.00 Father Brown (AD) 10.00 The Mentalist 11.00 Hudson and Rex (AD) 12 noon Unforgettable 1.00pm Death in Paradise (AD) 2.00 Murdoch Mysteries: two episodes 4.00 The Mentalist 5.00 Hudson and Rex (AD) 6.00pm Father Brown 6/10 Series 8. The priest walks in on a man standing over the body of his dead wife, while Mrs McCarthy strikes it lucky at the bingo. (AD) 7.00 Unforgettable 3/13 Series 2 Carrie investigates a lethal poisoning in a hotel, and using her scrupulous eye for detail she uncovers evidence that indicates the murder is part of a bigger plot.

8.00 Return to Paradise 2/6 Series 1. DI Mackenzie Clarke delves into the world of wellbeing as she and the team investigate the murder of a wellness influencer. (AD)

9.00 New. Allegiance 2/10 Series 2 Sabrina and her partner hit the ground running when a pop star receives a death threat, butting heads while racing to find the offender. (AD)

10.00 The Hunting Party 2/10

A deranged serial killer who targets happy families is on the loose and looking to kill again. (AD)

11.00 Father Brown As 6pm.

12 midnight Death in Paradise (AD) 1.00am Hudson and Rex (AD) 2.00—4.00am Murdoch Mysteries

6.00am Sun, Sea and A&E (AD) 7.00 Border Patrol (AD) 8.00 UK Border Force (AD) 9.00 Motorway Patrol

10.00 Brit Cops: Frontline Crime UK 11.00 Chicago Fire 12 noon FBI (AD)

2.00pm The Rookie (AD) 3.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent: crime drama

4.00pm Nothing to Declare Six episodes following customs officers at Australia’s biggest airports.

7.00 Police 24/7 Several officers are needed to break up a block party.

8.00 Caught on Dashcam Road disasters and highway crimes, captured on dashboard cameras.

9.00 The Rookie 17/18 Series 8 Nolan and Harper try to help a desperate woman protect her child. (AD)

10.00 Fire Country 22/22 Series 1 The crews face a daring rescue when a huge mudslide tears through Edgewater. (AD)

11.00 The Rookie 18/20 Series 2 Officer Nolan and Harper are thrown into a scene of chaos. (AD)

12 midnight FBI (AD) 2.00am New. Matlock 14/16 Series 2. The members of the team continue tracking Senior’s money Rptd tomorrow 9pm (AD) 3.00 New. Doc 19/22 Series 2 Joan chooses an unlikely successor on her last day at Westside Rptd tomorrow 10pm (AD) 4.00 Border Security: America’s Front Line 5.00—6.00am The Real A&E (AD)

6.00am Brit Cops 7.00 Highway Patrol

8.00 Caught Red Handed 10.00 Caught on Dashcam 11.00 Most Evil Killers

12 noon Killer in My Village 1.00pm Forensics: Catching the Killer (AD) 2.00 The Cult of the Family 3.10 How I Caught the Killer (AD) 4.05 Murdered at First Sight (AD) 5.00 Killer in My Village 6.00 Killing Mum and Dad (AD) 7.00 Most Evil Killers 8.00 Forensics: Catching the Killer (AD) 9.00 Killer in My Village 10.00 Forensics: Catching the Killer (AD) 12 midnight Most Evil Killers 1.00am Killing Mum and Dad (AD) 2.00 Murders That Shocked the Nation 3.00 Most Evil Killers 4.00 Border Security USA (AD) 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol

8.00am Impractical Jokers 10.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 1.00pm Friends: ten episodes (AD) 6.00 Friends: six further episodes. Chandler gives Joey advice (AD) 6.30 Rachel longs for a date (AD) 7.00 Joey auditions for a major role (AD) 7.30 Phoebe decides to write a book (AD) 8.00 Elizabeth and Ross sneak off (AD) 8.30 Phoebe helps Chandler (AD) 9.00 Lee Evans — Monsters 10.00 FILM White Men Can’t Jump HHHH 12.15am Bradley and Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad 1.15 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA 2.15 Teachers 2.45 Kevin Bridges: the Brand New Tour 3.35 New. The Daily Show 4.15—5.00am Friends (AD)

6.00am How It’s Made 7.00 Treehouse Masters 9.00 Gold Rush: White Water 11.00 The Woodland Workshop 1.00pm Nature’s Strangest Mysteries: Solved 3.00 How Do They Do It? 5.00 The Last Alaskans: two editions 7.00pm Wheeler Dealers World Tour 9.00 New. Deadliest Catch: John makes an emergency trip to St George Island to feed his hungry crew 10.00 New. The Last Woodsmen: chasing a royalty-free payday, Jared bets half his crew on an abandoned claim 11.00 Expedition X 12 midnight Border Control Sweden 1.00am Deadliest Catch 2.00 The Last Woodsmen 3.00 Gold Divers (AD) 4.00—5.00am Moonshiners

6.00am The First 48 7.00 Green Eyed Killers 8.00 Homicide Hunter 9.00 Fugitives Caught on Tape 9.30 My Strange Arrest 10.30 Court Cam 11.00 Laura Whitmore on Britain’s Killer Teens 1.00pm House Party Killer 2.00 Hometown Tragedy 3.00 Buried in the Backyard 6.00 On the Case with Paula Zahn 7.00 The First 48 8.00 Hometown Tragedy: two editions 9.00 New. Staged: Deadly Deception 10.00 The Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher 11.00 Very Scary People 12 midnight Britain’s Darkest Taboos 1.00am Interrogation Raw 2.00 New. Crime in Progress 3.00 Imperfect Murder 5.00—6.00am Hometown Tragedy

8.00am How the Universe Works 11.00 Incredible Engineering Blunders: Fixed 1.00pm Cooper’s Treasure 3.00 How the Universe Works: triple bill 6.00pm How It’s Made: six editions. Compression hosiery and electric motorcycles 6.30 How frozen French toast is made 7.00 Knee braces and motorcycle exhausts 7.30 Limousines and dead-blow

Sky Documentaries Sky Nature

Dark Horses: Italy’s World Cup Triumph 7.00pm Wild Science 8.00pm The lion’s place in nature

6.00am One Shot: the Football Factory (AD) 7.00 Discovering: Christopher Plummer (AD) 8.00 The Directors 9.00 The Story of Late Night 9.50 Edge of the Earth (AD) 11.00 Dark Horses: Italy’s World Cup Triumph 12 noon FILM McEnroe HHHH Tennis star John McEnroe reflects on his life and career 2.00pm The United Way (AD) 3.50 My Icon: Chris Hughton (AD) 4.00 The Directors 5.00 Discovering: Christopher Plummer (AD) 5.55 Edge of the Earth: three whitewater kayakers cross Ecuador’s Llanganates National Park (AD)

7.00pm Dark Horses: Italy’s World Cup Triumph Italy face Australia, before receiving shocking news before the quarter-final.

8.00 Italia 90: Four Weeks That Changed the World The story of the 1990 World Cup, following the progress of five of the teams playing in an event that led to the rise of a new culture of football. (AD) 9.00 Examining the political forces that loomed in the background during the tournament. (AD) 10.00 Reminiscing over the agony and the ecstasy of the latter stages. See feature: page 12. (AD)

11.00 Schmeichel Profile of the former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel. (AD) 1.00am The End of the Storm 3.00 Benetton Formula 5.00—6.00am Discovering: Christopher Plummer (AD)

6.00am Waterworld Africa 7.00

Monkey Life 8.00 Orangutan Jungle

School 9.00 Valley of Flood and Fire

10.00 Zambia Untamed 11.00 Into the Wild: Colombia 12 noon Secrets of Wild Australia (AD) 1.00pm

Monkey Life 2.00 Orangutan Jungle School 3.00 Valley of Flood and Fire 4.00 Zambia Untamed: the Luangwa Valley 5.00 Into the Wild: Colombia

6.00pm Secrets of Wild Australia Australia’s dingoes have existed on its shores for more than 3,500 years. This documentary explores the secret of their success. (AD)

7.00 Monkey Life Lemurs Fennel and Ben trial life with the guenons but Biff proves a bit full-on.

7.30 The large playroom at the orangutan nursery is a hit with youngsters Kiwi and Sibu.

8.00 Wild Science How creatures from deep seas to land predators hunt, survive and dominate nature.

9.00 Islands The flora and fauna of Canada’s Vancouver Island. (AD)

10.00 Secrets of Wild Australia As 6pm.

11.00 Into the Wild: Colombia The challenges faced by the country’s hummingbird species. 12 midnight Brazil Untamed: the Pantanal 1.00am Waterworld Africa 2.00 Wild Science 3.00 Islands (AD) 4.00 Orangutan Jungle School 5.00— 6.00am Valley of Flood and Fire

SPORT

Sky Main Event

Sky 401 Virgin 501 EE 419/HD 439

6.00am World Cup Report: a round-up of all the day’s World Cup news 7.00 World Cup Breakfast 10.00 World Cup Matchday: analysis and discussion on the upcoming World Cup matches

7.00pm LIVE T20 Blast Cricket Essex v Kent Spitfires, coverage of the South Group match from the County Ground, Chelmsford. The hosts will be looking to improve on a poor performance in this competition last season, when they finished bottom of a nine-team group, winning just three of their 14 matches. The Spitfires fared better last year as they won seven matches and finished fourth in the table to progress to the quarter-finals, where they lost to Lancashire Lightning by three wickets. 10.30—6.00am World Cup Report

Sky Football

Sky 403 Virgin 503 EE 421/HD 441

6.00am Championship Highlights 7.00 League One Highlights 8.00 League Two Highlights 9.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 10.00 SPFL Greatest Games

12 noon Championship Retro (AD) 2.00pm EFL Greatest Games (AD)

4.00 Classic League Cup: Aston Villa v Manchester City in the 2020 final (AD)

5.00 League Cup Best Goals (AD)

5.30 EFL Trophy Football: Portsmouth v Salford City (AD) 6.00 Classic League Cup: Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur in the 2009 final (AD) 8.45 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 10.00 Championship Season Review (AD) 11.00 Craig Brown: My Scotland (AD) 11.30 There’s Only One Sauzée (AD) 12 midnight Classic League Cup (AD)

2.00am Scottish Premiership Best Goals 3.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD)

4.00 Championship Season Review (AD) 5.00 League Cup Best Goals

5.30—6.00am Championship Best Goals: from the 2017/18 season (AD)

Sky Sports +

Sky 404 Virgin 504 EE 427/HD 447

Sky Premier League

Sky 402 Virgin 502 EE 420/HD 440

6.00am Premier League Greatest Games (AD) 7.00 Premier League Review 9.00 Premier League Highlights 6.30pm Transfer 360: focusing on former Premier League star Patrick Vieira (AD) 7.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox: double bill. Manchester United legend Gary Neville is joined by Teddy Sheringham, then former defender William Gallas 8.00 Netbusters 9.00 Premier League 360: Big Sam’s Bolton (AD) 11.00 Premier League Years (AD) 1.00am Premier League Retro 3.00 Premier League Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Premier League Best Goals 5.00 Premier League Hat-Tricks: Alan Shearer 5.15 Premier League Hat-Tricks: Sergio Agüero 5.30—6.00am Best Goals

Sky Cricket

Sky 405 Virgin 505 EE 422/HD 442

6.00am Test Cricket Bitesize 7.00 Test

TNT Sports 1

Sky 410 Virgin 521 EE 408/HD 430 6.00am LIVE Test Cricket

Continued coverage of India v Afghanistan, the fourth day of the one-off Test at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh PCA Stadium in Punjab. 1.00pm LIVE International One-Day Cricket Bangladesh v Australia, the first ODI in the threematch series from Sher-E-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka. The visitors have won their previous 14 completed matches in this format against their hosts, a run that stretches all the way back to June 2005. Bangladesh have only ever beaten Australia once in ODIs, with that sole victory coming in a tri-series match in Cardiff 21 years ago.

2.30 LIVE Cycling Coverage from stage three of the men’s Tour Auvergne Rhone Alpes, a 28.4km team time-trial around Perreux.

4.15 Giro d’Italia (AD) 5.15 The Gruppetto 5.30 Cricket Reload 6.00 Sign Up: into Football 6.30 Premier League Stories 7.00 Mountain Biking 7.30 The Cycling Show 8.00 Test Cricket Highlights 9.00

Baseball

Guardians v

of the

(start 11.40). 3.00am TNT Sports Cricket Reload 3.45 Test Cricket Highlights 4.45—6.00am LIVE Test Cricket India v Afghanistan, action from the fifth and final day of the one-off men’s Test from Maharaja Yadavindra Singh PCA Stadium in Punjab. Coverage continues until 1pm.

TNT Sports 2

8.00am Europe from Above 9.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) 10.00 Drain the Oceans (AD) 11.00 Lost Treasures of Egypt 12 noon World War II: Secrets from Above 1.00pm Seconds from Disaster 2.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) 3.00 World War II: the Apocalypse 4.00 Ancient Structures (AD) 5.00 Inside Melbourne Airport (AD)

6.00pm Hitler’s Last Stand 7.00 Air Crash Investigation 8.00 New. Tucci in Italy (AD) 9.00 Drain the Oceans 10.00 New World War II: Secrets from Above 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) 12 midnight Ultimate Airport Dubai 1.00am Airport Security: Peru 2.00 Primal Survivor 2.30 Made in a Day (AD) 3.20 Food Factory 4.10—5.00am Prairie Dog Dynasty

8.00am Yukon Vet 9.00 National Parks: USA 10.00 Monster Fish 11.00 Savage Kingdom 12 noon The Incredible Dr Pol 1.00pm Yukon Vet 2.00 Nature’s Glow Sticks 3.00 Shark Men 4.00 Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina 5.00 Rocky Mountain Railroad: a spike in the temperature threatens shipments 6.00pm Yukon Vet 7.00 Secrets of the Zoo: Tampa 8.00 Zombie Animals: two editions. The world of mindcontrolling parasites, then a fungus that controls the brains of ants 10.00 Lawless Island 11.00 Ice Road Rescue 12 midnight When Sharks Attack 1.00am Last of the Giants: Wild Fish 2.00 The Incredible Dr Pol 3.00 Yukon Vet 4.00—5.00am Savage Kingdom

6.00am Forged with Steele 6.30 Digging for Britain 9.15 Pawn Stars

10.10 Storage Wars 12 noon Lost

U-Boats of WWII 1.00pm New series Modern Marvels: WWII: how wartime innovations continue to shape the modern world. Review p70 2.00 Commando Missions: four editions

6.00pm American Pickers 7.00 Forged in Fire: the contestants create an iconic blade 8.00 Modern Marvels: WWII

9.00 World War II with Tom Hanks

10.50 History’s Deadliest with Ving Rhames 11.50 Commando Missions

3.50am American Pickers 4.45 Storage Wars 5.35—6.00am Forged with Steele

8.00am My Cat from Hell (AD) 9.00 Edge of Alaska 10.00 Tanked 11.00 Animal Cops Phoenix (AD) 1.00pm Alaska: Homestead Rescue 2.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees 3.00 My Cat from Hell (AD) 5.00 Lone Star Law

6.00pm Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 7.00 Treehouse Masters: Pete designs a treehouse fit for the ultimate survivalist 8.00 Blood Ivory 9.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (AD) 10.00 Alaskan Bush

People (AD) 11.00 Mountain Monsters

12 midnight Alaska: Homestead Rescue 1.00am Sharks of the Shadowlands 2.00 Treehouse Masters 3.00—5.00am Animal Cops Houston

6.00am World Cup Report 7.00 World Cup Breakfast 8.00 Super League: another chance to see Huddersfield Giants v Leeds Rhinos 10.45 EFL Greatest Games 11.00 World Cup Matchday 3.00pm Premier League

Darts: another opportunity to see the sixth night of the tournament from Nottingham Arena, with a format featuring quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final all in one night 7.00 World Cup Show: an essential daily guide to the World Cup 10.00 World Cup Report: a round-up of the day’s World Cup news 12 midnight Super League 2.45—6.00am EFL Greatest Games (AD)

Sky Golf

Sky 406 Virgin 506 EE 423/HD 443 6.00am Golf Academy (AD) 7.00 Playing Lessons (AD) 8.00 Nick Dougherty’s Tee Time Tips (AD) 9.00 Best of the Sky Zone: US Open (AD) 9.30 European Tour Golf 10.00 PGA Tour Golf 11.00 US Women’s Open Golf: action from day four of the Major from the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California 12 noon Best of the Women’s Open Zone 2022 (AD) 12.30pm Best of the Open Zone 2023 (AD) 1.00 Golf Academy (AD) 2.00 Playing Lessons (AD) 3.00 Nick Dougherty’s Tee Time Tips (AD) 4.00 The Golf Fitness Show (AD) 4.30 European Tour Golf 5.00 PGA Tour Golf 6.00 US Women’s Open Golf 7.00 PGA Tour Champions 8.00 Amateur Golf: the 2024 Curtis Cup in Sunningdale, Berkshire 11.00 US Women’s

Cricket Highlights 12 noon Test Cricket Bitesize 1.15pm Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup (AD) 1.45 Best of the World T20 (AD) 2.00 Test Cricket Highlights: England v New Zealand 6.55 LIVE T20 Blast Cricket Essex v Kent Spitfires, coverage of the South Group match from the County Ground, Chelmsford. The hosts will be looking to improve on a poor performance in this competition last season, when they finished bottom of a nine-team group, winning just three of their 14 matches. The Spitfires fared better last year as they won seven matches and finished fourth in the table to progress to the quarter-finals, where they lost to Lancashire Lightning by three wickets. 10.30 Best of the World T20 (AD) 11.00 Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup (AD) 11.30 Test Cricket Bitesize 12 midnight— 6.00am Test Cricket Highlights

Sky Action

Sky 412 Virgin 510 EE 426/HD 446

6.00am Super League (AD) 12 noon Super Bowl LX Highlights (AD) 1.00pm Good Morning Football 3.00 NFL Highlights 4.00 Super League 4.45 Rugby League 5.00 Super Bowl LX Highlights (AD) 6.00 Pro-Football Talk 8.00 NBA (AD) 10.00 NFL Bitesize 11.00 NFL Highlights 12 midnight The Insiders 1.00am Women’s Super League 1.30 Rugby League 1.45 Super League 5.00 Women’s Super League 5.15—6.00am Super League

Sky Tennis

Sky 408 Virgin 508 EE 425/HD 445 10.00am—6.00pm LIVE Tennis The ATP Stuttgart Open and the ATP and WTA S-Hertogenbosch Open grass-court tournaments, held in Germany and the Netherlands.

Sky 411 Virgin 522 EE 409/HD 431 6.00am Motocross 9.00 Cycling 10.00 No Filter Football 10.30 Conference League Football (AD) 11.00 French Open Tennis (AD) 1.00pm MLB Highlights 2.00 The Gruppetto 2.15 LIVE Cycling Stage three of the men’s Tour Auvergne Rhone Alpes, a 28.4km team time-trial in Perreux. 4.15 Champions League Goals Reload: a look back at the best goals from the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final (AD) 4.30 MLB Highlights 5.30 Climbing Highlights 6.30 MotoGP 10.00 Cycling 11.00 The Cycling Show 11.30 Giro d’Italia (AD) 12.30am Mountain Biking 1.00 Triathlon Highlights 1.30 Climbing Highlights 2.30—6.00am MotoGP

TNT Sports 3

Sky 413 Virgin 523 EE 410/HD 432 5.45am LIVE International One-Day Cricket Bangladesh v Australia, the first ODI in the threematch series from Sher-E-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka.

TNT Sports 4

TOO MUCH?

Amanda (Lucy Punch) eschews the blandishments of a make-up artist

SITCOM

LAST IN SERIES

It took six years, three series and around 20 episodes before Lucy Punch’s Amanda won her sequel from (literal) parent series

Motherland – but, dare I say it, there’s a character in this week’s finale who’s earned her spin-off in just one episode. I would watch endless instalments of Rosie Cavaliero as chaotic make-up artist Claire,

SCIENCE

The Future with Hannah Fry

7.30pm BBC Two

Catch up via iPlayer

Robotics is the theme of this penultimate episode, probably the most interesting in the series so far, which opens with Hannah ordering a coffee from a cute little robot that’s wearing a witch’s cloak. The setting: a utopian café in Japan, where the robotic staff are controlled remotely by physically disabled and housebound humans.

There are plenty of other brilliant uses of tech here, too, from mind-controlled bionic arms to spectacles that can give deaf people live subtitling in conversations. But would most disabled people swap all the fancy gadgets for a more accessibile society? Surely a combination of both would be ideal. GARY ROSE

EW S Y

Amandaland 9.00pm BBC One Full series available on iPlayer

CRAFT

Dtravelling the country telling increasingly horrified suburbanites about her tragic life story as she cakes everyone in panto-worthy slap. She almost steals the episode, and it’s a mark of just how awful her life is that Claire inspires an act of genuine kindness from the usually self-centred Amanda.

In the event, over the course of this second series we have seen a softer side to the

The Repair Shop

8.00pm BBC One

Catch up via iPlayer

In this episode first shown in 2025 the Bear Ladies have a much bigger project than a teddy when a life-sized stuffed pony called Hector arrives in the barn. He’s a muchloved teaching aid at an Edinburgh riding school for disabled people, but looks a little shabby and wobbly now. Their first task is to run the vacuum over him, but he needs a lot more TLC after that.

The other experts on hand renovate “a kind of a clock” that no longer works, a chair with a history that was the favourite seat of two men both much loved by their families, and a cherished leather darts case that it’s hoped can be restored without removing evidence of its original owner’s handling. JANE RACKHAM

DOCUMENTARY

Inside the Tower of London

8.00pm 5

Catch up via 5 streaming

former Queen Bee, who’s now humbler (by at least 5%) and more self-aware (maybe 4%) than when she arrived in SoHa. And this week Amanda learns she’s but an apprentice to the true monsters of selfishness and vanity – literally any normal teenager, even her well-behaved daughter. Another series for Amanda feels inevitable – here’s hoping for Claireland as well. HUW

DOCUMENTARY Surgeons: at the Edge of Life

9.00pm BBC Two Catch up: iPlayer

The role of the King’s House’s current resident isn’t as disturbing as it was in Elizabeth I’s time. We hear how back then he was a powerful master spy, who’d keep high-status prisoners safely under lock and key but also pass on intelligence about overthrow plots and, as in William Wade’s case with Guy Fawkes, use torture to extract information.

Coming up to date, we meet the Beefeater who’s swapped his Para beret for a Tudor bonnet but reckons “jumping out of an aircraft is easier than keeping 1,000 years of history in your head” and see the Yeomen Warders prepare for Remembrance Sunday both at the Tower and at the Cenotaph. JR

LAST IN SERIES

A series that regularly delivers heart-stopping moments now features a lung-stopper: Kathleen from Aberdeen is at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh for an operation to remove a tumour that’s invaded her liver and diaphragm. But when Professor Steve Wigmore’s efforts to rebuild the diaphragm come up against complications, we’re looking more at Kathleen’s lungs. One of them is leaking air. In another operating theatre, Dawn from Kincardine, who has spina bifida, needs surgical help because of an accumulation of scar tissue around the membrane that protects the brain and spinal cord. Disaster is a millimetre away at all times. JACK SEALE

FULLERTON

WEDNESDAY

SITCOM

Only Child

9.30pm BBC One Full series: iPlayer

The second run of the Scottish father-and-son sitcom draws to a typically bittersweet close. The property developers’ diggers roll in at the allotments, forcing the protest group to take extreme action. Meanwhile, jobbing actor Richard (Greg McHugh) lays it all on the line in a bid to woo Emily (Amy Lennox). Will he get the Richard Curtis-style soppy ending he so desperately desires? And can dad Ken (Gregor Fisher) find his own happy ever after? Another series of this gentle gem, please, BBC bigwigs. MICHAEL HOGAN

CURRENT AFFAIRS

On the Front Line:

Exposed – the High Street Crime Crisis

10.00pm (11.00pm in N Ireland) BBC Two Available on iPlayer

In this year-long investigation, reporter Ed Thomas shadows police forces across the country as they attempt to bring down the shops acting as fronts for organised crime. In Rochdale, the police raid a minimart that makes £2,000 a day from selling illegal cigarettes, while in Shrewsbury, a barber shop is closed down for laundering money. Many of these businesses are aided by solicitors who register the shops in the names of ghost directors. An admission is caught on camera.

STEPHEN KELLY

DRAMA

DRAMA

SERIES FINALE

The Fortune 9.00pm 5 Catch up via 5 streaming In a knotty final instalment, everything starts closing in around Amanda (Eleanor Tomlinson). She’s being framed for murder, her mother (Paula Wilcox) and husband (Matthew Lewis) are missing, and she’s inundated with anonymous texts and calls. Who’s sending her these messages, and why are they intent on the police not being involved?

One thing’s for certain: whoever it is certainly wants Amanda to take the inheritance. She’s told that if she accepts, her family will remain safe and be returned to her. Yet, as we’ve seen, she’s not one to take the easy route and so instead embarks on a mission to track them down. In true fashion for a 5 drama, expect a delicious – and slightly ludicrous – conclusion with some unexpected revelations. MORGAN CORMACK

Location, Location,

Location 8.00pm C4

Kirstie and Phil (above) catch up with a couple nervous about flightpaths in Edinburgh, and look back at a Derbyshire live/ work space search in 2007.

Springwatch

8.00pm BBC Two

RISKY It’s crisis after crisis for Amanda (Eleanor Tomlinson)

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

9.05pm, 9.50pm BBC Three, 10.40pm, 11.25pm (11.40pm, 12.25am N Ireland) BBC One Full series available on iPlayer

Murder mysteries demand answers and this second series of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder requires two: a verdict in the Max Hastings trial and the truth behind Jamie Reynolds’s disappearance. Both strands reach a resolution, but neither comes without cost. The real focus here is the toll on Pip (Emma Myers), whose experience has left her with the realisation that crime-solving isn’t just about piecing together a puzzle. There’s an ethical reckoning too, and a growing sense that the world doesn’t always make sense and often can’t be fixed.

Let’s hope this isn’t the last we’ve seen of Pip – after all, there is a third, thematically far darker novel awaiting adaptation.

DAVID BROWN

SHE’S LISTENING

But will Pip (Emma Myers) get the answers she wants?

FILM

Ken Loach Night

from 10.05pm BBC Four

Catch up via iPlayer

Ahead of his 90th birthday, Ken Loach sits down to mark two of his finest achievements, representing both poles of his directing career. At 10.05pm he introduces his most recent film, 2023’s The Old Oak, in which a struggling white publican befriends a Syrian refugee. Then, at 12.10am, Loach remembers Up the Junction, filmed for the BBC in 1965 and which follows at 12.25am. Following the ups and downs of life around London’s former slums, it remains one of his high points as a social film-maker, influencing the era’s debates around legalising abortion. Despite the subject matter, both films sparkle with spirit, chatter and community. CALUM BAKER Film reviews: page 87

Has the recent unseasonably hot weather had an impact on the wildlife at the Crom estate and elsewhere?

Laurence Rees Remembers… 9.00pm BBC Four

In this 2025 introduction, the documentary-maker looks back on his 1997 series The Nazis: a Warning from History. The first episode is at 9.15pm.

International Football

England v Costa Rica 8pm (k/o 9pm) ITV1

Orlando, Florida hosts England’s final World Cup warm-up match.

Tennis: Queen’s 1pm BBC Two

Day three of the women’s grass-court tournament in west London, with singles matches in the second round.

Athletics: Diamond League 7pm BBC Three

The historic Bislett Games, from Oslo.

SPORT HIGHLIGHTS

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FILM REVIEWS

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BBC One

BBC One

6.00am Breakfast Presented by Jon Kay and Sally Nugent. (S) (HD)

9.30 Morning Live Topical discussion and expert advice with Gethin Jones and Helen Skelton. (S) (HD)

10.45 Doorbell Detectives A man returns home to find someone hanging around his house. When he checks his doorbell footage, he sees the burglar drop some incriminating evidence. (S) (HD)

11.15 Homes under the Hammer Properties in Cornwall, Hampshire and Lancashire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

12.15pm Bargain Hunt Danny Sebastian hosts a special show all about tea. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

2.00 Policing Paradise Officers find a haul of suspected cannabis plants at a residential home, and stolen bike parts are found in a derelict hotel. (S) (HD)

2.30 Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes Robson takes actor Jo Joyner horse riding. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

3.00 Escape to the Country Helping a potential buyer to find a home in the Lake District. (R) (S) (HD)

3.45 Garden Rescue Flo Headlam and Joe Swift are in Wilmslow to help Vin and Reena transform their garden into a zen, grow-your-own garden for family healing. Repeated tomorrow 7.15am BBC Two (S) (HD)

4.30—5.15 Bridge of Lies Friends Mark, Sheila, Giselle and Shaun compete in the quiz. (R) (S) (HD)

BBC Two

BBC Two 6.30am Escape to the Country A pilot searches for a home near Belfast airport. Shown Monday 3pm BBC One (S) (AD) (HD)

7.15 Garden Rescue The team creates an exotic retreat in Coventry. Shown Monday 3.45pm BBC One (S) (HD)

8.00—9.00 Sign Zone 8.00 Great Japanese Railway Journeys 5/15. Michael Portillo boards a bullet train to Nagano, the gateway to the Japanese Alps. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 8.30 Great Korean Railway Journeys 5/5. Michael Portillo visits the volcanic landscapes of Jeju Island. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 BBC News (S) (HD)

11.15 Politics Live Featuring coverage and analysis of Prime Minister’s Questions at Westminster. (S) (HD)

1.00—6.00pm LIVE Tennis Coverage of day three of the women’s Queen’s Club Championship from London, featuring singles matches from the second round. The top four seeds enter the tournament at this stage, including the top-ranked Jessica Pegula and her American compatriot Amanda Anisimova. Additional coverage on the red button, iPlayer and at bbc.co.uk/sport from 11.30am—7.30pm. (S) (HD)

Only Child 9.30pm Ken (Gregor Fisher) and Richard (Greg McHugh) reach a critical juncture

5.15pm Pointless

With Alexander Armstrong and Ria Lina. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)

6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD)

7.00 The One Show

Presented by Angellica Bell and JB Gill.

Editor Joanne Vaughan-Jones (S) (HD)

7.30 EastEnders

The Slaters gather for the birthday dinner.

Writer Simon Norman Cast Monday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 The Repair Shop

6 The experts tackle a life-sized model horse, a chair that is a treasured part of a family’s history, an unusual clock and a leather darts case. See p80.

Director George Vernon; Series producer Shane Normoyle (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Amandaland

6

6/6 Series 2. Prom. Amanda hosts a prom preparty at her flat. A box set is on iPlayer. See p80.

Amanda Lucy Punch

Anne Philippa Dunne

Felicity Joanna Lumley

Mal Samuel Anderson

Della Siobhán McSweeney

JJ Ekow Quartey

Fi Rochenda Sandall

Abs Harriet Webb

Claire Rosie Cavaliero

Tony Daniel Fearn Georgie Miley Locke Morten Anya McKenna-Bruce Mr Hastings Laurence Rickard

Ned Archie Smith

Darius Jack Veal

Writer Laurence Rickard; Director David Sant

Producer Arnold Widdowson (S) (AD) (HD)

9.30 Only Child

6 6/6 Series 2. TBC. The diggers move in at the allotments. A box set is on iPlayer. See page 81.

Richard Greg McHugh

Beth Jenny Galloway

Surgeons: at the Edge of Life 9.00pm Steve Wigmore prepares to operate with total precision

6.00pm Richard Osman’s House of Games

Simon Armitage, Josie Gibson, Ardal O’Hanlon and Adele Roberts test their general knowledge. (R) (S) (HD)

6.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys

3/20 Series 8. Michael Portillo heads for Split, where he learns more about the importance of Catholicism to the people of Croatia and explores the spectacular palace of Roman emperor Diocletian. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Villages by the Sea

Series 5. Ben Robinson visits Runswick Bay in North Yorkshire where he discovers how, in the late 1800s, it inspired a group of artists who became known as the British Impressionists. The whole series is on iPlayer. Series producer Theo Williams Executive producers Pam Cavannagh and Dympna Jackson (R) (S) (HD)

7.30 The Future with Hannah Fry

6 5/6. Hannah explores the technology that could change the lives of disabled people, from bionic limbs to coffee-making robots. Continues tomorrow 7.30pm. The whole series is on iPlayer. See page 80. First shown on Bloomberg (S) (AD) (HD)

7.55 The Secret Genius of Modern Life: the Best Bits The hidden story behind refrigerators. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)

8.00 Springwatch

11/12. Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan monitor the latest dramas as springtime unfolds on the Crom estate in Fermanagh, with footage from their remote wildlife cameras. Continues tomorrow 8pm. (S) (HD)

9.00 Surgeons: at the Edge of Life

ITV1

ITV1 6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD)

9.30 Lorraine Showbiz and style. (S) (HD)

10.00 This Morning Lifestyle advice, competitions and star interviews. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD)

12.30pm Loose Women Candid conversation. (S) (HD)

1.30 ITV News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal David Dickinson and the expert dealers are in Llangollen, Denbighshire, where Jan Keyne finds a necklace and Simon Schneider shows his charitable side. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

3.00—4.00 Lingo Adil Ray hosts as twins Rachel and Sarah, couple Julia and Ian, and Mica and her mum Trish try to find words from the fewest letters possible. (R) (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather (S) (HD)

Channel 4

Channel 4 5.45am Countdown With guest Mark Chapman. (R) (S) (HD)

6.25 Cheers Triple bill of the sitcom. (R) (S) (HD)

7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.10 Frasier Four episodes of the comedy. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.10 American Pickers The team uncover a former firefighter’s stockpile, which includes a piece of space age history. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 12.05pm News (S) (HD) 12.10 Car SOS Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend restore a Fiat X1/9 for 53-year-old owner Steve. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.10 Help! We Bought a Village Builders start work on the restoration of a Portuguese village that has laid abandoned for decades. (R) (S) (HD)

2.10 Countdown Mark Chapman guests. (S) (HD)

3.00—4.00 A Place in the Sun Jean Johansson helps south Wales couple Joanne and Darren find the perfect holiday home in Spain’s Costa del Sol. (R) (S) (HD)

Ken Gregor Fisher

Emily Amy Lennox

Ian Robin Laing

Jen Clare Barrett

Tim Kevin Bishop

Sally Jennifer Saunders

Digsy Paul Rattray

Horace Clive Russell

Paul

Tam Dean Burn

Councillor Lisa Livingstone

Writer Bryce Hart; Director John Addis; Producer Ursula Haworth

Shown Monday 10pm BBC Scotland (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

10.40 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

6 5/6 Series 2. A daring night mission causes group tension and leaves Pip isolated.

Shown 9.05pm BBC Three (S) (AD) (HD)

11.25 6/6. A tense confrontation reveals a complicated truth. A box set is in UHD on iPlayer. See page 81.

Pip Fitz-Amobi Emma Myers

Connor Reynolds Jude Morgan-Collie

Ravi Singh Zain Iqbal

Cara Ward Asha Banks

Max Hastings Henry Ashton

Jamie Reynolds Eden Hambleton Davies

Stanley Forbes Misia Butler

Nat Da Silva Jessica Webber

Victor Amobi Gary Beadle

Leanne Fitz-Amobi Anna Maxwell Martin

Charlie Green Jack Rowan

Joanna Reynolds Lu Corfield

Josh Fitz-Amobi Kamari Loyd

Dan Da Silva Jackson Bews

DI Hawkins Andy McLeod

Christopher Epps Peter Sullivan

Lauren Gibson Yali Topol Margalith

Rosie Hastings Annabel Mullion

Toby Hastings Adam Astill

Soraya Bouzidi Stephanie Street

Adam Clark

Oliver Coopersmith

Howie Bowers Thomas Gray

Becca Bell Carla Woodcock

Robin Hastings Freddie England

Luke Eaton Freddie Thorp

DC Peter Collis Russell Boulter

Justice Wickham Sam Newman Vicar David Sargent

Adapted by Holly Jackson; Producers Sophie Klein and Sophie MacClancy; Director Jill Robertson Shown 9.50pm BBC Three (S) (AD) (HD)

12.10am Blankety Blank 7/9. With Chris McCausland, Emmett J Scanlan, Melvin Odoom, Sue Perkins, Grace Dent and Vanessa Williams. See review, page 40. Shown Saturday 6.20pm (S) (HD)

12.45 Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 12.50—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

6 6/6 Series 8. Following the work of surgeons and their teams as they undertake critical operations. A neurosurgeon must save her patient from paralysis with unerring precision, while a surgeon has just one chance to tackle a life-threatening tumour. See p80.

Director Steven Todd; Producer Nimita Herron Repeated tomorrow 11pm (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 On the Front Line: Exposed — the High Street Crime Crisis

6

An undercover investigation into the increasing number of crime gangs setting up shop on the high streets of Britain, selling illicit wares from illegal cigarettes to cocaine. Watch now on iPlayer. See p81.

Editor Paul Mullen; Executive producer Jessica Todd First shown on BBC News (S) (AD) (HD)

10.30 Newsnight With Victoria Derbyshire. (S) (HD) Weather (S) (HD)

11.00 Unspun World with John Simpson

Discussing the week’s big global news stories. (S) (HD) 11.30 David Beckham: in Ten Pictures 2/4 Series 3. A look at the footballer’s meteoric rise to fame through 10 defining images, examining how he used the camera to turn himself into a global brand. More tomorrow 9pm. The whole series is on iPlayer. Shown last Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

12.30—2.55am Sign Zone 12.30 MasterChef The finalists visit the Caribbean. Shown last Wednesday BBC One (S) (AD) (HD) 1.30 The Future with Hannah Fry 4/6. The mathematician examines nuclear fusion. Shown last Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)

1.55 Do You Know Your Place? Vernon Kay and Paul Gorton quiz three celebrities on their knowledge of Bristol. (R) (S) (HD)

2.25 Peelers: the PSNI for Real 3/6. Dave deals with a serial car thief while Adam pursues a fleeing suspect. (R) (S) (HD)

Inside the Tower of London 8.00pm Tracy Borman investigates espionage

4.00pm Tipping Point

Quiz show hosted by Ben Shephard. (R) (S) (HD)

5.00 The Chase

Helen, Oscar, James and Leonardo pit their wits against a ruthless quiz expert. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)

6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)

7.00 Emmerdale

Laurel is feeling mortified. Chas struggles to hold her tongue. Archie is left glowering.

4.00pm Narrow Escapes

Tom embarks on his maiden voyage from Nantwich on the Shropshire Union Canal.

Repeated tomorrow 10am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

5.00 Château DIY: Australia

At Château de la Fare, Janet and Philip reach dizzying heights in their stairwell renovation. Repeated tomorrow 3pm 4seven (S) (HD)

6.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

Sophie and Charlotte Rodriguez help digital nomads Kris and Ali relocate to Spain.

Series producer Kate Wilson; Executive producer Fiona Wilson

5.35am Milkshake! See page 86

9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)

11.30 Storm and Alexis Discussion. (S) (HD)

12.45pm 5 News (S) (HD)

12.50 Matt Allwright Debate. (S) (HD)

2.00 Vanessa Discussion show. (S) (HD)

3.00 Castle 1/24 Series 5. The author and Beckett wrestle with their emotions as they face danger from the killers of Kate’s mother. (R) (S) (HD)

3.55 2/24. Beckett and Castle strive to conceal their developing relationship. (R) (S) (HD)

Laurel Thomas Charlotte Bellamy Chas Dingle

Repeated tomorrow 11am 4seven (R) (S) (HD)

Pargeter

Miah

Writer Tony Higgins More cast Monday (S) (AD) (HD)

7.30 Coronation Street

Lily’s family mark her sporting achievement. Megan lures Will back into her orbit.

Writer Simon Crowther Cast Sunday/Friday (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 International Football

England v Costa Rica

Mark Pougatch presents all the action from the friendly match at Inter&Co Stadium in Orlando, Florida (kick-off 9.00).

This is England’s final warm-up game before they get their World Cup campaign under way against Croatia in Dallas on 17 June. They will be expecting a morale-boosting victory here against a team that failed to qualify for the finals for the first time since 2010. The Three Lions won 2—0 when these sides last met at Elland Road in 2018 thanks to goals from Marcus Rashford and Danny Welbeck. With analysis by Roy Keane and Ian Wright, reports from Gabriel Clarke, and commentary by Sam Matterface and Lee Dixon.

Director Paul McNamara; Editor Stuart Smith (S) (HD) Opening ceremony and Mexico v South Africa tomorrow 6.15pm 11.25 ITV News

Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD) 12.10am Keane and Vieira: Best of Enemies The on-field rivalry between the midfielders. (R) (S) (HD) 1.15 Prem Rugby Unleashed Including Exeter Chiefs v Saracens. Shown 6.30pm ITV4 (Revised rpt) (S) (HD) 1.40 Home Shopping (HD)

3.00 Jason Atherton’s Dubai Dishes Recipes flavoured with tea and coffee. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD) 5.05—6.00am Wheel of Fortune Graham Norton introduces the quiz show. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)

8.00 Location, Location, Location

Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer catch up with a couple in Edinburgh, and one in Derbyshire, almost 20 years after their search with the dream duo. Kirstie and Phil first searched with Stephanie and Tana in Edinburgh in 2021, and Wendy and Simon asked for Kirstie and Phil’s help in Derbyshire way back in 2007.

Director/Producer Emma Ford

Repeated tomorrow 8pm 4seven (S) (HD)

9.00 Grand Designs

Kevin McCloud follows a couple who face a race against time to realise their dream. Two years ago, corporate accountant Pep was diagnosed with terminal cancer. But rather than rest and avoid stress, Pep and partner Malene focused their attention on a long-held ambition to build a new house in the Surrey Hills.

Director Alex Steinitz; Executive producers John Lonsdale and John Comerford (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Britain’s Most Expensive Houses

Ep 7 Series 3. On north London’s Billionaires’ Row, Jeremy Fine is selling Fair Hill, a £20 million mansion boasting six reception rooms, eight bedrooms and a nightclub-style party room.

Executive producer Jannine Waddell

Series editor Paula Campion (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.05 Building Monaco’s Superhomes

1/2. Property developer Guy Phoenix buys and renovates a £16 million apartment in Monaco.

Repeated tomorrow 1.50am 4seven (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

12.10am 2/2. Guy is under pressure to complete his apartment in time for the Grand Prix.

Executive producer/Series director Paul Barnett (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA A failing restaurant in Fremont, California. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

1.55 Travel Man: 48 Hours in Trieste Joe Lycett and Alan Davies explore northern Italy. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

2.20 Rosaline HHH Period romantic comedy based qon Romeo and Juliet, starring Kaitlyn Dever, Isabela Merced and Kyle Allen. Determined to marry for love, Rosaline resists her father’s attempts to find her a husband. She only has eyes for Romeo. So when Romeo and Rosaline’s cousin Juliet fall in love, Rosaline does her best to break them up.

Director Karen Maine (2022) (S) (SL) (HD)

3.55 Couples Come Dine with Me Three couples compete for the £1,000 prize in Swindon. (R) (S) (HD)

4.50—5.45am Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country The greenhouse is enhanced. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

4.50 Love Nature Cameras follow Nikki from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. (R) (S) (HD)

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)

6.00 Norfolk and Suffolk: Country and Coast

3/6. On the Norfolk coast, cameras follow surfing instructor Duncan Borretton on Cromer beach, as he leads a group of beginners into the wild North Sea. (R) (S) (HD)

6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors

Dr Libby Pearson sees a patient who has been bitten by a fox, checking the wound for infection and delivering a tetanus booster.

Series director Richard Pepe; Exec producers Stephanie Harvie Campbell, Jonathan Stadlen and Alicky Sussman (R) (S) (HD)

7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 Inside the Tower of London

6Ep 4 Series 9. Chief historian Tracy Borman learns how the tower was once at the centre of an international spy ring, and Remembrance Sunday approaches. See p80.

Series producers Simon Smith and Lauren Bennie Executive producer Sarah Sarkhel (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 The Fortune

6

4/4. Amanda’s mother and Jimmy are missing, she seems to be being framed for Boots’s murder, and she’s still receiving anonymous messages and calls. See page 81 For cast see Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Trauma Room One

7/8

Series 2. Linda, 62, faces an awake craniotomy to remove a brain tumour lying close to the area that controls speech.

Directors Zara Hobson, Johnny Perks and Iain Robinson; Series producer Andrew Nicholson First shown on 5 Star (S) (HD)

11.05 A&E after Dark

Staff treat a man with puncture wounds from a dog attack and Dr Luke is concerned by a patient who was found in a diabetic coma.

Directors/Producers Laura Craig, Aisley Keeler, Pamela McIntyre, Martin O’Toole and John Russell (R) (S) (HD)

12.05am A&E: Crash Scene Emergency Medics treat a man whose car was crushed. (R) (S) (HD)

1.00 Home Shopping (R) (S) (HD)

2.30 Badgers: Their Secret World Steve Backshall delves into the life of the elusive badger. (R) (S) (HD)

3.20 Friends Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

4.35 The Highland Vet A crofter brings in a lamb that has a suspected broken leg. (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 5.25—5.35am Entertainment News (S) (HD)

12.05pm Ein Llwybrau Celtaidd

12.30 Heno

1.00 Ciao! Colleen Ag Owain

1.30 Garddio a Mwy

2.00 Newyddion; Tywydd

2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion; Tywydd

3.05 Pêl-Droed Rhyngwladol 4.00 Awr Fawr

5.00 Stwnsh

6.00 Ceffylau, Sheikhs a Chowbois

6.30 Rownd a Rownd; Newyddion

7.00 Heno

7.30 Newyddion; Tywydd

8.00 Pobol y Cwm: Lleucu makes a stupid decision

8.25 Taclo’r Ty: new series. Home renovation series, with Sarra Elgan

8.55 Newyddion; Tywydd 9.00 3Cân: all three tracks take inspiration from works of literature

9.30 Y Byd ar Bedwar: hidden cameras expose sellers of unlawful tanning jabs and nasal sprays 10.00 Codi Hwyl: the Mistress Wilful has engine problems

10.30—11.35 Cynefin: Heledd Cynwal, Iestyn Jones and Siôn Tomos Owen explore Bro Ddyfi

WEDNESDAY FREEVIEW CHANNELS

Ken Loach Remembers... 10.05pm

The director reflects on The Old Oak

All programmes on BBC Four are repeats unless otherwise stated 7.00pm University Challenge

Two more teams battle it out for a place in the quarter-finals. First broadcast in 2023. More tomorrow 7pm. (S) (HD)

7.30 Only Connect

Rugby players compete against a trio from the Cambridge Quiz Society. First shown in 2009. More tomorrow 7.30pm. Repeated 2.05am (S)

8.00 Universe

1/5. The Sun: God Star. Professor Brian Cox begins his exploration of the cosmos with a hymn to the luminous bodies that bring light and warmth to the universe — the stars. He follows Nasa’s Parker Solar probe, the first spacecraft designed to “touch” and experience the Sun’s brutal atmosphere up close. First broadcast in 2021. Watch now on iPlayer.

Director Ashley Gething; Exec producers Gideon Bradshaw and Andrew Cohen Signed repeat 2.35am (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Laurence Rees Remembers...

The Nazis: a Warning from History

The historical filmmaker looks back on his acclaimed 1997 documentary series. First shown in 2025. Watch now on iPlayer.

Producer Andrew Wiltshire

Series producer Simon Goretzki (S) (HD)

9.15 The Nazis: a Warning from History

1/6. Helped into Power. An account of Hitler’s rise to power, concentrating on the Nazi party’s formation after the First World War and the eventual Führer’s appointment as Chancellor in 1933. First shown in 1997. Watch now on iPlayer.

Producer Laurence Rees (S) (HD)

10.05 New. Ken Loach Remembers...

The Old Oak

6The first programme in an evening devoted to the film-maker ahead of his 90th birthday on 17 June. Ken Loach reflects on The Old Oak. See page 81.

Producer Tina Chamberlain

Series producer Simon Goretzki (S) (HD)

10.20 The Old Oak HHHH

qDrama. TJ, the landlord of a pub in a former mining town, is struggling to keep his business open as the community dwindles. When a small influx of Syrian refugees arrives, tensions arise but TJ forges an unlikely friendship with one of the newcomers, Yara. Watch now on iPlayer. Film of the Day: page 87.

TJ Ballantyne

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 9.05pm Can Pip crack the case?

7.00pm LIVE Athletics

Coverage of the Bislett Games in Oslo, the sixth Diamond League meeting. (S) (HD) Followed by New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)

9.05 New. AGood Girl’s Guide to Murder

65/6 Series 2. A daring night mission causes group tension and leaves Pip isolated. Jamie’s case stalls until Pip decodes a clue that cracks it wide open. Starring Emma Myers and Asha Banks. (S) (AD) (HD)

9.50 New. 6/6. As they pursue the truth, Pip and her friends face new risks and shocking discoveries. A box set is in UHD on iPlayer. See page 81.

Both episodes repeated tonight BBC One Cast page 82 (S) (AD) (HD)

10.35 Escape Room: Tournament of Champions HHH

q

Horror sequel starring Taylor Russell and Logan Miller. The survivors of a “locked room” game are determined to discover the author of their ordeal, but their quest only plunges them into further death traps. On iPlayer for 29 days. Review p77.

Director Adam Robitel (2020, 15) (S) (HD)

Shown yesterday 11.40pm BBC One

11.55 Ladhood

4/6 Series 1. Liam prepares to perform at a spoken-word gig in Leeds. (S) (HD)

12.20am 5/6. Liam examines his relationship with drugs. (S) (HD)

12.45 6/6. After lying to Jess, Liam becomes nostalgic for first love. First shown in 2019. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (HD)

1.10 Top Gear (S) (HD) 2.10 Funboys (S) (HD) 2.25—3.55am A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder: two episodes (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

Heartbeat 5.50pm Sgt Craddock is on the war path following a liaison

6.00am On the Buses (S) 7.05 Classic Emmerdale (S) (AD) 8.05 Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD) 9.10 Inspector Morse: Series 7 Twilight of the Gods. An opera singer is shot (S) (AD) (HD) 11.20 Heartbeat: 11/24. A series of jewel thefts rock the village (S) (AD); 12.25pm 12/24. Greengrass saves the village from imminent nuclear disaster (S) (AD) 1.30 Midsomer Murders: Series 15. Murder of Innocence. When an innocent man is freed from jail, he plans to get his own back on those who jailed him (S) (AD) (HD) 3.35 Classic Emmerdale: Anna’s feelings for Matthew become more confused than ever (S) (AD)

4.40pm Classic Coronation Street

Fiz agrees to give her relationship with John another chance. (S) (AD)

5.15 Determined to exact her revenge, Mel tracks down Abi’s attackers. (S) (AD)

5.50 Heartbeat

13/24 Series 8. Mike gets embroiled in a romantic liaison with a bereaved local. (S) (AD)

6.55 14/24. Mike clashes with solicitor Jackie Lambert over a contested will. (S) (AD)

8.00 Midsomer Murders

Series 22. Happy Families. As the owners of a board-game company gather for a murder mystery weekend, the experience takes a puzzling twist. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Law & Order: UK 5/7 Series 1. Buried. When a young boy’s body is found inside a wall, a woman undergoes EMDR therapy to recall the night that he disappeared. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 6/7. Paradise. A key piece of evidence to an arson attack at a Turkish club is stuck in a suspect’s leg. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.50 Wycliffe

Dance of the Scorpions. The murder of a building society manager and his wife leads to Wycliffe clashing with his superiors (S) (HD) 1.35am On the Buses: Stan woos Blakey’s niece (S) 2.05—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)

The Chelsea Detective 9.00pm A man’s past surprises the team

7.20am The Bill Rptd 11.55am (S) 8.15 Doctors: double bill. The day of Lee and Ryan’s trial arrives, then Heston and George have a professional tiff (S) 9.30 Classic Holby City: Ric and Zubin set aside their differences (S) 10.50 Casualty: Linda’s sister turns up in the ED (S) (AD) (HD) 11.55 The Bill: Boyden hunts his impersonator Shown 7.20am (S) 1.00pm Classic EastEnders: double bill. Janine and Stacey come to blows over Ryan, then a new arrival means Alfie is not the only Moon on the Square (S) 2.15 Tenko: 5/10 Series 1. Marion doubts her leadership abilities (S) 3.20 The Doctor Blake Mysteries: 7/8 Series 4. The medic investigates a firefighter’s death (S) (HD) 4.20 Lovejoy: 10/12 Series 2. A property developer approaches Lady Jane’s husband Repeated 1.40am (S) 5.25 Waiting for God: 3/10 Series 2. New resident Daisy instils some discipline (S) 6.00pm Last of the Summer Wine Series 20. What Happened to Barry’s Nose. Howard takes up weightlifting. (S) 6.40 Optimism in the Housing Market Smiler works as a door-to-door salesman. (S) 7.20 Will Barry Go Septic Despite Listening to Classical Music? The trio meet a man testing for earthquakes. (S)

8.00 Sister Boniface Mysteries 10/10 Series 1. Crimes and Miss Demeanours. A contestant in a beauty pageant meets an untimely end. (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 The Chelsea Detective 6/8 Series 1. The Gentle Giant 2/2. Max and Priya uncover the victim’s past. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 New Tricks 3/10 Series 10. The Sins of the Father. Brian believes his days with Ucos are up. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.20 Silent Witness 4/5 Series 13. Shadows. Harry and Nikki investigate a student’s suicide. (S) (AD) 1.40am Lovejoy Shown 4.20pm (S) 2.45—4.00am This Is Not a Murder Mystery: 6/6. The night takes an unexpected turn (S) (SL) (HD)

Dave Turner

Yara Ebla Mari

Charlie Trevor Fox

Laura Claire Rodgerson

Vic Chris McGlade

Director Ken Loach (2023, 15) (S) (HD)

12.10am Ken Loach Remembers... Up the Junction: Ken Loach looks back at the 1965 TV adaptation of Up the Junction (S) (HD)

12.25 Up the Junction: The Wednesday Play: the acclaimed drama from 1965 (BW) (S) (HD)

1.35 Ken Loach: This Cultural Life: the film director discusses his influences (S) (HD)

2.05 Only Connect Shown 7.30pm (S)

2.35—3.35am Universe Shown 8pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

6.00am Backyard Builds (S) (SL) (HD) 6.25 Deal or No Deal (S) (AD) (HD) 7.25 Dress to Impress (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.25 Billie and Greg: the Family Diaries (S) (HD) 9.25 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 10.25 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (S) (HD) 11.15 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)

12.10pm The Real Housewives of Cheshire (S) (HD) 1.10 Celebrity Catchphrase (S) (AD) (HD)

2.10 The Floor USA (S) (AD) (HD) 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 4.10 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (S) (HD) 5.00 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)

6.00pm Celebrity Catchphrase Richard Ayoade, Katie McGlynn and Joe Swash guess the well-known phrases. (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 New. The Floor USA Rob Lowe hosts the American version of the show. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Million Dollar Listing: LA Tracy makes big plans to expand her territory. (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Love Island Reality show. (S) (HD) 10.05 New. Love Island: The Debrief Discussing the drama in the Villa (S) (HD)

10.35 Family Guy Series 1. Lois becomes obsessed with slot machines. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.05 Series 4. Peter gets stranded. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.35 American Dad! Series 1. Stan and the family are sent to Saudi Arabia. (S) (AD)

12.05am Hayley finds a new man. (S) (AD)

12.35 Bob’s Burgers: double bill of the comedy (S) (AD) (HD) 1.30 Transaction (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

1.55 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records (S) (SL) (HD) 2.25—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

6.00am The Protectors (S) (SL) 6.35 Magnum, PI (S) (HD) 8.40 The Saint (S) (SL) (HD) 9.50 Boon (S) 11.00 Isle of Man TT Review (S) (HD) 12.05pm BattleBots (S) (HD) 1.15 Magnum, PI: double bill of the drama (S) (HD) 3.15 Boon (S) 4.20 The Sweeney (S) 5.20 Minder (S) (AD) 6.30pm New. Prem Rugby Unleashed Action from the final round of matches, including Bath v Leicester Tigers and Exeter Chiefs v Saracens. Repeated 1.15am ITV1 (S) (HD)

7.30 New. World Cup Countdown A look ahead to the tournament, which kicks off tomorrow. (S) (HD) See feature: page 12

8.00 Junk and Disorderly Henry Cole and his partners Allen Millyard and Guy Willison search for vintage finds in Kempton. (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Isle of Man TT Review Looking back at highlights of this year’s event. (S) (HD)

10.00 The Motorbike Show Henry Cole tours Dorset’s Jurassic Coast and uncovers the history of Lawrence of Arabia. (S) (HD)

11.00 New. All Elite Wrestling: Collision Hard-hitting action, featuring stars such as FTR, Thunder Rosa, Jon Moxley, Jay White, Bryan Danielson and Miro. (S) (HD) 1.00am Isle of Man TT Review (S) (HD) 2.00 The Protectors (S) (SL) 2.25—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

7.30am Pointless 8.20 Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers (AD) 10.20 Rick Stein’s Cornwall 12.20pm Top Gear: two editions (AD) 2.20 Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (AD) 3.00 Mediterranean with Simon Reeve 4.00 The Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure 5.00 Rick Stein’s Cornwall 6.00pm Rick Stein’s Cornwall Rick fishes for lobsters with chef Nathan Outlaw. 6.30 Rick meets Dawn French, who has made Cornwall her home.

7.00 Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer fish the wild lakes of Essex in search of carp. (AD)

7.40 Would I Lie to You? With James Acaster, Dani Dyer, Oti Mabuse and Fred Sirieix. 8.20 Memorable moments from the show. 9.00 QI XL Hosted by Stephen Fry. 10.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You Clive Myrie hosts an extended edition. 11.00 Eight out of 10 Cats With Ant Middleton, Katherine Ryan, Kerry Howard and Ola. 11.50 Mock the Week Guests include Ahir Shah, Maisie Adam and Glenn Moore.

12.30am Would I Lie to You? 1.50 QI

4.00am Dave Gorman: Modern

Our Yorkshire Shop: a Victorian Restoration 9.00pm In Masham

8.55am Heir Hunters 9.55 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) 10.55 Four in a Bed 1.35pm Come Dine with Me: from in and around Swansea (AD)

4.15pm Four in a Bed With visits to Bowlees Farm Holiday Cottages in County Durham, the Piebald Inn in North Yorkshire, Stoneleigh House Hotel in Buckingham and Evenlode Grounds in the Cotswolds.

6.50 Location, Location, Location Justin and Christie have spent the first five years of their relationship living 50 miles apart. Can Kirstie Allsopp find them a house in Essex where they can finally live together?

7.55 PopMaster TV: Grand Final Ken Bruce hosts the grand final, as the music maestros compete for the title of PopMaster TV champion.

9.00 Our Yorkshire Shop: a Victorian Restoration Documentary exploring plans to restore a derelict grocer’s shop in Masham, to create an elegant café and historic bakery, in a bid to revitalise the town. (AD)

10.00 24 Hours in A&E Harriet, 13, is rushed in after being knocked off her bike at a pedestrian crossing, while 12-year-old Adam has sustained a deep wound in his groin after falling from a tree and impaling his leg. (AD) 11.05 Frank, 63, is brought into St George’s after falling from a height while working on a construction site. Meanwhile, 70-year-old Richard receives treatment after a fall. (AD) 12.10am 999: on the Front Line 1.15 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 3.25—3.55am Supermarkets Unwrapped: the Snacks Aisle (AD)

Landscape Artist of the Year: Celebrity Special 9.00pm

6.00am Gods of the Game 7.45 Watercolour Challenge 8.45 Tales of the Unexpected (AD)

9.55 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.00 Discovering: George Clooney (AD)

12 noon Beyond the Brush (AD) 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (BW) 3.00 Classic Albums

4.00 Discovering: Matthew McConaughey (AD) 5.00 Portrait Artist of the Year 2019

6.00pm Tales of the Unexpected A crooked antiques dealer tries to con a farmer. (AD)

6.30 A scorned husband seeks revenge. (AD)

7.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents A goodhearted man picks up a family of hitch-hikers, but they steal from him.

7.30 A woman tells her invalid husband she is planning to painlessly murder him.

8.00 Art Traffickers: Treasures Stolen from the Tombs The most sensational thefts of ancient masterpieces in history. (AD)

9.00 Landscape Artist of the Year: Celebrity Special With Jim Moir, Jessie Cave, Jordan Stephens, Rose Matafeo, Caryn Franklin and Tomasz Shafernacker 10.00 The Seventies A look at the effect of the shifting of gender roles and the relaxing of censorship in America. (AD) 11.00 Art Matters Melvyn Bragg makes a case for why the arts are important.

12.30am Statues Redressed 2.25 Blind Eye Artist: the origin story of Justin Wadlington 4.00 Landscape Artist of the Year: Celebrity Special 5.00—6.00am Beyond the Brush (AD)

Seven Worlds, One Planet 9.00pm Walruses gather in Asia

6.10am Speed with Guy Martin 8.00 Bangers and Cash (AD) 10.00 The World at War: the French army’s defeat 11.00 Secret Nazi Bases

12 noon Vintage Antiques Roadshow

2.00pm Bangers and Cash (AD) 4.00 The World at War 5.00 Secret Nazi Bases

6.00pm Vintage Antiques Roadshow From Somerleyton Hall, near Lowestoft. 7.00 Canal Boat Diaries Robbie Cumming encounters a leaky lock pound on the Perry Barr Flight and gets marooned in the mud. (AD) 8.00 Train Truckers The A4 LNER Pacific Locomotive, Sir Nigel Gresley, must be hauled from Crewe to Bridgnorth. 9.00 Seven Worlds, One Planet David Attenborough looks at life in Asia. (AD) 10.00 Bangers and Cash Derek Mathewson is auctioning off a two-seater plane. (AD) 11.00 100 motorbikes come in for auction, from every era of the 20th century. (AD) 12 midnight Derek receives a Renault van, previously used as a bread van in Paris. (AD)

1.00am Find It, Fix It, Flog It: Henry Cole restores a car trailer and a 1970s racing bike 2.00—3.00am Speed with Guy Martin

9.00am Entertainment News 9.10 NCIS 12 noon Law & Order 1.55pm Entertainment News

2.00 Law & Order 3.55 Entertainment News

4.00 Law & Order 5.55 Entertainment News

6.00pm NCIS 9.00 New. Criminal Minds: Evolution Series 17. The last Gold Star member is revealed 10.10 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Series 10. Four episodes. An argument between two flatmates ends with murder 11.05 A young girl is beaten and raped 12 midnight Elliot calls on the help of his old mentor 12.55am The detectives crack down on a clinic dealing in bogus medicine 1.50am NCIS: Hawaii 2.45 Law & Order: a basketball star is killed 3.35—4.00am Cops

6.00am Hollyoaks Shown yesterday/Monday 7pm (AD) 6.55 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.00 Couples Come Dine with Me 8.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL) 9.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 10.00 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD) 11.00 Modern Family (AD) 12 noon The Simpsons: four episodes (AD) 2.00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 3.00 Modern Family (AD) 5.00 The Simpsons (AD) 6.00pm The Simpsons Series 27. Marge and Homer suspect Bart might be a sociopath. (AD) 6.30 A parody of the film Boyhood (AD) 7.00 New. Hollyoaks Leah has an idea (AD) 7.30 The Simpsons Series 24. Homer and Marge uncover details of Grampa’s past. (AD) 8.00 New. Below Deck: Mediterranean The crew are rushed off their feet by socialites. (AD) 9.00 Gogglebox Opinions on The 1% Club (AD) 10.00 Top Guns: inside the RAF is discussed. (AD)

11.05 Naked Attraction A retired dentist and a former marine look for love. (AD)

12.05am Dating Naked UK (AD) 1.05 Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 2.05 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD)

3.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL)

3.50 The Goldbergs: double bill (AD)

4.40—6.00am Don’t Tell the Bride: Revisited

9.00am Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country (AD) 10.00 Narrow Escapes (AD)

11.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

12 noon A Place in the Sun 3.00pm Château

DIY: Australia 4.00 A Place in the Sun

4.30pm Come Dine with Me Five episodes featuring dinner parties in and around York.

7.00 Will My Summer Holiday Be Cancelled? Dispatches How the rising cost of jet fuel has led to uncertainty over foreign holidays. Shown last Friday Channel 4 (AD)

8.00 Bake Off: the Professionals 3/10

Series 11. Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles ask the remaining teams to get creative with 24 cream buns and modern landmark showpieces out of biscuits, accompanied by petit gâteaux. See review, page 70. Shown Tues 8pm C4 (AD) 9.00 24 Hours in A&E A woman is in resus after a severe asthma attack. (AD) 10.00 Emergency Helicopter Medics In Lanchester, heli-medics struggle to free a man trapped in his mangled car. (AD) 11.05 Celebrity Gogglebox 1/7 A cast of famous faces, including Denise Van Outen and Johnny Vaughan, give their thoughts on recent TV. (AD)

12.05am First Dates (AD) 1.05 Tip Toe: triple bill (AD) 4.05—5.05am Gogglebox (AD)

6.00am Salvage Hunters: the Restorers

7.00 Salvage Hunters 9.00 Aussie Gold Hunters 11.00 Outback Opal Hunters

1.00pm Wheeler Dealers 2.00 Shed and Buried 4.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.00 The Yorkshire Auction House: double bill (AD) 7.00pm Antiques Road Trip Philip Serrell and Stephanie Connell head to Hamilton.

8.00 The Yorkshire Auction House Angus unearths a collection of scientific instruments. 9.00 Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero The auctioneer bids to protect some of the country’s most incredible houses.

10.00 The Repair Shop Items include a grandfather clock, a Turkish coffee grinder and a hot-air balloon automaton. 11.00 How Do They Do It? An insight into large-scale iron-mining operations. Plus how a wave machine is used for flood defences. 11.30 The development of lights that are transforming popular sport worldwide. 12 midnight How Do They Do It? 1.00am Wheeler Dealers (AD) 3.00 Shed and Buried 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made: double bill

8.00am Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (AD)

10.00 Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back! 11.00 Traffic Cops 2.00pm Police Interceptors 5.00 Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up 6.00pm Home and Away It’s all hands on deck for Archie’s birthday. Shown Tue 6.30pm (AD) 6.30 New. Sonny may have taken on more than he can chew. Repeated tomorrow 6pm (AD) 7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors A woman is worried about a lump in her breast. (AD)

8.00 Casualty: Every Second Counts Pressure mounts on staff as patients await beds.

9.00 999: Emergency Call Out A heroin user is assaulted while breaking into cars. 10.00 999: Critical Condition A builder falls through a roof and needs immediate treatment. 11.00 Skin A&E Treating patients with acne.

12 midnight Scam City 1.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors (AD) 2.00 Police Interceptors: double bill (AD) 3.35—4.00am Friends (AD)

9.00am Deal or No Deal (SL) (AD) 10.00

Tipping Point 1.00pm Lingo 2.00 Tenable: a group of friends from Ipswich take part 3.00 The Celebrity Chase 4.00 Riddiculous 5.00 Deal or No Deal (AD) 6.00 Lingo 9.00 The Celebrity Chase 10.00 Tipping Point 12.55am Tenable 1.50 Riddiculous: quiz hosted by Ranvir Singh 2.45—3.00am Unwind

7.00am Motorway Patrol 8.00 Border Security: America’s Front Line 9.00 Nothing to Declare 11.00 Highway Patrol 12 noon Border Security: Canada’s Front Line 1.00pm Border Patrol 2.00 Nothing to Declare 4.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 5.00 Stargate SG-1 6.00pm Stargate Atlantis: Weir is told Atlantis exists only in her mind 7.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation: Worf fights for his family’s honour 8.00 Star Trek: Voyager: Tuvok’s shuttle crash-lands 9.00 The Rookie: double bill. Nolan mildly injures himself while chasing a shoplifter, then Lopez is kidnapped on her wedding day (AD) 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise: Archer’s team is attacked by Vulcans 12 midnight Warehouse 13 1.00am Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 2.00 Road Wars 3.00 Highway Patrol 4.00 Border Patrol 5.00—6.00am Highway Cops: double bill

9.00am Entertainment News 9.15 Traffic Cops 10.15 Police Interceptors: double bill

12.10pm FILM Vengeance Valley HHH Western starring Burt Lancaster. Review p87 2.00 FILM Dallas HH Western with Gary Cooper 4.00 Trucking Hell (AD) 5.00 Traffic Cops

6.00pm Police Interceptors A high-speed pursuit through Lincoln city centre. (AD) 7.00 Jon Peacock encounters a half-naked man covered in blood in Lincoln. (AD) 8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders PC Will Hunter pursues a car suspected of having cloned plates.

9.00 Police Interceptors Officers from the Roads Police team track a cloned car with a gang of armed, masked men inside.

10.00 Police: Night Shift 999 A police dog unit is called in to try to track down a driver and passenger who have gone missing. 11.00 The X-Files The bodies of several immigrants are found, each missing internal organs, triggering an investigation that leads Mulder and Scully to a deadly lottery.

12 midnight Seconds from Death: Caught on Camera (AD) 1.00am Outback Truckers 2.00 Trucking Hell: two episodes of the series 3.55—4.00am Entertainment News

9.00am The Yorkshire Vet (AD) 10.00 Yorkshire Great and Small with Dan and Helen 11.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 1.00pm Murder, She Wrote (AD) 3.00 Columbo 5.00 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys 6.00pm Drain the Oceans The rise and fall of the ancient Maya civilisation.

7.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Ben visits a hostel in the Guatemalan jungle.

8.00 Visiting a wilderness expert in Missouri.

9.00 Keeping Faith The lawyer is in danger.

10.05 The Madame Blanc Mysteries Jean and Dom assist Caron in solving a murder. (AD)

11.05 Jean has friends visiting from England. (AD)

12 midnight Wentworth: the Final Sentence (AD) 1.05am The Yorkshire Vet (AD) 2.00 Yorkshire Great and Small with Dan and Helen 3.00 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

5.35am Paw Patrol 5.50 Mixmups

6.00 Peppa Pig 6.10 Tweedy & Fluf

6.15 Odo 6.20 Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! 6.35 Fireman

Sam 6.45 Peppa Pig 6.50 Pip and Posy 6.55 Paw Patrol 7.10 Move It Milkshakers! 7.20 Rubble & Crew

7.35 Peppa Pig 7.45 Tim Rex in Space

7.55 New. Stan & Gran 8.15 Paw Patrol

8.30 The Adventures of Paddington

8.40 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom

8.50 Kangaroo Beach 9.05 Peppa Pig

9.10—9.15am Milkshake! Story Den

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6.00am Roots and Fruits 6.05 Bing

6.15 Teletubbies 6.30 Tee and Mo 6.35 Supertato 6.45 Bing 6.55 Mojo Swoptops

7.05 Hey Duggee’s Squirrel Club 7.15 Hey Duggee 7.20 Bluey 7.35 Go Jetters

7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.00 Octonauts

8.15 Numberblocks 8.20 Alphablocks

8.25 Piripenguins 8.35 New. Playtime Towers: Bella and Lift have fun playing with sponges 9.00 Bing 9.05 Yakka Dee! 9.15 Lu and the Bally Bunch 9.20 Kiri & Lou 9.25 New Froglets 9.35 Twirlywoos 9.45 Something Special: Out and About 10.10 Teletubbies 10.25 The Baby Club 10.40 New. Tiny Tunes: Lisa and the children make rainsticks and sign and sing I Hear Thunder 10.45

What’s in Your Plant Pot? 10.55 New

Hamza Loves Animals: Africa: Twiggy the girafe spends some time by herself 11.10 Vegesaurs 11.15 Bluey 11.20 Hey Duggee 11.30 Colourblocks 11.35 Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.50 Our Family

12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm Maddie’s Do You Know? 12.30 Dog Squad 12.40 Aneeshwar and Lizzie Go Wild 12.45 Wafle the Wonder Dog

1.00 Pufin Rock 1.05 Small Potatoes

1.10 Yukee 1.20 Maddie & Triggs 1.25

Hey Duggee 1.35 Numberblocks 1.40 Alphablocks 1.45 Something Special

2.10 Teletubbies 2.25 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures 2.40 Football Fantastics 2.55

Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.10 Wafle’s After School Club 3.20 Our Family 3.25 Octonauts: above and Beyond 3.35 Peter Rabbit 3.50 Hey Duggee 3.55 Vida the Vet 4.10 Supertato 4.15 The Weasy Family 4.25 Mojo Swoptops 4.35 Bluey 4.50 New. Zog: Pearl is sure

Mara has Flailing Tail 5.05 Andy’s Dino Island 5.15 Wafle the Wonder Dog

5.30 Rafi the Wishing Wizard 5.35 JoJo & Gran Gran 5.50 Sarah & Duck

6.00pm Clangers 6.10 BeddyByes 6.20 In the Night Garden...

6.50—7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories: Chris Kamara reads GRRR!

CBeebies Freeview 202 Freely 352 Freesat 601 Sky 608 Virgin 702

CBBC 201

7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.10 Danger Mouse 7.20 Super Happy Magic Forest

7.35 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

7.45 New. Newsround 7.55 Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 OOglies 8.15 Duck & Frog 8.35 Odd Squad 8.45 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 9.00 Bitesize Daily: 10-11 Year Olds 9.20 One Zoo

Three 9.40 Go Get Arty 10.00

Randall and Hopkirk 8.00pm Rewind TV

6.10am MasterChef Australia 7.00

Tipping Point 10.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build 1.00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 3.00 Tipping Point 4.00 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick

6.00pm DIY SOS: the Big Build The team transforms the unsafe home of a couple with triplets. 7.00 Nick Knowles and the team make over a house in Spalding.

8.00 Pete Wicks: for Dogs’ Sake Pete meets Lurcher Terri, who’s terrified of the world and must learn to trust again. (AD)

9.00 New. Shades of Blue 3/13 Series 1. As the FBI put pressure on Harlee, she refuses to provide any incriminating evidence on Matt. 10.00 New. 4/13. Harlee’s attempt to feign co-operation with FBI handler Stahl backfires when she leads him to incriminating evidence.

11.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Nikki Fox and Matt Allwright hunt for antiques in Kent. 12 midnight With broadcasters Mark Radclife and Edith Bowman. 1.00—3.00am Absolutely Fabulous (AD)

6.00am Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen 7.00 Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking 8.00 The Pioneer Woman 9.00 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals 10.00

Be My Guest with Ina Garten 11.00 The Great British Bake Of 12.30pm Rachel Allen: Bake! 1.00 James Martin’s Great British Adventure 3.00 Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking 4.00 The Pioneer Woman 5.00 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals 6.00 New series. Be My Guest with Ina Garten: double bill. Awardwinning musician Jon Batiste. then Allison Janney joins Ina Garten at the barn 7.00 The Great British Bake Of 8.30 Rachel Allen: Bake! 9.00 Nigella Bites (AD) 9.30 Nigella Bites (AD) 10.00 Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen: with YolanDa Brown 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: double bill. Diners in Massachusetts, Nashville and Maryland, then Guy visits a 1951 burger drive-in 12 midnight Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives 1.00am Man v Food (AD) 2.00—3.00am Cake Boss (AD)

8.00am Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 8.35 Full Steam Ahead

9.55 Battlefield America 10.55 New. Constantine the Great 12 noon The Great Wall of China: the Hidden Story — Secret History 1.00pm Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands 1.55 Full Steam Ahead 3.10 Battlefield America

4.15 as 8.50pm 5.25 as 9.55pm

6.25pm Full Steam Ahead 3/6

The historians reveal how the railways transformed the British diet.

7.40 Battlefield America 3/3

Showcasing the strategic errors in the Battle of Chickamauga.

8.50 Constantine the Great 1/2 Profile of the ancient Roman emperor.

9.55 The Great Wall of China: the Hidden Story — Secret History The vast edifice and its history.

10.55 Battlefield America As 7.40pm.

12 midnight Constantine the Great 1.10—2.00am Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands: the Firth of Forth

8.10am An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: Last Scene Alive 10.05 In Plain Sight 11.05 Castle 12.05pm Hailey Dean Mysteries 2.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Murder, She Wrote: double bill 6.00pm Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye Sue is blamed when an operation goes wrong and an agent is killed.

7.00 Castle Castle wants to get back to being Beckett’s sidekick, but ends up becoming the prime suspect in her latest murder case instead.

8.00 Unforgettable Carrie and Al investigate the murder of an ironworker on a construction site. 9.00 In Plain Sight A family needs protection after the daughter witnesses the shooting of her boyfriend.

10.00 Martha’s Vineyard Mysteries: Riddled with Deceit A former detective attempts to track down a brooch, thief and murderer.

11.55 An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Very Foul Play At a true crime convention, the realism proves excessive when an actor is killed.

1.50am Nanny Beware HH Thriller. (2023) 3.25—4.50am Final Verdict HH Predictable mystery thriller. (2009)

6.00am Rewind Time Machine 6.05 The Tony Hancock Show 6.35 Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (BW) 7.00 Danger Man (BW) 8.00 Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country 8.30 The Lovers 9.00 Bubblegum and Cheese 10.00 Doctor at Large 10.30 Two’s Company 11.00 The Fenn Street Gang 11.30 Agony 12 noon Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 1.00pm The Lovers 1.30 The Dustbinmen 2.00 The Champions 3.00 Rewind Time Machine 3.05 Hank the Cowboy 3.20 Rewind Time Machine 3.25 Boon 4.30 Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country 5.00 Stereo Underground 6.00 The Dustbinmen 6.30 Only When I Laugh 7.00 Two’s Company 7.30 Doctor at Large 8.00 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 9.00 The New Statesman 10.00 FILM Game Show Models HH 11.50 FILM Death Screams HH 1.40am Stereo Underground 2.40 The Champions 3.35 The New Statesman 4.35 Stereo Underground 5.30— 6.00am Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country

8.00am Bramwell 9.00 Highway to Heaven 11.00 Little House on the Prairie 1.00pm The Waltons 3.00 Ballykissangel: double bill 5.20 Bramwell: a brothel fire causes dark secrets to be revealed and relationships to be resolved 7.30 M*A*S*H 9.00 FILM The Bounty HHHH On 23 December 1787, William Bligh and his crew set sail for Tahiti and the West Indies. After terrible storms and violent arguments aboard ship, they reach Tahiti. But the pleasures of Tahiti prove too tempting for the crew and lead to a confrontation 11.55 M*A*S*H 1.25am Rising Damp 1.55 Air Rescue 3.00—4.50am Highway to Heaven

7.00am Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage 8.00 Young Sheldon 10.00 The Big Bang Theory 2.00pm Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage 3.00 Young Sheldon 5.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 9.00 New. The 6000lb Diaries with Dr Now: after deaths in his family, Caleb’s struggle with his weight worsened. He urgently needs help 10.00 New. Dangerously Obese: years of criticism from her two sisters led Molly to pack on the pounds 11.00 Dr Pimple Popper: Tatiana has a bump on her rear, then Lisa fears the bump growing out of the back of her head could be cancerous 12 midnight Mike & Molly

1.00am Dr Pimple Popper

2.00 My 600lb Life 4.00—6.00am Curvy Brides Boutique (AD)

9.00am Expedition with Steve Backshall (AD) 5.00pm Bangers and Cash: five editions. Vehicles that were used in Heartbeat 6.00 A couple of Ford Capris go to auction 7.00 A 1958 Bedford D122 8.00 A MG Midget and an RS2000 come up for auction 9.00 Dave’s son Jack heads to Cheshire to collect two cars 10.00 Trawlermen (AD) 12 midnight Bangers and Cash 5.20—6.00am Trawlermen (AD)

8.00am Rising Damp 8.35 Duty Free 9.05 Upstairs, Downstairs 10.10 Bread 10.50 Steptoe and Son (BW) 11.25 Oh, Doctor Beeching! 12 noon Rising Damp 12.35pm Man about the House 1.05 Goodnight Sweetheart 1.40 When the Boat Comes In 2.45 Minder 3.50 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 4.25 Man about the House 4.55 Bread 5.30 Birds of a Feather 6.10 Rising Damp 6.40 Steptoe and Son (BW) 7.15 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 7.55 Minder 9.00 Benidorm 9.55 Shameless 10.55 Man about the House 11.25 Mind Your Language 11.55 Benidorm 12.55am Minder 1.55 Duty Free 2.20 Man about the House 2.45 Kenny Everett Video Cassette 3.10 That’s 60s: Best Music Live! 4.00—5.00am Nearest and Dearest: two episodes

6.00am Dickinson’s Real Deal 6.45 Pawn Stars 7.30 Money for Nothing 8.25 Junk & Disorderly 9.20 Canadian Pickers 1.05 Pawn Stars 2.05 Junk and Disorderly 3.05 Money for Nothing 4.00 Ancient Aliens 5.00 UFO Conspiracies 6.00 Storage Wars Canada 7.00 Money for Nothing 8.00 Real Deal

9.00 New series. Weird Britain 10.00 UnXplained 11.00 Paranormal: Caught on Camera 12 midnight Mysteries from Above 1.00am as 5pm 2.00 The Proof Is Out There 3.00 as 8.30am 3.45 Hardcore Pawn 5.00—6.00am Real Deal

9.00am McLintock! HHH John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara star in this rollicking comedy western that reworks Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (1963, U) 11.40 The High Chaparral 1.40pm The Ice Road HH By-the-book thriller that sets Liam Neeson on a rescue mission across the frozen prairies. (2021, 12) 4.00 The Persuaders! 5.00 The New Avengers 7.00pm The Double HH A retired CIA agent teams up with a FBI rookie to track down an assassin in this spy thriller. Review, right. Richard Gere (2011, 12) 9.00 The Expendables HH Sylvester Stallone and his veteran mercenaries are hired to overthrow a ruthless Latin dictator. (2010, 18) 11.15 Acts of Violence H Bruce Willis is on the case in this crime drama, solving a kidnapping with the help of three battling brothers. (2018, 15) 1.15am Dragon Ball Super 2.15 Coast Guard Alaska 3.10 Kentucky Rifle HH Creaky B-western in which a wagon taking a shipment of firearms is set upon by tribesmen. Chill Wills, Lance Fuller (1955, U) 4.40—5.40am Air Rescue

7.00am The Chase 9.00 Tenable 10.00 Bidding Room 11.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 12 noon The Crystal Maze (AD) 1.00pm Supermarket Sweep 2.00 The Chase (AD) 3.00 Celebrity Catchphrase 4.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Celebrity Special (AD) 5.00 Bidding Room 6.00 Tenable 7.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 8.00 The Chase (AD) 10.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 11.00 Bullseye (AD) 12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (AD) 1.00am The Chase 4.00—6.00am Bullseye

7.00am Health and Social Care Questions 8.00 House of Commons 9.30 Live Select Committees 11.30 Live Scotland Ofice Questions 12 noon Live Prime Minister’s Questions 12.35pm Live House of Commons 7.30 Live House of Lords 10.00 Prime Minister’s Questions 10.35 Lords Questions 11.20—7.00am House of Lords: recorded coverage of the day’s proceedings in the House of Lords

8.10am A Christmas Mission HH Drama. (2020) 10.15 The Magical Christmas Shoes HH A woman’s holiday season is transformed. (2019) 12.10pm Merry Mystery Christmas HH A reporter and a detective team up to catch a thief. (2023) 2.00 Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses HH Predictable romance. (2019) 3.50 Christmas Bells Are Ringing HH A freelance photographer finds love. (2018) 5.45 A Bride for Christmas HH Light-hearted romcom. (2012) 7.40pm A Merry Christmas Match HH A woman working in her family’s antiques store finds her life turned upside down by a stranger. (2019) 9.35 Mistletoe over Manhattan HH Mrs Claus decides a

WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE

Sky Premiere

6.05am Tafiti — across the Desert HH Familiar children’s animated adventure. (2025, PG) 7.30 Gabby’s Dollhouse: the Movie HHH Cute children’s adventure. Laila Lockhart Kraner (2025, U) 9.15 The Internship HH Flat and ropy action flick. Lizzy Greene (2026, 15) 11.00 As 8pm 12.50pm We Bury the Dead HHH Melancholy blend of apocalypse drama and zombie thriller. Daisy Ridley (2024, 15) 2.30 Sisu: Road to Revenge HHH Inventive wartime action sequel. Jorma Tommila (2025, 15) 4.05 The Bride! HHH Bold riff on the Frankenstein legend. Jessie Buckley (2025, 15) 6.15pm Fuze HHH Effectively twisty thriller. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (2025, 15) 8.00 Dead Man’s Wire HHHH Gripping based-on-fact kidnap drama. Review p34. Bill Skarsgård (2025, 15)

9.50 The Running Man HHH Big-budget remake of the Stephen King story. Glen Powell (2025, 15) 12.05am One Last Deal HHH Single-room drama. Danny Dyer (2026, 18) 1.40 Him HHH So-so horror. Tyriq Withers (2025, 18) 3.20 The Plague HHH Powerful and unsettling coming-of-age drama (2025, 15) 5.05—6.40am As 2.30pm

11.00am Santa Fe HH Randolph

Scott goes through the motions in this routine western. (1951, U) (S)

12.45pm Guns of Fort Petticoat HHH Intriguing western in which Audie Murphy deserts the Union army and trains a group of women into a fighting force. (1957) (S)

2.25 The Caine Mutiny HHHH

Gripping adaptation of Herman Wouk’s novel with Humphrey Bogart as the out-of-control captain of a naval minesweeper. (1954, U) (S) (AD)

4.55 The Mark of Zorro HHHH Tyrone Power is on fantastic form as the dashing masked avenger in this wonderful adaptation of the swashbuckling legend. Review, right. Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone (1940, U) (S)

6.50pm The Lost City HHHH

This riotously funny and supremely silly action comedy is a real gem, with star power in spades. Review, right. Sandra Bullock (2022, 12) (S) (AD)

9.00 The King’s Man HHH Rip-roaring period prequel to the Kingsman films, starring Ralph Fiennes as the founder of the spy ring. Review, right. (2021, 15) (S) (AD)

11.35 Transporter 3 HH Jason Statham’s cargo is a diplomat’s kidnapped daughter in this disjointed action thriller. (2008, 15) (S) (AD)

8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00 TJ Hooker 10.00 Babylon 5 11.00 Shark Season H Cheap and cheesy thriller. Michael Madsen (2020, 15) 1.00pm Apache Uprising HH A group of stagecoach travellers join forces. (1965, U) 2.45 Arrowhead HH An Apache-raised US soldier attempts to bring peace. Charlton Heston, Jack Palance (1953, U) 5.00 Star Trek

6.00pm The Six Million Dollar Man A pro football player is kidnapped. 7.00 Babylon 5 Delenn falls victim to an alien that preserves souls by capturing them at the moment of death.

8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger The Rangers rescue a billionaire’s daughter.

9.00 Money Train HH A good cast treads water in this lacklustre action comedy about a heist on the New York subway. Wesley Snipes (1995, 18) 11.20 Striking Distance HHH Thriller in which cop Bruce Willis hunts a serial killer. Review, right. (1993, 18) 1.25am Hot Seat HH Nifty but familiar low-budget thriller. Mel Gibson, Shannen Doherty (2022, 15) 3.20—5.00am Trading Paint HH Low-octane dirt-track drama. John Travolta (2019, 15)

1.40—3.50am The Great Wall HH Matt Damon looks hopelessly out of place in this formulaic but goodlooking fantasy adventure. (2016, 12) (S) (AD)

FILM REVIEWS

The Old Oak HHHH 10.20pm-12.10am BBC Four j

DRAMA Director Ken Loach returns to England’s north east for this frank, heartfelt examination of a community in crisis. The Old Oak is a pub on its knees, with only a few regulars still drinking there. The locals are antagonistic towards the Syrian refugees who have recently been placed in their town. However, when pub landlord TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) befriends photographer Yara (Ebla Mari, above, with Turner), he is given renewed purpose. This is one of Loach’s more hopeful films — a touching story about the indefatigable nature of the human spirit. Loach introduces the film at 10.05pm. JAMES MOTTRAM (UK/Fr/Bel 2023, swearing, racist language, HD)

Vengeance Valley HHH

12.10-2.00pm 5 Action g

6.00am Lancashire Luck HHH Pleasant enough class comedy. (1937) 7.30 To Dorothy, a Son HH Tepid comedy. (1954, U) (S) 9.15 Those People Next Door HH Nostalgic comedy set during the Blitz. Jack Warner (1952, U) (S) 10.50 The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case HH The comedy duo gets mixed up in inheritance shenanigans.

Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy (1930, U) (S) 11.30 Four Star Theatre TV drama. (S) 12 noon

Sergeant Cork TV drama. (S) 1.05pm The Buccaneers TV adventure. (S)

1.35 Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill HH Dour mystery. Review, right. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce (1946, U) (S) 2.55 Dial 999 TV drama. (S) 3.25 Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard HH Cosy crime mystery. Review, right. Mary Clare (1939) (S) 4.40 Mr Denning Drives North HHH Resolutely genteel drama. Review, right. (1951, 12)

9.00am The Blood Beast Terror H Clumsy Victorian yarn about a bloodsucking monster on the loose. Peter Cushing (1967, 12) 11.00 Andromeda 12 noon Riddles of the Sphinx HH Familiar treasure-hunting made-for-TV sci-fi adventure. Dina Meyer (2008, 15) 2.00pm Boot Hill HH Quirky spaghetti western. Terence Hill (1969, PG) 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger 5.00 40 Days and Nights H Foundering disaster movie mishmash. Monica Keena, Alex Carter (2012) 7.00pm Andromeda Dylan is sucked into a black hole.

8.00 The A-Team BA gets a call for help from an old incarcerated friend. 9.00 Conan the Barbarian HH More bloody, less humorous update of the 1982 sword-and-sorcery tale. Review, right. Jason Momoa (2011, 15) 11.20 Acceleration HH Predictable thriller in which a getaway driver faces a race against time after her son is kidnapped. Sean Patrick Flanery (2019, 15) 1.10am As 9pm 3.20 As 5pm 5.00—6.00am Andromeda

6.30pm Give Us a Clue Guests include Lynda Bellingham. (S) 7.00 Out of Town Fishing in a flooded stream on Salisbury Plain. (S)

7.30 Scotland Yard The police go in search of a fraudster.

8.00 A Man Called Harry Brent

Mr Tolly hatches a devious plan. (S)

8.30 Travelling Man Someone tries to shoot at Lomax. (S)

9.35 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Holmes disguises himself as a plumber to gain access to the home of a blackmailing art dealer. (S)

11.40 La Fin du Jour HHHH

A brilliant cast illuminates this poetic, allegorical pre-war French drama. Michel Simon, Victor Francen, Louis Jouvet (1939, U)

1.50am You’ll Never Get Rich HHH Cole Porter songs make up for the pedestrian direction in this musical comedy. Fred Astaire (1941, U) (S) 3.35 A Lifetime Ago with The Baim Collection 1962 interior home decoration. 4.00 Stagecoach West TV western. (S) 5.00—6.00am Danger UXB TV drama.

WESTERN Putting an Old West spin on the Cain and Abel story, Richard Thorpe’s movie stars Burt Lancaster as a rancher’s adopted son who always takes the rap for his brother (Robert Walker). Matters come to a head when a woman becomes pregnant. It’s a decent film, nicely shot in the Rocky Mountains.

ADRIAN TURNER (US 1951, HD)

Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill HH 1.35-2.55pm

Talking Pictures TV y

MYSTERY Sherlock Holmes must track down three music boxes containing stolen Bank of England engraving plates in this mystery, which was Basil Rathbone’s final outing as the great detective. Villainous Patricia Morison doesn’t have the evil presence of Moriarty. Luckily, Nigel Bruce is on form as Dr Watson.

TOM HUTCHINSON (US 1946, BW)

Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard HH 3.25-4.40pm

Talking Pictures TV

CRIME MYSTERY Fresh from supporting roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films, Mary Clare stars as London’s only female police detective in this workmanlike pre-war mystery. Clare is good value as a more officious variation

who believes she knows the whereabouts of a legendary city. The cover model from her book series (Channing Tatum) sets out to rescue her, but proves unsuitable for the job. Bullock and Tatum make an endearingly mismatched pair. EMMA SIMMONDS (US 2022, edited for content, HD)

The Double HH 7.009.00pm Great Action h SPY THRILLER Retired CIA agent Richard Gere and rookie Topher Grace team up to track down a Soviet assassin in this serviceable film. Grace channels the smart-aleck charm that made him so watchable in sitcom That ’70s Show, but Gere looks bored. Martin Sheen’s assured presence as a CIA director helps pull the movie over the finish line. DAN MEIER (US 2011, may be edited for content)

The King’s Man HHH

on Miss Marple. But Edward Lexy, as her occasionally befuddled sidekick, gets the lion’s share of laughs. TERRY STAUNTON (UK 1939, BW)

Mr Denning Drives North HHH 4.40-6.30pm

Talking Pictures TV h COMEDY THRILLER John Mills is fantastic in this rather genteel tale of a man who accidentally bumps off his daughter’s devious lover. The acting honours, however, are stolen by Sam Wanamaker as the man trying to unearth the truth. The great support cast includes Bernard Lee and Wilfrid Hyde White.

TONY SLOMAN (UK 1951, BW)

The Mark of Zorro HHHH 4.55-6.50pm Film4 y SWASHBUCKLER This wonderful adaptation of the romantic legend is one for children of all ages. Matinée idol Tyrone Power is Don Diego Vega, alias the masked avenger known as Zorro. Ty is the equal (well, almost) of predecessor Douglas Fairbanks Sr, while Basil Rathbone makes a superb villain — and the swordfights are terrific. ToS (US 1940, BW, HD)

The Lost City HHHH 6.50-9.00pm Film4 h

ACTION COMEDY Sandra Bullock leads this romp as a novelist who is kidnapped by billionaire Daniel Radcliffe,

9.00-11.35pm Film4 j PERIOD ADVENTURE This entertaining prequel to 2015’s Kingsman: the Secret Service goes back to the First World War to fill in the origins of the clandestine spy ring, with Ralph Fiennes at its head. Director Matthew Vaughn dishes up a world where the conflict is planned by a cabal that counts Mata Hari and Rasputin among its members. TeS (US 2021, violence, swearing, sexual references, HD)

Conan the Barbarian HH 9.00-11.20pm Legend Xtra j

ACTION FANTASY Marcus Nispel’s sword-and-sorcery update sees Jason Momoa encroach on Arnie territory, with more blood and less humour. The plot sees Conan seeking the warlord (Stephen Lang) who killed his father (Ron Perlman). Lang and daughter Rose McGowan are deliciously evil, but it’s Perlman who steals the show. KAREN KRIZANOVICH (US 2011, violence, a sex scene, brief nudity)

Striking Distance HHH

11.20pm-1.25am Legend z CRIME THRILLER This ripsnorting Bruce Willis vehicle sees him play a hardnosed detective who testifies against a fellow policeman and finds himself relegated to work as a water cop. However, a killer with an unhealthy interest in Willis’s life offers the chance of redemption. The action roars along and the set pieces are big and brash. JOHN FERGUSON (US 1993, violence, swearing, a sex scene)

Riddick 9.00pm A sunscorched fight for survival

6.00am Mornings 8.00 Stargate

SG-1 9.00 NCIS: Los Angeles

10.00 Will & Grace (AD) 11.00 The Simpsons 12 noon Wildlife ER

1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 2.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 3.00 S.W.A.T. (AD)

5.00 The Simpsons: double bill

5.50pm The Office US 16/25 Series 9. Pam attends a job interview in Philadelphia.

6.35 17/25. Oscar attends the funeral of Dwight’s Aunt Shirley.

7.00 The Simpsons Lisa finds a wild flower that cures aggression.

7.30 Fat Tony and Selma marry after a whirlwind romance.

8.00 A League of Their Own

Road Trip: Southeast Asia

3/6. Jamie Redknapp and Micah Richards take on more challenges, and are joined by guests Maisie Adam and Mo Gilligan. (AD)

9.00 Riddick HHH Sci-fi thriller q starring Vin Diesel. Abandoned on a derelict planet, outlaw warrior Riddick must fight for survival against vicious alien predators. His only way of escape is to activate a distress beacon left behind by mercenaries.

11.15 Grimm 11/22 Series 4. Nick investigates a haunted house.

12.10am The Walking Dead 1.05 The Force: North East 2.00 New. From 7/10 Series 4. Boyd wants to test a theory. Rptd Thu 9pm (AD) 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 4.00—6.00am S.W.A.T. (AD)

6.00am Most Haunted 8.00 Home Shopping 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise

12 noon Star Trek: Voyager 1.00pm Stargate Atlantis 2.00 Primeval 4.00 Stargate SG-1 5.00 Star Trek: Voyager

6.00pm Star Trek: Enterprise 26/26 Series 1. The ship is ordered to return to Earth after apparently causing the obliteration of an alien colony — until a surprise visitor offers startling new evidence.

7.00 Stargate Atlantis 6/20 Series 2 McKay discovers a potent source of energy, which he believes can be harnessed and put to use.

8.00 Stargate SG-1 5/22 Series 6 Carter, Teal’c and Jonas are sent to a seaside town to search of a scientist, but discover a sinister secret.

9.00 Grimm 4/22 Series 4. Nick battles a creature made of clay and Trubel considers leaving town.

10.00 The Walking Dead 3/16 Series 5. The group comes up against the Terminans once again — and must hatch a plan to gain the upper hand against such enemies.

11.00 Britannia 4/8 Series 3. Antedia and Lucius bond over their mutual wish for revenge. Lucius is recognised as a deserter by a Roman Escort. (AD)

12 midnight Primeval 2.00am The Walking Dead 3.00 Britannia (AD) 4.00—6.00am Most Haunted (AD)

The White Lotus 9.00pm Has Jaclyn been deceptive?

6.00am Fish Town 8.00 Homicide: Life on the Street 10.00 Hacks (AD) 11.15 Westworld (AD) 12.15pm Deadwood 2.25 The Regime (AD) 3.35 Westworld (AD) 4.40 Deadwood

6.50pm The Gilded Age 5/8 Series 2. After sharing her news, Ada questions moving ahead without Agnes’s support. (AD) 7.55 6/8. George heads to Pittsburgh to deal with the potential strike, while Bertha learns that the Duke will return for the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night. (AD)

9.00 The White Lotus 6/8 Series 3

In the wake of the festivities, Laurie finds herself feeling deceived by Jaclyn, while Saxon tries to bury what happened the night before. (AD) 10.10 7/8. Rick confronts his suspected nemesis in Bangkok, and Belinda takes Zion to Chloe’s party. Meanwhile, Saxon questions Timothy’s behaviour. (AD)

11.15 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 1/6. Fantasy prequel to Game of Thrones starring Peter Claffey. On his way to a tournament, Ser Duncan the Tall meets a clever young boy who offers to be his squire. (AD) 12 midnight 2/6. Dunk appeals to various lords to gain entrance into the tournament. (AD)

1.15am Hacks (AD) 2.25 The Gilded Age (AD) 4.20 Homicide: Life on the Street 5.10—6.00am Urban Secrets

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 9.00pm Chat

8.00am Will & Grace (AD) 9.00 Sort Of (AD) 10.00 Avenue 5 (AD) 11.15 Will & Grace (AD) 12.15pm Upright (AD)

1.30 Avenue 5 (AD) 2.45 Will & Grace (AD) 3.45 Upright (AD) 5.00 Community

6.00pm Will & Grace 6/27 Series 4 Nathan proposes to Grace. (AD)

6.30 7/27. Will, Karen and Jack unite to help a depressed Grace. (AD)

7.00 The Office US 15/25 Series 9 Erin decides that she is going to break up with Andy.

7.30 16/25. Pam attends a job interview in Philadelphia.

8.00 Resident Alien 5/8 Series 3 Asta and D’arcy take a drastic step in their attempts to get Harry back on track. (AD)

9.00 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver A satirical look at news and pop culture.

9.45 Paul Chowdhry: Family Friendly Comedian Paul Chowdhry performs his stand-up show at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre. Recorded in 2024.

11.00 Avenue 5 9/9 Series 1. Chaos ensues when a seat on a rescue shuttle becomes available. (AD) 11.40 1/8 Series 2. After five long months, the passengers of Avenue 5 eagerly await its imminent journey back to Earth. (AD)

12.20am Resident Alien (AD) 1.20 Community 2.20 Upright (AD) 3.30—5.00am Sort Of (AD)

Last of the Summer Wine 5.30pm Promises, promises!

7.55am Ever Decreasing Circles 8.30 Porridge 9.10 The Green Green Grass

9.50 Are You Being Served? 10.25 Last of the Summer Wine 11.40 Porridge

12.20pm Keeping Up Appearances (AD) 1.00 The Green Green Grass 1.35 Dad’s Army 2.15 Ever Decreasing Circles 2.55 Are You Being Served?

3.30 Red Dwarf (AD) 4.50 Dad’s Army

5.30 Last of the Summer Wine

6.10pm Last of the Summer Wine Seymour volunteers as a driving instructor.

6.50 Keeping Up Appearances Hyacinth dons fancy dress. (AD)

7.30 Dad’s Army Where did Jones put the £500 canteen fund? Perhaps the platoon can jog his memory...

8.05 Red Dwarf The crew members answer a distress call. (AD)

8.40 The crew members plug themselves into a computer game to play in a virtual world. (AD)

9.20 Not Going Out Lucy needs help writing a speech.

10.00 Red Dwarf As 8.05/8.45pm.

11.15 Harry Enfield and Chums Martin Clunes stars in the period drama version of The Terminator (AD) 11.55 Not Going Out As 9.20pm.

12.30am Men Behaving Badly

1.05 Harry Enfield and Chums (AD)

1.45 Men Behaving Badly

2.25 Mrs Brown’s Boys 2.55—4.00am Hi-de-Hi!

Saint-Pierre 9.00pm A case of vigilante justice

7.10am Murdoch Mysteries 9.00 Father Brown

6.00pm

Brown 7/10 Series 8 After Maeve Lochlin’s father Pat is accused of murdering Roger Barford, Maeve and her boyfriend Sid travel to Kembleford to ask Father Brown to help them clear his name. (AD) 7.00 Unforgettable 4/13 Series 2 Carrie is forced to confront her past when a prominent researcher who helped her understand her condition is found dead — having fallen from a 12-storey building.

8.00 Death in Paradise 2/8 Series 7. DI Mooney and the team enter the world of poker when a finalist is poisoned during the Caribbean Masters tournament. (AD)

9.00 New. Saint-Pierre 8/10 Series 1. When the severed finger of a handyman mysteriously turns up, Fitz and Arch’s investigation turns into a case of vigilante justice. (AD) 10.00 Death in Paradise 2/9 Series 10. An archaeologist is poisoned during a dig. (AD)

11.00 Father Brown As 6pm. 12 midnight Death in Paradise (AD) 1.00am Hudson and Rex (AD) 2.00—4.00am Murdoch Mysteries

6.00am Sun, Sea and A&E (AD) 7.00 Border Patrol (AD) 8.00 UK Border Force 9.00 Motorway Patrol 10.00 Brit Cops: Rapid Response (AD) 11.00 Chicago Fire 12 noon FBI: two episodes (AD) 2.00pm The Rookie (AD) 3.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent

4.00pm Nothing to Declare Six editions following the work of customs officers in Australia.

7.00 Police 24/7 Law enforcement’s strategies and tactics during pursuits and apprehension.

8.00 Caught on Dashcam Road disasters captured on video by drivers’ dashboard cameras.

9.00 Matlock 14/16 Series 2. As the team continues tracking Senior’s money, a delicate meeting is arranged with a key accomplice — one that could expose them all. (AD)

10.00 Doc 19/22 Series 2. Joan chooses her successor, while Gina steps in to help TJ’s patient, a child with rheumatoid arthritis. (AD)

11.00 The Rookie 19/20 Series 2 Nolan, Chen and West are evaluated by their training officers. (AD)

12 midnight FBI (AD) 1.00am Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 2.00 New. FBI 19/22 Series 8. A string of robberies is investigated. Repeated Thu 9pm (AD) 3.00 Road Wars 4.00 Border Security: America’s Front Line 5.00—6.00am The Real A&E (AD)

6.00am Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 7.00 Highway Patrol 8.00 Caught Red Handed 10.00 Caught on Dashcam 11.00 Most Evil Killers 12 noon Killer in My Village 1.00pm Forensics: Catching the Killer (AD) 2.00 The Cult of the Family 3.10 How I Caught the Killer (AD) 4.05 Murdered at First Sight (AD) 5.00 Killer in My Village 6.00 Killing Mum and Dad (AD) 7.00 Most Evil Killers 8.00 Forensics: Catching the Killer (AD) 9.00 Murdered at First Sight (AD) 10.00 The Vanishing of Debbie Griggs 12 midnight Most Evil Killers 1.00am Killing Mum and Dad (AD) 2.00 Murders That Shocked the Nation 3.00 Most Evil Killers 4.00 Border Security USA (AD) 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol

8.00am Impractical Jokers 10.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 1.00pm Friends (AD) 9.00 Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad: the lads are in Panama, where they call on some indigenous tribes and take part in their ancestral games 9.30 Michael McIntyre’s Big Show 10.30 Jimmy Carr: Comedy Central Live 11.00 New. Teachers: Mrs Adler joins a children’s music group 11.30 Eight out of 10 Cats Uncut 12.20am Eight out of 10 Cats: Best Bits 1.10 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA 2.10 South Park 3.05 Michael McIntyre’s Big Show 3.50 New. The Daily Show 4.15—5.00am Friends (AD)

6.00am How It’s Made 7.00 Treehouse Masters 9.00 Gold Rush: White Water 11.00 The Woodland Workshop 1.00pm Nature’s Strangest Mysteries: Solved 3.00 How Do They Do It? 5.00 The Last Alaskans 7.00 Wheeler Dealers World Tour 8.00 New. Sara Price: Chasing Dakar: following Sara Price’s quest to become the first American woman to win the Dakar Rally 9.00 Wheeler Dealers: the boys snap up a Mitsubishi Shogun (AD) 10.00 Supercar Showroom 11.00 Expedition X (AD) 12 midnight Border Control Sweden 1.00am Sara

6.00am The First 48 7.00 Green Eyed Killers 8.00 Homicide Hunter 9.00 Fugitives Caught on Tape 9.30 My Strange Arrest 10.30 Court Cam 11.00 999: Killer on the Line 2.00pm Hometown Tragedy 3.00 Murder at the Motel 6.00pm On the Case with Paula Zahn 7.00 The First 48 8.00 Hometown Tragedy: double bill. Two cold cases are solved, then the search for a killer from Florida 9.00 Crime in Progress 10.00 City Confidential 11.00 Spring Break Murders 12 midnight Britain’s Darkest Taboos 1.00am Interrogation Raw 2.00 Green Eyed Killers 3.00 Imperfect Murder 5.00—6.00am Hometown Tragedy

8.00am How the Universe Works 11.00 Incredible Engineering Blunders: Fixed 1.00pm Cooper’s Treasure 3.00 How the Universe Works: three episodes 6.00pm How It’s Made: six episodes. Rawhide lampshades and MRI scanners 6.30 Bridge ties and bi-planes 7.00 Hospital laundry and horse replicas 7.30 Ceramic fireplaces and garage floor slabs 8.00 Oil sensors and neck restraints

8.30 Concert stages and mascara

Sky Documentaries Sky Nature

Death of a Showjumper

8.00pm Equestrian tragedy

6.00am One Shot: the Football Factory (AD) 7.00 Discovering: Jeff Bridges (AD) 8.00 The Directors 9.00 The Story of Late Night 9.50 Edge of the Earth (AD) 11.00 Dark Horses: Italy’s World Cup Triumph 12 noon FILM I Am Bruce Lee HHHH Profile of the charismatic actor and martial arts star (AD) 2.00pm Premier League 360: Big Sam’s Bolton (AD) 4.00 The Directors

5.00 Discovering: Jeff Bridges (AD) 5.55 Edge of the Earth (AD)

7.00pm Dark Horses: Italy’s World Cup Triumph It’s heartbreak for World Cup hosts Germany as Fabio Grosso and Alessandro Del Piero score to secure Italy a spot in the final.

8.00 Death of a Showjumper

The events surrounding the death of promising young Northern Irish showjumper Katie Simpson. (AD)

9.00 The past of Katie Simpson’s sister’s partner Johnny Cresswell is explored by a detective. (AD) 10.00 The case against Cresswell takes a shocking turn in court. (AD)

11.00 Gascoigne HHH

q Examining the life of footballer Paul Gascoigne that uses a range of new interviews and archive material to track his spectacular rise to stardom.

12.50am Schmeichel (AD)

2.50 Dettori (AD) 5.00—6.00am Discovering: Jeff Bridges (AD)

Untamed Valley 8.00pm Hungry hippos in Zambia

6.00am Waterworld Africa 7.00 Monkey Life 8.00 Orangutan Jungle School 9.00 Valley of Flood and Fire

10.00 Zambia Untamed 11.00 Into the Wild: Colombia 12 noon Secrets of Wild Australia (AD) 1.00pm Monkey Life 2.00 Orangutan Jungle

School 3.00 Valley of Flood and Fire 4.00 Zambia Untamed 5.00 Into the Wild: Colombia

6.00pm Secrets of Wild Australia

The crocodiles of Queensland and the Northern Territory. (AD)

7.00 Monkey Life There’s a tasty treat of corn for the chimps, but Bart and his troop miss out.

7.30 Orangutan Amy becomes a great-grandmother as Awan and Jin welcome a baby boy.

8.00 Untamed Valley The Luangwa River’s two-mile meander is a busy spot. It’s home to hippos and is a crucial crossing for elephants.

9.00 Tales from Zambia

The unlikely alliances that Zambia’s wild animals sometimes form.

10.00 Secrets of Wild Australia As 6pm.

11.00 Into the Wild: Colombia

The flat savannahs of the Llanos face seasonal extremes.

12 midnight Brazil Untamed 1.00am Waterworld Africa 2.00 Untamed Valley 3.00 Tales from Zambia 4.00 Orangutan Jungle School

5.00—6.00am Valley of Flood and Fire

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Sky Main Event

Sky 401 Virgin 501 EE 419/HD 439

6.00am World Cup Report

7.00 World Cup Breakfast

10.00 LIVE International T20 Cricket India v England, a Women’s World Cup warm-up match from the County Cricket Ground in Derby.

1.30pm World Cup Matchday

3.00 LIVEInternational T20 Cricket West Indies v Australia, a Women’s World Cup warm-up match from the County Cricket Ground in Derby.

6.30 World Cup Matchday: in-depth analysis 7.00 World Cup Show 10.00 World Cup Report

3.00am LIVE WNBA Seattle Storm v Los Angeles Sparks from Climate Pledge Arena (tip-off 3.00). The Storm reached the play-offs last year, but lost out to eventual champions Las Vegas Aces in the first round, while the Sparks finished one place outside the post-season spots.

5.30—6.00am World Cup Report

Sky Football

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6.00am Classic League Cup (AD)

8.45 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 10.00 Championship Season Review (AD) 11.00 There’s Only One Sauzée (AD) 11.30 Dundee United: Champions 83 (AD)

12 noon Classic Play-Offs (AD) 2.00pm EFL Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Classic League Cup (AD) 5.00 League Cup Best Goals (AD) 5.30 Classic EFL Trophy (AD)

6.00

Sky Premier League

Sky 402 Virgin 502 EE 420/HD 440 6.00am Premier League Greatest Games (AD) 7.00 Premier League Review 9.00 Premier League Highlights 6.00pm Premier League Review 7.00 Premier League Stories 7.30 Transfer 360 (AD) 8.00 Netbusters 9.00 Brazilians in the Premier League 10.00 Arsenal: Invincibles 10.15 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox 11.15 Premier League Years (AD) 1.15am Premier League Retro 3.00 Premier League Greatest Games 4.00—6.00am Premier League Best Goals

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SPFL:

Firm Derby Best Goals (AD) 2.30 SPFL: Edinburgh Derby Best Goals (AD) 3.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Championship Season Review (AD) 5.00 League Cup Best Goals (AD) 5.30—6.00am Classic EFL Trophy (AD)

Sky Sports +

8.00am Europe from Above 9.00 Air Crash Investigation: Special Report (AD) 10.00 Drain the Oceans (AD) 11.00 Hidden beneath the Cities 12 noon World War II: Secrets from Above 1.00pm Seconds from Disaster (AD) 2.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) 3.00 World War II: the Apocalypse 4.00 Decoding History’s Prophecies 5.00 Inside Sydney Airport (AD) 6.00 Hitler’s Last Stand 7.00 Air Crash Investigation

8.00 New. Ancient Structures: Secrets Revealed 9.00 Colosseum: Rise and Fall (AD) 10.00 New. Witches: Truth behind the Trials 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) 12 midnight Ultimate Airport Dubai 1.00am Amsterdam Central 24/7 2.00 Primal Survivor 2.30 Made in a Day (AD) 2.55 Abandoned 3.20 Food Factory

4.10—5.00am Prairie Dog Dynasty

8.00am Yukon Vet 9.00 National Parks: USA 10.00 Monster Fish 11.00 Savage Kingdom 12 noon The Incredible Dr Pol 1.00pm Yukon Vet 2.00 India’s Elephant Mountain 3.00 Shark Men 4.00 Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina 5.00 Rocky Mountain Railroad 6.00 Yukon Vet 7.00 Secrets of the Zoo: Tampa: a field trip explores safe routes for panthers 8.00 Europe’s New Wild: double bill. Efforts to save a rare species of bear in Italy and Croatia, then exploring work to protect the Danube 10.00 Lawless Island 11.00 Ice Road Rescue 12 midnight When Sharks Attack 1.00am Last of the Giants: Wild Fish (AD) 2.00 The Incredible Dr Pol 3.00 Yukon Vet 4.00—5.00am Savage Kingdom

another chance to see action from Dublin 6.30 World Cup Matchday 7.00 World Cup Show 10.00 World Cup Report 12 midnight EFL Greatest Games (AD) 1.00am WTA Tennis 3.00 Super League 5.45—6.00am EFL Greatest Games (AD)

Sky Golf

6.00am Forged with Steele 6.30 Commando Missions 9.15 Pawn Stars

10.10 Storage Wars 1.00pm New. The Curse of Oak Island (AD) 2.00 New. Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo

3.00 Junk and Disorderly 6.00 American Pickers: from Ohio 7.00 Forged in Fire

8.00 Storage Wars 9.00 The Curse of Oak Island (AD) 10.00 Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo 11.00 Cursed Treasures 12 midnight Junk and Disorderly

2.50am The Curse of Oak Island (AD)

3.40 Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo 4.25 American Pickers

5.10—6.00am Pawn Stars

8.00am My Cat from Hell (AD) 9.00 Edge of Alaska 10.00 Tanked 11.00 Animal Cops Phoenix (AD) 1.00pm Alaska: Homestead Rescue 2.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees 3.00 My Cat from Hell (AD) 5.00 Lone Star Law 6.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet: Dr Amy performs surgery on a dog impaled with a stick 7.00 Treehouse Masters: Pete Nelson visits racing driver Dale Earnhardt Jr’s treehouse 8.00 Rugged Justice 9.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (AD) 10.00 Alaskan Bush People (AD) 11.00 Mountain Monsters 12 midnight Alaska: Homestead Rescue 1.00am Blood Ivory 2.00 Treehouse Masters 3.00—5.00am Animal Cops Houston

Sky Tennis

TNT Sports 1

Sky 410 Virgin 521 EE 408/HD 430 6.00am LIVE Test Cricket

Continued coverage of India v Afghanistan, the fifth and final day of the one-off men’s Test at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh PCA Stadium.

1.00pm International One-Day Cricket 2.00 The Gruppetto 2.15 LIVE Cycling Stage four of the men’s Tour Auvergne Rhône Alpes, a hilly 167.4km race from Le Puy en Velay to Montrond-les-Bains; 4.15 The men’s Circuit Franco-Belge, coverage of the one-day race.

5.30 Discovery Golf (AD)

6.00 TNT Sports Reload 6.30 Speedway Highlights 7.30 MotoGP Highlights 8.30 The Breakdown 9.00 LIVE Prem Rugby Union Coverage of the Rugby Awards at the Old Billingsgate in London. 10.30 French Open Tennis (AD) 11.30 What Went Down (AD) 11.45 TNT Sports Cricket Reload 12 midnight LIVE Major League

TNT Sports 2

Sky 411 Virgin 522 EE 409/HD 431 6.00am Premiership Women’s Rugby Union

6.00am Test Cricket Bitesize: England v New Zealand 7.15 Classic World T20 (AD) 7.30 Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup (AD) 8.00 Test Cricket 8.55 Classic Women’s World T20 9.50 LIVE International T20 Cricket India v England, a Women’s World Cup warm-up match from the County Cricket Ground in Derby. The teams have met here in this format on two previous occasions, with India winning both contests. 1.30pm Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup: England v India (AD)

2.00 Classic Women’s World T20 2.50 LIVE International T20 Cricket West Indies v Australia, a Women’s World Cup warm-up match from the County Cricket Ground in Derby.

6.30 Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup (AD) 7.00 Test Cricket 5.00—6.00am Classic Women’s Cricket World Cup

Sky Action

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6.00am Super League (AD) 12 noon

Super Bowl LX Highlights: action from Seattle Seahawks v New England Patriots (AD) 1.00pm Good Morning Football 3.00 NFL Highlights 4.00 Super League 4.45 Rugby League 5.00 Super Bowl LX Highlights (AD)

6.00 Pro-Football Talk 8.00 NBA on Fire

8.30 NBA (AD) 10.30 NFL Bitesize 11.00 NFL Highlights 12 midnight The Insiders 1.00am Women’s Super League 1.30 Rugby League Highlights 1.45 Super League 2.00 NFL Highlights

3.00 LIVE WNBA Seattle Storm v Los Angeles Sparks from Climate Pledge Arena (tip-off 3.00). 5.30—6.00am Super League (AD)

Sky Sports Mix

Sky 416 Virgin 511 EE 429/HD 449 9.55am—1.30pm LIVE International T20 Cricket India v England, the Women’s World Cup warm-up match from the County Cricket Ground in Derby. 2.55—6.30 LIVE International T20 Cricket West Indies v Australia, a Women’s World Cup warm-up at the County Cricket Ground in Derby.

TNT Sports 3

9.00 World Superbikes Rewind (AD) 9.15 MotoGP: from Hungary 12.45pm LIVE 24 Hours of Le Mans Coverage from the first free practice session ahead of the third round of the World Endurance Championship season at Circuit de la Sarthe. 4.15 World Superbikes

TNT Sports 4

THURSDAY

SPORT

World Cup 2026: Opening Ceremony 6.15pm ITV1 Catch up via ITVX Baby Love Upside Down Missing a Penalty in the USA 94 Opening Ceremony. Diana Ross may be one of the musical greats, but her scuffed spot kick in front of an estimated 750 million viewers got a brilliant tournament off to a wonderfully farcical start. For all Fifa’s decade-old dodginess, these were innocent times; numerous claims of corruption within the association have since cast dark shadows

SCIENCE The Future with Hannah Fry

7.30pm BBC Two Catch up: iPlayer

Hannah Fry must have clocked up some air miles filming this series, which has mostly been a back-and-forth between California and Japan – perhaps not surprising given those locations’ focus on innovation. This final episode is no exception in that respect, going full circle with a return to nature, visiting rewilding projects in northern California and Fukushima, Japan, as well as in London and Scotland. Where the episode does differ radically from the rest of the series is that it’s entirely eco- rather than techbased, with not a flying taxi or robot plumber in sight. At first this feels incongruous, but it does make sense. Nature has a future, too, after all.

GARY ROSE

PROPERTY

across the greatest event in world football. Although we should probably brace ourselves for talk of unity, peace and the global family from Fifa president Gianni Infantino, perhaps some of that can be overlooked tonight as Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin, South African singer/songwriter Tyla and Mexico’s mariachi-inspired pop icon Alejandro Fernández (the latter pair

DOCUMENTARY

George Clarke’s Beautiful Builds

8.00pm C4

Catch up via C4 streaming

Nothing adds more value or enjoyment to a home than restyling it to improve the flow, especially if you also revamp the garden. The perennially upbeat George Clarke is in Worsley, Greater Manchester, where he visits a split-level house with an awkward extension and a steeply sloped rear garden.

It doesn’t function the way that owners Katherine and Andrew would like it to and the difficult lay-out obscures some of the stunning views. So George and landscaper Luke Millard offer useful, ambitious design suggestions that will turn their dysfunctional living areas into something special and unite the inside spaces with the outside. JANE RACKHAM

Reported Missing

9.00pm BBC One

Catch up via iPlayer

representing the nations whose match will be the first of 104 over the next few weeks) get proceedings under way in Mexico City. Co-hosts Canada and the USA throw their own launch parties tomorrow with Michael Bublé and Alanis Morissette, and Katy Perry and Future. The first match – Mexico v South Africa – follows on ITV1 at 8pm. GABRIEL TATE

See feature: page 12

DOCUMENTARY

Britney: in Ten Pictures

9.00pm (11.00pm N Ireland)

BBC Two All episodes on iPlayer

The Edinburgh police investigate two separate cases where a young, vulnerable person living in a residential care unit is reported missing. Neither Taylor, 18, nor Ava, 13, can be contacted by phone and worryingly, Ava has made a call from a mobile belonging to a 38-year-old man.

The days tick past but the investigation is thwarted at every turn because almost everybody they interview lies or is inexplicably obstructive.

“As frustrating professionally as it can be dealing with missing people like Taylor,” says Inspector Alison Lawrie, “I’ve not walked in Taylor’s shoes, so I don’t know what he’s been through to force him away from a safe place.” JR

They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but in her early days Britney Spears was often projected in disturbing ways, as well as being papped at difficult moments during her tumultuous life after becoming a superstar as a teenager.

Her music videos teased and titillated, and we are shown outrageous examples of photoshopped images for magazine front covers. What’s not clear is whether she was being manipulated or was a willing participant, but her subsequent, erratic behaviour suggests she had mental health struggles and from 2008 to 2021 was being controlled by her conservatorship. Troubling but engrossing viewing. A repeat of Britney at the BBC is at 10pm. JR

SHOW TIME!

The World Cup kicks off with the Opening Ceremony (Qatar 2022 pictured)

THURSDAY

DRAMA

The Hardacres

9.00pm 5 Full series on 5 streaming Ma is the most distrusting and canny of the Hardacres, suspicious of people’s motives and usually with good reason. Yet she falls for Lady Imelda Hansen’s compliments about her card playing. What is she thinking? It’s not the only example of Imelda’s meddling, having complained about Mary’s literacy classes. “My duties include weeding out immorality,” announces the pompous National Vigilance Association’s Bartholomew Balfour. Mary, meanwhile, is busily organising a harvest festival and hopes that by encouraging her nervous literacy pupils to do readings, she may change Mr Balfour’s views... JR

FILM

Unforgiven 5 j

9.00pm BBC Four Catch up: iPlayer

qENTERTAINMENT

Taskmaster: the Final 9.00pm C4 Catch up: C4 streaming It’s always sad to wave goodbye to a Taskmaster cast. Greg Davies even lets the cruel headmaster mask slip to note how sad he is when all their tasks are completed... but there’s not much time for sentiment. In a close-run race for the trophy, Armando Iannucci, Amy Gledhill, Kumail Nanjiani and Joanna Page still have to battle their way through dramatic pillow fights, exhilarating “near-misses” and wheelie chair races. (Joel Dommett’s so far back in the pack at this point he’d need a miracle to challenge the others. Still, stranger things have happened – if nothing else, this week sees a nice resolution for the pointless egg-smuggling task Joel alone was given this series.) And of course, we’ll soon have a new group to fall in love with, as series 22 is already in the can.

LAST IN SERIES

HUW FULLERTON

With Clint Eastwood having recently celebrated his 96th birthday, here’s a timely showing of the 1992 western that earned the star his first Oscar for best director. Although a reflective critique of his role in the genre, the movie is nevertheless rich with references to Clint’s western heritage, whether wearing his old boots from careermaking TV hit Rawhide, or dedicating the film to mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel. As to ageing, the star’s motto is reportedly very simple: “Every day when I wake up, I don’t let the old man in.”

ARTS

JEREMY ASPINALL

DOCUMENTARY

MULTITASKING Armando Iannucci (with Alex Horne) takes the plunge

Rivals: Messi v Ronaldo

10.40pm (11.20pm N Ireland)

Make That Movie

10.00pm, 10.30pm C4

Sam (Sam Campbell, above) and the team go in search of a scandal and, in the last of the series, try to rescue a couple who are trapped in a cave.

Springwatch

8.00pm BBC Two

Last in the series of real-life wildlife dramas, presented by Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan.

Kevin McCloud’s Listed Britain

9.00pm More4

The final edition of the series sees the host visiting the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank and the dinosaur sculptures at Crystal Palace Park.

Football: World Cup

Mexico v South Africa

7.50pm (k/o 8pm) ITV1

James Dean: the Emotional Man

9.00pm Sky Arts Catch up via Now

A sense of thwarted potential hangs over any film about James Dean, and this insightful French-made documentary is no different: three major films, three wonderful performances, dead at just 24. Leaning sensibly and heavily on Dennis Stock’s amazing photo essay, Dean tells his own story (the provenance of his quotes is never quite clear) alongside acquaintances and confidantes, and it is one of trauma translated into art –a mother’s death and a father’s hostility; buried abuse and exploitation; a conflicted sexuality. From it, Dean forged a re-invention of screen masculinity, translating pain into raw emotion. His death came as he was declaring an interest in directing: “My days of fun are over. It’s time to start being a man.” GT

BBC One Catch up via iPlayer

Football fans have always argued over the best player of all time, but in the 2000s, two candidates emerged at the same time. Not only that, but the debate over Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo tapped into what spectators think football is fundamentally about: artistic expression and skill bordering on genius (Messi), or athleticism and scoring as many goals as possible, having honed the craft of finishing (Ronaldo)? Here, Sergio Busquets, Xavi, Rio Ferdinand and others re-examine an era when Messi played for Barcelona, while Ronaldo was at Real Madrid. For several glorious years, arguably the game’s two greatest players were face to face. JACK SEALE

And so it begins, with the first of 104 matches preceded at 6.15pm by the Opening Ceremony in Mexico City. See Choice: page 90

Tennis: Queen’s 1pm BBC Two

Day four of the women’s grass-court tournament at Queen’s Club in west London.

Golf: Canadian Open

12 noon Sky Sports Main Event/Golf

Day one of the tournament, in Caledon, Ontario.

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3.00 Escape to the Country Steve Brown helps a buyer return to her childhood home county of Devon, and also visits an organic orchard. (R) (S) (HD)

3.45 Garden Rescue Charlie Dimmock revisits a garden in Northampton that was designed to be accessible for a couple’s disabled children. (R) (S) (HD)

4.30—5.15 Bridge of Lies Friends Will, Maj, Tracy and Beth compete for cash. Ross Kemp hosts. (R) (S) (HD)

BBC Two

BBC Two 6.30am Escape to the Country Searching for the perfect rural retreat in Powys. Shown Tuesday 3pm BBC One (S) (AD) (HD)

7.15 Garden Rescue Flo Headlam and Joe Swift visit Wilmslow to help a couple transform their plot into a grow-your-own garden. Shown Wed 3.45pm BBC One (S) (HD) 8.00—9.00 Sign Zone Gardeners’ World Monty Don celebrates Longmeadow’s roses. Shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 BBC News (S) (HD)

12.15pm Politics Live Analysis and debate. (S) (HD)

Reported Missing 9.00pm Mum Gabby waits for news about her 18-year-old, Taylor

5.15pm Pointless

Lucy Porter joins Alexander Armstrong. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)

6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD)

7.00 The One Show

With Alex Jones and Roman Kemp. (S) (HD)

7.30 EastEnders

Chaos erupts at the Vic. Chelsea’s world is turned upside down. George and Gina try to clear the air.

Chelsea Fox Zaraah Abrahams

Gina Knight Francesca Henry

Priya Nandra-Hart Sophie Khan Levy

Jack Branning Scott Maslen

Phil Mitchell Steve McFadden

Mo Harris Laila Morse

Eve Unwin Heather Peace

Jean Slater Gillian Wright

Alfie Moon Shane Richie

Zoe Slater Michelle Ryan

Suki Kaur Panesar Balvinder Sopal

Johnny Carter Charlie Suff

Kathy Beale Gillian Taylforth

Ravi Gulati Aaron Thiara

Elaine Peacock Harriet Thorpe

Patrick Trueman Rudolph Walker

Ross Marshall Alex Walkinshaw

Kat Slater Jessie Wallace

Yolande Trueman Angela Wynter

Ernie Moon Cody Briffett

Bert Moon Elliot Briffett

Lexi Pearce Isabella Brown

Raymond Dawkins Michael Jose Pomares Calixte Davinder “Nugget” Gulati Juhaim Rasul Choudhury

Amy Mitchell Ellie Dadd

Ricky Mitchell Frankie Day Ollie Carter Harry Farr

Janet Mitchell Grace Pearl Fox Arayah Harris-Buckle

Tommy Moon Sonny Kendall

Denzel Danes Jaden Ladega

Will Mitchell Freddie Phillips

Lily Slater Lillia Turner

Eddie Knight Christopher Fairbank

Britney: in Ten Pictures 9.00pm Recalling the rise of the pop icon through her changing image

6.00pm Richard Osman’s House of Games

Simon Armitage, Josie Gibson, Ardal O’Hanlon and Adele Roberts test their general knowledge. (R) (S) (HD)

6.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys

4/20 Series 8. Michael Portillo visits Bosnian capital Sarajevo, where he traces the fateful final journey of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Villages by the Sea Series 5. Ben Robinson discovers how Seahouses in Northumberland became a thriving seaport. (R) (S) (HD)

7.30 The Future with Hannah Fry

6 6/6. Hannah heads from Fukushima to California to ask whether the process of rewilding can heal the environmental wounds that humans have inflicted on the planet. The whole series is on iPlayer. See p90.

Producer Rosemary Cafferkey First shown on Bloomberg (S) (AD) (HD) 7.55 The Secret Genius of Modern Life: the Best Bits The science behind our motorways. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)

8.00 Springwatch

12/12. Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan update all the big stories and take a final look at their secret cameras as they end their stint watching the natural wonders of spring on the Crom estate in Fermanagh. Director James Morgan; Producer Jo Horsey (S) (HD)

ITV1

1.00—6.00 LIVE Tennis Coverage of day four of the women’s Queen’s Club Championship from London, featuring singles matches from the second round. Four Brits were involved in round two last year, but Emma Raducanu was the only one who progressed, beating Rebecca Sramková of Slovakia, while Katie Boulter, Heather Watson and Sonay Kartal all lost. Additional coverage on the red button, iPlayer and at bbc.co.uk/sport from 11.30am—7.30pm. (S) (HD) ITV1 6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD) 9.30 Lorraine Fashion and food. (S) (HD)

10.00 This Morning Celebrity interviews, cookery and lifestyle advice. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD) 12.30pm Loose Women Heated debates. (S) (HD)

1.30 ITV News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal In Solihull, items of interest include a panther brooch, a picture of Winston Churchill and a huge diamond ring. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

Max Branning Jake Wood

Writer Simon Norman This week’s episodes directed by Jamie Annett and Maninderpal Sahota More cast Monday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon The team helps the Jamiesons transform their home, stripping every item from the converted bungalow and displaying them in a warehouse. As they sort through decades of keepsakes, emotional moments arise.

Director Ben Borland; Executive producers Charlotte Brookes, Lisa Murphy-O’Reilly and Kurt Seywald (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Reported Missing

6

Channel 4

3.00—4.00 Lingo Scott and Dave from Falkirk, Jane and Daniel from Derby and Tyrone, and Natalie and Carla from Milton Keynes compete in the word game. (R) (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather (S) (HD) Channel 4 5.45am Countdown Mark Chapman guests. (R) (S) (HD)

6.25 Cheers Triple bill of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)

7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.10 Frasier Four episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.10 American Pickers Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz go big in Texas at the original Dr Pepper bottling plant. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 12.05pm News (S) (HD)

12.10 Car SOS Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend come to the rescue of a modified VW Beetle. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.10 Help! We Bought a Village The owners of a crumbling French hamlet endeavour to save the decaying bakery and its roof. (R) (S) (HD)

2.10 Countdown With Mark Chapman. (S) (HD)

3.00—4.00 A Place in the Sun Jean Johansson helps siblings find a holiday home in Manilva, Spain. (R) (S) (HD)

3/4 Series 5. In Edinburgh, police mount searches for two teenagers who are missing from care. Taylor, 18, has not been seen for almost two days. Police visit his parents’ house, where his mother Gabby reveals that he has not been responding to messages. On duty in the south of the city, Sergeant Stevie McMinn follows up on a report that Ava, 13, has failed to return to her care unit after school. See page 90. Directors Jamie Pickup, Lindsay Goodall, Ian Hendry, Michelle Owen, Adam Webster and Morag Tinto; Series producer Laura Gilbert Shown Tuesday 9pm BBC Scotland (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

10.40 Rivals: Messi v Ronaldo

6

For more than a decade, the rivalry between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo helped shape discussions about modern football. This film explores how that conflict began, how it escalated and what impact it had on the sport. See page 91. (S) (AD) (HD) World Cup Match of the Day Live: Canada v Bosnia and Herzegovina tomorrow 7pm World Cup Special: page 12

11.40 Celebrity Bridge of Lies

8/10 Series 4. Ross Kemp hosts, with Greg Rutherford, Sanjeev Kohli, Janet Ellis and Louisa Lytton playing for charity. See review, p40. Shown Saturday 5.35pm (S) (HD)

12.25am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 12.30—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

9.00 Britney: in Ten Pictures

6 3/4 Series 3. Examining the spectacular rise and turbulent life of pop idol Britney Spears through 10 key photos. Propelled to worldwide stardom at the age of 16 with the release of ...Baby One More Time in 1998, she would become defined by imagery, but also the subject of constant exploitation and control. From glossy magazine photoshoots with David LaChapelle to grainy paparazzi shots, this episode chronicles the turmoil of a life within the glare of the media spotlight. The whole series is on iPlayer. See p90. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Britney at the BBC

6 A collection of performances by Britney Spears from the BBC archives, featuring tracks such as Oops!... I Did It Again, Toxic and Sometimes. See p90. Producer Shelley Talton; Series producer Simon Goretzki (R) (S) (HD)

10.30 Newsnight With Adam Fleming. (S) (HD) Weather (S) (HD)

11.00 Surgeons: at the Edge of Life 6/8 Series 8. A neurosurgeon needs total precision to save her patient from paralysis. See review, page 80. Shown yesterday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)

12 midnight The Heart of Me HHH Period romantic drama.

q Married socialite Madeleine sets about trying to find a suitor for her unconventional sister, Dinah. Her plans appear to have succeeded when Dinah announces her engagement. But the announcement prompts Madeleine’s husband to confess his true feelings. Review page 97. Dinah Helena Bonham Carter Madeleine Olivia Williams Rickie Paul Bettany Mrs Burkett Eleanor Bron Anthony Luke Newberry Jack Tom Ward

Director Thaddeus O’Sullivan (2002, 15) (S) (HD)

1.35—4.20am Sign Zone 1.35 MasterChef The cooks face the Chef’s Table task. Shown last Thursday BBC One (S) (AD) (HD) 2.35 Interior Design Masters with

World Cup 2026 7.50pm Edson Alvarez leads out Mexico for the opening game

4.00pm Tipping Point

Ben Shephard presents the quiz. (R) (S) (HD)

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat

Jeremy Clarkson hosts the fast-paced quiz. Director Simon Staffurth; Producer Kirsty Proffitt (R) (S) (HD)

5.30 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)

5.45 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)

6.15 World Cup 2026: Opening Ceremony

9 Mark Pougatch presents coverage of the first of three opening ceremonies, which 6 comes from Mexico City Stadium ahead of the tournament’s first game. See p90.

Director Paul McNamara; Editor Stuart Smith (S) (HD) World Cup Special: page 12

7.50 World Cup 2026

9Mexico v South Africa

The Group A match at Mexico City

6 Stadium, which serves as the opening game of the tournament (kick-off 8.00).

This is the fifth meeting between these nations, with the most recent also being the opening contest of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, which ended in a 1—1 draw. Analysis is from Roy Keane, Gary Neville and Ian Wright, with commentary by Jon Champion and Ally McCoist. See page 90

Director Paul McNamara; Editor Stuart Smith (S) (HD) South Korea v Czech Republic 2.30am Simon Barnes: page 12

10.35 ITV News

Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

11.20 G’wed

6

1/7 Series 3. The Ballad of Three Dads Comedy drama about teenagers from Liverpool. Disneyland Darren’s return causes chaos and is soon sparking tension with Mr Dunn. A box set is on ITVX. See page 61.

Reece Dylan Thomas-Smith

Ted Dominic Murphy

Disneyland Darren Ben Batt

Mo Zak Douglas

Jodie Leanne Best

Aimee Amber Harrison

Mr Dunn Philip McGuinness

The Brimble Evie Ward-Drummond

Mr Meacher Louis Emerick

Christopher Jake Kenny-Byrne Connor Max Ainsworth

Mia Louise Gemma Barraclough

Nigel John David-Evans

Daisy Yasmin Davies

Anna Jennifer Ellison

Cheeky boy Franklin Gimson

Shown Monday 10.35pm ITV2 (S) (AD) (HD)

11.50 Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening

With Mel B, Jonathan Ross and Richard Madeley. Series director Barbara Wiltshire

Series producer Tom Corrigan (R) (S) (HD)

12.45am The Assembly Gary Lineker faces autistic and learning-disabled interviewers. (R) (S) (HD)

1.10 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD)

2.00 Celebrity Lingo Lisa Riley, Mark Charnock, the Rev Richard Coles and Tim Vine take part. (R) (S) (HD)

2.30 World Cup 2026 South Korea v Czech Republic

9Coverage of the Group A match at Guadalajara Stadium in Mexico (kick-off 3.00). (S) (HD) Canada v Bosnia tomorrow 7pm BBC One

5.35—6.00am Goals of the 1990s Memorable goals from the decade. Shown Saturday 5.45pm ITV4 (S) (HD)

Taskmaster: the Final 9.00pm Alex Horne is bemused by Armando Iannucci

4.00pm Narrow Escapes

Connor crosses paths with the Curry Cruiser

Repeated tomorrow 10am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

5.00 Château DIY: Australia

The pressure is on for Linda and Peter to restore riverside steps for a wedding. Repeated tomorrow 3pm 4seven (S) (HD)

6.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

In Almería, Alison and Steve relocate from the Costa del Sol with their precious pooches. Repeated tomorrow 11am 4seven (R) (S) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)

8.00 George Clarke’s Beautiful Builds

6 Ep 3 Series 2. In Worsley in Greater Manchester, George helps Katherine and Andrew to renovate their awkward abode and reveal its stunning view, while landscaper Luke tackles the hazardous garden. See p90.

Series director Georgia Pearce; Series producer Hamish Summers Repeated tomorrow 8pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Taskmaster: the Final

6 10/10 Series 21. Domestic Bumfluff

Amy Gledhill tears her hair out, Armando Iannucci plays the recorder while riding a trike with a plunger on his head, and Joanna Page lays waste to Little Alex Horne. See page 91.

Series director Andy Devonshire; Series producer Andy Cartwright

Rptd Fri 2.10am 4seven and signed Fri 12.10am C4 (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Make That Movie

5/6. Naughty Naughty Secrets. Sam and the others go in search of scandal. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.30 6/6. The Rescue Most Brave. The team comes to the rescue of a couple in a cave.

Sam Sam Campbell

Pat Helen Bauer

Sebastian Aaron Chen

Winnie David Hargreaves

Jess Lara Ricote

Mr Eblen Archer Timothy Bentinck

Bension Rob Carter

Amelia Louise Ford

Andrew Luke McQueen

Bert Eblen Archer Eric Rahill

George Tim Samuels

Kabir Mark Silcox

Tricky Ricky Darren Strange

Club Members

Andrew Greenough, Julian Harries

Rescuer Pete Dominic Applewhite

Rescuer James Ciaran Clancey

Michelle Heaton Herself

Apricot John Kearns

Dina Rose Matafeo

Debbie McGee Herself

Philip Noonan Freddie Meredith

Pat Sharp Himself

Robyn Noonan Ria Zmitrowicz

Narrator Baker Terry

Writers Sam Campbell and Joe Pelling; Director Joe Pelling

Producer William Kay (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 Celebrity Gogglebox

1/7 Series 8. Famous faces including Bez and Shaun Ryder give their thoughts on recent TV.

Shown last Friday Channel 4 (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

12.05am Tip Toe 3/5. Clive confesses his secrets.

See review, p50. Shown Sunday 9pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

1.00 4/5. Zee reaches out to help George.

See review, p60. Shown Monday 9pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

1.55 Little Richard: I Am Everything HHHH

qExploring the life, career and legacy of the flamboyant rock ’n’ roll icon Little Richard, featuring Mick Jagger. Available to stream for 30 days.

Director Lisa Cortés (2023, 15) (S) (AD) (HD)

3.40 Couples Come Dine with Me There’s a ritzy soirée and name-dropping in Wiltshire. (R) (S) (HD)

4.35 Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country The family prepare for the delivery of piglets. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

5.30—5.45am Sunday Brunch Highlights. (R) (S) (HD)

THURSDAY

The Hardacres 9.00pm Bartholomew Balfor (left) throws Mary off course

5.35am Milkshake! See page 96

9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)

11.30 Storm and Alexis Discussion. (S) (HD)

12.45pm 5 News (S) (HD)

12.50 Matt Allwright Debate. (S) (HD)

2.00 Vanessa Discussion show. (S) (HD)

3.00 Castle 3/24 Series 5. A dying woman scrawls a number in blood as a clue. (R) (S) (HD)

3.55 4/24. The writer’s plans for a romantic weekend away with Beckett are ruined. (R) (S) (HD)

4.50 Love Nature Marine life off Devon. (R) (S) (HD)

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)

6.00 Norfolk and Suffolk: Country and Coast

4/6. At a Second World War air base, 30 members of the Women’s Institute take to the air with the Norfolk Gliding Club. (R) (S) (HD)

6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

7.00 Build Your Dream Home in the Country

Mark Millar helps a family to build an eco-friendly Scandinavian wooden kit house in the heart of the Kent countryside.

Directors Kirsty Seager and Daniel Waring Series producer Tim Brocklehurst (S) (HD)

7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 Cornwall: a Year by the Sea

3/10 Series 2. In the harbour town of Padstow, Johnny Murt heads out to sea as dawn breaks, in search of the prized catch of lobster.

Director/Producer James Nutt (S) (HD)

9.00 The Hardacres

65/6 Series 2. Mary agrees to help organise the Harvest Festival, but her class is thrown off course. See page 91.

Mary Hardacre Claire Cooper

Sam Hardacre Liam McMahon

Ma Julie Graham

Joe Hardacre Adam Little

Liza Hardacre Shannon Lavelle

Harry Hardacre Zak Ford-Williams

Lady Imelda Hansen Michele Dotrice

Lady Adella Fitzherbert Holly Sturton

Lady Emma Fitzherbert Cathy Belton

Lord George Fitzherbert Owen Roe

Betsy Temple Hardacre Sarah Agha Callum Saunders Taheen Modak

Arthur Lewis Edward Mitchell

Mrs Dryden Ingrid Craigie

Beesley Mark Doherty

Maggie Ella Maria Carmen

Edward Blackwood Niall McNamee Bartholomew Balfor Paul Tylak

Writer Cara Loftus; Producer Kathryn Kennedy Fenton

Director Stephen Bradley (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 HMP Long Lartin: Evil behind Bars

Exploring life inside the maximum-security prison in Evesham, Worcestershire.

Directors/Producers Madeleine Dodd, Sam Miles, Hannah Beauguard and Asif Hasan (R) (S) (HD)

11.35 Jeremy Bamber: Proof of Innocence — the Missing Phone Call

Questions about the conviction for the White House Farm murders. See review, page 60.

Shown Monday 9pm (S) (HD)

1.00am Home Shopping (R) (S) (HD)

2.30 Badgers: Their Secret World (R) (S) (HD)

3.20

BBC ONE SCOTLAND

2.00pm First Minister’s Questions 2.30—3.00 Policing Paradise 11.40 Scotcast 12.10am Celebrity Bridge of Lies 12.55 Weather for the Week Ahead 1.00—6.00 BBC News

BBC

SCOTLAND

7.00pm Reporting Scotland 7.30 Grand Tours of Scotland’s Rivers: Paul Murton explores the upper reaches of the River Spey 8.00 Beechgrove Garden: Lizzie Schofield sets out to improve her tomato crop 8.30 Landward: Cammy Wilson gives a masterclass in the art of shearing 9.00 Highland Cops: officers plan to raid an abandoned house they suspect is a cannabis farm 10.00 Scotland Stands Up: farmer Jim Smith hosts an evening of comedy 10.30 Scot Squad: a starstruck McKirdy deals with an incident involving singer Michelle McManus 11.00 Scotcast: discussion 11.30—12 midnight Life on the Bay: manager Steven deals with a problem at the swimming pool

ITV1 BORDER SCOTLAND

11.20pm Representing Border 11.50 G’wed 12.20—1.10am Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening: with Mel B

BBC ONE WALES

7.00—7.30pm 21st Century TV with Lucy Owen 8.00 Wales’s Home of the Year 8.30—9.00 Shift the Thrift

BBC TWO WALES

7.00—7.30pm The One Show 11.00 Swipe Right for Sperm 11.30—12 midnight Villages by the Sea S4C Freesat 120 Sky 134 Virgin 164 6.00am Cyw 12 noon Newyddion; Tywydd 12.05pm Gwladfa: Gwilym Bowen Rhys 12.30 Heno

1.00 Pysgod i Bawb

1.30 Y Byd ar Bedwar 2.00 Newyddion; Tywydd 2.05 Prynhawn Da 3.00 Newyddion; Tywydd 3.05 Canu gyda Fy Arwr

Awr Fawr 5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Cymry ar Gynfas 6.30 3Cân; Newyddion 7.00 Heno 7.30 Newyddion; Tywydd 8.00 Pobol y Cwm: a mysterious figure from Eleri’s past causes a stir 8.25 Rownd a Rownd: Dani learns the identity of the buyer on her website 8.55 Newyddion; Tywydd 9.00

THURSDAY FREEVIEW CHANNELS

Unforgiven 9.00pm Clint Eastwood returns to his life as a gunfighter

All programmes on BBC Four are repeats unless otherwise stated 7.00pm University Challenge

Two teams battle it out for the last place in the quarter-finals as the second-round matches conclude. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions. First shown in 2023. (S) (HD)

7.30 Only Connect

Three civil servants pit their wits against a trio of music lovers to make links between apparently unconnected things. Victoria Coren Mitchell presents. From 2009.

Series director Siân G Lloyd

Series producer Peter Jamieson (S)

8.00 The Making of King Arthur Poet Simon Armitage traces the evolution of the Arthurian legend through the literature of the medieval age, and discovers that the largely mythical king who came to prominence in the late fifth century AD was a fickle and transitory character rather than a great national hero, whom the Normans would appropriate to justify their conquest in 1066. From 2010.

Director/Producer Matt Hill Signed rpt 2.20am (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Unforgiven 5

qThis western, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, kicks off the first in a night of programmes following the 96th birthday of the actor and film-maker. Following the death of his wife from smallpox and the failure of his farm, former gunfighter William Munny is tempted back to his old ways by the bounty offered for killing the cowboys who badly scarred a prostitute. On iPlayer for 26 days. Film of the Day: p97. William Munny Clint Eastwood

Sheriff “Little Bill” Daggett Gene Hackman

Ned Logan Morgan Freeman

English Bob Richard Harris

“Schofield Kid” Jaimz Woolvett

WW Beauchamp Saul Rubinek

Strawberry Alice Frances Fisher

Delilah Fitzgerald Anna Thomson (1992, 15) (S) (HD) Shown Sunday 10.45pm BBC Two 11.05 Clint Eastwood: Arena

1/2. Out of the West. Profile of Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood, focusing on his poverty-stricken childhood in 1930s California, through early television success in Rawhide, to classic roles in films, including A Fistful of Dollars. With contributions from directors Don Siegel, Sergio Leone and Martin Scorsese. (S) (HD) 12.05am 2/2. American Filmmaker Examining Eastwood’s commitment to the process of film-making. The actor made his directorial debut with the 1971 thriller Play Misty for Me, which proved the foundation for a career encompassing classics including The Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven. With contributions from Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep and Dina Ruiz. From 2000. Watch now on iPlayer. Director/Producer Bruce Ricker (S) (HD)

1.20 American Visions 3/8. Robert Hughes explores the cultural impact of the US’s spectacular landscape Shown Mon 10.30pm (S) (HD) 2.20—3.20am The Making of King Arthur Shown 8pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

Blade Runner 2049 9.00pm Joi and Officer K hunt a missing man

7.00pm New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)

7.05 Asia

7/7. The series concludes by highlighting the people who dedicate their lives to saving Asia’s wildlife. From 2024. The whole series is in UHD on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr: the Final 8/8 Series 7. The two finalists head to Longleat, where they transform rental cottages. See review, page 71. Shown Tuesday 8pm BBC One (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Blade Runner 2049 5

q Futuristic sci-fi thriller starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling. Los Angeles blade runner Officer K uncovers a shocking secret that puts him on the trail of Rick Deckard, who has been missing for 30 years. Meanwhile, corporate magnate Niander Wallace seeks the truth about so-called replicant reproduction. On iPlayer for 25 days. Review p47. Director Denis Villeneuve (2017, 15) (S) (AD) (HD)

Shown Saturday 10.20pm BBC One

11.30 Small Town, Big Riot

1/2. Journalist Mobeen Azhar visits Kirkby, Merseyside, to find out how a peaceful protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers turned into a riot in 2023. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.30am 2/2. The investigation reveals that a local man with white supremacist views was campaigning outside the hotel. Both episodes are on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)

1.30 Logan Paul: Bad Influence? (S) (HD) 2.30 Hunting the Rolex Rippers (S) (HD) 3.00—4.00am Asia (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

Vera 8.00pm DCI Stanhope (centre) faces some long-buried memories

6.00am On the Buses (S) 7.05 Classic Emmerdale (S) (AD) 8.05 Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD) 9.10 Inspector Morse: Series 8 The Way through the Woods. A murderer is killed in prison (S) (AD) 11.20 Heartbeat: 13/24 Mike is tempted by romance (S) (AD); 12.25pm 14/24. Mike clashes with a solicitor (S) (AD)

1.30pm Midsomer Murders: Series 15. Written in the Stars. An amateur astronomer is killed. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.35 Classic Emmerdale: Anna is forced to choose between helping Donald or Matthew, then Donna is horrified to learn Shane knows about her flirting with Ross (S) (AD)

4.40pm Classic Coronation Street Mel arrests Teresa after hearing Jerry lambast her for trying to kill him. (S) (AD)

5.15 Maria has a row with Fiz about getting back together with John. (S) (AD)

5.50 Heartbeat

15/24 Series 8. A shocking accusation leaves Maggie reeling. (S) (AD) 6.55 16/24. A pregnant woman fears for the safety of her unborn child. (S) (AD)

8.00 Vera

1/4 Series 2. The Ghost Position. DCI Vera Stanhope is reunited under tragic circumstances with her first ever sergeant, Stuart Macken. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Law & Order: UK 7/7 Series 1. Alesha. Gynaecologist Dr Alec Merrick is accused of sexually assaulting one of his patients. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 1/6 Series 2. Samaritan. A police officer dies with no back-up in the crossfire of armed drug dealers. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.50 Wycliffe

Faith. The detective investigates when a baby is found dead, and suspicion falls on a sect steeped in ancient beliefs. (S) (HD) 1.00am 7/8 Series 3. Last Judgement Wycliffe takes an unorthodox approach when a magistrate is found hanged. (S) 2.05—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)

Art Detectives 9.00pm Shazia and Mick rock up at a Cornwall studio

7.20am The Bill Rptd 11.55am (S) 8.15 Doctors: double bill. Three women become pregnant by the same man, then Vivien waits for the jury to reach a verdict (S) 9.30 Classic Holby City: Connie faces a tough battle (S) 10.50 Casualty: Dylan struggles to treat a homeless alcoholic (S) (AD) (HD) 11.55 The Bill: a Chinese boy’s parents go missing Shown 7.20am (S) 1.00pm Classic EastEnders: double bill. An overjoyed Alfie welcomes Michael into his home, then Alfie’s world is blown apart (S) 2.15 Tenko: 6/10 Series 1. Red Cross parcels reach the camp (S) 3.20 The Doctor Blake Mysteries: 8/8 Series 4. A body is found as people gather to watch the eclipse at Ballarat Observatory (S) (HD) 4.20 Lovejoy: 11/12 Series 2. An acquaintance of Lovejoy’s is sold some fake antiques Rptd 1.40am (S) 5.25 Waiting for God: 4/10 Series 2. Tom is charged with shoplifting (S) 6.00pm Last of the Summer Wine Series 20. Beware the Vanilla Slice. Truly buys an old lawnmower from Auntie. (S) 6.40 Howard Throws a Wobbler Howard hires a surveillance team. (S) 7.20 The Phantom Number 14 Bus Truly investigates the case of a bus that disappeared between stops. (S)

8.00 Father Brown 3/10 Series 8. The Scales of Justice. The sleuthing priest must race to save Bunty from the hangman’s noose. (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Art Detectives

3/6 Series 1. Warped. Mick and Shazia visit Cornwall’s famous Towan Studios. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 New Tricks 4/10 Series 10. The Little Brother. Brian helps Esther’s friend find her brother. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.20 Silent Witness 5/5 Series 13. Home. Harry and Leo help an asylum seeker return to the UK. (S) (AD) 1.40am Lovejoy Shown 4.20pm (S) 2.50—4.00am Harry Wild: 3/8 Series 1. A body is pulled out of the river near Harry’s local pub (S) (SL) (HD)

6.00am Backyard Builds (S) (SL) (HD) 6.25

Deal or No Deal (S) (AD) (HD) 7.25 Dress to Impress (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.25 Billie and Greg: the Family Diaries (S) (HD) 9.25 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 10.25 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (S) (HD) 11.15 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)

12.10pm The Real Housewives of Cheshire (S) (HD) 1.10 Celebrity Catchphrase (S) (AD) (HD) 2.10 The Floor USA (S) (AD) (HD) 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 4.10 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (S) (HD) 5.00 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)

6.00pm Celebrity Catchphrase Emily Atack, Brenda Edwards and Martin Kemp guess the well-known phrases. (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 New. The Floor USA Rob Lowe hosts the American version of the show. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Million Dollar Listing: LA Fredrik puts pressure on James and David. (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Love Island The relationshipbased reality show continues. (S) (HD)

10.05 New. Love Island: the Debrief All the latest drama from inside the Villa. (S) (HD)

10.35 Family Guy Series 1. Brian runs from home but ends up at the pound. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.05 Series 4. Chris runs away to South America in order to avoid school. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.35 American Dad! Series 1. Stan enjoys Saudi Arabia’s male-dominated culture. (S) (AD)

12.05am Stan teaches sex education. (S) (AD)

12.35 Bob’s Burgers (S) (AD) (HD) 1.30 Botched (S) (HD) 2.20—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

6.00am The Protectors (S) (SL) 6.35 Magnum, PI (S) (HD) 8.45 The Saint (S) (SL) (HD) 9.50 Boon (S) 11.00 Isle of Man TT Review (S) (HD) 12 noon The Protectors (S) 12.35pm BattleBots (S) (HD) 1.35 Magnum, PI (S) (HD) 3.45 Boon (S) 4.55 The Sweeney (S) 5.55 Minder (S) (AD) 7.00pm American Pickers A cuddly horse receives an impressive valuation. (S) (HD) 8.00 Ice Road Truckers As temperatures drop to -55°C, Alex takes a risk and picks up a hitch-hiker, and Ray tackles the treacherous Atigun Pass for the third time in a year. (S) (HD) 9.00 FILM Force 10 from Navarone HH Second World War drama starring Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford. Sent on a mission to Yugoslavia to blow up a bridge essential to the German war effort, a crack squad of soldiers is hindered by leaked information, leading to the unit’s leader suspecting that one of them is a double agent. (S) (HD) 11.40 Beat the Chasers Celebrity Special Omid Djalili, Jenny Eclair, Clive Mantle and Paralympian Richard Whitehead face the UK’s brainiest quiz team in a bid to win the prize pot for their chosen charities. (S) (HD) 12.40am New. Berlin Station (S) (HD) 1.35 Hell’s Kitchen (S) (HD) 2.25—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

7.30am Pointless 8.20 Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers (AD) 10.20 Rick Stein’s Cornwall

12.20pm Top Gear (AD) 2.20 Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (AD) 3.00 Turkey with Simon Reeve 4.00 The Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure 5.00 Rick Stein’s Cornwall

6.00pm Rick Stein’s Cornwall The chef follows in the footsteps of Jesus. 6.30 The tale of King Arthur in Tintagel. 7.00 Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer fish the River Tay for salmon. (AD)

7.40 Would I Lie to You? With Jo Brand, Joe Lycett, Joe Swash and Ruth Madeley. 8.20 With guests Les Dennis, Richard Osman, Alice Levine and Lou Sanders. 9.00 QI XL Stephen Fry welcomes Jo Brand, Liza Tarbuck, Sue Perkins and Alan Davies. 10.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You Professor Hannah Fry hosts the quiz. 11.00 Eight out of 10 Cats With Joel Dommett, James Acaster, Joe Swash and Roisin Conaty. 11.50 Mock the Week A special edition of the show with previously unseen material.

12.30am Would

Lie to You?

4.00am Dave Gorman: Modern

Kevin McCloud’s Listed Britain 9.00pm A passion to protect

8.55am Heir Hunters 9.55 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) 10.55 Four in a Bed: five editions 1.35pm Come Dine with Me (AD)

4.15pm Four in a Bed Featuring visits to Cliff House Hotel in Southbourne, Dorset, Hotel Barge Waternimf in Ely, Cambridgeshire, the Montpellier Hotel in Llandrindod Wells, Powys and the Coach and Horses in West Sussex.

6.50 Location, Location, Location Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer visit Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire to offer advice to a first-time buyer and a pair of globetrotters.

7.55 Celebrity PopMaster TV Ken Bruce hosts the quiz, as Toyah Willcox, Richard Blackwood, Sally Lindsay, MistaJam and Kimberly Wyatt test their musical knowledge.

9.00 New. Kevin McCloud’s Listed Britain 5/5. Kevin McCloud explores places created by people who followed an obsession. He climbs the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, and helps to repair the protected dinosaur sculptures at Crystal Palace Park. (AD)

10.00 24 Hours in A&E John is rushed into St George’s with an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Meanwhile, carpenter Noel arrives in A&E after partially amputating his thumb. (AD) 11.05 Paul, 62, is in resus after becoming weak and confused at the neurological hospital where he is a resident. (AD)

12.10am Kevin McCloud’s Listed Britain (AD) 1.15 24 Hours in A&E: double bill (AD) 3.25—3.55am Food Unwrapped: Jimmy Doherty explores why sour milk is hated, but soured cream is loved (AD)

James Dean: the Emotional Man 9.00pm A profile of the actor

6.00am Cirque du Soleil: Varekai: the story of Icarus 8.00 Watercolour Challenge 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.00 Discovering: Matthew McConaughey: a profile of the actor (AD)

12 noon Hugh Grant: Love Language 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (BW) 3.00 Classic Albums

4.00 Discovering: Nicole Kidman (AD)

5.00 Portrait Artist of the Year 2019

6.00pm Tales of the Unexpected An eye transplant has a surprising result. (AD)

6.30 A man feels he is being left out. (AD)

7.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents A man hatches a plan to kill his wife.

7.30 A crime boss gives a new employee an assignment to kill another man.

8.00 Discovering: Tom Hanks A profile of the double Oscar-winning actor. (AD) 9.00 New. James Dean: the Emotional Man A profile of the actor, whose unique contribution has had a lasting influence on the perception of masculinity. Review p91.

10.15 Kate Winslet: a Quest for Authenticity Examining the ways the actor is defying the Hollywood cliché of the young romantic heroine. 11.30 The Directors A look at the career of English director Stephen Frears. (AD)

12.30am FILM Midnight Movies: from the Margins to the Mainstream HHH 2.30 Douglas Adams: the Man Who Imagined Our Future (AD) 4.00 The Sky Arts Book Club Summer Reads Special 5.00—6.00am Hugh Grant: Love Language

Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics 8.00m An Austin A35

6.10am Speed with Guy Martin 8.00 Bangers and Cash (AD) 10.00 The World at War: how France fell to the Nazis 11.00 Secret Nazi Bases 12 noon Vintage Antiques Roadshow 2.00pm Bangers and Cash (AD) 4.00 The World at War 5.00 Secret Nazi Bases

6.00pm Vintage Antiques Roadshow The experts value artefacts at Brighton College.

7.00 Canal Boat Diaries Robbie Cumming discovers a message in a bottle. (AD) 8.00 New. Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics 6/6 Series 8. The team takes on one of Derek’s favourites — an Austin A35. (AD) 9.00 Bangers and Cash Dave travels to Bedale to extract a barn find — a 1984 Manta GTE. (AD) 10.00 A rusty 1970 Fiat 500 goes under the hammer — and Derek reckons it’s the kind of vehicle that has to be saved. (AD) 11.00 Tucked away in the showroom is an original condition WW2-era Willys Jeep. (AD)

12 midnight There’s a surprise for Derek in Hull — an MGSA sports car. (AD)

1.00am Find It, Fix It, Flog It: a child’s motorbike

2.00—3.00am Speed with Guy Martin

6.00am Modern Family (AD) 6.50 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.00 Couples Come Dine with Me 8.00 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell (SL) (AD) 9.00 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell (AD) 10.00 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD) 11.00 Modern Family (AD) 12 noon The Simpsons: four episodes (AD) 2.00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 3.00 Modern Family (AD) 5.00 The Simpsons (AD) 6.00pm The Simpsons Series 27. The Kwik-E -Mart is turned into a health-food store. (AD) 6.30 Professor Frink plays matchmaker. (AD) 7.00 Series 15. Bart and Lisa are disappointed by the latest Cosmic Wars film. (AD) 7.30 Series 24. Lisa adds insects to her diet. (AD) 8.00 New. Below Deck: Mediterranean A guest wants to go for a late-night swim. (AD) 9.00 Gogglebox Sex Education and Blankety Blank are critiqued. From September 2023. (AD) 10.00 Opinions on Coronation Street. (AD) 11.05 Naked Attraction A pansexual opera singer is looking for a man as tall as she is. (AD) 12.10am Dating Naked UK (AD) 1.10 Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 2.15 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD)

3.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL)

3.50 The Goldbergs: double bill (AD)

4.40—6.00am Don’t Tell the Bride: Revisited

9.00am Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country (AD) 10.00 Narrow Escapes (AD) 11.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses 12 noon A Place in the Sun 3.00pm Château DIY: Australia 4.00 A Place in the Sun 4.30 Come Dine with Me

7.00pm George Clarke’s Beautiful Builds Ep 2 Series 2. In Woodford Green, widower Shaz wants to preserve her husband’s memories. (AD)

8.00 Location, Location, Location Ep 6 Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer catch up with two couples, one in Edinburgh and one in Derbyshire. Shown yesterday 8pm Channel 4

9.00 FILM Bohemian Rhapsody HHH

Biographical music drama starring Rami Malek. Farrokh Bulsara convinces Brian May and Roger Taylor to give him a shot in their rock group. Review p47. (AD) Shown Saturday 9pm C4 11.45 FILM All of Us Strangers 5

Romantic fantasy drama starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal. Lonely screenwriter Adam revisits his childhood home, where he has a surreal encounter: his parents, who died decades ago, appear to still be living there. Review p67. Shown Monday 10pm C4

1.50am Britain’s Most Expensive Houses (AD) 2.50 Gogglebox: shows including The Guest. From 2025 (AD) 3.55—4.50am Celebrity Gogglebox (AD)

6.00am Salvage Hunters: the Restorers

7.00 Salvage Hunters 9.00 Aussie Gold Hunters 11.00 Outback Opal Hunters

1.00pm Wheeler Dealers 2.00 Shed and Buried 4.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.00 The Yorkshire Auction House: double bill (AD) 7.00pm Antiques Road Trip Philip Serrell and Stephanie Connell embark on the penultimate leg of their journey.

8.00 Massive Engineering Mistakes The devastating effects of engineering disasters. 9.00 New series. In the Eye of the Storm First-hand accounts of storms, including a tornado tearing through the US Midwest.

10.00 The Repair Shop Stringed-instrument expert Becky Loughton restores a fragile violin. 11.00 How Do They Do It? A look at how the amazing, and massive, decorations on Mardi Gras carnival floats are created. 11.30 Examining how the world’s most expensive tea is harvested and treated. 12 midnight How Do They Do It? 1.00am Wheeler Dealers (AD) 3.00 Shed and Buried 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made

9.00am Entertainment News 9.10 NCIS

12 noon Law & Order 12.55pm Entertainment News 1.00 Law & Order 2.55 Entertainment News 3.00 Law & Order 5.55 Entertainment News 6.00 NCIS: triple bill 9.00 New. Blue Bloods Series 11. Frank deals with a police captain who is losing his grip over his precinct First shown on Sky Witness 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Series 10. Four episodes. A suspected serial killer is on the loose 11.00 A woman reports the disappearance of her granddaughter 11.55 A teenager is found burned to death 12.50am Saliva from a tiger is discovered on a murdered model 1.45 Bull: two episodes 3.35—4.00am Cops

6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Shopping 8.00 Escape to the Country

9.00am Deal or No Deal (SL) (AD) 10.00 Tipping Point 1.00pm Lingo 2.00 Tenable: five colleagues who work for the police take part

3.00 The Celebrity Chase 4.00 Riddiculous

5.00 Deal or No Deal (AD) 6.00 Lingo 9.00

The Celebrity Chase 10.05 Tipping Point 12.55am Tenable 1.50 Riddiculous: quiz hosted by Ranvir Singh 2.45—3.00am Unwind

7.00am Motorway Patrol 8.00 Border Security: America’s Front Line 9.00 Nothing to Declare 11.00 Highway Patrol 12 noon Border Security: America’s Front Line (AD) 1.00pm Border Patrol 2.00 Nothing to Declare 4.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 5.00 Stargate SG-1 6.00 Stargate Atlantis 7.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation 8.00 Star Trek: Voyager 9.00 New series. The Essex Murders: double bill. The killing of three criminals known as the Essex Boys, then questions remain about the convictions of Michael Steele and Jack Whomes Both episodes first shown on Sky Documentaries (AD) 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise: a telepath offers to help find the Xindi 12 midnight Warehouse 13: the team tries to turn back time and save the Warehouse 1.00am Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 2.00 Road Wars 3.00 Highway Patrol 4.00 Border Patrol: two episodes 5.00—6.00am Highway Cops: double bill

8.00am Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (AD)

10.00 Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back! 11.00 Traffic Cops 2.00pm Police Interceptors 5.00 Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up 6.00pm Home and Away Lacey snaps at John. Shown yesterday 6.30pm (AD) 6.30 New. Sonny wants to fast-track his recovery. Repeated tomorrow 6pm (AD) 7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors Dr Aftab Arif is faced with a very angry patient. (AD) 8.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts

9.00 New. A&E after Dark Ep 7 Series 7. An aggressive patient is restrained by police. 10.00 Ambulance: Code Red A critical care practitioner is dispatched to a stabbing. (AD) 11.00 Skin A&E The clinic opens its doors. 12 midnight Babies 24/7: the Maternity Ward 1.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors (AD) 2.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts 2.45 Skin A&E 3.35—4.00am Friends (AD)

9.00am Trucking Hell 9.20 Traffic Cops

10.20 Police Interceptors: two episodes

12.15pm FILM Red Sundown HHH Western starring Rory Calhoun and Martha Hyer. Review page 97 2.00 FILM The Proud Ones HHH Western starring Robert Ryan. Review p97 4.00 Trucking Hell (AD) 5.00 Traffic Cops 6.00pm Police Interceptors Dan Brigginshaw tracks down a driver who has given him the slip on the side roads of Spalding. (AD) 7.00 The dog unit embarks the hunt for an armed man who is roaming Lincoln. (AD) 8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders Sgt Dave Roberts races to a serious crash between a car and a cyclist. 9.00 New. Rookie Truckers Yogi takes rookie driver Sehaj under his wing — a newcomer from India learning about heavy trucking and heavy prejudice first hand. (AD) 10.00 Ice Road Truckers Polar rookie Steph Custance embarks on her first solo trip. 11.00 The X-Files An author writing a book on UFOs interviews Scully about a case. 12 midnight Seconds from Death: Caught on Camera (AD) 1.00am Outback Truckers (AD) 2.00 Trucking Hell: double bill (AD) 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

9.00am The Yorkshire Vet (AD) 10.00 Yorkshire Great and Small with Dan and Helen 11.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 1.00pm Murder, She Wrote (AD) 3.00 Columbo (AD) 5.00 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys 6.00pm Drain the Oceans How Mexican cartels have smuggled cocaine into the US. 7.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild A Brit in Cambodia raising his own castaway tribe. 8.00 Ben visits the Ozark National Forest. 9.00 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

10.00 The Good Ship Murder Jack and Kate are drawn into the murder of a vineyard owner. (AD)

11.00 A party’s host is found murdered. (AD)

12 midnight Wentworth: the Final Sentence (AD) 1.00am The Yorkshire Vet (AD) 2.00 Yorkshire Great and Small with Dan and Helen 3.00 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

5.35am Paw Patrol 5.50 Mixmups 6.00 Peppa Pig 6.10 Tweedy & Fluff 6.15 Odo

6.20 Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! 6.35 Fireman Sam 6.45 Peppa Pig 6.50 Pip and Posy 6.55 Paw Patrol 7.10 Move It Milkshakers! 7.20

Rubble & Crew 7.30 Peppa Pig 7.45 Tim Rex in Space 7.55 New. Stan & Gran

8.15 Paw Patrol 8.25 The Adventures of Paddington 8.40 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 8.50 Kangaroo Beach 9.00 Peppa Pig 9.05—9.15am Story Den

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CBeebies 202

6.00am Roots and Fruits 6.05 Bing 6.15 Teletubbies 6.30 Tee and Mo 6.35 Supertato 6.45 Bing 6.50 Mojo Swoptops 7.05 Hey Duggee’s Squirrel Club 7.10 Hey Duggee 7.20 Bluey 7.35

Go Jetters 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.00 Octonauts 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20 Alphablocks 8.25 Piripenguins 8.35 New. Playtime Towers 9.00 Bing 9.05 Yakka Dee! 9.10 Lu and the Bally Bunch

9.20 Kiri & Lou 9.25 New. Froglets 9.30 Twirlywoos 9.45 Something Special: We’re All Friends 10.05 Small Potatoes

10.10 Teletubbies 10.20 The Baby Club 10.35 New. Tiny Tunes: Lisa and the children plant flowers and sign and sing Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary 10.45 What’s in Your Plant Pot? 10.55 New. Hamza

Loves Animals: Africa: Hamza follows rhinos 11.05 Vegesaurs 11.10 Bluey 11.20

Hey Duggee 11.25 Colourblocks 11.30 Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.45 Our Family

12 noon My World Kitchen 12.10pm Maddie’s Do You Know? 12.25 Dog

Squad 12.35 Aneeshwar and Lizzie Go

Wild 12.40 Waffle the Wonder Dog

1.00 Puffin Rock 1.05 Small Potatoes

1.10 Yukee 1.20 Maddie & Triggs 1.25 Hey Duggee 1.35 Numberblocks 1.40 Alphablocks 1.45 Something Special

2.10 Teletubbies 2.20 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures 2.35 Football Fantastics

2.50 Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.05 Waffle’s After School Club 3.20 Our Family 3.25 Octonauts: above and Beyond 3.35 Peter Rabbit 3.45 Hey Duggee 3.55 Vida the Vet 4.05 Supertato

4.15 The Weasy Family 4.20 Mojo Swoptops 4.35 Bluey 4.50 New. Zog

5.00 Andy’s Dino Island 5.15 Waffle the Wonder Dog 5.30 Rafi the Wishing Wizard 5.35 JoJo & Gran Gran 5.50 Sarah & Duck 5.55 Clangers

6.10pm BeddyByes 6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm CBeebies

Bedtime Stories: Vernon Kay reads Hip and Hop: You Can Do Anything CBeebies Freeview 202 Freely 352 Freesat 601 Sky 608 Virgin 702

CBBC 201

7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.10 Danger Mouse 7.20 Super Happy Magic Forest

7.35 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45 New. Newsround 7.55 Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 OOglies 8.15 Duck & Frog 8.35 Odd Squad 8.45 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 9.00 Bitesize Daily: 5-6 Year Olds 9.20 One Zoo Three 9.40 Go Get Arty 10.00 Art Ninja 10.25 Absolute Genius with Dick & Dom 10.55 Horrible Histories 11.25 Deadly 60 11.55 Operation Ouch! 12.25pm Stage Stars 12.50

FREEVIEW & FILMS

The New Statesman

9.00pm Rewind TV Alan

6.10am MasterChef Australia 7.00

Tipping Point 10.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build 1.00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 3.00 Tipping Point 4.00 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick

6.00pm DIY SOS: the Big Build Nick Knowles and the builders transform a family home in Bury.

7.00 Nick Knowles and the team make over a house in Cumbria.

8.00 Pete Wicks: for Dogs’ Sake Pete meets some newborn pups fighting to survive. (AD)

9.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build The team adapts the home of a stroke survivor in Warrington, Cheshire.

10.00 The experts renovate the home of a man partially paralysed following an accident.

11.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Comedian Lucy Porter and Chaser Jenny Ryan visit antique shops in south Wales.

12 midnight Gareth Malone and YolanDa Brown hunt for items in Edinburgh and Fife.

1.00am Absolutely Fabulous (AD) 1.30—3.00am Miranda (AD)

6.00am Nigella Bites (AD) 7.00 Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking 8.00 The Pioneer Woman 9.00 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals 10.00 Be My Guest with Ina Garten 11.00 The Great British Bake Off 12.30pm Rachel Allen: Bake! 1.00 James Martin’s Great British Adventure 3.00 Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking 4.00 The Pioneer Woman 5.00 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals 6.00 New. Be My Guest with Ina Garten: double bill. Michael Barbaro, then Hoda Kotb join Ina at the barn 7.00 The Great British Bake Off 8.30 Rachel Allen: Bake! 9.00 James Martin’s Great British Adventure: double bill. The chef visits the Goodwood Revival, then is joined by chef Mark Sargeant in Kent 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: double bill. Home-made Italian food in East Boston, then a pub that serves fried empanadas in Philadelphia

12 midnight Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives 1.00am Man v Food (AD) 2.00—3.00am Cake Boss

8.00am Full Steam Ahead 9.30 The Civil War’s Lost Massacre 10.45 New. Constantine the Great 11.55 China: Treasures of the Jade Empire 1.00pm Full Steam Ahead 2.30 The Civil War’s Lost Massacre 3.50 Constantine the Great 4.55 China: Treasures of the Jade Empire 6.00pm Full Steam Ahead 4/6 A trip on the Flying Scotsman 7.15 The Civil War’s Lost Massacre Searching for remains of murdered Black Union soldiers.

8.35 Constantine the Great 2/2 The concluding episode follows the emperor to the new Rome.

9.40 China: Treasures of the Jade Empire Exploring the tombs of China’s greatest dynasty.

10.45 The Civil War’s Lost Massacre As 7.15pm.

12 midnight Constantine the Great 1.10—2.00am Weathered: Earth’s Extremes: the impact of droughts

8.10am An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: the Disappearing Game 10.05 In Plain Sight 11.05 Castle 12.05pm An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: Reap What You Sew 2.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Murder, She Wrote: double bill 6.00pm Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye Sue tries to prove the innocence of a man jailed as a murderer 20 years earlier. 7.00 Castle Beckett and Castle investigate the death of a psychic. 8.00 Unforgettable The team is called to investigate when a college student is murdered. 9.00 In Plain Sight A body is discovered in a charred car. 10.00 An Emma Fielding Mystery: Past Malice The archaeologist is hired to consult on the acquisition of an estate that legend states is cursed. 11.55 An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: Heist and Seek The librarian and her friends investigate the theft of a priceless crown. 1.50am Driven Off the Rails HH An intriguing thriller. Hannah Barefoot (2017) 3.15—4.50am Dying for a Baby HH An expectant couple is targeted by a woman who lost her baby. (2019)

6.00am Rewind Time Machine 6.05 The Tony Hancock Show 6.35 Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (BW) 7.00 Danger Man (BW) 8.00 Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country 8.30 The Lovers 9.00 Bubblegum and Cheese 10.00 Doctor at Large 10.30

Two’s Company 11.00 The Fenn Street Gang 11.30 Agony 12 noon Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 1.00pm The Lovers 1.30 The Dustbinmen 2.00 The Champions 3.00 Rewind Time Machine 3.05 Hank the Cowboy 3.20 Rewind Time Machine 3.25 Boon 4.30 Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country 5.00 Stereo Underground 6.00 The Dustbinmen 6.30 Only When I Laugh 7.00 Two’s Company 7.30 Doctor at Large 8.00 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 9.00 The New Statesman 10.00 London in the Raw 11.30 FILM Blood for Dracula HHH 1.35am Stereo Underground 2.35 The Champions 3.30 The New Statesman 4.30 Stereo Underground 5.30—6.00am Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country

8.00am The Waltons 9.00 Highway to Heaven 11.00 Little House on the Prairie 1.00pm The Waltons 4.00 Little House on the Prairie 6.00

Ballykissangel: Brendan and Siobhan secretly tie the knot 7.00

M*A*S*H: four episodes. Internal security targets Frank 7.30 A batty general mistakes Klinger for his wife 8.00 Frank jeopardises delicate negotiations 8.30 Frank bullies Hawkeye into a new role 9.00 FILM

A Passage to India 5 Period drama directed by David Lean and starring Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee and Peggy Ashcroft. Review, right 12.20am M*A*S*H 2.25 Air Rescue 3.00—4.50am Highway to Heaven

7.00am Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage 8.00 Young Sheldon 10.00 The Big Bang Theory 2.00pm Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage 3.00 Young Sheldon 5.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 7.00 The Big Bang Theory: four episodes. Leonard argues with Penny (AD) 7.30 Kripke plays a prank on Sheldon 8.00 Bernadette takes an interest in physics (AD) 8.30 Leonard’s mother visits 9.00 FILM Cast Away HHH Adventure drama starring Tom Hank. Chuck is looking forward to Christmas with his girlfriend, but is sent abroad at the last minute. When his plane crashes, Chuck is stranded 12 midnight Mike & Molly 1.00am Dr Pimple Popper 2.00 My 600lb Life 4.00—6.00am Curvy Brides Boutique (AD)

9.00am The World at War 5.00pm Top of the Pops 1989 7.05 Top of the Pops 1990: Phil Collins and Yell! 7.55 The Wedding Present and Black Box 8.35 Bros and Marc Almond 9.15 Candy Flip and Jam Tronik 9.55 Adamski 10.30 Double Trouble and Massivo featuring Tracy 11.15 Inspiral Carpets and Dream Warriors 11.55 Hothouse Flowers and Tricky Disco 12.35am Top of the Pops 1990 3.10—6.00am Top of the Pops 1991

8.05am Rising Damp 8.40 Duty Free 9.10 Upstairs, Downstairs 10.15 Bread 10.55 Steptoe and Son (BW) 11.30 Oh, Doctor Beeching! 12.05pm Rising Damp 12.35 Man about the House 1.05 Goodnight Sweetheart 1.45 When the Boat Comes In 2.45 Minder 3.50 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 4.25 Man about the House 4.55 Bread 5.30 Birds of a Feather 6.10 Rising Damp 6.40 Steptoe and Son (BW) 7.15 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 7.55 Minder 9.00 Benidorm 10.00 Shameless 10.55 Man about the House 11.30 Mind Your Language 12 midnight Benidorm 12.55am Minder: Arthur suffers depression 2.00 Duty Free 2.25 Man about the House 2.50 Kenny Everett Video Cassette 3.15 That’s 60s: Best Music Live! 4.00—5.00am Nearest and Dearest

6.00am Dickinson’s Real Deal 6.45 Pawn Stars 7.30 Money for Nothing 8.25 Junk & Disorderly 9.20 Hardcore Pawn 1.05 Pawn Stars 2.05 Junk and Disorderly 3.05 Money for Nothing 4.00 Ancient Aliens 5.00 UFO Conspiracies 6.00 Storage Wars Canada 7.00 Money for Nothing 8.00 Real Deal 9.00 New. UFO Chronicles 10.00 UFO POV 11.00 World’s Most Unexplained 12 midnight Curse of Skinwalker Ranch 1.00am UFO Conspiracies 2.00 The Proof Is Out There 3.00 as 8.30am 3.45 Hardcore Pawn 5.00—6.00am Real Deal

9.10am Bad Man’s River HH Starry, though sadly underplayed, comedy western. Lee Van Cleef (1971, 12) 11.10 Wanted: Dead or Alive 11.40 The High Chaparral 1.40pm Run Silent Run Deep HHHH Tense, brilliantly directed submarine drama with Clark Gable as the commander who wants revenge. (1958, U) 3.40 Jet Stream HH The jet stream threatens global catastrophe, in this hokey thriller. David Chokachi (2013, 12) 5.35pm Beyond the Law H Three men take justice into their own hands in this run-of-the mill revenge thriller. Steven Seagal, Johnny Messner, DMX (2019, 15) 7.30 No Man’s Land HH Slow-moving modern western set on the US-Mexican border. Jake Allyn (2020, 12) 10.00 The Expendables 2 HHH Old action stars deliver nonstop mayhem in this entertaining sequel. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham (2012, 15) 12.15am Transporter: Refuelled HH Ed Skrein takes over from Jason Statham as the driver for hire in this assured reboot. See review p67. (2015, 15) 2.20 Dragon Ball Super 3.20 Coast Guard Alaska 4.50—5.40am Air Rescue

7.00am The Chase 9.00 Tenable 10.00 Bidding Room 11.00 Real Deal 12 noon Crystal Maze (AD) 1.00pm Supermarket Sweep 2.00 The Chase (AD) 3.00 Catchphrase 4.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (AD) 5.00 Bidding Room 6.00 Tenable 7.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 8.00 The Chase (AD) 10.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 11.00 Bullseye (AD) 12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (AD) 1.00am The Chase 4.00—6.00am Bullseye

7.00am Scotland Office Questions 7.30 Prime Minister’s Questions 8.05 House of Commons 9.30 Live Transport Questions 10.30 Live Commons Business Questions 11.30 Live House of Commons 5.30pm Scottish First Minister’s Questions 6.00 Lords Questions 6.45 House of Lords 2.00am Transport Questions 3.00 Commons Business Questions 4.00—6.00am House of Commons

8.15am Christmas in My Heart HH Festive heart-warmer. Heather Hemmens (2021) 10.15 The Mistletoe Promise HH Fluffy tale. Jaime King (2016) 12.10pm Christmas Wedding Planner HH Romance. (2017) 2.00 A Christmas Love Story HH Cheesy holiday romance. (2019) 3.55 Christmas by the Book HH Romantic comedy. (2022) 5.45 Swept Up by Christmas HH A mansion’s sale has a deadline in this romance following two stubborn professionals. (2020) 7.35pm Christmas Catch HH

A cop’s head is turned by a handsome thief in this fun romcom. (2018) 9.30 Road to Christmas HH A TV producer plans to reunite her show’s host with her three adopted sons. Jessy Schram, Teryl Rothery (2018) 11.35 A Chance for Christmas HH Festive romance about mismatched professionals learning to value their life when they’re stuck in a timeloop. (2021) 1.45am Highway to Heaven 3.00—4.50am As 2pm.

6.40am Gabby’s Dollhouse: the Movie HHH Cute children’s adventure. Laila Lockhart Kraner (2025, U) 8.25 The Internship HH Ropey action flick. Lizzie Greene (2026, 15) 10.15 The Bride! HHH Bold if uneven riff on the Frankenstein legend. Jessie Buckley (2025, 15) 12.25pm As 8pm 2.15 As 9.40pm 4.05 Sisu: Road to Revenge HHH Inventive wartime action sequel. Jorma Tommila (2025, 15) 5.45pm The Running Man HHH Big-budget remake of the Stephen King story. Glen Powell, Josh Brolin (2025, 15) 8.00 Fuze HHH Effectively twisty thriller. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (2025, 15) 9.40 Dead Man’s Wire HHHH Gripping based-on-fact kidnap drama. Review p34 Bill Skarsgård (2025, 15) 11.35 One Last Deal HHH Singleroom, real-time drama about a sports agent fielding a crisis. Danny Dyer (2026, 18) 1.10am We Bury the Dead HHH Blend of apocalypse drama and zombie thriller. Daisy Ridley (2024, 15) 2.50 The Plague HHH Powerful and unsettling coming-of-age drama. Everett Blunck (2025, 15) 4.35—6.00am Tafiti — across the Desert HH Familiar animated adventure. Cosima Henman (2025, PG)

11.00am All That Heaven Allows

HHHH Sumptuously photographed melodrama about the May-December romance between a gardener and a widow. Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson (1955, U) (S)

12.45pm Decision at Sundown HH Budd Boetticher’s verbose western. Randolph Scott (1957, PG) (S)

2.20 Send Me No Flowers HHHH

Sophisticated black comedy with Rock Hudson as a hypochondriac who is convinced that he is dying and so tries to find a new husband for his wife, Doris Day. (1964, U) (S)

4.25 The Last Wagon HHHH

The use of landscape is exemplary in this sweeping western, as Richard Widmark escorts wagon train survivors through hostile Apache territory. Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr (1956, 12) (S)

6.25pm Battleship HHH

Bonkers alien-invasion tale loosely based on the Hasbro game. Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Liam Neeson (2012, 12) (S)

9.00 Alice, Darling HHH

Sensitive drama about a woman caught in an unhealthy relationship. Review, right. Anna Kendrick (2022, 15) (S)

10.45 Ex Machina HHHH

Strange and consistently thought-provoking sci-fi thriller. Review, right. Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander (2014, 15) (S) (AD)

8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger

9.00 TJ Hooker 10.00 Babylon 5 11.00 Asteroid vs Earth H Enjoyably daft sci-fi disaster thriller. Tia Carrere, Robert Davi (2014) 1.00pm The Poseidon Adventure

4.30 The Twilight Zone 5.00 Star Trek

6.00pm The Six Million Dollar Man Steve battles another bionic man.

7.00 Babylon 5 Sinclair steps in when an exotic dancer steals secret files.

8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger The Rangers unearth criminals at a Medieval-themed restaurant.

9.00 American Made HHH Amusing biopic about a pilot who finds himself working for the CIA and Mexican drugs cartels. Tom Cruise (2017, 15) 11.25 Rambo HH Sylvester Stallone’s gung-ho hero dons the bandanna for a fourth time in this lean but chaotic action-fest. Julie Benz, Paul Schulze (2007, 18) 1.20am In the Line of Duty HH Uneven but rather fun race-againsttime thriller. Aaron Eckhart, Courtney Eaton, Ben McKenzie (2019, 15) 3.15—5.00am Beyond Suspicion HH Uninspiring thriller in which a former cop uncovers conspiracy in high places. (2018, 15)

12.55—3.00am Boss Level HHHH

Former special forces operative Frank Grillo is doomed to repeatedly relive the day of his own murder. (2020, 15) (S)

9.00am Boot Hill HH Quirky spaghetti western. Terence Hill, Bud Spencer (1969, PG) 11.00 Andromeda 12 noon 40 Days and Nights H Noah’s flood is the vague inspiration for this foundering disaster movie mishmash from “mockbuster” kings The Asylum. Monica Keena (2012) 2.00pm Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger 5.00 Time without Pity HHH Provocative thriller. Review p107. Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd (1957, PG) 7.00pm Andromeda Dylan and the crew find an ancient species.

8.00 The A-Team The gang targets a group of corrupt police officers.

9.00 A Certain Justice HH Uninspired action showcase for martial arts star Cung Le, pitted against Dolph Lundgren’s crime lord. (2014, 15) 11.00 Hitmen HH Knockabout action thriller about a couple who are hounded by assassins after killing a wealthy man’s grandson. (2023, 15) 1.25am As 9pm 3.20 As 5pm 5.00—6.00am Andromeda

6.00am Black Saddle TV western.

6.30 Life in Emergency Ward 10 H Disappointing spin-off from the ITV medical soap opera. Michael Craig (1959, U) (S) 8.25 The Durant Affair HHH

Absorbing legal drama. Jane Griffiths, Conrad Phillips (1962, U) (S) 9.45 Paul Temple’s Triumph HH Splendidly hammy crime caper. John Bentley (1950, U) (S) 11.30

Star Performance: To Kill a Man Drama anthology series. (S) 12 noon

Sergeant Cork TV drama. (S) 1.05pm The Adventures of Sir Lancelot TV adventure. (S) 1.35 Seance on a Wet Afternoon HHH Kim Stanley gives a compelling performance as an unbalanced medium in this engrossing and imaginative drama. (1964, PG) (S)

3.55 Blackout HH Strictly by-thenumbers thriller about a counterfeiting ring. Maxwell Reed (1950, PG) (S) 5.20 Railway Murders TV documentary. 6.20pm Strange But True Investigating the events of a UFO incident in Kaikoura, New Zealand. (S) 6.55 The Brothers Ann encourages Brian to take charge in the firm. (S) 8.00 Mark Saber The detective investigates a murder. (S) 8.30 The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club With rock ‘n’ roll legend Bill Haley. (S) 9.20 Adventures of a Private Eye H Smutty, formulaic romp featuring the likes of Harry H Corbett, Irene Handl and Diana Dors. (1977, 18) (S) 11.15 Scandal HHH A capable cast and evocative period detail hold the interest in this account of the Profumo affair. Review, right. John Hurt, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Bridget Fonda (1988, 18) (S) 1.35am Doomwatch TV drama. (S) 2.35 The Blue Parrot HH Routine crime drama starring Dermot Walsh as an American cop who tackles a murder case while on secondment to Scotland Yard. (1953, PG) (S) 4.00 Burke’s Law TV drama. 5.00—6.00am Danger UXB TV drama.

THURSDAY

FILM REVIEWS

Unforgiven 5 9.00-11.05pm BBC Four j

WESTERN Winner of four Oscars, including best picture and best director, Clint Eastwood’s movie is one of the finest films made in its genre. Never shrinking from the harsh realities of frontier life, he depicts an unforgiving era that is about to pass into legend. Eastwood gives an exemplary performance as world-weary William Munny, who’s forced to strap on the six-shooters one last time to feed his children. The support playing is also top notch, with Morgan Freeman as Munny’s former partner, Richard Harris as a vain English killer and an Oscar-winning Gene Hackman as the vicious sheriff.

DAVID PARKINSON (US 1992, violence, swearing, HD)

Red Sundown HHH

12.15-2.00pm 5 Action y WESTERN A terrific Universal co-feature, this movie stars the excellent Rory Calhoun as a former gunslinger up against an evil cattle baron. It’s not terribly original but it’s given zest by director Jack Arnold and produced by Albert Zugsmith of Touch of Evil fame. Martha Hyer gives a fine performance as a frontier woman, and veterans Dean Jagger and Robert Middleton lend supporting class. TONY SLOMAN (US 1956, HD)

Bo66y HHHH

2.00-4.00pm Sky Documentaries g

DOCUMENTARY The stars of the football world come out for this affectionate portrait of Bobby Moore, from his zenith as England’s World Cup-winning captain to his untimely death, aged just 51. Vibrant archive from the 1966 tournament hammers home just what Moore and his teammates achieved in this fitting tribute to a sporting icon. VICTORIA LUXFORD (UK 2016, col/BW, HD)

The Proud Ones HHH

2.00-4.00pm 5 Action y WESTERN Robert Ryan, so good at playing bad, is in heroic mode for a change in this minor-league western. He plays a sheriff, hampered by disability but psyching

Cast Away HHH

9.00pm-12 midnight TLC h

ADVENTURE Tom Hanks stars in this near-one-man show from Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump). The plane crash that strands Hanks’s Federal Express agent on an uninhabited South Sea island is authentically realised, and his subsequent predicament makes for riveting viewing, as he strives to survive. It’s only a shame the film unravels in its later stages.

ANDREW COLLINS (US 2000, swearing, HD)

Ex Machina HHHH 10.45pm-12.55am Film4 j

SCI-FI THRILLER In 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland’s directorial debut, computer programmer Domhnall Gleeson spends a week with the reclusive creator (Oscar Isaac) of the world’s top search engine. There, he tests an advanced AI (Alicia Vikander) to see whether it has consciousness. Garland’s compelling film satisfyingly questions what it is to be human. EMMA SIMMONDS (UK/US 2014, violence, swearing, HD)

himself up for a showdown with a bunch of outlaws. Ryan’s vulnerability is as credible as his courage, and his performance raises this movie above the norm. TOM HUTCHINSON (US 1956, HD)

Alice, Darling HHH

9.00-10.45pm Film4 j

PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA

Anna Kendrick leads this sensitive film as a woman whose friends (Kaniehtiio Horn and Wunmi Mosaku, recent Bafta winner for Sinners) intervene when it becomes apparent that her boyfriend isn’t all he seems. Screenwriter Alanna Francis sticks to believable, low-key situations, building a portrait that proves both instructive and compelling. CALUM BAKER (Can/US 2022, swearing, sex scenes, upsetting content, HD)

A Passage to India

5 9.00pm-12.20am Great TV g

PERIOD DRAMA Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, David Lean’s final feature showed the 75-year-old director’s powers hadn’t waned. His lusciously photographed epic, based on EM Forster’s novel, strips away the sheen of Raj life, as a young woman (Judy Davis) accuses a local doctor of attempted rape, which fractures the fragile relationship between the city’s British elite and its native people. DP (UK 1984, violence)

Scandal HHH 11.15pm-1.35am

Talking Pictures TV z

FACT-BASED DRAMA

Michael Caton-Jones’s movie is a straightforward but wellplayed reconstruction of the Profumo affair, a scandal that contributed to the downfall of the Tory government in 1964. Joanne Whalley-Kilmer makes a fine Christine Keeler and John Hurt a suitably shallow Stephen Ward, but Bridget Fonda steals the show as Mandy Rice-Davies. ALAN JONES (UK 1988, violence, swearing, sex scenes, nudity)

All of Us Strangers

5

11.45pm-1.50am 4seven j

See review p67. (UK/US 2023, swearing, sex scenes, drug abuse, HD)

The Heart of Me HHH

12 midnight-1.35am

BBC Two j

ROMANTIC DRAMA Paul Bettany, Olivia Williams and Helena Bonham Carter make an engaging ménage à trois in this bittersweet period tale of adultery and redemption. Based on Rosamond Lehmann’s novel, the plot sees two sisters falling for the charms of the same man, and while the script is a little slipshod, the movie remains affectingly romantic, helped by Nicholas Hooper’s original score. TH (UK 2002, some violence, nudity, HD)

From 9.00pm Boyd wants to test a dangerous theory

6.00am Mornings 8.00 Stargate

SG-1 9.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 10.00 Will & Grace (AD) 11.00 The Simpsons

12 noon Wildlife ER 1.00pm Hawaii

Five-0 2.00 NCIS: Los Angeles

3.00 S.W.A.T. (AD) 5.00 The Simpsons

6.00pm The Ofice US 18/25 Series 9. The employees get hold of promos for the documentary.

6.30 19/25. Dwight shoots Stanley with a bull tranquilliser after he refuses to go on a sales call.

7.00 The Simpsons Love blossoms after Ned Flanders saves Mrs Krabappel from mortal danger.

7.30 Mr Burns puts on a variety show at the Springfield Bowl.

8.00 Shark with Steve Backshall

2/3. Steve Backshall learns about the sharks of the Indian Ocean, which face threats from climate change, pollution and overfishing. (AD)

9.00 From 7/10 Series 4. As Tabitha and Jade’s history is brought to light, things begin to unravel for another resident in town. (AD)

10.00 Evil 3/10 Series 3. Sister Andrea joins the team to fix a demonically possessed marriage.

11.00 Bear Grylls Is Running Wild 6/8 Series 9. Bear and Elizabeth Banks navigate the challenges posed by a melting glacier.

12 midnight Grimm 1.00am The Walking Dead 2.00 Road Wars

3.00 Hawaii Five-0 4.00—6.00am

S.W.A.T.: two episodes (AD)

6.00am Most Haunted 8.00 Home

Shopping 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise

12 noon Star Trek: Voyager 1.00pm Stargate Atlantis 2.00 Primeval 4.00 Stargate SG-1 5.00 Star Trek: Voyager

6.00pm Star Trek: Enterprise

1/26 Series 2. Captain Archer is trapped in the 31st century.

7.00 Stargate Atlantis 7/20 Series 2 Beckett creates a potion designed to convert Wraiths back to human form.

8.00 Stargate SG-1 6/22 Series 6 Colonel O’Neill is captured by the Goa’uld and tortured to the brink of death by Ba’al the System Lord.

9.00 Grimm 5/22 Series 4. Juliette learns she is the key to restoring Nick’s powers, while Trubel is warned of a threat to her mentor’s life.

10.00 The Walking Dead 4/16 Series 5. Beth wakes up in a hospital, but it soon becomes apparent those working there may not have her best interests at heart.

11.00 Britannia 5/8 Series 3. Cait, Divis, Antedia, Ania and Phelan strike a deal with Hella, who is paid to reveal where Lucius can be found. (AD) 12 midnight 6/8. Cait and Divis harness the power of Big Pebble in their search for the traitor. (AD)

1.00am Primeval 2.00 The Walking Dead 3.00 Britannia (AD) 5.00—6.00am Most Haunted

The Miniature Wife 10.05pm A tight grip on Lindy

6.00am Fish Town 8.00 Homicide: Life on the Street 9.45 Hacks (AD) 11.05

Westworld (AD) 12.15pm Deadwood

2.25 The Regime (AD) 3.30 Westworld (AD) 4.40 Deadwood

6.50pm The Gilded Age 7/8 Series 2. Bertha begins to rethink her loyalty to the Metropolitan Opera and George strikes a deal with union leader Bill Henderson. (AD) 7.55 8/8. The staff ponder their future at Rhijn’s house as Peggy questions her own at the New York Globe and the opera war reaches its climax. (AD) 9.00 Under Salt Marsh 1/6. Former detective turned teacher Jackie Ellis discovers the body of an eight-yearold. The discovery sends shock waves through the community, reviving the wounds of an unsolved case three years prior. (AD) 10.05 New. The Miniature Wife 10/10. With the regrowth formula near completion, Les must break back into the lab to save his wife. Lulu returns from her board review having made a big decision about her future. (AD)

11.05 True Detective: Night Country 5/6 Series 4. As Prior digs into the links between Tsalal and mining company Silver Sky, Navarro rescues Leah from a local protest that has turned violent. (AD)

12.20am Hacks (AD) 1.30 The Gilded Age (AD) 2.40 Homicide: Life on the Street 4.20—6.00am Urban Secrets

Tom Davis: Underdog 9.00pm The tricky road of life

8.00am Will & Grace 9.00 Sort Of (AD) 10.00 Avenue 5 (AD) 11.15 Will & Grace (AD) 12.15pm Upright (AD) 1.30 Avenue 5 (AD) 2.45 Will & Grace (AD) 3.45 Upright (AD) 5.00 Community

6.00pm Will & Grace 8/27 Series 4

Jack forces Karen and Elliot to spend time together, and they reach a new understanding. (AD) 6.30 9/27. Jack and Karen visit their families for Thanksgiving. (AD)

7.00 The Ofice US 17/25 Series 9 Oscar attends the funeral of Dwight’s Aunt Shirley at Schrute Farms. 7.30 18/25. The employees get hold of promos for the documentary.

8.00 Resident Alien 6/8 Series 3 Harry hits rock bottom and Mike helps Liv face her biggest fear. (AD)

9.00 Tom Davis: Underdog The comedian covers topics such as leaving school with no qualifications and the difficult road to fatherhood.

10.15 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver A satirical look at news. 11.00 Avenue 5 2/8 Series 2. Ryan finds himself in the middle of a threeway couples’ quarrel and Mia shares some shocking news with Doug. (AD) 11.40 3/8. After crossing paths with an unclassified research station, the crew discover that their new friends may not be what they say they are. (AD) 12.20am Resident Alien (AD) 1.20 Community: double bill 2.20 Upright (AD) 3.30—5.00am Sort Of (AD)

Harry Enfield and Chums 11.20pm Waynetta and Wayne

7.40am Ever Decreasing Circles 8.15 Porridge 8.55 The Green Green Grass

9.35 Are You Being Served? 10.15

Last of the Summer Wine 11.35 Porridge

12.10pm Keeping Up Appearances (AD) 12.50 The Green Green Grass

1.30 Dad’s Army 2.10 Ever Decreasing Circles 2.50 Are You Being Served?

3.30 Red Dwarf (AD) 4.50 Dad’s Army

5.30pm Last of the Summer Wine The trio harness the power of nature. 6.10 Clegg feels nostalgic.

6.50 Keeping Up Appearances Richard has to think on his feet when he forgets his anniversary. (AD)

7.30 Dad’s Army The platoon disguise themselves as firemen.

8.05 Red Dwarf The crew members’ memories are erased. (AD)

8.40 A leak from the suspended animation chamber gives the crew a doorway to the past. (AD)

9.20 Not Going Out Lee has trouble bonding with his new lodger.

10.00 Red Dwarf Holly is involved in a duel to the death. (AD)

10.40 Holly’s new invention hurls the crew into a parallel universe. (AD)

11.20 Harry Enfield and Chums With guests Desmond Lynam, Jimmy Hill and Martin Clunes. (AD) 12 midnight Mrs Brown’s Boys 12.40am Not Going Out 1.20 Harry Enfield and Chums (AD) 2.00 Mrs Brown’s Boys 2.45—4.00am Hi-de-Hi!

Father Brown 6.00pm Enjoying a tipple or two

7.10am Murdoch Mysteries 9.00 Father Brown (AD) 10.00 The Mentalist 11.00 Hudson and Rex (AD) 12 noon Unforgettable 1.00pm Death in Paradise (AD) 2.00 Murdoch Mysteries: double bill 4.00 The Mentalist 5.00 Hudson and Rex (AD)

6.00pm Father Brown 8/10 Series 8. When a tortured artist is murdered, Father Brown must discover who committed the crime before it is too late. (AD)

7.00 Unforgettable 5/13 Series 2 Carrie and Al investigate the murder of a taxi driver who was hired as an informant by a government task force to help catch two terrorists orchestrating a major weapons deal.

8.00 Saint-Pierre 8/10 Series 1 When the severed finger of a handyman mysteriously turns up, Fitz and Arch’s investigation turns into a case of vigilante justice. (AD)

9.00 Death in Paradise 3/8 Series 7. DI Mooney and the team are stumped when a famous author is stabbed through the heart after taking an early morning swim. (AD)

10.00 Father Brown 10/10 Series 11 Sullivan asks for Father Brown’s help when Mrs Devine’s son, Eddie, is framed for murder. (AD) 11.00 As 6pm.

12 midnight Death in Paradise (AD) 1.00am Hudson and Rex (AD) 2.00—4.00am Murdoch Mysteries

6.00am Sun, Sea and A&E: South Africa 7.00 Border Patrol (AD) 8.00 UK Border Force 9.00 Motorway Patrol

10.00 Brit Cops: Rapid Response (AD) 11.00 Chicago Fire 12 noon FBI (AD) 2.00pm The Rookie (AD) 3.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent

4.00pm Nothing to Declare Six editions of the fly-on-the-wall series accessing the world of national security at Australia’s biggest airports.

7.00 Police 24/7 Focusing on the unique relationship law enforcement has with fellow officers.

8.00 Caught on Dashcam Road disasters captured on video by drivers’ dashboard cameras.

9.00 FBI 19/22 Series 8. An FBI evidence locker is robbed and the team discovers a vigilante duo looking to take down a paedophile ring. Meanwhile, Isobel meets the new assistant director in charge. (AD)

10.00 Burn Notice 12/13 Series 1 Michael tries to arrange a meeting with the man who could be responsible for getting him fired. 11.00 13/13. Sam takes on the case of a woman being forced to help smuggle heroin into the US.

12 midnight FBI (AD) 2.00am FBI: International (AD) 3.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 4.00 Border Security: America’s Front Line 5.00—6.00am The Real A&E (AD)

6.00am Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 7.00 Highway Patrol 8.00 Caught Red Handed 10.00 Caught on Dashcam 11.00 Most Evil Killers 12 noon Killer in My Village 1.00pm Forensics: Catching the Killer (AD) 2.00 Most Evil Killers 3.00 How I Caught the Killer (AD) 4.00 Murdered at First Sight (AD) 5.00 Killer in My Village 6.00 Killing Mum and Dad (AD) 7.00 Most Evil Killers 8.00 Forensics: Catching the Killer (AD) 10.00 Killer in My Village 11.00 Real Manhunter (AD) 12 midnight World’s Most Evil Killers 1.00am Killing Mum and Dad (AD) 2.00 Murders That Shocked the Nation 3.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers 4.00 Border Security USA (AD) 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol

8.00am Michael McIntyre’s Big Show 9.00 Impractical Jokers 10.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 1.00pm Friends: sixteen episodes (AD) 9.00 FILM Runaway Bride HHH Romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere 11.20 Jimmy Carr’s Am I the A**hole?: GK Barry, Jamali Maddix and the host pass judgement on a man who steals from shopping trollies (AD) 12.20am Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA 1.50 South Park 2.50 Fat Chat with Desiree Burch 3.00 Modern Horror Stories 3.05 Kevin Bridges: the Brand New Tour 3.50 New. The Daily Show 4.15—5.00am Friends (AD) 6.00am How It’s Made 7.00 Treehouse Masters 9.00 Gold Rush: White Water 11.00 The Woodland Workshop 1.00pm Crikey! It’s the Irwins 3.00 How Do They Do It? 5.00 The Last Alaskans: double bill 7.00 Wheeler Dealers World Tour: double bill 9.00 New. Naked and Afraid: a South African ranger and a Texan wilderness guide try to survive in a Thai jungle 10.00 New. In the Eye of the Storm: Chasers: following expert storm chasers as they put everything on the line 11.00 Expedition X (AD) 12 midnight Border Control Sweden 1.00am Naked and Afraid 2.00 In the Eye of the Storm: Chasers 3.00 Gold Divers (AD) 4.00—5.00am

6.00am The First 48 7.00 Green Eyed Killers 8.00 Homicide Hunter 9.00 Fugitives Caught on Tape 9.30 My Strange Arrest 10.30 Court Cam 11.00 When Missing Turns to Murder 2.00pm Hometown Tragedy 3.00 Spring Break Murders 6.00 On the Case with Paula Zahn 7.00 The First 48 8.00 Hometown Tragedy: double bill 9.00 New. Predator Hunters: a detective plans to catfish a predator 10.00 Fugitives Caught on Tape: double bill 11.00 Homicide Hunter 12 midnight Britain’s Darkest Taboos 1.00am Interrogation Raw 2.00 Green Eyed Killers 3.00 Imperfect Murder 5.00—6.00am Hometown Tragedy

8.00am How the Universe Works 11.00 Incredible Engineering Blunders: Fixed 12 noon Alien Highway 1.00pm Cooper’s Treasure 3.00 How the Universe Works 6.00pm How It’s Made: ten editions. Nascar car bodywork 6.30 Slate tiles and hot-dog carts 7.00 Racing leathers 7.30 Mountain bikes and lever-action rifles 8.00 Saunas and wheelchair lifts 8.30 Upright pianos and flags 9.00 Asian bowls and walking canes 9.30 Power trainers and coffee pods 10.00 Beehives and cast-iron cookers 10.30

THURSDAY

Sky Documentaries Sky Nature

The Yogurt Shop Murders 8.00pm The case concludes High Life in the Dead Mountains 8.00pm Austria

6.00am One Shot: the Football Factory (AD) 7.00 Discovering: Sean Connery (AD) 8.00 The Directors 9.00 The Story of Late Night 9.50 Edge of the Earth (AD) 11.00 Dark Horses: Italy’s World Cup Triumph 12 noon FILM Bobby Robson: More than a Manager HHHH The career of the football manager (AD) 2.00pm FILM Bo66y HHHH A portrait of Bobby Moore. Review p97 (AD) 4.00 The Directors 5.00 Discovering: Sean Connery (AD) 5.55 Edge of the Earth (AD)

7.00pm Dark Horses: Italy’s World Cup Triumph Italy get their hands on the World Cup trophy for a fourth time as they beat France in a penalty shootout following Zinedine Zidane’s now infamous headbutt.

8.00 The Yogurt Shop Murders: the End of Wondering A look at the conclusion to the case of the killing of four teenage girls in 1991.

10.00 Bowie: the Man Who Changed the World The life and career of the musician, with footage from interviews with the man himself and from those who knew him.

12 midnight The Two Escobars (AD)

2.00am New series. The Alien Autopsy Scandal: Exploring the story about an alleged mid-1990s film showing the corpse of an alien. See review, p101. 3.00 Salt Path: a Very British Scandal 4.30 Premier League Legends (AD) 5.00—6.00am

Discovering: Sean Connery (AD)

6.00am Waterworld Africa 7.00

Baboons: Rules of the Troop (AD) 8.00 Orangutan Jungle School 9.00 Europe’s Amazon 10.00 Zambia Untamed 11.00 Into the Wild: Colombia 12 noon Secrets of Wild Australia (AD) 1.00pm

Baboons: Rules of the Troop (AD) 2.00 Orangutan Jungle School 3.00 Europe’s Amazon 4.00 Zambia Untamed 5.00 Into the Wild: Colombia

6.00pm Secrets of Wild

Australia A look at the flying fox, the fruit-eating bats that hide in Australia’s twilight. (AD)

7.00 Baboons: Rules of the Troop Cameras follow four different families of baboons across Africa. (AD)

8.00 High Life in the Dead Mountains A look at the wild, unique mountain habitat that runs through the heart of Austria and Europe — the Totes Gebirge, also known as “Dead Mountains”.

9.00 Wild Science How creatures from deep seas to land predators hunt, survive and dominate nature.

10.00 Secrets of Wild Australia As 6pm.

11.00 Into the Wild: Colombia A cotton-top tamarin leaves her birth family in search of a mate.

12 midnight Brazil Untamed 1.00am Waterworld Africa 2.00 High Life in the Dead Mountains 3.00 Wild Science 4.00 Orangutan Jungle School

5.00—6.00am Europe’s Amazon

SPORT

Sky Main Event

Sky 401 Virgin 501 EE 419/HD 439

6.00am World Cup Report 7.00 World

Cup Breakfast 10.00 World Cup Matchday

12 noon LIVE PGA Tour Golf

Coverage of the featured groups on day one of the Canadian Open, which takes place at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley in Caledon, Ontario. 6.00pm LIVE Darts Coverage of day one of the World Cup of Darts, featuring matches from the group stage at Eissporthalle in Frankfurt. The top team from each three-nation group will advance to the second round alongside the top four seeds England, the Netherlands, Scotland and reigning champions Northern Ireland, who all received byes.

11.00—6.00am World Cup Report

Sky Football

Sky 403 Virgin 503 EE 421/HD 441

6.00am Classic League Cup Final (AD)

8.45 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 10.00

Championship Season Review (AD) 11.00 Craig Brown: My Scotland (AD) 11.30 There’s Only One Sauzée (AD) 12 noon Jimmy Glass: the Great Escape (AD) 12.30pm EFL Rivalries (AD) 2.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 League Cup Football (AD) 5.00 League Cup Best Goals (AD) 5.30 EFL Trophy Football (AD) 6.00 Classic League Cup Final (AD) 8.00 Scottish Premiership Football (AD)

8.30 Best Scottish Premiership Goals 2021/22 (AD) 9.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 10.00 Championship Season Review (AD) 11.00 EFL Rivalries (AD) 11.30 Jimmy Glass: the Great Escape (AD) 12 midnight SPFL Greatest Games

2.00am Scottish Premiership Highlights 2.45 SPFL Greatest Games

3.45 Scottish Premiership Highlights 5.30—6.00am SPFL Greatest Games

Sky Sports +

Sky 404 Virgin 504 EE 427/HD 447

6.00am World Cup Report 7.00 World Cup Breakfast 8.00 Super League

10.45 EFL Greatest Games: classic matches 11.00 World Cup Matchday 4.00pm LIVE LPGA Tour Golf Day one of the Dow Championship team event, which takes place at Midland Country Club in Michigan.

Sky Premier League

Sky 402 Virgin 502 EE 420/HD 440

6.00am Premier League Greatest Games 7.00 Premier League Review 9.00 Premier League Highlights 6.00pm Premier League Review 8.00 Netbusters 9.00 Premier League Stories 9.30 Transfer 360 (AD) 10.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox 11.00 Premier League Years (AD) 1.00am Premier League Retro (AD) 3.00 Premier League Greatest Games 4.00—6.00am Premier League Best Goals

Sky Cricket

Sky 405 Virgin 505 EE 422/HD 442 6.00am Classic Women’s World Cup Cricket (AD) 9.30 T20 World Cup Cricket Highlights (AD) 10.00 International T20 Cricket 10.00pm Best of the World T20 (AD) 10.30 Classic Women’s World Cup Cricket (AD) 11.00 Test Cricket Highlights 4.00—6.00am Classic Women’s World Cup Cricket

Sky Action

8.00am Europe from Above 9.00 Air Crash Investigation: Special Report (AD) 10.00 Hurricane Apocalypse: Drain the Oceans (AD) 11.00 Lost Treasures of Egypt 12 noon World War II: Secrets from Above 1.00pm Seconds from Disaster

2.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD)

3.00 World War II: the Apocalypse 4.00 Decoding History’s Prophecies 5.00 Inside Sydney Airport (AD) 6.00 Hitler’s Last Stand 7.00 Air Crash Investigation

8.00 New. Car SOS: Ultimate Countdown

9.00 Car SOS 10.00 Engineering by Catastrophe (AD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) 12 midnight Ultimate Airport Dubai 1.00am Airport Security: Peru 2.00 To Catch a Smuggler 2.30 Abandoned 3.20 Food Factory

4.10—5.00am Prairie Dog Dynasty

8.00am Yukon Vet 9.00 National Parks: USA 10.00 Monster Fish 11.00 Savage Kingdom 12 noon The Incredible Dr Pol 1.00pm Yukon Vet 2.00 Hunt for the Giant Squid 3.00 Shark Men 4.00 Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina 5.00 Rocky Mountain Railroad 6.00 Yukon Vet: the Oakleys head back to the Yukon on the longest day of the year 7.00 Secrets of the Zoo: Tampa: the birth of four red wolf pups marks a historic moment for the zoo 8.00 Equator’s Wild Secrets 10.00 Lawless Island 11.00 Ice Road Rescue 12 midnight When Sharks Attack 1.00am Last of the Giants: Wild Fish (AD) 2.00 The Incredible Dr Pol 3.00 Yukon Vet 4.00—5.00am Savage Kingdom

7.00 World Cup Show

7.30 LIVE Super League Coverage of St Helens v Warrington Wolves, a match from the 14th round of fixtures, which takes place at Langtree Park (kick-off 8.00).

10.15 EFL Greatest Games (AD) 10.30 World Cup Report 12 midnight EFL Greatest Games (AD) 1.00am Tennis

3.00 Super League 5.45—6.00am EFL Greatest Games: classic matches (AD)

Sky Golf

Sky 406 Virgin 506 EE 423/HD 443

6.00am Storage Wars 6.30 Junk and Disorderly 9.15 Pawn Stars 10.10 Storage Wars 12 noon Ramses the Great: King of Ancient Egypt 2.00pm Salvage Kings 6.00pm American Pickers 7.00 Forged in Fire 8.00 New. Swamp People: Troy Landry and Cheyenne “Pickle” Wheat chase a line-popping alligator 9.00 New. MonsterQuest 10.00 Myths and Monsters: double bill. Stories of heroes and villains, then tales about fearsome monsters in the wild 12 midnight Salvage Kings 3.40am MonsterQuest 4.25 American Pickers

5.10—6.00am Pawn Stars

8.00am My Cat from Hell (AD) 9.00 Meet the Penguins 10.00 Tanked 11.00 Animal Cops Phoenix (AD) 1.00pm Alaska: Homestead Rescue 2.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees 3.00 My Cat from Hell (AD) 5.00 Lone Star Law 6.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet: veterinary technician Christine faces her fear of birds to help pigeons 7.00 Treehouse Masters: a treehouse straddling three cedars with 360 degree views 8.00 Gator Boys 9.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (AD) 10.00 Alaskan Bush People 11.00 Mountain Monsters 12 midnight Alaska: Homestead Rescue 1.00am Rugged Justice 2.00 Treehouse Masters 3.00—5.00am Animal Cops Houston

6.00am PGA Tour: the Cut 6.30 Challenge Tour Golf Highlights 7.00 Rose Ladies Series 7.30 PGA Tour Champions Learning Centre 8.00 US Women’s Open Golf 9.00 Amateur Golf 12 noon LIVE PGA Tour Golf Coverage of the featured groups on day one of the Canadian Open, which takes place at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley in Caledon, Ontario. 11.00pm Amateur Golf 2.00am Best of the Open Zone 2018 (AD) 3.00 PGA Tour Golf 4.00 US Open Official Films (AD) 5.00—6.00am School of Golf (AD)

Sky Tennis

Sky 408 Virgin 508 EE 425/HD 445

10.00am—6.00pm LIVE Tennis Coverage from the ATP Stuttgart Open and the WTA and ATP S-Hertogenbosch Open, grass-court tournaments held in Germany and the Netherlands respectively.

TNT Sports 1

Sky 410 Virgin 521 EE 408/HD 430 6.00am Triathlon Highlights 6.30 The Gruppetto 6.45 Cycling 8.45 The Cycling Show 9.15 MotoGP Highlights 10.15 LIVE AFL Western Bulldogs v Adelaide Crows from Docklands Stadium (bounce-up 10.30). 1.30pm The Gruppetto 1.45 The Cycling Show 2.15 LIVE Cycling The fifth stage of the men’s Tour Auvergne Rhône Alpes, a 195.8km race from SaintChamond to Villars-Les-Dombes. 4.15 Giro d’Italia (AD) 5.15 The Gruppetto 5.30 MLB Plays of the Week 6.00 LIVE Major League Baseball New York Mets v St Louis Cardinals, the National League match from Citi Field (start 6.10). These two teams met earlier on this season in a three-match series in St Louis, a series that the Cardinals won 2—1.

TNT Sports 2

Sky 412 Virgin 510 EE 426/HD 446 6.00am NBA 10.30 Super League 10.50 LIVE NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs v Brisbane Broncos, action from the 15th round of fixtures at Stadium Australia (kick-off 10.50). 1.00pm Good Morning Football 3.00 NFL Highlights 4.00 Super League Highlights 4.45 Rugby League 5.00 NFL Highlights 6.00 LIVE Darts Coverage of day one of the World Cup of Darts, featuring matches from the group stage at Eissporthalle in Germany. 11.00 NFL Highlights 12 midnight The Insiders 1.00am Women’s Super League 1.30 Rugby League 1.45 Super League 5.00 Women’s Super League 5.15—6.00am Super League

Sky F1

Sky 407 Virgin 507 EE 424/HD 444 5.45—6.45pm LIVE Motor Racing Coverage of race one of the Ferrari Challenge at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France, where the fourth round of the season takes place.

Sky Sports Mix

Sky 416 Virgin 511 EE 429/HD 449

4.00—7.00pm LIVE LPGA Tour

Golf Coverage of day one of the Dow Championship team event, which takes place at Midland Country Club in Michigan.

7.30—10.15 LIVE Super League

Coverage of St Helens v Warrington Wolves in the 14th round of fixtures, which takes place at Langtree Park (kick-off 8.00). These two teams last met in the opening round of games in February, when Warrington claimed a 24—14 home victory.

TNT Sports 3

FRIDAY

COMEDY DRAMA

Ponies 9.00pm, 10pm Sky Atlantic Full series available on Now

Of course, a show as smart as Ponies hasn’t secured the services of Harriet Walter and then relegated her to a briefly glimpsed bit part as Manya, the amusingly straighttalking Russian-speaking grandmother of American spy in Moscow Bea (Emilia Clarke). A hop, and skip and a mild plot contrivance later and Bea’s “Baba” is back in the USSR, thrown straight into a potentially

TRAVEL

Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad

7.30pm (not STV) ITV1

Catch up via ITVX

As father and son reach the end of their Australian adventure they both say that the highlight of the trip has been seeing the Great Barrier Reef together. First, though, they have a snappy encounter with a giant crocodile, which Barney, of course, thinks is pretty cool, while Bradley isn’t so sure.

Breaking Dad is always fun to watch. The wacky activities Barney makes his dad try are amusing and they both play up to the cameras entertainingly. But it’s their lovely relationship that is at the heart of the show, which Bradley hopes might “inspire other families to do the same”. JANE RACKHAM

SOAP

dangerous mission. We trust her to talk her way out of a tight spot, Baba common sense being the equal of any spy’s tradecraft. That the dialogue in the episode is mostly in Russian doesn’t stop Walter putting on a fierce little masterclass.

In the second half of the double bill, the embassy faces a classic crisis for spies abroad: if they’ve been assuming they’re

HISTORY

Emmerdale

8.00pm ITV1 Catch up via ITVX

While the Corrie kids are using artificial intelligence to cobble together their homework, across the Pennines in Emmerdale, the same technology is being deployed for far more sinister purposes. With Jai away in Canada, business partner Caleb receives what appears to be a genuine call from daughter Steph, pleading for £5,000 to secure a flat in London. The catch? She’s actually sunning herself in Thailand.

The cash is transferred without hesitation, Caleb blissfully unaware that Jai’s scheming son Archie has seized upon his father’s absence to orchestrate a scam. Using AI voice-cloning software, Archie has conjured a convincing imitation of Steph, making this new-fangled technology every bit as duplicitous as a Dales villain. MICHAEL ADAMS

being watched and listened to at all times, that’s just as well... because they are. The counter-surveillance op requires Twila (Haley Lu Richardson) to infiltrate one of Moscow’s thriving cottage industries: the posh hotel/sex worker/hidden camera/ blackmail sting. She learns more about herself than she does the hapless men.

SEALE

The Terracotta Army: the Discovery with Dan Snow

8.00pm 5 Catch up via 5 streaming

The sight of ranks upon ranks of life-sized terracotta Chinese warriors standing to attention has been stunning people since they were accidentally discovered in 1974.

In this 2024 documentary Dan Snow guides us through the excavation, explores the history of the brutal emperor whom they are guarding in the afterlife and examines the detailed figures in close-up. Equally interesting are subsequent discoveries: a nearby hill is a man-made burial mound, while metres away there are mass graves of slaves and the bones of high-status young women that suggest his concubines were forced to follow him in death. JR

DOCUMENTARY

Dolly Parton: America Reunited

8.00pm Sky Arts Catch up via Now

For decades Dolly Parton was seen as a country music caricature and almost a symbol of bad taste.

A living paradox, traditionalists and conservatives considered her to be their hero, although she has championed gay rights, feminism and liberal, working-class values, while her cheap, peroxide image masked a sharp, business brain. Despite – or maybe because of – this apparent conflict she is now fêted across the political spectrum. This French-made biography explores Dolly Parton’s appeal and attempts to explain why she has become a unifying figure in American culture at a time when the country has never been so fractured. JR

JACK

MOSCOW MISSION

Bea (Emilia Clarke, left) and Twila (Haley Lu Richardson) go undercover

DOCUMENTARY

Hidden Treasures of the National Trust

9.00pm BBC Two

Full series available on iPlayer

Quarry Bank Mill, a cotton mill in Cheshire, revolutionised the textile industry with its Spinning Mule, a huge machine that spun the fibre into yarn faster than ever before. However, it was miserable work and we see a fragile indenture contract for child labourer Thomas Payne that brings to life how wretched it was. In contrast, near Stourbridge, are a cluster of extraordinary “rock houses” formed by nature. The exteriors need redecorating, which, painter Rob says, “beats doing your normal three-bed semi, although it’s still watching paint dry!” JR

MUSIC

American Music Night from 9.05pm BBC Four Catch up via iPlayer

This celebration of two great American artists begins with a terrific 1986 Omnibus profile of Ray Charles, in which The Genius reflects upon his influential legacy – this, after all, is someone who basically invented soul music. That’s followed by Tina Turner at the BBC (10.15pm), an archive compilation of the soul/rock legend’s hits, and When Tina Turner Came to Britain (11.15pm), a revealing documentary exploring her long relationship with the UK, from her first visit in 1966 to her early 80s comeback and beyond.

PAUL WHITELAW

NORTH-BOUND

Arit Anderson heads to Greater Manchester

FRIDAY 12 JUNE

ALSO ON TODAY

Under the Vines

2.00pm BBC One

Daisy (Rebecca Gibney, above) joins Marissa’s book group to meet David’s daughter, while Louis tries to help Hilary.

Celebrity Gogglebox

9.00pm C4

GARDENING

Gardeners’ World

8.00pm BBC Two Catch up via iPlayer

Pests and diseases represent the dark side of gardening –invariably a source of stress and consternation. So good on Monty Don for tackling the issue as he confronts unwelcome visitors to his greenhouse and offers advice on dealing with them. More upliftingly, he brings a burst of colour to his Jewel Garden and plants out tender veg, while it’s the wildlife we do approve of that Arit Anderson finds on a visit to a striking garden in Greater Manchester.

Joe Swift is also on the move. In Dorset he explores a muchloved family garden re-imagined for three generations. And in Essex, a gardener has transformed a shaded, north-facing plot into a lush, lawn-free haven. SIMON O’HAGAN

Your RT Gardening: page 134

DRAMA

The week’s TV dissected by the likes of Vernon Kay and Paddy McGuinness, Ashley Banjo and Perri Kiely, and Rylan with his mum, Linda.

Hunting the Debt Predators

8.00pm C4

Ellie Flynn and the Dispatches team meet people forced into borrowing from illegal money lenders and finding themselves in often dangerous situations.

LIVE SPORT

Cricket: Women’s T20 World Cup England v Sri Lanka 5.30pm Sky Sports Main Event/Cricket

S DOCUMENTARY

The Alien Autopsy Scandal

9.00pm Sky Documentaries Catch up via Now It’s one of the most hotly debated pieces of film ever – 18 minutes of grainy tape, which shocked the world in 1995. The so-called “Alien Autopsy” footage purported to show government officials in hazmat suits dissecting an alien corpse recovered from near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Was it genuine or fake? This stranger-than-fiction docuseries follows the hoaxers, who sparked a media storm by staging the eerie footage in a London flat, with some still insisting it was based on a genuine US military film. Bafta-winning director John Dower delves deep into the stories and scraps of evidence, which continue to divide believers and sceptics.

MICHAEL HOGAN

OUT OF THIS WORLD

Artist John Humphreys with his alien creation

The Sommerdahl Murders

9.00pm More 4

Catch up via C4 streaming Danish TV detectives often have complicated personal lives and Dan Sommerdahl (Peter Mygind) of Elsinore police is no exception. He wears a permanently anguished look over his ex-wife, who is living with his colleague and friend Flemming Torp (André Babikian), his daughter’s pregnancy by a young copper and his relationship with a female coastguard, but as the series returns, he’s also fretting over a previous case and trying to solve a murder, involving the killing of a local winery owner during her birthday party. The police discover massive debts, family fallouts, a stolen car, a convicted rapist... oh, and another dead body. No wonder Dan looks worried. JR

The 2026 tournament gets under way at Edgbaston.

Football: World Cup Canada v Bosnia Herzegovina

7pm (k/o 8pm) BBC One USA v Paraguay 1.30am (k/o 2am) BBC One

The two remaining co-hosts begin their campaigns.

Tennis: Queen’s 1.00pm BBC Two Day five of the women’s grass-court tournament.

SPORT HIGHLIGHTS

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BBC One

BBC One

6.00am Breakfast With Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt. (S) (HD)

9.30 Morning Live Gethin Jones and Gaby Roslin present the weekday magazine show. (S) (HD)

10.45 Doorbell Detectives When Chelsea goes to make a coffee, she notices her milk hasn’t been delivered. She reviews her doorbell footage and is shocked to find a man breaking into her house. (S) (HD)

11.15 Homes under the Hammer Properties in Norfolk, Leicestershire and North Yorkshire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

12.15pm Bargain Hunt Roo Irvine presents as the reds and blues go shopping for collectables in a jam-packed antiques centre in Leominster. (S) (HD)

1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

2.00 Under the Vines 4/6 Series 2. Daisy risks joining Marissa’s book group to meet David’s daughter but gets the wrong book. Louis tries to help Hilary when he discovers her eyesight is failing. (S) (AD) (HD)

2.45 Escape to the Country Sonali Shah goes househunting in Norfolk with a buyer who wants to establish holiday lets and rehome dogs. (Revised repeat) (S) (HD)

3.45—4.30 Garden Rescue Chris Hull and Sue Kent help Johnny and Jo transform their garden into a blend of rustic French charm and English Victorian elegance in Water Orton, Warwickshire. (S) (HD)

BBC Two

BBC Two 6.30am Homes under the Hammer In Merseyside, Suffolk and Yorkshire. Shown Tuesday 11.15am BBC One (S) (AD) (HD)

7.30 Policing Paradise Airport officers track some suspicious luggage. Shown Monday 2pm BBC One (S) (HD) 8.00—9.00 Sign Zone Hidden Treasures of the National Trust 4/6. Exploring the remarkable collections at two National Trust sites, Snowshill Manor in the Cotswolds and Calke Abbey in Derbyshire. Shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 BBC News (S) (HD)

12.30pm Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

The broadcaster interviews leading political figures. A podcast version is available on BBC Sounds from today (S) (HD)

1.00—6.00 LIVE Tennis Coverage of day five of the women’s Queen’s Club Championship from London, featuring action from the singles quarter-finals. The last remaining British player was eliminated at this stage 12 months ago when Emma Raducanu lost in straight sets to Zheng Qinwen of China. In the other side of the draw, Madison Keys beat Diana Shnaider. Additional coverage on the red button, iPlayer and at bbc.co.uk/sport from 11.30am—7.30pm. (S) (HD)

4.30pm Celebrity Bridge of Lies

Gareth Malone, Stephen Bailey, Mwaka Mudenda and Ore Oduba take part in the quiz. Ross Kemp hosts.

Director Janine O’Connor; Series producer Nick Gunaydin (R) (S) (HD)

5.15 Pointless

Lucy Porter joins Alexander Armstrong for the quiz.

Director Abigail Dankwa; Series producer Laura Turner (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)

6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD)

7.00 World Cup Match of the Day Live 9Canada v Bosnia-Herzegovina

A Group B match at Toronto Stadium (kick-off 8.00).

The hosts are competing at just their third World Cup finals, with previous appearances in 1986 and four years ago in Qatar, where they lost all of their group matches, meaning they have lost every game they have played at the tournament.

Bosnia-Herzegovina qualified for the finals after coming through the qualification play-off round three months ago, beating Wales in a penalty shootout following a 1—1 draw in Cardiff, which they repeated on a memorable night in Zenica to reach this tournament for just the second time in their history. Gabby Logan presents, with expert analysis from Olivier Giroud and Micah Richards.

Available in UHD on iPlayer. Watch with 5 Live commentary via the iPlayer and online.

Director Colm Harty; Editor Richard Hughes (S) (HD)

USA v Paraguay 1.30am

World Cup special: page 12

6.00pm Richard Osman’s House of Games

Simon Armitage, Josie Gibson, Ardal O’Hanlon and Adele Roberts learn who’s won the trophy. (R) (S) (HD)

6.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys 5/20 Series 8. Michael Portillo ends his adventure on the historic line from Sarajevo to Mostar. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 The One Show

Presented by Clara Amfo and Roman Kemp. (S) (HD)

7.30 Beechgrove Garden

Lizzie Schofield sets out to improve her tomato crop, while Calum Clunie works on his allotment in Leven. Director Clare Booth; Series producer Graham Mitchell Shown yesterday 8pm BBC Scotland (S) (HD)

8.00 Gardeners’ World

6 Monty Don brings a burst of colour to the Jewel Garden with vibrant annuals and delivers some advice on dealing with greenhouse pests, while Arit Anderson visits a wildlife-friendly garden. See p101. Executive producer Rosemary Edwards; Series editor Sharon Fisher (S) (HD) RT GARDENING Bring long-lasting colour to your borders and containers through the summer with a stunning selection of penstemon blooms: p135 Your RT Gardening: page 134

9.00 Hidden Treasures of the National Trust

6 5/6 Series 4. Following life at two National Trust properties that tell the stories of working people. In Cheshire, experts maintain a historic spinning mule at Quarry Bank Mill, while in Staffordshire, specialists complete the restoration of a period cottage at Kinver Edge. The whole series is on iPlayer. See page 101. Producer Gemma Duncan; Executive producer Sarah Spencer (S) (AD) (HD)

ITV1

ITV1

6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD) 9.30 Lorraine Showbiz gossip. (S) (HD)

10.00 This Morning Lifestyle features, fashion and celebrity interviews. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD) 12.30pm Loose Women Frank exchanges. (S) (HD)

1.30 ITV News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal David Dickinson and the dealers are in Weston-super-Mare, where Alison Chapman falls foul of a football collection and Michael Hogben admires an oil painting. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00—4.00 Lingo Adil Ray hosts the word game as Monica and Perry, Millie and Sian, and Dale and Mary use their skills to find words from the fewest letters possible. (R) (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather (S) (HD)

Channel 4

Channel 4 5.45am Countdown With guest Mark Chapman. (R) (S) (HD)

6.25 Cheers Triple bill of the sitcom. (R) (S) (HD)

7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.10 Frasier Four episodes of the comedy. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.10 American Pickers The team deal with a California collector who is under pressure to downsize. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 12.05pm News (S) (HD)

12.10 Car SOS Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw take on a 1969 Jensen Interceptor. Owner Nick cherished his dream car until he got extreme arthritis. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.10 Help! We Bought a Village The owners of a French hamlet reach a major milestone as they open their glamping site to paying guests. (R) (S) (HD)

2.10 Countdown Mark Chapman guests. (S) (HD)

3.00—4.00 A Place in the Sun Leah Charles-King joins Eileen from Birmingham in Spain’s Mar Menor to help her find the perfect holiday home. (R) (S) (HD)

10.15 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)

10.55 St Denis Medical

13/18 Series 2. A New Best Friend. Joyce accidentally eats some chocolate containing magic mushrooms, while Tim comes in for an appointment. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.15 14/18. Happy Birthday, Matty. Ron finds a Space Invaders machine and Joyce overdresses for the Laser Lounge. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)

Ron David Alan Grier

Val Kaliko Kauahi

Matt Mekki Leeper

Serena Kahyun Kim

Bruce Josh Lawson

Alex Allison Tolman

Joyce Wendi McLendon-Covey

Brandon Dan Leahy

Tim Kyle Bornheimer

Holly

Chaplain Steve

Alexandra Ford

Stephen Schneider

Keith Dave Theune

Dakota Emma Pope

11.35 Wedding Crashers HH

qRomantic comedy. Lifelong pals John and Jeremy spend their free time gate-crashing weddings to pick up women. After infiltrating the lavish nuptials of the daughter of the Treasury Secretary, Jeremy accepts an invitation to an extended weekend party at the dysfunctional family’s residence. On iPlayer for 30 days.

John Beckwith Owen Wilson

Jeremy Grey Vince Vaughn

William Cleary Christopher Walken

Claire Cleary Rachel McAdams

Gloria Cleary Isla Fisher

Kathleen Cleary Jane Seymour

Director David Dobkin (2005, 15) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.30am World Cup Match of the Day Live USA v Paraguay

9Coverage of the Group D match at Los Angeles Stadium (kick-off 2.00). Mark Chapman presents, with analysis from Ashley Williams and Steph Houghton. Available in UHD on iPlayer. Watch with 5 Live commentary via the red button and iPlayer. (S) (HD) World Cup special: page 12

4.15 Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 4.20—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

10.00 Inside No 9

Series 6. Wuthering Heist. Pantalone plans to steal £12 million in diamonds, but to do the job he’s hired a bunch of clowns who are willing to double-cross each other. The whole series is available on iPlayer. Arlo Kevin Bishop

Columbina Gemma Whelan

Pantalone Paterson Joseph Hortensia Rosa Robson

Scaramouche Reece Shearsmith Doc Steve Pemberton Mario Dino Kelly

Writers Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith

Director Guillem Morales; Producer Adam Tandy (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

10.30 Newsnight With Matt Chorley. (S) (HD)

Weather (S) (HD)

11.00 Queer HHH

q

Period drama based on the novella by William S Burroughs. In the 1950s, ageing American expat William Lee is living in Mexico where he spends his time drinking and sleeping with younger men, but a fling with a GI leaves him infatuated and increasingly desperate. On iPlayer for 60 days. Review page 107. William Lee Daniel Craig

Eugene Allerton Drew Starkey

Joe Guidry Jason Schwartzman

Winston Moor Henrique Zaga Dr Cotter Lesley Manville

Director Luca Guadagnino (2024, 18) (S) (HD)

1.10am Queen & Slim HHHH Drama with Daniel Kaluuya q and Jodie Turner-Smith. A young Black couple on their first date are pulled over without cause by a violent cop, whom they kill in self-defence. Their encounter goes viral as they go on the run. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 107.

Director Melina Matsoukas (2020, 15) (S) (HD)

3.15—4.45am Sign Zone 3.15 Panorama An in-depth current affairs investigation. Shown Monday 8pm BBC One (S) (HD) 3.45 MasterChef Final The three finalists go head to head for the coveted trophy. Shown last Friday BBC One (S) (AD) (HD)

World Cup Match of the Day Live 7.00pm Canada’s Cyle Larin faces the Bosnian squad

Hidden Treasures of the National Trust 9.00pm Sprucing up a spinning mule in Cheshire

Coronation Street 9.00pm Gary is forced to apologise to a suspicious Maria

4.00pm Tipping Point

Ben Shephard presents the quiz. (R) (S) (HD)

5.00 The Chase

With Craig, Amanda, Zizzy and Caspian. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)

6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)

7.30 Bradley & Barney Walsh:

Breaking Dad

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6/6 Series 7. The boys wrap up their Australian road trip in Cairns, where they’re soon getting up close to a giant crocodile. The next day, Barney plans to get his dad’s blood pumping on a jungle swing, before they end their epic adventure with a visit to somewhere that’s on their bucket list — the Great Barrier Reef. See p100. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Emmerdale

6 Archie scams Caleb, while Graham urges Kyle to speak to Cain. See p100. Writers Linton Chiswick and Karin Young This week’s episodes produced by Sophie Roper and Laura Shaw, directed by Becky Wild and Reece Dinsdale Cast Monday/Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Coronation Street

Sam’s mental state declines severely.

Debbie’s pals organise a surprise holiday.

Gogglebox 9.00pm Rylan and his mum Linda catch up on this week’s TV

4.00pm Narrow Escapes

Peter and Noni’s Scottish adventure draws to a close in Edinburgh. (S) (AD) (HD)

5.00 Château DIY: Australia

Deanne and Richard dig deep to create a new pool in Bordeaux. Last in series. (S) (HD)

6.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

In Almería, Steve Garner and his son Shaun are on the hunt for a Spanish property for Lara from Leicestershire. (R) (S) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)

8.00 Hunting the Debt Predators

With the cost of living leaving many people struggling to stay afloat, Dispatches reporter Ellie Flynn meets the everyday people pushed into exploitative situations with illegal money lenders. She also hears from a nurse who has become a “full-service escort” and a police officer who is postponing thoughts of retirement to work two different jobs. Director/Producer Emma Slifkin (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox

2/7 Series 8. A cast of famous faces, including Vernon Kay and Paddy McGuinness, Rylan Clark and his mum Linda, Vicky Pattison and Pete Wicks, Bez and Shaun Ryder, and Roman and Martin Kemp sit down to give their thoughts on the week’s TV.

Executive producers Mike Cotton, Leon Campbell and Victoria Ray Repeated tonight 11.05pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

Portillo

5.35am Milkshake! See page 106

9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)

11.30 Storm and Alexis Discussion. (S) (HD)

12.45pm 5 News (S) (HD)

12.50 Matt Allwright Debate. (S) (HD)

2.00 Vanessa Discussion show. (S) (HD)

3.00 Castle 5/24 Series 5. The author becomes a fugitive when he is framed for murder. (R) (S) (HD)

3.55 6/24. Castle looks into the mysterious death of a fan at a sci-fi convention, where Beckett’s love of the series Nebula 9 is revealed. (R) (S) (HD)

4.50 Love Nature The inspiring responses to the loss of the Sycamore Gap tree (R) (S) (HD)

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)

6.00 Norfolk and Suffolk: Country and Coast

5/6. At Suffolk’s Orford Ness, Bill Pinney dredges up oysters for his restaurant and at Norwich Cathedral an organ restoration project nears completion. In Hockham, there’s a trip to the annual Horn Fair. (R) (S) (HD)

6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

7.00 Gibraltar: Jewel of the Mediterranean Cameras focus on the British overseas territory on Spain’s southern coast, and wedding planners Olga and Jenna who prepare for an event at the Sunborn Hotel.

Exec producers Dympna Jackson and Melanie Darlaston (R) (S) (HD)

7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

Shona Platt

Hawley Amy Drake

Mary Taylor Patti Clare

Asha Alahan Tanisha Gorey Police officer Liamn Burke

Writers Steven Fay and Ian Kershaw

More cast Sunday (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

10.45 The Gentlemen HH

qCrime comedy. American expat Mickey Pearson has built a lucrative drugs empire in the UK by growing marijuana in the grounds of struggling stately homes. After years in the business, he plans to shut up shop — but things unravel when news of his retirement attracts the attentions of an assortment of underworld figures. Review p57. Mickey Pearson

Matthew McConaughey

Raymond Charlie Hunnam

Dry Eye Henry Golding

Coach Colin Farrell Fletcher Hugh Grant Phuc Jason Wong

Rosalind Pearson Michelle Dockery

Matthew Berger Jeremy Strong

Mike Eddie Marsan

Lord Pressfield Samuel West Lady Pressfield Geraldine Somerville

Laura Pressfield Eliot Sumner

Director Guy Ritchie (2020, 18) (S) (HD)

Shown Sunday 10.45pm

12.35am Home Shopping (HD)

3.00 DMV: Department of Motor Vehicles 19/20 Colette tries to fix up her run-down car. (S) (SL) (HD)

3.25 20/20. There’s an office celebration. (S) (SL) (HD)

3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD)

5.05—6.00am Josie’s Taste of the West Country

5/5. Josie Gibson meets dairy farmers. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

10.00 First Dates

Ex-Traitors contestant Ash, 46 prepares to meet self-confessed cheesy Spanish poet Miguel, 46. However, feeling less than adept at flirting, she turns to matchmaker Fred Sirieix for a crash course in romantic banter.

Series producers Michael Greene and Kerry Fanneran

Executive producer Dominique Foster Repeated tonight 1.05am 4seven (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.05 Sarah Millican: Outsider

The comedian performs at the Brighton Dome during her 2016 tour. She offers her perspective on subjects that include moving to the countryside, getting a rescue dog and struggling with irritable bowel syndrome.

Director Brian Klein (R) (S) (HD)

12.10am Taskmaster: the Final 10/10. Armando Iannucci plays the recorder while riding a trike. See review, page 91. Shown yesterday 9pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

1.05 The Hate U Give HHHH Crime drama.

qSixteen-year-old Starr downplays her workingclass background at her mostly white private school. When Starr witnesses the fatal police shooting of a childhood friend, she comes to a decision that will rock her community.

Starr Carter Amandla Stenberg

Lisa Carter Regina Hall

Maverick “Mav” Carter RussellHornsby King Anthony Mackie April Ofrah Issa Rae Carlos Common

Director George Tillman Jr (2018, 12) (S) (HD)

3.15 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Charlie’s Italian bistro in southern California. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

4.05—6.15am Four in a Bed From North Yorkshire, Norfolk, Somerset and Hampshire. (R) (S) (HD)

8.00 The Terracotta Army: the Discovery with Dan Snow

6The historian travels to China to investigate one of the greatest archaeological treasures ever discovered — thousands of life-sized sculpted soldiers that were buried for 2,000 years. See page 100.

Director Mark Edger; Executive producer Bill Locke (R) (S) (HD)

9.00 Portugal with Michael Portillo

The traveller goes in search of the heart and soul of Portugal, revealing the secrets of places we know well, and taking us to discover those we don’t, including spots in Porto, the Algarve and Madeira.

Series director Robin Leach (Revised repeat) (S) (HD)

10.30 Piers Morgan: Uncensored

The bold, opinion-led news and debate show hosted by Piers Morgan. (S) (HD)

11.50 Police Interceptors

Lucy and dog Bryn are called to track down men suspected of stealing from lorries.

Shown Monday 8pm (S) (HD)

12.50am Entertainment News (S) (HD)

1.00 Home Shopping (R) (S)

Aduniad: brothers are reunited with a man who was welcomed into their childhood home 11.00—11.40 Strip: documentary following the lives of group of strippers from Rhyl

FRIDAY FREEVIEW CHANNELS

Ray Charles: Omnibus 9.05pm

A celebration of the Genius of Soul

All programmes on BBC Four are repeats unless otherwise stated 7.00pm Top of the Pops 1999

Jamie Theakston hosts the 17 December episode, featuring Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews, B*Witched and Ladysmith

Black Mambazo, Progress Presents the Boy Wunda, Vengaboys, Artful Dodger feat Craig David and Cliff Richard. Executive producer Chris Cowey Repeated 12.15am (S)

7.25 Top of the Pops 1977

Tony Blackburn looks at the chart from 9 June and introduces Osibisa, Frankie Miller, Demis Roussos, the Wurzels, Neil Innes, Bob Marley and the Wailers, ELO, the Stranglers, Honky and Rod Stewart. Directors Johnny Pearson and David G Hillier

Executive producer Robin Nash Repeated 12.40am (S)

8.05 Top of the Pops 1985

Simon Bates and Richard Skinner

introduce performances by Gary Moore and Phil Lynott, Kool and the Gang, Propaganda, David Bowie, Duran Duran and Paul Hardcastle. First aired 6 June.

Producer Michael Hurll Repeated 1.20am (S)

8.30 Top of the Pops 1988

Simon Mayo and Peter Powell introduce the 9 June edition of the chart show, with the Timelords, Five Star, Voice of the Beehive, Mica Paris, Maxi Priest, Morrissey, Wet Wet Wet and Erasure.

Director/Producer Paul Ciani Repeated 1.45am (S)

9.05 Ray Charles: Omnibus

6 American Music Night kicks off with a profile of singer and pianist Ray Charles, also showing to mark 22 years since the singer and pianist’s death on 10 June 2004. Featuring the star in conversation with Charlie Gillett and clips from his 1986 Royal Festival Hall concert and earlier performances. Watch now on iPlayer. See page 101.

Producer John Needham Repeated 2.20am (S) (HD)

10.15 Tina Turner at the BBC

A celebration of the American singer, who died in 2023, featuring some of her performances from the BBC archives, including timeless hits such as Nutbush City Limits, Let’s Stay Together, What’s Love Got to Do with It and We Don’t Need Another Hero. First shown in 2021.

Producer Shelley Talton

Series producer Simon Goretzki (S) (HD)

11.15 When Tina Turner Came to Britain

The story of the singer’s relationship with Britain, from her first visit to support the Rolling Stones in 1966, through her solo reinvention in the 1980s, to the premiere of Tina: the Tina Turner Musical in 2018. Featuring previously unheard interviews with the singer herself and contributions from those who worked with her. First broadcast in 2022. Watch now on iPlayer.

Director Dhivya Kate Chetty

Executive producer Mark Robinson (S) (HD)

12.15am Top of the Pops 1999 Shown 7pm (S)

12.40 Top of the Pops 1977 Shown 7.25pm (S)

1.20 Top of the Pops 1985 Shown 8.05pm (S)

1.45 Top of the Pops 1988 Shown 8.30pm (S)

2.20—3.30am Ray Charles: Omnibus Shown 9.05pm (S) (HD)

Shrek the Third 7.35pm The ogre would rather be Far Far Away

7.00pm New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)

7.05 Deadly 60

Steve Backshall heads to South East Asia in search of the blue whale, and also hopes to find a saltwater crocodile. (S) (HD)

7.35 Shrek the Third HHH

q Animated fantasy comedy featuring the voice of Mike Myers. When his father-in-law becomes ill, Shrek is expected to become ruler of Far Far Away. But the grumpy ogre would rather live the quiet life, so goes in search of a true heir. On iPlayer for 85 days. Review page 57. Directors Chris Miller, Raman Hui (2007, U) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Death in Paradise

3/8 Series 14. At the launch of her new skincare product, a business owner dies from an allergic reaction. First shown in 2025. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

5/6 Series 2. A night mission causes group tension and leaves Pip isolated. In court, the verdict is given. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.45 6/6. Pip and her friends face new risks and shocking discoveries. A box set is in UHD on iPlayer. See review, page 81. Both episodes shown Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD) 11.30 Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne 3/6. Cara sets out to discover if there are more ethical, alternative types of porn. (S) (HD) 12.15am 4/6. Cara explores the idea of gender, what it is and why it matters. From 2022. The whole series is on iPlayer. (S) (HD)

1.00 Love in the Flesh: double bill (S) (HD) 2.30 Top Gear (S) (HD) 3.30—4.00am BBC New Comedy Awards 2025 (S) (HD)

Doc Martin 8.00pm Can the doctor stop Louisa leaving for Spain?

6.00am On the Buses (S) 7.05 Classic Emmerdale (S) (AD) 8.05 Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD) 9.10 Inspector Morse: Series 8 Death Is Now My Neighbour. A woman is shot through her window at point blank range, apparently without motive (S) (AD) (HD) 11.20 Heartbeat: 15/24. An accusation leaves Maggie reeling (S) (AD); 12.25pm 16/24. A pregnant woman fears her house is haunted (S) (AD) 1.30 Midsomer Murders: Series 15. Death and the Divas. The murder of a journalist echoes a scene from a movie (S) (AD) (HD) 3.35 Classic Emmerdale: Louise announces her plan to move back to Australia (S) (AD) (HD)

4.40pm Classic Coronation Street

Maria puts a stop to Liam going on a business trip to New York. (S) (AD)

5.15 Liam asks Carla to meet him. (S) (AD)

5.50 Heartbeat

17/24 Series 8. A mystery visitor surprises Greengrass with an unusual talent. (S) (AD) 6.55 18/24. Lord Ashfordly antagonises ramblers by closing off a footpath. (S) (AD)

8.00 Doc Martin

8/8 Series 6. Departure. Louisa decides to go to Spain with baby James. (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 1/8 Series 7. Rescue Me. Martin promises to see a therapist, but when a lifeboat training exercise becomes a real-life rescue, will he be able to make it? (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Law & Order: UK

2/6 Series 2. Hidden. The body of 10-year-old schoolgirl Jodie Gaines is found dumped in a skip in Euston. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 3/6. Community Service. Detectives investigate when a homeless man is found beaten nearly to death. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.50 Wycliffe

On Offer. The Cornish copper looks to the future following an attempt on his life. (S) 1.00am Standing Stone. An ancient legend has latter-day repercussions. (S) (HD) 2.05—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)

Happy Valley 9.00pm Catherine is furious to find she has been betrayed

7.20am The Bill Repeated 11.55am (S) 8.15

Doctors: double bill. Vivien is still troubled despite the end of the trial, then Melody finally confronts Archie (S) 9.30 Classic Holby City: Mickie makes a near-fatal mistake (S) 10.50 Casualty: a patient harbours a grudge against Sam (S) (AD) (HD) 11.55 The Bill: Tim’s father’s affair comes to light Shown 7.20am (S) 12.55pm Classic EastEnders: double bill. Kat’s doubts about Alfie lead her to Michael, then Alfie decides to pull out all the stops for Kat (S) 2.15 Tenko: 7/10 Series 1. Sally prepares to give birth (S) 3.20 Pie in the Sky: 1/10 Series 1. Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe prepares for his retirement (S) 4.20 Lovejoy: 12/12 Series 2. Lovejoy sets out for revenge Rptd 1.55am (S) 5.25 Waiting for God: 5/10 Series 2 Tom decides to be completely honest (S) 6.00pm Last of the Summer Wine Series 20. Ironing Day. Smiler goes on the run when he has too much wine. (S) 6.40 Series 21. Lipstick and Other Problems Barry comes to Marina’s rescue. (S) 7.20 Under the Rug. A package puts Clegg in a spot of bother. (S) 8.00 Father Brown 4/10 Series 8. The Wisdom of the Fool Murder is no laughing matter when Father Brown visits a jesters’ convention. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Happy Valley 3/6 Series 3. Catherine confronts Clare and presents Ryan with an ultimatum, while Faisal and Joanna hatch a plan. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.20 New Tricks

5/10 Series 10. Cry Me a River. A woman’s paternity test leads to the reopening of a murder case in seedy 1980s Soho. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.40 Silent Witness 1/5 Series 14. A Guilty Mind. Nikki investigates the suicide of a professor. (S) (AD) 1.55am Lovejoy Shown 4.20pm (S) 3.00—4.00am Harry Wild: 4/8 Series 1. Harry and Fergus agree to help a local loan shark (S) (SL) (HD)

6.00am Backyard Builds (S) (SL) (HD) 6.25 Deal or No Deal (S) (AD) (HD) 7.25 Dress to Impress (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.25 Billie and Greg: the Family Diaries (S) (HD) 9.30 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 10.25 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (S) (HD) 11.15 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)

12.10pm The Real Housewives of Cheshire (S) (HD) 1.10 Celebrity Catchphrase (S) (AD) (HD)

2.10 The Floor USA (S) (AD) (HD) 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 4.10 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (S) (HD) 5.00 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)

6.00pm Celebrity Catchphrase With Lesley Garrett, Jools Holland and Adil Ray. (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 New. The Floor USA Rob Lowe hosts the American version of the dramatic and fast-paced game show. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Million Dollar Listing: LA Altman lists a grand castle in Beverly Ridge. (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Love Island Reality show. (S) (HD)

10.05 New. Love Island: the Debrief With Toni Laites, Shakira Khan and Yasmin Pettet. (S) (HD)

10.35 Family Guy Series 2. The Griffins are offered their own TV show. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.05 Series 4. Peter launches his own TV channel from the Griffin home. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.35 American Dad! Series 1. Stan seeks revenge at his school reunion. (S) (AD)

12.05am Steve turns up at a baseball game in a Star Trek costume, embarrassing Stan. (S) (AD)

12.35 Bob’s Burgers: double bill (S) (AD) (HD) 1.30 Botched (S) (HD) 2.20—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

6.00am World of Sport (S) (HD) 6.10 Magnum, PI (S) (HD) 8.20 The Saint (S) (SL) (HD) 9.25 Boon (S) 10.30 The Sweeney (S) 11.30 BattleBots: Sawblaze faces Hydra for the first time (S) (HD) 12.35pm Magnum, PI: double bill (S) (HD) 2.40 The Saint (S) 3.45 Boon (S) (HD) 4.55 The Sweeney (S) 5.55 River Monsters (S) (HD) 6.30pm New. British Touring Cars Nicki Shields presents action from the 10th, 11th and 12th races of the season from Oulton Park. Championship leader Ash Sutton entered the race weekend with a massive 50-point lead over rival Tom Ingram. (S) (HD) 8.00 FILM Skyscraper HHH Action adventure starring Dwayne Johnson. Former FBI agent Will Sawyer now works security on high-rise buildings. When a skyscraper is set ablaze on his watch, Sawyer is blamed and must fight to prove his innocence. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.05 New. All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite The latest hard-hitting action from the world of All Elite Wrestling, featuring world-class fighters such as Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli and Jon Moxley. (S) (HD)

12.05am Dark Side of the Ring (S) (HD) 1.00 Minder (S) (SL) (AD) 2.00 Two and a Half Men: double bill (S) (HD) 2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

7.30am Pointless 8.20 Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers (AD) 10.20 Rick Stein’s Cornwall 12.20pm Top Gear (AD) 2.20 Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (AD) 3.00 Turkey with Simon Reeve 4.00 The Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure 5.00 Rick Stein’s Cornwall

7.00pm Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing The duo fish for the predatory perch from the banks of the Upper Tamar Lakes. (AD) 7.40 Would I Lie to You? With guests Stephen Hendry, Laura Whitmore, Chris McCausland and Maisie Adam. 8.20 Josh Widdicombe, Gemma Cairney, Raj Bisram and Sophie Hermann take part. 9.00 QI XL With Rob Brydon, Phill Jupitus and Cal Wilson. Stephen Fry hosts. 10.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You Alexander Armstrong hosts the quiz. 11.00 Eight out of 10 Cats: Best Bits Highlights from the irreverent panel show. 11.50 Mock the Week With guests Maisie Adam, Angela Barnes, Rhys James, Eshaan Akbar and Alasdair Beckett-King.

12.30am Would I Lie to You? 1.50 Have I Got a

The Sommerdahl Murders 9.00pm Murder on the grapevine

8.55am Heir Hunters 9.55 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) 10.55 Four in a Bed: five editions 1.35pm Come Dine with Me: in Edinburgh (AD) 4.15pm Four in a Bed With visits to Jockhedge Holiday Cottages in Lincolnshire, the Victoria Inn in County Durham, the Earlston House Hotel in Devon and the back-to-basics Beach House in Dorset.

6.50 Location, Location, Location Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer go house hunting in Northern Ireland, searching for a property in Bangor for a blind woman, and a home in Belfast for two busy doctors. (AD)

7.55 Celebrity PopMaster TV Ken Bruce hosts the quiz that tests contestants’ knowledge of the pop charts, with Nikki Fox, Gareth Malone, Jean Johansson, Nish Kumar and Claire Richards taking part. 9.00 New series. The Sommerdahl Murders Ep 1&2 Series 4. When the owner of a winery is found dead, Dan and Flemming must try to make sense of a tangled tale where plenty of suspects’ stories don’t add up. Danish +subtitles. Review page 101. 11.00 24 Hours in A&E Fifteen-year-old Natai is rushed to A&E with a lacerated wrist after putting his hand through a glass pane. (AD) 12 midnight Jonathan is rushed to St George’s after being hit by a car as he was cycling home from work, and emotions run high when his wife and daughter arrive and see his injury. (AD) 1.05am 999: on the Front Line 2.10 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 3.15—3.45am Food Unwrapped (AD)

Dolly Parton: America Reunited

8.00pm The country music icon

6.00am André Rieu: Romantic Paradise

7.50 Watercolour Challenge 8.50 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.00 Discovering: Nicole Kidman (AD)

12 noon The Myth of Marilyn Monroe

1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (BW) 3.00 Classic Albums 4.00 Discovering: Christian Bale (AD)

5.00 Portrait Artist of the Year 2019

6.00pm Tales of the Unexpected Two archaeologists try to steal from a tomb.

6.30 A burglar is confused when his intended victim appears to befriend him.

7.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents A man offers to kill another’s elderly mother-in-law.

7.30 A married man captures an armed criminal who tried to rob him and his mistress.

8.00 New. Dolly Parton: America Reunited

A look at the country star’s enduring popularity and how she manages to be a unifying figure of US culture in a country that has never been so divided. Review p100.

9.15 Down the Tracks: the Music That Influenced Led Zeppelin Exploring the music that helped shape the rock band, including the blues and English folk music.

11.15 John Lee Hooker: That’s My Story The life and career of the influential blues legend, who ran away from home at the age of 14.

1.10am Isle of Wight Festival 2025: highlights of the event held at Seaclose Park, Newport

3.05 Paul Simon: Live at Webster Hall, New York

5.00—6.00am The Myth of Marilyn Monroe

Canal Boat Diaries 7.00pm Robbie has a problem at Buckby Locks

6.10am Speed with Guy Martin 7.15 Our Guy in Colombia 8.00 Bangers and Cash (AD) 10.00 The World at War 11.00 Secret Nazi Bases

12 noon Vintage Antiques Roadshow

2.00pm Bangers and Cash (AD) 4.00 The World at War 5.00 Secret Nazi Bases

6.00pm Vintage Antiques Roadshow

A return visit to Hopetoun House in South Queensferry, near Edinburgh.

7.00 Canal Boat Diaries Robbie Cumming takes a tumble in Northamptonshire and has a problem with his power supply. (AD)

8.00 Citizen Smith Wolfie decides to step in when Shirley’s father loses his job.

8.40 The chief of the Tooting Popular Front is released from prison.

9.20 The State gives Wolfie a job.

10.00 Bangers and Cash Up for auction this week is a red 1957 Austin Healey. (AD) 11.00 Derek collects a beautifully restored and carefully modified 1936 Wolseley 14/56. (AD)

12 midnight A Ford Thames 400E. (AD)

1.00am Find It, Fix It, Flog It 2.00—3.00am Speed with Guy Martin: a record attempt

9.00am Entertainment News 9.10 Cops 10.00 NCIS 12.55pm Entertainment News 1.00 Law & Order 2.55 Entertainment News 3.00 Law & Order 5.55 Entertainment News

6.00pm NCIS: Triple bill. Series 16. An ex-FBI agent pleads with Gibbs to take down drug dealers in the area (AD) 7.00 Series 17. Ziva returns and informs Gibbs his life is in danger 8.00 Gibbs and Ziva’s rogue investigation takes an unexpected turn 9.00 Beauty and the Beast: Series 1. Double bill. Vincent’s picture appears in the paper, then Cat is torn between Vincent and Evan 11.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Series 10. Four episodes 2.45—4.00am Cops: three episodes

8.00am Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun (AD) 10.00 Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back! 11.00 Traffic Cops 2.00pm Police Interceptors 5.00 Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up

6.00pm Home and Away Sonny wants to fasttrack his recovery. Shown yesterday 6.30pm (AD) 6.30 New. Leah fights for Alf’s reputation. (AD) 7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors Pharmacist Rozina has to call on Dr Wyne for advice. (AD) 8.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts 9.00 999: Critical Condition A man is rushed in after his motorbike collided with a tractor. 10.00 A&E after Dark Jai, 19, arrives at Hull Royal Infirmary with a stab wound to his neck. 11.00 The Surgeon Cameras follow consultant breast surgeon Sascha Dua. (AD) 12 midnight Skin A&E 1.00am Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts 2.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors (AD) 2.50 Accused: Guilty or Innocent? 3.35—4.00am Friends (AD)

6.00am Modern Family (AD) 6.55 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 7.00 Couples Come Dine with Me 8.00 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell (SL) (AD) 9.00 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell (AD) 10.00 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD) 11.00 Modern Family (AD)

12 noon The Simpsons: four episodes (AD) 2.00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 3.00 Modern Family (AD) 5.00 The Simpsons (AD) 6.00pm The Simpsons Series 27. Lisa signs up to participate in the colonisation of Mars. (AD) 6.30 Homer helps Smithers find a boyfriend. (AD) 7.00 Series 15. Bart goes on the run. (AD) 7.30 Series 24. Homer breaks his tablet. (AD) 8.00 New. Below Deck: Mediterranean A huge change in the crew rocks the boat. (AD)

9.00 FILM Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol HHHH Action spy thriller starring Tom Cruise. Ethan Hunt and his team must prevent a nuclear disaster. Film of the Day: p107. (AD) 11.40 Naked Attraction A professional dancer seeks a man with whom to lose his virginity. (AD)

9.00am Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country (AD) 10.00 Narrow Escapes (AD)

11.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

12 noon A Place in the Sun 3.00pm Château

DIY: Australia 4.00 A Place in the Sun 4.30

Come Dine with Me: five episodes in London

7.00pm The Dog House 1/7 Series 7. Can glamorous poodle cross Lola match up to five-year-old Violet’s dream of the ideal dog? (AD) 8.00 George Clarke’s Beautiful Builds Ep 3 Series 2. In Worsley, Greater Manchester, George helps Katherine and Andrew to renovate their abode and reveal its stunning view.

See review, p90. Shown yesterday 8pm C4 (AD)

9.00 24 Hours in A&E A 27-year-old man has a potentially serious neck injury. (AD) 10.00 Emergency 3/4 Series 3. Following a car accident, 86-year-old Veronica is taken to St George’s Hospital with an ankle fracture. (AD) 11.05 Celebrity Gogglebox 2/7. With famous faces including Bez and Shaun Ryder, and Roman and Martin Kemp. Shown 9pm C4 (AD)

12.05am 1/7. Featuring TV reviews from Rylan and his mum Linda. Shown last Fri Channel 4 (AD)

1.05 Gogglebox: from September 2025 (AD) 2.10 Taskmaster: the Final (AD) 3.10 First Dates (AD) 4.10—5.10am 24 Hours in A&E (AD)

6.00am Salvage Hunters: the Restorers 7.00 Salvage Hunters 9.00 Aussie Gold Hunters

11.00 Outback Opal Hunters: double bill

1.00pm Wheeler Dealers 2.00 Shed and Buried 4.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.00 The Yorkshire Auction House: double bill (AD)

7.00pm Antiques Road Trip Philip Serrell learns how coal mining led to the development of the UK rail network. 8.00 Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero The auctioneer bids to protect some of the country’s most incredible houses.

9.00 The Repair Shop Items include a pair of electric blue speedway boots, a 1960s electric organ and a grandfather clock.

10.00 Items up for restoration include a chair made for King George VI’s coronation.

11.00 How Do They Do It? A look at the creation of large-scale wind turbines.

11.30 An insight into the design and manufacture of tank-piercing “super bullets”.

12 midnight How Do They Do It?: two editions 1.00am Wheeler Dealers (AD) 3.00 Shed and Buried 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made: double bill

12.40am Dating Naked UK (AD) 1.40 First Dates (SL) (AD) 2.40 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD) 3.30 Don’t Tell the Bride: Revisited 4.25 The Goldbergs: double bill (AD) 5.15—6.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (SL) 7.00am Motorway Patrol 8.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line (AD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare 11.00 Highway Patrol 12 noon Border Security: America’s Front Line (AD) 1.00pm Border Patrol 2.00 Nothing to Declare 3.30 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 4.30 Stargate SG-1 5.30 LIVE Women’s T20 World Cup Cricket: England v Sri Lanka, the opening game of the tournament between the Group B rivals from Edgbaston in Birmingham. Hosts England missed out on a place in the semi-finals two years ago in the United Arab Emirates, and the Sri Lankans will be looking to improve after losing all four of their group games in 2024 10.00 Forensics: Catching the Killer (AD) 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise 12 midnight Warehouse 13 1.00am Brit Cops: War on Crime 2.00 Road Wars 3.00 Highway Patrol 4.00 Border Patrol 5.00—6.00am Highway Cops

9.00am Deal or No Deal (SL) (AD) 10.00

Tipping Point 1.00pm Lingo 2.00 Tenable

3.00 The Celebrity Chase 4.00 Riddiculous 5.00 Deal or No Deal (AD) 6.00 Lingo: three editions 9.00 The Celebrity Chase 10.05

Tipping Point: Ben Shephard hosts a triple bill

12.55am Tenable: with a team named Morecambe and Pies 1.50 Riddiculous 2.45—3.00am Unwind

9.00am Winter Road Rescue 9.35 Police Interceptors 11.40 FILM Vera Cruz HHHH Western starring Gary Cooper and and Burt Lancaster 1.30pm FILM The Unforgiven HHHH Western with Burt Lancaster. Review p107 4.00 Trucking Hell (AD) 5.00 Traffic Cops 6.00pm Police Interceptors The helicopter crew is called out to rescue a woman trapped by deadly rising river water. (AD) 7.00 Sgt Jon Moon and his police dog Kanto are confronted by a thief wielding a knife. (AD) 8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders PC Brian Camsell stops a car with suspected cloned number plates.

9.00 Police: Night Shift 999 Public disorder erupts in Cheltenham’s club district. 10.00 New. Cops A woman claims she was driving a stolen car to get to a party. 10.30 New. A suspect accused of discharging a firearm is caught on a bus and a man claims he punched a wall, not his girlfriend. 11.00 The X-Files Skinner is accused of murdering a woman he met in a bar.

12 midnight Seconds from Death: Caught on Camera (AD) 1.00am Outback Truckers (AD) 2.00 Trucking Hell: double bill (AD) 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

9.00am The Yorkshire Vet (AD) 10.00 Yorkshire Great and Small with Dan and Helen 11.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 1.00pm Murder, She Wrote (AD) 3.00 Columbo 4.30 Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson

5.00 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys

6.00pm Drain the Oceans Remains from a trade route of cargo ships in the Pacific.

7.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild Ben meets a nomadic family in New Zealand.

8.00 The presenter meets a Buddhist monk in the jungle mountains of Thailand.

9.00 Taggart Jardine investigates a killer who is preying on Glasgow’s gay community.

11.45 Ellis DCI Ellis and assistant DS Harper are sent to help with a mysterious death case.

1.45am Yorkshire Great and Small with Dan and Helen 2.40 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys 3.35—4.00am Walking Wartime Britain

FRIDAY FREEVIEW & FILMS

5.35am Paw Patrol 5.50 Mixmups 6.00 Peppa Pig 6.10 Tweedy & Fluff 6.15 Odo

6.20 Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures 6.35 Fireman Sam 6.45 Peppa Pig 6.50 Pip and Posy 6.55 Paw Patrol

7.10 Move It Milkshakers! 7.20 Rubble & Crew 7.30 Peppa Pig 7.45 Tim Rex in Space 7.55 New. Stan & Gran: Grandad is alarmed to find out he’s the oldest person in Porthole 8.15 Paw Patrol

8.25 The Adventures of Paddington

8.40 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom

8.50 Kangaroo Beach 9.00 Peppa Pig

9.10—9.15am Milkshake! Story Den

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6.00am Roots and Fruits 6.05 Bing 6.15 Teletubbies 6.30 Tee and Mo

6.35 Supertato 6.45 Bing 6.55 Mojo Swoptops 7.05 Hey Duggee’s Squirrel Club 7.15 Hey Duggee 7.20 Bluey 7.35 Go Jetters 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.00 Octonauts 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20 Alphablocks 8.25 Piripenguins 8.35 New. Playtime Towers: Bella and Lift make a new friend with an awesome roar, Steggy the Dinosaur. Together, they visit Tincy in the Sing Song Forest for a dinosaur song 9.00 Bing 9.05 Yakka Dee! 9.10 Lu and the Bally Bunch

9.20 Kiri & Lou 9.25 New. Froglets 9.30 Twirlywoos 9.45 Something Special: We’re All Friends 10.05 Small Potatoes 10.10 Teletubbies 10.25 The Baby Club 10.40 New. Tiny Tunes: Lisa and the children make twiggy stars and sign and sing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 10.45 What’s in Your Plant Pot? 10.55 New. Hamza Loves Animals: Africa 11.05 Vegesaurs 11.10 Bluey 11.20 Hey Duggee 11.25 Colourblocks 11.30 Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.45 Our Family 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.10pm Maddie’s Do You Know? 12.25 Dog Squad 12.35 Aneeshwar and Lizzie Go Wild 12.40 Waffle the Wonder Dog 1.00 Puffin Rock; Small Potatoes 1.10 Yukee

1.20 Maddie & Triggs 1.25 Hey Duggee 1.35 Numberblocks 1.40 Alphablocks

1.45 Something Special 2.10 Teletubbies

2.25 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures 2.40 Football Fantastics 2.55 Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.10 Waffle’s After School Club

3.20 Our Family 3.25 Octonauts: above and Beyond 3.35 Peter Rabbit 3.45 Hey Duggee 3.55 Vida the Vet 4.05 Supertato 4.15 The Weasy Family 4.25 Mojo Swoptops 4.35 Bluey 4.50 New. Zog 5.05 Andy’s Dino Island 5.15 Waffle the Wonder Dog 5.30 Rafi the Wishing Wizard 5.35 JoJo & Gran Gran 5.50 Sarah & Duck 5.55 Clangers 6.10 BeddyByes 6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm Bedtime Stories: Katherine and Nat Sciver-Brunt read The Perfect Fit CBeebies Freeview 202 Freely 352 Freesat 601 Sky 608 Virgin 702

CBBC 201

7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.10 Danger Mouse 7.20 Super Happy Magic Forest 7.35 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese

7.45 New. Newsround 7.55 Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 OOglies 8.15 Duck & Frog 8.35 Odd Squad 8.45 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 9.00 Bitesize Daily

9.20 One Zoo Three 9.40 Go Get Arty

10.00 Art Ninja 10.30 Absolute

No Way Out 9.00pm Great TV Tom Farrell

6.10am MasterChef Australia 7.30

Inside the Ambulance 8.00 Tipping Point: double bill 10.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build 1.00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 2.00 Antiques Road Trip 3.00 Tipping Point 4.00 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick

6.00pm DIY SOS: the Big Build The team adapts the home of a stroke survivor in Warrington, Cheshire. 7.00 Nick Knowles and his team are in Orpington, south-east London.

8.00 Pete Wicks: for Dogs’ Sake Pete helps a withdrawn pregnant malinois regain strength. (AD)

9.00 Pete meets Flower, the first dog ever to take a dislike to him. (AD) 10.00 Pete helps rescue six chihuahuas from a hoarder. (AD)

11.00 Ghosts 1/7 Series 3. A historical documentary team comes to film. (AD) 11.40 2/7. A visitor has a revelation that leaves Alison reeling. (AD) 12.15 3/7. Button House is fumigated for woodworm. (AD)

12.55 The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning (AD) 1.45—3.00am Aaron Hernandez Uncovered

6.00am James Martin’s Great British Adventure 7.00 Classic Mary Berry

8.00 The Pioneer Woman

9.00 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals 10.00

Be My Guest with Ina Garten 11.00 The Great British Bake Off 12.30pm

Rachel Allen: Bake! 1.00 James Martin’s Great British Adventure 3.00 Classic Mary Berry 4.00 The Pioneer Woman 5.00 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals

6.00pm Be My Guest with Ina Garten: Rob Marshall and John DeLuca sip watermelon cosmopolitans 7.00 The Great British Bake Off 8.30 Rachel Allen: Bake!: the Irish chef prepares lime yoghurt cake 9.00 River Cottage Road Trip: Hugh heads to Yorkshire in search of the finest northern tea experience 10.00 Nadiya’s Simple Spices: double bill 11.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: double bill. Guy Fieri tries banana cream pie and coconut curry, then visits a Mexican café in New Jersey

12 midnight Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives 1.00am Man v Food (AD) 2.00—3.00am Cake Boss: double bill

8.00am Full Steam Ahead 9.15 RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor 11.15 Bombshell 1.00pm Full Steam Ahead 2.20 RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor 4.15 Bombshell

6.10pm Full Steam Ahead 5/6

On the South Devon Railway, Peter Ginn finds out why it is important to keep one eye closed when shovelling coal.

7.25 RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor Ewan McGregor and his former RAF pilot brother Colin take to the skies in aircraft from across the Royal Air Force’s history.

9.20 Bombshell How the US government manipulated the narrative about the human impact of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War.

11.05 Prisoner Number A26188

A Jewish woman recalls how she survived four concentration camps and witnessed the birth of Israel. 12 midnight—2.00am Bombshell

8.10am True Justice HH Mystery thriller. Katherine McNamara (2024) 10.05 In Plain Sight 11.05 Castle 12.05pm Garage Sale Mysteries: Guilty until Proven Innocent 2.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Murder, She Wrote 6.00pm Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye The agent relives painful memories. 7.00 Castle A coded document is found hidden in a murder victim’s sock. 8.00 Unforgettable Carrie receives a call from a killer who tells her he will strike within minutes. 9.00 In Plain Sight Mary’s intimacy with a witness causes problems when he is accused of murder. 10.00 Hailey Dean Mysteries The sleuth investigates a series of missing persons cases linked by a dating app. 11.55 An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly Aurora’s high-school reunion is disrupted by a murder. 1.50am A Housekeeper’s Revenge HH A student faces danger from a mysterious stalker in this edgy thriller. Chrysti Ane (2016) 3.20—4.50am A Bride’s Nightmare H Twist follows twist in this clunky thriller. Brittany Underwood (2021)

6.00am Rewind Time Machine 6.05 A Brush with Art 6.35 Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (BW) 7.00 Danger Man (BW) 8.00

Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country 8.30 The Lovers 9.00 Bubblegum and Cheese 10.00 Doctor at Large 10.30 Two’s Company 11.00 The Fenn Street Gang 11.30 Agony 12 noon Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 1.00pm The Lovers 1.30 The Dustbinmen 2.00 Heather Ann 3.00 Rewind Time Machine 3.05 Hank the Cowboy 3.20 Rewind Time Machine 3.25 Boon 4.30 Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country 5.00 Stereo Underground 6.00 The Dustbinmen 6.30 Only When I Laugh 7.00 Two’s Company 7.30 Doctor at Large 8.00 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 9.00 The New Statesman 10.00 FILM A Clock Work Blue H 11.45 FILM Invasion of the Bee Girls HHH 1.30am Stereo Underground 2.30 Heather Ann 3.30 The New Statesman 4.30 Stereo Underground 5.30—6.00am Jack Hargreaves’s Old Country

8.00am The Waltons 9.00 Highway to Heaven 11.00 Little House on the Prairie 1.00pm The Waltons 4.00 Little House on the Prairie: double bill 6.00pm Ballykissangel: Donal applies his ingenuity to devising methods of retrieving golf balls from a lake on the course 7.00 M*A*S*H: four episodes 9.00 FILM No Way Out HHHH Thriller starring Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman. A Pentagon posting and a passionate woman put a naval officer out of his depth when she’s murdered and a scapegoat is required. Review, right 11.25 M*A*S*H: four episodes 1.25am Robin’s Nest 1.55 Air Rescue 3.00—4.50am Highway to Heaven

7.00am Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage 8.00 Young Sheldon 10.00 The Big Bang Theory 2.00pm Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage 3.00 Young Sheldon 5.00 The Big Bang Theory: four episodes (AD) 7.00pm The Big Bang Theory: four episodes. Sheldon misses an opportunity to meet Stan Lee (AD) 7.30 The gang squabbles (AD) 8.00 Sheldon dreads making a speech (AD) 8.30 Leonard tells Penny he loves her (AD) 9.00 New series. 90 Day Fiancé: Marissa worries how her fiancé will adapt to life in America 11.00 New. 90 Day: the Single Life: Liz and Villa delve into their emotions 1.00am Dr Pimple Popper 2.00 My 600lb Life 4.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (AD) 5.00—6.00am Say Yes to the Dress

9.00am Tropic of Cancer with Simon Reeve 10.00 Caribbean with Simon Reeve 1.00pm Tropic of Cancer with Simon Reeve 2.00 Caribbean with Simon Reeve 5.00 Bread: four editions 7.40pm Bread: two episodes. Mrs Boswell goes for a trip in Derek’s boat, then Adrian receives a letter from an 18-year-old fan of his poems 9.00 as 5pm—12.55am 12.55—6.00am Bread: nine episodes

8.00am Rising Damp 8.35 Duty Free 9.05 Upstairs, Downstairs 10.10 Bread 10.50 Steptoe and Son (BW) 11.30 Oh, Doctor Beeching! 12.05pm Rising Damp 12.35 Man about the House 1.05 Goodnight Sweetheart 1.40 When the Boat Comes In 2.45 Minder 3.50 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 4.25 Man about the House 4.55 Bread 5.30 Birds of a Feather 6.10 Rising Damp 6.40 Steptoe and Son (BW) 7.20 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 7.55 Minder 9.00 Benidorm 9.55 Shameless 10.55 Man about the House 11.35 Mind Your Language 12.05am Benidorm: the wedding party returns after a night out 1.05 Minder 2.05 Duty Free 2.30 Man about the House 3.00 The Kenny Everett Video Show 3.30 That’s 60s: Best Music Live! 4.00—5.00am Nearest and Dearest

6.00am Dickinson’s Real Deal 6.45 Pawn Stars 7.30 Money for Nothing 8.25 Junk & Disorderly 9.20 Storage Wars Canada: eight episodes 1.05 Pawn Stars 2.05 Junk and Disorderly 3.05 Money for Nothing 4.00 Ancient Aliens 5.00 UFO Conspiracies 6.00 Storage Wars Canada 7.00 Money for Nothing 8.00 Real Deal 9.00 Chaos Uncut 10.00 Weird Britain 11.00 The UnXplained 12 midnight Paranormal Survivor 1.00am UFO Conspiracies 2.00 The Proof Is Out There 3.00 Junk and Disorderly 3.45 Hardcore Pawn 5.00—6.00am Real Deal

9.10am The Proud Rebel HHHH Masterfully directed western. Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland (1958, U) 11.30 Wanted: Dead or Alive 12 noon The High Chaparral 2.00pm Raid on Entebbe HHH Peter Finch heads a distinguished cast in this well-staged drama about the raid on a hijacked plane. Martin Balsam (1977, PG) 5.00 Deadly Voltage HH Low-budget disaster drama. Mike Dopud, Alaina Huffman (2015) 6.50pm Chief of Station HH So-so espionage thriller about an ex-spy chief digging through his late wife’s covert ops. Aaron Eckhart (2024, 15) 9.00 The Expendables 3 HHH Wisecracking, starry “geriaction” thriller led by Sly Stallone. Review, right. Mel Gibson, Jason Statham (2014, 12) 11.35 Assault on Station 33 H Action flick in which an army vet is forced to save the day when a hospital is attacked. Sean Patrick Flanery (2020, 15) 1.35am Dragon Ball Super 2.35 Coast Guard Alaska 3.20 Hellgate HH Unremittingly grim western set in a New Mexico prison. Sterling Hayden (1952, PG) 4.55—5.40am Coast Guard Alaska

7.00am The Chase 9.00 Tenable 10.00 The Bidding Room 11.00 Real Deal 12 noon Crystal Maze (AD) 1.00pm Supermarket Sweep 2.00 The Chase 3.00 Celebrity Catchphrase 4.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Celebrity Special (AD) 5.00 Bidding Room 6.00 Tenable 7.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 8.00 The Chase (AD) 10.00 The Celebrity Chase 11.00 Bullseye (AD) 12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (AD) 1.00am The Chase 4.00—7.00am Bullseye

8.10am Annie Claus Is Coming to Town HH Overly sweet romantic tale. Maria Thayer (2011, U) 10.05 A Very Yorkshire Christmas HH Quaint romantic drama. Rachel Shenton (2019) 12 noon Two Turtle Doves HH Appealing drama. Nikki DeLoach (2019) 2.00pm Maggie’s Christmas Miracle HH Feel-good romance. Jill Wagner (2017) 3.55 Christmas in Homestead HH A Hollywood star ruffles feathers and stirs hearts. Taylor Cole (2016) 5.50 The Christmas Chocolatier HH Romantic drama. Brittany Bristow (2024) 7.40pm Christmas Romance Al Dente

6.00am Westminster Hall: recorded coverage 9.00 Select Committees 2.00pm House of Lords 6.00 Select Committees: recorded coverage 9.00 Scottish First Minister’s Questions 10.00 Scottish Parliament 1.00am Welsh First Minister’s Questions 1.45 Senedd Cymru: Welsh Parliament 4.30 Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Office Questions 5.15—6.00am Northern Ireland Assembly

6.00am The Internship HH Ropy

action flick. Lizzy Greene (2026, 15) 7.50 Tafiti — Across the Desert HH Animated adventure. (2025, PG) 9.20 As 8pm 11.15 As 6.15pm 1.00pm As 11.40pm

2.50 Sisu: Road to Revenge HHH

Inventive action sequel. Jorma Tommila (2025, 15) 4.30 We Bury the Dead HHH

Unusual zombie thriller. Daisy Ridley (2024, 15)

6.15pm i They Will Kill You HHH Fun and gory beat-’em-up about a woman who storms into a hotel to save her sister from a cult. Zazie Beetz (2026, 15)

8.00 i The Choral HHHH Wartime drama about a choirmaster in 1916 Yorkshire tuning up his town’s remaining men. Ralph Fiennes (2025, 12) 10.00 Fuze HHH Bank robbers take advantage of an unexploded bomb in this twisty thriller. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (2025, 15) 11.40 Dead Man’s Wire HHHH Gripping kidnap drama that sees a businessman take his broker hostage. Review p34. Bill Skarsgård (2025, 15)

1.30am One Last Deal HHH Real-time drama. Danny Dyer (2026, 18) 3.05 Him HHH So-so horror. Tyriq Withers (2025, 18) 4.45 Preview 5.30-7.45am The Bride! HHH Bold horror comedy. (2025, 15)

11.00am Magnificent Obsession

HHHH A tragic accident inspires a playboy to become a doctor in this glorious melodrama. Jane Wyman (1954, U) (S)

1.10pm The Major and the Minor HHH Daft but sparkling romantic comedy that marked Billy Wilder’s Hollywood directing debut. Review p67. Ginger Rogers (1942, U) (S)

3.15 D-Day the Sixth of June HHH

An American serviceman recalls his affair with an Englishwoman in this stirring wartime romance. Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter (1956, PG) (S)

5.25 The Longest Day HHHH

This epic overview of the D-Day landings delivers the big picture in spectacular fashion thanks to an all-star cast. John Wayne (1962, PG) (S) (AD)

9.00pm Commando HHH

No-frills action adventure about an ex-soldier blackmailed into action when his daughter is kidnapped.

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1985, 18) (S) (AD)

10.50 The Hunt HHHH This twisted tale of class warfare sees a band of rich US liberals pursuing a ragtag group of conservative strangers. Betty Gilpin (2020, 15) (S)

12.35am Hush HHH A frustrated writer searches for his kidnapped girlfriend in this gritty, low-budget road thriller. Will Ash (2008, 15) (S)

8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00 TJ Hooker 10.00 Babylon 5 11.00 Battlestar Wars H CGI-heavy sci-fi mockbuster. Luke Fattorusso (2020, 12) 12.45pm They Made Me a Fugitive HHH Absorbing British film noir. Review, right. Trevor Howard (1947, PG) 2.45 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold HHHH One of the great Cold War thrillers. Richard Burton (1965, PG) 5.00 Star Trek

6.00pm The Six Million Dollar Man Steve poses as a secret agent. 7.00 Babylon 5 Lethal artefacts are smuggled aboard the station. 8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger The son of a mob boss vows revenge. 9.00 Uncommon Valor HHH Gene Hackman leads a platoon into Laos to find his missing son in this gung-ho action drama. Review, right. (1983, 15) 11.10 Man on Fire HH Mediocre thriller in which a former CIA agentturned-pacifist becomes a Rambostyle avenger. Scott Glenn (1987, 18) 1.05am AWOL HH Efficient thriller. Jean-Claude Van Damme (1990, 18) 3.10—5.00am Momentum HHHH Slick action thriller. Olga Kurylenko, James Purefoy (2015, 15)

2.20—4.00am The Warrior HHH

Visually splendid period drama in which a warlord’s enforcer tries to leave behind his life of violence. Irfan Khan (2001, 12)

FILM REVIEWS

FRIDAY 12 JUNE

No Way Out HHHH

9.00-11.25pm Great TV j

Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol

HHHH 9.00-11.40pm E4 h

ACTION THRILLER In this fourth instalment in the spy franchise, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team are blamed for a botched mission and the team is disbanded, forcing them to work in secret to prevent a rogue scientist (Michael Nyqvist) from causing nuclear armageddon. The story may sound familiar, but the gadgets are more outlandish than ever and the stunts absolutely amazing — especially Cruise dangling off the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai. Jeremy Renner is a capable addition to the team, while Simon Pegg is promoted to a full comedy-relief role. ALAN JONES (US 2011, violence, HD)

No Trace HHH

9.25-11.00am

Talking Pictures TV g

THRILLER Based on the novel The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing (originally adapted for the screen in 1948), this spy film provides a gripping insight into the corridors of US power. In his star-making role, Kevin Costner plays a naval officer investigating a murder, while there’s assured work from Gene Hackman as an icily manipulative politician.

SUE HEAL (US 1986, violence, swearing, sex scenes, nudity)

Uncommon Valor HHH

9.00-11.10pm Legend j

ACTION DRAMA Gene Hackman brings an unusual psychological depth to the part of an embittered father leading a hand-picked platoon into Laos to find his son, who went missing in action ten years before in Vietnam. Joe Gayton’s script wins no prizes for originality or political correctness and the direction of Ted Kotcheff only just passes muster, but co-producer John Milius knows how to put on a show.

9.00am Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island 11.00 Andromeda 12 noon Time without Pity HHH Provocative thriller in which Michael Redgrave tries to save his son from the gallows. Review, right. (1957, PG) 2.00pm Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger 5.00 Tornado Warning H Sci-fi disaster movie. Kari Wuhrer (2012, PG) 7.00pm Andromeda A monstrous creature swallows the ship.

8.00 The A-Team A motorcycle gang terrorises a small town.

9.00 Riddick HHH Pulpy sci-fi action with the ever-charismatic Vin Diesel fighting aliens and mercenaries. (2013, 15) 11.30 Legacy of Lies HH An ex-spook is drawn into a plot to take down the Kremlin in this action flick with some slick fight sequences. Scott Adkins (2020, 15) 1.35am Lonesome Dove Church

HH Action-packed western with Tom Berenger as a preacher who comes to the aid of his son, who is accused of murder. (2014) 3.20 As 5pm 5.00—6.00am Andromeda

6.10am A Stranger in Town HH

Intriguing murder mystery set in a small English village. Alex Nicol (1957) (S)

7.40 Suddenly HHH Well-played thriller starring Frank Sinatra as a killer who holds a family hostage as part of a plot to kill the President. (1954, PG) (S) 9.25 No Trace HHH A novelist is blackmailed in this sharp thriller.

Review, right. Hugh Sinclair (1950, PG) (S) 11.00 The Lucy Show George Burns asks Lucy to appear on his TV show. (S) 11.30 Stage 7 A captain and a nurse are reunited years after their wartime romance. (S) 12 noon Sergeant Cork Marriott falls for a widow whose life is in danger. (S) 1.05pm The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre A man charged with fraud tries to kill the prosecuting barrister. (S) 2.15 The Adventures of Robin Hood A knight seeks Robin’s help. (S) 2.45 Dancing with Crime HH Stark crime drama. Richard Attenborough (1946, PG) (S) 4.30 The Cheaters A doctor’s widow claims he is still alive. (S) 5.00 A Family at War Margaret returns home. (S)

6.00pm Hannay A politician’s wife is being blackmailed by a count. (S)

7.00 Z Cars Barlow receives a tip-off that might foil a prolific thief.

8.00 Public Eye A client’s careless talk causes problems for Frank. (S) 9.05 Abigail’s Party A low-key gathering takes an unexpected turn in Mike Leigh’s comic drama, first shown in the Play for Today strand in 1977. (S)

11.20 The Omega Factor The department investigates a plot to assassinate an African president. (S)

12.25am The Case of the Frightened Lady HHH Smartly written mystery.

Marius Goring (1940) (S) 2.05 Operation Bottleneck HH Gung-ho low-budget Pacific War film. (1961) 3.40 A Lifetime Ago with The Baim Collection Short film from 1960.4.00 Lord Tramp Sitcom.

4.30 The Vise TV drama. (S) 5.00—

6.00am Danger UXB TV drama.

CRIME THRILLER This is a better-than-average “quota quickie” from John Gilling, in which writer Hugh Sinclair tries to cover his tracks (and delude snooping cop John Laurie) after he kills a blackmailer from his gangland past. As we know from the outset that he won’t get away with it, the fun lies in watching him make the slips that give him away to secretary Dinah Sheridan.

DAVID PARKINSON (UK 1950, BW)

Time without Pity

HHH 12 noon-1.50pm

Legend Xtra g

CRIME DRAMA Director Joseph Losey’s adaptation of Emlyn Williams’s play tells the story of a father trying to save his son from the gallows. The original was written as a thriller, but Losey places so much emphasis on the capital punishment angle that the social theme often swamps the suspense.

Top-billed Michael Redgrave is a solid presence as the alcoholic dad. DP (UK 1957, BW)

They Made Me a

Fugitive HHH

12.45-2.45pm Legend g

THRILLER Influential in its day, this fog-bound, postwar Brit noir stars Trevor Howard as a cynical ex-RAF flyer who joins

a gang of crooks and is framed for murder. It’s a grim, absorbing affair, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti (Went the Day Well?), with a script full of snappy dialogue from Noel Langley (The Wizard of Oz).

PETER FREEDMAN (UK 1947, BW)

The Unforgiven HHHH

1.30-4.00pm 5 Action g

WESTERN This handsome Texas-set movie from director John Huston deals with racial issues that still strike a chord today. Audrey Hepburn is badly miscast as the Native American brought up by Lillian Gish with her three sons on a remote ranch, but Burt Lancaster is excellent as her adopted brother, and there’s a fine Dimitri Tiomkin score. TONY SLOMAN (US 1960, may be edited for content, HD)

The Expendables 3 HHH 9.00-11.35pm Great Action h

ACTION ADVENTURE This second sequel sees Sylvester Stallone’s mercenary recruiting some youthful hotshots to capture arms dealer Mel Gibson. But when the newbies are caught, the “Grey Team” must come to the rescue. There’s the usual winning mix of banter and mayhem, with Harrison Ford and Antonio Banderas among the latest sign-ups. AJ (US 2014,

DP (US 1983, violence, swearing) The Gentlemen HH 10.45pm-12.45am ITV1 z

See review p57.

(US 2020, violence, swearing, sexual references, drug abuse., HD)

Queer HHH

11.00pm-1.10am BBC Two z

DRAMA A compelling Daniel Craig stars in this take on William S Burroughs’s semiautobiographical novella. He plays a US heroin addict in early 1950s Mexico City who spends his time chasing men in the local gay bars. That’s until he meets a young GI (Drew Starkey), and they go on a trip into the jungle.

Director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) evokes the shabby mid-20th century of Burroughs’s writing with style. JAMES MOTTRAM (It/US 2024, violence, swearing, sex scenes, drug abuse, nudity, HD)

Queen & Slim HHHH 1.10-3.15am BBC Two j

DRAMA A first date turns nightmarish in this feature debut from pop video director Melina Matsoukas. Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith deliver magnetic turns as a couple who go on the run after an encounter with an aggressive white cop. It’s a provocative yet nuanced effort, with striking visuals creating a richly heightened reality.

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ESCAPE FROM THE COUNTRY

The Archers cast is heading on tour, bringing Ambridge’s adored characters to towns and cities around the UK, writes LIBBY PURVES

The Archers Sunday–Friday 7.00pm Radio 4

AFTER 75 YEARS spent chiefly inside Birmingham studios and the imaginations of radio listeners, for the first time The Archers is sending eight actors to tour the UK from June to November, with a theatre show that includes interviews, archive clips, demonstrations of sound effects from lambing to pint-pulling, a pub quiz and miniature episodes set at Ambridge’s annual horticultural battle, The Flower & Produce Show.

The actors are split across two separate troupes and the shows will run in clumps of three within each area, with gaps between (they do, after all, need to keep recording actual programmes). While the voices of Brian Aldridge and

‘I never get recognised on the street – it’s just the voice’

SUSIE RIDDELL, TRACY

Lilian Bellamy are made flesh in Manchester, Stoke and Truro, another team with David Archer and Susanfrom-the-shop will be preparing to hit Cambridge, Glasgow and Ipswich.

The logistics are complicated, with the radio show having a cast of around 60 and sometimes a third of them recording in any one week. The touring groups expect confusing moments when some members have recorded a dramatic event and need to remember whether or not the audience knows it

on show night. “Oh dear, yes,” says Susie Riddell, who plays Tracy Horrobin, “it’s already difficult when I’ve read a script, heard it in my head but it hasn’t gone out. We will have to be careful not to give stuff away. And we’ll all be in the bus together reading scripts on the way to the next theatre.”

“It should be like an ice cream van, with the theme playing and all of us singing,” says Annabelle Dowler (Kirsty Miller). “I think of it as my equivalent of a Strictly Tour. Who’ll be the Strictly Curse? You, Ben?” That’s Ben Norris, who shares his real name with Ben Archer, newly-fledged paramedic and mental health enthusiast. “Will we get sick of each other’s stories?” asks Dowler. “Just make up new ones every time,” he replies. “We’ll have weeks in between shows and won’t necessarily remember anything we said.”

“Oh, I never do,” says Charles Collingwood, who plays Brian Aldridge. “I will be 83 when we’re on the tour. I think they thought, ‘OK, let’s give that old fool one last go, finish him off!’” “We’ll be fine,” comes reassurance from Sunny Ormonde, who plays Lilian. “Just as long as we stay on our medication.”

“I’ll be on antihistamines,” chimes in Riddell, “because Ryan is bringing his assistance dog.”

That’s Ryan Kelly (Jazzer McCreary), who is blind, and famously has the best memory for plots. The others are praying that the quiz section doesn’t involve them: “On the Archers podcast I never get the answer right,” says Charlotte Martin (Susan Carter). “I can’t even remember what was going on two years ago.”

Did they all volunteer for this extra job? “No,” says Riddell, channelling her inner Horrobin with the Del Boy

suggestion “maybe a few fivers changed hands?” “We were probably the cheapest. The most, er, available...” chip in several castmates.

‘Ben Archer sits alongside me, ageing at the same time’ BEN NORRIS, BEN

There’s a bit of a school-trip atmosphere not least because, with multiple storylines, some of them only rarely meet in the studio. Kelly reflects, “I don’t think I’ve been on with Ben since last August.” To which Norris points out, “I’ve only just had my first time ever talking to Alice!” “But you’re cousins!” reproves Kelly, shocked.

All are looking forward to meeting listeners, although, “We are often a guilty secret,” says Dowler. Martin remembers a play they did in the 1990s written by Ted Kelsey, who played Joe Grundy. “My favourite memory was in Hull. The audience was full of lorry drivers. They said, ‘Oh yes, we always put The Archers on in our trucks.’”

There’s a measurably younger demo-

graphic these days among Archers listeners, but it’s still a wide one overall, boomer grandparents to Gen Z. Collingwood reminisces fondly of a former Saga cruise: “All these elderly ladies, blonde with grief,” he murmurs, true to his roving-eyed character. Other veterans like Tim Bentinck (David Archer) also remember periods when the cast did a lot of meet-and-greets. “In the days of Archers Addicts trips! It was always lovely to meet the listeners, but there was a worry about us not looking the way people imagined. I did a thing at Butlins once, and a woman said, ‘You’ve ruined it for me.’ I said, ‘No, there are five million different Davids. Yours will come back to you.’ She burst into tears, and it turned out her husband called David had died. Oh, I was mortified!”

Norris, a relative newcomer, also knows the risk of not looking as

expected: “When I first joined, they used Twitter and gave a warning that said, ‘Contains pictures’. As if we were all incredibly ugly.”

WILL THEY GO on stage in rural costume? “I’m torn between Barbour and corduroys or being myself in ripped jeans,” says Bentinck. “I think just a slightly less scruffy version of myself,” says Norris, “I’m not going to wear scrubs.”

“I’ll put my Tracy shoes on,” says well-spoken Riddell, “for the bit where we do a scene. And,” – she drops into Borsetshire – “Oi’ll do the Tracy voice. I never get recognised on the street, it’s just the voice.”

Ormonde, as the ageing-but-foxy Lilian, has a responsibility towards glamour. In real life she is a cheerfully casual figure but, “It’s gotta be a bit out-there. I do a one-woman show

sometimes being fairly glamorous, so I might bring some of that clobber.”

As for Collingwood, “I might wear a dinner jacket. They all think I look like Michael Heseltine anyway. Last year I was at a party and a woman came storming across the lawn shouting, ‘You’re almost famous, but I don’t know your name. You are a disappointment.’”

They’re easy about the double-identity as themselves or their characters.

“We’re all happy chatters, who talk s**t and mess around,” says Norris. “Some actors don’t like moving outside the character or stepping in and out. But with a series like this that runs for years in real time, it’s comfortable. Ben Archer is this person who sits alongside me, ageing at the same time. It’s not like a play where you leave the character behind.” “They’re a little bit alive, our characters,” says Kelly, who sounds very like Jazzer. “It’s a second skin,” adds Martin.

THERE IS A sense of intergenerational comradeship, the young like hearing the tales of old stagers. “I can remember a lot of you being born,” says Bentinck solemnly. They cheerfully joke about plotlines, like the rest of us: some remember the delicious 1990s spoof cartoons, Unheard of Ambridge, about characters referred to but never heard. We reflect on the never-heard Farmer Mulligan, conveniently found dead in his milking parlour a few months back so that his daughter Esme can be a new character and, usefully, employ the jailbird George Grundy since none of the other resentful villagers will. “Yes,” says Bentinck. “It’s a bit odd that there’s this big farm next door to Brookfield that nobody’d ever mentioned.” “Mmm,” adds Kelly, the plot expert, “and suddenly there’s Tony remembering ‘old man Mulligan’…”

The Archers is real enough to be a national institution but familiar enough to take a family joke. So off they’ll go, merry as grigs. As Ormonde says, “It’s a party, a thank you to everyone over the years.”

ILLUSTRATION

BY DOM McKENZIE

The Archers: Live at 75 tour runs from 7 June to 26 November. Details at fane.co.uk/the-archers What it’s like to create the sounds of Ambridge: see page 7

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AMBRIDGE DIARY

The Archers

Sunday–Friday 7.00pm Radio 4

MONEY MAN Director

Steven Spielberg

DAVID CRAWFORD

The wars over Home Farm appear as intractable as the Middle East and are also starting to pull in its neighbours; this week Ed is encouraged to take sides and Martyn Gibson, tired of the squabbling, offers an ultimatum over the BL contract. It may seem like a peace plan, but Brian has one final trick up his sleeve, which could sour relations for ever. Pip considers her future health options, Helen has an offer for Tracy, and Amber has a dilemma.

BIOGRAPHY

Archive on 4: The Alf Ramsey Story

Saturday 8.00pm Radio 4

Ramsey is the only manager to lead the England football team to victory in the World Cup, and he remains an enigma. But David Goldblatt does a fine job of seeking the truth about the “unknowable” architect of that 1966 triumph, who, distancing himself from his Dagenham roots, was all “outer shell”. Here was a man on two compelling journeys: navigating his way through the English class system and plotting a course to the ultimate footballing summit.

SIMON O’HAGAN

MUSIC

Private Passions

Sunday 12 noon Radio 3

The discovery in early childhood that there are different viewpoints was formative for Sofka Zinovieff, a writer whose cosmopolitan background has blessed her with many avenues to explore in both fiction and non-fiction. Not that – despite her parents’ divorce – her early years were entirely unhappy. “There were also a lot of very marvellous things,” she tells Michael Berkeley, and that’s certainly true of her music choices, which include Mozart, Bach and Monteverdi. SO’H

ETHICS

Good Bad Billionaire Wed 1.30pm, 10.30pm BBC World Service

Steven Spielberg is arguably the most commercially successful movie director of all time. So how does the Oscar winner who ushered in the age of the summer blockbuster with Jaws measure up to the playful adjudication of journalist Zing Tsjeng and BBC business editor Simon Jack, who saw the 1975 chiller aged just six? What emerges is not only the man responsible for such box-office hits as Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET and Jurassic Park, but also a hard negotiator who was a billionaire by the age of 46. His agreement to consult on Universal’s theme parks in perpetuity, worth $30 million a year, is just one example of his business savvy. JEREMY ASPINALL

GEOPOLITICS

Ten Years after Brexit

Mon–Wed 1.45pm Radio 4

To mark ten years since the Brexit referendum and with some polls suggesting the result could be reversed if it were held now, the BBC’s Alex Forsyth examines the impact leaving the EU had on the UK. Key issues like the economy, trade and Northern Ireland are on the menu, as well as the still-thorny matter of immigration. Net migration figures tend to fluctuate, but as Alex and her guests admit, small-boat crossings and asylum claimants continue to exercise electoral opinion. JA

THORNY ISSUE

Alex Forsyth looks at the impact of the UK’s 2016 decision to leave the EU

FOOTBALL

The Soccernomics Podcast

A record 48 teams are competing at this year’s World Cup, and it feels like there may be as many podcasts devoted to the event. This one is definitely worth the attention, offering “a way of thinking about the game that reveals the hidden truths behind it”. Soccernomics is a concept dreamt up by writers Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, and together with presenter Ashish Malhotra, they explore the World Cup as a phenomenon that’s about more than what happens on the pitch. SO’H

CONVERSATION

Stories from a Stranger

Nurse Hunter Prosper found respite from the Intensive Care Unit during Covid by connecting with people on the streets of New York. The interviews with strangers he posted on social media became a bestselling book and now he’s back with a new weekly video and audio podcast. Without preamble, he puts big questions, starting with “Who is your greatest love?” Rather wonderfully, he finds people like Sally, 96, to talk about Bob, a Syracuse classmate who gave her “a tingle” in 1951. FIONA HUGHES

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SOCIAL HISTORY

The Kaleidoscope of Gaze

It’s 1975 and 10-year-old Paul Burston (now a writer and activist) is watching The Naked Civil Servant with his stepfather. Paul’s growing unease with the emotions the film raises is escalated when his stepfather jests, “You’re mother’s worried you’ll end up like this” – a gay man. To celebrate Pride Month, songwriter Kris Zar speaks with six guests about their experiences of coming out and being part of the LGBTQ+ community. This is a gentle, empathetic slice of social history. ANNA JONES

ENVIRONMENT

Drilled: Carbon Cowboys

Since 2018 Drilled has been the leading podcast on climate change denial. Journalist Amy Westervelt has traced what she sees as public opinion manipulation to at least the 1980s. In a new season, Carbon Cowboys, she sets her sights on Bruce Rastetter, former ethanol producer and agricultural adviser to Donald Trump, who is now capturing carbon and transporting it via pipelines. It’s supposedly a clean energy project, but Westervelt sees only a land-grabbing exercise.

DAVID McGILLIVRAY

SOCIAL HISTORY

A History of the United States in 100 Objects

CAPTIVE HISTORY

A peek at the contents of the Century Safe

STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

DAVID HEPWORTH

From Scouse to nous: how Hamburg shaped the Beatles

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OF THE WEEK

Anyone with an interest in history should listen to the first episode of this as Jill Lepore tells the tragicomic tale of the Century Safe, a sort of 1876 time capsule portentously unlocked by President Gerald Ford 100 years later as the world looked on – and said “meh”. Why? “Nobody really thought about the future until the 20th century,” Lepore observes. In this spirit, presenter Roman Mars promises this US version of a tried-and-tested format will be strong on quirks rather than museum pieces, as befits a gawky, adolescent nation. DAVID HEPWORTH

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Caroline Frost and an expert guest discuss the best new telly, the latest TV news and the best letters from the RT postbag.

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Change Your Mind

In a world full of 15-minute fads, it’s often difficult to tell if the mental health advice we get is genuine. This podcast from New Scientist sees journalists Cat de Lange and Helen Thomson debunk the hype, finding out what keeps our brains focused, mood steady and our memory strong. In the first two episodes, the pair are joined by experts to discuss the largely misunderstood causes of anxiety, as well as the supplements industry, where peddlers of “brain boosting” pills and vitamins compete for our attention. TOM GOULDING

BECAUSE I’M OLD enough to have witnessed the Beatles story IRL, so to speak, I’m not exactly buzzing with anticipation over the upcoming film versions of their individual stories. Like Rocketman and Michael these are bound to be aimed at an audience who don’t remember the real events. I am, on the other hand, intrigued by the prospect of Hamburg Days, the impending BBC six-part series documenting their time in the German city between 1960 and 1962. For a start there’s the overarching fact that the Beatles story is incident-packed in a way that simply doesn’t apply to the story of any other pop group. It’s so incident-packed that it’s possible to create some kind of drama out of every day in their lives, from the moment 60 years ago this month Paul McCartney knocked on Bertrand Russell’s door and learnt about Vietnam, to the time in 1969 when John Lennon drove his Austin Maxi into a Scottish ditch. Every additional thing we learn about the minutiae of their lives only makes their story more extraordinary.

THAT CERTAINLY APPLIES to the Hamburg years. They went there as callow kids and came back as hardened showbiz professionals. In Hamburg they lived together amid squalor that would have challenged even Withnail. They played for drunks, sailors, criminals, Nazis and, on one memorable day, a visiting Malcolm Muggeridge. There is no part of the story that you could make up.

In Hamburg, which had less than 20 years before been set afire by the RAF, they were befriended by a coterie of German art students, one of whom, Astrid Kirchherr, invented their look. She invited them to a family home where they had servants; their Scouse eyes must have been on stalks. For them Hamburg was university, national service and on the job training all in one. This is where they put in their legendary 10,000 hours. This is where a German club owner told them about the importance of what he called “maching Schau”. This is where they learnt the most important lesson – never be dull. Which is maybe why they still aren’t.

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TODAY’S REVIEWS BBC Radio 3

More Than the Score

5.30am/6.30pm BBC World Service

The man in the tailored white suit above is in the right place at the right time. Jordan Cowan, a former figure skater himself, forged a niche role as the only cameraman permitted to film on the ice at this year’s Winter Olympics — albeit when the skaters’ routines were finished. But it was figure skating that became the social media hit in Italy earlier this year, and the sight of Cowan with his elaborate filming kit (and that white suit) was part of the buzz. He tells Sophia Hartley how his early years observing film sets in Los Angeles birthed his love for the camera, long before he took up his blades. ANNA JONES

Opera on 3: Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone

8.00pm Radio 3

Angels on Earth is a theme explored romantically in Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire and comically in Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens. Du Yun takes a disturbing route in Angel’s Bone. The Chinese-American composer, musician and performance artist’s 2017 Pulitzer-winning opera is a bold choice for English National Opera’s inaugural production in Manchester. The fallen angels here are sexually and physically abused, trafficked and exploited. Recorded at Aviva Studios, Angel’s Bone is a collaboration with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and local arts organisation Factory International. Du Yun’s sometimes discomforting music has elements of electronica and spoken word. It’s opera but not, perhaps, as we know it. MICHAEL HODGES

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Archive on 4: The Alf Ramsey Story 8.00pm Radio 4

The World Cup winner recalled.

BBC Radio 1

6.00am Oré Olukoga 7.00 James Cusack

10.30 Nat and Vicky 1.00pm Sam and Danni 4.00 Dance Anthems 7.00 Radio

1’s Soundsystem 9.00 Rap Show 10.30 Rap Mixtape 11.00 Drum ’n’ Bass Show

12.00 Dance Drum ‘n’ Bass Mix 1.00am

Classic Essential Mix 3.00 Future Dance Mix 3.30 Pete Tong’s Hot Mix 4.00 Dance Party Starters 5.00 Dance Anthems

BBC Radio 2

88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2

Freeview* 702 Freely 603 Freesat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

6.00am Sounds of the 60s with Tony Blackburn US and UK hits, today including the UK top three from this week in 1966.

8.00 Dermot O’Leary

Dermot anticipates Wednesday’s bigscreen release of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day in conversation with its director and the film’s star, Emily Blunt.

10.00 Romesh Ranganathan

1.00pm Emma Willis

3.00 Rylan on Saturday

6.00 Shaun Keaveny

8.00 Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies

10.00 Sounds of the 90s with Fearne Cotton

12.00 Prince: the Fans’ Story Radio 2 marks tomorrow’s anniversary of the birth of US musician Prince (1958—2016) with a 2023 programme of contributions from artists who have worked with him, covered his music, seen him live and been inspired by him. Soundtracked by some of Prince’s top hits, there are personal memories and stories shared by Jazzie B (of Soul II Soul), Mick Hucknall, Midge Ure, Noel Gallagher, Richard Marx, Lemar, Jessie Ware, Rita Ora, Adam Lambert, Ellie Goulding, Jake Shears, Sharleen Spiteri and more. (R)

1.00am Dance Sounds of the 90s with Vernon Kay Music from films. (R)

2.00Tony Blackburn’sSoundsofSoul

A spotlight on the queens of soul. (R)

3.00 Radio 2 Unwinds with Angela Griffin A Pride-themed mix with Diana Ross, Cher, Madonna and Bronski Beat. (R)

4.00 Radio 2 in Concert Was (Not Was) in 1990 at the Milton Keynes Bowl.

5.00 Tracks of My Years Omnibus with Kelly Cates.

BBC 6 Music

DAB bbc.co.uk/6music

Freeview 707 Freely 608 F’sat 707 Sky 0118 Virgin 909

6.00am Afrodeutsche A mellow vibe.

8.00 Radcliffe and Maconie

10.00 Nick Grimshaw and Beth Ditto Beth and Nick co-present a live festival broadcast from the penultimate day of Primavera Sound in Barcelona, joined by indie musician Baxter Dury, Galway rock band NewDad, experimental music group TheseNew PuritansandBrightonpunk-rock act Lambrini Girls. Plus archive live sets from Barcelona’s Parc del Fòrum.

1.00pm Jamz Supernova

3.00 Gilles Peterson

6.00 The Funk and Soul Show

Stuart Maconie sits in for Craig Charles.

9.00 Don Letts’s Culture Clash Radio 11.00 Sherelle 1.00am 6 Music’s Rave Forever 2.00 The Morning After Mix

Boom Radio

DAB+ boomradio.co.uk

6.00am Nick Bailey 8.00 Roger’s 60s Show 10.00 Rob Jones 12.00 Simon’s 70s with Simon Bates 2.00pm Judi Spiers

4.00 The Boom Jukebox with Dave Brown 7.00 Saturday Soul 9.00 Graham Torrington 12.00 Eddie Shaw’s Night Ride 2.00am Night Music

6.30am Breakfast With Hannah French in Salford. 9.00 Saturday Morning With Tom Service. 12.00 Earlier...with Jools Holland

Guest Emeli Sandé discusses favourite works by Dvořák, Vivaldi and Khachaturian. From 2025. (R) 1.00pm Key Changes: Radio 3’s Essential History of Classical Music

1600: Opera’s First Breath. A48-week series covering 1,000 years of music, today with Gillian Moore and Suzannah Lipscomb tracing opera’s emergence from Renaissance experiments with music, poetry and drama. From its origins as courtly spectacle to the masterworks of Monteverdi, the art form rapidly spreads across Italy to become one of the most powerful forms of storytelling.

Peri Prologue: Euridice Françoise Masset (soprano), Les Arts Baroques/Mireille Podeur Peri/G Caccini Al canto, al ballo (Euridice) Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon Gluck Che farò senza Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Roger Norrington Monteverdi Toccata; Possente spirto (L’Orfeo) Furio Zanasi (baritone), Les Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall Gesualdo Asciugate i begli occhi (Madrigals, Book 5) BBC Singers/Owain Park Monteverdi Lamento d’Arianna Helen Charlston (mezzo), Toby Carr (theorbo) F CacciniCosì,perfidaAlcina(Laliberazionedi Ruggiero) Luciana Mancini (mezzo), L’Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar Monteverdi Pur ti miro (L’incoronazione di Poppea) Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/ Harry Christophers John Adams News Has a Kind of Mystery (Nixon in China) James Maddalena (baritone), Orchestra of St Luke’s/Edo de Waart

See also Composer of the Week Monday—Friday 4pm 2.00 Record Review With Andrew McGregor. 2.10 Adrian Chandle discusses favourite new releases. 3.00Building a Library Alice Farnham discusses her favouriteavailablerecordingofMahler’sFifthSymphony. 4.00 Sound of Cinema

Edith Bowman explores new and classic music for film and television. Plus features, including Harmonising Hollywood — today with composer Nitin Sawhney delving into Ennio Morricone’s score to A Fistful of Dollars (1964) — and Pick of the Flicks, with guitarist Craig Ogden also sharing a Western-inspired favourite.

5.00 This Classical Life Jess Gillam is joined by Italian contemporary pianist and composer Olivia Belli. Her choices include Arvo Pärt and Philip Glass and a recording by Gino Paoli. 6.00 Radio 3 in Concert

As part of Radio 3’s Wigmore Hall celebrations, a recital from earlier today, with vocalist Elaine Mitchener and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny in a journey through the lyrical poetry of composers and songwriters across centuries, from John Dowland to John Dankworth, from Henry Purcell to Duke Ellington, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell.

6.00am Arlene Stuart 9.00 Richard Allinson: with hits of the 1970s, 80s and 90s (and the occasional 1960s classic) 1.00pm Claire Sturgess 4.00 Spinnin’ the Decades with Stephanie Hirst 7.00 The 80s Mixtape with Jenny Powell 10.00 Rhythm of the Night: Des Paul with soul, funk, disco and more 1.00am Music Marathon

8.00 Opera on 3: Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone

The UK premiere of composer Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone (2018) in a production by Kip Williams for English National Opera in collaboration with Factory International and the BBC Philharmonic, recorded mid-May at Aviva Studios, Manchester. In librettist Royce Vavrek’s tale of modern slavery and human trafficking, two angels fall to Earth, where they gradually become exploited and injured as their keepers seek fortune and fame. Angel’s Bone uses multiple musical genres, spoken word and immersive staging and sound. Presented by Mark Forrest. Du Yun Angel’s Bone

Mrs XE

Mr XE

Boy angel

Girl angel

Male soprano

6.00am The Everyday Hustle 7.00 Motivation 8.00 SmashBengali 10.00 Certified 11.00 Vallisa: music, chat and entertainment 2.00pm Certified Throwbacks: Bollywood, Bhangra, hip-hop, R&B, UK garage and British Asian 3.00 Gura 6.00 DJ Kizzi 9.00 Pure Spice with DJ Manara 12.00 Pure Spice: the Takeover 1.00am DJ Kizzi 4.00 Club Hit Squad Mix 5.00 Celebrates

Allison Cook (mezzo)

Rodney Earl Clarke (baritone)

Keith Pun (countertenor) Kantos Chamber Choir, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Baldur Brönnimann

9.30 Music Planet

In anticipation of the start of the men’s Fifa World Cup, Lopa Kothari shares music celebrating the world of football, including French-Spanish musician Manu Chao’s tribute to Argentinian icon Diego Maradona (1960—2020) and an ode to Cameroon’s Roger Milla from Congolese soukous musician Pépé Kallé. And Mexico City-based DJ/producer (and Mexican Institute of Sound frontman) Camilo Lara shares three tracks that inform his latest collaborative album with Meridian Brothers, offering a window into the sounds of his home country in the 1970s. 10.30 New Music Show

With Tom Service, tonight including Presto e lento — the 2022 piano concerto by Martin Smolka in a performance by soloist Joseph Havlat with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jack Sheen, recorded in February at the Maida Vale Studios in London. Plus a performance from experimental vocalist Audrey Chen recorded in March at Cafe Oto in east London as part of the Eavesdropping festival. 12.30am Through the Night With Jonathan Swain. Keith Jarrett, arr Vallières The Köln Concert Antoine Bareil and Marie Bégin (violins), Elvira Misbakhova (viola), Stéphane Tétreault (cello) 1.44 Ravel Piano Concerto in G 2.06 Milhaud La création du monde, Op 81 2.25 Gratton Quatrième danse canadienne (arr Passmore for piano trio) 2.31 Bach Cantata No 170: Vergnugte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust 2.52 Nielsen Symphony No 5 3.28 Rosenmüller Sonata No 4 in C (à 3) 3.35 Grieg Erotic, Op 43 No 5; March of the Dwarves, Op 54 No 3; Nocturne, Op 54 No 4 3.44 Mozart Per questa bella mano, K612 3.52 Melartin Karelian Scenes, Op 146 4.03 Stanford The Blue Bird, Op 119 No 3 4.07 Vaughan Williams Romance 4.14 Pellegrini Courante per la X Piccinini Ciaccona in partite variate 4.20 Moniuszko Ballet Music for Otto Nicolai’s Merry Wives of Windsor 4.31 Brahms Intermezzo in A, Op 118 No 2 4.38 Lekeu Adagio pour quatuor d’orchestre 4.50 Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine Companho ferai un vers tot covinen Anon La quarte estampie royal 4.57 Haydn Divertimento in C, H IV 1 (London Trio No 1) 5.06 Horneman Heroic Overture 5.20 Welffens Stabat Mater 5.38 Bach Solo Violin Sonata No 3 in C, BWV1005 6.02 Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No 5 (Egyptian) (R)

8.00am Jon Richardson 11.00 Sarah Champion 2.00pm Dan Noble: with tracks from across the Absolute Radio network 5.00 Ben Burrell’s Indie Disco 7.00 Absolute Classic Rock Party 10.00 Sophie K 4.00am Ben Coley 6.00am

Matthew McKinney (tenor)

Mariam Wallentin (singer)

5.30am News Summary

5.43 Prayer for the Day

With singer and worship leader Julia Loveless.

5.45 The Hackers

7/10. Biella Coleman explores one of the core beliefs in the many subsets of hacker culture — that information should be shared and freely accessible. From 2021. All episodes are on BBC Sounds. Rptd from yesterday 6.00 News and Papers

6.07 Ramblings

3/7. Clare Balding explores the south side of Anglesey with friends Emily Coates and Nic Parry. Beginning on the wide sands of Newborough Beach, they follow the shoreline towards Ynys Llanddwyn, a narrow finger of land pointing out to sea. After enjoying the views across the water to the Eryri (Snowdonia) mountain range, they complete their circular walk with a stroll through Newborough Forest’s corsican pines. Rptd from Thu 6.30 Farming Today This Week News about food, farming and the countryside.

7.00 Today

With Katya Adler and Amol Rajan.

7.20 Yesterday in Parliament

7.25, 8.25 Sports news

7.48 Thought for the Day With Imam and educator Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra.

9.00 Saturday Live

Adrian Chiles is joined by Olympic gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, author Cressida Cowell and astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Plus the Inheritance Tracks of writer Russell T Davies. Producer Gareth Nelson-Davies

10.00 Sixty Years of Hurt

4/6. England v the Culture. David Baddiel looks at the 1990s and 2000s, exploring how Italia ‘90 was a turning point for perceptions of the sport, before delving into the glamour and promise of the “golden generation” of England players.

Producers Richard Power and David Baddiel Repeated Monday 3.30pm

10.30 Legend: the Miles Davis Story

3/5. Miles in Blue. Clarke Peters examines the making of the influential composer and bandleader’s 1959 masterpiece, Kind of Blue, which transformed the jazz genre for ever. Peters explores the uncomfortable collision of professional triumph and personal volatility, as Davis’s relationship with his soon-to-be wife, dancer Frances Taylor, was tested by the same uncompromising drive that fuelled his art. Series producer Clem Hitchcock Rptd Monday 4.30pm 11.00 The Week in Westminster A round-up of the week’s political proceedings.

11.30 From Our Own Correspondent

Presented by Kate Adie. Repeated tomorrow 9.30pm

12.04pm Money Box

The latest from the world of personal finance. Repeated tomorrow 9pm Your RT Money: page 138

12.30 The News Quiz

8/8. Pierre Novellie, Desiree Burch, Alasdair Beckett-King and Coco Khan join Andy Zaltzman for the topical comedy panel game. Rptd from yesterday Rptd Monday 11pm BBC Radio 4 Extra 1.00 News

1.10 Any Questions?

Alex Forsyth chairs the political forum from St Mary’s Church, Kirkby Lonsdale, where an audience canvasses the opinions of four leading figures. Repeated from yesterday 2.05 Any Answers?

A chance to have a say on the issues raised in Any Questions? Presented by Anita Anand.

PHONE: 0370 010 0444 Lines open from 12.30pm

EMAIL: any.answers@bbc.co.uk

2.45 The Archers Repeated from yesterday

3.00 The King Must Die

2/2. Robin Brooks’s dramatisation of Mary Renault’s novel based on the myth of Theseus. Finding himself in the decadent civilisation of Minoan Crete, Theseus discovers the glamour and danger of the bull dance. From 2021.

Theseus Shane Zaza

Poseidon Raad Rawi

Ariadne Annie Haworth

Minos Richard Braine

Phormion Joe McArdle

Corinthian

Harmony Rose-Bremner

Laia/Lady Tessa Wojtczak

Aktor/Lord/Perimos/Guard

Richard Bates

Lukos/Alektryon Charlie Archer Helike/Maenad Sophie Walter Hippon/Captain/YoungKing Gavi Singh Chera Melantho/Lady/QueenofNaxos Heidi Parsons

Chryse/Girl Alexandra Ewing Iros/Alexias Sam Henderson Asterion/Priest Theo Fraser Steele

Producer/Director Fiona McAlpine (R)

4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour

Anita Rani presents a round-up of highlights from the weekday programmes.

5.00 Saturday PM With Caroline Wyatt.

5.30 Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

4/11. The Today presenter interviews major political figures about their lives and careers.

Producer Hannah Wilkinson

6.00 Six o’Clock News

6.15 Loose Ends

Edith Bowman is joined by Holly Jackson, author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, and comedians Guz Khan and Ayoade Bamgboye. With music from Haircut 100 and Liam Bailey.

Producer Jessica Treen Repeated Thursday 9pm

7.00 Profile

An insight into the character of a person in the news. Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm

7.15 This Cultural Life

10/14. Australian-born artist, film-maker and speculative architect Liam Young tells John Wilson about the influences, inspirations and experiences that have shaped his life, work and career. Repeated from Thursday 8.00 Archive on 4: The Alf Ramsey Story

6David Goldblatt charts the life and career of Sir Alf Ramsey (1920—1999), who managed the England men’s football team for 11 years and led them to victory at the 1966 World Cup. The programme features archive recordings of Sir Alf from 1953 onwards, as well as extracts from his 1952 autobiography Talking Football

See page 112. Producer Mark Burman

9.00 The Moral Maze

2/6. Michael Buerk is joined by guests Mona Siddiqui, James Orr, Tim Stanley and Ash Sarkar to debate a topical moral issue. Rptd from Wednesday 10.00 News

10.15 The Food Programme

Inside England’s School Food Shake-Up

Sheila Dillon looks at the plans to overhaul England’s school food standards, from cutting back on fried food, puddings and processed meat to serving more fruit and vegetables. She hears from pupils, caterers and campaigners who want better school meals but don’t always agree on how to make them a reality. Rptd from yesterday

11.00 The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty

2/4. The Sister I Un-Mistered. Series two of the comedy written by Amy Greaves and Christian Brighty. The regency gent’s holiday in Bath is interrupted when Babs insists that he make amends to his sister Flan. Brighty was, after all, responsible for ending Flan’s engagement to entrepreneurial industrialist Mr Poach. Meanwhile, Churlington the butler must make arrangements for an unexpected boxing match.

LordChristianBrighty Christian Brighty Babs Jessica Knappett Churlington Colin McFarlane LadyFlanBrighty Jodie Mitchell

Lavinia Chiara Goldsmith MrPoach David Reed BobGregson Joz Norris Amelia Amy Greaves PierceEgan Jason Forbes

Producer Ben Walker Rptd Friday 9am BBC Radio 4 Extra 11.30 Bookmarks

1/2. Literary quiz show hosted by Clare Balding, in which two duos go head to head in a test of knowledge about fiction and non-fiction titles. Repeated from Sunday 12.00 News and Weather

12.15—12.45am Take Four Books

Imani Thompson tells James Crawford about her novel Honeyand itslinksto NoughtsandCrossesby Malorie Blackman, Jamaica Kincaid’s prose poem Girl and the 2017 collection of Audre Lorde’s writing Your Silence Will Not Protect You Rptd from Sunday 1.00 as BBC World Service

5.00am 5 Live Boxing

6.00 Saturday Breakfast With Jeanette Kwakye and Nestor McGregor, who sits in for Eleanor Oldroyd. 9.00 Patrick Kielty

11.00 Test Match Special England v New Zealand on day three of the First Test, live from Lord’s in London (full commentary on Sports Extra).

12.00 5 Live Sport

Eleanor Oldroyd with sports news and a sports preview. At 1.00pm Katie Smith is joined by guests for build-up to the 2.00 commentary on the women’s final at the French Open. From 4.00 there’s commentary on the Derby. Plus coverage of practice sessions at the Monaco Grand Prix and updates from England v New Zealand in the First Test. At 5.00 Katie Smith presents sports reaction.

6.30 The Wayne Rooney Show

8.30SportingGiants:Messi vRonaldo 1&2/4. Steve Crossman and Guillem Balagué explore the rivalry between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Continues tomorrow.

8.00 5 Live Sport

GordonSmartisjoinedby guestsforbuild-up to the 9.00 commentary on England v New Zealand, the football friendly at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

11.30 Stephen Nolan Topical show. 1.00am Laura McGhie With a phone-in.

BBC 5 Sports Extra

10.00am—7.00pm Test Match Special England v New Zealand on day three of the First Test in the three-match series from Lord’s in London.

6.00am Comedienne as 5pm 7.30 Among Others as 12.30pm 8.45 The Fosdyke Saga as 7.45pm 9.00TheEricMorecambeand ErnieWiseShow

9.30 Beyond Our Ken Vintage 1960 comedy

10.00 The Inimitable PG Wodehouse Alexander Armstrong celebrates the humorous works of Guildford-born author PG Wodehouse (1881—1975), with his characters brought to life in archive gems featuring Simon Cadell, Michael Hordern and Richard Briers. Plus rare interviews. From 2020 (3/3) 11.00 Comedienne as 5pm 12.30pm Among Others Martin Jarvis reads from the book of short essays by playwright and novelist Michael Frayn (Noises Off, Copenhagen), in which the writer assesses himself not just as a person but as a physical object. Jarvis has often collaborated with Frayn on BBC programmes. From 2023 (1—5/5) 1.45 The Fosdyke Saga as 7.45pm 2.00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show Comedy and music with the iconic duo

2.30 Beyond Our Ken Vintage 1960 comedy

3.00 The Inimitable PG Wodehouse as 10am 4.00 Spine Chillers Sean Barrett stars in Jill Hyem’s Origami, in which Mr Shimojo takes a room in Mrs Bestall’s house, but his presence seems to spark a horrifying chain of events. With Carole Boyd, Helen Worth and Christopher Scoular. From 1984

4.45EdinburghHauntsMonica Gibb reads Louise Welsh’s The Face at the Window, the Wave of the Hand, which evokes the German myth of the doppelgänger 5.00 Comedienne Sybil Thorndike (1882—1976) stars in an adaptation by Hugh Stewart of Ivor Novello’s bittersweet 1938 stage comedy. Donna Lovelace, a once-revered theatrical star, now faces relative obscurity. After years away from the limelight, she is offered a comeback role, forcing her to confront the gap between her self-image and her current reality. With Sebastian Shaw, Fabia Drake and many others. Narrated by Patrick Troughton. First broadcast in 1951 on the BBC Light Programme 6.30 Among Others as 12.30pm

7.45 The Fosdyke Saga Adaptation by cartoonist Bill Tidy and John Junkin of Tidy’s 1971—85 Daily Mirror parody comic strip of John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga series of novels. With Stephanie Turner, Philip Lowrie, Miriam Margolyes, David Threlfall and others. From 1983 (13/13)

8.00TheEricMorecambeand ErnieWiseShow

8.30 Beyond Our Ken Vintage 1960 comedy

9.00 The Inimitable PG Wodehouse as 10am

10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: The Secret World (1/6), at 10.30 Tim Key’s Late Night Poetry Programme (2/4), at 11.00 Tom Wrigglesworth’s Hang-Ups (6/6), and at 11.30 28 Acts in 28 Minutes (3/3) 12.00 as 4pm 12.45am as 4.45pm 1.00 as 5pm 2.30 as 12.30pm 3.45 as 7.45pm 4.00 as 2pm 4.30 as 2.30pm 5.00 as 10am

5.00am The Newsroom 5.30 More than the Score Review p114 5.50 More or Less: numbers and statistics used in everyday life 6.00 Weekend 9.00 News 9.05 BBC OS Conversations 9.30 Americast 10.00 News 10.05 Not by the Playbook 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 Unspun World with John Simpson 12.00 News 12.05pm World Book Club: Karin Slaughter answers listeners’ questions on her 2017 thriller The Good Daughter 1.00 Newshour 2.00 Sportsworld 6.00 The Newsroom 6.30 More than the Score: former ice dancer Jordan Cowan on his work as an on-ice camera operator at the Winter Olympics. Review p114 6.50 Sporting Witness 7.00 News 7.05 The Inquiry: David Baker explores Portugal’s drug policy 7.30 Happy News 8.00 News 8.05 The Arts Hour 9.00 Newshour 10.00 News 10.05 Not by the Playbook 11.00 The Newsroom

SUNDAY RADIO

TODAY’S REVIEWS

England’s Identity Crisis

1.30pm Radio 4

In the last 30 years, a World Cup has been a time for the nation to come together in pride and unity to support the England football team in its bid for glory. But currently, an emotionally-charged debate is bubbling away about Englishness, with the English flag a contentious totem of the hoo-ha. Newsnight’s Nick Watt travels the country to gauge what it means to be English. Is it linked to ancestry and ethnicity, the length of residence, or just civic identity? It’s a hot potato for politics, too, so there is pertinent perspective from across the political spectrum from MPs (Kemi Badenoch, Lisa Nandy) and commentators (Matt Goodwin, Fraser Nelson).

JEREMY ASPINALL

The House in the Hole

7.15pm Radio 4

This gently-paced documentary goes out of its way not to glamorise or sensationalise a horrific crime. Instead, its presenter and writer, Joe Zadeh, treads carefully as he explores how a unique set of circumstances can turn a criminal into a folk hero for a vocal minority. Zadeh focuses upon the case of Albert Dryden, always a bit of an outsider in his local area of County Durham, who in June 1991 took such umbrage when his hand-built subterranean bungalow was scheduled for demolition that he killed the council’s chief planning officer. ANNA JONES

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTSSeepage112

Private Passions

12 noon Radio 3

Writer Sofka Zinovieff talks about her rich family history.

BBC Radio 1

6.00am Swarzy 7.00 James Cusack

10.30 Nat and Vicky 1.00pm Sam and Danni 4.00 Life Hacks with Lauren and Shanequa 6.00 Official Chart: First Look

7.00 Chillest Show with Sian Eleri 9.00

Indie Show 11.00 BBC Introducing with Jess Iszatt 1.00am 1Xtra’s R&B Show with Chuckie 2.30 1Xtra’s R&B Slow Jamz Mix with Chuckie 3.00 Chill Mix 4.00

Workout Anthems 5.00 Dean McCullough

BBC Radio 2

88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2

Freeview* 702 Freely 603 Freesat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

6.00am Good Morning Sunday

The Rev Kate Bottley and Jason Mohammad with discussions designed to be uplifting, including faith, spiritual, topical and everyday matters, featuring studio guests and listener input. Plus a compatible playlist.

9.00 Love Songs with Michael Ball Dedications and real-life stories.

11.00 Paddy McGuinness

Broadcast from Salford, with chat, music and features, including the Weekest Link, a quiz testing whether listeners have been paying attention for the previous seven days.

1.00pm Elaine Paige on Sunday Music from Broadway, Hollywood and the West End, today anticipating this evening’s Tony Awards in New York with a pick of Tony-winning music.

3.00 Sounds of the 70s Shaun Keaveny sits in for Bob Harris.

5.00 Pick of the Pops

Mark Goodier with a rundown of the Top 20s from this week in two all-time great pop years: 1967 and 1979.

Repeated Friday 2am

7.00 Tony Blackburn’s Golden Hour

8.00 The Paul Gambaccini

Collection

10.00 Radio 2 Unwinds with Angela Griffin

12.00 Richie Anderson

3.00am Alternative Sounds of the 90s with Dermot O’Leary

A playlist of artists scheduled to perform at festivals across the country this summer including the Cure, Sleeper, Richard Ashcroft, Super Furry Animals and St Etienne.

4.00 Owain Wyn Evans

BBC 6 Music

DAB bbc.co.uk/6music

Freeview 707 Freely 608 F’sat 707 Sky 0118 Virgin 909

6.00am Afrodeutsche Broadcast from Salford.

8.00 Radcliffe and Maconie

10.00 Cerys Matthews

1.00pm Guy Garvey’s Finest Hour

4.00 John Cooper Clarke Sitting in for Jarvis Cocker.

6.00 Mary Anne Hobbs

8.00 Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone Including experimental music.

10.00 Dream Time

12.00 Guy Garvey’s Finest Hour (R) 3.00am Jukebox

4.00 The BBC Introducing Mixtape

5.00 Amy Lamé

Boom Radio

DAB+ boomradio.co.uk

6.00am Charles Nove 8.00 Rod Whiting

10.00 Rob Jones 12.00 Vintage Charts of 1965 and 1975 2.00pm Simon Bates on Sunday 4.00 Les Ross 6.00 Requests with Mike Wyer 8.00 The Easy Hour

9.00 Choices: broadcaster Charles Nove picks his favourites in conversation with Phil Riley Repeated Thursday 9pm 10.00 Bill Bingham 12.00 Night Music

BBC Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast With Mark Forrest in Salford.

9.00 Sunday Morning

Sarah Walker presents piano music from Brahms, a workforstringsfromVaughanWilliams,and anEnglish classic reimagined by cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and guitarist Plínio Fernandes. Plus a full play of Poulenc’s Piano Concerto in a recording featuring CanadianpianistLouisLortieand theBBC Philharmonic. This week’s Choral Reflection features Norwegianraised Manhattan composer and pianist Ola Gjeilo. 12.00 Private Passions

6Michael Berkeley welcomes author and journalist Sofka Zinovieff, whose paternal grandmother was born into Russian high society and whose maternal grandmother married the eccentric aristocrat Robert Heber-Percy. Her father Peter was a composer and co-founder of Britain’s first synthesiser manufacturer Her picks include Bach, Monteverdi, Theodorakis and Mozart. See page 112.

1.30pm Music Map

Sara Mohr-Pietsch charts a musical journey towards Polish composer Henryk Gorecki’s work Totus tuus (Totally Yours), composed in 1987 in honour of a visit to Poland by Pope John Paul II. The playlist includes other music written for popes, including Palestrina’s mass for Marcellus and Volker Bertelmann’s score to Edward Berger’s film Conclave (2024).

3.00 Music Matters: Mark Radcliffe’s Nature Ramblings

2/3. Mountains. The BBC broadcaster explores classical works and popular music inspired by the natural world. He continues with a mountain-themed playlist, including Hawkwind’s Hall of the Mountain Grill (1974) and Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King (1875). And works from Mussorgsky, Hovhaness, Strauss and Liszt are juxtaposed with recordings by Shirley Collins, Rufus Wainwright and Fleet Foxes.

4.00 Jazz Record Requests With Alyn Shipton. 5.00 Radio 3 in Concert

In the first of the day’s three concerts marking the 125th anniversary ofWigmoreHall inLondon,PetrocTrelawny presents a recital from earlier today, featuring Viennaborn pianist Lukas Sternath, who studies with Igor Levit at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Liszt Funérailles, S173 No 7 Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat, D960 6.00 Choral Evensong

Wednesday’s service from Tewkesbury Abbey. Introit: Tantum ergo (Duruflé). Responses: Ben Parry. Psalms 110, 111 (Garrett, Matthew Martin). First Lesson: Exodus 16, vv2—15. Office Hymn: Soul of My Saviour (Anima Christi). Canticles: Three Choirs Service (Bob Chilcott). Second Lesson: John 6, vv22—35. Anthem: Welcome, Sweet and Sacred Feast (Finzi). Hymn: Alelluia, Sing to Jesus (Hyfrodol). Voluntary: Suite Latine (Lauda Sion) (Widor). Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum. (R)

6.00am Arlene Stuart 9.00 Richard Allinson 1.00pm The Album Show with Simon Mayo 4.00 Weekend Anthems: with Richard Allinson 5.00 The UK Pop 40: Kate Thornton with the singles charts from this week in 1987 and 1991 7.00 Boogie and Arlene 10.00 Andy Crane 1.00am Music Marathon 4.00 Alex Lester

7.00 Radio 3 in Concert

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In the second of today’s three concerts marking the 125th anniversary of Wigmore Hall, Petroc Trelawny introduces Hamburg-born violinist Christian Tetzlaff in a performance of Bach’s six sonatas and partitas for solo violin, which stand at the summit of the violin repertoire. Broadcast live from the celebrated London Marylebone venue. Bach Sonata No 1 in G minor, BWV1001; Partita No 1 in B minor, BWV1002; Sonata No 2 in A minor, BWV1003; Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV1004; Sonata No 3 in C, BWV1005; Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006

10.00 Radio 3 in Concert

Today’s trio of Wigmore Hall anniversary concerts concludes with London Voices, founded in 1973 by Terry Edwards (1939—2022) and now under the direction of conductor and composer Ben Parry. Here the choral ensemble dives into the shimmering textures and mercurial moods of Stockhausen’s Stimmung (1968) — a combination of vocal colours for six voices and six microphones that includes the “magic names” of gods and goddesses, the composer’s erotic poetry and contemplative overtone singing. London Voices: Joanna Forbes L’Estrange (soprano), Alison Ponsford-Hill (soprano), Heather Cairncross (alto), Richard Eteson (tenor), Ben Parry (bass), Nicholas Garrett (bass)

Stockhausen Stimmung

11.30 Unclassified

With Elizabeth Alker, tonight featuring music by Peter Broderick that takes inspiration from a famous Japanese video game score. Plus a collaboration from New York composer Tristan Perich and organist James McVinnie, a surprise poetic appearance from an Oscar-winning actor, and highlights of Laurel Halo’s score to Julian Charrière’s aquatic film Midnight Zone. First broadcast in February. (R) 12.30am Through the Night

With Jonathan Swain, who begins with a Radio France concert recorded in December 2025 in Paris and featuring the premiere of a flute concerto by Canadian composer Samy Moussa. Pierné Cydalise et le chèvre-pied: Suite No 2 Samy Moussa Flute Concerto (first performance) Saint-Saëns Romance in D flat, Op 37 Mussorgsky A Night on Bare Mountain Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten: Symphonic Fantasy Emmanuel Pahud (flute), French National Orchestra, conductor Fabien Gabel 1.53 Saint-Saëns Valse mignonne, Op 104; String Quartet No 1 in E minor, Op 112 2.31 Marc Minkowski, after Rameau L’apothéose de la danse 3.09 Schumann Etudes en formes de variations, Op 13 3.39 Shostakovich Festive Overture, Op 96 3.45 Buxtehude Ad pectus: Sicut modo geniti (Membra Jesu nostri) 3.54 Handel Süsser Blumen Ambraflocken, HWV204 4.00 Bach Air (Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068) (Air on the G string) 4.05 Popper Hungarian Rhapsody, Op 68 4.14 Groneman Sonata in G for two flutes 4.22 Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat, K15 4.31 A Scarlatti Concerto grosso No 1 in F minor 4.39 Szymanowski Prelude and Fugue 4.47 Bernat Vivancos Nigra sum 4.56 Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune 5.05 Enescu Konzertstück for viola and piano 5.15 Bodinus Wind Trio in G 5.24 Halvorsen Symphony No 2 in D minor, Op 67 5.54 Verdi O Padre nostro 6.02 Brahms Cello Sonata No 2 in F, Op 99

6.00am Mindful Mix 9.00 Classical Unwind 12.00

6.00am Throwback Bollywood Mix 7.00 Singalong Bollywood Anthems 8.00 SmashBengali 10.00 Certified Throwbacks 11.00 Gagan Grewal 1.00pm Punjabi: Dipps Bhamrah 3.00 Nadia Ali 5.00 Kan D Man 7.00 Pritt 9.00 Bobby Friction 11.00 Asian Network Represents 12.00 Punjabi: Bhangra Bounce 1.00am Vallisa 3.00 BBC Introducing 5.00 Singalong Bollywood Anthems

8.00am Ben Burrell 11.00 Sarah Champion 2.00pm Rock ’n’ Roll Football 6.00 Request Show 8.00 Sunday Night Music Club 9.00 1996: the Year That Changed Everything 10.00 Serge Pizzorno 12.00 Ben Sheppard

5.30am News Summary

5.43 Bells on Sunday From St Margaret’s Church, Leicester. 5.45 In Touch

Presented by Peter White. Repeated from Tuesday 6.00 News Summary

6.05 Thinking Allowed

2/7. Laurie Taylor explores how researchers navigate care and consent in changing social settings. Repeated from Tuesday 6.35 On Your Farm

Digging in the Past: the Arable Farmer Who’s an Archaeologist. Rebecca Rooney meets Dr Nick Wilson, an arable farmer in the Vale of York who has gained a PhD in archaeology and excavated acres of farmland since the discovery of a Roman burial site in one of his fields nearly 10 years ago. Producer Rebecca Rooney 7.00 News; Sunday Papers

7.10 Sunday Religious and ethical issues.

7.54 The Radio 4 Appeal

Beneficiary Lydia Beech makes an appeal on behalf of The Amber Trust.

Producer Katy Takatsuki Rptd 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, marked The Amber Trust on the back of the envelope; Credit/debit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144; online via the Radio 4 website 8.00 News; Sunday Papers

8.10 Sunday Worship

n From the Memorial Chapel of Glasgow University, with the Rev Scott Blythe and the Rev Roz Lawson of the Interfaith Chaplaincy. Readings: Psalm 33, vv1—12; Matthew 9, vv9—13 and 18—26. Music: The Call (words George Herbert; music Kenneth Tay); Ego Sum Via (Gail Gillespie); Kyrie (Becky McGlade); Song of Sorrows (Sheena Phillips); Let Your Restless Hearts Be Still (tune The Lark In The Clear Air; words John L Bell and Graham Maule). Hymns: O, for a Thousand Tongues (Desert (Lyngham)); O Worship the King, All Glorious Above (Hanover). Organ Voluntary: Sarabande from A Little Suite by Antony Baldwin. With Glasgow University Chapel Choir directed by Katy Lavinia Cooper, and organist Kevin Bowyer. Producer Mo McCullough

8.48 Witness History

Toymaker Bonnie Zacherle recalls creating the My Little Pony toy range. Repeated from Sunday 8.58 Tweet of the Day The distinctive calls and songs of birds. 9.00 Broadcasting House Presented by Rachel Burden.

10.00

Desert Island Discs

Lauren Laverne’s castaway is the Prague-born glass artist and designer Peter Layton.

Producer Tim Bano Repeated Friday 9am

11.00 The Archers Omnibus edition. Available on BBC Sounds since midnight yesterday.

12.15pm Profile Repeated from yesterday 7pm

12.30 The Unbelievable Truth

6/6. Tony Hawks, Zoe Lyons, Mark Steel and Fern Brady join David Mitchell to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on topics from fish to butterflies.

Rptd from Monday Rptd tomorrow 9am BBC Radio 4 Extra

1.00 The World This Weekend

Presented by Jonny Dymond.

1.30 England’s Identity Crisis

6Newsnight’s political editor Nick Watt examines the debate around Englishness, identity and belonging.

Producer Leela Padmanabhan Repeated tomorrow 4pm

2.00 Gardeners’ Question Time

Peter Gibbs chairs from Diss in Norfolk, with Bob Flowerdew, Christine Walkden and Bunny Guinness. Repeated from Friday Your RT Gardening: page 134

2.45 Opening Lines

John Yorke explores Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Dog Dylan Thomas’s semi-autobiographical anthology of stories set in Swansea and rural Carmarthenshire, charting his young adult life.

Producer Kate McAll; Executive producer Sara Davies Repeated tomorrow 2.45pm

3.00 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Drama by Joe Dunthorne, based on the collection of short stories by Dylan Thomas. Returning to Swansea after the Blitz, Dylan Thomas is overwhelmed by memories of his childhood and adolescence, from summers at Fern Hill to failed camping trips on the beach.

Starring Gerran Howell (Ludwig and The Pitt).

Dylan Thomas Gerran Howell

Lou/Jean/Nancy Mia Khan

Aunt Annie/Gwyneth/Mrs Evans/ Mother Carys Eleri

Brazell/Gwilym/Older Sidney Jacob Ifan

Uncle Jim/Mr Thomas/Mr Matthews/Mr O’Brien Ben Addis

Mrs Williams/Mrs Thomas/ Mrs Franklin/Female stranger

Melanie Walters

George Hooping/Barman Gwïon Morris Jones

Skully/Chauffeur/Male stranger Shaheen Jafargholi

YoungDylan LeonRaphaelMullins

Dan Evans Iwan Davies

Young Sidney Toby Founds

Director/Producer Fay Lomas

4.00 Bookclub

James Naughtie presents the literary discussion programme, featuring an interview with Kirstin Innes about her 2020 novel Scabby Queen.

Producer Dominic Howell Repeated Saturday 12.15am

4.30 Bookmarks

2/2. Literary quiz show hosted by Clare Balding, in which two teams go head to head in a test of knowledge about fiction and non-fiction titles.

Producer Lyndsay Fenner Repeated Saturday 11.30pm

5.00 Witness History

A look at Anthony Bourdain’s essay Don’t Eat before Reading This, which was published in 1999 and launched his career as a celebrity chef. Rptd Sunday 8.48am First broadcast on BBC World Service

5.10 The Verb

3/6. Ian McMillan discusses poetry with Channel 4 News’s international editor Lindsey Hilsum, folklorist poet Kym Deyn, editor Richard Skinner and Cara Thompson, who fuses poetry and textiles. Producer Ekene Akalawu

6.00 Six o’Clock News

6.15 Pick of the Week With Len Pennie. 7.00 The Archers

Ed finds himself caught in the middle, and Tracy receives a surprising offer. For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm See feature: p110; Ambridge Diary: p112 7.15 The House in the Hole

6Joe Zadeh explores how, in June 1991, a planning enforcement order in rural County Durham escalated into a brutal act of violence. Producer Hunter Charlton

7.45 Just One Thing with Michael Mosley Breathe through Your Nose. Professor Jon Lundberg from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden joins Michael Mosley to explain how nose-breathing can lead to healthier gums, a better memory and improved lung function. From 2023. Producer Nija Dalal-Small (R) 8.00 Word of Mouth

5/6. Michael Rosen meets dialect coach Simon Roper, who tries to re-create how people spoke throughout history on his YouTube channel.

Repeated from Thursday 8.30 Last Word

Reflecting on the lives of notable people who have recently died. Repeated from Friday

9.00 Money Box Repeated from yesterday 12.04pm 9.25 The Radio 4 Appeal Repeated from 7.54am

9.30 From Our Own Correspondent Repeated from yesterday 11.30am 10.00 The Westminster Hour

11.00 In Our Time

Misha Glenny hosts a discussion on the evolution of trees, with guests including Bill Baker, senior researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Repeated from Thursday

11.45 Short Works

Eiry Hughes reads Palimpsest by Keza O’Neill. At a school reunion, a university professor confronts the teenager she used to be. Repeated from Friday 12.00 News and Weather

12.15—12.45am The Artificial Human 2/6. Alook at the decisions shaping the adoption of military AI in the US and elsewhere. Repeated from Wednesday 1.00 as BBC World Service 6.00am Desert Island Discs Revisited as 5pm 6.45 David Attenborough’s Life Stories

7.00 Poetry Extra: Adventures in Poetry as 6pm 7.30 Life in the Garden as 6.30pm 8.40 Inheritance Tracks With Andy Zaltzman

8.50 The Little Ottleys as 7.50pm

Meet the Huggetts as 9pm

Frankie Howerd as 9.30pm

Desert Island Discs Revisited as 5pm

David Attenborough’s Life Stories 12.00 Poetry Extra: Adventures in Poetry 12.30pm Life in the Garden as 6.30pm

1.40 Inheritance Tracks With Andy Zaltzman

1.50 The Little Ottleys as 7.50pm

3.00 Meet the Huggetts 1961 sitcom

3.30 Frankie Howerd An August 1966 episode of the comedy written by Charles Hart and Peter Bishop. Frankie Howerd is joined by June Whitfield, Wallas Eaton and Robertson Hare

4.00 Ancient Sorceries Philip Madoc reads Algernon Henry Blackwood’s 1927 fantasy in which commuter Arthur Vezin is struck by the cat-like qualities of the inhabitants of a French village (4/4)

4.30 Fear on 4 An adaptation by Elizabeth Troop of Elizabeth Bowen’s 1952 supernatural short story Hand in Glove, in which a woman is determined to plunder her aunt’s trunk. With Marjorie Westbury, Kate Binchy and more. Introduced by Edward de Souza. From 1989

5.00 Desert Island Discs Revisited A 1999 edition with horse trainer Martin Pipe, known for turning his profession into a science. His music picks veer from Puccini to Helen Shapiro

5.45 David Attenborough’s Life Stories The naturalist mourns the loss of the Mauritian dodo 6.00 Poetry Extra: Adventures in Poetry

Daljit Nagra with gems from the archive, today marking the recent centenary of the birth of Beat-era poet and writer Allen Ginsberg (1926—97)

6.30 Life in the Garden Penelope Lively writes about her own gardens, gardens in literature, and other writers and their gardens. Abridged by Siân Preece and read by Stephanie Cole. From 2017 (1—5/5)

7.40 Inheritance Tracks With Andy Zaltzman

7.50TheLittleOttleysDramaby MartynWadebased oncharactersinAdaLeverson’snovelstrilogy ofcomic novelsfrombetween1908and 1916.Seriesfour(1—5/5)

9.00 Meet the Huggetts A 1961 episode of the 1953—61 radio sitcom, with Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison reprising the husband-and-wife parts they’d originated in a series of Huggetts films in the late 1940s

9.30 Frankie Howerd as 3.30pm 10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Clare in the Community (3/6), 10.30 Hamish and Dougal: You’ll Have Had Your Tea (3/6), 10.45 Steven Appleby’s Normal Life (3/6), 11.00 Ed Reardon’s Week (1/6), 11.30 I’ve Never Seen Star Wars (3/6)

12.00 as 4pm 12.30am as 4.30pm 1.00 as 5pm 1.45 as 5.45pm 2.00 as 6pm 2.30 as 6.30pm 3.40 as 7.40pm 3.50 as 7.50pm 5.00 as 9pm 5.30 as 3.30pm

5.00am The Newsroom 5.30 The Documentary: Manosphere Messiahs (2/2) 6.00 Weekend 9.00 News 9.05 From Our Own Correspondent 9.30 The Food Chain 10.00 News 10.05 People Fixing the World: exploring whether the modern obsession with speed is damaging 10.30 The Fifth Floor 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 More Than the Score: former ice dancer Jordan Cowan on his work as an on-ice camera operator at the Winter Olympics 11.50 More or Less 12.00 News 12.05pm BBC OS Conversations 12.30 Assignment 1.00 Newshour 2.00 News 2.05 The Climate Question 2.30 Happy News 3.00 News 3.05 Sportsworld 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30 In the Studio 8.00 News 8.05 Unexpected Elements 9.00 Newshour 10.00 News 10.05 The Climate Question 10.30 Assignment: Lizzy McNeill reports on the experiences of migrant fruit pickers working on farms in Calabria, Italy 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 The Fifth Floor 12.00 News 12.05am From Our

5.00am The Martin Lewis Podcast

An hour of money-saving tips.

6.00 Newscast

News analysis presented by Adam Fleming, with highlights of weekend podcast episodes (so far) with Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell.

7.00 Sunday Breakfast

Jeanette Kwakye and Steffan Powell with news and a Sunday sports preview.

10.00 Colin Murray

12.00 5 Live Sport

Katie Smith is joined by guests for build-up to the day’s sporting action, including the men’s final at the French Open (full commentary on Sports Extra 2) and the Monaco Grand Prix. Plus updates from day four of the First Test between England and New Zealand. At 2.00pm Formula One, featuring live commentary on the Monaco Grand Prix. And at 4.00pm French Open Tennis, with live commentary on the men’s final of the French Open at Roland-Garros in Paris.

6.00 606 Football phone-in.

8.00SportingGiants:Messi vRonaldo

3&4/4. Steve Crossman and Guillem Balagué explore the rivalry between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. 9.00 Stephen Nolan Topical discussion. 12.00 Gangster Presents: Ronnie Biggs 5&6/6. Podcast with Daniel Mays. 1.00amDotunAdebayo With a phone-in.

5 Sports Extra

10.00am—7.00pm Test Match Special Day four of England v New Zealand.

6.00am Weekend Sports Breakfast With Shebahn Aherne and Tony Cascarino. 10.00 Sunday Edition 12.00 The Warm Up 2.00pm The Sunday Session 6.00 The Final

MONDAY RADIO

TODAY’S REVIEWS

Radio 3 in Concert

7.30pm Radio 3

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under the baton of fast-rising Birminghamborn conductor Alpesh Chauhan (above, also Principal Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra) present an evening at Symphony Hall dedicated to the theme of dance. It sets off briskly with Philip Glass’s pulsing and upbeat Double Timpani Concerto, likely to have you tapping along. Then American composer Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances, a compelling and charged work that switches from driving orchestral grooves to melancholy waltzes. There are more waltz references in Sergei Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances. The composer’s last sizeable outing — he died two years after the premiere in January 1941 — Rachmaninov employs Catholic and Orthodox liturgical themes in an unapologetically romantic work. MICHAEL HODGES

Black Water

10.45pm Radio 4

Heidi Amsinck, author of the Jensen crime novels, has written a new story for Radio 4 (produced by Sweet Talk) about her Copenhagen reporter. Read by MyAnna Buring over five days, Jensen’s latest adventure begins with the ambitious journalist heading off to interview chef Sonny Velin. Eager to pick up her career after the birth of her daughter, now eight months, she has rashly agreed to meet at his Michelin-starred restaurant, Plant, at midnight after service. When she gets there she stumbles into a thoroughly modern mystery: nothing too gruesome, this is satisfyingly all about relationships. FIONA HUGHES

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTSSee page 112 Ten Years after Brexit

1.45pm Radio 4

The impact of leaving the EU.

BBC Radio 1

7.00amGreg James: winner of best music breakfast show at the recent Audio and Radio Industry Awards (Arias)

10.30 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie

1.00pmMattand Mollie3.30GoingHome

6.00 New Music Show 8.00 Future Artists

10.00 Power Down Playlist 11.00 Daniel P

Carter 1.00am BBC Introducing Rock

2.00 Anthems 4.00 Pop Anthems

5.00 Dean McCullough

BBC Radio 2

88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2

Freeview* 702 Freely 603 Freesat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

6.30am Gary Davies

9.30 Mark Goodier

Sitting in for Vernon Kay. Including at 10.30 the pop quiz Ten to the Top and at 11.40 Tracks of My Years, this week featuring — two a day — 10 of the favourite records of BBC sports presenter and Match of the Day host Kelly Cates. See Thursday 7pm 5 Live

12.00 Jeremy Vine

2.00pm Trevor Nelson

Music, texts and features, including 5 Seconds to Name, in which listeners must identify an artist from a mash-up of five of their records.

4.00 Sara Cox

7.00 Jo Whiley

9.00 The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews

10.00 The Good Groove with DJ Spoony Eclectic playlists, including vocal house, laid-back neo-soul, disco, R&B, doo-wop, hip-hop, lover’s rock, classic soul, funk, lyrical UK garage and cheeky pop remixes.

12.00 OJ Borg

With One Hit Wonders at 2.30am

3.00am Dance Sounds of the 90s with Vernon Kay A playlist of divas. (R)

4.00 Owain Wyn Evans

BBC 6 Music

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7.00am Jamz Supernova

Sitting in for Nick Grimshaw.

10.00 Lauren Laverne

1.00pm Chris Hawkins Sitting in for Craig Charles.

4.00 Steve Lamacq’s Teatime Session

7.00 New Music Fix Daily

9.00 Riley and Coe

11.00 6 Music Artist in Residence

1/4. First of four themed playlists curated by US musician, producer, songwriter and Vampire Weekend co-founder Rostam (Batmanglij).

12.00 Gossip Playlist

Tracks celebrating the music, origins, influences and inspirations of Gossip kick off five hours devoted to the indie US trio fronted by Beth Ditto. From 2024. (R).

1.00am Gossip Live and in Session

2.00 Beth Ditto at the BBC BBC archive material.

3.00 Beth Ditto’s Loud and Proud Playlist The Gossip frontwoman’s curated playlist of tracks that have challenged mainstream stereotypes and championed ideas of gender and sexual orientation. From 2017. 5.00 Amy Lamé

Boom Radio

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6.00amAndy Marriott 7.30 Graham Dene

10.00 Rob Jones 12.00 David Hamilton’s Lunchtime Music Show 2.00pm Roger Day 4.00Nicky Horne 6.00Jane Markham 8.00The Easy Hour 9.00David Hamilton’s Million Sellers 10.00 Diana Luke 12.00 Derek Webster 2.00am Night Music

BBC Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast With Tom McKinney.

9.30 Essential Classics With Georgia Mann. 1.00pm Classical Live

Radio 3’s showcase of concert performances from around the world, this week with Linton Stephens presenting a focus on London and highlights of a recital given last November at the London International Festival of Early Music.

nBut to start, from 1.00, the weekly lunchtime recital broadcast from Wigmore Hall in London, with Andrew McGregor introducing violinist Julian Rachlin, violist Sarah McElravy and cellist Boris Andrianov in a performance of Dmitry Sitkovetsky’s striking arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations Bach, arr Sitkovetsky Goldberg Variations, BWV988 2.00 Stravinsky Divertimento (Le baiser de la fée) LSO, conductor, Gianandrea Noseda Brahms Viola Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 120 Antoine Tamestit (viola), Bertrand Chamayou (piano) Handel Recorder Sonata in F, Op 1 No 11, HWV369 Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Peter Kofler (harpsichord)

Charpentier Le reniement de St Pierre Academy of Ancient Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama Historical Performance and Vocal Studies students, director James Johnstone (harpsichord) Classical Live listings are subject to changes prior to broadcast 4.00 Composer of the Week: Claudio Monteverdi (1567—1643)

1/5. The Courtless Musician. Kate Molleson explores Monteverdi’s life and works, beginning with his early years in Cremona, where he emerges as a precocious and ambitious young composer. His training grounds him in the traditions of Renaissance polyphony, and his first publications begin to appear, including sacred and secular music. As his writing grows bolder and he learns to break the rules, he experiments with madrigals. Damigella tutta bella (Scherzi musicali)

Nuria Rial (soprano), Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Jan van Elsacker and Cyril Auvity (tenors), Nicolas Achten (baritone), João Fernandes (bass), L’Arpeggiata, director Christina Pluhar Sacrae cantiunculae (selection) Györ Girls’ Chorus, conductor Miklos Szabo Ch’ami la vita mia; Se per avervi, ohimè; A che tormi il ben mio; Amor, per tua mercè vattene a quella; Baci soavi e cari; Se pur non mi consenti (Madrigals, Book 1) Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley Qual si può dir; Canzonette d’amore; La fiera vista (Canzonette a tre voci) Armoniosoincanto, director Franco Radicchia Madrigals, Book 2 (selection) Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley RT OFFER Monteverdi Vespers (2 CDs)) — performed by Ensemble San Felice and La Pifarescha conducted by Federico Bardazzi — is available for £17.95 inc p&p. Call 0115 982 7500 quoting ref 95188 or visit radiotimes.com/cds

5.00 In Tune

Petroc Trelawny with news from the classical world, music and studio guests, today featuring husband-

6.00am Rossie: chat and music, including the Morning Mystery Oldie 10.00 Richard Allinson: sitting in for Ken Bruce 1.00pm Kate Thornton 4.00 The Simon Mayo Drivetime Show 7.00 Jackie Brambles 10.00 Andy Crane 1.00am Music Marathon 4.00 Alex Lester

and-wife saxophonists Judith and Dave O’Higgins, who perform from their upcoming release Liquorice Allsorts 7.00 Classical Mixtape Nonstop music. 7.30 Radio 3 in Concert

6Linton Stephens presents a concert from 28 May at Symphony Hall in Birmingham, featuring the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with a programme inspired by the moods and rhythms of dance and including works by two contemporary US composers: Philip Glass’s energetic and challenging Double Timpani Concerto (2000), and a sequence of dances composed by Carlos Simon in 2022, drawing on the social and cultural world of Black America. The programme concludes with one of Rachmaninov’s last works, written while in the US. Matthew Hardy and Toby Kearney (timpani), CBSO, conductor Alpesh Chauhan

Philip Glass Double Timpani Concerto Carlos Simon Four Black American Dances Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op 45 9.45 The Essay: Musicians on the Couch 1/5. City of Dreams: Vienna,Psychoanalysis and Me Poet, playwright, essayist and music lover Amanda Dalton — based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire — recalls a childhood dominated by a love of playing the piano and a loathing of the intensive psychoanalytical psychotherapy she underwent for five years. In this series she explores the relationship between music and the mind. She begins in Vienna, looking at how those two worlds collided, including the occasion in 1910 when Mahler visited Freud for analysis, the experience of other composers who underwent psychological treatments, and Freud’s own ambivalent relationship to music. First broadcast February 2025.

Producer Polly Thomas (R) 10.00 Night Tracks

Hannah Peel with music for the darkling hour. 11.30 ’Round Midnight

Soweto Kinch celebrates new and classic jazz, with a focus on the British scene. This week, in the 4/4 feature, Chicago cellist, improvisor and educator Tomeka Reid shares albums that have influenced her. 12.30am Through the Night

With Jonathan Swain. Lajovic A Dream Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor; Prelude in G, Op 32 No 5 Sibelius Symphony No 2 Yeol Eum Son (piano), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lio Kuokman 2.10 Caplet Divertissement No 2 (A l’espagnole) 2.16 Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque in G minor 2.31 CPE Bach Der Herr lebet 3.07 Schubert Six moments musicaux, D780 3.36 Grieg Last Spring, Op 33 No 2 3.42 Dubois Flute Quartet 3.51 A Scarlatti Sinfonia (Concerto grosso No 5 in D minor) 3.59 CastelnuovoTedesco Capriccio diabolico, Op 85 4.08 Parac Andante amoroso 4.15 Weber Rondo brillante, Op 62 (La gaîeté) 4.21 Glinka Valse-fantaisie in B minor 4.31 Fasch Concerto in C minor for 2 oboes, bassoon and strings 4.41 Alfven Pictures from the Archipelago, Op 17 4.50 Schütz Ich bin eine rufende Stimme; O lieber Herre Gott, wecke uns auf 4.58 Schumann Overture: Genoveva 5.08 Frano Parać Scherzo 5.17 Bloch From Jewish Life 5.27 Beethoven Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor, Op 111 5.55 Monteverdi Lettera amorosa; Chi vol haver felice 6.05 Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op 114 (R)

6.00am The Everyday Hustle 6.30 Desi Dancefloor Mix 7.00 Haroon Rashid 10.00 Certified 11.00 Vallisa 1.00pm Bollywood: with Vallisa 2.00 Certified Throwbacks 3.00 Jaz Singh 6.00 Vallisa 8.00 New Music Show: with DJ Limelight 10.00 Motivation 11.00 Trending 1.00am Nadia Ali 3.00 Bobby Friction 5.00 Singalong Bollywood Anthems: with Vallisa

Absolute Radio

6.00am Dave Berry: lively chat, guests and tunes 10.00 Leona Graham 1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Hometime 7.00 Danielle Perry 9.00 Best of Neighbourhood Weekender 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1.00am Ben Sheppard

6.00am Mindful Mix 9.00 Classical Unwind 12.00 Piano Focus 2.00pm Mindful Mix 5.00 Classical Wind Down 8.00 Cinematic Soundtracks 9.00 Ultimate Calm: In the Safe Haven feature, Rebus author Ian Rankin shares one of his favourite jazz records (1/12) 10.00 Night Tracks 11.30 The Sleeping Forecast 12.30am Sleep Tracks 6.30am Classic FM Breakfast With Dan Walker. Including at 9.00 the Classic FM Hall of Fame Hour 10.00 Aled Jones The Bangor-born singer — and Classic FM favourite since 2013 — continues in

News 5.00am, 6.00 and hourly to 12 midnight Weather 5.32am, 5.57, 6.07,

5.00am News Summary

5.04 Yesterday in Parliament

5.43 Prayer for the Day With Julia Loveless. 5.45 Farming Today

6.00 Today

Presented by Anna Foster and Amol Rajan. 6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News

7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rt Rev Dr David Walker, Bishop of Manchester. 9.00 Start the Week

Scientific Discovery and Misunderstanding Adam Rutherford and guests reflect on how discoveries are made and how instances of misunderstanding change our perceptions of the world. Historian Andrea Wulf talks about the work of 18th-century botanist and ethnologist George Forster; geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden argues that the latest research complicates our ideas about punishment, blame and moral responsibility; and endocrinologist

Saira Hameed discusses how hormones make up the often-misunderstood signalling system that makes the human body function.

Producer Ruth Watts Repeated 9pm

9.45 Mary Bourke: Who Cares?

3/5. The Professional Caring Industry. Mary learns about the professional care system from comedians Pope Lonergan and Michael Akadiri. From May 2025. All episodes are on BBC Sounds.

Producer Katie Sayer Repeated 9.45pm (R) 10.00 Woman’s Hour

Nuala McGovern presents. Editor Karen Dalziel 11.00 Siblings Unpicked

2/3. Stuck in the Middle. As Stephen and Anita Mangan unpick “middle-child syndrome”, they examine theories that middle children might be the best suited to act as the family peacemaker. But could this ability to get on well with everyone actually be a subtle form of manipulation? They also hear how research shows that children with siblings develop empathy more quickly than those without.

Producer Marijke Peters; Exec producer Sasha Feachem 11.45 Book of the Week: The Butterfly Season 1/5. Lea Korsgaard’s book about her search to find and log Denmark’s 64 butterfly species in a single year. In the first episode, she learns about migratory patterns and the miraculous way that offspring find their way back to Denmark, having been conceived as far away as the Sahara. Read by Nicola Walker and abridged by Sara Davies. Producer Lisa Lipman Repeated 12.30am Nicola Walker: page 24

12.04pm You and Yours Consumer affairs, with Winifred Robinson.

1.00 The World at One

Presented by Sarah Montague.

1.45 Ten Years after Brexit

6 New series. 1/10. The Economy. To mark 10 years since the Brexit referendum, Alex Forsyth, a BBC correspondent who has covered Brexit from both Brussels and Westminster, examines the impact leaving the EU has had on various aspects of public and political life. She starts by exploring how Brexit has affected the UK economy. See p111.

Producers Ben Carter and Mhairi MacKenzie

2.00 The Archers Repeated from yesterday 7pm

2.15 Conversations from a Long Marriage

6/6. Beyond the Sea. Series seven of Jan Etherington’s comedy starring Roger Allam and Joanna Lumley. Roger is furious when Joanna invites his least favourite person, the adventurer Rix Roden, to open the village fête, and then they go swimming together. Previous series are on BBC Sounds. Producer Claire Jones

2.45 Opening Lines

John Yorke explores Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Dylan Thomas’s semi-autobiographical anthology of stories set in Swansea and rural Carmarthenshire. Repeated from yesterday 2.45pm

3.00 AGood Read

New series. 1/9. Sports presenter Kelly Cates and screenwriter Tom Rob Smith join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books. They talk about Not That Sort of Girl by Mary Wesley, Aftermath by Rachel Cusk and Three Days in June by Anne Tyler. Producer Maggie Ayre Kelly Cates: page 16

3.30 Sixty Years of Hurt

David Baddiel looks at the 1990s and 2000s, exploring how Italia ‘90 was a turning point for perceptions of the sport, before delving into the glamour and promise of the “golden generation” of England players. Repeated from Saturday 10am

4.00 England’s Identity Crisis

Nick Watt examines the political storm raging over “Englishness”, identity and belonging. Repeated from yesterday 1.30pm

4.30 Legend: The Miles Davis Story

3/5. Clarke Peters looks at the making of the influential composer and bandleader’s 1959 masterpiece, Kind of Blue, which transformed the jazz genre for ever. Peters explores the uncomfortable collision of professional triumph and personal volatility, as Davis’s relationship with his soon-to-be wife, dancer Frances Taylor, was tested by the same uncompromising drive that fuelled his art. Repeated from Saturday 10.30am 5.00 PM Presented by Evan Davis.

6.00 Six o’Clock News

6.30 I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue

New series. 1/6. Jack Dee hosts the comedy panel game from the Brighton Dome, joined by the Rev Richard Coles, Tony Hawks, Rachel Parris and Marcus Brigstocke.

Producer Jon Naismith Repeated Sunday 12.30pm

7.00 The Archers

Pip faces some difficult decisions, and opportunity knocks for George.

For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm

What it’s like: page 7; See feature: page 110

7.15 Front Row

Samira Ahmed presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, literature, film and music. Producer Eliane Glaser

8.00 Rethink

2/5. Ben Ansell looks at monarchies in the modern world, exploring how a system of governance developed hundreds of years ago can work in the 21st century. Rptd from Thursday 8.30 BBC Inside Science

Tom Whipple presents the latest scientific research to make the news. Repeated from Thursday 9.00 Start the Week Repeated from 9am

9.45 Mary Bourke: Who Cares? Repeated from 9.45am

10.00 The World Tonight Presented by James Coomarasamy.

10.45 Black Water

61/5. A new case for investigative reporter Jensen, written by Heidi Amsinck, author of the Jensen series of crime novels. Invited to interview celebrity chef Sonny Velin at the famous restaurant Plant, the journalist makes a shocking discovery. Read by MyAnna Buring.

Producer Jeremy Osborne

11.00 Limelight: Bitter Pill

4/5. Trust Issues. By Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney. After a traumatic car crash, Mary joins a clinical drug trial that promises a cure for PTSD, but the medication triggers flashbacks of the accident that left her fiancé comatose. In the penultimate episode, Mary’s only hope of returning home is to persuade Jackie of the impossible. First broadcast in 2023. All episodes are on BBC Sounds.

Mary Séainín Brennan

Jackie Charlotte McCurry

Carl Shaun Blaney

Eoin Seamus O’Hara Warren Martin McCann

Producer Michael Shannon (R)

11.30 Today in Parliament

The start of the week’s business in Westminster, reporting from the Commons and the Lords. 12.00 News and Weather

12.30—12.45am Book of the Week: The Butterfly Season Repeated from 11.45am 1.00 as BBC World Service

5.00am Wake Up to Money

6.00 5 Live Breakfast

A detailed look at the headlines, plus sports news, weather and unique stories from across the UK, presented by Rachel Burden and Steffan Powell, who sits in for Rick Edwards.

9.00 Nicky Campbell Topical phone-in. 11.00 Naga Munchetty News, big-name interviews from around the UK and listeners’ personal experiences.

2.00pm Matt Chorley

News and topical political discussion, including analysis from specialist commentators and listener input. Plus in-depth interviews with MPs, elected mayors and cabinet ministers.

4.00 5 Live Drive

Clare McDonnell and Chris Warburton with the latest news and sport. Plus interviews linked to topical issues.

7.00 5 Live Sport

Mark Chapman with sports news and features, including The Monday Night Club, in which he is joined by guests to preview the World Cup. And at 9.00 World Cup, with Steve Crossman reporting live from Mexico ahead of Thursday’s opening match. See feature: page 16 10.00 Tony Livesey

A topical look at sports, news and culture, with interviews and listener input.

1.00am Dotun Adebayo

Featuring the latest news and topical discussion, including at 1.00—4.00 the weekly World Football Phone-in

BBC 5 Sports Extra

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10.00am—7.00pm Test Match Special Day five of the First Test in the three-match series between England and New Zealand.

6.00amTruemanand Riley Every Dog Has His Day

6.30 Peeler as 5.30pm

7.00 For Better or for Worse Sitcom (3/8)

7.30 Dad’s Army 1976 sitcom

8.00 The Break Sitcom from 2018 (4/6)

8.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (1/5)

8.45 The Little Ottleys Series five. From 2014 (1/5) 9.00 The Unbelievable Truth Panet show (6/6) As broadcast yesterday 12.30pm BBC Radio 4 9.30 Assume Nothing: The Last Request Laura McDaid goes in search of the birth mother of her ex-partner, Irish journalist Martin Barry, after his death (aged 30) at the Dignitas Clinic in Zurich in 2005. Born in a mother-and-baby home in Co Cork, he never met his birth mother, and asked Laura to find herand passonhisfinal message.From2022 (1/5) 9.45 Daily Service Reading: Isaiah 12, vv1—3 10.00 Last Chance to See as 4pm 10.30 Sidekick as 4.30pm

11.00 Trueman and Riley Every Dog Has His Day

11.30 Peeler Crime drama by Patrick Carroll (2/6)

12.00 For Better or for Worse Sitcom (3/8)

12.30pm Dad’s Army 1976 sitcom

1.00 The Break Sitcom from 2018 (4/6)

1.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (1/5)

1.45 The Little Ottleys Series five. From 2014 (1/5)

2.00 Just a Minute With Nicholas Parsons in 2012 2.30 King Street Junior Revisited Comedy (2/6)

3.00ACountry HouseDramatisation by Michelene Wandor of Dorothy Edwards’s 1925 story. As a lonely woman practises the piano, she finds her relationships with her husband and a young engineer strangely influenced by the music of Chopin and the ghostly presence of Chopin’s lover George Sand. With Sally Cookson, Michael McClain and, as George Sand, Jane Lapotaire, who died in March, aged 81. From 2000

3.45 Short Works as 9.45pm 4.00LastChancetoSeeTheKomodo dragon(5/6)

4.30 Sidekick Frank Cottrell-Boyce on the narrative device of the sidekicks such as Robin and Watson

5.00 Trueman and Riley Every Dog Has His Day

5.30 Peeler Crime drama by Patrick Carroll (2/6)

6.00 For Better or for Worse Sitcom (3/8)

6.30 Dad’s Army 1976 sitcom

7.00 The Break Sitcom from 2018 (4/6)

7.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (1/5)

7.45 The Little Ottleys Series five. From 2014 (1/5)

8.00 Just a Minute Panel show (1/8)

8.30 King Street Junior Revisited Comedy (2/6)

9.00 ACountry House as 3pm

9.45 Short Works Alison MacLeod’s The Gleaning

10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: The Unbelievable Truth (6/6), 10.30 Truly, Madly, Bletchley (2/6), 10.45 Six Degrees of John Sessions (2/4), 11.00 The News Quiz (8/8), at 11.30 Rhysearch (2/3)

12.00 as 4pm 12.30am as 4.30pm 1.00 as 5pm

1.30 as 5.30pm 2.00 as 6pm 2.30 as 6.30pm 3.00 as 7pm 3.30 as 7.30pm 3.45 as 7.45pm 4.00 as 8pm 4.30 as 8.30pm 5.00 as 3pm 5.45 as 9.45pm

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 The Interview 8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History 9.00 The Newsroom 9.30 Crowd Science 10.00 News 10.05 The History Hour 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 The Global Story 12.00 News 12.05pm Outlook 12.50 Witness History 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30 The Conversation: consultant neurologist Sofia Eriksson and Betty Barbara Nsachilwa, who has epilepsy, discuss reducing fear and stigma around the condition 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05 The Interview 3.30 Business Daily 3.50 World Business Express 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.05 Outlook 6.50 Witness History: Nelson Mandela’s time in the maximum security prison on Robben Island 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today 8.00 News 8.05 From Our Own Correspondent 8.30 The Life Scientific: computer scientist Professor Helen Hastie on the importance of building trust between humans and robots First broadcast on Radio 4 9.00 Newshour 10.00 News 10.05 The Interview 10.30 The Conversation 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 World Business Report 12.00 News 12.05am The History Hour 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30 The Global Story 2.00 The Newsroom 2.30 Assignment 3.00 News 3.05 Outlook 3.50 Witness History 4.00 The Newsroom 4.30 In the Studio: Danish chef Trine Hahnemann on combining “hygge” with cooking

6.00am Talksport Breakfast 10.00 Jim White and Simon Jordan Sporting insight.

1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs Paul Hawksbee and Andy Jacobs with sports news, guests and more. 4.00 Talksport Drive Opinionated sporting debate. 7.00 Kick Off Sports debate. 10.00 The Sports Bar Reaction, analysis and the chance for listeners to have a say on the day’s sport. 1.00am Extra Time Presented by Paul Ross. 5.00 Early Sports Breakfast

LBC

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TUESDAY RADIO

BBC Radio 1

In the Studio

1.30pm/10.30pm BBC World Service

Denmark consistently tops the charts as one of the world’s happiest countries. Sahar Zand spends a day in Copenhagen with food guru Trine Hahnemann (above), who is now focusing on mindful cookery after running a Michelin-starred restaurant in a male-dominated business. The two women consider whether they can point to hygge and slow dining for the contented Dane. After visiting a market for local seasonal produce, Trine lays the food out and ideas begin to flow. Leek and capers are followed by a salad of 10 different types of lettuce, while purple and yellow potatoes are topped with pomegranate. We hear the food sizzling and can imagine the scent and taste. Hygge is about taking time to create a pleasing ambience so, a candle is lit and flowers decorate their table. Trine was raised in a commune where she witnessed the importance of creating and sharing; it’s all about savouring the moment as well as the mouthful.

JENNY BARDWELL

People Fixing the World

8.05am/3.05pm/10.05pm

BBC World Service

When women and girls are able to move forward, the whole of society progresses with them. Sadly, in Rwanda, sexual and gender-based violence (GBV) remains a harsh reality for almost half of the country’s female population. Presenter Myra Anubi is not new to this subject — listen to her Safer Cities for Women (a previous episode of People Fixing the World) on BBC Sounds — but she does find some signs of progress being made via the work of the international charity, Tearfund. It has set up safe-space projects in conjunction with churches and is hoping to shift male attitudes about GBV being acceptable and “normal” — preventing violence before it begins. ANNA JONES

7.00am Greg James 10.30 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie 1.00pm Matt and Mollie

3.30 Going Home 6.00 New Music

Show with Jack Saunders 8.00 Future

Artists with Sian Eleri 10.00 Power Down

Playlist 11.00 Martha 1.00am Dance

Drum ‘n’ Bass Mix 2.00 Anthems 4.00 Pop Anthems 5.00 Dean McCullough

BBC Radio 2

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6.30am Gary Davies

9.30 Mark Goodier

Music, chat and features, including at 10.30 the Ten to the Top music quiz and at 11.40 Tracks of My Years, with two more picks from BBC sports presenter Kelly Cates.

12.00 Jeremy Vine

Topical discussion, plus music. As part ofCarersWeek,Tiggy Walker,patron of Carers UK and widow of Radio 2 disc jockey Johnnie Walker, discusses the pressures of caring for a loved one.

2.00pm Trevor Nelson

4.00 Sara Cox

Including at 6.30 Sara Cox’s Half Wower, with potentially mood-lifting hits from the last five decades.

7.00 Jo Whiley

Including the Shiny Happy Playlist

9.00 The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum

A broad spectrum of jazz music, including live studio sessions.

10.00 The Good Groove with DJ Spoony

12.00 Connor Phillips

Sitting in for OJ Borg with chat, music, texts and features, including Midnight Mastermind.

3.00am Sounds of the 90s with Fearne Cotton

Natalie Appleton (of All Saints) presents a “night out” mixtape including the Prodigy, N-Trance and the KLF. From 2023 (R)

4.00 Owain Wyn Evans

BBC 6 Music

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7.00am Jamz Supernova

10.00 Lauren Laverne

1.00pm Chris Hawkins

4.00 Huw Stephens

7.00 New Music Fix Daily

9.00 Riley and Coe

11.00 6 Music Artist in Residence 2/4. Further music picks from Rostam. 12.00 6 Music’s Indie Forever

1.00am The Atlantic Records Story

11&12/13. A 1988 13-part Radio 2 series covering the history of the Atlantic record label. The first hour features Led Zeppelin, including interviews with Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page. Hour two looks at Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Marc Cohn and Tori Amos. Presented by Johnnie Walker. 3.00 Live Hour

American rockers Sugarcult at Glastonbury in 2003, plus BBC live sessions from Jimi Goodwin and the Dylans.

4.00 The 6 Music Playlist

5.00 Amy Lamé

Boom Radio

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6.00am Andy Marriott 7.30 Graham

Dene 10.00 Rob Jones

12.00 David Hamilton 2.00pm Roger Day

4.00 Nicky Horne 6.00 Jane Markham

8.00 The Easy Hour 9.00 David Hamilton’s Million Sellers

10.00 Diana Luke 12.00 Derek Webster

2.00am Night Music

6.30am Breakfast With Tom McKinney. 9.30 Essential Classics With Georgia Mann. 1.00pm Classical Live

Continuing this week’s London focus, Linton Stephens presents chamber music recorded at two leading concert venues. From Wigmore Hall, there’s vocal music performed by Ian Bostridge; and from LSO St Luke’s, there’s music by Dohnányi and Shostakovich, featuring Antoine Tamestit on viola. Central to the programme is the LSO performing Vaughan Williams’s vivid portrait of early 20th-century London. The programme also includes highlights from the London International Festival of Early Music, with music by Telemann. Schumann Dichterliebe Ian Bostridge (tenor), Piotr Anderszewski (piano) Dohnányi Serenade, Op 10 James Ehnes (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Andreas Brantelid (cello) Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (Symphony No 2) LSO, conductor Antonio Pappano Telemann Sonata in G Erik Bosgraaf (recorder), Zefira Valova (violin) Shostakovich Viola Sonata Op 147 Antoine Tamestit, Bertrand Chamayou (piano) Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op 34; Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell Hungarian RSO, conductor Howard Williams 4.00 Composer of the Week: Monteverdi 2/5. Fin de 16e siècle. Monteverdi moves to Mantua, where court life offers new opportunities as well as new pressures. As he settles into the Gonzaga court, his confidence as composer and performer grows and his music becomes more daring, as he creates madrigals that test the limits of harmony and expression. There are also early stirringsofopera.Presented by KateMolleson. Sinfonia for two violins and viola da brazzo

Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini Vattenepur,crudel(Madrigals,Book3)(arrforviolconsort)

Six Chordae Consort of Viols, director John Dornenburg Ch’io non t’ami, cor mio? (Madrigals, Book 3)

Delitiae Musicae, director Marco Longhini

L’Orfeo (excerpts)

Orfeo

Euridice

La Musica

Messaggiera

Speranza

Ian Bostridge (tenor)

Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)

Natalie Dessay (contralto)

Alice Coote (contralto)

Sonia Prina (contralto)

Caronte Mario Luperi (bass)

Proserpina

Plutone

Apollo/Shepherd III

Ninfa

Eco/Shepherd II

Shepherd I

Shepherd IV

Véronique Gens (soprano)

Lorenzo Regazzo (bass)

Christopher Maltman (baritone)

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)

Paul Agnew (tenor)

Pascal Bertin (countertenor)

Richard Burkhard (baritone)

Le Concert d’Astrée, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm

Madrigali amorosi (Madrigals, Book 8)(selection); Cruda Amarilli (Madrigals, Book 5); Anima mia perdona (Madrigals, Book 4)

Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini

6.00am Rossie 10.00 Richard Allinson: including at 10.30 the PopMaster music quiz 1.00pm Kate Thornton 4.00 The Simon Mayo Drivetime Show 7.00 Jackie Brambles 10.00 Andy Crane: a comforting nostalgic playlist 1.00am Music Marathon: featuring 10 hits in a row every hour 4.00 Alex Lester

5.00 In Tune

In the first of two special broadcasts from BBC Radio Merseyside (with more tomorrow), Petroc Trelawny invites Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Fellowship Musicians and violist Ian Fair to perform live. He also hears from RLPO chief conductor Domingo Hindoyan.

7.00 Classical Mixtape A presenter-free half-hour.

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert

A recent performance of Haydn’s Die Schöpfung (The Creation), his vivid and characterful setting of the biblical Genesis story which premiered in 1798 and which remains one of his most popular and spectacular pieces. Recorded on 17 May at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead. Presented by Mark Forrest. Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), William Thomas (bass), Royal Northern Sinfonia Chorus, Royal Northern Sinfonia, conductor Dinis Sousa Haydn The Creation

9.45 The Essay: Musicians on the Couch 2/5. Music, Madness and Unusual Ways of Seeing... Writer Amanda Dalton explores the relationship between the mind and music. Woven through with Amanda’s personal story of music as its own form of psychotherapy, this essay singles out composers Mozart, Schumann, John Ogdon and Glenn Gould as examples of musicians known for their mental health issues. (R)

10.00 Night Tracks With Hannah Peel.

11.30 ’Round Midnight

Soweto Kinch with the full spectrum of jazz, including a focus on the British scene. In the 4/4 feature, Tomeka Reid shares another album that has influenced her. 12.30am Through the Night

With Jonathan Swift, who begins with a BBC Prom from last July at the Royal Albert Hall, London, with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the premiere of one of his own works — a tribute to Laura Samuel, a long-time leader of the BBCSSO who died in 2024, aged 48. The work is inspired by Bach’s Solo Violin Partita in D minor Ryan Wigglesworth For Laura, after Bach Mozart Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466 Liszt La campanella (Grandes études de Paganini) Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E Mariam Batsashvili (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ryan Wigglesworth 2.25 Mozart Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen (Die Zauberflöte) 2.31 Haydn Mass No 9 in C, H XXII 9 (Missa in tempore belli) 3.10 Schumann Waldszenen, Op 82 3.35 Dvořák Notturno in B, Op 40 3.42 Buxtehude Trio Sonata in B flat, Op 1 No 4 3.51 Pezel German Dance Suite (arr Romm for brass ensemble) 3.59 Ruždjak April is the Cruellest Month 4.06 JS Bach Beschränkt, ihr Weisen dieser Welt, BWV443; Ich liebe Jesum alle Stund, BWV468; Jesu, Jesu, du bist mein, BWV470; Ach, dass nicht die letzte Stunde, BWV439 (Musicalisches Gesang-Buch GC Schemelli) 4.15 Wiren Piano Sonatina, Op 25 4.22 Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker) 4.31 JC Bach Quintet in G, Op 11 No 2 4.39 Chopin Rondo in E flat, Op 16 4.49 Holmboe Lauda anima mea (Liber Canticorum II, Op 59c) 4.57 Khachaturian Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus) 5.07 Kodaly Adagio for violin and piano 5.15 Petar Petrov Canto triste 5.25 Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C 5.52 Lassus Dulces exuviae 5.59 Berwald String Quartet in G minor

6.00am Mindful Mix 9.00 Classical Unwind 12.00 Piano Focus 2.00pm Mindful Mix 5.00 Classical Wind Down 8.00 Cinematic Soundtracks 9.00 Ultimate Calm: Anna Meredith shares the piece by Messiaen that reminds her to take a breath (2/12) 10.00

6.00am Motivation 7.00 Haroon Rashid 10.00 Certified 11.00 Vallisa 1.00pm Haroon Rashid 2.00 Certified Throwbacks 3.00 Jaz Singh 6.00 Nadia Ali 8.00 BBC Introducing with Jasmine Takhar 10.00 Asian Network Represents 11.00 Celebrates 12.00 All Star Anthems 1.00am Kan D Man 3.00 New Music Show with DJ Limelight 5.00 DJ Kizzi’s House Party Mix

6.00am Dave Berry: chat, music and regular features 10.00 Leona Graham 1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00 Danielle Perry 9.00 Best of Neighbourhood Weekender 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1.00am Ben Sheppard

Bill Overton Music through the night. 4.00 Lucy Coward With the Dawn Chorus at 5.15

5.00am News Summary

5.04 Yesterday in Parliament

An update on the latest political proceedings. 5.43 Prayer for the Day

A chance to pause for reflection and contemplation with singer and worship leader Julia Loveless.

5.45 Farming Today

News about food, farming and the countryside.

6.00 Today

With Anna Foster and Justin Webb.

6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News

6.45 Yesterday in Parliament

7.48 Thought for the Day

With Rabbi Charley Baginsky, co-lead of the Movement for Progressive Judaism.

9.00 The Gift

6/6. Deleted. After one of the biggest brands in at-home DNA testing is put up for sale — along with the genetic codes of millions of its customers — Jenny Kleeman decides if she wants to continue to belong to the global DNA database. All episodes are on BBC Sounds.

Producer Conor Garrett Repeated tomorrow 9pm 9.30 All in the Mind

7/10. This week, Claudia Hammond visits a laboratory studying shared play between parents and children and exploring how these parent-child interactions may be fundamental to how families connect with one another. What can be learnt from shared play about the healthy use of screens by children? Is shared engagement — being interested in the same thing at the same time as one’s child — the way forward?

Producer Helena Selby Repeated tomorrow 9.30pm 10.00 Woman’s Hour

Nuala McGovern presents the magazine show offering a female perspective on the world. 11.00 Add to Playlist

3/6. Classical pianist Lucy Parham and operatic tenor Nicky Spence join Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe to compile a five-track playlist. Starting with a memorable scene from Werner Herzog’s 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, they end up at the queen of the power ballad, after stopping off to reveal the background to two popular tunes regularly played on Radio 4. Repeated from Friday

11.45 Book of the Week: The Butterfly Season

2/5. By Lea Korsgaard. The author learns about the miraculous process of metamorphosis in butterflies, whereby the caterpillar eats its old home. Read by Nicola Walker. For details see yesterday Repeated 12.30am

12.04pm Call You and Yours

Winifred Robinson invites listeners to offer their experiences in consumer affairs.

PHONE: 0370 010 0444 (Lines open from 10am)

EMAIL: youandyours@bbc.co.uk

1.00 The World at One

News and analysis with Sarah Montague.

1.45 Ten Years after Brexit

2/10. Trade and Investment. Alex Forsyth and guests discuss how the decision to leave the EU has affected trade and investment in the UK.

2.00 The Archers Repeated from yesterday 7pm

2.15 Our Friends in the North 3/10. 1967. Peter Flannery’s adaptation of his award-winning 1996 TV drama. The year is 1967. Nicky has turned his back on the Labour Party and is looking to the anarchists for solutions.

Mary and Tosker’s new flat in Newcastle is almost uninhabitable, while, in London, Geordie has fallen in love with his boss’s mistress. From 2022. All episodes are on BBC Sounds.

Nicky James Baxter Geordie Luke MacGregor

CommanderHaroldChapple James Gaddas

Tosker/DISalway Philip Correia

Mary/Julia Norah Lopez Holden

DSConrad Andrew Byron

BennyBarratt/EddieWells Tony Hirst

AustinDonohue/ClaudSeabrook Tom Goodman-Hill

Sandra Tracey Wilkinson

Helen Eve Shotton

Producer Melanie Harris

Executive producer Jeremy Mortimer (R)

3.00 History’s Heroes

10/10. Sophie Blanchard Takes to the Skies In 19th-century France, a young woman escapes a life of drudgery, faces her fears and finds worldwide fame as an aeronaut. Sophie Blanchard performs for Napoleon and eventually becomes the official aeronaut of the Restoration. But, as her hot-air balloon shows become increasingly ambitious, can she keep cheating death? Producer Lorna Reader

3.30 Thinking Allowed

3/7. Football and Gambling. Laurie Taylor examines two ways of understanding football’s place in modern society. Darragh McGee’s book Imitation Games charts the rapid rise of gambling and its growing entanglement with the sport. Adam Dinsmore, of Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport, reflects on how, for supporters in post-industrial towns, football clubs often remain one of the last institutions linking past and present.

Producer Natalia Fernandez

4.00 Poetry Please

New series. 1/4. In a special edition recorded at the Hay Festival, Roger McGough presents a selection of the most requested poems on Poetry Please, as well as a few of his own works. He is joined by impressionist, actor and comedian Alistair McGowan, who also writes poetry. Producer Maggie Ayre

4.30 What’s Up Docs?

Exploring the effect our friendships have on our physical health, Chris and Xand van Tulleken find out why different friendship styles are important and discover how to maintain and nurture social connections. With Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, a writer and cultural historian interested in the histories of emotion and medicine.

Producer Faye Lyons-White

5.00 PM Presented by Evan Davis.

6.00 Six o’Clock News

6.30 One Person Found This Helpful 4/6. Frank Skinner hosts as Rajiv Karia, Scott Bennett, Bella Hull and Laura Smyth learn about topics including necks and ice sculptures.

Producer David Tyler Rptd next Tuesday BBC Radio 4 Extra 7.00 The Archers

Jazzer offers his opinion, and Kirsty receives support from an unlikely source.

For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm

7.15 Front Row

Barry Manilow talks about his latest album

What a Time, his first collection of nearly all-new material in almost 15 years. Producer Ekene Akalawu

8.00 File on 4 Investigates

An in-depth current affairs report covering a story behind the headlines. Repeated tomorrow 11am

8.45 In Touch

News, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted, with Peter White.

Producer Beth Hemmings Repeated Sunday 5.45am

9.00 The Law Show

2/4. Dr Joelle Grogan looks at youth courts and sentencing. Producers Ravi Naik and Ivana Davidovic Repeated from Wednesday 9.30 The Bottom Line

1/8. Evan Davis examines the manufacture of running shoes and trainers. Rptd from Thursday 10.00 The World Tonight Presented by James Coomarasamy.

10.45 Black Water 2/5. By Heidi Amsinck. While Jensen and Gustav interview one of Sonny’s rivals, CCTV footage leads Henrik to make an arrest. Read by MyAnna Buring. For details see Monday 11.00 Uncanny Cold Cases 10/12. Danny Robins, Dr Ciarán O’Keeffe and Evelyn Hollow look back to 1870s Canada to investigate the Great Amherst Mystery. Nova Scotia teenager Esther Cox is at the centre of a series of inexplicable events, but is it the result of a possible paranormal entity or a hoax?

Producers Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd 11.30 Today in Parliament 12.00 News and Weather 12.30—12.45am Book of the Week: The Butterfly Season Repeated from 11.45am 1.00 as BBC World Service

5.00am Wake Up to Money Financial news, reports and analysis.

6.00 5 Live Breakfast

Rachel Burden and Steffan Powell with a detailed look at the headlines, plus sports news, weather and unique stories from across the UK.

9.00 Nicky Campbell

Discussion of topical issues and the chance for listeners to phone in.

11.00 Naga Munchetty

With the latest news, big-name interviews from around the UK and listeners’ personal experiences.

2.00pm Matt Chorley

News and topical political discussion, including analysis from specialist commentators and listener input.

4.00 5 Live Drive

Clare McDonnell and Chris Warburton with news and sport. Plus interviews linked to topical and cultural issues.

7.00 5 Live Sport

Steve Crossman is joined by guests for build-up to the 8.00 commentary on England v Ukraine in a Women’s World Cup qualifier in Liverpool.

10.30 Tony Livesey

A look at sports, news and culture, with in-depth interviews and listener input.

1.00am Dotun Adebayo Discussion linked to news and culture.

BBC 5 Sports Extra

DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra Freeview 706 Freely 607 Freesat 706 Sky 0127 Virgin 908

10.55am—5.55pm County Cricket Kevin Howells with live commentary on Surrey v Hampshire in the County Championship.

5.55—8.00 International Football Wales v Czech Republic, a women’s World Cup Group B1 qualifier from Cardiff City Stadium (kick-off 6.00).

6.00am Trueman and Riley Angel Delight

6.30 Peeler Crime drama by Patrick Carroll (3/6)

7.00BeaumarchaisPeriod France-setcomedy (2/6)

7.30 The Goon Show as 6.30pm 8.00 Boswell’s Lives as 7pm 8.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (2/5)

8.45TheLittleOttleysPeriod comedy drama (2/5) 9.00 One Person Found This Helpful Frank Skinner hosts (3/6) As broadcast last Tuesday on Radio 4 9.30 Assume Nothing: The Last Request (2/5) 9.45 Daily Service Led by Angel Morgan. Reading: Psalm 42, vv1—6. Music: As the Deer 10.00 AGood Read With Harriett Gilbert in 2013 10.30 BACH: Man of Passion as 4.30pm 11.00 Trueman and Riley Angel Delight 11.30 Peeler Crime drama by Patrick Carroll (3/6) 12.00BeaumarchaisPeriodFrance-setcomedy (2/6) 12.30pm The Goon Show as 6.30pm 1.00 Boswell’s Lives as 7pm 1.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (2/5) 1.45 The Little Ottleys Period comedy drama (2/5) 2.00 Genius as 8pm 2.30 Robin and Wendy’s Wet Weekends (1/4)

3.00 The Pallisers Dramatisation by Martyn Wade of the series of Victorian political novels by Anthony Trollope. With David Troughton, Ben Miles, Sophie Thompson, Anastasia Hille and more. From 2004 (1/12)

4.00 AGood Read With Harriett Gilbert in 2013

4.30BACH:ManofPassion Bach scholar John Butt celebrates Johann Sebastian Bach (1685—1750), whose music is practically a language unto itself. Aided by composers and musicians, Butt speculates on what Bach thought, felt and believed as well as what inspired and drove him to write such great works.

5.00 Trueman and Riley In Angel Delight

5.30 Peeler Crime drama by Patrick Carroll (3/6)

6.00BeaumarchaisPeriod France-setcomedy (2/6)

6.30 The Goon Show A 1957 re-recording 7.00Boswell’sLivesSeries two of the time-travelling comedy by Jon Canter. With Miles Jupp (3/4)

7.30 Two Lives Adaptation by Alison Joseph of Vikram Seth’s 2005 book about his Aunty Henny and Shanti Uncle, who endured a difficult journey (from India to north London via 1930s Berlin). Shanti Uncle takes lodgings at the Caro family apartment in Berlin. Read by Sam Dastor and Renu Setna (2/5)

7.45 The Little Ottleys Period comedy drama (2/5)

8.00 Genius Series three. From 2007 (4/6)

8.30 Robin and Wendy’s Wet Weekends (1/4)

9.00 The Pallisers as 3pm

10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: One Person Found This Helpful (3/6), at 10.30 Sam Simmons Is Not a People Person (1/4), at 10.45 Tina C’s Tiny IslandTour (1/4), at11.00BussmannandQuantick Kingsize (1/5), and at 11.30 Chain Reaction (4/6)

12.00 AGood Read as 4pm 12.30am as 4.30pm 1.00 as 11am 1.30 as 5.30pm 2.00 as 6pm 2.30 as 6.30pm 3.00 as 7pm 3.30 as 7.30pm 3.45 as 7.45pm 4.00 as 8pm 4.30 as 8.30pm 5.00 as 3pm

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 People Fixing the World Review page 120 8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History 9.00 The Newsroom 9.30 Assignment 10.00 News 10.05 The Arts Hour 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 The Global Story 12.00 News 12.05pm Outlook 12.50 Witness History 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30 In the Studio: Danish chef Trine Hahnemann on combining “hygge” with cooking. Review page 120 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05 People Fixing the World Review page 120 3.30

6.00am Talksport Breakfast Presented by Jeff Stelling. 10.00AdeOladipoand Rory Jennings 1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs Paul Hawksbee and Andy Jacobs with sports news, guests and more. 4.00 Talksport Drive 7.00 Kick Off Sports debate. 10.00 The Sports Bar Reaction, analysis and the chance for listeners to have a say on the day’s sport. 1.00am Extra Time With Paul Ross. 5.00 Early Sports Breakfast

WEDNESDAY RADIO

TODAY'S REVIEWS

Radio 3 in Concert

7.30pm Radio 3

The Hallé Orchestra end their 2025/26 season with Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, under the baton of Singaporean-born Kahchun Wong (above). Known as “the Tragic”, it was actually written during a comparativey tranquil stage in the composer’s life, when relations with his wife Alma (subject of the theme that emerges in the first movement) were happy and their young daughter Maria Anna, born in November 1902 (followed by a second daughter Anna in 1904), was Mahler’s delight. But this is music of great foreboding. The symphony opens with jarring marches and ends with the immense last movement punctuated by the percussive hammer blows claimed, by Alma, to represent the great tragedies Mahler would later encounter. The Sixth was premiered in 1906. Young Maria Anna died aged four, from scarlet fever and diphtheria, in 1907. Elizabeth Alker presents a concert recorded last month at the Bridgewater Hall.

MICHAEL HODGES

The Shoemakers

10.00am/4.00pm Radio 4 Extra

In his 2007 documentary about the Northampton shoemakers, journalist and local lad Ray Gosling, who died in 2013, remembers a town that smelled of leather and tanning. Smokestack Britain, he calls it. By the 1970s, though still providing jobs for some 150,000 people in the UK, the industry was collapsing under the weight of cheap imports from countries of low-cost labour. No wonder Gosling sounds so wistful. But craftsmanship, he discovers, never dies and a handful of shoemakers of Northampton live on to provide a high-end clientele with handmade footwear at £1,000 a pop. FIONA HUGHES

BBC Radio 1

7.00am Greg James 10.30 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie 1.00pm Matt and Mollie

3.30 Going Home 6.00 New Music

Show with Jack Saunders 8.00 Radio 1’s

Future Pop with Maia Beth 10.00 Power Down Playlist 11.00 Benji B 1.00am

Teletech: Faster Horses 2.00 Anthems

4.00Pop Anthems 5.00Dean McCullough

BBC Radio 2

88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2

Freeview* 702 Freely 603 Freesat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

6.30am Gary Davies

9.30 Vernon Kay Music, chat and features including at 11.40 Tracks of My Years, with Kelly Cates sharing two more records of personal significance.

12.00 Jeremy Vine

2.00pm Trevor Nelson

4.00 Sara Cox Music and chat.

7.00 Shaun Keaveny

Sitting in for Jo Whiley with a pick of new music and vintage classics.

9.00 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe

10.00 The Good Groove with DJ Spoony

12.00 OJ Borg Music and chat.

3.00am Alternative Sounds of the 90s with Dermot O’Leary

A playlist of lesser-known Britpop gems, including tracks from Rialto, Menswear and Pulp. And Travis frontman Fran Healy picks his favourite 1990s band. From 2024. (R)

4.00 Owain Wyn Evan

BBC 6 Music

DAB bbc.co.uk/6music

Freeview 707 Freely 608 F’sat 707 Sky 0118 Virgin 909

7.00am Nick Grimshaw

10.00 Lauren Laverne

1.00pm Chris Hawkins

4.00 Huw Stephens

7.00 New Music Fix Daily

9.00 Riley and Coe

11.00 6 Music Artist in Residence

3/4. Further music picks from Rostam. 12.00 Freak Zone Playlist

An hour of experimental music curated by Billy Fuller (of Bristol band Beak>) following the recent release of his debut album solo album, Fragments

1.00am The Stevie Wonder Story

Final part of a 1977 series on the Motown superstar. Presented by Stuart Grundy.

2.00 Street Corner Soul

Two episodes of a 2007 Radio 2 four-part series in which iconic singer Ronnie Spector (1943—2022) explored the rise, fall and enduring influence of doo-wop.

3.00 Live Hour The Sinceros in concert, plus archive BBC sessions from Groove Farm, Flush, and Sunwatchers.

4.00 Jukebox

5.00 Amy Lamé

Boom Radio

DAB+ boomradio.co.uk

6.00am Andy Marriott 7.30 Graham

Dene 10.00 Rob Jones 12.00 David

Hamilton 2.00pm Roger Day 4.00 Nicky

Horne 6.00 Jane Markham 8.00 The Easy Hour 9.00 Malcolm’s Musicals and Movies: radio producer and broadcaster Malcolm Prince showcases contemporary and classic music from stage and screen, including two connected tracks — one from a film and the other a stage musical — and something from the Disney studio. Plus a tune from a current show on Broadway and/or on the West End stage. Today’s playlist includes music from a Broadway production of Avenue Q (in 2003) and a National Theatre performance of Oklahoma! (in 1998). Plus highlights of Alan Menken’s score to the 2007 film Enchanted 10.00 Diana Luke 12.00Derek Webster 2.00amNight Music

BBC Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast

Tom McKinney with the latest headlines, texts and music, including anniversary-linked works, listeners’ suggestions and the features Bach before 7 and, to start, the Dawn Chorus 9.30 Essential Classics

With Georgia Mann, including at 10.00 the Playlister Starter, in which listeners are played a piece of music and then invited to suggest compatible works for broadcast at 11.15 in the Playlister Reveal. Plus Album of the Week at 10.30 and, at 12.00, Feast of a Piece, showcasing a fine orchestral work. 1.00pm Classical Live

Aweeklong focus on London continues with Sir Antonio Pappano conducting the LSO in Holst and Walton, the latter’s Viola Concerto featuring the reappearance this week of Antoine Tamestit as soloist. From Wigmore Hall, Ian Bostridge and Piotr Anderszewski perform some more Schumann. And there are further highlights from the London International Festival of Early Music, with music by Baroque composer Pietro Antonio Locatelli. Presented by Linton Stephens. Holst Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (The Planets) LSO, conductor Antonio Pappano Locatelli Trio Sonata in E minor, Op 2 No 5 Polychroma Walton Viola Concerto Antoine Tamestit, LSO, conductor Antonio Pappano Schumann Liederkreis, Op 24 Ian Bostridge (tenor), Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

3.00 Choral Evensong

From the Chapel of Keble College, Oxford. Recorded on 28 April. Introit: Hail, Gladdening Light (Wood). Responses: Andrew Campling. Psalms 53, 54, 55 (Goss, Naylor, Goss). First Lesson: 1 Samuel 12, vv19—25. Canticles: Wesley in E. Second Lesson: Romans 9, vv9—21. Anthem: I Saw the Lord (Stainer). Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on Croft’s 136th (Parry). Director of music Christian Wilson. Organ scholars Louis Horsman Carpenter and Louis Jones. Repeated Sunday 6pm 4.00 Composer of the Week: Monteverdi 3/5. Centre Stage. Monteverdi reaches a turning point in his career, as he secures a leading role at the Mantuan court and begins writing for the stage. Alongside his creative breakthrough with the opera L’Orfeo comes a more difficult period in his personal life, with financial strain, overwork and illness. Set within the demands of court life, Monteverdi’s artistic ambition and lived experience converge. Presented by Kate Molleson.

Io mi son giovinetta (Madrigals, Book 4) Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini Vespers (excerpts)

The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers Cor mio, non mori? (Madrigals, Book 4) Delitiae Musicae, director Marco Longhini L’Orfeo, Act 5 (excerpt)

6.00am Rossie 10.00 Richard Allinson: with PopMaster at 10.30 1.00pm Kate Thornton 4.00 The Simon Mayo Drivetime Show 7.00 Jackie Brambles 10.00 Andy Crane 1.00am Music Marathon 4.00 Alex Lester: familiar oldies and rarely played hits from the past presented by the disc jockey who first presented on air in 1977. Plus texts.

Plutone

6.00am Celebrates 7.00 Haroon Rashid 10.00 Certified 11.00 Vallisa 1.00pm Haroon Rashid 2.00 Certified Throwbacks 3.00 Jaz Singh 6.00 Kan D Man 8.00 Trending: stories affecting Asian Network listeners 10.00 Celebrates 11.00 Motivation 12.00 Shades On Mix with DJ Manara 1.00am AJD 4.00 Singalong Bollywood Anthems with Vallisa 5.00 The Everyday Hustle

6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham: mainstream and indie rock and pop 1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00Danielle Perry 9.00Best of Neighbourhood Weekender 10.00 Ben Coley 1.00am Ben Sheppard

Michael

Apollo Andrew King

New London Consort, Philip Pickett

Laetaniae della Beata Vergine

Odhecaton, director Paolo Da Col

5.00 In Tune

In the second of two special broadcasts from BBC Radio Merseyside, Petroc Trelawny hears from Liverpudlian mezzo Jennifer Johnston and Professor Ian Tracey, organist at Liverpool Cathedral. 7.00 Classical Mixtape Nonstop music. 7.30 Radio 3 in Concert

6Humanity’s frailty and fortitude combine in Mahler’s existential Sixth Symphony — a work that was written during a period of relative personal happiness for the composer, yet is often referred to as “the Tragic”. Both elements are reflected in its juxtaposition of warmth and joy with a brooding intensity. Recorded last month at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Presented by Elizabeth Alker. Hallé Orchestra, conductor Kahchun Wong Mahler Symphony No 6

9.45 The Essay: Musicians on the Couch 3/5. When Margaret Met Carl: Music Therapy

Writer Amanda Dalton considers how music can reach people when nothing else can. This essay springs from music therapist and concert pianist Margaret Tilly’s meeting with psychiatrist and analyst Carl Jung, who championed her work on musical analysis and the treatment of her patients. (R) 10.00 Night Tracks With Hannah Peel. 11.30 ’Round Midnight

Soweto Kinch with jazz and 4/4 guest Tomeka Reid. 12.30am Through the Night

With Jonathan Swain, who begins with Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in a performance from the studios of Ukrainian Radio in Kyiv. Plus music by Ukrainian composers and performers. Pergolesi Stabat Mater Liudmyla Monastyrska (soprano), Alla Pozniak (mezzo), Platon Maiboroda Academic Choir of Ukrainian Radio, Liatoshynskyi Capella, conductor Yuliia Tkach Lysenko La Tristesse, Op 39 No 3 Fantasy on Two Ukrainian Themes, Op 21 1.25 Stenhammar Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 19 1.45 Glière Harp Concerto, Op 74 2.12 Bizet, transc Horowitz Virtuoso Fantasy on Themes from Carmen 2.16 Pergolesi Violin Concerto in B flat 2.31 Dvořák Symphony No 8 in G 3.09 Schumann Kinderszenen, Op 15 3.29 Ruždjak Five Folk Tunes for baritone and orchestra 3.38 Purcell Chacony in G minor, Z730 3.46 Foulds Keltic Overture, Op 28 3.54 Milhaud Quatre Visages, Op 238 4.04 Laszlo Sáry Pebble Playing in a Pot 4.13 Moscheles La gaité 4.22 Krause Trio Sonata in D minor 4.31 Noskowski The Highlander Fantasy, Op 17 4.40 Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op 35 No 1 4.49 Gade At sunset, Op 46 4.57 Mozart Adagio and Allegro in E flat for wind octet, K.Anh.C.17.07 5.07 Geminiani Concerto grosso in G minor, Op 3 No 2 5.15 Anon Ave potentissima 5.23 Haydn Symphony No 67 in F 5.49 Chédeville Recorder Sonata in G minor, Op 13 No 6 5.57 Beethoven String Quartet No 1 in F, Op 18 No 1 (R)

6.00am Mindful Mix 9.00 Classical Unwind 12.00 Piano Focus 2.00pm Mindful Mix 5.00 Classical Wind Down 8.00 Cinematic Soundtracks 9.00 Ultimate Calm: with music by Ravel, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ennio Morricone and Julianna Barwick (3/12) 10.00 Night Tracks 11.30 The Sleeping Forecast 12.30am Sleep Tracks

6.30am Classic FM

Calm Classics Ritula Shah with a soothing playlist tailored for late-night listening. 1.00am Bill Overton Music through the night, featuring classical favourites and film music. 4.00 Lucy Coward With the Dawn Chorus at 5.15

Orfeo John Mark Ainsley (tenor)

Euridice Julia Gooding (soprano)

La Musica Catherine Bott (soprano)

Caronte Simon Grant (bass)

George (bass)

(tenor)

5.00am News Summary

5.04 Yesterday in Parliament

An update on the latest political proceedings. 5.43 Prayer for the Day

A chance to pause for reflection and contemplation with singer and worship leader Julia Loveless.

5.45 Farming Today

News about food, farming and the countryside.

6.00 Today With Emma Barnett and Justin Webb.

6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News

6.45 Yesterday in Parliament

7.48 Thought for the Day

With Michael Hurley, Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Cambridge.

9.00 More or Less

4/8. Tim Harford presents the programme that explores some of the numbers and statistics encountered in everyday life.

Editor Richard Vadon Repeated Friday 4.30pm 9.30 To Catch a King

5/7. Travel Agents. Sue Mitchell and Rob Lawrie infiltrate the closed world of smugglers and their bankers, who handle the payments of thousands of migrants paying their way to the UK one section at a time.

Producer Joel Moors

10.00 Woman’s Hour

Nuala McGovern presents the magazine show offering a female perspective on the world.

11.00 File on 4 Investigates

A current affairs report covering a story behind the headlines. Repeated from yesterday 8pm 11.40 This Week in History

A look back at the events of this week in years past. Repeated Friday 8.55pm 11.45 Book of the Week: The Butterfly Season

3/5. By Lea Korsgaard. Setting off in search of the rarest butterfly in Denmark, the author receives advice from an expert about where she will find it. After hearing about the methods employed by early 20th-century collectors, she decides to document her findings with a camera. When she learns some startling facts from the experts accompanying her, this new information gives the author’s quest a renewed sense of urgency. Read by Nicola Walker. For details see Monday Repeated 12.30am 12.04pm You and Yours Consumer affairs and public interest stories.

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1.00 The World at One News and analysis of the day’s events, presented by Sarah Montague.

6.00am Trueman and Riley as 11am

6.30 Peeler as 11.30am

7.00 Gush as 6pm

7.30 Hancock’s Half Hour 1955 comedy

8.00 Rudy’s Rare Records as 7pm

8.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (3/5)

8.45 The Little Ottleys Comedy drama (3/5)

9.00IanSmithIsStressedMixing stand-up, outings and expert help, Ian Smith is back on his quest for calm (3/4) As broadcast last Wednesday on Radio 4 9.30 Assume Nothing: The Last Request (3/5)

9.45 Daily Service Led by the Rev Kirsty Thorpe. Reading: John 7, vv37—39. Music: We Shall Draw Water Joyfully; Living Water; Jesus Gave Me Water 10.00 The Shoemakers as 4pm 11.00 Trueman and Riley Series three of Brian B Thompson’s Leeds-set crime drama starring Duncan Preston and Robert Daws. In Family Business, a gambler goes missing with £98,000 in winnings 11.30 Peeler Crime drama by Patrick Carroll, set in 1830. Sir Robert Peel’s new Metropolitan Police force proves unpopular, sparking deep political unrest. With Mick Ford, James Booth, Norman Jones, Richard E Grant (as Lord Trowle) and others. From 1991 (4/6) 12.00 Gush as 6pm

12.30pm Hancock’s Half Hour 1955 comedy 1.00 Rudy’s Rare Records as 7pm 1.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (3/5)

1.45 Ten Years after Brexit

3/10. Immigration. The debate on immigration was at the heart of the Brexit referendum, but in the years immediately after Brexit, the country saw its highest ever levels of net migration. Alex Forsyth speaks to James Bowes, a data analyst at the University of Warwick, and Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, about how the impact of Brexit on immigration should be assessed.

2.00 The Archers Repeated from yesterday 7pm

2.15 Trust

3/3. Going Green. Series three of the comedy drama by Jonathan Hall. East Salford Academy has just had a biomass boiler fitted. While acknowledging that the school has to go green, Yvette discovers that the boiler is rather costly and somewhat unreliable. And, with the vaccination roll-out for the pupils in progress, a temperamental boiler is the last thing she needs. From 2022. All episodes are on BBC Sounds.

Yvette Julie Hesmondhalgh

SirKen Jonathan Keeble

Tim Ashley Margolis

Dhrutti Mina Anwar

Producer/Director Gary Brown (R)

3.00 The Law Show

3/4. Dr Joelle Grogan looks at the law stories in the news and the impact of the latest legal decisions. Producer Ravi Naik Repeated Tuesday 9pm

3.30 The Artificial Human

3/6. Can AI help us win the World Cup?

As they explore the use of AI in football, Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong speak to Reading FC’s Stuart Fenton — the first head of AI appointed by an English club — who explains how they’re using AI to transform the club and push towards the Premier League. They also hear from Agnieszka Antoszkiewicz, a former integrity manager at Fifa, about how AI-driven changes are impacting the game. Producer Rachael O’Neill

4.00 When It Hits the Fan

David Yelland and Farzana Baduel look at recent PR stories, exploring how events unfolded.

Producer Duncan Middleton Repeated tomorrow 8pm

4.15 The Media Show

Ros Atkins and Katie Razzall examine the latest developments in the media world.

Producer Lisa Jenkinson Repeated tomorrow 8.15pm

5.00 PM Presented by Evan Davis.

6.00 Six o’Clock News

6.30 Ian Smith Is Stressed

4/4. Fertility. The comedian charts his battles with microplastics, bus timetables and wifi in an episode about male fertility, as series two of the stand-up show concludes. Producer Benjamin Sutton Repeated next Wednesday BBC Radio 4 Extra

1.45 The Little Ottleys Comedy drama (3/5)

2.00 The Museum of Curiosity as 8pm

2.30 Getting Nowhere Fast as 8.30pm

3.00 The Pallisers as 9pm

4.00 The Shoemakers Ray Gosling returns to his home town of Northampton to explore its boot and shoemaking industry. Review page 122

5.00 Trueman and Riley as 11am

5.30 Peeler as 11.30am

6.00 Gush Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s satire, starring Martin Jarvis, Mac McDonald, Caroline Quentin and Felicity Montagu. From 1994 (4/6)

6.30 Hancock’s Half Hour 1955 comedy

7.00 Rudy’s Rare Records Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell’s comedy set in a record shop (3/4)

7.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (3/5)

7.45 The Little Ottleys Comedy drama (3/5)

8.00 The Museum of Curiosity With John Lloyd and Holly Walsh. From 2021. Series 16. From 2021 (5/6)

8.30 Getting Nowhere Fast Sitcom written by and starring Mervyn Stutter. From 2003 (3/4)

9.00 The Pallisers Martyn Wade’s dramatisation of the political novels by Anthony Trollope (2/12)

10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Ian Smith Is Stressed (3/4), at 10.30 Delve Special (1/4), at 11.00 Welcome to Wherever You Are (4/4), and at 11.30 Radio Shuttleworth (6/6)

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3.00 as 7pm 3.30 as 7.30pm 3.45 as 7.45pm 4.00 as 8pm 4.30 as 8.30pm 5.00 as 9pm

7.00 The Archers

It’s the last chance saloon at Home Farm, and Amber faces a dilemma.

For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm What it’s like: page 7; See feature: page 110

7.15 Front Row

Kate Molleson presents the latest arts news and interviews. Producer Mark Crossan

8.00 The Moral Maze

3/6. Michael Buerk is joined by guests Anne McElvoy, Jonathan Sumption, Ash Sarkar and Matthew Taylor to debate the moral aspects behind a story in the news. Producer Dan Tierney

9.00 The Gift

6/6. After one of the biggest brands in at-home DNA testing is put up for sale — along with the genetic codes of millions of its customers — Jenny Kleeman decides whether she wants to continue to belong to the global DNA database. Repeated from yesterday 9am

9.30 All in the Mind

7/10. Claudia Hammond visits a laboratory studying shared play between parents and children and exploring how these parent-child interactions may be fundamental to how families connect with one another. Rptd from yesterday 9.30am

10.00 The World Tonight Presented by James Coomarasamy.

10.45 Black Water

3/5. By Heidi Amsinck. Sonny’s widow Katrine and his sous chef Mia hold a press conference which, in Jensen’s eyes, proceeds to pose more questions than it answers.

Read by MyAnna Buring. For details see Monday 11.00 The Big Idea with Alistair Green New series. 1/4. In a new spoof podcast, the presenter talks to craft beer entrepreneur Matt Matthews. Written and performed by Alistair Green. Producer Alex Burnard 11.15 Jazz Emu: the Sound of Us 2/4. The Sound of the Future. Artificial Intelligence puts Jazz’s musical career in jeopardy when a robot clone of him storms the charts. Human Jazz must beat his electronic counterpart for a spot in the Top 40 and convince the London Palladium that he is the real Jazz Emu. Written by and starring Archie Henderson and Adrian Gray, with Emmanuel Sonubi, Lorna Rose Treen and Cody Dahler. From 2024. All episodes are on BBC Sounds. Producer Sasha Bobak (R) 11.30 Today in Parliament News and analysis of the day’s developments, including Prime Minister’s Questions. 12.00 News and Weather 12.30—12.45am Book of the Week: The Butterfly Season Repeated from 11.45am 1.00 as BBC World Service

5.00am Wake Up to Money

6.00 5 Live Breakfast

Rachel Burden and Steffan Powell with a detailed look at the headlines, plus sports news, weather and unique stories from across the UK.

9.00 Nicky Campbell

Discussion of topical issues and the chance for listeners to phone in.

11.00 Naga Munchetty

With the latest news, big-name interviews from around the UK and listeners’ personal experiences.

2.00pm Matt Chorley News and topical political discussion, including analysis from specialist commentators and listener input. Plus in-depth interviews with MPs, elected mayors and cabinet ministers.

4.00 5 Live Drive

Clare McDonnell and Chris Warburton with news and sport. Plus interviews linked to topical and cultural issues.

7.00 World Cup 2026

Mark Chapman with the latest news on the eve of the tournament. World Cup special: page 12

8.30 5 Live Sport

Steve Crossman with build-up to the 9.00 commentary on the friendly between England and Costa Rica in Orlando. 11.30 Tony Livesey

A look at sports, news and culture, with in-depth interviews and listener input.

1.00am Dotun Adebayo Discussion linked to news and culture, with calls throughout the night.

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10.55am—7.00pm County Cricket Commentary on Surrey v Hampshire in the County Championship at the Oval.

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 The Interview 8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History 9.00 The Newsroom 9.30 The Climate Question 10.00 News 10.05 World Book Club: Karin Slaughter answers listeners’ questions on her 2017 thriller The Good Daughter 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 The Global Story 12.00 News 12.05pm Outlook 12.50 Witness History: memories of the summer of 1937 when members of the Surrealist movement were holidaying in the south of France 1.00The Newsroom 1.30 Good Bad Billionaire: a profile of Steven Spielberg. Available on BBC Sounds Review p112 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05 The Interview 3.30 Business Daily 3.50 World Business Express 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.05 Outlook 6.50 Witness History 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today 8.00 News 8.05 The Climate Question 8.30 Health Check 9.00 Newshour 10.00 News 10.05 The Interview 10.30 Good Bad Billionaire Review page 112 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 World Business Report 12.00

6.00am Talksport Breakfast With Gabby Agbonlahor. 10.00 Ade Oladipo and Rory Jennings A debate on the latest sporting issues. 1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs 4.00 Talksport Drive Andy Goldstein and Darren Bent with sporting debate and insights.

7.00 International Football England v Costa Rica (kick-off 9.00). Commentary on the friendly match in Orlando, Florida. 11.00 The Sports Bar With Jamie O’Hara and Jason Cundy. 1.00am Extra Time With Paul Ross. 5.00 Early Sports Breakfast LBC

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THURSDAY RADIO

TODAY’S REVIEWS

The

Goalkeeper’s

Guide to Absurdism

2.15pm Radio 4

The performance given here by Arthur Darvill (above) can only be described as a tour de force. Darvill plays the 17-year-old Albert Camus as the future giant of 20th-century philosophy aspires to footballing greatness while exploring the meaning of life through the prism of what happens on the pitch. Camus takes the field as his team’s goalkeeper. The position is important. Football is his “moral playground”, and his mind teems with the thoughts and ideas of figures including Hegel, Aristotle and Kierkegaard. Meanwhile, he has corners to deal with, a penalty to save. Then there is Camus’s father. He was killed in the First World War when Camus was only a year old, but he’s very present, adding to a mental maelstrom that Darvill conveys with tremendous élan.

SIMON O’HAGAN

Radio 3 in Concert

7.30pm Radio 3

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under chief conductor Ryan Wigglesworth, present the final concert of their 90th anniversary season, recorded at Glasgow City Halls on 21 May. The evening begins with Bruckner’s 1861 setting of Ave Maria, when the orchestra is joined by the BBC Singers, and is followed by the world premiere of Wigglesworth’s revised version of his own intense 2022 setting of Magnificat. The Virgin Mary, full of wonder, fear and gratitude, will be sung by soprano Sophie Bevan, Wigglesworth’s wife and the work’s dedicatee. Back to Bruckner at the end and the Austrian composer’s Fourth Symphony. Christened “the Romantic” by Bruckner, it’s a Wagner-tinged sound world populated by questing knights in bosky dells. Epic stuff.

MICHAEL HODGES

BBC Radio 1

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7.00am Greg James 10.30 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie 1.00pm Matt and Mollie

3.00 Pop Anthems with Matt and Mollie

3.30 Going Home 6.00 New Music Show with Jack Saunders 8.00 Rave-Up with Arielle Free 10.00 BBC Introducing Dance with Jaguar 11.00 The Residency on Dance 1.00am Danny Howard’s Club Mix 2.00 Anthems 4.00 Workout Anthems 5.00 Lauren Redfern

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6.30am Gary Davies

Upbeat show with a zoo radio format, including chat, listeners’ calls and texts, top guests, and chart oldies and tracks from Radio 2’s current playlist. Plus the headlines, sports news and travel updates.

9.30 Vernon Kay Chat, music and features, including at 10.30 the Ten to the Top music quiz and at 11.40 Tracks of My Years, today with BBC sports presenter and Match Of The Day host Kelly Cates discussing two more records of personal significance.

12.00 Jeremy Vine Topical discussion. Plus music.

2.00pm Trevor Nelson

4.00 Sara Cox

7.00 Shaun Keaveny

9.00 The Country Show

Darius Rucker sits in for Bob Harris with new and classic country music.

10.00 The Good Groove with DJ Spoony

12.00 OJ Borg

New and classic pop, chat and extensive input from listeners, including the features Midnight Mastermind and Midnight Caller

3.00am Dance Sounds of the 90s with Vernon Kay One-hit wonders. (R) 4.00 Owain Wyn Evans

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7.00am Nick Grimshaw

10.00 Lauren Laverne

1.00pm Chris Hawkins

4.00 Huw Stephens Including at 6.00 Roundtable, with Huw joined by music specialists to assess the new releases.

7.00 New Music Fix Daily With Deb Grant and Nathan Shepherd.

9.00 Riley and Coe

11.00 6 Music Artist in Residence 4/4. Final music picks from Rostam. 12.00 New Music Fix Playlist

1.00am New Album Fix

2.00 Jukebox

3.00 6 Music’s 90s Forever 4.00 6 Music’s 00s Forever 5.00 The Remix with Chris Hawkins 5.30 Amy Lamé

Boom Radio

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6.00am Andy Marriott 7.30 Graham Dene 10.00 David Lloyd: including the Top Five hits from this week in a bygone year 12.00 David Hamilton

2.00pm Roger Day: including at 3.00 Six from the Sixties 4.00 Nicky Horne

6.00 Jane Markham: music and features 8.00 The Easy Hour 9.00 Choices: ex-Radio 2 presenter Charles Nove, in conversation with Phil Riley, picks his music favourites Repeated from Sunday 10.00 Diana Luke: featuring the Luke of Love 12.00 Derek Webster 2.00am Night Music

BBC Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast With Tom McKinney. 9.30 Essential Classics

Georgia Mann with music and extensive listener input.

1.00pm Classical Live

A Haydn “London” symphony continues a weeklong spotlight on the city. And there are further highlights of chamber music performances from Wigmore Hall and LSO St Luke’s, including more from the string trio of James Ehnes, Antoine Tamestit and Andreas Brantelid. And to conclude the programme, the LSO performs Thea Musgrave’s Phoenix Rising (1997). Presented by Linton Stephens. Haydn Symphony No 98 in B flat, H I 98 (London) German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, director Guilhem Kusnierek (trombone) Brahms Intermezzos: in B minor, Op 119 No 1; in C, Op 119 No 3; in A minor, Op 118 No 1; in A, Op 118 No 2; in B flat minor, Op 117 No 2; in E flat minor, Op 118 No 6 Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

Mozart Divertimento in E flat, K563 James Ehnes (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Andreas Brantelid (cello)

Bach Cello Suite No 3 in C, BWV1009 Antoine Tamestit (viola)

Thea Musgrave Phoenix Rising LSO, conductor Antonio Pappano

4.00 Composer of the Week: Monteverdi 4/5. Troubles and trials. It’s a period of upheaval for Monteverdi, as he is dismissed from the Mantuan court and moves to a new post at St Mark’s in Venice. Alongside this change in fortune come moments of instability, from the circumstances of his departure to the challenges of rebuilding a career. Amid the distinctive sound world of Venice, Monteverdi adapts his writing to new spaces and forces, so that his music continues to evolve. With Kate Molleson. Madrigals, Book 6 (selection)

Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini

Pianto della Madonna

The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers Zefiro torna e di soave accenti (Scherzi musicali)

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Núria Rial (soprano)

Laudate Dominum I Fagiolini, English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, director Robert Hollingworth Selva morale e spirituale

Ensemble San Felice, Capriccio Armonico Ensemble Chorus, director Federico Bardazzi

Beatus vir I Fagiolini, the 24, director Robert Hollingworth

5.00 In Tune

Petroc Trelawny with news from the classical world, music and studio guests, including a live performance by pianist Steven Osborne ahead of two appearances at this year’s Aldeburgh Festival (14 and 18 June). And author Daniel Okrent discusses his new book, Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn’t Easy 7.00 Classical Mixtape

6.00am Rossie 10.00 Richard Allinson: with hits of the 1970s, 80s and 90s (and the occasional 1960s classic) 1.00pm Kate Thornton 4.00 The Simon Mayo Drivetime Show: music and chat, plus the features Confessions, Dramas and Big 45s 7.00 Jackie Brambles 10.00 Andy Crane 1.00am Music Marathon 4.00 Alex Lester

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert

6A concert from 21 May at the City Halls in Glasgow, with Kate Molleson presenting the closing night of the 90th-anniversary season of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, joined by the BBC Singers for sacred music by Bruckner, followed by chief conductor Ryan Wigglesworth’s own Magnificat. The concert concludes with Bruckner’s Romantic Symphony — a world away from the spiritual intimacy of the Ave Maria Sophie Bevan (soprano), BBC Singers, BBCSSO, conductor Ryan Wigglesworth Bruckner Ave Maria (1861 setting)

Ryan Wigglesworth

Magnificat (revised version: first performance) Bruckner Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic) 9.45 The Essay: Musicians on the Couch 4/5. Music and Mystery...Psychology and the Unexplained. This edition explores human stories in which the relationships between music and the mind are a source of debate and mystery. Woven through with a personal story involving Fauré’s Requiem, Amanda Dalton considers the case of Rosemary Brown — a spirit medium who created a media storm during the 1970s with claims that dead composers were dictating compositions to her. (R) 10.00 Night Tracks

Hannah Peel with an adventurous soundtrack tailored to late-night listening.

11.30 ’Round Midnight

Saxophonist Soweto Kinch showcases the full spectrum of jazz, classic and new, with a particular focus on the British scene. In the 4/4 feature, Tomeka Reid discusses one final album that has influenced her. 12.30am Through the Night

With Jonathan Swain, who begins with an eclectic season-opener concert given by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in 2023 in Shanghai. Zhou Tian Metropolis Bernstein, arr Brohn Suite: West Side Story Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Liu Ming (violin), Zee Zee (piano), Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, conductor Long You 1.42 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19; The Whole Camp Sleeps (Aleko); Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2 (The Bells of Moscow)

2.31 Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219 (Turkish)

3.01 Schumann Dichterliebe, Op 48

3.30 Blow Venus and Adonis (dance excerpts)

3.37 Palestrina Sicut cervus

3.41 Beethoven Romance in F, Op 50 (arr Craig for viola and piano)

3.50 Zuławski Suite in the Old Style

4.01 Fanny Mendelssohn Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, Op 8

4.13 Grandjany Rhapsodie

4.23 Sorkočević Sinfonie in D

4.31 Monk of Salzburg In aller Werlt mein liebster Hort 4.37 D Scarlatti Keyboard Sonata in F minor, Kk466

4.45 J Strauss (son) An der schönen, blauen Donau

4.56 Beethoven Seven Variations on Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen, WoO 46

5.06 Poulenc, orch L Berkeley Flute Sonata

5.20 C de Rossi Duol sofferto per Amore (Sant’ Alessio)

5.26 Bacewicz Concerto for string orchestra

5.41 Schubert Piano Sonata No 19 in C minor, D958 6.12 Mielczewski Missa super O gloriosa domina

6.00am Mindful Mix 9.00 Classical Unwind 12.00 Piano Focus 2.00pm Mindful Mix 5.00 Classical Wind Down 8.00 Cinematic Soundtracks 9.00 Ultimate Calm: Cosmo Sheldrake shares a recording of forest singing that always brings him calm (4/12) 10.00 Night Tracks 11.30 The Sleeping Forecast 12.30am Sleep Tracks

6.00am Certified Throwbacks 7.00 Haroon Rashid 10.00 Certified: Bollywood, Bhangra, UK garage, R&B, hip-hop and more 11.00 Vallisa 1.00pm Haroon Rashid 2.00 Certified Throwbacks 3.00 Jaz Singh 6.00 AJD 8.00 Celebrates 9.00 The Official British Asian Chart Show: with Jasmine Takhar 10.00 Bobby Friction 12.00 Love Friday Mix 4.00am Asian Network Trending

Absolute Radio

6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00 Danielle Perry 9.00 Best of Neighbourhood Weekender 10.00 Ben Coley 1.00am Ben Sheppard 4.00 Early Breakfast

6.30am Classic FM Breakfast Dan Walker with music and features, including Three Little Words — three clues, connected by a place, person or object — and, after 9.00, the Classic FM Hall of Fame Hour, featuring music from the current Top 300 chart. 10.00 Aled Jones 1.00pm

5.00am News Summary

5.04 Yesterday in Parliament

An update on the latest political proceedings. 5.43 Prayer for the Day

A chance to pause for reflection and contemplation, with singer and worship leader Julia Loveless.

5.45 Farming Today News about food, farming and the countryside.

6.00 Today With Emma Barnett and Justin Webb.

6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News

6.45 Yesterday in Parliament

7.48 Thought for the Day With Dr Paula Gooder, canon chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral. Radical with Amol Rajan is available on BBC Sounds from this morning and broadcast on Radio 4 at 11pm 9.00 In Our Time Machado de Assis. Misha Glenny hosts a discussion on the Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short-story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839—1908), regarded by many as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature. He is joined by Dr Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação, Affiliated Lecturer at St John’s College, Cambridge; Claire Williams, Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture at St Peter’s College, Oxford; and Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, Associate Professor in Brazilian Studies at University College London. Producer Simon Tillotson

9.45 Strong Message Here

11/14. Armando Iannucci and guests decode the baffling world of political language. Producer Gwyn Rhys Davies Repeated 9.45pm 10.00 Woman’s Hour Anita Rani presents. 11.00 This Cultural Life

11/14. London-born actor Kiefer Sutherland talks to John Wilson about the people, influences and experiences that have shaped his life and career, including his parents (actors Shirley Douglas and Donald Sutherland), film-maker and activist Rob Reiner, and the music of Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Producer Edwina Pitman 11.45 Book of the Week: The Butterfly Season 4/5. By Lea Korsgaard. The author discovers how, in the past, some lepidopterists became obsessive about collecting. She also learns the symbolic meaning of butterflies in mythology and their place in different cultures over the centuries. Read by Nicola Walker. For details see Monday Repeated 12.30am 12.00 News

12.04pm The Bottom Line 2/8. Evan Davis gains insights from business experts and industry insiders. Editor Nick Holland

12.32 Toast

3/5. Sean Farrington examines the story of the high-street stationery chain Paperchase.

Producer Jon Douglas

1.00 The World at One Presented by Sarah Montague.

1.45 Ten Years after Brexit

4/10. Northern Ireland. When the UK voted to leave the EU, Northern Ireland became one of the most contentious aspects of the Brexit negotiations. Although the Windsor Framework was eventually introduced in 2023, the political and economic uncertainty of the negotiation years has had lasting implications. Alex Forsyth is joined by John Campbell, BBC Northern Ireland’s Economics and Business Editor, and Katy Hayward, Professor of Political Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast, to look at how Brexit has shaped Northern Ireland in the decade since the referendum vote.

2.00 The Archers Repeated from yesterday 7pm

2.15 The Goalkeeper’s Guide to Absurdism

6Paul Sirett’s drama about Albert Camus’s last football match, starring Arthur Darvill and Cecilia Appiah. As the philosopher stands in goal, he falls into the grip of a fever dream and reflects on life’s biggest questions with the likes of Hegel, Aristotle and Kierkegaard.

Producer Richard Shannon

3.00 Ramblings

4/7. Mending Footpaths in Eryri

Clare Balding walks with a group of volunteers from the British Mountaineering Council who have been helping to repair footpaths in Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park. Taking place over the course of two days under the guidance of experienced volunteer leaders and a local ranger, their efforts are followed by a shared walk, giving the group a chance to enjoy the landscape in which they’ve been working.

Producer Karen Gregor

3.27 The Radio 4 Appeal Repeated from Sunday 7.54am

3.30 Word of Mouth

6/6. Michael Rosen finds out about the different ways of describing smells around the world. Asifa Majid is Professor of Cognitive Science at Oxford University and her research has found that odours are expressible in language — as long as you speak the right one.

Producer Beth O’Dea Repeated Sunday 8pm Postponed from Thursday 28 May

4.00 Rethink

3/5. How We Age. Discovering how the science of cellular regeneration treats ageing itself, Ben Ansell learns about the clinical trials of a therapy which transforms damaged and dysfunctional cells into young, healthy ones.

Producer Ravi Naik Repeated Monday 8pm

Ingrams to share his admiration of author and journalist GK Chesterton (1874—1936)

4.30 BBC Inside Science

Tom Whipple presents the latest scientific research to make the news headlines.

Producers Dan Welsh, Kate White and Katie Tomsett Rptd

8.30pm BBC World Service and Monday 8.30pm BBC Radio 4

5.00 PM Presented by Evan Davis.

6.00 Six o’Clock News

6.30 Ellie Taylor’s Safe Space 4/4. Billionaires. Ellie makes the argument that, as high achievers, billionaires set people an example of something to aim for. Journalist

Robert Watts joins the conversation. Series three, first broadcast in 2023. Series two and three are on BBC Sounds. Producer Georgia Keating Repeated next Thursday BBC Radio 4 Extra (R) 7.00 The Archers

Stella makes a big declaration, and Helen eagerly anticipates an answer.

For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm

What it’s like: page 7; See feature: page 110 7.15 Front Row

Tom Sutcliffe and guests reviews the latest big releases and cultural highlights, including Steven Spielberg’s new sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor. Producer Claire Bartleet

8.00 When It Hits the Fan

David Yelland and Farzana Baduel look at recent PR stories. Repeated from yesterday 4pm 8.15 The Media Show

Ros Atkins and Katie Razzall examine the latest developments in the media world. Repeated from yesterday 4.15pm 9.00 Loose Ends

Edith Bowman is joined by Holly Jackson, author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, and comedians Guz Khan and Ayoade Bamgboye. With music from Haircut 100 and Liam Bailey. Repeated from Saturday 6.15pm

9.45 Strong Message Here Repeated from 9.45am

10.00 The World Tonight With Jane Hill. 10.45 Black Water

4/5. By Heidi Amsinck. Jensen and Gustav keep digging, meeting with a former colleague of Sonny’s and visiting Katrine at her home. Read by MyAnna Buring. For details see Monday 11.00 Radical with Amol Rajan

Amol Rajan and guests offer their insights into the biggest news stories of the week. Available on BBC Sounds from this morning. Producer Lewis Vickers 11.30 Today in Parliament

The day’s developments in Westminster. 12.00 News and Weather 12.30—12.45am Book of the Week: The Butterfly Season Repeated from 11.45am 1.00 as BBC World Service

5.00am Wake Up to Money

6.00 5 Live Breakfast

With Rick Edwards and Laura McGhie.

9.00 Nicky Campbell Topical issues, with a listener phone-in. 11.00 Adrian Chiles With a fresh journalistic approach and unusual news stories.

1.00pm World Cup 2026

Kelly Cates is joined by guests for build-up on the opening day of the tournament. Kelly Cates: page 16

3.00 Matt Chorley

4.00 5 Live Drive Clare McDonnell and Chris Warburton with news, sport and interviews. 6.00 World Cup 2026

9 Steve Crossman is joined by guests for build-up to the 8.00 commentary on Mexico v South Africa in the opening game of the tournament. World Cup special: page 12 10.30Tony Livesey Topical conversation. 1.00am Edward Adoo Sitting in for Laura McGhie and taking listeners’ calls. Plus build-up to South Korea v Czech Republic in the World Cup.

3.00 World Cup 2026

9 Commentary on South Korea v Czech Republic in Group A.

BBC 5 Sports Extra

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7.45pm—10.00 Super Rugby League St Helens v Warrington Wolves, commentary on the Super League match (kick-off 8.00).

6.00am Trueman and Riley as 5pm

6.30 Peeler Crime drama by Patrick Carroll (5/6)

7.00 Boogie Up the River as 6pm

7.30 I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again as 6.30pm 8.00 All Those Women 2018 sitcom. Series 3 (4/4)

8.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (4/5)

8.45 The Little Ottleys By Martyn Wade (4/5)

9.00 Ellie Taylor’s Safe Space 2023 series written by and starring Ellie Taylor and Robin Morgan (3/4)

9.30 Assume Nothing: The Last Request (4/5)

9.45 Daily Service Led by Molly Boot. Reading: Revelation 22, vv16—20. Music: As the Deer (Volney Morgan and New-Ye); Let Your Living Water Flow (Vinesong): Psalm 42 (Tori Kelly)

10.00 Great Lives as 4pm

10.30 Art That Conquered the World as 4.30pm

11.00 Trueman and Riley as 5pm

11.30 Peeler Crime drama by Patrick Carroll (5/6)

12.00 Boogie Up the River as 6pm

12.30pmI’mSorry,I’ll Read ThatAgainas 6.30pm

1.00 All Those Women 2018 sitcom. Series 3 (4/4)

1.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (4/5)

1.45 The Little Ottleys By Martyn Wade (4/5)

2.00 Dilemma With Sue Perkins. From 2011 (2/6)

2.30 His Master’s Voice Political satire (3/4)

3.00 The Pallisers (3/12)

4.00 Great Lives A 2003 programme in which Humphrey Carpenter (1946—2005) invited Richard

4.30 Art That Conquered the World Art historian Dr James Fox asks how John Constable’s 1821 painting The Hay Wain became one of the most famous in the world. With input from Christine Riding (of the National Gallery) and the photomontage artist and activist Peter Kennard. From 2024

5.00TruemanandRiley Brian B Thompson’s Leedsset crime dramas. Today: Green Machine. From 2012

5.30 Peeler Crime drama by Patrick Carroll (5/6)

6.00 Boogie Up the River Dramatisation by Mark Wallington of his own 1989 comic novel in which a man sets out to discover the true source of the Thames with his dog Boogie. Starring Timothy Spall (1/6)

6.30 I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again An October 1965 edition of the 1964—73 sketch show

7.00 All Those Women 2018 sitcom. Series 3 (4/4)

7.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (4/5)

7.45 The Little Ottleys By Martyn Wade (4/5)

8.00 Dilemma With Sue Perkins. From 2011 (2/6)

8.30 His Master’s Voice Political satire (3/4)

9.00 The Pallisers (3/12)

10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: 10.00 Ellie Taylor’s Safe Space (3/4), at 10.30 Alex Edelman’s Peer Group (1/4), at 11.00 At Home with the Snails (3/4), and at 11.30 Sorry About Last Night (2/5)

12.00 as 4pm 12.30am as 4.30pm 1.00 as 5pm

1.30 as 5.30pm 2.00 as 6pm 2.30 as 6.30pm

3.00 as 7pm 3.30 as 7.30pm 3.45 as 7.45pm 4.00 as 8pm 4.30 as 8.30pm 5.00 as 9pm

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 The Inquiry 8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History 9.00 The Newsroom 9.30 The Documentary: The Black Power Station 10.00 News 10.05 The Media Show: Rptd from yesterday 4.15pm Radio 4 10.30 Happy News 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 The Global Story: the impact of decisions made in the US 12.00 News 12.05pm Outlook 12.50 Witness History 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30 The Food Chain 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05 The Inquiry 3.30 Business Daily 3.50 World Business Express 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.05 Outlook 6.50 Witness History: the origins of Chekhov’s Three Sisters 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30Sport Today 8.00News 8.05The Documentary: The Black Power Station: how hip-hop artists in South Africa are turning hardship into hope 8.30 BBC Inside Science: with Tom Whipple Rptd from 4.30pm Radio 4 9.00 Newshour 10.00 News 10.05 The Inquiry 10.30 The Food Chain 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 World Business Report

6.00am Breakfast 10.00 Hawksbee and Baker 1.00pm White and Jordan Live in NY 4.00 World Cup Gameday

7.00 World Cup 2026 Mexico v South 9 Africa, a Group A match (kick-off 8.00). See feature: page 14 10.15 World Cup GameDay 1.00am World Cup 2026 Commentary 9 on South Korea v Czech Republic, a Group A match (kick-off 3.00). 5.00 Early Sports Breakfast

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Heart and Soul

1.30pm/10.30pm

BBC World Service

The considerable appeal of this episode is that it follows Natasha Serlin, herself no stranger to spiritual journeys, on a pilgrimage in search of the truth of one of the most enigmatic biblical figures, Mary Magdalene. She is supposedly both saint and sinner, constantly reinvented down the centuries, although there remains a consensus that she was present at both the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. Relics imply that Mary ended her days in France. Serlin’s journey begins at Saintes-Maries-dela-Mer, where three Marys may have disembarked. It continues to the cave of Sainte-Baume (above), said to be Mary Magdalene’s resting place. Poignantly this is not only the saint’s story but also Serlin’s. She is struggling with the deaths of loved ones, divorce and, like Mary, being an outcast. There’s much here that’s genuinely illuminating.

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Dead Ringers

6.30pm Radio 4

There will be no drought this summer when it comes to political absurdities and so here, right on cue, comes a new raft of sharp satirical mimicry from skilled impressionists Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens and their co-conspirators. Word from producer Jon Holmes is that there may be a little more “JD Vance madness” in this series, but many of the old favourites will also be back. In fact, an earlier impersonation of one Andy Burnham is apparently being dusted down and polished in preparation. But, like all good topical comedy, the show’s script is crafted in reaction to the latest events and can only crystallise in the hours before recording.

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7.00am Greg James 10.30 Nat and Vicky

1.00pm Sam and Danni 4.00 Official

Chart 6.00 Dance Party 8.00 Future

Dance 10.00 Pete Tong 12.00 Essential Mix 2.00am Dance Presents 3.00

Danny Howard’s Club Mix 4.00 Dance Party Starters 5.00 Happy Anthems

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9.30 Vernon Kay

Including at 11.40 Tracks of My Years, with the final two picks of Kelly Cates.

12.00 Jeremy Vine

News, topical discussion and music presented by the broadcaster who features in this coming Sunday’s edition of Private Passions on Radio 3.

2.00pm Trevor Nelson

4.00 Sara Cox All requests.

7.00 Michelle Visage

A party playlist, including at 8.30 a themed edition of Handbag Hits

9.00 Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Disco Upbeat playlists. 11.00 The Rock Show with Shaun Keaveny

12.00 Romesh Ranganathan: for the Love of Hip-Hop

A personal pick of old and new hip-hop from the recent Arias winner of best music entertainment (for his Radio 2 Saturday late-morning show). And Romesh invites Lagos-born footballer and rapper Alex Iwobi (“17”) to curate a 10-minute Mixtape, reflecting on the tracks he plays in the dressing room.

1.00am Tony Blackburn’s Sounds of Soul

2.00 Pick of the Pops

Mark Goodier with the singles chart from this week in 1967, when the Top 20 included the Kinks, the Supremes, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. From 3.00 he revisits this week in 1979, when the chart featured hits by the Police,David Bowie,Donna Summer, Anita Ward, M, Roxy Music and Abba. (R)

4.00 Radio 2 in Concert

Dexys Midnight Runners at Newcastle’s Exhibition Park on 6 June 1982, a few weeks before the chart debut of Come On Eileen 5.00 Radio 2 Unwinds with Angela Griffin Playlists designed to be soothing.

BBC 6 Music

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7.00am Nick Grimshaw

10.00 Lauren Laverne

1.00pm Chris Hawkins

4.00 Huw Stephens

7.00 The People’s Party with Femi Koleoso The Ezra Collective frontman presents a show with the end of the working week in mind. Plus features, including Friday Vibe — with a guest ruminating on the possibilities for a Friday — and Femi’s Flowers, in which he showcases an artist or record.

9.00 6 Music’s Indie Forever

11.00The6Mix withMary AnneHobbs

12.00 6 Music’s Rave Forever 1.00am Forever Dark

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6.00am Andy Marriott

7.30 Graham Dene 10.00 David Lloyd

12.00 David Hamilton’s Music Show 2.00pm Judi Spiers 4.00 Nicky Horne 6.00 Steve England 8.00 The Easy Hour 9.00 Graham Torrington 12.00 Mike Wyer’s Night Ride

BBC Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast With Tom McKinney.

9.30 Essential Classics With Georgia Mann. 1.00pm Classical Live

Linton Stephens brings the week’s London focus to a close with a programme bookended by two orchestral works inspired by the city, performed by the BBC Philharmonic. Elsewhere, performances from LSO St Luke’s bring chamber music for violin and viola by both Bach and Bartók. There’s another chance to hear the LSO, and the final instalment this week from the London International Festival of Early Music features Baroque music by Leclair and Telemann. Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Andrew Davis Leclair Deuxième récréation de musique, Op 8 Polychroma

Borodin Symphony No 2 in B minor LSO, conductor Gianandrea Noseda Telemann Recorder Sonata in A minor, TWV41:a4 Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Peter Kofler (harpsichord)

Bartók Duos (selection)

Bach Two-Part Inventions (selection)

Alexandra Preucil (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola) Coates London Again

BBC Philharmonic, conductor Geoffrey Paterson 4.00 Composer of the Week: Monteverdi 5/5. Sorrows, Prayers. Kate Molleson concludes the week’s focus on Monteverdi by exploring his final decades. Venice becomes a centre for public opera in the aftermath of war and plague, and for the composer it’s a period of renewal and experimentation. He writes music that responds to changing audiences and expectations, from the theatrical intensity of Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda to the large-scale operas of his later years.

Chiome d’oro, bel tesoro (Madrigals, Book 7)

Núria Rial (soprano), L’Arpeggiata, director Christina Pluhar

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (excerpt)

Clorinda

Testo (narrator)

Catherine Bott (soprano)

John Mark Ainsley (tenor)

Tancredi Andrew King (tenor)

New London Consort, director Philip Pickett

Pianto della Madonna Alena Dantcheva (soprano), Odhecaton, director Paolo Da Col Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (excerpts)

Umana Fragilità

Tempo

Fortuna

Dominique Visse (countertenor)

Michael Schopper (bass)

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo)

Amore Martina Bovet (soprano)

Penelope Bernarda Fink (mezzo)

Ericlea

Jocelyne Taillon (contralto)

Concerto Vocale, director René Jacobs

Pur ti miro (L’incoronazione di Poppea)

Poppea Núria Rial (soprano)

Nerone Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)

L’Arpeggiata, director Christina Pluhar

6.00am Rossie 10.00 Richard Allinson: with hits of the 1970s, 80s and 90s (and the occasional 1960s classic) 1.00pm Kate Thornton 4.00 The Simon Mayo Drivetime Show: music and chat, plus the features Confessions, Dramas and Big 45s 7.00 The Mixtape with Jenny Powell 10.00 Rhythm of the Night 1.00am Music Marathon

5.00 In Tune

Petroc Trelawny invites the Gibbs Trio and vocalist Frida Touray to perform material from trumpeter

Sean Gibbs’s EP Set Me Free, released today.

7.30 Friday Night Is Music Night

Marking the city of Portsmouth’s centenary, Ellie Slorach conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra at Portsmouth Guildhall in a suitable programme. Recorded last Friday and presented by Katie Derham. Andrew Littlemore (horn), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ellie Slorach

Walton Portsmouth Point

Mozart Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat, K417 (2nd mvt)

Arnold, arr Lane David Copperfield — Suite

Trad British, arr Vaughan Williams Sea Songs

Carlo Martelli Promenade

Korngold, arr Black Sea Hawk — Main Title

Paul Lewis An English Overture

Debbie Wiseman Dickensian — Theme

Rachel Portman Oliver Twist — Newgate Prison

Roderick Elms A Little Fall-ish!; The Horn in Winter (Four Seasonal Nocturnes)

David Lyon Three Dances

Swain March

9.45 The Essay: Musicians on the Couch 5/5. Lisztomania: Music, Mood and Mass Hysteria! This final essay explores the power of music to alter mood and create powerful bodily sensations — to uplift us, make us smile, leave us in floods of tears — and to trigger memories of experiences believed to be long forgotten. (R)

10.00 Late Junction An adventurous playlist. 11.30 ’Round Midnight

Soweto Kinch presents highlights from a concert from 22 April, with Enyi Okpara conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, joined by London cellist and vocalist Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Scottish pianist Fergus McCreadie.

12.30am Through the Night With Jonathan Swain, who begins with a concert of early music given in August 2025 at the Laus Polyphoniae festival in Antwerp. Anon Laudes regiae Léonin Haec dies Anon O Maria maris stella; O Maria dei cella; O Maria virgo; Veritate; Crucifigat omnes Pérotin Viderunt omnes Anon Cum apertam sepulturam; Agnus Dei; Exultet hec concio; Belial vocatur; Homo miserabilis; Homo luge fuge; Brumans est mors; Balaam de quo vaticinans; Benedicamus Domino Huelgas Ensemble, conductor Paul Van Nevel 1.31 Strauss Suite for winds, Op 4 1.55 Marenzio Solo e pensoso 2.00 Alpaerts Pallieter 2.31 Chopin 24 Preludes, Op 28 3.08 Elgar Sea Pictures, Op 37 3.31 Suchoň Ballade for horn and orchestra 3.41 Enescu Concertstück 3.50 Mendelssohn Capriccio in E minor, Op 81 No 3 3.57 Obrecht Omnis spiritus laudet 4.03 Handel Oboe Sonata in F, HWV363a 4.12 Schumann Variations on a Theme by Clara Wieck 4.20 Telemann Concerto in A minor for two recorders, TWV52:a2 4.31 Beethoven Overture: Coriolan 4.40 Poulenc Napoli 4.50 Tormis Autumn Landscapes 4.59 Pezel Four Intradas 5.06 N Boulanger Three Pieces for cello and piano 5.14 J Strauss (son) Rosen aus dem Suden (arr Schoenberg for chamber ensemble) 5.23 Mendelssohn Symphony No 1 in C minor 5.57 Sibelius Largamente assai; Alla polacca (Danses champêtres, Op 106) 6.04 CPE Bach Flute Concerto in G, Wq169

6.00am Mindful Mix 9.00 Classical Unwind 12.00 Piano Focus 2.00pm Mindful Mix 5.00 Classical Wind Down 8.00 Cinematic Soundtracks 9.00 Ultimate Calm: with film director and musician Sally Potter (5/12) 10.00 Night

6.00am Fresh 7.00 Haroon Rashid 10.00 Certified 11.00 Vallisa 1.00pm Bollywood: with Vallisa 2.00 Certified 3.00 The Official Asian Music Chart 5.00 Certified 6.00 Panjabi Hit Squad 9.00 Certified: Kades and Mr O 12.00 Desi Dancefloor Mix 1.00am Pure Spice with DJ Manara 4.00 Pure Spice: the Takeover 5.00 Singalong Bollywood Anthems: with Vallisa

6.00am Dave Berry: lively chat, guests and tunes 10.00 Leona Graham 1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00 Absolute 80s Greatest Hits with Claire Sturgess 10.00 Olivia Jones 4.00am Ben Coley

5.00am News Summary

5.04 Yesterday in Parliament

An update on the latest political proceedings.

5.43 Prayer for the Day

A chance to pause for reflection and contemplation with singer and worship leader Julia Loveless.

5.45 Farming Today

News about food, farming and the countryside.

6.00 Today With Simon Jack and Amol Rajan.

6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News

6.45 Yesterday in Parliament

7.48 Thought for the Day With writer, psychotherapist and theologian Mark Vernon.

9.00 Desert Island Discs

Lauren Laverne’s castaway this week is the Prague-born glass artist and designer Peter Layton. Repeated from Sunday 10am 10.00 Woman’s Hour

Magazine exploring issues from a female perspective, presented by Anita Rani.

11.00 The Food Programme

Food on the Move. Sheila Dillon heads out on the highway to investigate the world of food and drink at motorway service stations, visiting Tebay Services on the M6 in Cumbria to learn about a different approach to motorway service food. Meanwhile, Robin Markwell reports on the opinions of lorry drivers at Chippenham Pit Stop on the M4 in Wiltshire, where more healthy options are now appearing on the menu. And Dr David Lawrence from Kingston University shares a short history of the UK service station, from the 1950s to the present day.

Producer Robin Markwell

Repeated tomorrow 10.15pm

11.45 Book of the Week: The Butterfly Season

5/5. By Lea Korsgaard. The author learns about the concept of an endling — the very last of a species before it becomes extinct. Pondering all the marvels she has seen and everything she has learnt on her journey so far, she realises how much she now cares about butterflies. Read by Nicola Walker.

For details see Monday Repeated 12.30am 12.04pm Rare Earth

4/6. Extreme Heat. How can Britain — and the world — prepare itself for extreme heat?

Journalist Tom Heap and physicist Helen Czerski investigate by speaking to experts and hearing from the people facing up to some of the hottest temperatures on the planet.

Producer Alasdair Cross

1.00 The World at One Presented by Jonny Dymond.

6.00am Trueman and Riley as 5pm

6.30 Peeler Crime drama by Patrick Carroll (6/6)

7.00 Flying the Flag Sitcom by Alex Shearer (3/6)

7.30 Steptoe and Son 1976 sitcom

8.00 Mark Steel’s in Town A visit to Malvern (2/6)

8.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (5/5)

8.45 The Little Ottleys By Martyn Wade (5/5)

9.00TheMany WrongsofLord ChristianBrighty Series two of the comedy written by Amy Greaves and Christian Brighty (2/4) As broadcast Sat 11pm Radio 4

9.30 Assume Nothing: The Last Request (5/5)

9.45 Daily Service Led by the Very Rev Canon Matthew Habron. Hymns: Sweet Heart of Jesus; Soul of My Saviour. Motet: Alleluia: Tollite, Gregorian

10.00 Soul Music as 4pm

10.30 Ken Clarke’s Jazz Greats as 4.30pm

11.00 Trueman and Riley as 5pm

11.30 Peeler Crime drama by Patrick Carroll (6/6)

12.00 Flying the Flag Sitcom by Alex Shearer (3/6)

12.30pm Steptoe and Son 1976 sitcom

1.00 Mark Steel’s in Town A visit to Malvern (2/6)

1.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (5/5)

1.45 The Little Ottleys By Martyn Wade (5/5)

2.00 The Personality Test as 8pm

2.30 Ballylenon as 8.30pm

3.00 The Pallisers Dramatisation (4/12)

4.00 Soul Music Emotional responses to Nessun dorma from Puccini’s opera Turandot, which became

1.45 Ten Years after Brexit 5/10. The Union. When Britain voted to leave the EU in 2016, politicians in Scotland and Wales hoped that the UK’s departure would mean more freedom for their governments over national matters. Alex Forsyth speaks to Nicola McEwen, Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Glasgow, and Richard Wyn Jones, Professor of Welsh Politics at Cardiff University, about how Scotland and Wales viewed the referendum, and the political ramifications that the Brexit vote continues to have today.

2.00 The Archers

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

2.15 Limelight: The Courier 2/5. By Eno Mfon. Tormented by his conscience, Mo attended the dead woman’s funeral and now her stepdaughter Elli has persuaded him to help her find out what really happened to Rosa. Elli is certain that her death had something to do with the notorious Parnell family. But for how long can Mo keep lying to her, to his best friend and to his mother? All episodes on BBC Sounds.

Mo Mohamed Elsandel

HenryParnell Rick Yale

MrsParnell Zoe Davies

Elli Maeve Courtier-Lilley

Omar Ali Goolyad

RyanParnell Callum Lloyd

Mama Alaa Taha

Amna Fatima Seedahmed

Director John Norton

2.45 The Hackers

6.30 Dead Ringers

6

New series. 1/6. Comedy impressions from the team headed up by Jon Culshaw and Jan Ravens. Producer Jon Holmes

Repeated tomorrow 12.30pm

7.00 The Archers

Brian plays his trump card, and the residents of Ambridge enjoy a day out.

BrianAldridge Charles Collingwood

DavidArcher Timothy Bentinck

PipArcher Daisy Badger

RuthArcher Felicity Finch

HelenArcher Louiza Patikas

SusanCarter Charlotte Martin

MartynGibson Jon Glover

AmberGordon Olivia Bernstone

EdGrundy Barry Farrimond

GeorgeGrundy Angus Stobie

JakobHakanssonPaul Venables

TracyHorrobin Susie Riddell

AlistairLloyd Michael Lumsden

AdamMacy Andrew Wincott

JazzerMcCreary Ryan Kelly

KirstyMiller Annabelle Dowler

StellaPryor Lucy Speed

Writer Liz John; Director Andy Partington; Editor Jeremy Howe

What it’s like: page 7; See feature: page 110

7.15 Add to Playlist

4/6. Bass guitarist, composer and songwriter Guy Pratt and bassoonist Amy Harman join Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe to add five more tracks. Starting with an early ska classic, they explore the art of hocketing before heading to the beach with Einstein.

Producer Jerome Weatherald Repeated Tuesday 11am

5.00am Wake Up to Money

6.00 5 Live Breakfast

Rick Edwards and Laura McGhie reflect on the opening day of the 2026 World Cup. 9.00 Nicky Campbell

11.00 Chiles on Friday

1.00pm World Cup 2026

Mark Chapman reviews last night’s action and previews today’s matches. World Cup special: page 12

3.00 Matt Chorley

4.00 5 Live Drive

7.00 World Cup 2026

9Kelly Cates is joined by guests for build-up to the 8.00 commentary on Canada v Bosnia-Herzegovina. 10.30 Stephen Nolan

1.00am Laura McGhie Listeners’ calls. Plus build-up to United States v Paraguay in the World Cup. 2.00 World Cup 2026

Rosa Laura dos Santos

Newsreader Ben Crowe

8/10. End User. Darren Linvill of Clemson University, South Carolina, and Biella Coleman discuss how the focus of hackers has shifted from espionage and disrupting technological systems to targeting people through social networks. From 2021. All episodes are on BBC Sounds.

Producer Elizabeth Duffy (R)

3.00 Gardeners’ Question Time

Peter Gibbs chairs from Harmondsworth, as panellists Frances Tophill, Bunny Guinness and James Wong answer horticultural questions.

Producers Daniel Cocker and William Norton

Repeated Sunday 2pm RT GARDENING Bring long-lasting colour to your borders and containers through the summer with a stunning selection of penstemon blooms: page 135

Your RT Gardening: page 134

3.45 Short Works

In The Silence by Mahsuda Snaith, a woman struggles with a deathbed promise as she comes to terms with the loss of her dad.

Read by Anjli Mohindra (Half Man).

Producer Eilidh McCreadie Repeated Sunday 11.45pm

4.00 Last Word

Reflecting on the lives of notable people who have recently died.

Producer Ben Mitchell Repeated Sunday 8.30pm

4.30 More or Less Repeated from Wednesday 9am

5.00 PM Presented by Katie Razzall.

6.00 Six o’Clock News

associated with sporting drama after Pavarotti’s version was chosen as the soundtrack to the BBC’s coverage of the World Cup in Italy in 1990

4.30 Ken Clarke’s Jazz Greats Benny Goodman (1909—1986), the King of Swing, was probably the finest clarinettist jazz has ever produced. Ken Clarke is joined by saxophonist Pete Long to explore his life, music and reputation. From 2009 5.00 Trueman and Riley In Home Truths, the duo’s investigative skills are challenged by a 14-year-old who is more than a chip off the old block. From 2012

5.30 Peeler Crime drama by Patrick Carroll (6/6)

6.00 Flying the Flag Sitcom by Alex Shearer (3/6)

6.30 Steptoe and Son 1976 sitcom

7.00 Mark Steel’s in Town A visit to Malvern (2/6)

7.30 Two Lives By Vikram Seth (5/5)

7.45 The Little Ottleys By Martyn Wade (5/5)

8.00 The Personality Test A 2007 edition of the comedy panel quiz with guest host Janet Street-Porter

8.30 Ballylenon Series one of the sitcom by Christopher Fitz-Simon, set in 1953 Donegal (3/6)

9.00 The Pallisers Dramatisation (4/12)

10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty (2/4), at 10.30 Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice (3/4), at 11.00 The Big Fun Show (2/6), and at 11.30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking (6/6)

12.00 as 4pm 12.30am as 4.30pm 1.00 as 5pm

1.30 as 5.30pm 2.00 as 6pm 2.30 as 6.30pm

3.00 as 7pm 3.30 as7.30pm 3.45 as 7.45pm

4.00 as 8pm 4.30 as 8.30pm 5.00 as 9pm

8.00 Any Questions?

Alex Forsyth chairs the political forum from Crail Parish Church in Crail, Fife, where an audience canvasses the opinions of four leading figures.

Producer Paul Martin Repeated tomorrow 1.10pm 8.55 This Week in History

The events of this week in years past.

Repeated from Wednesday 11.40am

9.00 Free Thinking

Satire and Gulliver’s Travels. On the 300th anniversary of the publication of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Matthew Sweet looks at satire, past and present. He is joined by guests including writer and comedian Andrew Hunter Murray to explore how satirists can reflect critically and humorously on political events in an age of social media saturation and at a time when reality can seem stranger than fiction. Producer Eliane Glaser

10.00 The World Tonight With Shaun Ley. 10.45 Black Water

5/5. By Heidi Amsinck. Jensen and Gustav are closing in on the identity of Sonny’s killer. But who exactly is “Sausage Else”?

Read by MyAnna Buring. For details see Monday 11.00 Americast

With Justin Webb, Sarah Smith, Marianna Spring and Anthony “The Zurch” Zurcher. 11.30 Today in Parliament 12.00 News and Weather

12.30—12.45am Book of the Week: The Butterfly Season Repeated from 11.45am 1.00 as BBC World Service

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 The Interview 8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History 9.00 The Newsroom 9.30 BBC Inside Science: with Tom Whipple Repeated from yesterday 4.30pm Radio 4 10.00 News 10.05 Unexpected Elements 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 The Global Story: exploring the impact of decisions made in the US 12.00 News 12.05pm Outlook 12.50 Witness History 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30 Heart and Soul: in the south of France, Natasha Serlin embarks on a personal journey to explore how Mary Magdalene’s legacy resonates today. Review page 126 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05 The Interview 3.30 Business Daily 3.50 World Business Express 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.05 Outlook 6.50 Witness History: how, in 1970, King Hussein of Jordan survived an assassination attempt 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today 8.00

5 Sports Extra

9Live commentary on United States v Paraguay in Group D. 4.00 Laura McGhie BBC

10.55am—12.25pm County Cricket Kevin Howells presents commentary from the County Championship.

12.25—1.35 Formula One

The first practice session of the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. 1.35—3.55 County Cricket Further County Championship commentary. 3.55—5.05 Formula One

The second practice session of the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. 5.05—6.15County Cricket Commentary.

6.15—10.30 Test Match Special England v Sri Lanka in the women’s T20 World Cup Group B match at Edgbaston.

6.00am Breakfast 10.00 Hawksbee and Jacobs 1.00pmWhiteand Jordan: Live in NY 4.00 World Cup Gameday 7.00 World Cup 2026 Canada v Bosnia 9and Herzegovina, a Group B match (kick-off 8.00). See feature: p14 10.00 World Cup GameDay 1.00am World Cup 2026 9USA v Paraguay, a Group D match at Los Angeles Stadium (kick-off 2.00).

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FACE BEHIND THE VOICE

LEANNE CAMPBELL

BBC RADIO MERSEYSIDE

AGE 45 CURRENT JOB

Has presented the mid-morning show (Friday, 10am—2pm) on BBC Radio Merseyside since 10 April. “To move over to the BBC and host a mid-morning show is completely different. I’m not waking people up. At 10 o’clock the phone lines are alight. Everybody’s ready to talk to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in our city. I love it.” CV Born in Liverpool? “Of course I was! You can’t learn this accent!” She attended stage schools from the age of 10 and played the title role in Annie at the Liverpool Playhouse aged 12. While studying at John Moores University (2003—05) she was the breakfast host on Juice FM (2003—13) and Radio City, later Hits Radio (2014—25). “I took the whole of Radio City off air once. We had a puppy and, mid-link while I wasn’t looking at him, he bit through one of the main cables. I could hear crackling and I thought something had come loose, then listeners heard me scream before everything just collapsed.”

She was also on the Hits Radio network’s Rock FM (2024—25). She has hosted the podcast The Ladies of Liverpool since 2018. “I was doing that podcast before it was trendy.” Since 2025 she has also co-hosted (with her former Radio City host Dave Kelly) Leanne and Dave’s Daily Dose. BEST MOMENTS “I broadcast throughout 2008, when Liverpool was Capital of Culture. That was wonderful.”

WORST MOMENT “The morning after poor Ava White was stabbed to death at the bottom of the Radio City tower in 2021. As a mum, that sort of thing changes you for ever.”

OFF AIR Lives in Liverpool with her husband Jay, who works for Liverpool City Council, and their children, Joseph, 16, and Annabelle, 12. “My family – typical Liverpool – are thick as thieves.”

FIRST RADIO MEMORY “Easy. Driving to school, singing along to Tony Snell, whose show I’m now doing on Fridays!”

FAVOURITE BROADCASTERS “The late, great Neal Atkinson. He was a joy to listen to, a joy to work with [on Juice FM].”

AMBITION/DREAM JOB “I would love to do some TV presenting, maybe for the BBC’s North West Tonight. And I’d love to have a B&B in Italy. We’ve made it our mission to go to a different place in Italy every year for the past 20 years.”

SECRET SKILLS “I’m a really top-notch mum. That’s what I’d like people to remember me for.”

Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiomerseyside

Berkshire

Saturday

6am Lucy Ambache 10.00 Alex Grundon 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Phil Mercer 10.00 Katie Tyler 2pm Make a Difference Show 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6amRichClarke10.00KatieTyler 2pm Bridgitte Tetteh; Fri: Lucy Ambache 6.00 Mon: Sport; Tue/Wed: Stephen Brown; Thu: Upload; Fri: Weekend Kick-Off 7.00 Mon: Rena Annobil; Fri: Kamilah McInnis 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 9.00 Wed: Kathy Caton 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Bristol

Saturday

6am Caroline Martin 10.00 Andy Bennett 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Caroline Martin 10.00 Andy Bennett 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Joe Sims 10.00 John Darvall 2pm Claire Carter; Fri: Andy Bennett 6.00 Mon: The Pavilion; Tue: The Scrum; Wed: Dan Pascoe; Thu: Upload; Fri: Sport 7.00 Mon: Manny Masih; Tue: Dan Pascoe; Fri: Kevin Philemon 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Cambridgeshire

Saturday

6am Heidi Secker 10.00 Thordis Fridriksson 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Babs Michel 10.00 Thordis Fridriksson 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Dotty McLeod 10.00 Chris Mann 2pm Louise Hulland 6.00 Babs Michel; Thu/Fri: Sport 7.00 Mon: Amir Suleman; Thu: Upload; Fri: Angelle Joseph 8.00 Thu: Introducing 10.00— 1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Cornwall

Saturday

6am Mel Osborne 10.00 James Dundon 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Mel Osborne 10.00 Toby Buckland 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am James Churchfield; Mon: Neil Caddy 10.00 Julie Skentelbery 2pm David White 6.00 Mon: Sport; Tue/Wed: Dan Pascoe; Thu: Upload; Fri: Ross Ellis 7.00 Mon: Anoushka Williams; Fri: Dan Pascoe 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Cumbria

Saturday

6am Ian Brannan 10.00 Fiona Sadler 2pm Total Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Joe Wilson 10.00 Hayley Kay 2pm The Make a Difference Show 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Mike Zeller; Mon: Pete Otway 10.00 Stephanie Finnon 2pm Nishma Hindocha 6.00 Sport 7.00 Mon: JoJo Hatfield; Tue/Thu: Joel Mitchell; Wed: Jack Wood; Fri: Rachel Teate 8.00 Thu: Introducing 10.00— 1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

CWR

Saturday

6am Phil Upton 10.00 Mark Rhodes 2pm Charlie Taylor 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Donna Alos: local news, information and advice 10.00 Darren Harriott 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Lorna Bailey; Thu: Phil Upton 10.00 Vic Minett 2pm Trish Adudu 6.00 Phil Upton; Mon/Fri: Sky Blues Fancast Live 7.00 Mon: Mya Khan; Thu: Upload; Fri: Merisha Stevenson 8.00 Thu: Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Derby

Saturday

6am Twiggy 10.00 Kelly Hinch 2pm Charlie Taylor 6.00 Dean Jackson 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Twiggy 10.00 Kelly Hinch 2pm The Make a Difference Show 6.00 Dotun Adebayo: nationwide community reports 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Becky Measures 10.00 Ian Skye 2pm Dino 6.00 Sportscene at Six 7.00 Mon: Shruti Chauhan; Tue/ Wed: Arun Verma; Thu: Upload; Fri: Letitia George 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show;Fri: Jo Good

Devon

Saturday

6am Mel Osborne 10.00 Richard Green 2pm Rugby Union: Exeter Chiefs v Saracens 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Mel Osborne 10.00 Toby Buckland 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am John Acres 10.00 Caroline

Densley 2pm David White 6.00

Mon: Grassroots Devon; Tue: The Scrum; Wed: Dan Pascoe; Thu: Upload; Fri: Sport 7.00 Mon: Anoushka Williams; Tue/Fri: Dan Pascoe 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Essex

Saturday

6am Heidi Secker 10.00 Sadie

Nine 2pm Total Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Babs Michel 10.00 Sadie Nine 2pm Make a Difference Show 7.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Sonia Watson 10.00 Ben Fryer 2pm Akylah Rodriguez 6.00 Mon/Fri: Sport Extra; Tue: Babs Michel; Wed: Around the Wicket; Thu: Upload 7.00 Mon: Amir Suleman; Wed: Babs Michel; Fri: Angelle Joseph 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00— 1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Gloucestershire

Saturday 6am Caroline Martin 10.00 Andy Bennett 2pm Charlie Taylor 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Caroline Martin 10.00 Andy Bennett 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Jon Smith 10.00 Nicky Price 2pm Graham Rogers 6.00 Mon: The Pavilion; Tue: The Scrum; Wed: Dan Pascoe; Thu: Upload; Fri: Sport at Six 7.00 Mon: Manny Masih; Tue: Dan Pascoe;Fri:KevinPhilemon8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00— 1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Guernsey

Saturday

6am Elisa Canas 10.00 Jim Delbridge 2pm Total Sport: with Charlie Taylor 6.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Matthew Price 10.00 Jim Delbridge 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Tim Hunter 10.00 Jim Delbridge; Mon/Tue: Steph Watkins 2pm Darcy Kelly; Mon: Harry Barratt 6.00 Mon: Anoushka Williams; Tue/ Wed: Dan Pascoe; Thu: BBC Introducing; Fri: James Vickery 7.00 Fri: Dan Pascoe 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good Hereford/Worcester

Saturday

6am Susan Hanks 10.00 Liz Ellis 2pm Charlie Taylor 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Paul Shuttleworth 10.00 Liz Ellis 2pm Make a Difference Show 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show Monday—Friday

6am Tammy Gooding

10.00 Elliott Webb 2pm Toni McDonald 6.00 Mon/Fri: Malcolm Boyden; Tue/Wed: Phil Upton; Thu: Upload 7.00 Mon: Mya Khan; Fri: Merisha Stevenson 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Humberside

Saturday

6am Fiona Mills 10.00 Sean Dunderdale 2pm Sport 5.00 Sport 7.30 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday 6am Fiona Mills 9.00 The Gardening Hour 10.00 Sean Dunderdale 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday 6am Kofi Smiles; Mon: Amy Thompson 10.00 Carla Greene 2pm Richard Stead 6.00 Sport 7.00 Mon: Arzu Dutta; Tue: Bek Homer; Wed: John Kane; Thu: Upload 8.00 Thu: Introducing; Fri: Humberside Sport 10.00— 1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Jersey

Saturday 6am Elisa Canas 10.00 Jim Delbridge 2pm Total Sport with Charlie Taylor 6.00 Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday 6am Matthew Price 10.00 Jim Delbridge 2pm The Make a Difference Show 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 8.00—6.00amElection 2026 with Matthew Price Monday—Friday 6am Laura Price; Fri: Matthew Price 10.00 Alison Moss 2pm Darcy Kelly; Mon: Harry Barratt 6.00 Mon: Anoushka Williams; Tue/Wed: Dan Pascoe; Thu: Introducing; Fri: James Vickery 7.00 Fri: Dan Pascoe 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Kent

Saturday

6am Allison Ferns 10.00 Stephen Brown 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday 6am Allison Ferns 10.00 Pat Marsh 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show Monday—Friday 6am Dominic King 10.00 Lucy Horobin 2pm Adam Dowling; Fri: Leo Ulph 6.00 Mon/Fri: Game Changers; Tue/Wed: Stephen Brown; Thu: Upload 7.00 Mon: Rena Annobil; Fri: Kamilah McInnis 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 9.00 Wed: Kathy Caton 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good Lancashire

Saturday 6am Ian Brannan 10.00 Hayley Kay 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00

Leeds

Saturday

6am Xanthe Palmer 10.00 Colson Smith 2pm Rugby League: Huddersfield Giants v Toulouse (kick-off 3.00) 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Xanthe Palmer 10.00 Nick Ahad 2pm Sport 6.00 Dotun

Adebayo 10.00—1am Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Rima Ahmed; Fri: Toby Foster 10.00 Gayle Lofthouse

2pm Toby Foster; Thu/Fri: Sam Nixon 6.00 Sport; Thu: The Cricket Show 7.00 Mon: Arzu Dutta; Tue: Bek Homer; Wed: John Kane; Thu: Upload; Fri: Sport 8.00Thu:BBC Introducing 10.00—1am (Tue: 10.30) The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Leicester

Saturday

6am Twiggy 10.00 Kelly Hinch

2pm Charlie Taylor 6.00 Dean Jackson 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Twiggy 10.00 Kelly Hinch

2pm T20 Cricket 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Ady Dayman 10.00 Ben Jackson 2pm The Afternoon Show 6.00 Mon: Football Forum; Tue: The Women’s Sports Show; Wed: Rugby Show; Thu: The Boot Room; Fri: Weekend Preview 7.00 Mon: Shruti Chauhan; Tue/ Wed: Arun Verma; Thu: Upload; Fri: Letitia George 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Lincolnshire

Saturday

6am Fiona Mills 10.00 Sean Dunderdale 2pm Sport 6.00 The Beat 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Fiona Mills 10.00 Sean Dunderdale 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Farmwatch 7.00 Folk 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am David Dixon; Thu/Fri: Scott Dalton 10.00 Frances Finn; Fri: Sean Dunderdale 2pm Richard Stead 6.00 Hope and Glory 7.00 Mon: Arzu Dutta; Tue: Bek Homer; Wed: John Kane; Thu: Upload; Fri: Sile Sibanda 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

London

Saturday

6am Carrie and David Grant

10.00 Gary Crowley 2pm Total Sport Summer 6.00Upload 8.00 Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Inspirit 10.00 Gary Crowley 2pm The Make a Difference Show 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Aaron Paul; Fri: Riz Lateef

10.00 Eddie Nestor; Fri: Gary Crowley 2pm Shay Grewal; 2pm Fri: Jumoké Fashola 6.00 Total Sport London

7.00 Mon: Bobby Friction; Tue: Raffaella Coleman; Wed/Fri: Jacqueline Shepherd; Thu: Upload 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Manchester

Saturday

6am Simone Riley 10.00 Phil Trow 2pm Summer Saturdays 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Simone Riley 10.00 Phil Trow 2pm Make a Difference

6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Joe McGrath 10.00 Mike Sweeney; Fri: Phil Trow 2pm Michelle Dignan; Thu/Fri: Simone Riley 6.00 Sport 7.00 Mon: Raees Khan; Tue: Joel Mitchell; Wed: Jack Wood; Thu: Upload; Fri: Sport 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Merseyside

Saturday

6am Paul Beesley 10.00 Sean Styles 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Joe Wilson 10.00 Sean Styles 2pm Make a Difference Show 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Kevin Duala 10.00 Tony Snell; Fri: Leanne Campbell 2pm Helen Jones 6.00 Total Sport Merseyside 8.00 Mon: Raees Khan; Tue: Joel Mitchell; Wed: Jack Wood; Thu: Total Sport; Fri: UK Black 9.00 Mon: Orient Express 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Newcastle

Saturday

6am Gilly Hope 10.00 Kelly Scott 2pm Total Sport: with Charlie Taylor 6.00 Upload 8.00 Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Gilly Hope 9.00 Garden Mania 10.00 Kelly Scott 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Simon Pryde 10.00 Anna Foster; Thu/Fri: Gilly Hope 2pm Scott Makin 6.00 Sport

7.00 Mon: JoJo Hatfield; Tue: Joel Mitchell; Wed: Jack Wood; Thu: Upload; Fri: Rachel Teate 8.00 Thu: Introducing 10.00— 1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Norfolk

Saturday

6am Heidi Secker 10.00 Thordis Fridriksson 2pm Total Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Babs Michel 10.00 Thordis Fridriksson 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Chris Goreham

10.00 Kayleigh Poacher 2pm Louise Hulland 6.00 Mon: The Summer Scrimmage;

Tue/Wed: Babs Michel; Thu: Upload; Fri: Yellow Friday 6.30 Fri: Local Report 7.00 Mon: Amir Suleman; Fri: Angelle Joseph 8.00 Thu: Introducing 10.00— 1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Northampton

Saturday

6am Babs Michel 10.00 Justin Dealey 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Babs Michel 10.00 Justin Dealey 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Annabel Amos 10.00 Bernie Keith 2pm Gemma Hill 6.00 Mon: Cricket Show; Tue: FM The Motorsport Show; Wed: The Saints Show; Thu: Upload; Fri: Sport 6.30 Tue: DAB Sport 7.00 Mon: Amir Suleman; Tue: FM Sport; Wed: Babs Michel; Fri: Angelle Joseph 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Nottingham

Saturday

6am Twiggy 10.00 Kelly Hinch

2pm Charlie Taylor 6.00 Dean Jackson 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Twiggy 10.00 Kelly Hinch

2pm The Make a Difference Show 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Summaya Mughal 10.00

Verity Cowley 2pm Dino 6.00 In the Game 7.00 Mon: Shruti Chauhan;Tue/Wed:ArunVerma; Thu: Upload; Fri: Letitia George 8.00 Thu: Introducing 10.00— 1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Oxford

Saturday

6am Lucy Ambache 10.00

Alex Grundon 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Phil Mercer 10.00 Katie Tyler 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Phil Mercer 10.00 Adam Ball 2pm Bridgitte Tetteh; Fri: Lucy Ambache 6.00 Mon/Fri: Sport; Tue/Wed: Stephen Brown; Thu: Upload 7.00 Mon: Rena Annobil; Fri: Kamilah McInnis 8.00 Thu: Introducing 9.00 Wed: Kathy Caton 10.00— 1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Sheffield

Saturday

6am Xanthe Palmer 10.00 Colson Smith 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Xanthe Palmer 10.00 Nick

Ahad 2pm Make a Difference Show 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Ellie Colton

10.00 Paulette Edwards; Mon/Thu: Kate Bottley

2pm Toby Foster; Thu/Fri: Sam Nixon 6.00 Football Heaven

7.00 Mon: Arzu Dutta; Tue: Bek Homer; Wed: John Kane; Thu: Upload; Fri: Sile Sibanda 8.00 Thu: Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Shropshire

Saturday

6am Susan Hanks 10.00 Liz Ellis 2pm Charlie Taylor 6.00 Upload 8.00BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Paul Shuttleworth 10.00 Liz Ellis 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show Monday—Friday

6am Adam Green 10.00 Clare Ashford 2pm Toni McDonald 6.00 Mon: Cricket Hour; Tue/Wed: Phil Upton; Thu: Upload; Fri: Sports Hour 7.00 Mon: Mya Khan; Fri: Merisha Stevenson 8.00 Thu: Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Radio Solent

Saturday

6am Lucy Ambache 10.00 Alex Grundon 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Phil Mercer 10.00 Katie Tyler 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Rick Jackson 10.00 Katie Martin 2pm Alun Newman 6.00 Sport 7.00 Mon: Rena Annobil; Tue/Wed: Stephen Brown; Thu: Upload; Fri: Kamilah McInnis 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 9.00 Wed: Kathy Caton 10.00—1am (Mon: 10.30) The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good RADIOSOLENTDORSET

As Radio Solent, including Dorset news and features, plus: Monday—Friday 7am—9.00 Steve Harris

Somerset

Saturday

6am Caroline Martin 10.00 Andy Bennett 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Caroline Martin 10.00

Andy Bennett 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Charlie Taylor 10.00 Simon Parkin 2pm Claire Carter; Fri: Andy Bennett 6.00 Mon: The Pavilion; Tue: The Scrum: with Dan Albutt and Gareth Chilcott; Wed: Dan Pascoe; Thu: Upload; Fri: Sport 7.00 Mon: Manny Masih; Tue: Dan Pascoe; Fri: Kevin Philemon 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Stoke

Saturday

6am Susan Hanks 10.00 Liz Ellis 2pm Charlie Taylor 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Paul Shuttleworth 10.00 Liz Ellis 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Lee Blakeman 10.00 Stuart George; Wed: Paula White 2pm Toni McDonald 6.00 Sport at Six 7.00 Mon: Mya Khan; Tue/Wed: Phil Upton; Thu: Upload; Fri: Merisha Stevenson 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Suffolk

Saturday

6am Heidi Secker 10.00 Thordis Fridriksson 12.00 Total Sport with Charlie Taylor 6pm Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Babs Michel 10.00 Thordis Fridriksson 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Wayne Bavin 10.00 Sarah Lilley 2pm Louise Hulland 6.00 Mon: The Blue Hour with Brenner Woolley; Tue/Wed: Babs Michel; Thu: Upload; Fri: Graeme Mac 7.00 Mon: Amir Suleman; Fri: Angelle Joseph 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

BBC Surrey and BBC Sussex

Saturday

6am Allison Ferns 10.00 Stephen Brown 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 Introducing the South: with Melita Dennett 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Allison Ferns 10.00 Pat Marsh 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Surrey: James Cannon; Sussex: Danny Pike 10.00 Sarah Gorrell 2pm Adam Dowling; Fri: Leo Ulph 6.00 Mon: Game Changers; Tue/Wed: Stephen Brown; Thu: Upload; Fri: The Weekend Warm-Up 7.00 Mon: Rena Annobil; Fri: Kamilah McInnis 8.00 Thu: Introducing the South with Melita Dennett 9.00 Wed: Kathy Caton 10.00— 1.00am The Late Show (Sussex Mon: 10.30) Fri: Jo Good

Tees

Saturday

6am Gilly Hope 10.00 Kelly Scott 2pm Total Sport with Charlie Taylor 6.00 Upload 8.00

BBC Introducing: under the radar music 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Gilly Hope 10.00 Kelly Scott 2pm Make a Difference: community reports 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Amy Oakden 10.00 Gary Philipson 2pm Scott Makin 6.00 Sport 7.00 Mon: JoJo Hatfield; Tue: Joel Mitchell; Wed: Jack Wood; Thu: Upload; Fri: Rachel Teate 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

Three Counties

Beds,HertsandBucks

Saturday

6am Babs Michel 10.00 Justin Dealey 2pm Total Sport with Charlie Taylor 6.00 Upload 8.00 Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Babs Michel 10.00 Gary Wilmot 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Andy Collins 10.00 The JVS Show 2pm Kady Braine; Mon: Gemma Hill 6.00 Mon: Ollie Bayliss; Tue/Wed: Babs Michel; Thu: Upload; Fri: George Litchfield 7.00 Mon: Amir Suleman; Fri: Angelle Joseph 8.00 Thu: Introducing 10.00— 1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good Wiltshire

Saturday

6am Caroline Martin 10.00 Andy Bennett 2pm Charlie Taylor 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Caroline Martin 10.00

Andy Bennett 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Ben Prater 10.00 Sue Davies 2pm Graham Rogers 6.00 Mon/Fri: Sport at Six; Tue: The Scrum: with Dan Albutt and Gareth Chilcott.; Wed: Dan Pascoe; Thu: Upload 7.00 Mon: Manny Masih; Tue: Dan Pascoe; Fri: Kevin Philemon 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am (Tue: 10.30) The Late Show 10.00—1am Fri: Jo Good

WM

Saturday

6am Phil Upton 10.00 Mark Rhodes 2pm Charlie Taylor 8.00 Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Donna Alos 10.00 Darren Harriott 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday 6am Sarah Julian 10.00 Ed James 2pm Trish Adudu 6.00 The Football Phone-in 7.00 Mon: Mya Khan; Tue/Wed: Phil Upton; Thu: Upload; Fri: Merisha Stevenson 8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good York

Saturday

6am Xanthe Palmer 10.00 Colson Smith 2pm Sport 6.00 Upload 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00—1am Jo Good

Sunday

6am Xanthe Palmer 10.00 Nick Ahad 2pm Make a Difference 6.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00—1am The Late Show

Monday—Friday

6am Georgey Spanswick 10.00

Joanita Musisi; Fri: Bek Homer 2pm Toby Foster 2pm Thu/Fri: Sam Nixon 6.00 Sport 7.00 Mon: Arzu Dutta; Tue: Bek Homer; Wed: John Kane; Thu: Upload 8.00 Thu: Introducing 10.00— 1am The Late Show; Fri: Jo Good

RADIO IN YOUR AREA

FACE BEHIND THE VOICE

LEANNE CAMPBELL

BBC RADIO MERSEYSIDE

AGE 45 CURRENT JOB

Has presented the mid-morning show (Friday, 10am—2pm) on BBC Radio Merseyside since 10 April. “To move over to the BBC and host a mid-morning show is completely different. I’m not waking people up. At 10 o’clock the phone lines are alight. Everybody’s ready to talk to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in our city. I love it.” CV Born in Liverpool? “Of course I was! You can’t learn this accent!” She attended stage schools from the age of 10 and played the title role in Annie at the Liverpool Playhouse aged 12. While studying at John Moores University (2003—05) she was the breakfast host on Juice FM (2003—13) and Radio City, later Hits Radio (2014—25). “I took the whole of Radio City off air once. We had a puppy and, mid-link while I wasn’t looking at him, he bit through one of the main cables. I could hear crackling and I thought something had come loose, then listeners heard me scream before everything just collapsed.”

She was also on the Hits Radio network’s Rock FM (2024—25). She has hosted the podcast The Ladies of Liverpool since 2018. “I was doing that podcast before it was trendy.” Since 2025 she has also co-hosted (with her former Radio City host Dave Kelly) Leanne and Dave’s Daily Dose. BEST MOMENTS “I broadcast throughout 2008, when Liverpool was Capital of Culture. That was wonderful.”

WORST MOMENT “The morning after poor Ava White was stabbed to death at the bottom of the Radio City tower in 2021. As a mum, that sort of thing changes you for ever.”

OFF AIR Lives in Liverpool with her husband Jay, who works for Liverpool City Council, and their children, Joseph, 16, and Annabelle, 12. “My family – typical Liverpool – are thick as thieves.”

FIRST RADIO MEMORY “Easy. Driving to school, singing along to Tony Snell, whose show I’m now doing on Fridays!”

FAVOURITE BROADCASTERS “The late, great Neal Atkinson. He was a joy to listen to, a joy to work with [on Juice FM].”

AMBITION/DREAM JOB “I would love to do some TV presenting, maybe for the BBC’s North West Tonight. And I’d love to have a B&B in Italy. We’ve made it our mission to go to a different place in Italy every year for the past 20 years.”

SECRET SKILLS “I’m a really top-notch mum. That’s what I’d like people to remember me for.”

Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiomerseyside

Saturday

NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER

hourly 7.00am to 12 noon, 6.00pm, 7.00, 9.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12 midnight

NEWS HEADLINES 2.00pm, 5.00

6.30am Out of Doors

Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors in Scotland and beyond.

Email: outofdoors@bbc.co.uk

8.00 Radio Scotland

Breakfast

News from across Scotland and the world, plus sport, weather, entertainment and big-name interviews.

9.00 The Saturday Show

Amy Irons and Steven Mill kick-start Saturday with lots of laughs, great guests and timeless tunes, looking back on the week’s news and previewing the weekend’s football fixtures.

12.00 Off the Ball Football forum that claims to be the most petty and ill-informed football show on radio, with light-hearted features and competitions. Presented by Stuart Cosgrove and Tam Cowan. Text 80295.

Email: offtheball@bbc.co.uk

Phone: 08085 92 95 00

FM only from 2.55pm

2.00pm Sportsound

Comprehensive coverage of Scottish sport including live and exclusive commentary, news, interviews, analysis and discussion. Text 80295.

@BBCSportsound on social media

Email: sportsound@bbc.co.uk

Radio Scotland Extra

2.55—5.00 Sportsound

Comprehensive coverage of Scottish sport including live and exclusive commentary, news, interviews, analysis and discussion. Text 80295.

@BBCSportsound on social media

Email: sportsound@bbc.co.uk

5.00 40 Years of Only an Excuse?

Acelebration of one of Scotland’s best-loved comedies, going back through four decades of enduring memories, cracking characters, favourite moments, myths and legends.

6.00 Yes Sir, We Can Boogie with Grant and Arlene Grant Stott and Arlene Stuart present a party mix celebrating Scotland taking on Bolivia in the World Cup.

8.00 Sportsound

Commentary on the friendly between Bolivia and Scotland at the Sports Illustrated Stadium in New Jersey (kick-off 9.00), ahead of the World Cup starting on Thursday.

World Cup special: page 12 12.00—7.00am as Radio 5 Live

Sunday

NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER hourly 7.00am to 9.00, 11.00, 12 noon, 2.00pm, 5.00, 7.00, 9.00, 10.00

7.00am Scotcast

Laura Miller, Martin Geissler and Natalie Higgins present highlights from the week’s programmes.

7.30 New Every Sunday Acts of worship from different churches around Scotland.

8.00 Sunday Morning

Zara Janjua presents music and conversation with a faith and ethical perspective, looking back at the week’s events to ask what they say about people’s values and beliefs.

10.00 The Sunday Show News, discussion and interviews covering a diverse range of subjects.

12.00 Off the Ball Football forum that claims to be the most petty and ill-informed football show on radio, with light-hearted features and competitions. Presented by Stuart Cosgrove and Tam Cowan. Text 80295.

Email: offtheball@bbc.co.uk

Phone: 08085 92 95 00

2.00pm Sportsound

Comprehensive coverage of Scottish sport including live and exclusive commentary, as well as breaking news, interviews, analysis and discussion. Text 80295.

@BBCSportsound on social media

Email: sportsound@bbc.co.uk

5.00 Your Requests with Gary Innes

Gary shares listeners’ messages and dedications and plays favourite Scottish music requests.

7.00 Classical Now

Jamie MacDougall celebrates classical music from Scotland and beyond, featuring concert performances, the latest album releases and music news.

9.00 Roddy Hart’s Mix Tape Roddy plays a selection of hand-picked tracks, breakthrough artists and some fresh sounds to close out the weekend.

11.00—6.00am as Radio 5 Live

Monday

NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER

hourly 6.00am to 8.00, 10.00 to 5.00pm, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, 10.00, 11.00

LOCALNEWS Dumfries, Aberdeen, Inverness, Selkirk: 6.30am, 7.30, 8.30, 12.30pm, 4.30, 5.30; Orkney: 7.30am, 12 noon Shetland: 12.30pm, 5.30

6.00am Radio Scotland

Breakfast News from across Scotland and the world, plus sport, weather, entertainment and big-name interviews.

9.00 Mornings

Laura McGhie gets to the heart of the news and offers listeners the opportunity to have a say on the day’s stories.

12.00 Lunchtime Live News updates from Scotland and beyond, plus lunchtime sport, travel and weather.

1.30pm Radio Scotland

Afternoons

Grant Stott presents a blend of feel-good music and chat with celebrity guests.

4.00 Drivetime Breaking down the day’s talking points with comment and opinion, plus sport, travel and weather.

6.00 Get It On... with Bryan Burnett Bryan presents a selection of essential music chosen by listeners. Text 80295. Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk

8.00 Vic Galloway

Vic introduces new releases from Scotland’s alternative artists, and classic album cuts alongside live session tracks.

Email: vicgalloway@bbc.co.uk

Text: 80295

10.00 Up Late Lynne Hoggan takes listeners to midnight, with lively chat and some much-loved tunes.

12.00 Scotcast

Martin Geissler and guests presentthoughtful conversation and expert analysis covering the most interesting news stories in Scotland.

12.30am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Tuesday

NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER: LOCALNEWS as Monday

6.00am Radio Scotland

Breakfast

News from across Scotland and the world, plus sport, weather, entertainment and big-name interviews.

9.00 Mornings

Laura McGhie gets to the heart of the news and offers listeners the opportunity to have their say.

12.00 Lunchtime Live

News updates from Scotland and beyond, plus lunchtime sport, travel and weather.

1.30pm Radio Scotland

Afternoons

Grant Stott presents a blend of feel-good music and chat with celebrity guests.

4.00 Drivetime

Breaking down the day’s talking points with comment and opinion, plus sport, travel and weather.

6.00 Get It On... with Bryan Burnett

Bryan presents a selection of essential music chosen by listeners. Text 80295.

Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk

8.00 Another Country with Ricky Ross Aselection of new and classic Country and Americana music.

10.00 Up Late

Lynne Hoggan takes listeners to midnight, with lively chat and some much-loved tunes.

12.00 Scotcast

Martin Geissler and guests presentthoughtful conversation and expert analysis covering the most interesting news stories in Scotland.

12.30am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Wednesday

NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER: LOCALNEWS as Monday

6.00am Radio Scotland

Breakfast

News from across Scotland and the world, plus sport, weather, entertainment and big-name interviews.

9.00 Mornings

Laura McGhie gets to the heart of the news and offers listeners the opportunity to have a say on the day’s stories.

12.00 Lunchtime Live News updates from Scotland and beyond, plus lunchtime sport, travel and weather.

1.30pm Radio Scotland

Afternoons

Grant Stott presents a blend of feel-good music and chat with celebrity guests.

4.00 Drivetime

Breaking down the day’s talking points with comment and opinion, plus sport, travel and weather.

6.00 Get It On... with Bryan Burnett

Bryan presents a selection of essential music chosen by listeners. To get a song played on the radio, text 80295. Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk

8.00 The Quay Sessions with Roddy Hart Roddy introduces a selection of live performances from across the musical landscape — all captured in front of an audience in the intimate setting of the foyer at BBC Radio Scotland’s Pacific Quay.

10.00 Up Late

Lynne Hoggan takes listeners through to midnight, with chat and some much-loved tunes.

12.00 Scotcast Martin Geissler and guests presentthoughtful conversation and expert analysis covering the most interesting news stories in Scotland.

12.30am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Thursday

NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER: LOCALNEWS as Monday 6.00am Radio Scotland Breakfast News from across Scotland and the world, plus sport, weather, entertainment and big-name interviews.

9.00 Mornings Stephen Jardine gets to the heart of the news and offers listeners the opportunity to have their say.

12.00 Lunchtime Live News updates from Scotland and beyond, plus lunchtime sport, travel and weather.

1.30pm Radio Scotland Afternoons Grant Stott presents a blend of feel-good music and chat with celebrity guests.

4.00 Drivetime Breaking down the day’s talking points with comment and opinion, plus sport, travel and weather.

6.00 Get It On... with Bryan Burnett Bryan presents a selection of essential music chosen by listeners. Text 80295. Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk

8.00 Travelling Folk Anna Massie with presents a selection of folk and roots music from around the world.

10.00 Up Late Lynne Hoggan takes listeners to midnight, with lively chat and some much-loved tunes.

12.00 Scotcast

Martin Geissler and guests presentthoughtful conversation and expert analysis covering the most interesting news stories in Scotland.

12.30am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Friday

NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER:

LOCALNEWS as Monday

6.00am Radio Scotland Breakfast

News updates from across Scotland and the rest of the world, plus sport, weather, entertainment and big-name interviews.

9.00 Mornings

Stephen Jardine gets to the heart of the news and offers listeners the opportunity to have their say on the day’s stories .

12.00 Lunchtime Live

News updates from Scotland and beyond, plus lunchtime sport, travel and weather reports.

1.30pm The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected Mark Nelson leads a panel of Scotland’s funniest comedians and personalities attempting to decipher the good from the bad, with a few unexpected twists along the way.

2.00 Radio Scotland Afternoons

Arlene Stuart presents feel-good music and chat with celebrity guests.

4.00 Drivetime

Breaking down the day’s talking points with comment and opinion, plus sport, travel and weather.

6.00 Grant Stott’s Vinyl Collective Grant celebrates the vinyl revival with classic records and new releases, playing album tracks from his own collection and hearing the stories about listeners’ cherished LPs.

8.00 BBC Introducing in Scotland

Phoebe I-H and Stephanie Cheape present unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music from across Scotland.

10.00 Up Late Ashley Storrie takes listeners to midnight, with lively chat and some much-loved tunes.

12.00—12.00am as Radio 5 Live BBC Radio Scotland 40 Pacific Quay Glasgow G51 1DA bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

Local programmes

ORKNEY

Weekdays

6.00pm—7.00 Fri: Friday Requests: weekly dedication programme, featuring a selection of music requests and some special greetings.

PHONE: 01856 873939

Email: radio.orkney@bbc.co.uk

SHETLAND

Weekdays

5.30pm Good Evening Shetland: a selection of news stories and features from around the isles.

6.00 Fri: Give Us a Tune: weekly all-request show.

PHONE: 01595 694747

Email: radio.shetland@bbc.co.uk

Radio nan Gàidheal

Mar Radio Alba ach: Disathairne

9.00am Spòrs na Seachdain Spòrs ionadail, nàiseanta agus bho air feadh an t-saoghail còmhla ri Iain Moireasdan. POST DEALAIN: sns@bbc.co.uk

FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050

10.00 Fàilt’ air an Dùthaich Taghadh de cheòl dùthchail sean is ùr.

11.00 Co-Sheirm

Liostaichean-chluiche de phìosan-ciùil a chaidh an clàradh aig fèis Celtic Connections.

ath-chraoladh a’maireach aig 12.00

12.00—1.00pm

Beartas Ghuthan

Tro iomadh linn agus thar gach cultar tha òrainair a bhithagainn. ath-chraoladh a’maireach aig 2pm

8.00 Spòrscast

Acòmhradh ri measgachadh de dhaoine’siadaginnismunphàirt a tha spòrs a cluich nam beatha.

8.30—11.30 Geama Càirdeil: Bolivia v Alba

An geama càirdeil mu dheireadh aig Alba air thoiseach air Cupa na Cruinne an aghaidh Bolivia.

Didòmhnaich

9.00am Dèanamaid Adhradh

Tasglann

Seirbheis Ghàidhlig.

ath-chraoladh aig 3pm/9pm

9.30 Alleluia

Laoidhean, leughaidhean agus smuaintean.

10.00 Rogha is Tagha Taghadh à prògraman na seachdain air a thoirt thugaibh le Anna Nic na Ceardaich. ath-chraoladh aig 9.30pm

10.30 Crùnluath

Taghadh de cheòl na pìoba. ath-chraoladh Diciadain aig 3.30pm 12.00 Co-Sheirm Liostaichean-chluiche de phìosan-ciùilachaidhanclàradh aig fèis Celtic Connections.

1.00pm SpeakGaelic Abheil sibhse ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig? Ma tha, is ann dhuibhse a tha am podcast seo.

1.30 An Litir Bheag Litir Bheag na seachdain sa le Ruairidh MacIlleathain.

1.35 SpeakGaelic Podcast do luchd-ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig ceangailte ris an t-sreath SpeakGaelic air BBC Alba.

1.55 Litir do Luchdionnsachaidh Litir do Luchd-ionnsachaidh le Ruairidh MacIlleathain. Litir àireamh 1403.

2.00 Beartas Ghuthan Tro iomadh linn agus thar gach cultar tha òrain air a bhith againn.

3.00 Dèanamaid Adhradh Tasglann Seirbheis Ghàidhlig. ath-chraoladh aig 9pm

3.30—4.00 Fàilte air a’ Bhaile Prògram à Tasglann Ràdio nan Gàidheal.

9.00 Dèanamaid Adhradh Tasglann Seirbheis Ghàidhlig.

9.30—10.00 Rogha is Tagha Taghadh à prògraman na seachdain air a thoirt thugaibh le Anna Nic na Ceardaich. Diluain

7.30am Aithris na Maidne Naidheachdan ionadail, nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta gach madainn.

9.00 Naoi gu Deich Còmhradh, deasbad, cultar agus cur-seachadan. ath-chraoladh aig 10.55pm

10.00 A’ Mire ri Linda Tha Linda NicLeòid a’ dol gar cuir ann an sunnd le taghadh de dh’òrain agus ceòl traidiseanta Gàidhlig. ath-chraoladh aig 9pm

12.00 Feasgar an-diugh Naidheachdan, còmhradh, spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà.

1.30pm Caithream Ciùil Ceòl Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air na tha dol agaibhse.

POST DEALAIN: dethadol@bbc.co.uk

3.30 Fàilte air a’ Bhaile Tha Radio nan Gàidheal a dol dhan tasglann son an t-sreath Fàilte air a’ Bhaile a thoirt thugaibh. ath-chraoladh Diciadain aig 8.30pm

4.00 Fàilt’ air an Dùthaich Taghadh de cheòl dùthchail sean is ùr.

5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair Naidheachdan nàiseanta is ionadail.

5.30 Siubhal gu Seachd le Pluto

Ceòl, fealla-dhà agus sùil air spòrs ionadail, nàiseanta agus eadar-nàiseanta.

POST DEALAIN: pluto@bbc.co.uk

FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050

7.00 Cruinn

Ceòl, amaideas ’s na beachdan agaibh air cuspairean a’ là airson ur cuir ann a sunnd airson na seachdain.

9.00 A’ Mire ri Linda

Tha Linda NicLeòid a’ dol gar cuir ann an sunnd le taghadh de dh’òrain agus ceòl traidiseanta Gàidhlig.

10.55—11.50 Naoi gu Deich

Còmhradh, deasbad, cultar agus cur-seachadan.

Dimàirt

7.30am Aithris na Maidne Naidheachdan ionadail, nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta gach madainn.

9.00 Naoi gu Deich

Còmhradh, deasbad, cultar agus cur-seachadan. ath-chraoladh aig 10.55pm

10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir

Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail agus tha i feitheamh ribh le taghadh ciùil.

ath-chraoladh aig 9pm

12.00 Feasgar an-diugh Naidheachdan, còmhradh, spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà.

1.30pm Caithream Ciùil

Ceòl Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air na tha dol agaibhse.

POST DEALAIN: dethadol@bbc.co.uk

3.30 SpeakGaelic Abheil sibhse ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig? Ma tha, is ann dhuibhse a tha am podcast seo. ath-chraoladh aig 8.30pm

4.00 Co-Sheirm

Liostaichean-chluiche de phìosan-ciùil a chaidh an clàradh aig fèis Celtic Connections.

5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair Naidheachdan nàiseanta is ionadail.

5.30 Siubhal gu Seachd le Pluto

Ceòl, fealla-dhà agus sùil air spòrs ionadail, nàiseanta agus eadar-nàiseanta.

POST DEALAIN: pluto@bbc.co.uk FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050

7.00 Ceòl Ùr Gun Sgur

Clàr-cluiche de cheòl ùr Albannach còmhla ri Megan NicGill-Fhaolain.

8.00 Spòrscast Acòmhradh ri measgachadh de dhaoine ’s iad ag innis mun phàirt a tha spòrs a cluich nam beatha.

8.30 SpeakGaelic Abheil sibhse ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig? Ma tha, is ann dhuibhse a tha am podcast seo. Tha sreath B2 de phodcast SpeakGaelic ag amas air luchdionnsachaidh a tha aig ìre adhartach agus tha e air a thoirt thugainn leis a’ chraoladair agus sgrìobhaiche Iain Urchardan.

9.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir

Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail agus tha i feitheamh ribh le taghadh ciùil.

10.55—11.50 Naoi gu Deich Còmhradh, deasbad, cultar agus cur-seachadan.

Diciadain

7.30am Aithris na Maidne Naidheachdan ionadail, nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta gach madainn.

9.00 Naoi gu Deich Còmhradh, deasbad, cultar agus cur-seachadan. ath-chraoladh aig 10.50pm

10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir

Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail agus tha i feitheamh ribh le taghadh ciùil.

ath-chraoladh aig 9pm

12.00 Feasgar an-diugh Naidheachdan, còmhradh, spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà.

1.30pm Caithream Ciùil Ceòl Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air na tha dol agaibhse.

POST DEALAIN: dethadol@bbc.co.uk

3.30 Crùnluath

Taghadh de cheòl na pìoba.

5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair Naidheachdan nàiseanta is ionadail.

5.30 Siubhal gu Seachd le Pluto

Ceòl, fealla-dhà agus sùil air spòrs ionadail, nàiseanta agus eadar-nàiseanta.

POST DEALAIN: pluto@bbc.co.uk

FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050

7.00 Mo Chuairt Ciùil

Cluinnidh sinn mu na pìosan ciùil a tha air buaidh a thoirt air aoigh na seachdain.

ath-chraoladh Dihaoine aig 3.30pm

8.30 Fàilte air a’ Bhaile

9.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir

10.50—11.45 Naoi gu Deich Còmhradh, deasbad, cultar agus cur-seachadan. ath-chraoladh a’maireach aig 9am

Diardaoin

7.30am Aithris na Maidne Naidheachdan ionadail, nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta gach madainn. ath-chraoladh a’maireach aig 7.30am

9.00 Naoi gu Deich Còmhradh, deasbad, cultar agus cur-seachadan. ath-chraoladh aig 10.55pm

10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir

Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail agus tha i feitheamh ribh le taghadh ciùil. ath-chraoladh aig 9pm

12.00 Feasgar an-diugh Naidheachdan, còmhradh, spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà. ath-chraoladh a’maireach aig 12.00 1.30pm Caithream Ciùil

Ceòl Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air na tha dol agaibhse.

POST DEALAIN: dethadol@bbc.co.uk

3.30 Spòrscast

Acòmhradh ri measgachadh de dhaoine’siadaginnismunphàirt a tha spòrs a cluich nam beatha.

4.00 Beartas Ghuthan

Màiri Anna NicUalraig a’ cur na prosbaigairsàr-ghuthandegach seòrsa agus bho gach cultar.

5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair Naidheachdan nàiseanta is ionadail. ath-chraoladh a’maireach aig 5pm

5.30 Siubhal gu Seachd le Pluto

Ceòl, fealla-dhà agus sùil air spòrs ionadail, nàiseanta agus eadar-nàiseanta.

7.00 Rapal Orain ùra gu leòr.

POST DEALAIN: rapal@bbc.co.uk FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050

9.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir

10.55—11.50 Naoi gu Deich Còmhradh, deasbad, cultar agus cur-seachadan.

Dihaoine

7.30am Aithris na Maidne Naidheachdan ionadail, nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta gach madainn.

9.00 Naoi gu Deich Còmhradh, deasbad, cultar agus cur-seachadan. ath-chraoladh aig 11pm

10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir

Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail agus tha i feitheamh ribh le taghadh ciùil.

12.00 Feasgar an-diugh Naidheachdan, còmhradh, spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà.

1.30pm Caithream Ciùil

Ceòl Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air na tha dol agaibhse.

3.30 Mo Chuairt Ciùil Cluinnidh sinn mu na pìosan ciùil a tha air buaidh a thoirt air aoigh na seachdain.

5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair

5.30 Rogha is Tagha Taghadh à prògraman na seachdain air a thoirt thugaibh le Anna Nic na Ceardaich.

6.00 Na Dùrachdan Ceòl, òrain agus beannachdan còmhla ri Art MacCarmaig. Phone: 01463 720720

9.00 Mac’ille Mhìcheil Cuiridh Iain Mac’illeMhìcheil agus aoighean an deireadh seachdain air a chasan.

11.00—12.00am Naoi gu Deich

Frequencies

National

BBC

BBC

BBC

BBC Radio nan Gaidheal FM 103.5–104.9 (carries R4 in some parts)

Classic FM 99.9–101.9

Talksport MW 1053, 1089

Above stations also on Freeview (*not Sat 4pm—1am, Sun 4pm— 12 midnight, weekdays 5pm— 12 midnight), plus satellite, cable, internet and DAB (Radio Scotland Extra service only).

Local

Argyll FM 106.5, 107.1, 107.7 (Campbeltown)

BBC Cumbria FM 95.6 (Carlisle), 96.1 (Morecambe Bay), 95.2 (Kendal), 104.1 (Whitehaven/ Keswick), 104.2 (Windermere), MW 756 (Carlisle), 837 (Barrow-in-Furness)

Capital 106.1 (Glasgow), 105.7 (Edinburgh)

Central FM 103.1 (Stirling/Falkirk/ Clackmannanshire)

Clyde 1 FM 102.3 (Rothesay), 102.5 (Glasgow), 103.3 (Firth of Clyde), 97 (Vale of Leven)

Forth 1 FM 97.3, 97.6 (Edinburgh), 102.2 (Penicuik)

Greatest Hits Radio FM 96.4 (Carlisle), 96.8 (Selkirk), 97 (Dumfries), 102.2 (Workington), 102.3 (Berwick), 102.5 (Penrith), 103.1 (Peebles), 103.4 (Eyemouth/ Whitehaven), DAB (North East Scotland)

Heart FM 100 (Vale of Leven), 101.1 (Edinburgh/Rosneath), 100.3 (Glasgow), 103.3 (Penicuik)

Heartland FM 97.5 (Pitlochry/ Aberfeldy), 107.3 (Crieff)

Isles FM 103 (Western Isles)

Mearns FM 105.1 (Portlethen), 105.7 (Stonehaven), 106.2 (Inverbervie), 107.3 (Laurencekirk)

MFR FM 96.6 (Speyside), 96.7 (Fraserburgh/Wick), 97.4 (Highlands/Moray/ Aberdeenshire), 102.5 (Caithness), 102.8 (Keith) Nation FM 96.3 (Glasgow), 106.9 (Helensburgh), 103 (Dumbarton) Nevis FM 96.6 (Fort William), 97 (Glencoe), 102.4 (Loch Leven), 102.3 (Skye & Mallaig) Northsound 1 FM 96.9 (Aberdeen), 97.6 (Balgownie), 103 (Peterhead) Oban FM 103.3

Original 95.2 (West Fife), 96.1 (Central & East Fife), 96.6 (Kirkcaldy), 105.4 (St Andrews), 106 (Aberdeen), 106.3 (The East Neuk), SIBC FM 96.2 (Bressay), 102.2 (Shetland) Skye 106.2, 102.7 (Skye/Lochalsh)

Smooth Radio FM 105.2 (Glasgow)

Tay FM MW 102.8 (Dundee), 96.4 (Perth)

Wave FM 102 (Dundee)

Waves Radio FM 101.2 (Peterhead/Fraserburgh)

West FM 96.7 (Ayrshire), 97.5 (Girvan), 106.7 (Rothesay)

West Sound FM 97 (Dumfries), 103 (Kirkcudbright), 96.5 (Stranraer)

Wester Ross FM 96.8 (North West Scotland), 102.2 (Ullapool), 106 (Gairloch), 106.6 (Loch Ewe)

RADIO IN YOUR AREA

FACE BEHIND THE VOICE

LEANNE CAMPBELL

BBC RADIO MERSEYSIDE

AGE 45 CURRENT JOB

Has presented the mid-morning show (Friday, 10am—2pm) on BBC Radio Merseyside since 10 April. “To move over to the BBC and host a mid-morning show is completely different. I’m not waking people up. At 10 o’clock the phone lines are alight. Everybody’s ready to talk to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in our city. I love it.”

CV Born in Liverpool? “Of course I was! You can’t learn this accent!” She attended stage schools from the age of 10 and played the title role in Annie at the Liverpool Playhouse aged 12. While studying at John Moores University (2003—05) she was the breakfast host on Juice FM (2003—13) and Radio City, later Hits Radio (2014—25). “I took the whole of Radio City off air once. We had a puppy and, mid-link while I wasn’t looking at him, he bit through one of the main cables. I could hear crackling and I thought something had come loose, then listeners heard me scream before everything just collapsed.”

She was also on the Hits Radio network’s Rock FM (2024—25). She has hosted the podcast The Ladies of Liverpool since 2018. “I was doing that podcast before it was trendy.” Since 2025 she has also co-hosted (with her former Radio City host Dave Kelly) Leanne and Dave’s Daily Dose. BEST MOMENTS “I broadcast throughout 2008, when Liverpool was Capital of Culture. That was wonderful.”

WORST MOMENT “The morning after poor Ava White was stabbed to death at the bottom of the Radio City tower in 2021. As a mum, that sort of thing changes you for ever.”

OFF AIR Lives in Liverpool with her husband Jay, who works for Liverpool City Council, and their children, Joseph, 16, and Annabelle, 12. “My family – typical Liverpool – are thick as thieves.”

FIRST RADIO MEMORY “Easy. Driving to school, singing along to Tony Snell, whose show I’m now doing on Fridays!”

FAVOURITE BROADCASTERS “The late, great Neal Atkinson. He was a joy to listen to, a joy to work with [on Juice FM].”

AMBITION/DREAM JOB “I would love to do some TV presenting, maybe for the BBC’s North West Tonight. And I’d love to have a B&B in Italy. We’ve made it our mission to go to a different place in Italy every year for the past 20 years.”

SECRET SKILLS “I’m a really top-notch mum. That’s what I’d like people to remember me for.”

Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiomerseyside

Saturday

NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 5.00pm

WEATHER: after most news bulletins

7.00am Radio Wales

Breakfast News, sport, travel and weather, with Oliver Hides.

9.00 Money for Nothing Dedications and song requests from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Presented by Owen Money. Phone: 03700 100 110

12.00 Lucy Owen Music and guests.

2.00pm The Sport Summer

Social

Featuring music, sporting chat and commentary.

5.00 Furries at 30: the Super Furry Animals Story

Elis James honours one of the country’s most beloved bands, marking 30 years since the release of their explosive debut album Fuzzy Logic. Elis presents a new interview with the band and a fresh take on a group that has shaped the music industry in more ways than listeners may realise. Repeat

6.00 Radio Wales Sport

Commentary on Romania v Wales, the friendly match at Steaua Stadium in Bucharest (kick-off 6.45).

9.00 BBC Introducing with Adam Walton

New Welsh music, featuring exclusive sessions, interviews and demos.

12.00 Relax with Radio Wales

Aselection of classic and contemporary tunes.

1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Sunday

NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 6.00pm

WEATHER: after most news bulletins

6.00am The Aberystwyth Book Club

The club takes a trip from Aberystwyth to the Hay Festival to review The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson

Repeated from last Friday Repeated tomorrow 6.30am

6.30 Science Café

Adam Walton talks to artist, author and marine biologist Dr Ruth Searle, to discuss her latest book The Intertidal Zone: Life on the Edge. Aberystwyth University’sDrDavidWilcockson also discusses research exploring the biological clocks of intertidal organisms.

Repeated from last Tuesday

7.00 Country Focus Programme serving everyone living in the countryside and tackling the issues affecting them. With rural, farming and environmental news.

Repeated from last Wednesday

7.35 Celebration

Weekly act of worship broadcast from Christian communities all over Wales.

Repeated 7.30pm

8.00 Sunday Supplement

Vaughan Roderick presents the latest political news, discussions and analysis.

9.00 All Things Considered Religious affairs programme tackling the issues of the day in a thought-provoking manner. Email: religion.wales@bbc.co.uk

9.35 Owen Money’s Solid Gold Sunday Prince is Owen’s Songwriter of the Week, on what would have been his 68th birthday. The Sunday Soul Selection is the Drifters original recording of a much-covered song.

12.00 Robin Morgan Music and guests.

3.00pm Lynn Bowles Music, entertainment and guests for Sunday afternoon.

5.00 Roy Noble With classic songs from the 1940s, 50s and beyond, plus laid-back conversation. Email: roy.noble@bbc.co.uk

7.00 Books That Made Me with Lucy Owen Lucy Owen uncovers another formativereadattheHay Festival. Repeated from last Monday

7.30 Celebration Weekly act of worship broadcast from Christian communities all over Wales. Repeated from 7.30am

8.00 Celtic Heartbeat Frank Hennessy presents folk, roots and acoustic music from the Celtic countries and beyond.

10.00 Beverley’s World of Music

Musicalmelodies,performances from stage and screen, and orchestral and choral works from Wales and the world.

1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live Monday

NEWS: hourly 6.00am to 10.00pm

WEATHER: after most news bulletins

6.05am Wake Up with Radio Wales Music to start the day.

6.30 The Aberystwyth Book Club

The club takes a trip from Aberystwyth to the Hay Festival to review The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson Repeated from yesterday 6am

7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast News, sport and weather with Oliver Hides and Catrin Heledd.

9.00 Bronwen Lewis Bronwen brightens the morning with music and entertainment.

12.00 The Phone-in With Jason Mohammad.

2.00pm Behnaz Akhgar Celebrity guests, TV Turn Ons and the Name Game.

5.00 Radio Wales Drive

Everything you need to know as you head home, presented by Claire Summers.

6.30 The Summer That Changed Welsh Football New series. Ep 1. Nathan Blake revisits the success of the Wales team at Euro 2016 and examines the legacy that tournament left on the country. Repeated tomorrow 6.30am

7.00 Huw Stephens Classic tracks and new music from Wales and beyond.

10.00 Eleri Siôn Music and chat.

12.00 Relax with Radio Wales Aselection of classic and contemporary tunes. 1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Tuesday

NEWS: hourly 6.00am to 5.00pm, then 7.05 and hourly 8.00 to 10.00

WEATHER: after most news bulletins

6.05am Wake Up with Radio Wales Music to start the day.

6.30 The Summer that Changed Welsh Football

Ep 1. Nathan Blake revisits the success of the Wales team at Euro 2016 and examines the legacy that tournament has left on football in Wales.

Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm

7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast

Presented by Dot Davies and James Williams.

9.00 Bronwen Lewis

Bronwen brightens the morning with music and entertainment.

12.00 The Phone-in With Jason Mohammad.

2.00pm Behnaz Akhgar

Celebrity guests, expert advice and the Name Game.

5.00 Radio Wales Drive

Everything you need to know as you head home, presented by Claire Summers.

5.45 Radio Wales Sport

Commentary on Wales v Czech Republic, a Fifa Women’s World Cup Group B1 match at Cardiff City Stadium (kick-off 6.00).

8.00 Molly Palmer

Classic tracks and new music from Wales and beyond.

10.00 Eleri Siôn Music and chat.

12.00 Relax with Radio Wales

Aselection of classic and contemporary tunes.

1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Wednesday

NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday

6.05am Wake Up with Radio Wales Music to start the day.

6.30 Science Café

Adam Walton highlights 80 years of the National Blood Transfusion Service.

7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast Presented by Dot Davies and James Williams.

9.00 Bronwen Lewis Music and entertainment.

12.00 The Phone-in With Jason Mohammad.

2.00pm Behnaz Akhgar

Celebrity guests, Midweek Menu recipes, kitchen tips and the Name Game.

5.00 Radio Wales Drive

Everything you need to know as you head home, presented by Wyre Davies.

6.30 Country Focus Rural, farming and environmental news. Repeated tomorrow 6.30am

7.00 Country with Bronwen Lewis New and classic country music from Wales and the world.

10.00 Eleri Siôn Eleri brightens the night-time with music and chat.

12.00 Relax with Radio Wales

Aselection of classic and contemporary tunes.

1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Thursday

NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday

6.05am Wake Up with Radio Wales Music to start the day.

6.30 Country Focus Rural and environmental news. Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm

7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast Presented by Dot Davies and James Williams.

9.00 Bronwen Lewis Music and entertainment.

12.00 The Phone-in With Oliver Hides.

2.00pm Behnaz Akhgar Celebrity guests, expert advice and the Name Game.

5.00 Radio Wales Drive

Everything you need to know as you head home, presented by Claire Summers.

6.30 Kiri’s Comedy Club Acts from Machynlleth Comedy Festival, including Sean McLoughlin, Seeta Wrightson, HasanAl-HabibandMorganRees.

7.00 Aleighcia Scott The reggae artist presents hits fromthe 1960s to the present day.

10.00 Eleri Siôn Music and chat.

12.00 Relax with Radio Wales Aselection of classic and contemporary tunes.

1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Friday

NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday

6.05am Wake Up with Radio Wales Music to start the day.

6.30 Walescast Weekly political podcast.

7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast News, sport, travel and weather.

9.00 Lucy Owen Music and entertainment.

12.00 The Phone-in With Oliver Hides.

2.00pm Eleri Siôn Celebrity guests, the latest film reviews, and the Name Game.

5.00 Radio Wales Drive Everything you need to know as you head home, presented by Claire Summers.

6.30 Radio Wales Arts Show Arts and culture from Wales.

7.00 Elin Fflur’s 70s Playlist Party classics from the 1970s and the biggest Welsh anthems.

8.00 Elin Fflur’s 80s Playlist Party classics from the 1980s and the biggest Welsh anthems.

9.00 Elin Fflur’s 90s Playlist Party classics from the 1990s and the biggest Welsh anthems.

10.00 Friday Night H The Steps singer kicks off the weekend with music and chat.

12.00 The Party Playlist with H The Steps singer presents his ultimate party playlist.

1.00am—7.00 as Radio 5 Live

Sadwrn

5.30am Huw Stephens Cerddoriaeth newydd a hen, wedi’i ddewis gan Huw Stephens o’i gasgliad personol.

7.00 Galwad Cynnar

Gerallt Pennant a’i westeion yn trafod natur, bywyd gwyllt a chadwraeth. EBOST: galwadcynnar@bbc.co.uk

8.00 Dros Frecwast Y newyddion diweddaraf yng Nghymru a thu hwnt.

8.30 Ar y Marc

Dylan Jones a’r criw yn trafod pob math o bethau’n ymwneud â phêl-droed. EBOST: arymarc@bbc.co.uk

9.00 Tudur Owen

Lot o fwydro, ’chydig o sylwedd, dim swmp gyda Geth a Ger yn sedd Tudur.

11.00 Shelley a Rhydian Cerddoriaeth ac adloniant gyda Rhydian Bowen Phillips a Llinos Lee.

2.00pm Pnawn Sadwrn Catrin Angharad Cerddoriaeth a sgyrsiau i godi calon, gyda Catrin Angharad.

5.30 Miwsig y Siarter Iaith Awr o gerddoriaeth gyfoes Gymraeg i gyd-fynd â’r Siarter Iaith.

6.30 Chwaraeon Radio Cymru

Cymru yn croesawu Romania i Gaerdydd mewn gêm gyfeillgar ryngwladol.

9.00 Ffion Emyr

Tair awr o gerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth yng nghwmni Ffion Emyr.

12.00 gweler World Service Sul

5.30am Linda Griffiths

Cymysgedd o gerddoriaeth brin, anghofiedig, hen a newydd yng nghwmni Linda Griffiths. Ail-ddarlledir am 2pm

7.00 Troi’r Tir Y straeon diweddaraf o fyd amaeth a bywyd cefn gwlad gyda Terwyn Davies.

Ail-ddarlledir am 3.30pm

7.30 Caniadaeth y Cysegr

Amrywiaeth o emynau yng nghwmni’r Parchedig Ganon Angela Williams, Llanfairpwll.

Ail-ddarlledir am 4.30pm

8.00 Heledd Cynwal Dewch i dreulio bore Sul yng nghwmni Heledd Cynwal.

10.00 Swyn y Sul

Cerddoriaeth ar gyfer bore Sul gyda Geraint Cynan.

12.00 Yr Oedfa Gwasanaeth ar y Sul yn arbennig i wrandawyr Radio Cymru.

12.30pm Bwrw Golwg

John Roberts a’i westeion yn trafod materion moesol a chrefyddol.

EBOST: bwrw.golwg@bbc.co.uk

1.00 Llwyfan gyda Manon Steffan Ros

Golwg ar y byd celfyddydol yng Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda Manon Steffan Ros.

Ail-ddarlledir Llun am 6pm

2.00 Linda Griffiths

Darlledwyd am 5.30am

3.30 Troi’r Tir Darlledwyd am 7am

4.00 Chwalu Pen

Mari Lovgreen sydd yn Chwalu

Pen y cerddor Dafydd Owain a’r actor “eiconig” Rhys Richards.

4.30 Caniadaeth y Cysegr

Amrywiaeth o emynau yng nghwmni’r Parchedig Ganon

Angela Williams, Llanfairpwll. Darlledwyd am 7.30am

5.00 Dei Tomos

Andrew Green sy’n trafod dehongliadau artistiaid gwahanol o’r mynydd yn Sir Feirionnydd.

Ail-ddarlledir Mawrth am 6pm EBOST: deitomos@bbc.co.uk

6.00 Beti a’i Phobol Beti George yn sgwrsio gyda Iolo Eilian.

7.00 Y Talwrn

Caernarfon a Thwtil yn cystadlu i gyrraedd y Ffeinal yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026. Ail-ddarlledir Mercher am 6pm

8.00 Ar Eich Cais

Rhys Meirion yn darllen cyfarchion ac yn chwarae ceisiadau. EBOST: areichcais@bbc.co.uk

9.00 John ac Alun

Cerddoriaeth a sgwrsio i gloi’r penwythnos.

12.00 gweler World Service Llun

5.30am John Hardy

Cerddoriaetha chwmnïaethben bore,gydabwletinaunewyddion, chwaraeon, tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd,y bwletinamaethdyddiol, yn ogystal â golwg ar y papurau.

7.00 Dros Frecwast

Y newyddion diweddaraf yng Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda Kate Crockett a Dylan Ebenezer.

9.00 Aled Hughes Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth, a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar feddwl pawb.

11.00 Bore Cothi Croeso cynnes dros baned gyda Shân Cothi.

1.00pm Dros Ginio

Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd, gan godi’r pynciau a gofyn y cwestiynau sy’n bwysig i chi. EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk Ffôn: 03703 500 500

2.00 Ifan Jones Evans Digon o gerddoriaeth, chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn ogystal â chystadleuaeth neu ddwy.

5.00 Post Prynhawn Newyddion y dydd yng Nghymru a thu hwnt. EBOST: postprynhawn@bbc.co.uk Post Prynhawn, BBC Radio Cymru Canolfan y BBC, Bryn Meirion Bangor, LL57 2BY 6.00 Llwyfan gyda Manon Steffan Ros Golwg ar y byd celfyddydol yng Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda Manon Steffan Ros. Darlledwyd Sul am 1pm

7.00 Rhys Mwyn Clasuron coll o gasgliad Mr Mwyn, a gwesteion yn hel atgofion.

9.00 Caryl

Cerddoriaeth a hwyl gyda’r hwyr gyda Caryl Parry Jones.

11.00 Y Clwb PJs Ymunwch â Caryl i ymlacio wrth wrando ar gerddoriaeth hudolus cyn cysgu. 12.00 gweler World Service

Mawrth

5.30am John Hardy

Cerddoriaetha chwmnïaethben bore,gydabwletinaunewyddion, chwaraeon, tywydd a thraffig.

7.00 Dros Frecwast Y newyddion diweddaraf yng Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda Kate Crockett a Dylan Ebenezer.

9.00 Aled Hughes Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth, a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar feddwl pawb.

11.00 Bore Cothi Croeso cynnes dros baned gyda Shân Cothi.

1.00pm Dros Ginio

Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd, gan godi’r pynciau a gofyn y cwestiynau sy’n bwysig i chi.

EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk

Ffôn: 03703 500 500

2.00 Ifan Jones Evans Digon o gerddoriaeth, chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn ogystal â chystadleuaeth neu ddwy.

5.00 Post Prynhawn Newyddion y dydd yng Nghymru a thu hwnt.

EBOST: postprynhawn@bbc.co.uk

Post Prynhawn, BBC Radio Cymru Canolfan y BBC, Bryn Meirion Bangor, LL57 2BY

5.45 Chwaraeon Radio Cymru Gêm menywod Cymru yn erbyn Gweriniaeth Tsiec yn rowndiau rhagbrofol Cwpan y Byd 2027.

8.15 Georgia Ruth Dewis eclectig o gerddoriaeth o gasgliad Georgia Ruth.

9.00 Caryl

Cerddoriaeth a hwyl gyda’r hwyr gyda Caryl Parry Jones.

11.00 Y Clwb PJs

Ymunwch â Caryl i ymlacio wrth wrando ar gerddoriaeth hudolus cyn cysgu.

12.00 gweler World Service Mercher

5.30am John Hardy

Cerddoriaetha chwmnïaethben bore,gydabwletinaunewyddion, chwaraeon, tywydd a thraffig.

7.00 Dros Frecwast Y newyddion diweddaraf yng Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda Kate Crockett a Dylan Ebenezer.

9.00 Aled Hughes Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth, a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar feddwl pawb.

11.00 Bore Cothi Croeso cynnes dros baned gyda Shân Cothi.

1.00pm Dros Ginio

Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd, gan godi’r pynciau a gofyn y cwestiynau sy’n bwysig i chi.

EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk

Ffôn: 03703 500 500

2.00 Ifan Jones Evans Digon o gerddoriaeth, chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn ogystal â chystadleuaeth neu ddwy.

5.00 Post Prynhawn Newyddion y dydd yng

Nghymru a thu hwnt.

EBOST: postprynhawn@bbc.co.uk

6.00 Y Talwrn

Caernarfon a Thwtil yn cystadlu i gyrraedd y Ffeinal yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026. Darlledwyd Sul am 7pm

7.00 Mirain Iwerydd Cerddoriaeth newydd Cymru.

SATURDAY 6–FRIDAY 12 JUNE

9.00 Caryl

Cerddoriaeth a hwyl gyda’r hwyr gyda Caryl Parry Jones.

11.00 Y Clwb PJs Ymunwch â Caryl i ymlacio wrth wrando ar gerddoriaeth hudolus cyn cysgu.

12.00 gweler World Service

Iau

5.30am John Hardy

Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth ben bore, gyda bwletinau newyddion, chwaraeon, tywydd a thraffig.

7.00 Dros Frecwast Y newyddion diweddaraf yng Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda Kate Crockett a Dylan Ebenezer.

9.00 Aled Hughes Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth, a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar feddwl pawb.

11.00 Bore Cothi Croeso cynnes dros baned gyda Shân Cothi.

1.00pm Dros Ginio Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd, gan godi’r pynciau a gofyn y cwestiynau sy’n bwysig i chi.

EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk

Ffôn: 03703 500 500

2.00 Ifan Jones Evans Digon o gerddoriaeth, chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn ogystal â chystadleuaeth neu ddwy.

5.00 Post Prynhawn Newyddion y dydd yng Nghymru a thu hwnt.

EBOST: postprynhawn@bbc.co.uk Post Prynhawn, BBC Radio Cymru Canolfan y BBC, Bryn Meirion Bangor, LL57 2BY

6.00 Beti a’i Phobol Beti George yn sgwrsio gyda Iolo Eilian.

7.00 Ifan Davies Dwy awr o’r gerddoriaeth orau o fyd Ifan Davies a’r criw.

9.00 Caryl

Cerddoriaeth a hwyl gyda’r hwyr gyda Caryl Parry Jones.

11.00 Y Clwb PJs Ymunwch â Caryl i ymlacio wrth wrando ar gerddoriaeth hudolus cyn cysgu.

12.00 gweler World Service Gwener

5.30am John Hardy

Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth ben bore, gyda bwletinau newyddion, chwaraeon, tywydd a thraffig.

7.00 Dros Frecwast Y newyddion diweddaraf yng Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda Kate Crockett a Gwenllian Grigg.

9.00 Trystan ac Emma Cerddoriaeth ac adloniant gyda Trystan Ellis-Morris ac Emma Walford.

11.00 Bore Cothi Croeso cynnes dros baned gyda Shân Cothi.

1.00pm Dros Ginio

Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd, gan godi’r pynciau a gofyn y cwestiynau sy’n bwysig i chi.

EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk

Ffôn: 03703 500 500

2.00 Lisa Angharad

5.00 Post Prynhawn Newyddion y dydd yng Nghymru a thu hwnt.

6.00 Lauren Moore Cerddoriaethar gyfer nos Wener yng nghwmni Lauren Moore.

9.00 Ffion Emyr

Tair awr o gerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth yng nghwmni Ffion Emyr.

12.00 gweler World Service

Radio Cymru: 03703 500 500 (Codirprisiaudaearyddolsafonolam alwadauoffonausefydlogasymudol)

Rhif Testun: 67500 (Codir tal yn unol achyfradd costau eich rhwydwaith)

Ebost: radio.cymru@bbc.co.uk

Gwefan: bbc.co.uk/radiocymru

Radio Cymru 2

fel Radio Cymru ac eithrio: Sadwrn

7.00am—9.00 Sioe Frecwast: cerddoriaeth ac adloniant gyda Mel Owen

2.00pm Dewis: tiwns, tiwns, tiwns wedi eu dewis yn arbennig ar gyfer y penwythnos

3.00 Parti’r Penwythnos: tiwns trwy’r dydd, drwy’r penwythnos

5.00—5.30 Nôl i’r 90au: taith nôl i ddegawd y Spice Girls, Eden, Big Leaves ac Oasis

12.00—5.30am gweler BBC Radio 2 Sul

7.00am Sioe Frecwast: cerddoriaeth ac adloniant gyda Mirain Iwerydd

10.00 Traciau Radio Cymru 2: tiwns trwy’r dydd yn parhau ar Radio Cymru 2

6.00pmDewis:tiwnstrwy’rdydd yn parhau ar Radio Cymru 2

7.00—9.00 Gwyl Triban: Lisa Gwilym yn cyflwyno uchafbwyntiau gig nos Sul Gwyl Triban gydag artistiaid Sir Fôn. 12.00—7.00am gweler BBC Radio 2 Llun—Iau

7.00am—10.00 Sioe Frecwast: gyda Rhydian Bowen Phillips

9.30—10.00 Iau: Nôl i’r 90au: taith nôl i ddegawd y Spice Girls, Eden, Big Leaves ac Oasis

10.00—2.00pm Lisa Gwilym: Lisa Gwilym yn chwarae eich hoff fiwsig

1.30—2.00 Mercher: Rhestr ChwaraeLisa:Eto:rhestrchwarae llawn anthemau sy’n haeddu cael eu chware eto, ac eto, ac eto

5.00—7.00TraciauRadioCymru2: tiwns trwy’r dydd yn parhau ar Radio Cymru 2

7.00 Mawrth: Georgia Ruth: dewis eclectig o gerddoriaeth o gasgliad Georgia Ruth

12.00—7.00am gweler BBC Radio 2 Gwener

7.00am—9.00 Sioe Frecwast: gyda Molly Palmer

11.00—2.00pm Dom James: Dom James yn chwarae eich hoff fiwsig

5.00—6.00 Chwaraeon Radio Cymru: y dechrau gorau i’r penwythnosgydaRadioCymru2

Frequencies

National

BBC Radio 1 97.6—99.8

BBC Radio 2 88—90.2

BBC Radio 3 90.2—92.4

BBC Radio 4 92.4—94.6, 103.5—105, LW 198

BBC Radio 5 Live MW 693, 909, 990

Radio Cymru 92.4—96.1, 96.8, 103.5—105

Radio Cymru 2 This station only broadcasts on Freeview, satellite television, digital radio and the internet

BBC Radio Wales 93.9—95.9, 103.7, 103.9

BBC Radio Wales Extra MW 1125 (mid-Wales)

Classic FM 99.9—101.9

Talksport MW 1053, 1089 Absolute MW 1197, 1242, 1260 The above stations also broadcast via Freeview, satellite, cable, digital radio and the internet.

Local

BBC stations: Bristol 94.9 (Bristol), 103.6 (Severn), 104.6 (Bath) Gloucestershire 104.7 (Churchdown Hill), 95 (Stroud), 95.8 (Cirencester), MW 1413 Hereford and Worcester 94.7 (Hereford), 104 (Worcester & Gt Malvern), 104.6 (Kidderminster), MW 738, 1584 (Tenbury Wells) Somerset 95.5, MW 1566 Wiltshire 104.3 (west Wiltshire), 104.9 (Marlborough), 103.5 (Salisbury), 103.6 (Swindon)

Independent stations: Bay Radio 102.1 (Swansea) Bridge FM 106.3 (Bridgend/Vale of Glamorgan)

Capital 103.2 (Cardiff), 97.4 (Newport), 96.3 (north Wales Coast), 103.4 (Cheshire/north east Wales), 97.1 (Wirral), 103 (Anglesey) Music, news Carmarthenshire 97.1 (Carmarthenshire), 97.5 (Llanelli/ Carmarthen Town) Chester’s Dee 106.3 Freeradio 103.1 (Shropshire), 97.2 (Wolverhampton) Music, news, 97.6 (Hereford), 96.7 (Kidderminster), 102.8 (Worcester) Music Heart 88 (Wrexham), 103 (Bath/ Weston Super-Mare), 96.3 (Bristol), 102.2 (west Wiltshire), 102.4 (Gloucester/ Cheltenham), 102.6 (Somerset), 97.2 (Swindon), 105.2 (Abergavenny/Carmarthenshire), 105.4 (Cardiff), 105.9 (Aberdare), 105.7 (Colwyn Bay), 105.9 (Newport), 105.7 (Pembrokeshire), 106 (Swansea/Carmarthen), 106.1 (Ebbw Vale), 106.2 (Fishguard), 106.9 (Mold/Flint), 107.2 (Caernarfon/Anglesey), 107.3 (Rhyl/Prestatyn) Greatest Hits Radio

96.4 (Swansea), 100.8 (Porlock), 102 (Salisbury), 102.4 (west Somerset), 107.2 (Bristol), 107.4 (Telford/Wrekin), 107.5 (west Wiltshire), 107.5 (Gloucestershire), 107.7 (WestonSuper-Mare/north Somerset/ Swindon), 107.9 (Bath)

GTFM 107.9 Pontypridd, 100.7/107.1 Cynon Valley Kiss 101 (Severn Estuary), 97.2 (Bristol) Dance music, news

Nation Radio 106.8 (Cardiff), 107.3 (Swansea) Music, news Pembrokeshire 102.5, 107.5 (Fishguard/Tenby)

Radio Cardiff 98.7

Scarlet FM 97.5 (Llanelli)

Smooth 100.4 (north-west England); MW 1359 (south Wales), 1305 (Gwent), 1260 (north Wales/Cheshire/Bristol), 774 (Gloucester), 1161 (Swindon), 936 (West Wiltshire)

Dechreuwch y penwythnos gyda cherddoriaeth a hwyl yng nghwmni Lisa Angharad.

12.00—5.30am gweler BBC Radio 2

Sunshine 106.2 (Hereford), 107.8 (Leominster), 107 (Monmouth), MW 855 (south Shropshire)

Welsh Coast Radio 106.5 (West Swansea) Music, news

RADIO IN YOUR AREA

FACE BEHIND THE VOICE

LEANNE CAMPBELL

BBC RADIO MERSEYSIDE

AGE 45

CURRENT JOB

Has presented the mid-morning show (Friday, 10am—2pm) on BBC Radio Merseyside since 10 April. “To move over to the BBC and host a mid-morning show is completely different. I’m not waking people up. At 10 o’clock the phone lines are alight. Everybody’s ready to talk to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in our city. I love it.”

CV Born in Liverpool? “Of course I was! You can’t learn this accent!” She attended stage schools from the age of 10 and played the title role in Annie at the Liverpool Playhouse aged 12. While studying at John Moores University (2003—05) she was the breakfast host on Juice FM (2003—13) and Radio City, later Hits Radio (2014—25). “I took the whole of Radio City off air once. We had a puppy and, mid-link while I wasn’t looking at him, he bit through one of the main cables. I could hear crackling and I thought something had come loose, then listeners heard me scream before everything just collapsed.” She was also on the Hits Radio network’s Rock FM (2024—25). She has hosted the podcast The Ladies of Liverpool since 2018. “I was doing that podcast before it was trendy.” Since 2025 she has also co-hosted (with her former Radio City host Dave Kelly) Leanne and Dave’s Daily Dose. BEST MOMENTS “I broadcast throughout 2008, when Liverpool was Capital of Culture. That was wonderful.”

WORST MOMENT “The morning after poor Ava White was stabbed to death at the bottom of the Radio City tower in 2021. As a mum, that sort of thing changes you for ever.”

OFF AIR Lives in Liverpool with her husband Jay, who works for Liverpool City Council, and their children, Joseph, 16, and Annabelle, 12. “My family – typical Liverpool – are thick as thieves.”

FIRST RADIO MEMORY “Easy. Driving to school, singing along to Tony Snell, whose show I’m now doing on Fridays!”

FAVOURITE BROADCASTERS “The late, great Neal Atkinson. He was a joy to listen to, a joy to work with [on Juice FM].”

AMBITION/DREAM JOB “I would love to do some TV presenting, maybe for the BBC’s North West Tonight. And I’d love to have a B&B in Italy. We’ve made it our mission to go to a different place in Italy every year for the past 20 years.”

SECRET SKILLS “I’m a really top-notch mum. That’s what I’d like people to remember me for.”

Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiomerseyside

Saturday

RADIO ULSTER NEWS:

hourly 7.00am to 2.00pm, then 2.55, 4.00 and hourly to 11.00, then 11.55pm

6.30am Kerry McLean

The host presents a selection of music, chat and requests to ease listeners into the weekend. Including news at 7.00

Text: 81771

Email: kerry.mclean@bbc.co.uk

8.05 Your Place and Mine

Eve Blair presents the magazine programme, featuring the people, places and stories that make Northern Ireland unique.

Phone: 0289 033 8307

Email: ypam@bbc.co.uk

9.05 Gardeners’ Corner

The weekly programme for keen horticulturists with the latest advice, news and visits to gardens around the province.

Presented by David Maxwell.

Repeated tomorrow 4.05pm

Phone: 03030 80 55 55

10.05 Consumer Fight Back

The team of investigators get answers, right wrongs and make things better for consumers.

Email: cfb@bbc.co.uk

11.05 Saturday with John Toal

The presenter invites tales of family and community life. Plus a mix of recipes, craic and music. Including news at 12.00

Text: 81771

Phone: 03030 80 55 55

Email: swjt@bbc.co.uk

1.05pm The Mystery of Pirates: the Ship That Vanished

Ep3.WiththeUpnordisappearing on the horizon, the IRApirates scramble to find a tugboat to follow itoutto sea.They aregiven asliverofhopewhenaboatdocks in Cobh. Unaware of the delay, O’Hegarty makes his way to Ballycotton with a convoy of vehicles and hundreds of people awaiting the ship’s return.

Repeated tomorrow 1.05pm

1.15 Ep 4. If the pirates are to capture the Upnor, the captive captain, Jeremiah Collins, is their only hope. They change course and aim to cut the ship off before it reaches England. But if they succeed, are they prepared for the dangerous waters that await them at Ballycotton Harbour?

Repeated tomorrow 1.15pm

1.30 APerforated Ulster Ep 7. Sketch show with the Hole in the Wall Gang, taking a sideways look at current affairs.

Repeated tomorrow 1.30pm

2.05 Sportsound

Orla Bannon presents coverage of the Irish Premiership, with live commentary and reports.

4.05 The GAASocial Thomas Niblock and Oisín McConville discuss the latest stories making headlines in Gaelic Games. The pair travel to GAAclubs across Ireland, with no subject off-limits, and meet some of the most famous names in the sport.

5.05 Taylor Johnson

The host takes listeners through the decades, delivering dance, indie, hip-hop and electronic bangers from Britpop to big beat, with some forgotten classics. This is the home of the best indie and dance anthems released through the 1980s, 90s and 2000s to the present day.

7.05 BBC Introducing in Northern Ireland with Taylor Johnson

From rock to jazz to hip-hop, Taylor plays the new artists breaking through the BBC Music Introducing Uploader. bbc.co.uk/introducing 8.05 Folk Club

Folk and traditional music from Ireland and beyond. Presented by Neil Martin.

10.05 The Late Show with Mike Edgar

Ahand-picked mix of pop, jazz, folk, soul and more from across the eras.Including news at 11.00. 12.00 Long Player with Steven Rainey

Steven examines the musical journey from folk to unexplored territory undertaken by Joni Mitchell at the end of the 1970s.

Repeat Email: steven.rainey@bbc.co.uk

1.00am as Radio 5 Live

Sunday

hourly 7.00am to 11.00pm and 11.55pm

6.30am Kerry McLean

The host presents music, chat and requests to ease listeners into the morning. Including news at 7.00 and 8.00 and Thought for the Day at 7.55

Text: 81771

Email: kerry.mclean@bbc.co.uk

8.05 Sunday Sequence

Audrey Carville and guests debate the week’s religious and ethical news and explore the world of culture and ideas.

Phone: 0289 033 8355

Email: sunday.sequence@bbc.co.uk

9.05 Morning Service

Led by the Very Rev Dr Charles McMullen, formerly minister of BangorWestPresbyterianChurch.

9.45 Thought for the Week

Audrey Carville presents a selectionof clips fromlast week’s Thought for the Day.

10.00 Sunday Politics

Mark Carruthers looks at the political developments of the week and questions policy makers on the key issues.

10.30 The State of Us

Tara Mills and Declan Harvey unite away from the newsroom to reflect, rethink and react to stories that impact people’s lives. They hear from people living extraordinary lives and those who can help understand why current circumstances are the way they are.

Email: thestateofus@bbc.co.uk

11.05 Sunday with Anna Curran Anna introduces a mix of big interviews and conversation, lifestyle and entertainment. Plus the Sunday Songbook. With news at 12.00

1.05pm The Mystery of Pirates: the Ship That Vanished Ep3.WiththeUpnordisappearing on the horizon, the IRApirates scramble to find a tugboat to follow itoutto sea.They aregiven a sliver of hope when a boat docks in Cobh. Unaware of the delay, O’Hegarty makes his way to Ballycotton with a convoy of vehicles and hundreds of people awaiting the ship’s return. Repeated from yesterday 1.05pm

1.15 The Mystery of Pirates: the Ship That Vanished

Ep 4. If the pirates are to capture the Upnor, the captive captain, Jeremiah Collins, is their only hope. They change course and aim to cut the ship off before it reaches England. But if they succeed, are they prepared for the dangerous waters that await them at Ballycotton Harbour?

Repeated from yesterday 1.15pm

1.30 APerforated Ulster

Ep 7. Sketch show with the Hole in the Wall Gang, taking a sideways look at current affairs.

Repeated from yesterday 1.30pm

2.05 Long Player with Steven Rainey Steven delves into the records that have shaped and influenced people’s lives. Email: steven.rainey@bbc.co.uk

3.05 The Shuffle

8/10. Mike Edgar and Donna Legge introduce performances from U2 and “The Boss”, the Irish Tenors, Tony Bennett and new Bangor act the Florentinas. There’s also room for the Corrs and a contribution from Ioana Petchu, leader of the Ulster Orchestra — who talks through the magic of performing live alongside her peers.

Repeated from last Thursday

4.05 Gardeners’ Corner

The weekly programme for keen horticulturists with the latest advice, news and visits to gardens large and small around the province. Presented by David Maxwell.

Repeated from yesterday 9.05am

5.05 Sounds Sacred Richard Yarr introduces popular sacredmusic, includinglisteners’requests and news of music events across Northern Ireland.

6.05 Kintra

Helen Mark and the Kintra team present stories, news, music and banter from Ulster-Scots communities at home and abroad. Repeat Email: kintra@bbc.co.uk

6.30 The Van Club

Ep 8. Self-confessed “Vanoraks” Steven Cockroft and Ralph McLean dive into the life, work and achievements of Belfast troubadour Van Morrison.

7.05 Classical Connections with John Toal

The host presents an evening of popular classical music. Plus news, reviews and interviews withlocalandtouringperformers. Including news at 8.00

9.05 Sunday with Brian D’Arcy Brian delves into his wide experience of all sorts of music to bring listeners some tracks just right for a Sunday evening, along with reflections that will make them think, laugh or cry.

Contact:

Write to: Sunday with Brian D’Arcy, BBC Radio Ulster, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HQ

10.05 Sunday Club

Kathy Clugston plays a latenight selection of music designed to soothe away the problems of the past week. Including news at 11.00

Contact: Dedications to: The Sunday Club, BBC Radio Ulster, Broadcast House, Belfast BT2 8HQ 12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Monday RADIO ULSTER NEWS: half-hourly 6.30am to 9.30, hourly 10.00 to 11.00pm, plus 5.30pm, 11.55

6.30am Good Morning Ulster

With Sarah Brett and Joel Taggart, including travel updates and analysis of finance and business news, plus agribusiness in Farm Gate and a Thought for the Day at 7.20

Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

9.00 The Nolan Show

Breaking news and hard-hitting topical debate with Stephen Nolan. Listeners can share their views by phone, text or email. Including news at 10.00

Phone: 03030 80 55 55

Text: 81771

Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.30 Vinny and Cate Vinny Hurrell and Cate Conway present an entertaining mix of celebrity interviews, fun features and music designed to perk up the day. Plus the daily Answer Me This listeners’ quiz. Including news at 11.00

WhatsApp: 03030 805555

Email: AnswerMeThis@bbc.co.uk

12.05pm Talkback WilliamCrawley andtheTalkback team present news and invite listeners’ on-air reactions to the breaking stories of the day, from politics and health to consumer issues and education. Including news at 1.00

Phone: 03030 80 55 55

Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk/talkback

1.30 Hugo Duncan Country music old and new, plus the opportunity for listeners to submit requests by phone or text. Including news and travel at 2.00. Phone: 03030 80 55 55

Text: 81771

3.05 Connor Phillips Music, craic and stories designed to make listeners smile. Including news at 4.00

5.00 Evening Extra News, sport, traffic and weather reports, with Richard Morgan. Featuring news on the halfhour, plus regular sport, traffic and weather reports, and the latest agri-business.

6.05 Anne-Marie Wallace Musicandchatdesignedto bring joy to the teatime routine, along with features including What’s on Your Plate? and the Daily Dilemma.Includingnewsat7.00 WhatsApp: 03030 805555 Text: 81771 Email: amw@bbc.co.uk

7.30 Blas

Fearghal Mag Uiginn le súil siar ar aicsean spóirt dheireadh na seachtaine. Fearghal Mag Uiginn looks back at the weekend’s sporting action.

8.05 Ralph McLean Classic rock, soul, blues, pop, gospel, reggae and funk both old and new, from home and abroad, featuring live performance, interviews and more. Including news at 9.00

10.05 The Late Show with John Kerr Movie Monday, featuring cinematic music selections. Including news at 11.00 Email: lateshowwithjohn@bbc.co.uk 12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Tuesday

RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday

6.30am Good Morning Ulster

WithSarahBrettandChrisBuckler, including regular news, travel and sport updates and analysis of finance and business news and Thought for the Day at 7.20

Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

9.00 The Nolan Show

Breaking news and topical debate with Stephen Nolan. Listeners can share their views by phone, text or email. With news and travel at 10.00. Phone: 03030 80 55 55

Text: 81771

Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.30 Vinny and Cate

Vinny Hurrell and Cate Conway present an entertaining mix of celebrity interviews, fun features and music designed to perk up the day. Plus the daily Answer Me This listeners’ quiz. Including news at 11.00. WhatsApp: 03030 805555

Email: AnswerMeThis@bbc.co.uk

12.05pm Talkback

WilliamCrawley andtheTalkback team present news and invite listeners’ on-air reactions to all the breaking stories of the day, from politics and health to consumer issues and education. Including news at 1.00

Phone: 03030 80 55 55

Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk

bbc.co.uk/talkback

1.30 Hugo Duncan Country music old and new, plus the opportunity for listeners to submit requests by phone or text. Including news and travel at 2.00

Phone: 03030 80 55 55

Text: 81771

3.05 Connor Phillips

Music, craic and stories designed to make listeners smile. Including news at 4.00

5.00 Evening Extra News, sport, traffic and weather reports, with Richard Morgan. Featuring news on the halfhour, plus regular sport, traffic and weather reports, and the latest agri-business.

6.05 Anne-Marie Wallace Musicandchatdesignedto bring joy to the teatime routine, along with features including What’s on YourPlate?andtheDaily Dilemma.Including news at 7.00 WhatsApp: 03030 805555 Text: 81771

Email: amw@bbc.co.uk

7.30 Blas

Na himeachtaí ealaíne agus cultúir ar gá iad a fheiceáil agus a chluinstin.

Dáithí O Muirí keeps listeners up to date with all that’s happening in the arts. Repeat 8.05 Ralph McLean

Classic rock, soul, blues, pop, gospel, reggae and funk both old and new, from home and abroad, featuring live performance, interviews and more. Including news at 9.00

10.05 The Late Show with John Kerr

Amix of easy listening melodies. Songs from the head and heart keep good company with classic tracks and brand new tunes. Including news at 11.00. Email: lateshowwithjohn@bbc.co.uk 12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Wednesday

RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday

6.30am Good Morning Ulster

With Sarah Brett and Chris Buckler, including regular news, travel and sport updates and analysis of finance and business news and Thought for the Day at 7.20

Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

9.00 The Nolan Show

Breaking news and topical debate with Stephen Nolan. Listeners can share their views by phone, text or email. Including news and travel at 10.00

Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771

Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.30 Vinny and Cate Vinny Hurrell and Cate Conway present an entertaining mix of celebrity interviews, fun features and music designed to perk up the day. Plus the daily Answer Me This listeners’ quiz. Including news at 11.00 WhatsApp: 03030 805555 Email: AnswerMeThis@bbc.co.uk

12.05pm Talkback

William Crawley and the Talkback team present news and invite listeners’ on-air reactions to the breaking stories of the day, from politics and health to consumer issues and education.

Including news at 1.00

Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk/talkback

1.30 Hugo Duncan Country music old and new, plus the opportunity for listeners to submit requests by phone or text. Including news and travel at 2.00.

Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771

3.05 Connor Phillips

Alively mix of music, craic and stories to make listeners smile.

Including news at 4.00

5.00 Evening Extra News, sport, traffic and weather reports, with Richard Morgan. Featuring news on the halfhour, plus regular sport, traffic and weather reports, and the latest agri-business.

6.05 Anne-Marie Wallace Musicandchatdesignedto bring joy to the teatime routine, along with features including What’s on Your Plate? and the Daily Dilemma.Including news at 7.00 WhatsApp: 03030 805555 Text: 81771 Email: amw@bbc.co.uk

7.30 Blas

Caint agus comhrá faoi imeachtaí an tsaoil mhóir agus shaol an ghnáthlae. Máire Bhreathnach has all the latest news on local and international events and the issues of the day. Repeat

8.05 Ralph McLean: Country From the sounds of Nashville to new bluegrass, Ralph takes another journey into the world of American roots music, offering a selection of classic tracks, live performance and timeless Americana along the way. Including news at 9.00

9.55 Wah Yan Jee Sing Local information on health and social issues in Cantonese.

10.05 The Late Show with John Kerr

Amix of easy listening melodies. Songs from the head and heart keep good company with classic tracks and brand new tunes. Including news at 11.00

Email: lateshowwithjohn@bbc.co.uk

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Thursday

RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday

6.30am Good Morning Ulster

With Sarah Brett and Chris Buckler, including news, travel and sport updates and analysis of finance and business news and Thought for the Day at 7.20

Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

9.00 The Nolan Show Breaking news and topical debate with Stephen Nolan. Listeners can share their views by phone, text or email. With news and travel at 10.00

Phone: 03030 80 55 55

Text: 81771

Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.30 Vinny and Cate Vinny Hurrell and Cate Conway present a mix of celebrity interviews, features and music designed to perk up the day. PlustheAnswerMeThislisteners’ quiz. Including news at 11.00 WhatsApp: 03030 805555

Email: AnswerMeThis@bbc.co.uk

12.05pm Talkback

WilliamCrawley andtheTalkback team present news and invite listeners’ on-air reactions to the breaking stories of the day, from politics and health to consumer issues and education. Including news at 1.00

Phone: 03030 80 55 55

Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk/talkback

1.30 Hugo Duncan Country music old and new, plus the opportunity for listeners to submit requests by phone or text. Including news and travel at 2.00. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771

3.05 Connor Phillips

Music, craic and stories designed to make listeners smile. Including news at 4.00

5.00 Evening Extra

News, sport, traffic and weather reports, with Richard Morgan. Featuring news on the halfhour, plus regular sport, traffic and weather reports, and the latest agri-business.

6.05 Anne-Marie Wallace

Musicandchatdesignedto bring joy to the teatime routine, along with features including What’s on Your Plate? and the Daily Dilemma.Including news at 7.00

WhatsApp: 03030 805555 Text: 81771

Email: amw@bbc.co.uk

7.30 Blas

Dearcadh an duine óig ar ábhair a bhfuil spraoi ag baint leo agus ábhair níos troime.

Ayouthful view of lifestyle issues, travel, sport, beauty, fashion, cookery and much more. Presented by Caoimhe Ní Chathail.

8.05 Blas Ceoil

New releases, gig guide details and live acoustic sessions to keep listeners in touch with traditional, roots and folk music.

9.05 The Shuffle 9/10. Mike Edgar and Donna Legge introduce a sublime performanceby SinéadO’Connor with the Ulster Orchestra, Horslips at the Ulster Hall, a young Elbow in session and Therapy? covering Rudi. Repeat 10.05 The Late Show with John Kerr

Amix of easy listening melodies. Songs from the head and heart keep good company with classic tracks and brand new tunes. Including news at 11.00

Email: lateshowwithjohn@bbc.co.uk

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Friday

RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday

6.30am Good Morning Ulster

With Chris Buckler and Joel Taggart, including news, travel and sport updates and analysis of finance and business news and Thought for the Day at 7.20 Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

9.00 The Nolan Show

News and debate with Stephen Nolan. Listeners can share their views by phone, text or email. With news and travel at 10.00

Phone: 03030 80 55 55

Text: 81771

Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.30 Vinny and Cate Vinny Hurrell and Cate Conway present a mix of celebrity interviews, features andmusic designedtoperkuptheday.Plus the daily Answer Me This quiz. Including news at 11.00 WhatsApp: 03030 805555

Email: AnswerMeThis@bbc.co.uk

11.30 The Mystery Mix Tape with Vinny and Cate Vinny Hurrell and Cate Conway challenge listeners — and each other — to search through the musicmemory bankstocorrectly identify the year in question.

12.05pm Talkback

William Crawley and the Talkback team present news and invite listeners’ on-air reactions to all the breaking stories of the day, from politics and health to consumer issues and education.Withnews at 1.00 Phone: 03030 80 55 55

Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk/talkback

1.30 Hugo Duncan

Country music old and new, plus the opportunity for listeners to submit requests by phone or text.Withnewsandtravelat2.00

Phone: 03030 80 55 55

Text: 81771

3.05 Connor Phillips

Alively mix of music, craic and stories to make listeners smile.

4.05 Mobile Disco with Connor Phillips Connor Phillips introduces 30 minutes of the biggest anthems to help round off the working week.

5.00 Evening Extra News, sport, traffic and weather reports, with Richard Morgan. Featuring news on the halfhour, plus regular sport, traffic and weather reports, and the latest agri-business.

6.05 The Ticket

Kathy Clugston previews upcoming cultural attractions, from blockbuster movies to comedy gigs.

7.05 Stephen McCauley

Alternative music from punk to electronica from home and abroad, featuring live performance, interviews and more. Including news at 8.00 and 9.00

10.05 The Late Show with Mickey Bradley

Amix of rock, pop and new releases. Including news at 11.00

12.00 Inna Rhythm with Kwame Daniels

Ep 3. Vinyl collector and DJ Kwame Daniels spins disco to boogie, electronica to Afrobeat and jazz to funk. Plus a musical guide to special moments and memories. Repeat

1.00am as Radio 5 Live BBC Northern Ireland

Broadcasting House Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HQ 02890 338 000 Phone-in 0845 955 5678

RADIO FOYLE

As Radio Ulster except:

Weekdays

8.30am, then hourly 9.00 to 3.00pm

6.30am Good Morning Ulster

With Mon: Sarah Brett and Joel Taggart; Tue—Thu: Sarah Brett and Chris Buckler; Fri: Chris Buckler and Joel Taggart.

Including regular news, travel and sport updates and analysis of finance and business news and Thought for the Day at 7.20

8.00—9.00 North West Today News, sport and weather.

12.05pm

The Mark Patterson Show

Alook at issues affecting the daily lives of people in the north-west of Northern Ireland.

1.00 North West at One Lunchtime round-up of the day’s local, national and international news stories.

1.10—1.30 20 Minutes with Mark Patterson

Asnapshot of life in the north-west of Northern Ireland.

3.05—4.00 Sean Coyle

The host aims to brighten up the day with music and chat, plus listeners from across the region are invited to phone in with their requests and dedications.

Mon—Thu: 4.00—4.05 News Mon—Thu: 4.05—5.00

Connor Phillips

Music, craic and stories designed to make listeners smile. Including news at 4.00 Mon: 8.05pm—10.00

Caschlár

An-réimse ceoil ó phop go fréamh á chur le chéile agus á chur i láthair ag Brian Mullen. Brian Mullen presents a wide-ranging mix of music, including pop, blues and soul. Including news at 9.00. Fri: 7.30pm—10.00

Foyle Sportsound

Derry City v Bohemians, the Premier Division match from Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium (kick-off 7.45).

Dessie McCallion presents, with commentary from Eric White and Liam Coyle.

BBC Radio Foyle, 8 Northland Road Londonderry BT48 7GD Tel: 02871 266 522

Frequencies

National

BBC Radio 1

FM 97.9—99.7

BBC Radio 2

FM 88.3—90.1

BBC Radio 3

FM 90.5—92.3

BBC Radio 4

93.2 (Ballycastle), 93.2 (Carnmoney Hill), 94 (Limavady), 94.9 (Londonderry), 95.6 (Brougher Mountain), 96 (Belfast), 103.5 (Larne), 103.9 (Rostrevor Forest/ Kilkeel), 104.6 (Camlough), (R4 FM cannot be heard in some parts of N Ireland) LW 198

BBC Radio 5 Live MW 693, 909

BBC Radio Foyle FM 93.1

BBC Radio Ulster FM 92.7—95.4

RTE Radio 1 FM 87.8—90.0, LW 252 RTE 2FM 90.4—92.2, 97 RTE Raidió na Gaeltachta 92.6—94.4, 102.7

RTE Lyric FM 97.8—99.6, 92.2, 95.2, 96.7, 102.2

Classic FM 99.9—101.9 (not Freeview) Talksport MW 1053, 1089 Absolute MW 1215

Today FM FM 105.5

All the above stations are also broadcast via Freeview, satellite, cable, digital radio and the internet.

Local

Cool FM 97.4 Music, news and sport Downtown FM 102.3 (Ballymena), 96.6 (Omagh/ Enniskillen), 97.1 (Larne), 96.4 (Limavady), 102.4 (Londonderry), 103.4 (Newcastle), 103.1 (south Newry), MW 1026 (Belfast) Music, news

Q FM 96.7 (Belfast), 102.5 (Bangor), 102.5 (Carrickfergus), 102.9 (North West), 97.2 (North Coast), 97.6 (Ballycastle), 107.0 (Mid Antrim), 107.6 (Larne), 106.0 (Mid Ulster), 107.2 (Dungannon), 106.3 (Maghera), 101.2 (Tyrone/Fermanagh), 102.1 (Enniskillen), 100.5 (Newry & Mourne), 101.1 (Kilkeel), 101.1 (Newcastle)

Open 7 days a week

EAST OF ENGLAND

Braintree, CM77 7AT

Ipswich, IP3 9SQ

Norwich, NR2 4UX

Peterborough, PE1 2FG

Stevenage, SG1 1XZ

LONDON & SOUTH EAST

Camberley, GU17 0AA

Canterbury, CT1 3RH

Croydon, CR0 3EU

Hayes, UB2 5BE

Maidstone, ME15 6HA

Milton Keynes, MK12 6HS

Oxford, OX4 2TZ

Romford, RM3 0BX

MIDLANDS

Brierley Hill, DY5 1HR

Coventry, CV6 4QY

Leicester, LE1 1SH

Lincoln, LN2 4ZS

Nottingham, NG2 1AH

Stoke, ST6 4SE

NORTH

Chester, CH1 4LT

Hull, HU10 6RJ

Leeds, LS12 1EF

Leeds Outlet, LS25 4DY

Newcastle, NE21 5TR

Preston, PR2 6NY

Sheffield, S6 2HH

Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 2LR

Warrington, WA5 7YF

York, YO30 4AB

SOUTH COAST

Bournemouth, BH21 7PT

Brighton, BN15 0JQ

Eastbourne, BN24 5BS

Southampton, SO16 9GJ

SOUTH WEST

Bristol, BS34 6FB

Cheltenham, GL51 9LX

Exeter, EX2 8QX

Plymouth, PL7 1SR

SCOTLAND

Glasgow, G42 9JD

WALES

Cardiff, CF11 8AQ Swansea, SA7 9EH

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has billionaires in his sights – as well as sugar-coated broccoli

IHAVE VERY BRIEFLY met one,” confesses author and broadcaster

Andrew Hunter Murray. “There was a… they were having… do you know, I think I signed an NDA [non-disclosure agreement] at the time so this conversation might mean they sue me and my new book ends up making a massive net loss. But I was doing a Jane Austenthemed comedy show at a private party and we didn’t realise who had made the booking. They’re not like us.”

He’s talking about billionaires. “It’s almost impossible to remain normal when you’ve spent your life working on making these huge amounts of money. Your time is so valuable in your own mind that you can’t do anything normal, like play Scrabble online for two hours. I mean, that’s normal, right?”

The 39-year-old has just stepped out of a writers’ meeting for satirical Radio 4 show The Naked Week, where he and his colleagues have been looking for a new take on billionaire Donald Trump’s war with Iran. “It’s quite hard to come up with anything more outrageous than what the real news characters are actually doing,” he shrugs.

“When the American Secretary for Defence becomes the Secretary of War, and he’s a former Fox News host, that’s something that would have been thought of in the 1980s as a bit crass for a satire on the future. And yet here we are. But Private Eye [Murray also hosts their Page 94 podcast] and The Naked Week are still going, and I’ll keep writing

AUTHOR Andrew Hunter Murray (below) has written Bad Deeds, a second novel featuring his comic anti-hero, Alex

books that make fun of whatever situation we’re in.”

We last met Murray on these pages four years ago to discuss his second novel The Sanctuary – a dystopian pageturner that took in, yes, billionaires and the warping efect of extreme wealth –but since then the engaging and workaholic social commentator has also delivered a third, A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering, and now, in the same series, Bad Deeds. The corrupting efects of wealth are still to the fore but seen within a larger geo-political context.

“One thing we’ve all become aware of recently is the importance of critical minerals to the whole world. We probably weren’t aware of that 10 years ago. The future is going to be shaped by the luck of the draw and what minerals and supplies are where, so I wanted to have the prospect of discovering a gold mine as an element in this latest book because

people are very good at suddenly behaving badly when they spot a huge advantage – and then justifying it to themselves. It’s the eternal human comedy and you get it at either end of the income spectrum. You know, billionaires do it and so do people who are broke.”

WHICH BRINGS US rather neatly to Alex, the anti-hero of both A Beginner’s Guide and Bad Deeds. A former housebreaker/squatter of luxury premises who has (temporarily) gone straight, he’s described by his creator as “a particular kind of British comic hero”. For this instalment, “Alex has a job breaking into people’s houses and offices legally,” says Murray. “It’s a real job and I spoke to lots of the people who do this for a living in the name of research. Believe it or not, they’re called ‘Penetration Testers’. It’s a perfect job for Alex as he tries to get ahead. He’s doing really well. He’s got a job, a flat and a girl-

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friend, then finds himself dumped, sacked and evicted all in one evening, and can’t resist stealing one last job from his ex-employers in revenge. It unravels from there.” As readers will discover, this is something of an understatement.

“I’m very straight-edge,” smiles Murray. “I would never break into anyone else’s home, so for me it’s a bit of escapism to write this character who is able to get into these places and get into trouble. But the aim with almost

everything I do is to try to say something meaningful while making it entertaining enough that you’re not worried about the meaningfulness. I call it sugarcoated broccoli. That’s my career mantra. I want to get it made as a neon sign to put above my desk.”

The “broccoli” in Bad Deeds covers ground as various as what it feels like to have no sense of purpose in your 20s, the housing crisis, the power of big landowners and who really owns the fabric of Britain today. Beyond the gripping, fastpaced narrative, the “sugar” could soon be arriving in the form of a small-screen adaptation of the series (a third book is already in the pipeline).

“Like everything in that world, it takes a very long time, but I think it’s just been optioned for TV,” reveals Murray. “I’m hopeless at fantasy casting,” he laughs. “But if Alex is played by anyone other than Timothée Chalamet I’ll be disappointed!” BILL BORROWS

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GARDENING

WE’RE ALL FAMILIAR with the common foxglove, the native Digitalis purpurea with its tall spires of purple, pink and white tubular flowers, which seems to spring up from nowhere and grow up to two metres. The speckles on their bell-like flowers act as landing lights to guide in pollinating bees, and the extended lower lip forms the perfect landing pad, brilliantly designed by nature!

There are loads more digitalis to explore, though: 22 species in total, plus many hybrids and cultivars that continue the season nicely right through to late summer. Digitalis x Mertonensis “Summer King” reaches up to 90cm and has flowers the colour of crushed strawberries in June and July. After that, the ochred D ferruginea (rusty foxglove) does its thing and looks spot-on when used as a vertical brushstroke through soft grasses. It’s native to Turkey so prefers a sunny spot. D parviflora “Milk Chocolate” is part of the late show and is fabulous, flowering around September when its bronze-red flowers work beautifully alongside the late summer tints.

MOST DIGITALIS ARE biennial, so germinating and growing rosettes of leaves in their first year and flowering in their second. Some will behave like short-lived perennials,

DIGITALIS D G S LI

The common foxglove and its colourful counterparts are some of nature’s best designed blooms, says JOE SWIFT

WORK OF ART

D parviflora “Milk Chocolate” puts on a show in September

BIENNIAL BEAUTIES

Main: Digitalis purpurea. Inset top left: D ferruginea (rusty foxglove)

coming up and flowering again for a few years. If you want foxglove flowers every year, sow seeds or plant potted plants a couple of years in a row; if content, they’ll freely multiply to get a good succession going. Their tiny seeds can hang around dormant in the soil for years until the conditions are just right (with a degree of light and moisture), which is why they often pop up out of nowhere where conditions change,

such as a tree being felled or woodland being cleared.

You can buy potted plants to pop in now, or lift some from your neighbours – with their consent, of course – where they’ve self-seeded around.

If you’re growing from seed (which is far cheaper) for flowering next year, sow a little later in summer or early autumn directly in the ground, or sow in pots to plant out early next spring.

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PLANT A JASMINE

Who doesn’t love the smell of jasmine?

On a summer’s evening a single plant can fill a small garden with its heady perfume

● WHERE TO PLANT Most jasmines like plenty of sun and well-drained soils. As climbers, they will need a framework: think trellis, wires or an arch or pergola to twine onto.

● WHICH TYPE

Jasminum officinale (common jasmine). Great for growing over a pergola or shed, or disguising an ugly south- or west-facing wall. Grows up to 8m. Jasminum officinale “Devon Cream”. A fabulous plant, reaching 3m in height and spread. They are a little larger and are highly scented. Jasminum polyanthum (many-flowered jasmine). Sold by

GOING GREEN

florists grown on hoops and often discarded after. Not reliably hardy but many have survived mild winters, so it’s worth a go. Height and spread 3m. Trachelospermum jasminoides (star jasmine). Not technically a jasmine but evergreen and tidy. Height 9m x spread 6m but easily kept smaller.

● HOW TO MAINTAIN

The trick is to keep them in check and within the allotted space, so prune after flowering every year. If it’s out of control and you need to prune hard to tame it, do this in autumn, but you’ll lose flowers the following year.

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A SLOW BOAT TO HEAVEN

Angela Rippon may have cruised the Mekong on 5, but ED GRENBY discovered adventure on the water closer to home

I’M NOT SAYING this pub’s steak-and-ale pie is better than the 12th-century temple complex of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, but put it this way: as I make the first incision through its perfectly flaky crust, and the aroma of beef and Hook Norton bitter mixes with the honeysuckle at the pub garden’s wild edges, and I gaze contentedly out across Oxfordshire’s gently-flowing River Cherwell, I’ve no burning desire to be beside the Mekong instead.

I mention the comparison merely because you may have been watching Angela Rippon’s River Cruises on 5 for the past few weeks, and somehow formed the opinion that for a memorable waterborne jaunt only the Mekong – or Danube – will do. But that would be to overlook Britain’s own brilliant tangle of canals and navigable rivers, and the truly world-class holiday you can have on them

and a smart little sitting/dining area that somehow also found space for a 32in flatscreen TV

Me, I’d never so much as dipped a toe in any of them until two months ago, but that didn’t seem to deter narrowboat specialists Black Prince (black-prince. com) from entrusting me with one of their 65ft long, 6ft 10in wide beauties. It may not have had the multiple restaurants, spa and swimming pool of Rippon’s ride – Angela cruised with six-star Scenic (scenic.co.uk), just in case you insist on following her down the Danube – but it did come with a proper king-size bed, a couple of singles, two separate shower rooms, a full galley

A quick lesson in steering, mooring, knots, locks – and, just as crucially, what can and can’t go down the toilets – and I was let loose, roaring out of the base at speeds of up to… 3mph. Narrowboats do not go fast, it turns out, and the speed limit on UK canals is a molassespace 4mph. The crew of my craft –my two sons, aged 12 and 15 – were initially horrified by this, but soon came to love the freedom it gave them. While the boat chugged unhurriedly on, they could hop on and off at will, strolling the towpath alongside, darting off to explore waterside villages (and their snacking opportunities), nipping up ahead to open locks, or just loafing on our open prow, safe in the knowl-

Angela Rippon

edge that they were 65ft from my prying ears while I was at the stern, steering. (I generously let them have a go themselves, when I needed to pop down into the galley for another beer.)

DRIVING THE GREAT steel beast isn’t particularly onerous – though there were a few tell-tale scrapes in the paintwork by the end of our week. Mostly these were the result of my getting distracted by the landscape while at the tiller. Black Prince has nine bases across England, Scotland and Wales, but I’d chosen Lower Heyford, where the Oxford Canal and River Cherwell share a course, and there are multiple route options. Not a half-mile passed without a sigh-inducingly satisfying view: sun glittered on water, furball ducklings waggled behind their mothers, dragonflies floated among reeds, wildflower-speckled meadows and church spires scrolled into view around every bend

The journey was punctuated by pub lunches and picnics on grassy banks,

AT THE HELM RT’s Ed Grenby on his canal boat, above. Below:

the best spots picked out by the winningly idiosyncratic Pearson’s Canal Companion (Pearson has written a guidebook for pretty much every stretch in the country). In fact, the pace only picked up a little when we moored in Oxford for a couple of nights: the sudden bustle felt strange, though the boys loved the bonkers Pitt Rivers Museum (prm.ox.ac.uk), the cavernous “secret” underground bookshop at Blackwell’s on Broad Street, and the general, pervading Harry Potter/His Dark Materials vibe Leaving town, we dropped neatly into the Thames and a dilemma. Turning left would take us to Windsor Castle and Hampton Court; turning right, to such slightly-less-world-famous names as, um, Bablock Hythe. We chose the road less paddled, and were glad of it: heading west, along a narrowing and pleasingly meandering Thames, we got village pubs instead of palaces, farm stalls instead of castles – and the pure delight of having nowhere in particular we needed to get to.

And that, really, was what we all loved about our week on the canal. We went, arbitrarily, as far as Newbridge (a tiny hamlet consisting of one gorgeous 13th-century bridge and two terrific boozers) before turning round and heading back to Lower Heyford. We could have driven between the two in 34 minutes, says Google, instead of the full week we spent on the water, but then we’d have missed out on all that gazing into the middle distance while the countryside unspooled slowly around us.

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SAVINGS: IT’S A TAXING QUESTION

As more people get dragged into paying tax on savings interest, PAUL LEWIS has advice on how to protect your pennies

THE INTEREST paid on savings continues to edge up. At the momentyoucan get more than 4.5% interest, fixed for a year, on a savings account – and nearly as much on easy-access accounts, too. But the amount of interest you can earn tax-free has not been raised for ten years. So more and more people will find they are charged tax on their interest.

HMRC figures show that the tax paid on savings interest by basicrate taxpayers was nearly half a

pay higher-rate tax, while people paying the top rate of 45% get no savings allowance at all. You only need around £21,000 in a top-paying account to reach that basic rate limit. However, there is also a separate tax-free savings allowance if your other income is below £17,570. Any savings interest on top of your other income up to that total will be free of income tax, and the £1,000 allowance applies on top of that.

The easiest way to avoid income tax on your savings is to put them into a cash ISA. You can put up to £20,000 every tax year into one, though that limit will fall to £12,000 per year from April 2027 for people under the age of 65.

Ibillion pounds in 2025/26. That’s almost three times the amount they paid in 2022. So it is more important than ever to protect as much of your interest as you can from tax.

Since 2015 there has been a personal savings allowance of £1,000 for basic-rate taxpayers. Which means the first £1,000 of interest a year is tax-free – though the allowance is just £500 if you

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16 Small dish lost outside hospital (7)

18 Nurse (no jeans) goes over to TV actress (7,5)

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22 Too cheerful to cross thrower’s line (4)

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7 Washington’s long sleeper? (3,3,6)

9 Railway buff teaches clay worker (12)

13 In tip’s direction is relevant (2,3,5)

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17 Clever number first for game show (7)

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21 Wise person finds energy following slump (4)

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The earliest record found to date of the word golf is in an Act of Parliament passed by James II, in which he attempted to ban the sport in favour of archery. The sport’s name is likely to be a legacy of the Vikings and the Old Norse word kólfr, meaning a stick or club.

Golf has a rich lexicon when it comes to scoring. A birdie comes from the use of bird to describe something good, as in, “That’s a bird of a shot”. Eagle, albatross and condor

1 Which Asian peninsula is divided into two countries – North and South – by a demilitarised zone close to the 38th Parallel?

2 What pop music-themed panel game, originally broadcast on BBC television from 1996 to 2015, was, for the first nine years, hosted by Mark Lamarr?

3 A ship that is registered in a foreign country to take advantage of certain benefits, such as less restrictive regulations or lower charges, is said to sail under a ‘flag of... ‘ what?

4 Protanopia and deuteranopia are forms of what sensory condition?

5 Which American golfer became the oldest winner of a Major title when he

followed the theme. In the late 19th century, the Bogey Man was a character in a British dancehall song, I’m the Bogey Man, Catch Me If You Can. In golf, the number of shots a good player should take to complete each hole was standardised at the end of the 19th century, and the system was trialled at a contest at Great Yarmouth. One player described the target score as “a regular Bogey man” and the name has stuck ever since.

won the US PGA Championship at the age of 50 in May 2021?

6 In the 1938 film Bringing Up Baby, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, what species of big cat is Baby?

7 The Neapolitan Quartet series of novels, written in Italian and first published between 2011 and 2014, were written under what pseudonym?

8 In 2014, Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer as CEO of what major American technology company?

9 What name is given to the fortified towers built around the coast of Britain in the early 19th century to guard against a possible French invasion?

10 When Boris Johnson married Carrie Symonds in 2021, he became the first Prime Minister to wed while in office since which Tory incumbent in 1822?

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AN OWN GOAL

Sadly, another show has fallen foul of the determination of Alex Kay-Jelski, the head of BBC Sport, to banish well-loved and popular sport programmes from the BBC. Football Focus now joins A Question of Sport and the University Boat Races on the scrapheap, leaving behind a legacy of many years of professional broadcasting giving pleasure to millions of people.

A very sad trend has developed within BBC sports broadcasting; popular demand and tradition seem to count for nothing in this digital-obsessed world.

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BACK OF THE NET

I must congratulate the fantastic job by the editing team of the TV adaptation of Dear England (iPlayer). I saw the play at the National Theatre and thought it so clever how the football matches were represented on screen, but I wondered how it could possibly be translated to TV. The editing

MATTHEW BIGGS

1960–2026

Gardeners’ Question Time

stalwart Matt Biggs made his final appearance the Friday before his death on 21 May. “Biggsy”, as he was known to everyone on GQT, had been a panellist since 1994. “Listeners loved to hear his passionate advice and knowledge,” says producer Dan Cocker. “When you listened to Matt describe the colour of a rose, you couldn’t help but fall in love with him.”

One of the high points of Biggs’s career came when Cocker took him to visit Michael Palin’s home. “Matt got on well with

of real footage with the fictional team was brilliant and added much to this version. Well done all!

Natalie Hartley Tring, Hertfordshire

MUCH IN STORE

I’ve just been watching Channel 5’s The High Street Shops We Loved and Lost, which for me, now in my 90s, was such a nostalgic experience. However, I couldn’t understand why – although much was made of the fact that Debenhams was many years older than C&A – there was no mention of its former long-term partner, Freebody. The emporium in London’s Wigmore Street was known as Debenham & Freebody, until eventually they split, when Freebody left the partnership. This misrepresentation leaves me wondering how much else the programme might have missed.

Brenda Young London NW7

SATISFYING FINISH

Another great series of Race across the World (BBC iPlayer).

Michael’s wife, Helen. She put him in touch with a friend who would benefit from his advice. The friend was Olivia Harrison, and the garden had belonged to her late husband, George.”

Knowing Cocker was a Beatles fan, Biggs brought him a plant from George’s garden – “with permission, of course”. SIMON O’HAGAN

CHELSEA IN BLOOM Flower Show team

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PLANTING THE SEED OF AN IDEA

The Chelsea Flower Show has been lovely again this year and the BBC coverage was sumptuous. I was lucky enough to go to the show and came home with an ambitious plant list and seeds that need 90 days in the fridge before sowing. I’m retired and time-rich, but many folk will have almost zero time or expertise to give to a garden, yet still want to enjoy attractive greenery. Mainstream channels don’t seem to offer the horticultural equivalent of delicious, healthy meals in minutes, ie advice on low-maintenance planting, and plants to avoid because they’re over-thirsty or bad for wildlife. We’d welcome quick fixes, and presenters that don’t look like a grandparent. Social media is bursting with gardening hacks – isn’t there a place for public service broadcasting to offer the same?

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Such honesty, perseverance and positivity shown by all the contestants, and it was a real achievement that they completed the race. The last few episodes were particularly fascinating as they travelled through beautiful countries that I know so little about –a real eye-opener.

Claire Gillett High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire We’ve received lots of letters from readers who’ve shared their enjoyment of this series.

CLOUD COVERAGE

Why does Radio 4 even bother with weather forecasts? Invariably, they’re squeezed into less than two minutes before the on-thehour news broadcast. And Scotland occupies barely a few seconds before the pips, often reduced to the “Far North”, confirming the rather geo-centric view of

Gary O’Donoghue chose his discs

the British Isles from the “Deep South”. There was a time when weather forecasts were afforded a respectable time slot of five minutes before the hour with interviews finishing punctually at that time.

Whither the weather or wither the weather?

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ISLAND LIFE

Interesting, inspiring, moving. I was delighted to hear Gary O’Donoghue share the story of his early life, education and career in broadcasting on Desert Island Discs (22 May Radio 4). What a trooper and what a life!

Dinah Ashcroft Alresford, Hampshire

CASTAWAY

JUDITH CHALMERS

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Long before Angela Rippon or Zoe Ball, Judith Chalmers was a pioneering and often underrated broadcaster who began her career at the BBC in the 1950s. She brought glamour to Come Dancing in the 60s without overshadowing the contestants, and travelled the world on Wish You Were Here…? while never making the programme about herself. Warm, gracious and professional, she was truly loved and one of the first women who made the worlds of television and radio far richer by her presence.

Paul Dawson Solihull

MANGLED WORDS

All announcers need to know the pronunciation of Plaid Cymru is “plide cumree”. The reporter on Radio 4’s Profile (24 May) didn’t get it right – unfortunate, as she was profiling Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru.

Andrea Jarman Cardiff

...I was staggered to hear gardening presenters at Chelsea, and even a grower, talking about “an enemy” growing. The word is “anemone”.

Wendy Greene Worthing, West Sussex

...When will BBC presenters pronounce “lido” correctly as “leedo” as in the Italian from which it comes eg Venice Lido?

Rosemary Bentley Englefield Green, Surrey

CAST OF 86

Barbara Flynn, David Troughton, Graham Crowden and Peter Davison in A Very Peculiar Practice

HERCULEAN ERROR?

I’ve just read that the BBC is planning to remake Agatha Christie’s Poirot stories for next year. Why? It’s hard to imagine that the definitive ITV series starring David Suchet can be bettered, yet the proposed writer, Benji Walters, apparently can and has “breathed new life into the Belgian detective”. Does this mean that Poirot acquires a husband as he and Hastings finally get married? The BBC’s “little grey cells” would be better directed to commissioning original drama than attempting to copy ITV’s past triumphs.

DEFINITIVE

David Suchet’s Poirot

Len Teff Syresham, Northamptonshire

The BBC has yet to confirm reports that it has committed to three series featuring the Belgian detective, to air in 2027.

ON AIR From left: on BBC radio in 1957 and 1990, and on the RT cover in 1963

GOOD COMPANY

What a treat to see A Very Peculiar Practice (iPlayer) being repeated on BBC Four and to watch some wellrespected actors in their younger days. I thought the ghastly Dr Bob Buzzard had a familiar voice, and sure enough the actor David Troughton has mellowed into The Archers’ Tony Archer. Nice to know he has left the rat race for semi-retirement in Ambridge. Having seen the wonderful Barbara Flynn reminds me of ITV’s The Beiderbecke Trilogy from the 1980s. Surely that’s ripe for a repeat too?

Lorraine Hardiman Daventry, Northamptonshire

LATE TO BED?

While every parent is trying to limit screen time for infants, the BBC airs ads for the return of Balamory between 5 and 7pm, just when children are getting ready for bed. I can hear them screaming, “I want Balamory,” and how do you say, “This is not your streaming time, dear,” to a two-year-old? Or is the BBC aiming at an older audience for CBeebies like me at 78?! Christine Potter Windsor, Berkshire

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A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW

WHOEVER COMES ALONG to fill the shoes, there are certain shows that will always be associated with one broadcasting lion: Eamonn Andrews on This Is Your Life, Terry Wogan hosting the Radio 2’s Breakfast Show, Cilla Black on Blind Date So Matthew Parris was under no illusions when he was asked to replace Brian Walden at the helm of Weekend World, 40 years ago this week “Weekend World was Brian Walden,” Parris remembers today of his predecessor. “He absolutely inhabited the programme. He was so memorable, he was almost a caricature. So when I was approached to follow him, I realised I was taking over from one person.”

In June 1986, Parris was the Conservative MP for West Derbyshire, but very ready for a change of career. “When I was approached by LWT, I asked if I was the first they’d asked. Turned out they’d asked Chris Patten and Bryan Gould, who’d both said no. Various opportunities for promotion had not come my way and I was offered twice the salary of an MP. It was made clear I would have to resign as an MP, but I was in a rut on the backbench, so I thought, let’s try something different.”

Walden wasn’t the first host of the Sunday lunchtime political interview show – Peter Jay presented from 1972 to 1977 – but Parris is the first to agree his task was akin to taking over from Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford: “It was a programme whose whole format – that of a single hour-long interview with one guest – was becoming obsolete, and was being kept going by the talent of one person. Unless they could find somebody equally singular, it wasn’t going to work. I don’t think it was entirely my fault. I wasn’t a giant like Brian Walden.”

In the two years that Parris sat in the presenter’s chair, there was one noticeable absence from his guest list – Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who, according to him, never forgave her former researcher for giving up his Parliamentary seat and causing a by-election with all its ensuing effort and expenditure. “In her view that was unpardonable,” remembers Parris. “She never said so, but it was clear she wouldn’t come on Weekend World, which meant we’d always be without the PM.”

The discussion programme finished in 1988, but has enjoyed a recent postscript, with James Graham’s TV drama Brian and Maggie. Was Parris surprised by its revelations, including the latenight drinks shared by premier and interlocuter between TV bouts? “That astonished me,” he admits. “Half the people I spoke to after it aired told me, ‘Everybody knew,’ while the other half thought as I did, which was, ‘Good God, how unprofessional.’”

WEEKEND WORLD BELONGS to a bygone era – what’s the nearest equivalent now? Parris says firmly: “There isn’t one. Podcasts are conversations and they’re great, but Weekend World included a 20-minute study of what we would discuss, before the guest even appeared. It was in part educational. It was a great idea, but people don’t have the attention span now. What we did learn was that you can get a great deal more from someone in a friendly interview than a hostile one. You need to take time to put someone at ease, and that’s what Brian Walden did.” CAROLINE FROST

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‘WHEN YOU RETIRE, IT’S CHALLENGING’

The TV pundit and ex-England star on the joy of Strictly and her new football family

What’s the view from your sofa?

The TV is on the wall. I’ve got a big sofa, but I’ve got a bizarre habit of being all squidged up right at the end. Then I wonder why my neck hurts…

What do you watch when you’re all squidged up?

I started the second series of Running Point and I just watched The Other Bennet Sister, which was really cool. I’m a huge fan of Peaky Blinders; I’ve seen The Immortal Man five times. I tend to binge watch, so I could never start a series when I was in the England camp because I knew I’d end up sitting in my room till 4am. But if I get annoyed with a series, I’ll stop immediately.

Even if you’re near the end of the whole show?

Yes! I stopped watching The Great when Peter III [Nicholas Hoult] died in a frozen lake. I like my happy endings and his death ruined that possibility!

Are you looking forward to this year’s World Cup?

I can’t wait. I light up when I think about the team I work with – they are my broadcasting family. My first tournament with ITV was the 2022 men’s World Cup in Qatar and I’ve been with them ever since. When you retire from football, you lose your team and I always hoped I’d find another one, which thankfully I have

Which team has the best chance of winning the tournament?

I always want to say England, but my gut feeling leads me to France.

What exactly are your hopes for England?

It would be great if both England teams were really successful. The Lionesses have done unbelievably

well, making the last three major finals and winning two of those.

Was it tough to retire in 2019?

Definitely. I’m very team-

orientated, which is why I enjoyed working with a team on Strictly too [she became the first footballer to win the show]. When you retire, the danger is that you become very isolated. You can lose your identity. It’s a very challenging period of transition, but in the end, you have to give way to the whippersnappers.

Did you always want to take part on Strictly?

I was a fan for such a long time and hoped I’d be asked. I said to Carlos [Gu, her professional partner on the show], “We don’t have any expectations, let’s just

have fun!” Jill [Scott] said that if Carlos and I won, we should get a tattoo. I agreed, thinking we’d never win. So, Carlos and I got matching heart and butterfly tattoos. I still can’t believe we won. Mind blown!

When you first became a pundit, you received a lot of online abuse. How did you deal with it?

Emma Hayes [the former Chelsea manager who is now head coach of the US women’s national team] once advised me not to play to impress my manager, but to impress my team-mates. When I broadcast, I do it to the best of my ability for my team-mates of pundits. They know I’m hardworking and that I always do my prep, plus I back them. Their opinion of me is all that matters.

PODCAST

I mostly listen to football podcasts when I’m running. I’ll have to plug Long Story Short, the podcast I do with Jill Scott, which takes listeners behind the curtain of women’s football.

FIRST TV MEMORY Watching World Cup and Euros matches with my family. Women’s football was rarely shown in the 90s, so it was mostly men’s games.

In 2022, you worked with the Government as Chair of the Future of Women’s Football Review and said that “women’s football can be a billion-pound industry within a decade”. Are things going the right way? For too long women’s football was in a vicious cycle in which a lot of the players had a day job and trained a few times a week between 8pm and 10pm. They weren’t eating or resting properly, and their performances weren’t optimised. It’s taken years to get to this point – players are paid, their diets are scrutinised – but there’s still a lot of work to do. If we build strong foundations, we can do anything.

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