West Country Life Magazine 21 September 2013

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West Country Life Western Daily Press, Saturday September 21 2013

Double vision on the moors CONTRASTING INTERPRETATIONS 4

It’s a shambles and we love it DEVIZES COVERED MARKET 6

Preserve the jam makers CHRIS RUNDLE 10

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COLUMNISTS

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PEOPLE

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DEVIZES MARKET

Lizzie Lane says kids are only on loan; also, should Martin Hesp ‘get out more’?

We look inside a Porlock shop where the paintings are bright and colourful

Photographer Steve Roberts’ photo essay on the Wiltshire town’s covered market

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PEOPLE

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FOOD

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FOOD

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ABSOLUTE CORKERS

Chris Rundle looks at how jelly-making is far easier than producing jam

Gino D’Acampo can help us eat like we’re in Italy; while Rosa tucks into sweetcorn

Buying wine by the case for home delivery is still a minority sport – Ned Halley

BOOKS

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SHOPPING

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GARDENING

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TRAVEL

Hollywood star and writer Julianne Moore talks about her inspiring Scottish mum

Cosy looks for the bedroom; plus, embrace pink as the season’s surprise trend Alan Down says that growing is on the up – literally. Plus, grasses

Antigua has been popular with tourists for years, but there’s still more to discover

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WALKS

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ANTIQUES

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TELEVISION

Sue Gearing explores Chew Magna; while Martin Hesp finds a good Start Point

Art from Jack Vettriano; plus, the serious side of Tommy Cooper

David Attenborough talks vertebrates; while Adam Postans gets critical

TV guide Poem Puzzles Horoscope Where in the West

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Rural rambles

Meet Beverley Jones, who makes stylish bags while keeping all materials local

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Weston-super-Mare’s Birnbeck Pier braced for the looming onslaught of autumn winds and winter gales

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Roger Evans On the TB front, it’s not as bad as I feared.

I had feared that we would be overrun with beef calves that we couldn’t sell. Turns out that if we keep these calves in an isolated building they can be sold in a TB restricted market to someone who in turn has a building that is also suitably isolated.

The fact that our local auctioneers now hold a monthly market for restricted cattle that attracts large numbers of both cattle and buyers tells its own story. It shows that the numbers of cattle that now come into this category are a significant number of the total and that there has to be an outlet for them. I didn’t know all this because I quite simply didn’t need to, now I have to know because I’m right in there with the problem part of it. The auctioneer says the calves will make £50 less than “nor mal” calves, but I suspect it will be a lot more than that. I know that I will lose a lot of my calf income, the only plus that is in there amongst all the negatives is that we won’t be having to slaughter young healthy animals, which was the greatest fear of all.

It’s my wife’s birthday and we are out for a Chinese. My children and my grandchildren, all of our immediate family. The two youngest grandchildren still believe everything I tell them, stuff like the small scar on the back of my hand was caused by a machine gun bullet in the First World War. The two oldest smile indulgently, they know it isn’t many years since they believed it as well, my efforts with them now designed to teach them to give everything they do their best shot, to be cynical and not to take life too seriously, based on the theory that has stood me well all my life – don’t believe everything you hear and only half of what you see. I’ve got a 12-year-old granddaughter that sits in the middle of this age range who was chased by my stag turkey recently and demonstrated a vocabulary I didn’t know she possessed.

My car was on empty, very empty, on the way there so I stopped to fill it up with petrol, I still can’t get over how much that costs these days.

We have a really good meal and even with very healthy appetites, there’s still some left.

We get the bill and I say “I’ll pay”. This should have been a cue for, “No don’t do that, we’ll split it three ways.” Not a word, yet it’s me that’s on a pension!

But I get pleasure from my family, a lot of pride and as I look at them as they chat away in the Chinese, I can’t help thinking that my life is nicely complete.

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the only thing that is missing, that has been on my mind for a little while now, is a pig. There’s untold pleasure to be had from the ownership of a pig. If everyone had a pig that they could talk to I’m sure that there would be a lot less trouble in the world. My brother’s personality is much more rounded since he has taken to fattening three pigs a year in the wood at the end of his garden.

The first thing you need to contain a pig is a concrete floor, anything less and it will dig itself out. That’s a given. Next, a place that’s nice and dry and warm to sleep in. So I get my laptop out and look at pig arks. They are around £500-£600 but that doesn’t matter because you won’t make any money out of a pig.

The internet is OK, sort of, for information, but for real information you need to get down to the pub. And that’s where I go when I get back from the Chinese, my wife goes to the US tennis.

There’s a farmer there that keeps a few pigs.

I used to take the grandchildren to see them.

He used to have Tamworth’s and Gloucester Old Spots and lots of crosses, so he had black pigs with ginger spots and ginger pigs with black spots and some pigs with stripes. He went in to pigs about ten years ago. He bought about 10 pig arks, put them on a concrete slab and put robust gates and partitions between them, a proper job.

So we discuss pig arks and concrete then he tells me that he doesn’t have nay at the moment, pigs that is. “Why not?” Seems that they have totally destroyed his original investment, all he has left is the concrete slab he has nothing left of his original outlay that would keep a pig in.

But he won’t be beaten on this, he’s going to build something more robust, a proper shed with concrete walls and steel doors. He only wants to keep about 10 sows but he needs to be in control of them.

And isn’t this exactly what I was telling you recently, how pigs made the journey from pig sty to sow stall, because of their destructive nature. There may be those of you that will say that it is the hand of man that took the pig down this route by seeking to confine it. That would be true, sort of. But if you want to see real destruction, just let some pigs roam free.

I’m determined to get a pig, just have to give more thought to its housing.

As I drive home I mentally add the cost of the round I’ve bought to what I’ve spent already.

You wouldn’t want to know.

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Columnists

Lizzie Lane A relative once said to me that children are only on loan.

Martin Hesp That oft-used phrase about someone not getting out enough.

Once they’re grown they’re away, full of confidence to take on the world in their own way.

I read an article a while back asking whether children are growing up too quickly. I wonder if my mother thought that when I insisted on wearing skin tight jeans and black eye makeup? The dress code and eye makeup were the surface stuff; in my mind I was ready to take the world on with both hands, and of course I knew far more about everything than oldies could ever know.

I know a certain six-year-old who is far more knowledgeable about android phones than I am. Actually I didn’t even know my phone was an android phone. If you read between the lines you’ve probably guessed that I still recall how to use a bright red phone box. In retrospect I suppose they were more difficult to use than a mobile phone. The first step was to prise open the heavy door. Not only was it made of cast iron (I think) and glass, it shut on a tight spring, rebounding from your hands when least expected and trapping your foot.

The second step was the business of contacting the operator or dialling a number. Dial number, press button A, then press button B when the call is answered. Oh, I forgot! That was after you’d found enough large old pennies (the sort that worked out at 12 to a shilling), and have them ready to push into the slot.

I wonder if my parents thought I was a technical whizz kid because I knew when to press button A and B? Probably not. The red telephone box and matt black telephone it contained had been around for some time.

Telecommunications moved along at a slower pace back then; nothing much seems to have happened for 40 or 50 years except for dialling a number yourself rather than going through the operator.

This brings me back to kids and their growing up too quickly; seems to me that kids are growing up quickly as a result of trying to keep up with technology. The likes of yours truly only had to trail along at a snail’s pace; kids today have to run to keep up.

Deep down parents, especially mothers, don’t want their children to grow up. I don’t really mean that they want them to stay babies forever. What I mean to say is that having kids rely on you becomes something of a routine.

Laundry, running them around to football, ballet classes, horse riding lessons whatever, seems a chore at the time, but it does become a

It didn’t exist years ago and I can’t really understand why, because it’s a useful term that really does apply to certain people.

Suddenly and awfully, I count myself in their number.

The phrase tends to get used when someone’s behaviour is a little odd, irritating or eccentric. Someone might be obsessing over something or banging on and on about this or that, and a person who does get out a lot will mutter under their breath: “Blimey – I didn’t know he was like that – poor blighter doesn’t get out often enough if you ask me.”

A great deal of my life is spent writing alone in a little garret in a lonely valley at the eastern end of Exmoor National Park.

habit. Once they’ve swapped ballet classes for wine bars, and ditched being a goalie for the school team in favour of girls, the last thing they want is their old mum and dad around to cramp their style.

And clothes! Remember I said about the tight jeans, the black eye makeup? I thought I was so trendy! As for my ultra short skirt, given the right angle you could almost see what I’d had for dinner!

My mother was horrified that I no longer wore a vest over my bra. I was mystified as to why I’d ever worn one in the first place.

Seeing as this is a respectable magazine, I won’t say the actual words my father used for the black lines around my eyes, but he likened them to an orifice beneath a sheep’s tail.

I hear tell there’s an increase in depression among parents whose children have flown the nest. I can understand that. I can also understand the intrusion of in laws when those kids have hooked up with a member of the opposite sex. There’s resentment, but I suppose there’s bound to be; nobody can look after your kids like you can.

If kids are only on loan, then it’s got to be a good thing when that loan finally comes to an end. There’s a whole new world waiting out there for both them and their parents.

A Christmas Wish, a new title from Lizzie Lane, comes out on October 24

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

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I am a writer. I don’t get out enough.

Actually, I reckon a large number of rural people who read this magazine will suffer from a bit of doesn’t-get-out-often-enough-itis.

Farming, for example, tends to be a solitary existence for much of the time.

I also know of gamekeepers who only see other people on big shoot days, inshore fishermen who handle their boats alone, foresters who chainsaw in the solitary confinement of their helmets, local radio presenters who spout nonsense from the solitary depths of their studios, country housewives who yearn for the camaraderie of the village post office that’s long since shut down...

There are lots of lonely people out here in the sticks. There might be in cities as well for all I know, but I wouldn’t think so. I say that because I went to a city this week – and it is where I spawned the idea that I really don’t get out enough.

Every once in a blue moon I am required to go to the headquarters of my employer for some meeting or other. One day it is likely I will go so they can give me the sack. Which they would have done long ago if I had been in the habit of visiting the company office more regularly.

I don’t quite understand what happens to me on these rare visits, but as soon as I enter the hallowed halls of newspaper HQ I start to act in a rather strange way.

Maybe I feel like the ill kid who’s always out of school and who sits alone and friendless even though everyone’s nice to him on the few days when he does turn up. Perhaps it’s that childish feeling that all these colleagues are pals with one another. They have little cliques and gangs that I know nothing about. And suddenly there I am – all country bumpkinish, oafish and strange.

The most alarming manifestation of my odd behaviour at company HQ is that when some boss or other delivers an address then asks for feedback I always, without exception, open my mouth and speak. I am not sure of the any words that spill out – I don’t even know what I’m trying to say – but old Hesp bears forth anyway because...

Well, this is the very point I’m trying to make. I do it because I don’t get out often enough. Some inner demon that exists a thousand miles towards the universe that is my darkened soul says: “Speak, you idiot. Make yourself heard. You only come here once a year and now’s your chance to show ’em all you really are flesh and blood.”

For a dozen years I’ve been doing this and after every one of the corporate visits I have driven the 100 miles home thinking: “Why did you say that? What on Earth were you trying to say? How long will it be before they sack you?”

Without exception in all the long lonely years my colleagues on the paper have been wonderfully kind and friendly to me on the rare occasions when I turn up, so there’s no reason whatsoever why I should feel like some rural-leper in their midst.

I do get out and about to other places, and I don’t act in such a curious way. Or maybe I do, because down the pub recently the locals told me I was an idiot when I started talking about the dreaded badger-cull.

So now I’m thinking of setting up a new self-help group called Rural Person’s Anonymous...

“Hi, my name is Martin and I am a bit odd because I spend too much time on my tod.”

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People Chris Rundle

You might well wander into Melody Hawtin’s shop in Porlock looking for a local landscape painting. You may well be offered one.

But it will be an almost aggressively vibrant affair, of bright blues, yellows and reds – as far as it’s possible to get from the more muted colours of the Exmoor landscape that most people are familiar with. If you want something like that you’ll have to ask her photographer husband, David, instead.

Three years after moving to the village and setting up business with a shop and a studio, the couple are operating as partners, offering hugely different takes on a stretch of countryside that has attracted and entranced artists for hundreds of years. Melody’s pictures are intense concentrations of energy and vivid colour, often textured with overlaid paint and enhanced occasionally with a glitter of gold leaf. There’s something of Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed about them and indeed Melody admits to Turner – who visited and knew Exmoor – being one of her influences.

But – not surprisingly, since she comes from a family of artists – it is only an influence on the incredibly strong and highly individual personal style she has been developing since she first painted Exmoor at the age of nine.

Her unorthodox approach to landscape painting has seen her work exhibited in New York and Florence and is now helping local stroke victims along the way to recovery: some of her larger works have been hung in the stroke unit at Williton hospital, a few miles away, to provide all-important visual stimulus for patients.

“They have chosen them for the colours,” says Melody. “Colours stimulate the brain so, because there are such a vast variety of colours in my paintings, they actually stimulate people’s minds when they have had a stroke.

They bring healing.”

The French windows are open, a light breeze rustles the leaves on the sunlit bamboo, a stream flows quietly past the former tannery where Melody and David live and work and beyond lie the wooded hillsides which engirdle Porlock: all conceivable shades of green with the odd speckle of light brown. So where do the vivid blues, pinks and oranges come from?

“The colours are there, you just have to look and look again. People have different degrees of sight. Some don’t actually see the colours because everyone sees colour differently.

Some people can hear well, some people have got a musical ear, some people can see more than others can.

“When I am painting it is a supernatural experience because I believe the senses all mingle in together and then the colours come into my mind. It’s a bit God-inspired. When I feel something, colours come into my mind. If I listen to music or if I’m tasting something, colours come into my mind. It’s like a different language, a language of emotions.”

Melody’s move to Porlock three years ago was a return after a gap of many years to the area where she had grown up. It was, she says, absolutely the right one to make.

“I love being back here. It is a very inspiring area, yet it remains so undiscovered, a bit of a secret. It’s wonderful when people come into the shop or the studio and say they have just discovered Exmoor, and they never knew anything about it before, because we really enjoy selling the place, telling them what a wonderful area it is. I really do feel very privileged to be working here.”

If for Melody the move was a return to familiar surroundings, for Hampshire-born David Exmoor was unfamiliar territory – not surprisingly since it is, after all, not only the smallest and the least-visited but least-promoted of all our national parks.

What he discovered was a captivating landscape where weather and the seasons rang constant changes and washed the countryside with dramatically varying moods. An absolute gift to a photographer as his work – whether a sombre coastal study or an intriguing view of a bank of cloud spilling over a distant hilltop – now shows.

Exmoor, says David, made an immediate impact.

“I suppose the thing that first struck me was the light. The light is the key part of the photograph. The evening light and the morning light here – if you can get up early – are really stunning,” he said.

“Then there are the colours. The bracken might look quite dull at first glance but actually when you get the evening and morning light on it it really picks up and it’s a rich red even in January and February. It is tremendously colourful. We look out onto Selworthy Beacon from where we are here and every evening there is a sunset which is stunning to look out to because of those colours.

“There’s another photo I have of Porlock Weir which is taken in January looking north.

The whole sea has turned pink, not just the sky. Why is that? I have no idea but it is absolutely amazing that it should do that.

“Then at this time of year you have heathers and gorses – absolutely lovely. You have got deer as well. I don’t tend to photograph them much because it’s not my kind of thing but nevertheless they add to this wonderful landscape.”

Like Melody, David draws inspiration from what he sees all around him and the more he looks the more he is inspired.

“Three years in and I am looking around and I have next year’s photos in my head already. There are places I have been this year but where I have just missed the light and the right conditions. I’ve been there but it hasn’t been the right evening, or the right clouds. But that’s the wonderful thing. Because I live here now I don’t have to rush it. I can take my time and wait for the right moment.”

Outside the main holiday season viewing can be arranged by calling 01643 862887 or emailing melody@melodyart.co.uk

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Melody Hawtin and husband David, pictured top, take hugely contrasting views of the environment that surrounds them on Exmoor. David’s photograph, The Colour of My Heart, is pictured second from top, followed by a study of a pallet in Melody’s Porlock studio, and her works, Sea Flowers, and bottom, Gateway to Heaven. Left, main image: Love Exmoor PICTURES: FRAN STOTHARD

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Picture essay Steve Roberts

The Shambles, Devizes market We all like the bustle of markets and the covered Shambles Market in Devizes is as lively as any.

A typical Saturday under the roof of the Victorian building finds plenty of banter among the bargains, and plenty of character.

Alan Pope, 74, who sells the War Cry here, cycles in via Quakers Walk, past allotments where he sees a banana tree growing.

Mike Bishop sits selling leather goods and watches, but he’s light on his feet – away from the market he teaches dancing. Carol’s Corner is a neat café run by Carol Blake, helped by her sister, Tracey Cookson-Williams. Carol is here for the three days a week that the general market runs – Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

She puts fresh flowers on her counter and cheerfully knocks out big breakfasts and mugs of tea from 7.30am.

Bill Huntly is at the foot of history, with a stall in the shadow of the old wooden board that explains the market’s origins. Alun Britton sells jewellery, batteries and watch straps, while Mayor of Devizes Pete Smith hears the news and debates local issues as he calls by.

And every Tuesday there is an antiques market, the time to find anything from maps and books to china, glass and brassware.

The Shambles reminds me of the lovely old covered market in Western France that I visited as a teenager on holiday with my parents. Among that market’s steel columns a one-armed man, a war veteran, was making fresh crepes with remarkable agility. I see in the Shambles Market a tradition shared. We all need interaction, to rub shoulders and share a few words.

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5 minutes to know Lynda La Plante Actress-turned-writer Lynda La Plante, 70, has created some of TV’s most successful crime dramas, including Widows, Prime Suspect, Above Suspicion, and Trial and Retribution. She talks about the inspiration behind her stories, and why a Prime Suspect movie would be such a tough hurdle to overcome What was the inspiration behind new culture clash thriller Wrongful Death?

It’s very interesting how we’ve recently seen and read so much about profiling, and psychological interrogation is now very relevant in most inquiries. Quantico (the training academy) at the FBI are the masters of this; they really originated profiling. I was interested to see what courses British officers had and then compare that with what an American detective being brought in to do research in England had, to see the difference between ours and theirs.

How easy was it getting access to Quantico experts?

Oh, very hard; a lot of inquiries, and eventually I was very dependent on a British officer who had done the course in America with the FBI to give me how he had to react and what he had to do, because it’s really very much a closed shop. With his help it was a lot easier when I did speak to somebody there.

What inspires your stories?

When I’m in America, I’m an obsessive fan of a documentary crime show, ID. When you watch real-life crimes that have occurred, sometimes they go as far back as the Eighties, and there was not a conclusion until 20 years later when they were able to use DNA.

I imagine all your work is reliant on the approval of experts Throughout my career as a crime writer I’ve always been dependent on the research done by detectives and forensics to OK a script. To me it would be almost abusive if I asked them, “Could I get to this point in this level of time?”

They would say, “No. If you want a blood test and a toxicology test, it would take you two to three weeks.” And often you will be watching crime shows in England that say, “Oh, we’ve just had the toxicology report,” but they’ve only had the body for 10 minutes! I’ve always been dependent on having my scripts and novels, particularly the novels, researched by them, so there’s quite a lot of fingerprints over my books.

Do you think there’s any chance of a standalone Prime Suspect film one day?

They’ve tried and tried. But because of the extraordinary success of the original, it kind of gives people, and particularly actors, cold feet; they just don’t really want to go there.

Do you have any memorable tales from your actress days?

I always remember in The Sweeney, there was a very funny story with Dennis Waterman. My character was supposed to knock somebody out of the way and grab Dennis Waterman and spit in his face. I can remember Dennis said: “Oh, I think this is a bit preposterous. Look at the size of her. She’s never going to get to me!”

So I said: “Well, why don’t we just run the scene and let me see if I can get to you.” And I was on him like a banshee. I’d got him by the throat and was able to spit in his face, and he didn’t like it at all (laughs).

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People Suzanne Savill

Local produce does not always have to be food. Beverley Jones’ stylish handbags are created using West Country fabrics, metal and sheepskin.

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Beverley Jones lifts a soft, grey sheepskin from a pile near her sewing machine and declares proudly: “This came from a West Country sheep, at a farm near Honiton.

“We’re about to launch a collection where just about everything will come from a 20-mile radius, and is made by me.

“Any parts of my bags that don’t come from local sources, such as linings, are usually vintage fabrics or other pieces I’ve collected over the years. I’ve just acquired tens of thousands of Italian buttons from the Seventies and Eighties which are presently being stored by a very kind friend in Dorset.”

Beverley, who has a workshop at the Aurea interiors store in Ilminster, does all the making involved in her handbags, keyrings and purses – from individually cutting and then sewing vividly-coloured pieces of vegetable-dyed leather, to embossing the leather labels bearing the words: “The Muddy Dog Company – Made in Somerset.”

Owners of Muddy Dog Company bags are able to take advantage of a “handbag hospital” that Beverley provides to repair and refurbish linings, zips, handles and stitching.

It all sounds very “on trend”, as the fashionistas would say, given the recent increase in consumer awareness of local provenance, artisan skills and make-do-and-mend.

However, the bags Beverley makes using traditional English leatherwork skills – in-

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stead of having them assembled on a factory production line on the other side of the world – are not the result of a recent decision to embrace local manufacturing.

She says: “The Muddy Dog Company got set up back in January 1999, after I got fired from Clarks where I’d been on the board as accessories director.”

Beverley, 57, had previously spent her career in key roles at some of the biggest names in British retail, including Liberty, Butler and Wilson, Next, George at Asda, Mothercare, Laura Ashley, and Clarks.

“At that time going back to a full-time job in London wasn’t an option for me. I wanted to stay in Somerset because my husband’s family come from there.

“What my CV doesn’t show is that I’ve always made things. I’ve made jewellery in the evenings, my own Christmas cards and I’ve always taken a tapestry with me on a longhaul flight. I can’t sit and read a book as my hands are always making. I began making handbags at the kitchen table of the house we were renting in a little village called Wambrook, and I’ve loved doing it from the day we started.”

Beverley and husband Lance were inspired to name their business The Muddy Dog Company after seeing their rescue dog Amy coming back home covered in mud after walking in the woodland surrounding the

house. Handing me a tag bearing an image of a sweet-faced black and white dog, Beverley says: “We even had labels printed with her picture on them, but we had to change them to a more abstract image as some people thought our bags were made from dog skin!”

Beverley, who now has two other dogs, Lettice and Poppy, continues: “One of the great things about working from home was that my elderly father-in-law, Cyril, was able to come to live with us.

“The internet hadn’t made much of an impact on retailing then, and we used to take the handbags to shows all over the place, such as the Country Living Fair and Hampton Court, and bring Cyril with us. All our early customers remember meeting him.

“He used to sit in the workshop watching television while I was on the phone to Vogue trying to explain why we had Dad’s Army on in the background.”

In addition to making handbags under the Muddy Dog Company label, Beverley has also made own-label bags for Cath Kidston, Boden, Pedlars, the National Trust and London-based Cordings.

She recalls: “Cath was one of my earliest customers. When I got fired she was one of the first people I phoned up, and she was very supportive and suggested that I make some bags for her.”

Handbags and other Muddy Dog Company

products are sold from Aurea in Ilminster and Bristol, and from October at The Orange Tree in Exeter, and All In Black, in Guernsey.

Beverley was most-recently based at a workshop at the National Trust’s Barrington Court for three years, but her lease was not renewed and she moved to Aurea earlier this month, at a time when she would usually be making handbags for the Christmas market.

“It all happened very suddenly. I thought I was going to be moving to another studio, and then I discovered they did not want to renew our lease,” she says. “It was the worst possible time of year, as our Christmas selling period gives us 75 per cent of our business. Thank goodness for loyal friends who have supported me and enabled us to get through a very untimely move in a maker’s calendar.”

Although Beverley had not intended to move from Barrington Court, she has found working from an area at the rear of Aurea – which is owned by interior designer Elizabeth Rowlaff – has brought an unexpected bonus.

“Customers who would come to see us at the shows, and who I haven’t seen for years, having been popping in to the shop to say hello and to see the bags,” she says.

For information about The Muddy Dog Company go to www.muddydogs.com or visit Aurea at 31 Silver Street, Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 0DH

Keeping it local The Winter 2013 collection for The Muddy Dog Company provides stylish proof of Beverley’s belief in supporting local businesses and craftspeople.

■ The flannel used in some bags has been woven to her own design by Fox Brothers and Co (www.foxflannel.com) in Wellington, Somerset, which has been making luxury woollen cloth since 1772.

■ The goat and sheepskin used in some bags comes from Little Whitehall Farm (www.littlewhitehallfarm.co.uk) on the DevonSomerset border, which is run by Rowan and Jayne Morris, who breed Gotland sheep which are famed for the quality of their fleece.

■ The metal used to link the bag straps to the bags is handcrafted by Alex Pole (www.alex poleironwork.co.uk), who designs and makes contemporary ironwork from his forge in Somerset.

■ Fabric featuring a hunting party design used for some of The Muddy Dog Company handbags uses images from original paintings

by Dorset-based artist Aviva Halter-Hurn (www.halterhurn.com), and shows members of the Seavington Hunt, which rides on the Somerset-Dorset borders.

West Country voices heard this week Hilary Mantel The twice Man Booker winner talks about her writing style, advice to budding authors and the background to the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, which runs this weekend I first came to Budleigh as a teenager, walking across the cliffs from Exmouth on a hot summer’s day, and saw below me what looked like the kind of landscape and seascape that you might see in a dream. I kept it in mind ever since, and when we had the chance to move away from the South East, where we’d lived for 25 years, I thought it was time to reclaim that vision. The town has really changed very little, and the view from the cliffs is as I remember it, and as I hope it always will be.

It is unusual for a small community to play host to such big names. That the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival does so is thanks to the ambitions of our founder, Susan Ward.

We mean to continue her work by inviting writers who are the best in their field and who are making the news.

My novels are very specifically about one man. Thomas Cromwell was chief minister to Henry VIII and his unusual and largely untold story has captured my imagination. It began as one novel, and then the richness of the material unfolded and I began to see the project was much bigger than I had imagined.

Every day is surprising. The past always is stranger than we think. But research is a process that flows through the writing of a book. You cannot snap shut your folders and say, “Right, now I have everything I need to know.” You often don’t know what material you need, until you face the demands of a scene.

I have just finished the fifth draft of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies with Royal Shakespeare Company adaptor, Mike Poulton.

We have worked together productively and it is difficult to differentiate our roles, but roughly speaking he is in charge of the shape of each story and its staging, and I am there to give him permission to pull away from the books, to suggest different angles of approach, to tell him everything he needs to know about the characters and to act as the history police.

We share a belief that good drama can also be good history, and an ambition to free the spirit of the books in a new medium.

It is a deeply interesting process and I shall be interested to see how it comes out. I am less involved with the TV version, but I believe it is in very good hands. I do not want to hang over either project, or I shall never get any new writing done. An author must take on board that when a book goes into a different medium, it is, in effect, a new work. So it is important to be flexible in your expectations.

No one will ever be able to fish out the contents of your head, and you must accept that. Of course, if they could it would be deeply alarming.

My writing style changes to suit each book.

The subject matter brings its own demands.

You become more assured, technically, more confident in solving problems and knowing what will work, but there is no room for complacency, as it is always possible a new story will pose a challenge you have never met before.

Craftswoman Beverley Jones. ‘What my CV doesn’t show is that I’ve always made things. I’ve made jewellery in the evenings, my own Christmas cards and I’ve always taken a tapestry with me on a long-haul flight’ PICTURES: FRAN STOTHARD WCL-E01-S2

Tenacity is almost as important as talent.

Write your way through failure and the indifference of the publishing industry until you come out on the other side. There are lots of ways to be published these days, so be resourceful, and back your own talent. Take risks on the page. Do not ask your best friend to read your work (unless she is a publisher).

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Food Chris Rundle

It would be no great exaggeration to say Mrs R is a slave to the preserving pan – or, thanks to a malapropism by a cousin many years ago, the deserving pan as it is known hereabouts.

A willing slave, but slave nonetheless, in that as soon as there is enough fruit knocking around to make a couple of pots of jam the receptacle is hauled out, jars washed and superheated in the oven, and the house is rapidly permeated with the unmistakable aroma of supplies being laid down for the store cupboard.

If only we had one – the result of past endeavours are currently creating a challenging obstacle course on the office floor.

On occasions it is the pungent smell of hot vinegar and spices as the focus swivels to chutneys, a particularly prolific crop of figs from the tree at the end of the garden having been the impetus this year. The smell does tend to linger for a few hours, but then I firmly believe it keeps the moths out of the curtains so it’s a small price to pay.

And then there are jellies, particularly at this time of the year when everywhere seems to be overflowing with apples. I missed the apples last year: few managed to cling on to the trees during the gales which marked the passage of a season which was jokingly referred to as “summer”. But this year it’s a very different picture.

The boughs are starting to groan almost audibly and the glowing red skins are adding a seasonal blob of colour here and there. I’d love to regale you with details of all the varieties that are growing in various corners but the winds long since carried away the remains of the labels. So although I can assure you that the deep crimson ones which make a rapid transition from under-ripeness to perfection in a matter of hours are Spartans, for the rest I can only suggest that we possibly have a Lord Lambourne, may have a Charles Ross and quite likely a James Grieve.

But I can be 110 per cent definite about the Bramleys, now causing great consternation among the chickens as the early ones fall among them, the unfortunate birds’ grasp of Newtonian physics being sadly restricted.

And Bramleys will be the key to the next bout of preserving as we get to grips with fruit jellies. Jellies which will spread on toast for breakfast; perhaps (once evaporation has taken place and they have slightly solidified) to be excavated and served with a good, strong cheddar; to be painted on a lamb joint to provide an attractive glaze at the end of roasting; or even to be spooned in to casseroles to add a magical dimension of rich, fruity flavour.

Now is the time to get on with the task because thanks to the slowness of the season there’s still plenty of flavour and vigour in garden herbs, particularly the mint, which will provide you with any number of variations on a basic theme.

Jelly-making is considerably easier than jam-making. There is none of the fussing around with precise quantities before you start cooking, you can add as little or as much as you fancy of any particular ingredient, and there’s only one basic rule of thumb in the measuring department: for every litre of juice you make you add a kilo of sugar – or, in old money, for every pint of juice a pound of sugar

Other than that as long as your jars are clean and sterilised there’s little to worry about. There are loads of suppliers online who offer deals on decorative jars which are worth investing in if you intend to give your jelly as presents. I always think a delicately flavoured apple and verbena jelly has rather more appeal when it comes in a pristine pot rather than one that’s previously hosted pickled onions.

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Apple and mint jelly Ingredients Two kilos Bramleys (or half Bramleys and half dessert fruit), bunch of fresh mint, double handful of finely chopped fresh mint, preserving sugar, water.

Method

Chop the apples (don’t bother to peel or core them) and place in a preserving pan with a little water over a moderate heat. Add the bunch of mint and cook for around 45 minutes or until the fruit has completely broken down.

Allow to cool then spoon into a jelly bag, string up and allow to drain overnight. Don’t be tempted to squeeze the bag – the result will be a cloudy and unattractive jelly.

Wash your jars thoroughly and sterilise in a hot oven for five minutes.

Measure the juice and allow a pound of sugar to every pint or a kilo of sugar to every litre. Place the sugar on a baking sheet and warm slightly in the oven. Pour the juice into a clean pan, warm through, add the sugar and then boil until setting point is reached – pour a little on to a cold plate to test or dip a cold metal spoon into the mixture. If the jelly drips off it’s not ready: if it slides off as a single large drop it’s done. Quickly stir in the chopped mint, pour into the jars, add the lids or cellophane tops, wipe clean and store for a week or so.

Use the same method for apple and sage, apple and thyme (use culinary, or broadleaved, thyme rather than the woody varieties) and apple and lemon verbena (or lemon balm) jellies. For apple and sloe jelly use a kilo of apples to 500g of clean, washed sloes, adding 500ml water.

Elderberry jelly Ingredients Bucket of elderberry heads, sugar, water, juice of one lemon.

Method

Shake the elderberry heads to remove any insects then use a fork to strip the fruit into a preserving pan. Add just enough water to cover the base of the pan to a half-inch depth then slowly stew the berries until broken down – about 40 minutes. Proceed as above, adding the lemon juice with the sugar.

Spiced blackberry jelly Ingredients Kilo of blackberries, sugar, water, juice of a lemon, 4in stick of cinnamon and five cloves.

Method

Proceed as for the elderberry but add the cinnamon stick and cloves to the fruit when you start to cook it and keep them in the pulp while you strain it.

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Eating out Pip Larkham

After a warm, sunny day, who could resist a few drinks and a meal in a pub garden?

FAMILY FARE Linda Sanders shows off some of the baked delights from the Old Bake House in Cheap Street, Frome. Linda’s husband Robin has worked in the bakery for 36 years, but along with their son Lawrence, have run the popular bakery, shop and salad bar for the past 13 years PICTURE: FRAN STOTHARD

It sounded like the ideal way to spend the early part of the evening so husband Ian and I booked a table for six o’clock at the White Hart, in Bath.

Situated just outside the city centre, in Widcombe, this pub tends to attract locals, rather than tourists, with a pretty garden out back. A new independent record store was now open just a few doors down and, as we both have a reputation for “digging” through racks of records, we arrived in Widcombe an hour early to do a bit of shopping. “This is thirsty work,” said Ian. He was right, so we paid for the couple of gems we’d picked up and headed to the pub.

The White Hart doesn’t look all that from the outside, and is also bigger than you might imagine. Mainly decked out in wood (whether it’s panelling, the floor, or the sturdy tables and chairs) the place is light and bright, with white walls and some nice pictures dotted around. The bar is to the right as you walk in, with a board above advertising bar snacks and the day’s specials.

We ordered two drinks and made our way through the pub to the garden. Arranged on a couple of levels, with some areas paved while others are gravel, the garden is incredibly pretty and was in full late-summer bloom. We spotted fuchsia, buddleia, verbena, bamboo, asters, an olive tree and an acer, to name but a few – it was like being in someone’s back garden.

But September being September, it was too cool an evening to eat outside so we wandered in to find our reserved table. However, there had been no need to book, there was plenty of room.

Our friendly and attentive waiter quickly took our orders, and the service overall was very good, but by no means perfect. “I’m starving,” said Ian. “Me too,” I agreed.

“Record shopping is hard work.”

We didn’t have long to wait for our starters, which were a nice size, colourful and presented well. Ian had picked the grilled squid with chilli, mint and lemon, while I went for one of the specials – smoked salmon, rocket and horseradish tart.

However, looks aren’t everything, even when it comes to food. Despite my slice of tart being packed with salmon and rocket, there was simply no flavour. You’d expect a horseradish tart to have a real tang but, alas, nothing. It was also lukewarm, not hot or cold, so I wasn’t sure which it was supposed to be.

The little side salad with delicate leaves was nicely dressed so I scoffed that. In fact, I scoffed the lot just because I was so hungry.

However, I had to give Ian a fork-full because things weren’t being wolfed down on the other side of the table. All Ian could taste of the squid was the “chargrill” (the burnt bits). I suggested squeezing the wedge of lime on the side of the plate on to the mollusc (wasn’t it meant to be lemon?) but it did nothing. A ramekin filled with the chilli and mint concoction did very little too. Oh dear.

We felt sure our mains would be better – duck breast for me and bream fillet for Ian. While we waited Ian sipped on a glass of Spanish white Rioja, while for me it was a glass of house Merlot.

Our mains arrived and smelt and looked great. But, once more, we were disappointed.

The roasted duck was sliced into huge pieces with a layer of fat on one side that was impossible to cut off with the cutlery I was given. It was then that it dawned on me that I hadn’t been asked how I wanted my meat cooked. Consequently, it was fairly rare,

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making it even more difficult to cut. I gave up in the end. The accompanying fondant potato was nice, as were the mushrooms and spinach but nothing to rave about.

Ian’s main was hardly better. The fillet was rather over cooked, while some mussels and clams scattered on the plate may have been nice but not enough to fill anyone up. We ordered some vegetables to go with our meals – a plain portion of carrots, green beans and spinach, which needed livening up – thank God for the salt and pepper pot on the table.

Our half-eaten meals went back to the kitchen, and we hoped dessert would fill us up.

From just three choices, I picked a lemon Bakewell tart; while Ian (just a little annoyed there were no chocolate choices) went for an iced vanilla parfait with blueberries.

At last I was happy. The tart was moist and bursting with the flavour of lemons and almonds. With a little scoop of ice cream on top,

Disappointed diners: the White Hart and a dusting of icing sugar – it was presented well and delicious. Full marks to whoever made it, and well done to whoever heated it up.

Sadly, Ian was getting more and more fed up.

The iced parfait should have been renamed “ice” parfait as he repeatedly picked it up and dropped the rock solid dessert on his plate. Oh dear, indeed. This was all such a shame. We used to love this place and its food but we soon worked out it had actually been more than three years since our last meal here.

We asked for the bill,which didn’t come cheap at over £70, and that hadn’t included our first round of drinks in the garden. Clearly the bargain of the day had been at the record store.

Venue The White Hart, Widcombe Hill, Bath, Somerset, BA2 6AA Contact 01225 338053 Price range Starters £6/£7; mains up to £18; desserts £6

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Food Andy Welch

Cheeky chappy Gino D’Acampo was once jailed for breaking into Paul Young’s house.

And he’s never cooked for his mother.

Gino D’Acampo paints a beautiful picture of the lemon groves on the Amalfi Coast, where lemons are so sweet you can peel and eat them like oranges.

The Italian chef recently returned to his home country to carry out research for his new book, Gino’s Italian Escape, and film the accompanying forthcoming TV series.

While there, he also cooked for his family, ate fresh lemon granita on the beach, and revisited a boyhood favourite – deep-fried pizza – in Naples. It’s a surprise he came back to Britain.

“Ah, but the food is so good over there you don’t concentrate on anything else,” he says.

“If you do stop to think about other matters, you realise the banks don’t work, the government’s corrupt, the trains are always late. We might moan about these same things in Britain, but at least it’s not bad.”

He says he’d been asking ITV for the past 10 years to let him escape to his home country, and tell the story of its famous cuisine through Italian eyes, and eventually he got his wish.

“Peter Fincham, director of ITV, gave me two cameras and some time away and told me to do whatever I wanted,” he explains. “I wanted to show Italy through my eyes, to show people my experience of the country, and to learn a few new things myself.

“When I was a boy I always had deep-fried pizza, and I was fascinated by it, but never knew how they did it,” he adds. “So on the series, we go to the best place for it in Naples.

I want to show everyone how it’s done.

“You make your pizza, tomatoes, mozzarella and so on, then you put another base on top and seal it to make a disc. Then it goes in the deep fryer, and it goes like a huge poppadum, cooked in two minutes. Incredible.”

D’Acampo was born in Naples in 1976.

While his mum’s an excellent home cook, his grandfather was a professional, and later passed on his love to his grandson.

By the age of 13, D’Acampo, bored of regular education, was enrolled at the Luigi de Medici Catering College where he says he received very traditional, but thorough, tuition.

Now 37, he moved to the UK at 19 and, despite a two-year stint in prison when he was 21 (he was a penniless waiter when he broke into the home of singer Paul Young and stole some guitars and prized discs), has cooked ever since, eventually at a top London restaurant, before setting up his own Italian produce distribution company.

From there, he moved into TV, hitting the big time in 2009 when he competed in I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! There was controversy when he cooked some rats, leading to ITV being fined for animal cruelty, but D’Acampo won, and a slot as This Morning’s chef-in-residence followed, and then more recently his own show, alongside Melanie Sykes, Let’s Do Lunch With Gino & Mel. Despite this, D’Acampo is yet to cook for his mum.

“She doesn’t like me in the kitchen, she says I’m too messy. And she thinks she can do everything better than me. I say, ‘That’s funny, because you don’t have a cookery show on the television, and I do’, but she gets very mad

when I say that,” he says. “I think I might get her on the chat show with Mel, although I know she would want to do a cook-off if that happened and I would be scared.

“If I lost I would never hear the end of it.”

Bruschette with sun-dried tomato pesto Ingredients (Serves 4) 1 ciabatta loaf, cut into slices 2cm thick, 2tbsp olive oil, 1 garlic clove, peeled and halved, 5-6 tomatoes, deseeded and diced, fresh basil leaves, Parmesan to garnish

For the pesto:

150g sun-dried tomatoes in oil, drained, 1 garlic clove, peeled, Small bunch of fresh basil, 2tbsp pine nuts, 3tbsp olive oil, 2tbsp freshly grated parmesan cheese, salt and black pepper to taste

Method

First make the pesto. Place the sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, basil and pine nuts in a small food processor and blitz until you have a rough paste. Add the olive oil and grated parmesan and blitz again until smooth. Season and set to one side.

To make the bruschette, heat a griddle pan over a high heat. Brush the ciabatta slices with a little olive oil, then pop them on the griddle for one to two minutes until charred on both sides. Remove from the pan and rub one side of each slice with the cut side of the garlic. Spread a little of the pesto on each bruschette, then scatter with a few of the diced tomatoes. Serve topped with a few basil leaves and parmesan shavings.

Cannelloni al pesto Genovese Ingredients (Serves 4) 4tbsp olive oil, 1 large onion, peeled and finely chopped, 1 carrot, peeled and finely chopped, 1 courgette, finely chopped, 500g minced beef, half a glass of red wine, 1tbsp tomato puree, 5 fresh basil leaves, 350ml passata, 12 readymade fresh pasta sheets, salt and pepper

For the pesto

30g pine nuts, 100g fresh basil leaves, 1 garlic clove, peeled, 170ml extra virgin olive oil, 30g freshly grated Parmesan cheese

For the bechamel sauce:

50g butter, 50g plain flour, 500ml semiskimmed milk, 50g freshly grated Parmesan cheese

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4. Place the oil in a large saucepan over a low heat and gently fry the onion, carrot and courgette for 10 minutes, until softened. Add the minced beef and stir continuously for a further five minutes to allow the meat to cook evenly.

Add the wine, bring to a simmer and cook gently for a couple of minutes to allow the alcohol to evaporate. Add the tomato puree, basil leaves and passata, stirring with a wooden spoon. Simmer on a low heat, with the lid half on, for 30 minutes, stirring occasion-

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ally. Season with salt and pepper, then leave to cool at room temperature.

To make the pesto, put the pine nuts, basil, garlic, oil and parmesan in a food processor or blender and blitz together. Set aside.

For the bechamel sauce, melt the butter in a large saucepan over a low heat. Add the flour, whisking constantly until you get a thick, creamy texture with a light brown colour.

Pour in a third of the milk and continue whisking. When the mixture starts to thicken, pour in another third of the milk and continue whisking. Once thickened again, pour in the rest of the milk and the parmesan. Whisk until the sauce has a custard-like consistency.

Remove from the heat and mix in the pesto.

Pour a third of the pesto bechamel into the bottom of a baking dish measuring about 30 x 20cm and 5cm deep.

Place a pasta sheet on a chopping board, with the longer side nearest you, and put a heaped tablespoon of the beef sauce along one edge. Gently roll the pasta forward to create a filled cannelloni. Repeat until all the pasta sheets are filled.

Place the cannelloni, seam downwards, in the baking dish and pour the remaining pesto bechamel over them.

Bake in the oven for 45 minutes until the top is golden brown and crispy. Set aside to rest for 10 minutes before serving – this helps the cannelloni to hold together better.

If you’re preparing the cannelloni the day before you plan to eat it, cover with cling film and refrigerate. Remove 20 minutes before cooking and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C/gas mark 4 for 45 minutes.

Watering hole The Compasses Inn, Tisbury Ned Halley Welcome to the comfort zone: a medieval refuge worthy of the Shire To find The Compasses, take the country road signposted to Chicksgrove at the bottom of Tisbury’s high street. Go past the tithe barn and on a mile or two to a sharp bend adjoined by a turn-off signposted to Sutton Motorcycles. There’s no mention of The Compasses but the lane does take you there.

It’s worth the trouble. The building, of the 14th century, lies low under its thatch in undulating ground. You might be stepping into a hobbit hole. Windows are small and few, and lighting, indispensable all day I’d guess, is by dim bulbs in quaint lanterns, little gasstyle fittings and the odd spot, creating a very old-fashioned mystique.

As your eyes adjust you find yourself in a long, low, beam-ceilinged bar with a fine old serving counter fronted by a hospitable run of stools and plenty of standing room. Either side, the room is arranged rather like a stable.

Along the front wall is a run of six partitioned stalls, each containing a table to seat two or three or more. The exposed-stone walls are festooned with suitably equestrian antiquities.

Likewise the inner wall one side of the serving area. To the other flank of it are more stalls either side of a huge inglenook fireplace.

It’s the proper job. There’s a good carpet, which has a muffling effect on the acoustic and adds to the muzak-free calmness of the whole scheme.

Beers on the day were Addlestone Ale, Butcombe Bitter and Tunnel Vision, plus

Comfort food Rosa Mashiter One of the best vegetable buys at the moment is corn on the cob, and the fresher the cob the sweeter and juicier will be its flavour so I would advise you to buy your cobs, still with their husk and silk on from a farm shop or local greengrocer if at all possible as they will be at their freshest.

Look for cobs that are creamy and shiny within the bright green, stiff leaves. They should exude a milky liquid when punctured and be aware that once the husks are removed the cob quickly lose its nutritional properties.

I find that the easiest and most delicious way to enjoy this seasonal vegetable is to either simply boil or barbecue until tender, then literally drench with melted butter and a good grind of black pepper and eat – you can buy little forks, or you can use cocktail sticks for spearing into the ends of the cobs with the intention of stopping you getting in a mess when eating it, although it’s really quite good fun eating it with your fingers and getting in a glorious, buttery mess. If you like a stronger flavour to your cob then once you have added your butter sprinkle over some cayenne, chilli or paprika.

I also think that sweetcorn is one vegetable that is very popular with children probably because they really do rather enjoy the fact

that they eat it in a “messy way” with their fingers and don’t get told off !

To prepare your cobs strip away the outer leaves and get rid of the silk – the wispy, strawlike strands which surround the cob – then, using a sharp knife, cut down along the husk, prising out any kernels as you go.

If you are cooking the cobs whole, add a teaspoon of sugar and a teaspoon of lemon juice to the water which will really bring out the sweetness of the corn.

Corn and bacon chowder Ingredients (Serves 4) 100g bacon lardons, 1 medium onion, 1 stick celery, 1 green pepper, 2 medium potatoes, half tsp paprika, 600ml chicken or vegetable stock, 1 bay leaf, crumbled, 450ml semi-skimmed milk, 2 tbsp cornflour, 200g sweetcorn kernels, freshly ground black pepper

Method

Peel and finely chop the onions. Trim and slice the celery. Cut the top off the pepper, remove all the seeds and white pith and dice the flesh.

Peel and dice the potatoes.

Heat a large non-stick frying pan and add the bacon lardons, and cook over a medium heat, stirring, until all the fat runs out of the bacon. Stir in the onion, celery and green pepper and cook for a couple of minutes, then add the potatoes, ground paprika, crumbled bay leaf and the stock and bring to simmer point, cover the pan and cook for 15-20 minutes or until the potatoes are tender.

Blend the cornflour with a little of the milk,

and then add to the remainder of the milk, and stir this into the pan together with the sweetcorn, and bring to boiling point, then lower the heat and simmer, stirring from time to time, until the soup thickens.

Serve garnished with a sprinkling of finely chopped parsley and the swirl of cream accompanied by some warm crusty bread.

Sweetcorn stuffing

The Compasses Inn at Tisbury is a proper job

Ingredients

Ashton Press cider. There are proper soft drinks, including the Fentimans range, and an exceptional wine list by Christopher Piper, a star merchant down at Ottery St Mary in Devon. The ultra-crisp and tingly Chilean sauvignon blanc at £4.25 a glass was a convincing indicator.

This is a foodie pub, three times Wiltshire Food Pub of the Year, though maybe under former landlords. No sandwiches in view, but from the hearty menu you could have a starter of potted rabbit with pancetta and walnut toast (£6.50) all the way up to carnivorous feasts such as smoked pork belly, crispy cheek croquette, red cabbage and fennel seed slaw, pommes Dauphine and barbecue sauce, all for £15.75.

I’d come just for the atmosphere. To say it’s rustic and snug is to grossly understate the matter. This place is positively other-worldly, in the best possible sense.

25g butter, 1 medium onion, 2 cobs sweetcorn, 2 eggs, sea salt, 1 level tsp brown sugar, grated rind and juice of half a lemon, 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley

Method

Peel and finely chop the onion. Melt the butter in a pan and sauté off the onion until soft and transparent but not browned.

Strip the cobs and add the sweetcorn to the pan and cook for a further 2-3 minutes.

Remove from the heat and add the remaining ingredients.

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Absolute corkers Ned Halley

Buying wine by the case for home delivery is still a minority sport.

Fewer than one in five of us has ever done it.Partly it’s to do with the supermarkets. The margins on most of the wines sold in stores are being squeezed between rising taxes and a reluctance by customers to pay higher prices.

As the profitability of wine shrinks, so will the space devoted to it in stores. The shelves can be better employed moving faster-selling, higher-margin goods.

But the supermarkets don’t want to miss out on profits from wine. Tesco, by a mile the biggest retailer of wine (one in every four bottles sold retail in Britain), is already selling ten per cent of its wine via the tesco.com website. Just ten per cent maybe, but Tesco’s size is such that this relatively small part of its business nevertheless accounts for about half of all the wine sold online in the UK. And the giant is now running an intriguing scheme called “co-buying” which allows online customers to group together jointly to order wines at usefully reduced prices. The website nominates cases of wines as candidates for group purchases, and if enough subscribers indicate a wish to buy, the price is lowered.

Recent co-buy deals have included the delicious Rioja Viña Pomal Centenario Crianza 2009, sold at £36 per six-bottle case, cut from the list price of £54, and a seriously good Australian red, Wirra Wirra Church Block 2009, down from £69 to £45. Classic wines are included in the deals, too. Sixes of New Zealand’s cult white Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2012 lately went for an unheard-of £84, against the usual retail price of £126.

These are real deals on real wines, not supermarket trickery of the kind that involves the notional pricing of £5 wines at £10 in order to offer them later at half price. These practices are, in fairness, now quite quickly disappearing thanks to a recent agreement between the leading retailers and the Office of Fair Trading to phase them out.

Savvy shoppers can look forward to a more genuine discount culture, especially online.

Nick Juby, who sources wine for tesco.com, is certainly pleased with the way the co-buy scheme has gone so far this year. “It’s about getting customers together and it has been very exciting,” he says. “In the past few months several thousand have joined the cobuy community.”

Wine is the only product, so far, to be sold in this way, but if it is catching on as it appears to be, expect developments. For details of the scheme enter “co-buy tesco wine” into your search engine to see the admirably lucid guide to the process. You pay a fee of £1 to make each purchase, and if you recruit friends into joining in to make a purchase you might win a case of the wine. “Whoever brings the most other people into a co-buy,” the website declares, “gets their product for free.”

While no other supermarket has yet, as far as I know, launched anything similar, Tesco’s competitors are certainly working hard to keep up. Morrisons has spent a fortune this year launching an entirely new online wine service, and Waitrose Wine Direct this month is offering a 15 per cent discount to first-time customers who order a case or more – any mix of wines or spirits – costing £120 upwards, with free delivery within three working days. Rather to my surprise, neither Asda nor Sainsbury’s have a dedicated online wine service, but both will deliver wines ordered in the way of any other groceries. Now that morrisonscellar.com (ten per cent off your first order, by the way) is well under way, I wonder how long these two will be able to stay out of the loop.

Marks & Spencer

has had its own wine website for as long as I can remember. And for just as long, it seems to me, they’ve been offering large discounts off store prices if you buy just a couple of sixbottle cases. Last time I looked, the website was trumpeting headline reductions of up to 40 per cent off some wines by the case, and 25 per cent off a number of pre-mixed cases. It makes you think you’d be mad ever to buy wine in an M&S store, where the discounts seem very modest, and very few.

Not so at Majestic, where the discounts are all the same, in store or online. Majestic has always been a by-the-case retailer, and bases its perpetual price deals on the buy-twobottles-pay-less principle. It has clearly worked for enterprise, now with nearly 200 warehouse-style stores.

The Majestic website is slick and easy to operate, but it is in effect little more than a link with the branches, as your order will be delivered to you from the store nearest to where you live. Minimum order is six bottles, and delivery is free if you’re spending £40 upwards. Like Tesco, Majestic sells about ten per cent of its wine to online customers.

The Wine Society, I understand, now does 60 per cent of its business online. This seems a remarkable development for an operator founded in 1874 as a thoroughly gentlemanly, nonprofit-making mutual society aiming to bring decent wines to aspiring enthusiasts whose modest budgets were beneath the notice of lordly Victorian merchants.

These days, as I have reported before on this page, the Wine Society has an astonishing range of wines, competitively priced at every level. It doesn’t really do discounts, except on pre-mixed cases, but it doesn’t need to. The society has no shops, just a humungous warehouse in Berkshire. This helps keep the prices down. Orders are still taken, I’m glad to say, by post (there is a comprehensive printed catalogue issued four times a year) and telephone.

The only other comparable online wine operation is Laithwaites, which after decades as a strictly mail-order business has lately been opening its own chain of a dozen shops, including one on the Gloucester Business Park. Does Tony Laithwaite, who founded this company back in 1969 under the name Bordeaux Direct, know something the rest of us don’t?

Wine of the week Torres Ibericos 2010 Waitrose £9.99 This is the new vintage of a wine I have tasted in every year of its existence. I’ll admit this is hardly a remarkable record, as the first year this wine was made was 2006. Back then it was a new venture for Torres, Spain’s leading family wine producer, based in Penedes, one of the prime vineyard zones of Catalonia. Here Torres makes famous brands such as Viña Sol, Sangre de Toro and Mas de Plaña.

Ibericos is Torres’s first venture into an entirely different region of Spain, Rioja. And even amid the fabled red wines of that region this one has stood out from the start. It is made entirely from tempanillo grapes (most Rioja is a blend of this variety with garnacha) and it has an assertive, pleasingly grippy tension of savoury blackberry fruit with rich notes of sweet vanilla and warm spice. It has more density and darkness than you might expect in a Rioja, more vigour too.

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When we think about prolific wine-making countries, Peru probably isn’t the first that comes to mind.

But it isn’t as unlikely as it sounds – we’ve been enjoying and admiring wines from neighbouring Chile for decades and Peru’s climate is very similar in terms of altitude and the influence of the ocean. In fact, they have been making wine in Peru since the 1500s, although historically not a great deal has been exported.

Half the fun of wine tasting is in the thrill of discovering something new and different, and we are really excited that we’ve been able to bring the exceptional wines of Peru’s Intipalka estate to the UK. You won’t find them anywhere else, and far from being just an intriguing novelty, these are high quality wines with real finesse.

Intipalka’s white is a chardonnay – it has lovely ripe nectarine flavour, a rich creamy mouthfeel and even some of the mineral notes that we associate with the great wines of Chablis. Some people give New World chardonnay a wide berth, but this is about as far removed as you can get from the heavily oaked wines that often divide people. In fact, it’s a wine that just can’t fail to make you smile.

There are two reds, of which one is a blend of cabernet sauvignon and the lesser-known petit verdot grape. The cabernet gives it a luscious blackcurrant flavour that is nicely balanced with gentle vanilla notes. You are as likely to enjoy this wine if you love a good claret as if you prefer big Australian reds – it has characteristics in common with both but still retains its own unique style.

The second red is made from a grape called tannat –it isn’t well known but it is often used in French blends, although it is rare to see it bottled as a single varietal. Some grapes adapt better than others to different soils and growing conditions and tannat seems to love South America much more than its native France (it’s also the national grape of Uruguay). The

Grape vines on the Intipaljka Estate in Peru, whose wines are available through RudeWines.co.uk with our £40 discount offer below resultant wine is full of summer berry flavours, it is soft and supple and perilously easy to drink. If you love to try quirky wines and unusual grape varieties, this will require your attention very soon.

It’s been a real treat for us to get to know these wines, and to begin to get to grips with Peru as an emerging wine-making country.

Most of us would have to admit to knowing very little about Peru (without mentioning Paddington Bear, of course) but in fact it is increasingly being recognised as a quality wine-making country. By bringing these wines to the UK market, we hope to be a part of Peru’s continuing success. So now it’s over to you – and in a few years’ time when Peruvian wines start winning awards and we can’t remember what we drank before we discovered them, you can say that you were one of the first to try them.

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Your guide to Bristol Shopping Quarter’s AZUZA Coffee Shop 19-21 Merchant St, The Galleries. BS1 3EH Telephone 0117 927 9810 AZUZA Coffee Shop serves a great range of hot and cold drinks, including Barista coffees, beers and wines. Also offers a wide selection of freshly prepared food, including paninis, sandwiches and muffins.

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One of the biggest independent denim retailers in South West England. They stock all fashion and classic brands of jeanswear for men and women, including Levi, Wrangler, Duck & Cover and Pepe.

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Jack Weng

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Ground floor, The Galleries. BS1 3XD

Stores featured on September 13th

Jack Weng offers a great selection of bags of all styles, including suitcases, handbags, rucksacks and much more.

Offering something for everyone – all at great prices.

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Bristol Ticket Shop

52. Luke

Hair & Beauty Bank

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Café Amore

St James Arcade, Broadmead. BS1 3DX

54. Matana

10. Chop

Telephone 0117 929 9939

11. Coco 12. Colonel Mustard

Focused on providing high-quality service and customer satisfaction, this salon offers a huge variety of services including: hair, beauty, massage, botox, fillers, manicures, pedicures and piercing.

13. Dress 4 Less 14. Greetings Galore 15. Herbs & Acupuncture 16. Hot Dog Deli 17. Ifix Mobiles Bristol

Goldtrader Ground floor, The Galleries. BS1 3XD Telephone 0117 925 7428 Goldtrader offers an excellent choice of diamond jewellery as well as new and second-hand quality time pieces. Browse their range whilst enjoying a tea or a coffee.

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22. Parsons The Jewellers

63. Antics

23. Pepenero

64. Butler’s

24. Solo

65. Café Mocha

25. Sonyx

66. Caffe Espresso

26. The Print Shop

67. Co-Lab

27. Victoria’s Hair Extensions

68. Craft & More

28. Waffle On…

69. Dream Cupcakes

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70. Fone Exchange 71. Get In-Line Skateshop 72. Luggage and Case Store 73. Mimmo 74. Miss Diva 75. Paul Richards 76. Peckish 77. Philadelphia Street 78. Princess Inaya 79. Red Dress

35. Dulay

80. Rikaxxe

36. EK Hair

81. Sairaz

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82. Silver Scene

38. Famous Memorabilia

83. Soup and Sandwich

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84. Star Nails

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Famous Memorabilia

48 Bond Street, Broadmead. BS1 3LZ

Middle floor, The Galleries. BS1 3XB

43. Hair & Beauty Bank

Telephone 0117 930 0621

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31. Café Casa

The biggest autograph and memorabilia dealer in the UK with over 70,000 signed items ranging from signed photos, signed football shirts, signed boxing gloves as well as unsigned memorabilia.

50. Lily B’s

61. 5Pointz

30. Blue Dot

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20. Nails Deluxe

29. AZUZA Coffee Shop

Garment Quarter houses well-known designers for both men and women, including Vivienne Westwood Red Label for women and the rare and collectable Gold Label for men.

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Excelsior! is a comic book shop with all the latest and rare editions of some of the greatest comic books, as well as graphic novels, manga, toys, games and card games.

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Gaddis is a hair, beauty and nail salon which also offers ear piercing. Gaddis is one of the largest stockists of GHD straighteners in Bristol.

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Experience the ultimate in styling, traditional cut-throat shaves and expert grooming advice. Also offers complimentary beer, a plasma sports wall and a gaming zone.

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Model Eyebrows provides professional eyebrow and facial threading for men and women. The ancient Indian art of threading removes all the fine hair from the root and follicle, giving you a sharp and defined look.

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Telephone 0117 9290466 Sourcing the freshest ingredients, most of which are imported directly from Italy, to give you a true taste of Italian food.

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Vitamin-shop

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The Greyhound Walk, The Galleries.

BS1 3BF. Telephone 0117 930 0688

Stores featured on September 13th

A variety of supplements and vitamins. Whether you are looking for a single supplement or a complex nutritional programme, the team is always on hand to give you the advice you may need.

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A unique store specialising in the latest fashion and sportswear labels at discount prices. Offers a wide selection for ladies with an eye for a bargain.

13. Dress 4 Less 14. Greetings Galore 15. Herbs & Acupuncture 16. Hot Dog Deli 17. Ifix Mobiles Bristol

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Private Moments 30 Bond Street, Broadmead. BS1 3LX Telephone 0117 929 8763 Private Moments is an adult shop stocking a huge range of lingerie, DVDs, toys and accessories. Pop in and speak to the helpful staff.

Phone Tech Communications

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Telephone 0117 930 4985

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Visit Nails Galore for nail extensions, nail art, airbrush designs and for nail piercing. Choose from many designs.

No need to make an appointment – just walk-in.

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63. Antics

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26. The Print Shop

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68. Craft & More

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80. Rikaxxe

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81. Sairaz

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Quakers Friars, Cabot Circus.

St James Arcade, Broadmead. BS1 3JA

43. Hair & Beauty Bank

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A unisex hair salon specialising in permanent hair straightening techniques. Matana also offer colour, hair extensions and nail surfaces.

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61. 5Pointz

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Phone Tech Communications offers a mobile phone unlocking and repair service at a great price. Also stocks a wide range of stylish and affordable mobile phone accessories.

49. La Grotta

20. Nails Deluxe

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Julianne Moore’s latest children’s book is inspired by her late Scottish mother.

A star of stage and screen, mother of two and successful children’s writer, Julianne Moore remains the most unaffected of actresses despite her illustrious career.

There’s no hint of a diva or huge vanity behind that petite frame. She’s never had cosmetic surgery – and with her beautiful, almost ethereal, looks, nor does she need it – but is happy to live with the few fine lines she has.

“I don’t judge people for doing it. If it makes them feel better about themselves then great, but I like seeing me with a natural face,” she says.

Looks aside, the career of the four-time Oscar nominee, whose films include Hannibal, Far From Heaven and What Maisie Knew, is still on the rise. She’s starring as a religious fanatic mother in the forthcoming remake of Stephen King’s Carrie, in comedy Don Jon and family fantasy adventure Seventh Son, all due for release in the coming months.

But today we’re discussing her latest children’s book – My Mom Is A Foreigner, But Not To Me – inspired by her Scottish mother Anne Love Smith, a psychologist and social worker who died suddenly in 2009 following an embolism. She was a month from retirement and Moore was on a plane to see her at the time, so never got to say goodbye.

“It never goes away. It’s the greatest loss of my life,” says the actress. She was my role model, the one who told me I could do anything I wanted to do. She was only 20 years older than I was, so I had an expectation that we’d be old ladies together.

“You don’t cope. People have this idea that grief is something you get over, but I don’t think you ever get over that kind of a loss. It’s simply folded into your life and becomes an unfortunate reality. Certainly, having children’s a great help. My mother was great, so it’s my responsibility to be the kind of mother that she’d been to me to my own children.”

Her picture book pays homage to all mothers who come from different countries, celebrating the diverse world we live in.

“My mother came here [to the US] from Scotland when she was 10 years old. It’s a challenging thing. In the United States we talk so much about assimilation, that we’re all multicultural and we all assimilate, but that was not my experience growing up. My experience was that my mother was very Scottish.

“She was only 20 when I was born and she hadn’t changed or become ‘Americanised’.

When I was growing up, she’d say, ‘Remember you are not American’.”

The tales in the book are reflective of the experiences Moore had as a youngster, having a ‘foreign’ mum. “People would say, ‘Why does your mom talk so funny?’ I knew that she was different. She’d always braid my hair, we’d eat different kinds of food. Even something as simple as a mince pie, which we’d have at Christmas, other Americans didn’t have.”

The actress, who’s lived in New York for 30 years, is no stranger to a feeling of displacement. She had a peripatetic childhood, born at an army base in North Carolina, the daughter of a paratrooper and later a military judge.

The family moved to 23 different locations, with Moore attending nine different schools along the way.

“I found it difficult moving around,” she admits. “I mean, you are who you are, and your upbringing shapes you and I’m happy with my life and the way things turned out. It made me more interested in the world and gave me a tremendous education. On the other hand, of course kids never want to move.”

Books helped the young Julianne find security. She could take them with her and immerse herself in stories wherever she was.

“They were my way of understanding, learning about things, they were a constant companion and a friend. In literature you learn that you’re not alone, that we all have similar feelings and experiences. It’s a great comfort.”

She wasn’t a confident child, she’s admitted.

“I didn’t mind my [red] hair, but I just hated my freckles. You wanted to have skin like everybody else’s, not pale and freckly. Kids would say things like, ‘Are you dirty? Do they go away?’ I didn’t like not being able to go to the beach and get a tan.”

It’s this which inspired her successful children’s book series, Freckleface Strawberry, all now New York Times bestsellers, with a message that children can overcome hurdles.

Moore studied drama at Boston University, working as a waitress in the early days to support her acting. Her extensive career in theatre, TV and films is testament to the hard work she’s put in, although family always comes first. She’s managed to juggle home life – she’s married to director Bart Freundlich

with whom she has two children, Caleb, 15, and Liv, 11 – with a hectic career, which she modestly puts down to good luck.

“I’m so fortunate that I work in a creative field where I’m allowed a tremendous amount of flexibility. That’s what every parent wants.

The fact that I have periods when I’m very busy, and then I’m completely off, has been tremendous. And, unlike a lot of businesses, I brought my kids with me, especially when they were infants. In my job, having a baby in your trailer wasn’t a big deal. The entertainment business is very kind to working women.”

To her children, she’s just their mother, not some movie superstar. “Believe me, I’m as dull as they get, mom-wise,” she insists. “Their dad’s the entertaining one. I’m the one who does all the mundane stuff. I just want them to see me as their mom.”

The kids don’t generally go to her premieres, although she proudly recalls her son being her date for the opening of 2011’s Crazy, Stupid, Love.

“It was amazing to have him walk the red carpet with me, and people were asking him questions in my interviews. He was a great date, so conscientious, never left my side.”

Moore claimed British citizenship in honour of her mother in 2011. The dual nationality’s made her feel closer to her.

“She became a US citizen when she was 27, when my father was applying for a job where you couldn’t have a foreign national as a spouse. She came home crying because they’d made her renounce her British citizenship.

That was hard for her because it wasn’t her choice.”

The last time Moore visited Scotland was with her mother, to see elderly relatives.

“We went to Greenock and Edinburgh and just hung around. It was pretty amazing. I’d like to bring my children to Scotland one day.”

For now, home is Greenwich Village, Manhattan – and it’s probably going to be for life. “I don’t think we’re going anywhere. My kids have always been in New York, my husband was born and raised here. I’ve lived here longer than I’ve lived anywhere else in my entire life.”

As for her career, she’ll do the best work she can, but family remains priority.

“As you get older, the faster you go, the faster you get to the end. I’m not interested in moving quickly or going anywhere,” she says.

“It’s not about hopping from goal to goal, but it’s the process of doing what you enjoy and not wishing your life away.”

My Mom Is A Foreigner, But Not To Me by Julianne Moore is published by Chronicle Books, priced £10.99.

Available now Julianne Moore, pictured with daughter Liv, had a peripatetic childhood, born at an army base in North Carolina, the daughter of a paratrooper and later a military judge

Books reviews Wrongful Death by Lynda La Plante, is published in hardback

by Simon & Schuster, priced £18.99 (ebook £7.90) DCI Anna Travis is one of those fictional characters who has already made the transition from the written page to the small screen.

So when Lynda La Plante, regarded as this country’s First Lady of the crime thriller, puts Travis on the case there are sure to be fireworks, both professionally and emotionally. Following her numerous best-seller, La Plante once more shows her well-researched and engaging style here.

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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri is published in hardback

by Bloomsbury, priced £16.99 (ebook £10.04).

The Lowland takes us to the suburban streets of 1960s Calcutta in West Bengal, at a time when India is getting to grips with aspirations of wealth and modern lifestyles amid the realities of corruption, violence and class struggle. Brothers Subhash and Udayan lead relatively carefree lives as middle class Bengali boys, but as they grow older their lives begin to take different directions. This book raises thought-provoking questions about family commitments.

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Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe is published in hardback by Viking, priced £16.99 (ebook £9.99).

The Rotters’ Club novelist Jonathan Coe’s latest work has a World Trade Fair, held in Brussels, as its focal point in this slow-burning novel contrasting 1950s British suburbia with the excitement of overseas adventure. Although research drips off the pages and suggests a real labour of love for Coe, there’s uncertainty about how some of this knowledge has been used. An admirable reimagining, but wrongly executed.

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Shopping Gabrielle Fagan ion, £55; Handel bed, from £2,200 for a king size, And So To Bed.

Touch me texture “A great bedroom should feel like a sanctuary, which is aesthetically pleasing yet functional, and should contain thoughtfully selected pieces that mirror your personality,” says Julie Paul, head of interior design at OKA. “My personal style is slightly eclectic, veering towards English/French heritage. I like a soft palette and love the muted shades characteristic of Swedish interiors, which work so well in our sharp English light.”

STYLE TIPS: Aim for a mix of great textures and colours, and always include stand-out pieces, like a striking lamp or a bright throw.

TRENDS: Rich colours and metallics will star, she says, and all it takes is a new velvet throw or piece of furniture to update a room.

BEST BUYS: Hutton Velvet 2-seater sofa in damson, £1,650; Velvet Cushion Cover, £45, navy Faux Mohair Throw, £39; Antler Metal Table Lamp, £99, with cream Empire Drum Lampshade, £59, OKA.

Industrial chic “Calm, warmth and serenity are essential for a great bedroom,” says Claire Hornby, creative stylist for Barker & Stonehouse.

“My bedroom is a mix of materials and finishes because I love that ‘industrial rustic’ look, which has so much personality.

“I have a reclaimed wooden floor, walls painted in Farrow & Ball Light Blue, a linen button-back headboard, mahogany wardrobes, pieces I’ve collected while travelling in India, and a kilim rug and cushions from Turkey.”

STYLE TIPS: If you have a small bedroom, she advises, avoid a feature wall or patterned paper, use a pale colour for the floor, and have a large mirror to reflect light.

TRENDS: Coral, taupe and grey, with accents of teal greens, will feature strongly this season, and in bedrooms there’s a choice of Hotel Luxe or classic English country house featuring tweeds, linens and washed out woods.

BEST BUYS: Vienna High End Bedframe, from £839; Aquilla Sequinned Cushion, £39.95; industrial-style Thenadier Clock, £40, Barker & Stonehouse.

Autumn days make us yearn to be cosy, and the bedroom’s the ideal place to create a snug.

After all, this is the space where we retreat not merely to sleep, but to recharge, relax and rest.

And to be truly successful, it should reflect our taste in its furniture and pander to our desire for comfort and pampering in its furnishings.

“This season, my bedroom’s been inspired by fashion and the classic white shirt,” says Julie Hall, head of home design at bed linen specialists, Bedeck. “Pure white and cream cotton linens are calming and tranquil, and they give a timeless, elegant look. I like the way pale shades create tone and texture, and can be easily accessorised with a luxurious faux fur or chunky knit throw to cosy up under on a dark, winter night.”

Relaxed elegance is at the heart of the decor trend for bedrooms this autumn, she says, and followers of fashion should consider a vibrant palette of plum, denim and copper, complemented by soft aqua, champagne and rose pink.

Four experts reveal their bedroom secrets so you can create a beautiful boudoir of your own.

Serene sanctuary “A bedroom must be a haven of tranquility and a place to escape at the end of the day, which means that well-designed storage is vital,” says Wendy Morris Lea, product designer at John Lewis of Hungerford.

“I love contemporary styling at home, and in my bedroom I have soft colours – war m greys and blossom tones – and a range of textures to conjure a warm, homely atmosphere.

“Built-in furniture ensures there’s no clutter and there’s a feeling of order in the room; every inch of space is used. My dream would be a built-in vanity unit so I could dispense with my dressing table.”

STYLE TIPS: Mixing old pieces with newer ones in varied grey tones has been popular, and if this is used with pink hues, it will give a feminine feel to a room.

TRENDS: A brighter, fresher colour palette with turquoise and shades of yellow will star next year, says Morris Lea. BEST BUYS: The new fitted bedroom furniture collection starts from £5,000, and a freestanding Vanity Unit, from £1,600, John Lewis of Hungerford.

Light and shade “The most important piece of furniture in any bedroom is obviously the bed, and it should take centre stage, so always get the largest one you can accommodate,” says Wayne Clarke, creative director for And So To Bed. “My personal favourite is a bedstead I bought at an auction when I was 18 years old – a solid, wooden four-poster, hand-carved with African animals.

“It’s a fun and hugely dramatic centrepiece in my bedroom, and my love of animals is reflected in the Handel bed, in our range. This has an equestrian feel with tan metal bedstead straps, fashioned to look like worn leather tack for horses.”

STYLE TIPS: Luxury and layering are essential, he says, and suggests white linen bedding with a high thread cotton count, silk bedcovers and cashmere or fox fur throws.

TRENDS: “This autumn I’m loving rich berry colours and a combination of interesting textures,” he says.

BEST BUYS: Alpaca Throw, from £120; Cush-

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Bedroom destinations Part of the Natalia range from Bedeck, above; bespoke Shaker dressing table with pull out drawer, centre; cushions and Alpaca throw in fuchsia from And So To Bed; Handel bed, from £2,200 for a king size, again from And So To Bed, main image top

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And So To Bed: 0808 144 4343/ www.andsotobed.co.uk Barker & Stonehouse: 0333 355 9369/ www.barkerandstonehouse.co.uk Bedeck: 0845 6030 861/www.bedeck.com John Lewis of Hungerford: 0870 8888 123/ www.john-lewis.co.uk OKA: 0844 815 7380/www.okadirect.com

Shopping Lisa Haynes

Pastel pink is the colour for autumn.

Find your perfect pink From powdery pale to punchier neons, pink is more versatile than you think. Fill in Colour Me Beautiful’s colouring questionnaire (www.colourmebeautiful.co.uk/colouringquestionnaire) to find out your natural dominant colouring (the same principles apply regardless of whether your skin tone is fair or dark), then follow this guide to determine your most flattering shade: LIGHT: Pastel pink coats were made for you.

DEEP: Blush pink works for both warm and cool skin tones. Deeps with cool skin tones can wear bold cyclamen or fuchsia.

COOL: Pink is a wow shade for you, so enjoy wearing hot pink, cyclamen and fuchsia. If you like softer shades, choose candy or blush pink.

WARM: As pink is a cool shade, you are best to avoid wearing it, especially close to the face.

Go for apricot instead.

CLEAR: As with Deeps, blush pink works for both cool and warm tones and is strong enough to complement your colouring. If your skin tones are cool, then choose the bold hues like fuchsia and hot pink.

SOFT: Candy is just right for you, not too pale and not too bold. Cool skin tones can take cooler shades in icy or powder pink.

Put aside Barbie doll connotations and give pink the colour credibility it’s due.

“Pink brings out the femininity in every woman,” says Veronique Henderson, creative director at Colour Me Beautiful. “It can be grown up and sexy, you just need to know how to wear it.”

Design houses including Lanvin, Dior, Celine and Miu Miu all paraded blush hues on the international catwalks, breaking away from the traditional black, navy and grey winter palette.

It’s official, this season, pink is the new black.

Get the look Holly Willoughby has bagged some shoulder candy from Fiorelli’s new luxurious Leather Collection. Get her exact Marla burgundy mock-croc bag for £149, exclusively available online at www.fiorelli.com

Sugar coated Brighten up the gloomy days of winter with a pink coat for an instant rosy glow.

Pink cover-ups come in every shade imaginable from barely-there blush, that works in the same way as a neutral, through to electrifying neon, to really make a statement.

The paler the shade, the less practical the coat, especially if you’re prone to spills and stains.

“Pink is huge for outerwear this season and it will certainly brighten up winter days, but you do need the personality to wear it,” Henderson warns.

“Partner pink coats over greys, browns and blacks for an instant burst of femininity.”

For the coolest silhouette, balance out the prettiness of the pink with an androgynous oversized shape.

Buy it now Oasis pink wool coat, £110, above; Chockers Rhianna studded heels, £15, centre; Debenhams Floozie by Frost French pink faux fur bag, £39, top; mohair coat, £399; metallic dress, £250, main image left, both Jaeger London

Tu at Sainsbury’s has undergone a stylish makeover. In preparation for the 10th anniversary next year, the brand has revamped to include more catwalk-inspired seasonal must-haves to sit alongside classic staples.

Available now across 395 stores nationwide, with women’s jeans from £12.50.

Pretty in pink Bubblegum pinks are the standout tones for autumn and can look elegant and grown-up for evening or officewear.

“Wearing a pink outfit might not be your most powerful look, however, if you’re wearing a charcoal business suit, teaming it with a blush pink top, worn as an accent, will give you an air of authority,” Henderson advises.

Look for unexpected fabrics and textures to create interest in your outfit, like sequins and faux fur – this contrast will work especially well if you’re planning a top-to-toe pink look.

Think fluffy pink angora jumper teamed with a vinyl pink pencil skirt.

Don’t forget you can introduce prints to your pinks too. A traditional tartan check suddenly looks fresh and contemporary for winter set against an icy pastel pink.

Fierce fuchsia Pink doesn’t have to mean uber-pretty and girly. If you want a stronger look, steer clear of dusty tones and pick out the punchier pinks like fuchsia, neon and raspberry.

These tones are the perfect tag team with black and grey, especially if you can’t get your head around the idea of wearing pastels in winter.

If bright pinks can’t persuade you to part company with your dark wardrobe, punctuate your outfit instead.

“You may prefer to include pink in your wardrobe through your accessories, so try a handbag, heels or scarf as the most accessible way to work the colour,” Henderson suggests.

You can still stay on the rebellious side of pink with hardware details, like studs, to add an edge.

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Gardening Alan Down

Sometimes new ideas catch on overnight but more often they take time to be accepted.

Especially when the idea is radical. Covering walls with plants is not new but covering them with plants in specially made containers is – and that is where vertical or wall gardens differ from just plain old climbing plants.

Now there is absolutely nothing wrong with covering walls, fences or even whole buildings with climbing plants as far as I am concerned, and I am sure that we can all think of some that would be improved by a liberal covering of foliage! If climbing plants can be grown in the soil or in large troughs at the base of a wall this is often the best way to clothe a building with something greener.

But there are occasions, especially where seasonal changes to the display are needed, where special vertical wall growing systems are the answer. These systems have now been trialled for a few years and the wrinkles ironed out. So that for high impact areas such as hotel entrances, conference centres and public places, they offer something very dramatic.

Are they for the average gardener? Probably not yet, but for city gardeners and for the ever smaller garden that goes with modern housing, they may be the answer.

When staying with friends in Pimlico a few years ago I noticed that one of their neighbours, who lived in a below street basement flat, had “greened up” his outlook and, instead of looking straight at a rendered concrete wall, had covered this space with ferns.

Surrounded by high walls and high buildings, this would otherwise have been a very dark dreary place but his choice of evergreen ferns was the perfect plant to green up his tiny garden.

Perhaps a more colourful alternative to ferns would be a selection of attractive leaf Begonia varieties and some of the remarkably hardy Begonias I’ve seen in USA (yet to reach our shores) is the way forward.

The big challenge has been to build a system of pockets in which plants can grow and be regularly watered and fed all the nutrients that they need. There are now several systems on the market that make vertical growing possible, but all come at a considerable cost so don’t expect them to pop up everywhere just yet.

In 2011 the DIY giant B&Q featured a massive vertical garden at Chelsea Flower Show which was planted with edible plants, and perhaps in the near future we will see more food grown in our cities this way. Had this not been the year of Diarmuid Gavin’s sensational show stopping Failte Ireland garden in the sky, this vertical garden would have been the garden that everyone was talking about that year. Incidentally, no need to turn your head, the main image on the right of the B&Q garden is up the right way!

I have seen much more modest attempts at growing salad crops vertically and with some success. Rows of gutters fixed at intervals on the wall and filled with growing media produces acceptable crops of leaf salads.

But at the moment it is mostly the ornamental plants that are being grown this way and the effect can be truly breath-taking.

At first the pockets were filled with the same variety with perhaps the only variation being the inclusion of a couple of contrasting colours but now growers are being more adventurous as this rainbow effect shows.

The system is made up of strongly made trays full of soil pockets. Plants are established with the trays lying flat on a glasshouse floor or bench and, when well rooted, the trays are transferred and clipped to the strong framework that can either be free standing, or more likely, firmly fixed to the wall that is to be covered. Of course, this has the advantage of never having a dull display since a full back up planting of trays filled with the next seasons display can be in waiting.

I suspect that many of us will continue to cover our walls with climbing plants to make them look more attractive but let us not forget the value that plants play here in reducing temperature fluctuations both by cooling buildings in summer and making them warmer in winter. Walls that are ill maintained and have loose mortar or coatings are not suitable for growing self-clinging climbing plants on, but most walls are perfectly suited.

Although the pictures on this page are all mine, I am grateful to the Ball Colegrave Company for permitting me to use images of their products and displays.

Alan’s gardening tips for the weekend

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■ Scarify your lawn to remove old dead grass. Use a spring tine rake and put the old dead grass and moss that you rake out onto the compost heap with some Garotta compost activator. Follow up with Westland Autumn Lawn Feed & Moss Killer.

■ Spike compacted areas of your lawn with a fork and brush in a turf dressing of premixed compost. This particularly applies to well-used areas. For larger areas use a hollow tined aerator and then brush in fine grit or coarse sand.

■ Erect a net over your pond to prevent falling leaves from trees and shrubs getting into the water and increasing the nutrient levels when they breakdown. They may also deprive the fish of oxygen as they decompose.

■ Remove dead leaves from pond plants as they die back.

■ Remove yellowing leaves from the bases of cabbages, cauliflowers, sprouts etc. Sprouts and purple sprouting may need some extra support by staking now.

■ Try growing a few bulbs, other than the proverbial hyacinths, in pots for the house. It is much easier than you might imagine. Dwarf irises aren’t often grown but are very easy if they have good drainage.

There are masses of dwarf tulips and daffodils to try. Probably the easiest are tulip “Red Riding Hood” and “Hearts Delight”. For daffodils try “Tete a Tete” or “Jet Fire”.

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Garden visits ■ Replant pots and hanging baskets with autumn, winter and spring flowering and foliage plants. We have masses of choice at Cleeve. Use fresh compost and Osmocote feed for the best results. We can also plant yours for you if you wish.

■ Provide log piles in odd corners to act as wildlife refuges.

■ Put up Lacewing, bee and Ladybird shelters to provide over wintering refuges for these very useful predators to stay in your garden.

■ Install a hedgehog, frog and toad shelter.

Alan’s plant of the week – Mahonia Soft Caress This new mahonia has been winning accolades all over the world. I first saw it in Washington State a few years ago and it just stopped me in my tracks. At first I couldn’t believe that this narrow-leaf evergreen plant could possibly be so different from other Mahonia that I knew. It is a real breakthrough and a ‘must have’ plant at the moment.

For a while you may struggle to find it in your local garden retailer (Cleeve Nursery has plenty) but I’m sure that this exciting new evergreen plant will be planted for its fine foliage as well as its lovely lily-of-the-valleylike yellow bell shaped blooms in late summer.

The flowers are followed by typical blue berries that will be especially relished by blackbirds and thrushes.

Having a compact growth habit I see this plant being particularly useful in pots and displayed in part shade to full shade. In the border similar protection from bright sun would seem to be wise and, just like other Mahonia, it is likely to enjoy a soil with plenty of well-rotted organic matter added.

OK so I’ve shortened the name to just “Soft Caress” as this aptly describes the spine-free leaves, an unusual trait in the Mahonia tribe.

So to give it it’s full name - Mahonia eurybracteata subsp. ganpinensis “Soft Caress”.

Snappy little name isn’t it?

Hitesh and Kate Patel have transformed their Gloucestershire garden with their love of grasses, many collected while living in South East Asia Yellow Book garden descriptions are generally composed of the same elements: herbaceous borders, vegetables, topiary, woodland, shrubs and sometimes a pond. The combinations may vary but the mix is essentially the same. So, reading that Barn House had a miscanthus hedge, I was intrigued to know more.

Grasses, popularised by Dutch designer Piet Oudolf, appear in many planting schemes but the idea of using them as a hedge is unusual.

It turned out to be very effective. The biscuit-coloured foliage, topped with soft plumes, makes an elegant screen, set off by the dark foliage of shrubs that had previously formed the boundary. In front of the grasses – around 210 plants over 70m – are clumps of Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii “Goldstur m”, the yellow flowers a striking counterpoint, while Geranium macrorrhizum below that completes the display.

Relatively easy to maintain, it’s an eyecatching combination. For Kate Patel and her husband, Hitesh, planting with grasses and bamboo was natural; they spent several years living in South East Asia and built up a sizeable collection of both while there.

They moved to the one-acre garden at Brockweir Common, in Gloucestershire, seven years ago and inherited a plot that had obviously been well cared for in a previous life but was in need of some attention. One of their

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Kate and Verbena Bonariensis

QUESTION My Victoria plums this year have all contained a single maggot, why is this? From G. Hyde ANSWER This sounds like they have been infested by Plum Moth maggots. Moths lay their eggs on the fruits as they develop from May throughout the summer.

You can trap them with a special pheromone trap that you hang in the trees. It mimics the female pheromone and the moths are trapped on the sticky floor of a small plastic triangular tent. We can supply you with these but it is rather late for this year now.

first tasks was to create a weed-free border to house some of their grasses.

Knowing how difficult it is to deal with perennial weeds in grasses, they have done their best to stop any recolonising the area by lining the border with left-over damp-proof membrane from building work on the house.

At the heart of the display is a grass in a beautiful klong jar, a traditional Asian water pot, and more pots collected during their time abroad are used throughout, from the garden to house plants. One such display is by the side of the house, where ugly steps have been softened, first by an edging of Geranium “Sanne” that echoes the colour of the concrete, and then by a collection of containers with plants that include the wonderfully tactile Pennisetum alopecuroides “Little Bunny” and P. “Fairy Tails”.

The garden also has many bamboos, something many gardeners shy away from as they have a reputation for spreading vigorously; plants have been known to break through drives and paving.

Kate contains them by planting in raised beds that are lined with DPM, explaining that bamboos run from about 12 inches down. By making sure they are at least 18ins to 2ft above ground level they can be restricted.

“We’re not frightened of bamboo,” she laughs.

What’s on Malvern Autumn Show September 28 to 29 at The Three Counties Show Ground, near Malvern. The last big RHS flower show of the year and a great clebration of gardening, food, harvest and nostalgia. To book threecounties.co.uk/malvernautumn or telephone 01684 584924

Royal Horticultural Society recommended regional event – Planting Demonstration of Containers for a Colourful Display

Fancy having colour from autumn right through until late spring? On Thursday October 14 at 7pm, Felicity Down Dip PSGD will share her vast experience of which varieties of flowering, foliage and bulbs do best. She will also cover composts, feed, location, watering and any likely problems to watch out for.

Tickets £5 for RHS members, £7 non members.

Apply to Cleeve Nursery for this ticket-only event. Telephone 01934 832134

visit your local nursery!

Picture guide If climbing plants can be grown in the soil or in large troughs at the base of a wall this is often the best way to clothe a building with something greener, main picture; bottom, from left: precision pelargoniums; mahonia; a vertical garden; hedgehog home; Felicity Down WCL-E01-S2

For Good Advice & Excellent Home Grown Plants

Cleeve Nursery

138 Main Road, Cleeve, BS49 4PW 01934 832134 www.cleevenursery.co.uk

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Travel Lisa Haynes

It may be one of the world’s top holiday destinations, but there are still secret corners to discover in Antigua.

The first thing that strikes me about Antigua is colour. As I travel through bustling capital St John’s, reggae music booms loudly through outdoor speakers. Locals dressed in bright clothing gather outside their equally dazzling houses; a sugary mix of pistachio greens, rose pinks and lemon yellows, set against a sundrenched blue sky.

Children play cricket using a tree branch as a bat, while a man sells fuzzy coconuts from the back of a truck, expertly axing them open for anyone who flags him down for a cooling drink. I half wonder if this is the paradise location where they filmed the Lilt advert. It’s a Thursday but every day feels like the weekend in Antigua with its relaxed vibe and happy-go-lucky islanders.

It’s no wonder so many A-list celebrities and tourists are attracted to the island. But despite the number of people who come each year, Antigua still feels authentic, with plenty of raw, untouched beauty to discover within its 108sq miles.

Better still, the option of staying in allinclusive resorts means that paradise is now within easier and more affordable reach. Any reservations I might have had about “wristband” holidays quickly evaporate when I check into the adults-only Galley Bay on the west coast, looking out to the Caribbean Sea. Defying the stereotype of mass market allinclusive hotels, it’s a peaceful, romantic hideaway where breakfast and lunch is served a la carte by waiters who remember my name after day one. By day three, they’ve even memorised how I like my eggs cooked.

Much to my excitement, the beachfront Galley Bay also shares its three-quarter-milelong stretch of white sand with designer Giorgio Armani. His Hollywood-style holiday home is perched high on the cliffs, and I’m told he frequents the hotel’s fine-dining Ismay’s restaurant, located conveniently in tropical gardens at the bottom of his private stairs.

The fact Giorgio manages to holiday relatively incognito in Antigua isn’t surprising; if you really want to beat the crowds and get off the beaten track, it’s actually very easy.

Undoubtedly, Antigua’s hottest selling point is its 365 beaches – one for every day of the year. I set off on a boat journey to the more remote shorelines to visit picturesque cliffs, coastlines and smaller offshore islands, hoping to meet local wildlife on the way.

Magnificent frigate birds aren’t difficult to spot in beachside nests on Great Bird Island – the males are easily identifiable by the inflatable red throat pouches that they use to attract females during mating season. In a remote setting at the extreme eastern point of Antigua, Devil’s Bridge national park is a spectacle of spouting surf and dramatic geysers. The wild sea water has carved out a natural limestone arch over the centuries, but I shudder when I hear the myth behind the name – that slaves leapt to their death as if possessed during Antigua’s period of slavery. Unsurprisingly, swimming is not permitted here. I spend my day exploring a number of sleepy, secluded coves, swimming ashore holding a rucksack aloft with one arm to keep it dry.

I see just two sun bathers on the virtually deserted beach of Rendezvous Bay; being a good 30-minute walk off the beaten track, few tourists come here. Looking back to a land of rough, green terrain, this is the closest I’ve come to feeling shipwrecked. The crescentshaped Half Moon Bay has a similar desolate feel, making it an ideal spot for a picnic on the mile-long pink sands. The beach’s peacefulness is enhanced by the fact its only hotel was ravaged by Hurricane Luis in 1995. Although Stingray City isn’t a big secret among tourists, the floating docks are about a mile offshore, so when I arrive I feel like I’m standing in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by coral reefs. The gigantic but graceful and friendly southern rays soar through the crystal clear, shallow water to greet us in their natural habitat. Without distinctive heads, they float like huge underwater spaceships with antenna-like long tails.

On land, I discover the more rugged side of Antigua on an island experience drive with Scenic Tours Antigua. We barely move a mile before being forced to stop and wait for a herd

Travel news Why travellers like the smaller regional airports

Are student bedrooms really a moneyspinner?

We’re all eager to hit the slopes as economy heads for recovery

It appears local is best, with a new survey by Which? Travel magazine showing travellers who use smaller regional airports are much happier than those who use major ones.

The decision by leading budget airline Easyjet to switch flights to Southend Airport from Stansted in 2012 was clearly an inspired move: London Southend topped the customer satisfaction survey with a score of 84 per cent and a maximum five-star rating in five of ten categories assessed. Other highly-rated small airports with high marks include Humberside (81 per cent), Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield (78), London City (77), Southampton (77) and Blackpool (74). Only three of the UK’s largest airports made the top ten. Newcastle International (69), Birmingham Terminal 1 (66) and Heathrow Terminal 5 (66) all scored highly.

Parents are breathing a sigh of relief after more than 400,000 youngsters left home for university, but with annual student fees now standing at £9,000, many more will sigh in despair.

Thankfully, there is some help in the form of Airbnb, an online agency letting people rent out accommodation for nights at a time, which says empty rooms children leave behind could be let by families to boost local economies by £1.2bn. Even Heggernes, Airbnb manager UK and Ireland, says: “With many new students leaving home, the opportunity to make extra cash from a spare room is a viable option for many homeowners.”

The Airbnb site, which lists over 350,000 properties worldwide, provides a picture, description and nightly charge for properties.

Thousands of families are already booking skiing holidays for the coming winter. In fact, leading operators predict what could be the biggest trek to the Alpine slopes since 2007/8, the season before the global crash shredded the UK ski market by 30 per cent.

Switzerland, US and Canada are probably still beyond the purse of average skiers, but old favourites in the Alps – France, Italy, Austria – are very much back in fashion.

Andy Perrin, group chief executive of three leading family ski brands – Inghams, Esprit and Ski Total – says: “The skiing public have winter sports firmly on their minds, regardless of the late summer sunshine. After a few years of doom and gloom in the ski market, we are back in business. This was the busiest August for ski bookings since 2007.”

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Skiing and snowboarding sets the pace

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of ambling cows to cross a main road at their own Caribbean-style pace. From villages to vegetation, Fig Tree Drive is a world away from the 365 beaches. The picturesque yet twisty track meanders upwards into the ancient volcanic hills, passing through lush rainforest. At the peak of the climb, I marvel at rows upon rows of different banana varieties hanging from bulging purple pods. (Fig, I later find out, is the Antiguan word for banana.)

I stop at fruit and vegetable street stalls to buy fresh bananas (naturally), mango, guava, papaya, coconut and even black pineapples – said to be the sweetest in the world. As we descend towards the coastline, we pass old sugar cane mills and quaint village churches.

“I don’t understand the logic of a church opposite a liqueur store but welcome to Antigua, where anything goes!” our tour guide Sean Beazer jests. We stop at the famous Shirley Heights Lookout. It’s rammed to the rafters once a week for the lively Sunday sunset party, when tourists and locals drink rum punch, listen to steel bands and dance to reggae music. I’m told it’s as much a weekly institution as visiting church on a Sunday.

During the day, however, the former military lookout is a peaceful spot to take in the best views of the island, including the historic English Harbour and ferocious Atlantic Ocean. The only disturbance comes from the gossiping female stall holders who sell bright beaded jewellery and trinkets to passing sightseers. I continue to historic Blockhouse for another sheer cliff vantage point. Remains at the former military post date back to the 18th century but visitors appear to be more captivated by the clear views of Eric Clapton’s sprawling estate on nearby Jumby Bay than the ancient canons. It’s hardly been strenuous activity, but I still welcome the opportunity to lie back and relax at Galley Bay. Even by Caribbean standards, the pace of life here is slow. With few tourists around, I smugly settle into my own private beach.

“We do have some more guests here today,” one of the hotel porters tells me, much to my disappointment. “One daddy, three mums and 14 babies.”

I’m relieved, however, to discover he’s referring to a family of red-footed tortoises. Still, 14 is quite a high number!

“Come on my friend,” our porter laughs, “this is the Caribbean.” Quite.

Travel facts – Antigua ■ Lisa Haynes was a guest of the Elite Island Resorts at the all-inclusive Galley Bay (www.galleybayresort.com).

■ Seven nights in Antigua with Virgin Holidays (0844 557 3859/www.virginholidays.co.uk), including scheduled flights with Virgin Atlantic from London Gatwick direct to Antigua, accommodation at 4V+ Galley Bay Resort on an all-inclusive basis with transfers starts from £2,201pp. Price based on two adults travelling.

■ For more information on Antigua, visit www.visitantiguabarbuda.co.uk

Caribbean cruising is full steam ahead after stormy interlude

Museum heartened by prestigious accolade

The number of Britons cruising out of the Caribbean plunged after the Government Airport Passenger Duty tax sent the costs of flights to the region soaring a few years ago, but now, the sector is bouncing back.

Last month, for example, Fred Olsen Cruise Lines quickly planned three new Caribbean fly-cruises in January/February 2015 after a first cruise in the region fixed for January 2015 sold out in five days. Two new cruises on the 929-passenger Braemar start at £999 (cruise only), based on two sharing an inside, twin cabin. This Christmas, Fred Olsen has a 25-night cruise on Black Watch, departing Southampton December 20 to Madeira, Barbados, St Lucia, Antigua, St John’s, St Maarten, Tortola, and Ponta Delgada from £2,000 – just £80 per person per night.

A West Country museum has been awarded a top accolade from a prestigious travel website.

Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life has received a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence award – which honours hospitality excellence and is given only to establishments that consistently achieve outstanding traveller reviews on TripAdvisor.

In fact, only the top-performing 10 per cent of businesses listed on TripAdvisor receive this award. To qualify, businesses must maintain an overall rating of four or higher, out of a possible five, as reviewed by travellers on TripAdvisor, and must have been listed for at least 12 months.

“We were pleased to receive acertificate of excellence,” said Pippa Griffith, curator.

Fred Olsen’s Braemar cruise liner

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Walks Sue Gearing

Chew Magna.

Outline A choice circle from Chew Magna through the North Somerset countryside through Norton Malreward, and past the Standing Stones at Stanton Drew. It follows the Three Peaks Way, the Community Path and the Two Rivers Way Map OS Explorer, 155 Bristol West & Bath, grid ref: 578632 Distance 6.7 miles, about four hours walking

Park Somewhere suitable in Chew Magna. There is a public car park behind the Pelican in the High Street but it may be full. If not cross the road and park somewhere down the back of the church near the Queen’s Arms pub. “Onwards and upwards” was the comment of a customer at the Druids Arms in Stanton Drew as I left to finish this circular walk. “Not so much of the upwards,” was my reply. And it is true. This choice ramble from Chew Magna through the glorious countryside around is reasonably flat, but offers wonderful widespread views, including some of Maes Knoll fort and takes in the Standing Stones at Stanton Drew. It is 6.7 miles following the Three PeaksWalk, then the Community Forest Path and finally the Two Rivers Way, crossing and walking alongside the Chew. There is now a great pub stop at Stanton Drew after a recent refurbishment and new landlord. The only hill of any note is the one out of Chew Magna near the start. There are mainly kissing gates and few stiles and so would be good for dogs.

En route are several good picnic spots.

Start At St Andrew’s Church. From the High Street go through the churchyard, staying over to the left and coming out in Silver Street at the back.

Turn right. When the road bends left, continue straight on into North Chew Terrace and pass the Queen’s Arms. Then go left and cross a footbridge over the Chew and keep straight on in North Chew Terrace. Reach a T-junction and turn left and shortly leave houses behind.

Pass playing fields set back on the right.

Ignore a footpath left.

1 Stile Stay on the lane and soon, and a yard or two round a right bend, go over a stile left on the marked footpath, going up steps through a kissing gate. This is the Three Peaks Walk, a circle of 16.5 miles going over the peaks of Maes Knoll, Knowle Hill and Blackberry Hill.

Cross the field, climbing quite steeply, but soon rewarded with good views back over Chew Magna. Go through a kissing gate and follow the path along the bottom of a field. The path forks – stay to the right out of the dip and carry on. The path is definitely single file and climbs really gently. Further on the path forks again – go left. Don’t go ahead and up. Go along parallel with the hedge and then left through a gate in the hedge marked as the Three Peaks Way. Cross to the far hedge and turn right following the hedge on your left. Ignore a path left. Continue to follow the hedge to the end (there is a large barn over on the left which you may see) and then go across to a stile and footbridge ahead. Once over, cross the large field to the far left corner and find another footpath marker. Go through a Bristol Gate (a large metal gate with a pedestrian gate built in) and on. Go through a gate on the right and head over to the pond.

5 Norton Malreward

This is a route around Bristol using footpaths, tracks and some sections of rural lanes providing a variety of landscapes. It links up with the Two Rivers Way and other established paths. Follow the left edge and go through a kissing gate and follow the stream on your left. Now simply continue through fields and over footbridges keeping the stream on your left. Look for a footbridge on the left.

Cross this and then continue on still following the stream on your left. Reach a footbridge over a larger section of the stream and continue on a path going through an area of grass and bushes. Reach another kissing gate and continue to the lane in Norton Hawkfield.

There seem to be several suggestions for the strange name of this village, but perhaps the mos straightforward is that Norton Malreward is listed as Nortone in the Domesday Book of 1086 meaning “The north enclosure” from the Old English norp and tun. Malreward is a corruption of Malregard who was a tenant of the Bishop of Coutances in 1238.

Turn left on the lane. Opposite Chalk Farm Close, go right up steps on a marked path into a field and turn left heading for the church. Go through a kissing gate and continue on to come out on to a track just by Holy Trinity church. To visit this beautiful little church which has a stunning Norman chancel arch, go left. There is a history of the church and village inside with another much more imaginative reason for the village’s name! To continue our walk go right on the track through a gate. This next section gives good opportunity for striding out. Cross an airstrip en route. Continue on to the far side of the field and join a stony track.

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2 Pond Go across the right hand end of the pond and on through roughish ground, with a large farm barn up left. Soon find a marked kissing gate on the right. Head across the field to the other side near a bend in the hedge and go left on the marked Three Peaks Way over a footbridge and turn right in the field heading towards the right of cottages. Ahead you can see a road signpost. Go through a kissing gate on to the lane. Turn right and after a very few yards turn right again on to the Community Forest Path.

3 Community forest path

There seem to be several suggestions for the strange name of Norton Malreward, but perhaps the most straightforward is that it is listed as Nortone in the Domesday Book of 1086, meaning ‘The north enclosure’ – from the Old English norp and tun

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Cross on to the stony track opposite past cottages. This becomes Tarmac and leads to another lane. Turn left and very shortly, make sure you don’t miss a kissing gate on the right marked with the Community Path arrow taking you through a farm. Go straight on past Park Farmhouse and bear right through a large metal gate and up a track. Continue on the track along the edge of a field with good views over this beautiful part of the countryside so close to Bristol. Pass a well-sited seat ideal for a picnic. After this, the path bends left with the fence and passes another bench. You get some good views across to Maes Knoll, an Iron Age hillfort and the start of the ancient Wansdyke. During the Second World War, the flat area was dotted with stone cairns to deter enemy gliders. Carry on and go through a kissing gate. Then bear right on the Community Forest Path dropping down under horse chestnuts. Go through a gate and turn right on a track – to Norton Malreward.

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6 Stony track This drops quite steeply downhill and requires some care on the stones. Reach a road.

Go left a few yards and then cross onto the Community Forest Path on the right. Go right along the hedge, and through a kissing gate.

Turn left downhill. Get a good view of Pensford Viaduct over on the left. At the foot of the field go through another gate and turn right across the field to go through the hedgeline and continue on the Community Forest Path, past a house to a lane. Turn left soon coming to an area known as Byemills on the River Chew.

Walks Martin Hesp 7 Byemills Curve round left over the Chew by a sluice and follow the track to the right of a house. Cross the river again and turn right through a kissing gate. You have joined the Two Rivers Way, a route from the River Yeo in Congresbury to Keynsham on the Avon. Keep the Chew on your right following the Way through fields (at one point there are two metal gates ahead... take the left one which has a small walkers’ gate at the side). Follow the hedge ahead on your right and reach a lane.

8 Lane Cross and follow the forest path in the field bearing right and coming out on to the lane further up. Go straight over. Pass an area of what looks like market gardens and bend round left at the end, and go right through a kissing gate and head in the direction of Stanton Drew Church ahead. Go through another gate and ahead up the field to a gate in the top corner. Go through and continue ahead on a concrete track. Over on the right in the field are the famous stone circles. The official entrance is further on. Follow the track out through a farm (the church is up left). Turn right.

9 Stanton Drew To go and see the Stones, turn right again and then left past houses – there is a small entry charge. The largest stone circle is the Great Circle, the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury). It is considered to be one of the largest and most impressive Neolithic monuments to have been built. The Great Circle probably consisted of 30 stones, of which 27 survive today. There is a North East Circle and a South West Circle. A geophysical survey by English Heritage in 1997 revealed evidence of a huge pattern of rings, ditches and posts below ground which considerably elevated the importance of this Neolithic site.

To continue our route, bear left across to the principal road in Stanton Drew. Turn left.

Soon reach a chapel where we go right on Sandy Lane, but it is worth going on for a minute to the Druid’s Arms, a fine country pub, recently well renovated by John and Alan and run by John and his wife. It has a great atmosphere with tasty good value food. In the garden pub is another set of ancient stones known as The Cove which are thought to be about 1,000 years older than the stone circle and are thought that these upright stones are the portals of a chambered tomb.

10 Sandy Lane Follow this lane past houses and then continue on the hedged track. Ignore side paths.

Eventually drop down and bend to the right, ignoring paths coming in left.

11 Footbridge Soon cross a footbridge over a tributary of the Chew left and immediately go uphill up a field path. At the top go through a gate and follow the field edge on the right, going round a corner and coming above the Chew. Drop down, bend right still alongside the river, joining another track. Go over a stile by a Bristol gate and enter a field through a kissing gate. Go across to the road on the edge of Chew Magna.

12 Chew court Cross carefully and go up the drive of Chew Court. At the end go to the right of the main house following the track and bend round. Go on into the churchyard and find your way back to where you started.

Refreshments The Druids Arms, Stanton Drew, open daily.

Telephone 01275 332230.

Enjoy the intense bright light that comes bouncing off the sea at Start Point. The area is ideal walking territory, although in places you might need a good head for heights

Here’s my advice for those thinking of doing some autumn walking.

Be headland happy, peninsula potty, cape crazy. Follow me and become a foreland fanatic. This region’s many south-pointing headlands are among the great hiking highlights of this great big ocean-pointing peninsula, and before the first thoughts of winter set in I’ve been determined to get a last blast of the intense bright light that comes bouncing off the sea.

I’ve written before about the bright-lighttreatment offered by the handsome protuberances of England’s underbelly. The great bastions of land stretch out into a cauldron of light and the stuff comes bouncing up at you from three magnificent, glaring, sides.

Lizard, Dodman, Rame and Prawle – the names send happy shivers down my spine.

Start Point, in South Devon, is no exception in this illuminated roll of honour. Moreover, like all promontories, it makes for ideal walking territory although in places you might need a good head for heights.

Oddly enough, given all this joy and light, our route begins at a place that is melancholic and forlorn. Indeed, the lost village of Hallsands is probably one of the West Country’s saddest sights – if you consider it was once a merry, thriving fishing community.

But it was doomed. You realise this as soon as you park down by the pleasant little beach.

It’s a place that’s gone to sea – most it has disappeared over the cliff-edge.

Readers will probably be aware of the story of Hallsands. Basically, the community was condemned thanks to the actions of man – indeed, the Royal Navy may as well have turned up with a couple of destroyers, shelled the place and had done with it. It was a gigantic dredging operation to supply gravel

for the development of the Naval Dockyard at Devonport, that probably caused the 37 houses in the village to slip into the sea. Half-amillion tons of the stuff was taken from an area called Skerries Bank just offshore.

Consequently, the beach level dropped four metres in a few years leading up to 1904 – and the natural sea-defences were gone. After a series of storms, the village went the same way as its beach. The worst incident occurred in January 1917 when 24 of the remaining houses were destroyed.

One or two intact cottages still cling to the narrow ledge and beyond them are the remains of a few others. But the path down to the houses is barred and bolted and you have to peer from a viewing platform where an interpretation board tells you about the disaster. Copies of old sepia photos show a bustling place (women in aprons, boys with barrels, washing lines, smoking chimneys) although you can see how the sea wall is already falling asunder. One picture shows a family evacuating a cottage, carrying their bits of furniture amid the rubble of what was once a main street.

One little known fact about this lost community is that they used to keep Newfoundland dogs here and the creatures were specially trained to swim out beyond the breakers so that they could return holding the end of a boat’s rope in their teeth.

From the lost village the coast path begins its gentle ascent along a curving, bracken covered hillside, towards Start Point. The path is a delight. Which ever way you look there are stunning views.

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Over your shoulder, Devon’s coast marches north past Beesands and the great blonde thread of Slapton Sands to Dartmouth and the hills of Brixham beyond before turning east to head towards Dorset. To the south, Start Point stabs the channel like the blade of a serrated dagger. It’s sometimes claimed that Start was given its name by mariners who felt they hadn’t really begun the big blue-water part of their oceanic voyages until they’d past the rugged finger of rock that divides comparatively genteel Lyme Bay with the wilder Western Approaches.

It is more likely that the name was adapted from the early Anglo Saxon “steort”, meaning tail. Seen from the air, Start Point is certainly tail-like – a near mile-long ridge of highly metamorphosed schist rock that sticks a jagged thumb east in a final and dramatic curtailment of Lyme Bay. On our walk we reach a stone stile at the top of the ridge and this introduces us to the Trinity House lane that hugs vertiginous slope until it terminates at the lighthouse.

Start Point used to be a killing ground for ships. The list of wrecks is frightening – in March 1891 no fewer than six vessels came to grief in the vicinity in just 30 days. Even a moderately breezy day can provide visitors with a sense of sombre foreboding – at certain states of the tide the wind and currents do battle around the point with alarming effect.

You can imagine the entire salty contents of Lyme Bay being forced to rush past this tip with the result that a succession of fearsome looking “over-falls” line up like the ones you see boiling in a big mountain river in full spate.

I was once given a tour of the lighthouse by Roger Barrett who wrote a book about the place. It was built in 1836 and Roger told me: “It’s a direction sign – both a warning sign to warn of the dangers of the rocks and the Skerries sand bank, and also a direction sign, with the light flashing three times every ten seconds. Sailors can see the beam from 25 nautical miles.

“It used to be a major landfall for mariners who used to chart their course to make a landfall at Start Point,” he added. “Then, when they’d seen it, they’d know they were safely in home waters and go on up the Channel keeping the lighthouses on the left hand side.”

Roger’s book is a fascinating account of this most lonesome and wild place and has chapter headings like “Saints and Sinners” – which contains a note about the hapless Henry Muge who was hanged in chains out on the end of the point as a dire warning to others who might be tempted to take up piracy.

I climbed the serrated ridge from the lighthouse and made my way inland recalling how the usual wreckers and smugglers stories abound around this rocky corner of Devon.

Roger’s book tells a story of one ship being lured on to the rocks where the wretched crew clung for their lives and yelled for help. A rope was thrown down from the locals above – but it was way too short.

“More rope!” the sailors cried, to no avail. As Roger points out – dead men don’t tell tales. For years afterwards Great Mattiscombe Sand, as it’s now known, was rather matter-of-factly called More Rope Bay. The path I was following now weaves its aerial way to reach Great Mattiscombe Sand – where a footpath headed inland up a valley to reach the stone stile we climbed earlier. We climb this path so, having reached the stile, it’s a case of retracing our footsteps down to Hallsands to complete what is a lasso-shaped hike. You could though, continue to Lannacombe Beach, which is a tremendous idea. From there you’d make your way via inland lanes back to Hallsands Whichever route you take, let me warn you: a day spent bathed in Start Point’s curative light will cause you to become a peninsula potty, cape crazy, foreland fanatic like me.

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Gardiner Houlgate feature this painting, a vibrant watercolour of an Italian home by the recently deceased John Bellany, estimate £800 to £1,200

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Last but not least, for all you party-goers, there are 250 lots of jewellery to include a beautiful Cartier ring, lot 26 and, lot 400, a fine attractive pair of Garrard & Co circular swirl design diamond earrings, estimated at £1,500 – £2,000, with matching brooch, lot 399. All lots can be viewed online at www.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk where you can also find details of opening hours if you wish to view in person.

Gardiner Houlgate Gardiner Houlgate will be holding a two-day sale of silver, bijouterie, antique and modern jewellery, antiques and works of art, vintage and general on September 25 and 26 – in other words, they say, items to suit all tastes and purse strings.

For those of you with exotic leanings there is a fine collection of ivories ranging from Japanese okimonos estimated at £50 to £80 – through to a rare collection of ivory figures estimated at £1,500 – £2,500. Of particularly fine quality is lot 702, a Japanese okimono modelled as a fisherman dating from the Meiji period, and lot 732, a large impressive pair of Chinese tusk ivory figures, estimated at £600 – £1,000. The agents said: “Rest assured that these all comply with the CITES regulations.”

For those with a passion for militaria we have collections of medals, among which is lot 1016 a Crimea war medal estimate £500 to £1,000 and also, lot 1014, a rare French late 19th century Gaulois patent palm pistol, estimate £300 – £500.

If Fine Art is more your cup of tea then how about updating your decor with one of a collection of John Maltby sculptures (lots 838841) or reliving your summer with lot 1233, a

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This Japanese okimono modelled as a fisherman, dating from the Meiji period, features with Gardiner Houlgate, as well as this fine pair of Garrard & Co circular swirl design diamond earrings, estimated at £1,500 to £2,000

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A rather magnificent fellow is to be sold at Tamlyns’ antiques auction on October 29.

From the Royal Worcester factory it is a model

by Doris Lindner, beautifully detailed and in perfect condition, he comes complete with the original certificate and is estimated at £300 to £350.

The sale also includes a collection of Albany Fine Art porcelain birds, the earlier examples modelled on porcelain branches rather than the later ones that are on bronze twigs. The collection includes a blackbird, song thrush, kingfisher and an owl.

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Country Sporting Sale on Friday, October 4.

The long running and well-established West Country Sporting Sale will feature a wide range of items embracing field sports, team sports and sporting art.

Both sales will be on view on Saturday, September 28, from 9am-12.30pm, and on the Tuesday and Wednesday, October 1 and 2, from 9am-5pm.

A “flotilla” of Beswick Peter Scott approved ducks, assorted Royal Doulton figures and character jugs, a Lledo figure of a Thai dancer and two large Noritake models of cockerels are some of the more modern ceramics included in this sale.

Entries close on October 17 so if you would like to enter items contact Tamlyns on 01278 445251.

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Jade interest hits the heights

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Greenslade Taylor Hunt Demand for Chinese jade was fevered as estimates toppled and the sale figure climbed to new heights at Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s September antiques auction.

The compact creature at the centre of the kerfuffle was a small celadon jade carving of a squirrel atop a melon. At just six centimetres long the tiny creation would comfortably sit in the palm of a hand.

Its diminutive nature did not dent demand for its charms. Interest in Chinese art is particularly strong and bidding flew along.

The carving sold for £1,900 from a pre-sale guide of £150-£250.

A similarly stellar price was achieved for a fine late 19th century French gilt figural mantel clock. This distinctive piece featured two supports modelled as Diana holding a bow and dead game and another figure, possibly Amphitrite, holding a trident. The movement marked Japy Freres.

Spirited bidding in a busy saleroom saw this achieve £1,250 from an estimate of £400-£600.

Preparations are well in hand for next month when the Octagon Salerooms, East Reach, Taunton, plays host to two one day sales.

The customary monthly sale takes place on Thursday, October 3, and the biannual West

Chorley’s are offering a rich and varied selection of works of art from the distinguished Methuen Collection at Corsham Court, Wiltshire on Wednesday September 25 and 26.

The Methuen family have been associated with that great house since the middle of the 18th century when the diplomat and connoisseur, The Rt. Hon. Sir Paul Methuen’s nephew, another Paul Methuen (1723-1795), bought the property in 1745. He transformed the Elizabethan house, employing first Nathaniel Ireson and later “Capability” Brown whose picture gallery, adorned with the family’s great collection of Old Master paintings and splendid late 18th-century furniture, is one of the most magnificent interiors to be found in the west country. A strong interest in the arts has pervaded almost every generation of the Methuen family. This has meant that 18thcentury Corsham has been altered and improved ever since and the collection has grown accordingly.

In the 19th century the house was subject to considerable revision by George IV’s architect John Nash and later by Thomas Bellamy. At the same time the collection has expanded particularly with the arrival of the Rev Sanford’s collection through the marriage of his daughter to the Methuen of the day.

That collection was mainly formed in Italy and the sale of 142 lots from Corsham includes

Chorley’s are offering a rich and varied selection of works of art from the distinguished Methuen Collection at Corsham Court, Wiltshire – including this Italian 19th-century marquetry and ebonised centre table, estimate £8,000 to £12,000

After Sir Anthony van Dyck, 18th-century Charles I on horseback, oil on canvas, 108 x 90 cm, estimated to fetch £4,000 to £6,000 with Chorley’s lot 623, a fine 19th-century Neapolitan centre table veneered with “Pompeiian” style marquetry, estimate £8,000-12,000 and lot 596, an early 18th-century Northern Italian walnut and marquetry inlaid bureau, estimate £2,5003,000.

In the 20th century perhaps the greatest impact on the collection was through the activities of another Paul Methuen, the distinguished painter and Royal Academician.

Since his death the court has had at least three roles: home to his successors, a treasure house to the visiting public and an outstation for the University of Bath.

The latter has meant that various rooms have been surrendered to teaching over the years, which in turn has led to items from all parts of the collection going into the storerooms. Recently these have been subject to a review and one of the results is the offering of

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this diverse selection of property for sale. It is diverse both in the sense that it covers many areas of collecting interest and also in the sense that it includes objects reflecting all the strands that have made Corsham so rich today.

Included in the auction are pieces of furniture made new for the house in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as Oriental carpets such as lot 1104, a fine Garabagh runner, estimate £1,200-£1,800, which have always been a feature of the house. Other objects have appeared at Corsham almost mysteriously, including the marble fire surrounds that once adorned Lord Melbourne’s great house in Piccadilly, now known simply as Albany.

The collection contains English furniture from the 18th and 19th century including a fine pair of cheval mirrors, a Sheraton period secretaire bookcase and lot 583, an impressive looking set of nine George II and later dining chairs, estimate £1,000 to £1,500.

A large quantity of Chinese export ceramics from the Qing Dynasty includes a Chinese imari jar and cover, lot 1041, estimate £400-£600 and a large mid 17th Century Chinese blue and white “Kraak” dish, lot 1037, estimate £600£800. Among the portraits to be offered is an 18th-century version of Van Dyck’s painting of Charles I on horseback, lot 110, estimate £4,000 to £6,000.

Collections, especially ones fuelled by the artistic enthusiasms of generations of owners, do have the possibility of outgrowing even the largest houses.

This is what has happened here and so a judicious selection for sale has been made in the hope that today’s collectors, whose appetites are whetted by the chance of buying objects with such a provenance, will enjoy the opportunity of acquiring these works of art for themselves.

Viewing days: Monday, September 23, 9am5pm; Tuesday, September 24, 9am-7pm; Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26, 8.30am–11am

Prints charming among gems Lawrences Lawrences’ forthcoming autumn fine art sale in Crewkerne will comprise 300 lots of pictures and prints among the 2,200 lots on offer on October 15 to 18.

In the print section alone, there are examples from six centuries. “We are lucky to have a good variety of styles and subject matter on offer,” says specialist Richard Kay. “The finest printmaker of the 16th century is represented by a woodcut by Albrecht Durer from his Life of the Virgin series of 1504, estimated at £250-£350. From the 17th century, we are offering views of Constantinople and Paris by Matthaus Merian, published in 1635 and estimated at £600-£900 for the two. The skills of a great British artist, George Stubbs, are shown in the mezzotint of the horse Eclipse, published in 1773 and estimated at £300400 . From the 19th century, we have no fewer than eight etchings by James Whistler, including his magnificent Rotherhithe of 1860, capturing the life and character of the Thames, guided at £800-£1,200 . In addition, BurneJones’s Le Chant d‘Amour of 1896 is a fine etching on vellum, signed by the artist. This is expected to make £500-£700. From the 20th century, we have five etchings by the collectable modern Pakistani artist Muhammad Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1897-1975), estimated from £500 to £5,000 each. His Mughal Princess is priced at £3,000-£5,000. Coming right up to date, a signed offset lithograph by the popular Scottish artist Jack Vettriano, entitled Dancer in Emerald and published in 2009, may be bought for £200-£300.

In addition, there are prints by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Goya, Patrick Procktor, Salvador Dali, Graham Sutherland and even a large wool tapestry by Dame Elisabeth Frink, many with estimates from just £200.

This signed offset lithograph by the popular Scottish artist Jack Vettriano, entitled ‘Dancer in Emerald’ and published in 2009, may be bought for £200 to £300 with Lawrences

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Dominic Winter SPECIALIST BIBLIOGRAPHICAL & FINE ART AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS

PAINTINGS & WATERCOLOURS, OLD MASTER & MODERN PRINTS ANTIQUE FURNITURE, SILVER & CERAMICS, CHINESE WORKS OF ART SPORTING BOOKS & PICTURES, NATURAL HISTORY, FOSSILS & MINERALS

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2. Brangwyn. Barnard Castle Bridge, c. 1905.

Estimate £500-7000

4. MacTaggart, East Lothian Estimate £3000-4000 5. Isfahan School. Standing male figure, early to mid 17th c.

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11. A.E. Carrier de Belleuse (1824-87) ‘Liseuse’ (the reader) Estimate £700-1000

7. Legrand, Les Bars [1909].

Estimate: £3000-5000

12. Worcester Porcelain chestnut Basket c.1760-80.

Estimate £300-500

8. Tanner. The Memorial Portfolio, Twelve Etchings, 1989 Estimate £1200-1500

13. Tunnicliffe. Gyrfalcon.

Estimate £700-1000

9. Buccafusca. “Sciopero-Lampo”.

Estimate £3000-4000 10. Nevinson. Reliefs at Dawn, 1918.

Estimate £10000-15000

14. Lodge, Woodcock Estimate £1500-2500 15. Aepyornis Egg. Giant elephant bird egg (reconstructed), approx. 1500 years old.

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Fully illustrated catalogue available £23 (by post). Bid live at this sale at www.the-saleroom.com

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Antiques Not cheese, but rich in quality Devon and Cornwall Auctions For many of us, the name Gouda immediately conjures up thoughts of cheese. To 1930s ceramics enthusiasts, however, brightly coloured Dutch deco pottery springs immediately to mind.

The Devon and Cornwall Auctions’ sale today has part of a private collection estimated from an affordable £25 to £80. Paintings and prints are well represented. A naïve and primitive English School oil on board portrait of a cow (55x75cm) has an estimate of £200-£220 and there are European paintings including four large late 19th century oils from the Spanish School. Heading the clocks section is a late 19th century French gilt metal mounted mantle clock, under dome, with porcelain dial. It has an eight-day bell-strike movement stamped Hy Marc, Paris (56cm) and has an estimate of £400-£600.

Ceramics is topped by some beautiful examples of Royal Worcester including a 19thcentury reticulated lidded vase decorated with flowers, leaves and berries on blush ivory flanked by a pair of “platinum” winged birds (35cm). Possibly an exhibition piece, it is estimated at £2,500-£2,800.

The miscellaneous section features a private collection of pipes and smoking-related items, pens and writing implements, a gargoyle, dolls and toys and part of a large collection of stoneware jugs and flagons including Bristol and Doulton Lambeth.

The collection of writing implements includes Parker, Waterman, silver, fountain and dip pens together with vintage inks and accessories. The smoking collection has a range of clay, church warden, calabash and Meerschaum pipes as well as cheroot holders and lighters.

A Booking Office sign which, with a Way Out sign, forms a pair of Victorian cast-iron and painted wood railway signs in original unrestored condition. It is believed they may be of GWR origin.

The saleroom at Broadwoodwidger is just off the A30. Contact 01566 774404 for more details or view the website – dandcauctions.co.uk

Masterpiece in a drawer Christie’s A lost masterpiece of Japanese art once owned by a British architect who lived and worked in the country in the 19th century is expected to fetch around £500,000 at auction next month.

The hanging scroll-painting, called Hell Courtesan by artist Kawanabe Kyosai, disappeared after it was sold in in Copenhagen in 1942 and was recently rediscovered in a drawer and put up for sale.

It was formerly owned by the British architect Josiah Conder, who went to Japan in 1877 to teach at what became Tokyo University and is regarded as the father of modern architecture in the country.

The London-born architect studied art with Kyosai and was with him when he died. The painting includes a letter from the artist’s daughter to Conder confirming its provenance. The painting, based on a play about an eccentric priest who goes to a brothel and has a vision of the women reduced to skeletons, will be sold at Christie’s in South Kensington on October 15.

Also included in the sale are 137 lots of ceramics, drawings and etchings from the personal collection of potter Bernard Leach which had been left in an attic in his hometown of St Ives since his death in 1979.

The auction is expected to make more than £2 million in total.

Comedian’s legacy in art Marle Gallery, Axminster

Last weekend saw a real piece of theatre unveiled at the Marle Gallery in Axminster, East Devon.

London artist Tony Beaver’s solo exhibition opened – guaranteeing visitors to the gallery a unique and memorable experience. For, as compelling and brilliant as they are, this is not just about pictures on a wall. The Tommy Cooper Experience is an installation within the gallery which cleverly recreates the ambience and drama of the theatre so that viewers can experience Tommy “on stage”.

“My paintings depict Cooper in a dark empty space,” says Tony. “The comic famously died on stage in front of a live theatre and television audience in the middle of a performance. The paintings attempt to capture the moment Tommy Cooper finds himself in a new, profound and deeply serious space. He becomes an explorer, on behalf of us all, in the Afterlife.”

The exhibition showcases the full range of Tony’s work from his museum studies of ancient pots, to his portraiture work, including that of Tommy Cooper for which he was shortlisted in 2005 for the prestigious Garrick Milne Prize.

The London-based artist studied at Goldsmith College, London and completed his MA in European Fine Art in Barcelona.

His subjects appear diverse. He has dedicated some years of his life to painting potatoes – whimsical on the face of it, but to Tony, bestowing grandeur and importance to the hum-drum and humble is central to the work of the portrait artist.

His range of works entitled Museum Studies celebrates the humble pot from all ages and eras. Often overlooked, through his paintings he places them centre stage, reminding us of our link with civilisation from the very first ages of man. The exhibition continues to October 26. The Marle Gallery, Victoria Place, Axminster, Devon. Call 01297 639970.

Quartet offer contrast White Space Art, Totnes

A late 19th century French gilt metal mounted mantle clock, above, features with Devon and Cornwall Auctions, above, as does the English School oil on board portrait of a cow, top. The hanging scroll-painting, called Hell Courtesan by artist Kawanabe Kyosai, disappeared after it was sold in Copenhagen in 1942, but was recently rediscovered in a drawer and put up for sale

An Innocent Eye celebrates the naturalapproach of a quartet of talented painters and makers at White Space Art, Totnes, Devon.

Naïve or primitive paintings have a long tradition in this country and in the South West in particular. Dawn Stacey’s delightful acrylics and collages successfully continue along this path. She draws on the landscape and her memories of a place to assemble her highly-detailed paintings.

Renowned toy-maker Robert Race has been producing automata and moving toys for more than 30 years which he has exhibited around the world. The beauty of his work lies in its ingenious simplicity.

Helen Ward has a meticulous eye for detail and enviable patience to lovingly create her paper entomology. Using rare Victorian marbled papers, she hand-cuts insects and butterflies which are then pinned into deep frames, resembling specimen cases.

Another primitive artist, with a growing national reputation is Ingebjorg Smith. She paints charming, magical landscapes, usually with birds or animals present and a strong narrative presence.

An Innocent Eye, runs at the gallery until September 28 at White Space Art, 72 Fore Street; 01803 864088.

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Television Adam Postans Imagine a world without television (it’s okay, don’t fret, it’s just pretend). We wouldn’t have the decent grasp it has given us of the world’s diverse places, cultures and wildlife.

I’d have to get a real job – and we’d be completely unaware that Yvette Fielding’s feet have “no fungal STDs”.

Reassuring to everyone, I’m sure.

It’s one of the enduring revelations from a week in which six celebrities, each paired with a health-and-beauty trainee, have been: “Getting into places where the sun has never shone.”

In other words, “Channel 5”, who can be blamed for commissioning one of the direst series of the year, “This is Celebrity Super Spa,” announced co-host Laura Jackson, “where nothing is what it seems.”

Indeed. So let’s break it down for you.

It’s not set in a spa, for one, rather a Liverpool hairdressing salon, where the relatively famous contestants perform treatments for the chance to win their young sidekick £10,000.

The last thing it could possibly claim to be is “super”. And as for the first constituent element of the programme title, well, I’ll let you be the judge.

Given a growth deficiency, and adding a member, the line-up could be a warped version of the seven dwarfs.

We’ve got Grumpy (chef John Burton Race), Bossy (Most Haunted’s Yvette Fielding), Drippy (ex-Corrie actress Helen Flanagan), Dopey (Shameless’s Jody Latham), Towie (Arg from Towie) and Rustie (Lee).

Salon manager Trisha opened proceedings by asking: “Would you please leave your celebrity status at the door because the only celebrity in this salon is the client.”

Seeing as several of them didn’t even bring their celebrity status to the door in the first place, it was hardly a big ask.

Trisha, though, isn’t the boss. That’s an intriguing character called Herbert Howe, who in a good light looks like the product of a one-night threesome in the 1980s between Donald Trump, Joe Longthorne and Barry Gibb.

But I’m not about to knock him, or even the format particularly, despite the fact it’s rehashed virtually every reality show going, from Channel 4’s The Salon to The Apprentice’s pop-up shop task.

No, I’m reserving the pummelling for the celebrities who started rowing with each other the moment Helen Flanagan turned up for work two hours late on day one because she was having her hair done.

They would have my sympathy if they’d been able to hold it together during the tasks.

But faced with a topless female for a spray tan or a male model’s rear end for a back, sack and crack, most fell apart – Arg and Jody with embarrassment, Rustie into fits of hysterics, like an epileptic walrus.

You can imagine how much worse it got when Amy Childs showed up to teach them how to do a vajazzle (“beautifying genitalia”, for the uninitiated).

None of them, it seems, have grown mentally beyond a Year 7 schoolchild learning about reproductive organs for the first time in a human biology class.

John Burton Race was a monstrous bully, and Fielding and Flanagan actually had this argument on TV: “You should grow up.”

“Well, YOU should grow up.”

Beyond pathetic.

Most of the time they seemed to be delivering their own running verdict on the show: “This is a joke.” “This is so embarrassing.” “This is ridiculous.” “This is awful.”

And my favourite and most appropriate line, from Laura Jackson: “Maybe they all should be in hiding.”

It’s humane plea that will no doubt fall on deaf ears. But it does at least make it easier and more welcoming to imagine a world without television.

screen shots ■ Last Sunday, Gary Barlow sat in the X Factor arena, opened his ears and realised the young hopeful on stage, who’d wowed the judges in the audition room the previous night, was singing her way out of a place at Bootcamp.

So he asked her to sing a different song. Her third of the competition.

The same Gary Barlow who, you may remember, insisted in week one: “You get no second chance.”

It’s one reason why the Sunday night déjà vu shows are the most dull and pointless phase.

Another is that the panel can say things such as: “You knocked it out the ball park,” when they’ve merely feathered it down to third man.

It’s this series’ new sob story of choice that irks most, though: “I was rejected at Judges’ Houses.” So fear not, dreamers. If you’re granny is still alive, you can still win this show.

■ You think the merry old land of Walford has become as ludicrous as it can get.

Then Kat offers a roof over the head of the woman who stole her baby and replaced it with her own dead infant.

Kim Fox describes Phil and Shirley as: “The Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor of Walford.”

And jobless, recovering alcoholic Lauren tells Joey: “I’ve got so much to be getting on with.”

It’s EastEnders, a place more detached from the wider world than the town trapped inside the impregnable, invisible force-field on C5 drama Under The Dome.

Last night, Peggy made a cameo. And this coming week, David Wicks is back. It’s not so much a soap, more a Chelsea football squad rotation policy.

■ Programme name of the week goes to Good Food channel’s Valentine Warner Eats Scandinavia.

That will take him forever. So may I suggest a quicker alternative?

Pop down to Iceland and buy some frozen swedes and a Danish pastry. Because there’s Norway he can accomplish that.

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■ X Factor’s talented band of brothers Next of Kin. ■ The on-screen sparks that flew on BBC2 during the showdown between Peaky Blinders’ Sam Neill and Cillian Murphy over afternoon tea.

■ Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood revealing to ITV’s Loose Women how he marks the dancers: “I don’t care what emotional state people are in.”

■ TLC’s quite extraordinary Superstars and Superfans, which followed Gloucestershire couple Ken and Jo Dobson to meet their idol, Paul Burrell, and ended up with Princess Diana’s former butler emerging from their wardrobe and snuggling into bed with them.

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TOP PICK Downton Abbey, Sunday, 9pm, ITV. The hit series returns, with the focus on the widowed Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) and her baby George, though other perennial favourite characters will no doubt be given their fair share of the limelight, including Dame Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess of Grantham and Lily Rose as the youngest of the three sisters, Lady Rose

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■ The X Factor’s waste-of-an-hour Sunday night arena shows.

■ Carl Froch bothering to enter ITV’s Stepping Out, only to pull out mid-series with a minor niggle.

■ Holly Willoughby crying at the sight of a tissue on Surprise Surprise, and the show exchanging dream holidays in return for a cheap, tacky plug for the tour operator. In the words of Angus Deayton hosting the 2008 British Comedy Awards: “They know who they are. I won’t embarrass them by naming them publicly.”

■ And Mastermind’s specialist subjects comprising Charles M Schulz, Harold Larwood, Frederick the Great of Prussia and Abba, which is frankly ridiculous and an insult to this long-running show. Frederick the Great of Prussia is too much of a doddle.

Television Keeley Bolger

Sir David Attenborough is determined to keep going on his mission to document the marvels of the natural world – and he’s not letting a pacemaker slow him down, even in his ninth decade

He’s hung out with gorillas, sat in a crowd of penguins and been scuttled over by crabs.

But modest programme-maker Sir David Attenborough admits that he’s stopped writing a daily diary while on his expeditions – because his entries are too dull.

“I used to record my journeys and kept jour nals,” says the naturalist, who today is decked out in his trademark light blue shirt and cream trousers.

“I’ve still got them and they’re the most, most boring documents in the world. You know, ‘Raining again this morning, did nothing. Cooked lunch. Waited for the rain to stop.

Went to bed’, that sort of thing.”

But his latest TV quest, a two-parter called Rise Of Animals: Triumph Of The Vertebrates, is rather less humdrum, seeing him off to China to trace the evolution of backboned mammals.

“There have been enormous discoveries about fossils in China over the past 20 or 30 years, and the most dramatic was that they found dinosaurs with feathers,” he says, gently edging forward – an endearing sign of his unending enthusiasm for all things natur-

al continues in spite of his 87 years.

“That answers some of the questions about the evolution of birds, so I was hugely looking forward to seeing that.”

And despite his enormous bank of knowledge, there was plenty that the broadcaster – a widower since losing his beloved wife Jane in 1997 – learned on his trip to the Far East.

“The Chinese also discovered the oldest animal with any sign of a backbone. We used to think that was a tiny little worm-like creature found in the Rocky Mountains, and the Chinese have found one that was 20 million years older than that.

“It was just one of the most breathtaking little fossils I’ve ever seen. It’s only the size of a piece of gravel but when you put it under the lens you can see it has a skull, teeth, everything. It’s perfect.”

Sir David, who chuckles when he catches a glimpse of himself on the screen behind him (“Oh, not him again!”), also spent some time in London’s Natural History Museum, where he came across a familiar-sounding creature.

That’s because the legendary naturalist has a plesiosaur named after him.

“A plesiosaur is one of those swimming reptiles which was around at the same time the dinosaurs were rampaging around the earth,” he explains. “It’s called Attenborosaurus, I don’t mind telling you, and it’s at the Natural History Museum. We’ve been filming there for the last few weeks and nobody ever looks up and says, ‘Oh, is that you?’

“I’m lingering, loitering, underneath this thing, hoping someone will say, ‘Good heavens, what a coincidence!’, but nobody has noticed.”

Given half a chance, Attenborough, who started his TV career at the BBC in the Fifties, would love to spend more time in China.

“It gives you itchy fingers, if you’ve got this kind of weakness that I have, which is to turn over every stone and see what’s underneath.

“You’re in one of those quarries in China, where fantastic fossils are being found, and the temptation is to say, ‘Well why don’t I book in for a week at a local hotel and just spend my time seeing what I could find?’”

Recently, he had to postpone a trip to Australia following a health scare which resulted in him being advised to have a pacemaker fitted, which he says it has made no difference at all.

“When you’re in your mid-to-late eighties, you often get a dizzy moment, and I had a dizzy moment and the insurance company said, ‘If you had a dizzy moment we’re not going to insure you for a long-haul flight’.”

But he was determined to carry on with his plans. “The only way I could do that was to fit a pacemaker, in case I had another one, so I had that done. But then I recently went for a check and the technician said, ‘Your pacemaker hasn’t been turned on at all, which means you haven’t had another dizzy moment’, which is great news. So it’s there. It’s not doing anything but it’s insurance,” he

adds, smiling. It means he can continue making the programmes he loves. At the moment, he’s working on a Christmas special about the Natural History Museum for Sky, a new series of Natural Curiosities for the Eden channel, not to mention another landmark series on the same scale of Africa, shown on BBC One earlier this year, which will carry on over the next few years. This is a man who clearly adores his work, but Sir David does worry about one aspect.

“We’ve included behind-the-scenes footage as little segments, and now we’re in danger of people thinking the 10-minute bits are more interesting than the programmes themselves, which is rather disappointing, but there we are.”

He needn’t worry – like the fossils he’s so fascinated with, Attenborough’s popularity is sure to live on.

Attenborough’s favourites ■ Favourite series: “Life On Earth chronicled the evolution of life and, at its time, was a ground-breaker. Nobody had tackled it on that scale before, or filmed it in that way.”

■ Favourite museum: “The Natural History Museum is one of the most important in the world.

■ Favourite place: “Tropical rainforests are great places but I don’t want to live there. It’d be very uncomfortable, hot and humid.”

■ Favourite animal: “I wouldn’t mind being lumbered with a gibbon and, in particular, with a little bush baby. I used to breed in my home in Richmond.”

■ Absolute favourite: “What makes me gulp with pleasure? A human baby, a miracle.”

Rise Of Animals: Triumph Of The Vertebrates starts on BBC Two on Friday, September 20

PICKS OF THE WEEK

SCIENCE Science Britannica Wednesday, BBC Two, 9pm.

Brian Cox returns to look at the long history of British science

COMEDY The Wrong Mans, Tuesday, BBC Two, 9pm. James Corden returns to sitcom to try and follow Gavin and Stacey

FACTUAL The Making of Merkel, tonight, BBC Two, 8pm.

Andrew Marr looks at the rise of the German Chancellor

GAME SHOW Through the Keyhole, tonight, ITV, 9pm.

Terry Wogan joins the panel as Keith Lemon gamble pays off

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ENTERTAINMENT Strictly Come Dancing, Friday, BBC One, 9pm.

Tess Daly and Sir Bruce Forsyth bring more hopefuls to the floor

FOOD Tom Kerridge's Proper Pub Food, Monday, BBC Two, 8.30pm.

Michelin starred-chef gives scampi and chips the heave-ho in this tour

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Saturday television&radio Saturday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

WHEN MIRANDA MET BRUCE 7.30pm, BBC1

Miranda Hart chats to Bruce Forsyth as he celebrates 70 years in showbusiness, with the entertainer recounting his career highlights and inspirations.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 10.00 Saturday Kitchen Live (S). 11.30 Home Cooking Made Easy (R,S,HD). 12.00 BBC News; Regional News and Weather (S,HD).

12.15 Football Focus (S,HD). 12.50 Match of the Day Live (S,HD). England v Belarus (kick-off 1.00pm). 3.00 Inspire: The Olympic Journey (S,HD). 3.30 Final Score (S,HD). 5.15 Formula 1: Singapore Grand Prix Qualifying Highlights (S,HD). Action from the Marina Bay Street Circuit.

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THE X FACTOR 8pm, ITV

THE MAKING OF MERKEL WITH ANDREW MARR The search for a superstar continues at the closed-room auditions. As usual, there will be a 8pm, BBC2 varied mix, from the vocally gifted to the downright deluded, and only the best will be invited to take the stage in front of a huge audience at Wembley Arena. Dermot O’Leary provides support as the singers learn their fate.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two (S). 7.25 Film: The Lost Squadron (S) (1932). ●●● 8.40 Film: Yellowstone Kelly (S) (1959). ●● 10.10 Reel History of Britain (R,S). 10.40 The Private Life of Plants (R,S). 11.30 University Challenge (R,S,HD). 12.00 The A to Z of TV Cooking (S). 12.45 Coast (R,S). 12.50 EastEnders (S,HD). 2.45 The House That £100K Built (R,S,HD). 3.45 Urban Jungle (S). 4.15 Flog It! (R,S,HD).

5.00 The Wonder of Dogs (R,S,HD).

The life and career of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, examining how her formative years in East Germany shaped her political vision and style.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 CITV (S). 9.25 ITV News (S). 9.30 Saturday Cookbook (R,S,HD). 10.25 Murder, She Wrote (R,S,HD). 11.25 ITV News and Weather (S). 11.35 Surprise Surprise 12.35 All Star Family Fortunes (R,S). 1.20 Catchphrase (R,S,HD). 2.05 Doc Martin (R,S). 4.05 Film: Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (S,HD) (2004).

Comedy adventure sequel, with Sarah Michelle Gellar. ●● 5.45 Regional News (S). 5.55 ITV News and Weather.

THROUGH THE KEYHOLE 9pm, ITV

Keith Lemon invites Catherine Tyldesley and Terry Wogan to join Dave Berry on the panel as he noses around the homes of three mystery celebrities. With the help of the studio audience, the panellists must use their powers of deduction and observation to identify the famous homeowners.

Channel Channel 4

6.10 The Hoobs (R,S). 6.35 Caterham Motorsports (S). 7.05 The Grid (S). 7.30 FIM Superbike World Championship (S).

8.00 The Morning Line (S). 9.00 The American Football Show (S). 10.00 Frasier (R,S). 10.30 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 11.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). 12.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 12.30 Undercover Boss USA (S,HD).

1.30 Channel 4 Racing (S). 4.10 Come Dine with Me (R,S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.50 Power Rangers: Megaforce (S,HD). 10.25 Slugterra (S,HD).

10.50 Animal Maternity (R,S,HD). 11.50 Film: You’ve Got Mail (S) (1998). ●●● 2.05 Film: Columbo: Uneasy Lies the Crown (S) (1990). ●● 4.05 5 News Weekend (S,HD). 4.15 Film: Fort Worth (S) (1951). Western drama, with Randolph Scott, Phyllis Thaxter and David Brian. ●● 5.50 Film: The Great Escape (S,HD) (1963).

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8.00 The X Factor (S,HD). 7/22. See Choices Above.

8.00 Grand Designs (R,S,HD). 3/11.

Kevin McCloud follows the progress of a commercial architect and his art-director wife as they try to build the ultimate family home near York, inspired by a giant farm shed.

9.00 Mock the Week (R,S,HD). 9/12.

Milton Jones, Hal Cruttenden, Holly Walsh and Ed Byrne join regulars Hugh Dennis and Andy Parsons for the topical comedy quiz show hosted by Dara O Briain.

9.30 The Awakening (S,HD) (2011).

Premiere. Paranormal investigator Florence Cathcart travels around 1920s England exposing supposed supernatural occurrences as hoaxes. She is summoned to a remote boarding school to examine reports of a haunting, but finds her rational disbelief in the occult challenged by the disturbing events that unfold there. Horror, starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West. ●●●

9.00 Through the Keyhole (S,HD).

4/6. See Choices Above.

9.00 Iron Man (S,HD) (2008). Arms manufacturer Tony Stark is taken hostage by a terrorist group and realises the weapons his company builds have been falling into the wrong hands.

Using his engineering skills to construct a hi-tech armoured suit, he manages to escape and then puts the technology to good use in the fight against evil around the world.

Superhero adventure, starring Robert Downey Jr, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Shaun Toub, Jon Favreau, Faran Tahir and Samuel L Jackson. See Choices Above. ●●●●

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8.00 The Making of Merkel with Andrew Marr (S,HD). See Choices Above.

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6.40 News (S).

7.00 Dad’s Army (R,S). 1/14. The platoon acquires an armoured car.

7.30 Count Arthur Strong (R,S,HD). 2/6.

6.10 New You’ve Been Framed!

(S). Harry Hill marvels at a performance by One Direction lookalikes.

6.45 Stepping Out (S,HD). 4/5.

It’s the semi-final and the four remaining couples Brian and Vogue, Oritse and AJ, Laurence and Jackie, Carl and Rachael try to master routines in the styles of street, jazz and the paso doble. Davina McCall hosts.

7.30 When Miranda Met Bruce (S,HD). See Choices Above.

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6.00 Dragons’ Den (R,S,HD). 6/6.

One final line-up of entrepreneurs faces the panel, including a couple hoping to win investment for their fruity beverage idea. Last in the series.

6.30 Regional News (S,HD).

6.45 I Love My Country (S,HD). 7/8.

With Natalie Cassidy, Steve Backshall, Martin Kemp and Brian Belo.

8.40 The National Lottery Saturday Night Draws (S,HD).

OJ Borg presents.

8.50 Casualty (S,HD). Rita and Ash treat a teenage girl who is keeping secrets from her boyfriend.

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Grand Designs, 8pm

9.40 Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (R,S,HD). 5/7.

Mighty Boosh star Noel Fielding performs a headline set at the Hippodrome in Bristol, where the bill also features Seann Walsh, Mike Gunn and Hal Cruttenden.

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Through the Keyhole, 9pm

10.10 BBC News; Weather (S,HD).

10.30 Match of the Day (S,HD). Gary Lineker presents highlights of the latest Premier League clashes, including Chelsea v Fulham, Liverpool v Southampton and West Ham United v Everton. Followed by National Lottery Update.

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Dad’s Army, 7pm

11.50 The Football League Show (S). Manish Bhasin presents highlights and all the goals from today’s fixtures in the Championship, League One and League Two, including Derby County v Reading.

11.10 The Ring (S,HD) (2002). A journalist investigates teenage deaths linked to a videotape, which is rumoured to cause the demise of anyone who watches it. Horror, with Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson. ●●●●

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I Love My Country, 6.45pm

1.05 Weatherview (S). 1.10 BBC News (S,HD).

12.55 Film: Quatermass 2 (S) (1957). The scientist investigates when a small town is bombarded by meteors. He discovers the place has been devastated, but also finds a mysterious factory that conceals the base of operations for an alien plot to take over the world. Hammer sci-fi horror, starring Brian Donlevy, Bryan Forbes and Sid James. ●●●● 2.20 This Is BBC Two (S).

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10.00 ITV News and Weather (S); Weather.

10.15 City Slickers (S,HD) (1991).

Three middle-aged men take a break from the rat race and their mid-life crises to join a two-week cattle drive from New Mexico to Colorado.

Together with a bunch of fellow urbanites, they find the going much tougher than expected, and it is down to a real-life cowboy to whip them into shape. Comedy adventure, starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance. See Choices Above. ●●●● 12.20 Jackpot247 Viewers get the chance to participate in live interactive gaming from the comfort of their sofas, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team. 3.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R,S). The host takes his successful talk show stateside. 3.45 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Text-based information service.

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Animal Maternity, 10.50am

7.00 Double Your House for Half the Money (R,S,HD). 5/10. A single mother in need of a more suitable home.

9.00 Hang ‘Em High (S,HD) (1968).

A lawman-turned-rancher is attacked by a lynch mob and hanged for a crime he did not commit, but is rescued before he dies. He returns to his former profession to hunt the mob down, but his desire for revenge clashes with his responsibility to bring them to trial alive. Western, starring Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, James MacArthur, Pat Hingle, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper and Ruth White. ●●●

11.25 Man on Fire (S,HD) (2004). A former US government operative exacts revenge on the kidnappers who have abducted the girl he was hired to guard. Action thriller, with Denzel Washington. ●●●

11.25 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (R,S). 2/23. A serial killer’s adopted son is arrested on suspicion of murder.

2.05 Hollyoaks (R,S,HD). Omnibus. Will heads for the psychiatric ward to make sure Anna never reveals his murderous secret and Frankie wonders why Jack gave the Roscoes such a generous loan. 4.20 SuperScrimpers (R,S,HD). Mrs Moneypenny provides more cash-saving tips. 5.15 Kirstie’s Vintage Gems (R,S,HD). 5.20 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD).

12.15 SuperCasino Live interactive gaming. 4.00 Wildlife SOS (R,S). The work of an animal sanctuary. 4.25 Make It Big (R,S). 4.50 Roary the Racing Car (R,S).

5.00 Angels of Jarm (R,S). 5.10 Hana’s Helpline (R,S). 5.20 Angels of Jarm (R,S).

5.25 The Funky Valley Show (R,S). 5.40 Roary the Racing Car (R,S). 5.50 Hana’s Helpline (R,S).

THE GREAT ESCAPE 5.50pm, Channel 5

Allied prisoners held in a maximum-security detention camp plan an ingenious mass breakout. Second World War drama, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough and James Coburn.

ITV2 ITV2

6.00 Conor Maynard: The Hot Desk (R,HD). 6.10 Coronation Street (HD). 8.20 Emmerdale (HD). 11.10 The X Factor (R,HD).

1.10 The X Factor USA (R). 2.10 Girlfriends (R,HD). 3.15 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 3.45 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 4.15 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 4.45 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 5.15 Film: Johnny English (HD) (2003). ●●●

THE XTRA FACTOR 9pm, ITV2

Caroline Flack provides further coverage from behind the scenes of the popular talent show, meeting hopeful acts as they prepare to face the panel during the seventh round of auditions. Matt Richardson is also on hand to lighten the mood backstage by turning his comic wit on contestants and judges alike.

E4 E4

6.00 Being Erica (R,HD). 6.45 Scrubs (R). 7.35 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.30 Charmed (R). 9.25 90210 (R,HD). 10.25 Scrubs (R).

12.20 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 2.40 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 3.10 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.40 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 5.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1

6.00 Glee (R,S,HD). 8.00 The Fantasy Football Club (R,S). 9.00 Game Changers 10.00 Soccer AM 12.00 WWE Superstars (HD).

1.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 1.30 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 3.00 Harrow: A Very British School (R,S,HD). 4.00 Modern Family (R,S,HD). 4.30 Modern Family (R,S,HD). 5.30 Futurama (R,S,HD).

FILM PICKS

Saturday television&radio CITY SLICKERS 10.15pm, ITV

IRON MAN 9pm, Channel 4

Three middle-aged men decide to take a break from their mid-life crises by taking part in a cattle drive. Comedy, starring Billy Crystal and Jack Palance.

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6.00 Just Good Friends 6.30 Sykes 7.00 Goodnight Sweetheart 7.40 As Time Goes By 8.20 Last of the Summer Wine 9.40 One Foot in the Grave 10.20 Yes Minister 11.00 Jeeves and Wooster 12.10 Jeeves and Wooster 1.20 One Foot in the Grave 2.45 One Foot in the Grave 4.05 The Vicar of Dibley 5.15 The Vicar of Dibley

An arms manufacturer invents a hi-tech suit of armour and uses it in the fight against evil around the world.

Superhero adventure, with Robert Downey Jr.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1

6.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 6.30 The Fantasy Football Club 7.00 Champions League Weekly (HD).

7.30 Premier League Preview (HD). 8.00 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). 9.00 Game Changers (HD). 10.00 Soccer AM (HD). 12.00 FL72 Live (HD). 2.30 Saturday Team Talk (HD). 3.00 Soccer Saturday (HD). 5.00 Live Saturday Night Football (HD).

7.00 Great Movie Mistakes (R,S).

7.15 Doctor Who (R,S). Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax investigate a mystery in 1893 Yorkshire.

8.00 Pop’s Greatest Dance Crazes (R,S). Dance fads.

9.00 Streetdance (S) (2010). Drama, starring Nichola Burley. ●●● 10.35 Russell Howard’s Good News (R,S). An edition from 2010.

11.05 Family Guy (R,S).

Live Football, 5pm Peter and his friends tour a 6.00 Live Saturday Night local brewery.

Football (HD).

11.30 Family Guy (R,S).

Continued. Chelsea v Peter urges Chris Fulham (Kick-off to become more 5.30pm). All the action responsible. from the Premier League 11.55 Orphan Black derby at Stamford (R,S).

Bridge, where the west London rivals meet.

12.40 Orphan Black (R,S).

Cloverfield, 9pm

Three Kings, 9pm

Little Britain, 9pm

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Penny arranges a date for Raj.

6.00 Futurama (R,S,HD). Part four of four. The gang does battle with the Tunnelling Horror.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

7.00 Uncle Buck (HD) (1989).

An unreliable but goodnatured slob is called upon to look after his trouble-making nephew and nieces while their parents are away – and what starts as a disaster soon changes for the better as the unlikely babysitter gets to grips with the finer points of being a responsible adult. Comedy, starring John Candy. ●●●

7.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). Ted learns Lily has been interfering with his relationships.

7.30 Suburgatory (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Ned Flanders takes in lodgers.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Homer and Marge dispense marital advice.

6.35 Only Fools and Horses. Del-Boy embarks on a new romance with Raquel, an actress he meets through a computer dating agency. Featurelength Christmas special from 1988, starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Tessa Peake-Jones.

8.00 New Girl (R,HD).

8.30 Happy Endings (R,HD).

Max spends time with a woman who can get him tickets to sports matches.

8.00 A League of Their Own (R,S,HD). With Joleon Lescott, Jon Richardson and Gabby Logan.

9.00 The Xtra Factor (HD).

See Choices Above.

9.00 Cloverfield (HD) (2008).

Five New Yorkers film the carnage wreaked by a giant monster attacking the city as they try to reach a stranded friend. Thriller, starring Michael Stahl-David and Lizzy Caplan. ●●●●

9.00 Three Kings (S,HD) 9.00 Little Britain. Daffyd (1999). Four US soldiers meets a group of gay Star stumble upon a fortune Trek fans, Vicky Pollard in Kuwaiti bullion in the tries to get served in the aftermath of the first pub and Kenny Craig Gulf War – but agonise visits his mother in over whether to steal the hospital. hoard from under the 9.40 Little Britain. Emily noses of the Howard has an X-ray. impoverished local people, who are in 10.00 SNF – Match Choice desperate need of help. 10.20 Bottom. Richie and Eddie await their fate (HD). Sarah-Jane Mee David O Russell’s when the gas man presents extended adventure, starring discovers they are highlights from the George Clooney, Mark stealing their Premier League, Wahlberg, Ice Cube, neighbour’s fuel supply. allowing viewers to Spike Jonze, Nora Dunn, Brian Glover guest stars. access the latest round of Mykelti Williamson, top-flight fixtures, which Jamie Kennedy and Cliff included Newcastle Curtis. ●●●● United v Hull City.

The Xtra Factor, 9pm

10.00 Celebrity Juice (R,HD). 10.40 The Inbetweeners: With Carol Vorderman, E4’s Top 10 Episodes Gino D’Acampo and (R). In the eighth epiChris Ramsey. sode of the countdown, Will starts going out 10.50 The Magaluf with the most popular Weekender (R,HD). schoolgirl in the year What British tourists get above, but his obsession up to while they are with her begins to alienaway. ate his friends.

8.20 Porridge. Fletcher takes on the role of agony aunt and ends up writing letters home for the other inmates – but he soon discovers domestic problems of his own.

Sarah is pursued by a killer.

1.25 Boom Town (R,S).

1.55 Bad Education (R,S).

2.25 Live at the Electric (R,S). 2.55 Live at the Electric (R,S). 3.25 Live at 8.00 SNF – Game of the Day the Electric (R,S).

(HD). Sarah-Jane Mee presents a full re-run of the day’s top Premier League match.

11.20 Now That’s History!

1999 (S,HD). The events and stories of 1999.

11.50 Now That’s History!

1984 (S,HD). Alison Steadman looks back at 1984.

11.00 Big Train. Comic sketches.

11.40 The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.

Mulligan and O’Hare present their new album.

11.30 FL72 Highlights (HD).

Charlton Athletic v Millwall. Action from the opening Championship match of the weekend, staged at the Valley.

12.20 The X Factor (R,HD). The search for a superstar continues at the closed-room auditions. 1.25 The Xtra Factor (R,HD). 2.15 All Star Family Fortunes (R). Antony Costa and Liz Dawn compete. 2.50 Teleshopping Home shopping.

5.50 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD). Textbased information service.

12.20 Road Wars (R,S). 1.20 Armed and Dangerous: Ultimate Forces (R). 2.20 Miami SWAT (R,S). 3.10 Miami SWAT (R,S). 4.00 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD).

4.30 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD). 5.00 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD). 5.30 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD).

12.20 Little Britain (S) Daffyd meets a group of gay Star Trek fans, Vicky Pollard tries to get served in the pub and Kenny Craig visits his mother in hospital. 1.00 Little Britain (S). Emily Howard has an X-ray. 1.30 Big Train (S). 2.00 Bottom (S).2.30 The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer (S).

12.00 Saturday Reloaded (HD). A round-up of the latest football goals. 1.00 SNF – Match Choice (HD). Extended highlights from the Premier League. 2.30 SNF – Match Choice (HD). 4.00 Spanish Football (HD). 5.00 FL72 Highlights (HD). 5.30 Sporting Greats (S).

RADIO

11.50 Crazy Beaches (R,HD). 11.15 The Inbetweeners: E4’s Top 10 Episodes Exposing the hedonism (R). and drunken fun had by tourists in the Greek 11.50 The Big Bang Theory resort of Malia, (R,HD). Sheldon’s old following a different adversary Wil Wheaton group of holidaymakers returns. each week.

12.20 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 1.20 The Inbetweeners: E4’s Top 10 Episodes (R). 1.50 The Inbetweeners: E4’s Top 10 Episodes (R). 2.15 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 2.40 Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (R,HD). 3.05 Suburgatory 3.30 Shameless (R,HD). 4.20 Scrubs

Radio 1 5.00am Rob da Bank 7.00 Gemma Cairney 10.00 Matt Edmondson 1.00pm Huw Stephens 4.00 Radio 1’s Dance Anthems with Danny Howard 7.00 MistaJam 9.00 Charlie Sloth 11.00 DJ Target 1.00am Diplo and Friends 3.00 Friction Radio 2 6.00am Anneka Rice 8.00 Sounds of the 60s 10.00 Maria McErlane 1.00pm Pick of the Pops 3.00 Dermot O’Leary 6.00 Dale Winton 8.00 Paul Gambaccini with America’s Greatest Hits. Tracks from the past six decades. 10.00 Dave Pearce: Dance Years. The DJ explores dance down the decades. Midnight Bob Harris Sunday 3.00 Richard Allinson

Radio 3 7.00am Breakfast 9.00 News 9.03 CD Review 12.15pm Music Matters: Sound of Cinema 1.00 News 1.02 The Early Music Show: Sound of Cinema 2.00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 3.00 Saturday Classics: Sound of Cinema 5.00 Jazz Record Requests: Sound of Cinema 6.00 Opera on 3: Wagner 200 9.30 Between the Ears: Sound of Cinema: Return of the Monster from the Id 10.00 Hear and Now Midnight Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz: Sound of Cinema 1.00 Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 iPM 6.00 News and Papers 6.07 Ramblings 6.30

Farming Today This Week 6.57 Weather 7.00 Today 9.00 Saturday Live 10.30 Shine Like Tokyo – Northern Soul Goes East! 11.00 The Forum 11.30 From Our Own Correspondent Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 Money Box 12.30 Bremner’s One Question Quiz 12.57 Weather 1.00 News 1.10 Any Questions? 2.00 Any Answers? 2.30 Saturday Drama: Rumours 3.45 Elizabeth Taylor Short Stories 4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour 5.00 Saturday PM 5.30 iPM 5.54 Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.15 Loose Ends 7.00 Profile. The personality and motivation of a person

making the headlines. 7.15 Saturday Review. Critical assessment of Eleanor Catton’s novel The Luminaries. 8.00 Archive on 4: How to Be, or Not to Be, a Politician. A light-hearted guide illustrating how to be the perfect politician. 9.00 Classic Serial: Three Men in a Boat. Part one of two. By Jerome K Jerome. Dramatised by Chris Harrald.

10.00 News and Weather 10.15 Unreliable Evidence. Laws intended to protect individuals who report serious malpractice. 11.00 Round Britain Quiz 11.30 Poetry Please Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Opening Lines 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

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7.00 Africa (R).

8.00 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Tsunamis (R). Iain Stewart explores the destructive power of the sea. Last in the series.

9.00 The Young Montalbano.

The detective is irked by the arrival of a new deputy inspector.

10.50 Big in America: British Hits in the USA (R).

Featuring the Cure, Supertramp, Coldplay and the Dave Clark Five.

11.50 The Beatles’ Please Please Me – Remaking a Classic (R).

Artists re-create the recording session for the band’s first LP. 12.50 Top of the Pops: 1978 (R). 1.20 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Tsunamis (R). Iain Stewart explores the destructive power of the sea. Last in the series. 2.20 Africa (R).

Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 6.00 Saturday Breakfast 9.00 The Danny Baker Show 11.00 Fighting Talk Noon 5 Live Sport 12.45 5 Live Sport: Premier League Football 2013-14 2.50 5 Live Formula 1 3.02 5 Live Sport: Premier League Football 2013-14 5.00 Sports Report 6.06 6-0-6 8.00 Saturday Edition 10.00 Stephen Nolan 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 Alan Titchmarsh Noon Nicholas Owen 3.00 Jamie Crick 5.00 Saturday Night at the Movies 7.00 Alex James’s Magical Musical Tour 9.00 The New Releases Show 10.00 Smooth Classics Midnight Bob Jones

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Sunday television&radio Sunday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

THE CRANE GANG 8pm, BBC2

Following the day-today operations of a mobile crane company, including the dismantling of the aquatics centre at the former Olympic Park in Stratford.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 7.40 Match of the Day (R,S,HD). 9.00 The Andrew Marr Show (S,HD). 10.00 Sunday Morning Live (S,HD). 11.00 Sunday Politics (S). 12.15 MOTD2 Extra (S,HD). 1.00 BBC News (S,HD). 1.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). 2.00 Flog It! (R,S,HD). 3.00 Escape to the Country (R,S). 4.00 Points of View (S,HD).

4.15 Lifeline (S,HD). 4.25 Songs of Praise (S,HD). 5.00 Formula 1: Singapore Grand Prix Highlights (S,HD).

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BY ANY MEANS 9pm, BBC1

Thriller following a secretive unit that operates in the grey area between right and wrong.

Crooked businessman Nicholas Mason is acquitted of murder – the latest in a string of crimes from which he has walked away scotfree – so Helen Barlow calls on her clandestine team to bring him to justice.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two (S). 6.05 Film: Nocturne (S) (1946). ●●● 7.30 Around the World in 80 Gardens (R,S,HD). 8.30 Gardeners’ World (R,S,HD). 9.00 The Beechgrove Garden 9.30 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites11.00 James Martin’s Food Map of Britain (R,S,HD). 1.30 The Incredible Spice Men 2.00 Hairy Bikers’ Best of British (R,S,HD). 2.45 Inspire: The Olympic Journey (R,S,HD). 3.15 Sailing: America’s Cup Highlights 4.00 Canoeing: World Slalom Championships 5.00 Rugby League: Super League Play-Offs (S,HD).

DOWNTON ABBEY 9pm, ITV

Following Matthew’s death, Mary struggles to come to terms with her loss, while Jimmy takes an interest in Ivy, and Carson receives an unwelcome reminder of his past.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Babar and the Adventures of Badou (R). 6.10 Matt Hatter Chronicles (R,S). 6.35 Dino Dan (R,S). 7.00 Canimals 7.25 Sooty (S).

7.35 Horrid Henry 8.00 Bottom Knocker Street (S). 8.30 Fish Hooks (S). 9.00 Big Time Rush 9.25 News 9.30 Ade in Britain (R,S,HD).

10.25 Film: Columbo: Sex and the Married Detective (S) (1989). ●●● 12.25 News and Weather 12.30 Murder, She Wrote 1.30 Dinner Date 2.30 The X Factor (R,S,HD). 3.30 Big Star’s Little Star (R,S,HD). 4.30 Film: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (S,HD) (1982). ●●●●●

KEVIN MCCLOUD’S MAN MADE HOME 8pm, Channel 4

Having successfully built an eco-friendly cabin in the woods, the Grand Designs presenter’s second challenge is to create his own getaway on the Somerset coast. Moving the shed to the new location, he aims to transform it into the beach home of his dreams using local resources and other people’s junk.

Channel Channel 4

6.15 Ironman 2013 (S). 6.40 The American Football Show (R,S). 7.35 American Football: Hard Knocks (S). 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 9.00 Frasier (R,S). 9.30 Sunday Brunch (S).

12.25 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). 1.20 The Simpsons (R,S). 2.20 Film: Take the Lead (S,HD) (2006). See Choices Above. ●●● 4.40 Location, Location, Location (R,S,HD). 5.40 Film: The Spiderwick Chronicles (S,HD) (2008). ●●●●

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 10.00 Power Rangers Samurai (R,S,HD). 10.35 Slugterra (S,HD).

11.00 Monkey Life (R,S,HD). 11.25 Police Interceptors (R,S,HD). 12.25 Apollo 13: The True Story (R,S,HD). 1.30 Film: Thunderbirds (S,HD) (2004). ●● 3.15 Film: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (S,HD) (1996). Disney animation, with the voice of Tom Hulce. ●●● 4.55 5 News (S,HD). 5.00 Film: Big Momma’s House 2 (S,HD) (2006).

Comedy, starring Martin Lawrence. ●●

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6.35 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.45 ITV News and Weather (S).

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6.00 The Great British Bake Off (R,S,HD). 5/16. Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood test the skills of the remaining contestants by challenging them to prepare a series of biscuits and traybakes.

7.00 Countryfile (S,HD). Ellie Harrison witnesses the homecoming of a remarkable horse in Devon.

7.00 Hunt vs Lauda: F1’s Greatest Racing Rivals (R,S,HD). The battle for the 1976 world drivers’ championship.

7.00 Surprise Surprise (S,HD). 2/10.

A cancer survivor receives a lifechanging gift, a father and daughter are reunited after 26 years apart, and Rizzle Kicks perform for one of their fans.

7.25 News (S).

7.55 The Political Slot (S,HD).

Wavertree MP Luciana Berger talks about unemployment.

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6.30 Regional News (S,HD).

8.00 Antiques Roadshow (S,HD).

6/26. From the Royal Marines Museum in Southsea near Portsmouth, where items include chairs said to be made from timber off HMS Victory and paintings with an Indiana Jones connection.

8.00 The Crane Gang (S,HD). 1/3.

See Choices Above.

8.00 The X Factor (S,HD). 8/22.

Having impressed the judges in the audition room, the contestants take to the stage at Wembley Arena as they compete to win places at next week’s boot camp. Dermot O’Leary presents.

8.00 Kevin McCloud’s Man Made Home (S). 1/4. See Choices Above.

8.55 5 News Weekend (S,HD).

9.00 By Any Means (S,HD). 1/6.

See Choices Above.

9.00 The Story of the Jews (S,HD).

4/5. Simon Schama examines the lost world of the shtetl, the Jewish towns and villages in Eastern Europe that were the source of a unique culture and made a mark all over the world.

9.00 Downton Abbey (S,HD). 1/9.

See Choices Above.

9.00 Big Fat Quiz of the 80s (S).

See Choices Above.

10.30 ITV News and Weather (S); Weather.

10.45 Perspectives: Sergeant on Spike (R,S,HD). 3/5. John Sergeant presents a profile of his childhood hero – comedian and writer Spike Milligan – uncovering the man behind The Goon Show and exploring his influence on British comedy.

10.35 Alan Carr: Chatty Man (R,S).

4/18. The host brings some 1980s sparkle into the studio for a special edition, joined by Jessie J, who chats and performs, and Matthew Fox, famous for his roles in Party of Five and Lost.

9.00 Conan the Barbarian (S,HD) (2011). Premiere. An evil warlord kills a barbarian chieftain, whose son grows up to be a mighty warrior and seeks revenge for his father’s death. He finds there is more at stake, as the tyrant is close to acquiring all the pieces of a magic mask, which will make him all-powerful. Fantasy adventure, with Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan, Rachel Nichols, Bob Sapp, Leo Howard and Steven O’Donnell. See Choices Above. ●●

11.45 Premiership Rugby Union (S,HD). Action from the third round of top-flight fixtures, including Worcester Warriors v Harlequins, Leicester Tigers v Newcastle Falcons and Saracens v Bath.

11.35 The Last Leg (R,S). 8/8. Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker are joined by comedian and actor Eddie Izzard for a comic review of the significant moments of the past seven days. Last in the series.

11.15 Drive Angry (S,HD) (2011). A man breaks out of Hell to track down the cult leader who has murdered his daughter and plans to sacrifice her baby.

Fantasy thriller, starring Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard. ●●●

12.40 The Store Home shopping. 2.40 Motorsport UK (S,HD). Highlights of the Porsche Carrera Cup and the Ginetta Junior Championship from Knockhill, with commentary by Richard John Neil and Simon Hill. 3.30 ITV Nightscreen (HD).

Text-based information service. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S,HD). Guests air their differences.

12.25 Paddy’s TV Guide (R,S,HD). Paddy McGuinness focuses on technology. 1.10 American Football Live (S). Pittsburgh Steelers v Chicago Bears (kick-off 1.30am).

Nat Coombs is joined by Mike Carlson to present coverage of the inter-conference clash at Heinz Field. 4.45 Ironman 2013 (R,S). A preview of the 2013 Ironman World Championship. 5.15 Countdown (R,S,HD).

1.05 SuperCasino 3.55 Michaela’s Wild Challenge (R,S). Michaela Strachan tries to spot mountain gorillas in Uganda. 4.20 Make It Big (R,S). 4.50 Roary the Racing Car (R,S). 5.00 Angels of Jarm (R,S). 5.05 Hana’s Helpline (R,S). 5.25 Angels of Jarm (R,S). 5.30 The Funky Valley Show (R,S). 5.40 Roary the Racing Car (R,S).

5.50 Hana’s Helpline (R,S).

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Surprise Surprise, 7pm

10.00 BBC News; Regional News and Weather (S,HD).

10.25 Match of the Day 2 (S,HD).

Mark Chapman presents highlights from today’s Premier League fixtures, including Manchester City v Manchester United, Arsenal v Stoke City and Cardiff City v Tottenham Hotspur.

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QI XL, 10pm

11.50 Lone Star (S) (1996). A sheriff investigates the discovery of a 40-year-old murder victim, raising questions about his father’s heroic reputation.

Mystery, starring Chris Cooper and Matthew McConaughey. ●●●●●

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2.00 Weatherview (S). 2.05 BBC News (S,HD).

10.00 QI XL (S,HD). 2/16. Extended edition, with Josh Widdicombe, Phill Jupitus and Katherine Ryan.

10.45 A Single Man (S,HD) (2009).

A gay British academic living in 1960s Los Angeles is devastated by the death of his partner in a car crash, and his grief is compounded by his lover’s family refusing to let him attend the funeral. He decides to commit suicide, and takes a day to put his affairs in order, but the people he meets change his hopeless outlook on life. Drama, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. See Choices Above. ●●● 12.20 Sign Zone: Countryfile (R,S). A visit to the Great Dorset Steam Fair and a look at efforts to help small animals cross a road in Kent. Plus, Wales’ role in the Dambusters raids. Including Weather for the Week Ahead. 1.15 Sign Zone: Holby City (R,S).

Chrissie begins her cancer treatment. Paul O’Grady guest stars. 2.15 This Is BBC Two (S). Preview of upcoming programmes.

Kevin McCloud’s Man ... 8pm

Apollo 13: The True Story, 12.25pm 6.50 Ocean’s Eleven (S,HD) (2001).

A suave ex-convict assembles a gang of sophisticated crooks to pull off a daring heist. He intends to rob three of Las Vegas’s biggest casinos simultaneously – and also win back his estranged wife, who is now dating the ruthless owner of all three gambling establishments. Comedy, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. ●●●●

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CONAN THE BARBARIAN 9pm, Channel 5

BIG FAT QUIZ OF THE 80S 9pm, Channel 4

Jimmy Carr grills three teams of celebrities to demonstrate how much they remember about the news, music, TV and fashion of the 1980s. Playing the quiz are David Mitchell, Phill Jupitus, Alan Carr, Sarah Greene, Jack Dee and Jason Donovan, and the host is helped by some famous question-setters.

Premiere. A warrior seeks revenge on the warlord who killed his father before he can magically make himself all-powerful. Fantasy adventure, with Jason Momoa and Stephen Lang.

ITV2 ITV2

6.00 Beauty and the Geek (R).

6.45 Emmerdale (R,HD). 9.30 Coronation Street (R,HD). 12.00 America’s Got Talent (HD). 1.00 America’s Got Talent (HD). 2.50 Film: Happy Feet (HD) (2006).

Animated adventure, with the voice of Elijah Wood. ●●●● 5.00 The X Factor (R,HD). The search for a superstar continues at the closed-room auditions.

E4 E4

6.00 Charlie’s Angels (R,HD).

7.20 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 Scrubs (R,HD).

9.55 Hollyoaks (R,HD). 12.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

1.30 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 2.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 3.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 4.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 4.25 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1

6.00 Hour of Power (HD). 7.00 Glee (R,S,HD). 9.00 Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew (R,S).

10.00 WWE Superstars (HD).

11.00 WWE: Experience (HD).

12.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 12.30 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 3.00 Road Wars (R,S). 4.00 Road Wars (R,S). 5.00 One Direction: One Day (R). 5.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

FILM PICKS

Sunday television&radio A SINGLE MAN 10.45pm, BBC2

TAKE THE LEAD 2.20pm, Channel 4

A gay academic mourning his partner’s death takes a day to put his affairs in order as he prepares to commit suicide. Drama, with Colin Firth.

Gold GOLD

6.00 Just Good Friends 6.30 One Foot in the Grave 7.45 The Vicar of Dibley 9.00 The Vicar of Dibley 10.15 Only Fools and Horses 12.00 Last of the Summer Wine 12.40 Keeping Up Appearances 1.20 Keeping Up Appearances 2.00 Heroes of Comedy 4.00 Just a Minute 4.40 The Best of Les Dawson 5.20 The Borrowers

A former dancer tries to inspire disruptive students from inner-city schools by teaching them ballroom dancing.

Drama, starring Antonio Banderas.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1

6.00 SNF – Match Choice (HD).

7.30 Game Changers (HD). 8.30 FL72 Highlights (HD). 9.00 The Sunday Supplement (HD). 10.30 Goals on Sunday (HD). A review of yesterday’s football action. 12.30 Live Super Sunday (HD). Arsenal v Stoke City (kick-off 1.30pm). 3.30 Live Super Sunday (HD).

Manchester City v Manchester United (kick-off 4.00pm).

Evan Almighty, 7pm

X-Men: The Last Stand, 8pm

Moone Boy, 7pm

The Office, 9pm

Live Super Sunday, 3.30pm

6.00 The Xtra Factor (R,HD).

Backstage coverage as more hopeful acts prepare to audition.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Same-sex marriage is legalised in Springfield.

6.00 Jeeves and Wooster.

Bertie attends a fancydress ball.

7.00 Evan Almighty (HD) (2007). Politician Evan Baxter is recruited by God for a special mission. A great flood is coming, and like Noah before him, Evan has to build an ark to protect the wildlife of the world from the impending cataclysm. However, convincing others that the end is nigh proves difficult. Comedy, with Steve Carell. ●●●

7.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). The guys compete for a tenured professor position.

7.30 Rules of Engagement (R,HD).

7.00 Moone Boy (R,S,HD).

Martin becomes an altar boy and Fidelma joins the choir.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

7.10 Jeeves and Wooster.

Aunt Agatha demands Bertie meet the sister of the local curate, while Jeeves exposes a couple of con-men.

6.55 Live Spanish Football (HD). Real Madrid v Getafe. Second-half coverage of the La Liga clash at the Bernabeu, where Real continue their bid to regain the title.

8.00 X-Men: The Last Stand (HD) (2006). The mutant heroes return to face a battle on three fronts.

Arch-enemy Magneto is back with an army of followers, while a corporation has created a drug that permanently robs mutants of their powers. Meanwhile, their former ally Jean Grey has returned from the dead as the destructive and seemingly unstoppable Phoenix. Adventure, starring Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen. ●●●

8.00 Harrow: A Very British School (R,S,HD). Sixthformer Shrai directs his friends in a play.

8.20 Porridge. Godber enters the prison boxing championships. He is hot favourite to win, but Fletcher is given the task of fixing the contest.

9.00 Chickens (R,S,HD).

George throws a dinner party.

9.30 Trollied (R,S,HD).

Richard regrets inviting Leighton to a meeting with Head Office.

9.00 The Office. Passions run high at the annual quiz.

9.40 The Office. A special training day for the staff at Wernham Hogg turns into a sing-song and Tim decides he is wasting his time in a dead-end job.

9.00 The Xtra Factor (HD).

Caroline Flack and Matt Richardson meet some of the would-be stars who braved the spotlight for a chance at fame, and question the judges over their decisions.

10.00 The Big Reunion: On Tour (R,HD). The groups make the most of their visits to party towns including Brighton and Bournemouth, while Liberty X’s Jessica Taylor has a catsuit malfunction. Last in the series.

8.00 Live Spanish Football (HD). Valencia v Sevilla (kick-off 8.00pm). All the action from the La Liga encounter at the Mestalla, featuring two sides with aspirations of finishing in the top four this season.

7.00 Robin Hood (R,S). Part one of two. The outlaws plot to overthrow Isabella.

7.45 Great Movie Mistakes IV: May the Fourth Be with You (R,S). Movie blunders of 2012.

8.30 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (S) (2001). Action adventure, starring Angelina Jolie. ●●● 10.00 Family Guy (S).

Quagmire accidentally gets married to a prostitute.

10.25 Family Guy (R,S).

10.45 Bad Education (R,S).

11.20 American Dad! (R,S).

11.40 American Dad! (R,S).

12.00 Seann Walsh’s Late Night Comedy Spectacular (R,S). 1.00 Live at the Electric (R,S).

1.30 Live at the Electric (R,S). 2.00 Bad Education (R,S). 2.30 Boom Town (R,S). 3.00 Fazer’s Urban Takeover (R,S).

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 The Golden Age of Canals (R).

The changing face of Britain’s canals after the Second World War. 8.00 Fabric of Britain (R). The history of knitting.

9.00 Citizen Kane (1941). A journalist investigates the life of a powerful newspaper magnate. Oscarwinning drama, written, directed by and starring Orson Welles.

With Agnes Moorehead. ●●●●● 11.00 Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies (R).

Exploring how great film soundtracks work.

12.00 The Joy of Country (R). 1.05 Glen Campbell: The Rhinestone Cowboy (R). 2.05 An Evening with Glen Campbell (R).

10.00 Road Wars (R,S). Police 10.15 The Thick of It Special: 10.00 Football Special (HD).

10.00 New Rude Tube. Alex Spinners and Losers. officers use unmarked Extended highlights Zane presents a top 50 Second of a two-parter. cars fitted with on-board from the Premier countdown of the latest Extended episode of the video cameras, offering League, allowing viewers stunts on the web. The comedy in which an insight into vehicle to access the latest round amusing clips feature Malcolm Tucker’s career crime and how it can be of top-flight fixtures, base jumping from a hangs in the balance prevented. The which included moving lorry, hammockwhen the Prime Minister programme also Manchester City v spinning the hottest resigns six months early. features footage of Manchester United. headcam action. dangerous drivers.

11.00 Pitch Black (HD) (2000). 11.00 The Inbetweeners: E4’s Top 10 Episodes Sci-fi horror, starring Vin (R). The lads visit a Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Caravan Club meeting.

Cole Hauser, Keith David, Rhiana Griffith, 11.35 The Inbetweeners: Lewis Fitz-Gerald, E4’s Top 10 Episodes Claudia Black and John (R).

Moore. ●●●

11.00 Road Wars (R). Police officers combat vehicle crime.

11.30 Now That’s History!

1991 (S,HD). The events and stories of 1991.

11.40 Nighty Night. Jill continues to ignore Terry’s phone calls and her dinner plans with Don are thwarted when his wife turns up. Julia Davis stars.

11.30 Football Special (HD).

Extended highlights from the Premier League.

1.10 The X Factor (R,HD). Having impressed the judges in the audition room, the contestants take to the stage at Wembley Arena as they compete to win places at next week’s boot camp.

2.05 The Xtra Factor (R,HD). 2.55 Teleshopping 5.55 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.00 Now That’s History! 1994 (HD). 12.30 Now That’s History!

2001 (HD). 1.00 Miami SWAT (R,S). 2.00 Miami SWAT (R,S). 4.00 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD).

4.30 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD). 5.00 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD). 5.30 Crash Test Dummies (R,S,HD).

12.20 The Office 1.00 The Office 1.30 The Thick of It Special: Spinners and Losers 2.30 Nighty Night

1.00 Scottish Football (HD). 1.30 Spanish Football (HD). 2.30 Champions League Weekly (HD).

3.00 Scottish Football (HD). 3.30 Football Gold 3.45 Football Gold. 4.00 Champions League Weekly (HD). 4.30 Spanish Football (HD). 5.30 Scottish Football (HD).

RADIO

BBC3 BBC3

12.05 The Inbetweeners Top 10 Moments (R). 1.10 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.40 Happy Endings 2.05 The Inbetweeners: E4’s Top 10 Episodes (R). 2.30 The Inbetweeners: E4’s Top 10 Episodes (R). 2.55 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 3.20 Hollyoaks (R,HD).

Radio 1 5.00am Seani B 7.00 Gemma Cairney 10.00 Matt Edmondson 1.00pm Huw Stephens 4.00 Jameela Jamil 7.00 Dan & Phil 9.00 The Surgery with Aled & Dr Radha 10.00 Annie Mac Midnight BBC Introducing with Jen and Ally 2.00 Monki 4.00 Dev Radio 2 6.00am The Sunday Hour 7.00 Clare Balding 9.00 Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs 11.00 Weekend Wogan 1.00pm Elaine Paige on Sunday 3.00 Johnnie Walker 5.00 Len Goodman 7.00 Sunday Night with Michael Ball 9.00 Russell Davies 10.00 Clare Teal 11.00 Don Black Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester

Radio 3 7.00am Breakfast 9.00 News 9.03 Sunday Morning with Rob Cowan Noon Private Passions: Sound of Cinema 1.00 News 1.02 The Early Music Show: Sound of Cinema 2.00 Sunday Concert 4.00 Choral Evensong 5.00 The Choir: Sound of Cinema 6.30 Words and Music 7.45 Sunday Feature: Sound of Cinema: Composing for Hollywood 8.30 Drama on 3: The Father 10.00 World Routes 11.00 Jazz Line-Up 12.30am Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Bells on Sunday 5.45 Profile 6.00 News Headlines 6.05 Something Understood 6.35 On Your Farm 6.57 Weather 7.00 News 7.07 Sunday

Papers 7.10 Sunday 7.55 (LW) Radio 4 Appeal 7.55 (FM) Radio 4 Appeal 7.57 Weather 8.00 News 8.07 Sunday Papers 8.10 Sunday Worship 8.50 A Point of View 8.58 Tweet of the Day 9.00 Broadcasting House 10.00 The Archers 11.15 Desert Island Discs Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 Just a Minute 12.30 The Food Programme 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World This Weekend 1.30 Tom Ravenscroft’s One-Man Band 2.00 Gardeners’ Question Time 2.45 Witness 3.00 Classic Serial: Three Men in a Boat 4.00 Open Book 4.30 Poetry Please 5.00 File on 4 5.40 Profile 5.54 Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00

Six O’Clock News 6.15 Pick of the Week 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Paul Sinha’s Citizenship Test 7.45 Bloody Scotland 8.00 More or Less 8.30 Last Word 9.00 Money Box 9.26 (LW) Radio 4 Appeal 9.26 (FM) Radio 4 Appeal 9.30 In Business 9.59 Weather 10.00 The Westminster Hour 11.00 The Film Programme 11.30 Something Understood Midnight News and Weather 12.15 Thinking Allowed 12.45 Bells on Sunday 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 The Non League Football Show 6.00 Sunday Breakfast 9.00

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SportsWeek 10.00 Pienaar’s Politics 11.00 5 Live Investigates Noon 5 Live Sport 12.15 MOTD2 Extra 1.00 5 Live Formula 1 3.00 5 Live Sport 4.00 5 Live Sport: Premier League Football 2013-14 6.06 6-0-6 7.30 On the Money 8.30 5 Live News 10.00 Stephen Nolan. A chance for listeners to discuss the latest stories. 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 Aled Jones Noon Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen 3.00 Charlotte Green’s Culture Club 5.00 The Classic FM Chart 7.00 David Mellor 9.00 The Countdown to the Classic Brits 10.00 Smooth Classics Midnight Bob Jones

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Monday television&radio Monday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

TOM KERRIDGE’S PROPER PUB FOOD 8.30pm, BBC2

The chef demonstrates recipes inspired by classic British pub fare, beginning with dishes perfect for serving up to groups of friends.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 Rip Off Britain (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 11.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 11.45 Claimed and Shamed (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (S,HD). 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD).

1.30 Regional News (S); Weather. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 Perfection (R,S,HD).

3.00 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 3.45 Country Show Cook Off (R,S,HD). 4.15 Flog It! (R,S). 5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

EASTENDERS 8pm, BBC1

Ava worries about Sam’s health and waits to hear if she is a suitable donor – but when Dexter confesses he has also been tested, she is desperate to talk him out of it – should he prove a match. A guilty Roxy continues to see Ronnie behind Alfie’s back, and Lauren takes on a cleaning job at the Vic.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two 6.05 Homes Under the Hammer 7.05 Street Patrol UK 7.50 Claimed and Shamed 8.20 Sign Zone: The A to Z of TV Cooking 9.05 Watchdog 10.05 Robbed, Raided, Reunited 10.35 Click 11.00 News 11.30 Daily Politics Conference Special (S). 1.00 Classic Mastermind 1.30 Weakest Link (R,S). 2.15 Great British Menu (R,S,HD). 2.45 Oceans (R,S,HD). 3.45 Elephant Diaries (R,S). 4.15 Incredible Animal Journeys (R,S). 5.15 Cash in the Attic (R,S).

DOC MARTIN 9pm, ITV

Louisa arranges for Martin to take James to playgroup, Bert is suspicious when he catches Jennifer in the bathroom with a needle, and Ruth has trouble with a new neighbour.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (S,HD). From Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). Features, music and conversation.

3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point (S,HD). 5.00 The Chase (S,HD). Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh.

SEX: MY BRITISH JOB 10pm, Channel 4

Hsiao-Hung Pai goes undercover as a housekeeper in London’s brothels to investigate the British sex trade. Her prolonged period of secret filming provides an insight into why – and how – some immigrant women are drawn into this line of work.

Channel Channel 4

6.00 The Treacle People 6.10 The Hoobs 7.00 According to Jim (R,S,HD). 7.25 Will & Grace (R,S). 7.55 Frasier (R,S). 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 10.00 Four Rooms US (S,HD). 11.00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away (R,S,HD). 12.00 News Summary (S). 12.05 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals (R,S,HD). 12.35 Film: The Hunt for Red October (S,HD) (1990). ●●●● 3.10 Countdown 4.00 Deal or No Deal 5.00 Come Dine with Me (S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 Cowboy Builders (R,S). 12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 Hustling America (R,S,HD). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.20 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (R,S). 3.15 Film: Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story (S) (2008). Fact-based drama, with Judy Reyes, Ana Ortiz and Hector Luis Bustamante. ●●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD).

5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

The Hairy Bikers: Everyday … 7pm

The Chase, 5pm

Gadget Man, 8.30pm

Hustling America, 7pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather.

6.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 60/140.

6.30 James Martin’s Food Map of Britain (S,HD). 6/10. The chef’s tour reaches the south coast of England.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 2/20.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Joe lashes out at the Osbornes on the day of Frankie and Jack’s wedding renewal.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD). Indi and Dex decide to throw a party.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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by Alex Jones and Matt Baker.

7.30 Regional Programme (S).

Followed by BBC News; Regional News.

7.00 The Hairy Bikers: Everyday Gourmets (R,S,HD). 1/6. Si King and Dave Myers demonstrate how to make gourmet food cheaply.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Cameron makes his plea in court.

7.30 Coronation Street (S,HD).

Nick regains consciousness.

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S). A week of talks on organ donation.

7.00 Hustling America (S,HD). See Choices Above. Followed by 5 News Update.

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EastEnders, 8pm

8.00 EastEnders (S,HD). See Choices Above.

8.30 Dying for a Bargain – Panorama (S,HD). Working conditions for clothing-industry employees abroad.

8.00 University Challenge (S,HD).

11/37.

8.30 Tom Kerridge’s Proper Pub Food (S,HD). 1/6. See Choices Above.

8.00 Countrywise (S,HD). 4/8. Ben Fogle meets farmers finding love online.

8.30 Coronation Street (S,HD).

Stella makes a shock announcement to her family.

8.00 Jamie’s Money Saving Meals (S,HD). 4/6. See Choices Above.

8.30 Gadget Man (S). 4/6. Products designed to make holidays less stressful.

8.00 Police Interceptors (S,HD).

Hayley rushes to help two badly injured motorcyclists, Ross and John haul in a drink-driver who has caused a trail of destruction, and Duncan has to escort a monster truck.

Followed by 5 News at 9.

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9.00 Motorway Cops (S,HD). 4/5.

Two motorway police are flagged down by a drunk student asking for a lift to France, a car is hit by a runaway horse and a night-time collision leads to chaos.

9.00 The Midwives (S,HD). 6/8.

Cameras follow trainees as they gain on-the-job experience at Birmingham Women’s Hospital, while a third-year student carries out home visits and runs her own antenatal clinic.

9.00 Doc Martin (S,HD). 4/8. See Choices Above.

9.00 The Fried Chicken Shop (S).

2/3. The documentary follows the takeaway’s manager Zahid, who has left his family behind in Pakistan so he can fulfil his dreams and provide for their future.

9.00 Bullied to Death: The Tragedy of Phoebe Prince (S).

Documentary examining the circumstances surrounding the death of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince, who killed herself in January 2010 after months of bullying by her schoolmates.

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10.00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks (S,HD). 1/13. New series. The comedy music quiz returns, with team captains Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding joined by guests Basement Jaxx, AlunaGeorge and James Acaster.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Followed

by Weather.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 Through the Keyhole (R,S,HD). 4/6. Catherine Tyldesley and Terry Wogan join Dave Berry on the panel as Keith Lemon visits three mystery homes and challenges them to guess the identities of the famous occupants.

10.00 Sex: My British Job (S,HD).

See Choices Above.

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 Regional Programme (S).

11.05 Who Do You Think You Are? (R,S,HD). 9/10. Singer Marianne Faithfull investigates her halfJewish mother’s time as a dancer in 1920s Berlin, and her later experiences in Vienna during the Second World War.

11.20 Today at Conference (S).

Highlights from the Labour Party gathering in Brighton.

11.50 The Story of the Jews (R,S,HD). 4/5. The influence of the shtetl on Jewish culture and the modern world.

11.35 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories: Julie Goodyear (R,S,HD). 1/6.

An interview with the former Coronation Street star.

11.20 Educating Yorkshire (R,S).

3/8. The documentary focuses on two very similar boys – one whose behaviour is causing concern as he approaches his GCSEs, and the other who constantly talks in class.

12.05 Weatherview (S). 12.10 BBC News (S,HD).

12.50 Sign Zone: The Hairy Bikers: Restoration Road Trip (R,S). Si King and Dave Myers work on steam train the Night Owl, forging a steel wheel taller than they are for the biggest locomotive restoration in Britain. Last in the series. 1.50 This Is BBC Two (S). Preview of upcoming programmes from BBC Two. 4.00 BBC Learning Zone

12.30 Jackpot247 Viewers get the chance to participate in live interactive gaming from the comfort of their sofas, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team. 3.00 Champions League Weekly (S,HD). 3.25 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Text-based information service. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S).

Guests air their differences.

12.25 Random Acts (S). With Charlotte Ginsborg. 12.30 Film: Om Shanti Om (2007). Bollywood musical fantasy comedy, with Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone. ●●● 3.25 Nashville (S,HD).

Rayna decides what is important to her.

4.10 Film: Aquamarine (S,HD) (2006). See Choices Above. ●●● 5.55 SuperScrimpers (R,S,HD).

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10.00 Under the Dome (S,HD). 6/13.

Riots break out when rationing is brought in after the water tower is damaged and the lake found to be polluted. Julia and Dodee try to trace the source of a high-pitched sound.

10.55 The Thomas Crown Affair (S,HD) (1999). See Choices Above. ●●●

12.55 SuperCasino Viewers get the chance to take part in live interactive gaming, with a mix of roulette-wheel spins and lively chat from the presenting team.

3.55 Divine Designs (R,S). Architecture after the Second World War. 4.20 Great Artists (R,S). 4.45 House Doctor (R,S).

5.10 Wildlife SOS (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

JAMIE’S MONEY SAVING MEALS 8pm, Channel 4

HUSTLING AMERICA 7pm, Channel 5

Jamie Oliver prepares roast chicken with all the trimmings, before turning the leftovers into a stew, and rustles up cauliflower and broccoli cheese using frozen vegetables.

Alexis Conran heads to New York as he concludes his journey across America and tries to outwit some of the city’s most streetsmart operators, including a cabbie and a Washington Square Park chess veteran. He also takes on a professional in an unusual game of table tennis.

ITV2 ITV2

E4 E4

6.00 Emmerdale 6.25 Coronation Street 7.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 8.10 You’ve Been Framed!

8.40 Dinner Date 9.40 The Real Housewives of New York City 10.35 The Real Housewives of Vancouver 11.30 Millionaire Matchmaker 12.30 Emmerdale 1.00 Coronation Street 2.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show 4.10 The Real Housewives of Vancouver 5.05 Millionaire Matchmaker

6.00 Switched 6.25 90210 7.10 Ugly Betty 7.55 Charmed 9.00 Glee 10.00 New Girl 10.30 The Mindy Project 11.00 Rules of Engagement 11.30 Charmed 12.30 Hollyoaks 1.00 How I Met Your Mother 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 New Girl (R,HD). 3.30 The Mindy Project 4.00 Rules of Engagement 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Brainiac: Science Abuse (R,S). 7.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 8.00 Airline USA (HD). 9.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 1.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 2.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S).

4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S).

FILM PICKS

Monday television&radio AQUAMARINE 4.10am, Channel 4

THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR 10.55pm, Channel 5

A mermaid stranded at a beach resort offers to grant two girls a wish if they will help her to win a lifeguard’s heart.

Fantasy comedy, starring Sara Paxton.

Gold GOLD 6.15 Just Good Friends 6.45 Sykes 7.15 Last of the Summer Wine 7.55 Keeping Up Appearances 9.15 Heroes of Comedy 10.20 Last of the Summer Wine 11.00 Just a Minute 11.40 The Best of Les Dawson 12.20 The Borrowers.

1.00 Open All Hours 1.40 dinnerladies 2.20 As Time Goes By 3.00 Goodnight Sweetheart 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 One Foot in the Grave

Crime adventure remake, starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary, Ben Gazzara, Frankie Faison and Fritz Weaver.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 9.00 FL72 Highlights (HD).

9.30 Spanish Football (HD). 10.30 Football Special (HD). 12.00 Spanish Football (HD). 1.00 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). 1.30 Champions League Weekly (HD).

2.00 Football Special (HD). 3.30 Game Changers (HD). 4.30 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). 5.00 Soccer AM: The Best Bits (HD).

Couples Retreat, 10pm

90210, 9pm

Kick Ass Kung Fu, 9pm

dinnerladies, 7.40pm

FL72 Live, 7.30pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R).

Andrew from London picks three blind dates from five potential partners.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 Futurama (R,S,HD). Part one of four. Bender becomes addicted to Dungeons & Dragons.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.20 Yes Minister. The civil service is threatened with cutbacks. Satirical comedy, starring Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne.

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Animal antics and bad hair days.

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Blunders on the beach.

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD). Joe struggles to digest yesterday’s news.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Marge’s driving habits come under scrutiny.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Bart is befriended by mobsters.

7.00 Open All Hours.

Arkwright decides to expand his empire.

7.40 dinnerladies. Jean gets angry with the customers.

8.00 The X Factor (R,HD).

Having impressed the judges in the audition room, the contestants take to the stage at Wembley Arena as they compete to win places at next week’s boot camp.

8.00 New Girl (R,HD). Jess is fired from her teaching job.

8.30 New Girl (R,HD). Jess pretends to be a handsome stranger’s blind date.

8.00 A League of Their Own (R,S,HD). With Joleon Lescott, Jon Richardson and Gabby Logan.

8.20 dinnerladies. Bren is so excited about her forthcoming holiday with Tony she even considers buying some new clothes, and Petula discovers the dangers of gas in caravans.

9.00 Peter Andre: My Life (HD). New series. Return of the reality show following the life of the singer. In the first edition, Peter tries to make a fresh start after coming to terms with the loss of his brother.

9.00 90210 (HD). Liam’s plans 9.00 Kick Ass Kung Fu to start a business (S,HD). Matthew Ahmet creating custom-made concludes his mission to surfboards for women transform Britain’s are complicated when he wayward youth, falls for his first potential choosing three disciples investor, and Mark is from Manchester to offered a job in New undergo martial arts York. training in Hong Kong.

Last in the series.

6.00 FL72 Review. A roundup of recent matches, featuring all the goals from the Championship, League One and League Two. 7.00 Haye v Fury – The Tactics (HD). A look ahead to the heavyweight fight between David Haye and Tyson Fury.

7.30 FL72 Live (HD).

Brentford v Leyton Orient (kick-off 7.45pm).

Coverage of the League One fixture at Griffin Park, where the Bees are looking to dent the visitors’ outstanding start to the season. Orient won their first five league matches and ran Premier League Hull City close in the Capital One Cup, but Brentford have also enjoyed some positive results to put themselves among the leading pack.

9.00 Only Fools and Horses.

Del enters the car trade.

9.40 Outnumbered. Sue and Pete try to make it through a wedding day, while the children get up to mischief. Comedy, starring Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner.

10.20 Outnumbered. Ben 10.00 The Footballers’ tries to get elected as Football Show (HD). the class rep, while Pete Dave Jones is joined by returns from a guests including colleague’s funeral footballers, managers troubled by mortality, and club chairmen to money problems and the discuss all the major anaconda attack his son stories in the week’s is filming. football news.

11.00 Gimme Gimme Gimme. Linda dates a serial killer.

11.40 Rev. Adam befriends a man who hopes to get married at St Saviour’s.

11.00 Haye v Fury – The Tactics (HD).

11.30 Pro Contract – The Football Dream.

12.20 Girlfriends (R,HD). The girls spend 24 hours alone with each of their three remaining suitors. 1.20 The Vampire Diaries (R,HD).

Bonnie is concerned about Jeremy’s new plans. 2.05 Life’s Funniest Moments (R). Candid moments captured on camera. 2.30 Teleshopping Home shopping.

12.20 The Comic Strip Presents: Eddie Monsoon – A Life? A South African TV star causes worldwide controversy. 1.00 dinnerladies The girls celebrate Japanese-style at their work party. 1.30 Gimme Gimme Gimme 2.00 Rev. 2.30 The Comic Strip Presents: Eddie Monsoon – A Life?

12.00 FL72 Review A round-up of recent matches. 1.00 SPFL RoundUp (HD). 1.30 FL72 Highlights (HD). 2.30 The Footballers’ Football Show (HD). 3.30 Haye v Fury – The Tactics (HD). 4.00 Pro Contract – The Football Dream.

4.30 Soccer AM: The Best Bits (HD). 5.30 SPFL Round-Up (HD).

RADIO

10.00 Couples Retreat (HD) 10.00 The Inbetweeners Top 10.00 Spartacus: Vengeance (R,S,HD). Oenomaus (2009). A couple on the 10 Moments (R). A throws himself into the brink of divorce sign up countdown of the brutal pits and Glaber for relationship therapy comedy show’s decides to support on a tropical island, but highlights.

Lucretia’s prophecies, find they can save despite his wife’s money if they persuade protests. their friends to join them. Three more couples go along for the holiday, thinking they do not need any help – 11.00 The Inbetweeners: 11.10 Cop Squad (R,S,HD). but the unconventional E4’s Top 10 Episodes The work of police treatment soon exposes (R). officers in cracks in their Cambridgeshire. relationships. Comedy, 11.35 The Inbetweeners: E4’s Top 10 Episodes starring Vince Vaughn, (R).

Malin Akerman and Jon Favreau. ●● 12.10 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.10 Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (R,HD).

1.35 The Inbetweeners: E4’s Top 10 Episodes (R). 2.05 The Inbetweeners: E4’s Top 10 Episodes (R). 2.35 Rules of Engagement 2.55 Sirens (R,HD).

3.50 Glee (R,HD). 4.35 Ugly Betty

Radio 1 6.30am Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 4.00 Greg James 7.00 Zane Lowe 9.00 Radio 1’s Stories: Jake Bugg 10.00 Phil Taggart and Alice Levine Midnight Rock Show with Daniel P Carter 2.00 B.Traits 4.00 Dev Radio 2 5.00am Vanessa Feltz 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Paul Jones 8.00 Jo Whiley 9.30 Big Band Special 10.00 Hugh Laurie’s Blues Changes. New series. The influence of blues on modern music. 11.00 Jools Holland Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester

12.10 Road Wars (R,S). Police officers combat vehicle crime. 1.10 Nothing to Declare (S). The work of customs officers in Australia.

1.40 Nothing to Declare (S). 2.10 Road Wars (R,S). 3.00 Miami SWAT (R,S). The work of the elite tactical unit. 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S).

Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composers of the Week: Sound of Cinema: British Film Music 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composers of the Week: Sound of Cinema: British Film Music 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert 10.00 Night Waves 10.45 The Essay: Sound of Cinema: Praising Powell and Pressburger. A week of programmes celebrating the influential film-makers.

11.00 Jazz on 3 12.30am Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 9.00

Start the Week 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: Empress Dowager Cixi – The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 Tibet Remembered 11.30 Reception Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 You and Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Our Dreams: Our Selves 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: Tinsel Girl 3.00 Round Britain Quiz 3.30 BBC National Short Story Award 2013 4.00 Give Order Please 4.30 Beyond Belief 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 Just a Minute 7.00 The Archers 7.15

Front Row 7.45 Writing the Century: Takes Two to Tandem 8.00 OBJ’s Guide to the Middle East. Understanding politics in the region. 8.30 Crossing Continents. The threat of mercury poisoning in Indonesia. Last in the series.

9.00 Shared Planet. Investigating whether an increase in global trade is damaging ecosystems. 9.30 Start the Week. The impact of technology on a generation so accustomed to it. 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Lady Susan. By Jane Austen. Abridged by Eileen Horne.

11.00 The Night Singer 11.30 Sleepless Night Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: Empress

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BBC3 BBC3

7.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S).

8.00 Pop’s Greatest Dance Crazes (R,S). The top 12 dance fads. Last in the series.

9.00 Fazer’s Urban Takeover (S).

Part two of two.

The group performs at the Royal Albert Hall.

10.00 Russell Howard’s Good News (R,S). The comedian’s perspective on the news.

10.30 EastEnders (R,S).

Ava is heartbroken when Dexter admits he has been tested as a potential donor.

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 American Dad! (R,S).

12.10 American Dad! (R,S). 12.30 Fazer’s Urban Takeover (R,S). 1.30 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S). 2.30 Russell Howard’s Good News (R,S). 3.00 Pop’s Greatest Dance Crazes (R,S).

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 World News Today; Weather.

7.30 Nature’s Microworlds (R).

8.00 Welsh Railways: Beating Beeching (R).

Part one of two.

Steam enthusiasts share their passion for trains.

8.30 Only Connect.

New series.

Victoria Coren Mitchell presents the quiz show.

9.00 A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley.

New series.

Examining Britain’s fascination with murder.

10.00 Miss Marple (R).

Part one of three.

A body is found in a couple’s library.

10.55 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Tsunamis (R).

11.55 Africa (R).

12.55 Tribe (R). 1.55 Only Connect (R). 2.25 Nature’s Microworlds (R). 2.55 A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (R).

Dowager Cixi – The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Richard Bacon 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport: The Monday Night Club 10.30 Phil Williams 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Bob Jones

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TV PICKS

Tu esday Television television&radio Tuesday’s Guide THE SARAH MILLICAN TELEVISION PROGRAMME 9.30pm, BBC2

The comedienne returns with more TV-based stand-up and chat, with guest Quentin Willson.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 Rip Off Britain (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (S,HD). 11.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 11.45 Claimed and Shamed (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD).

1.30 Regional News (S); Weather. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 Perfection (R,S,HD).

3.00 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 3.45 Country Show Cook Off (R,S,HD). 4.15 Flog It! (R,S). 5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

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MY BIG FAT GYPSY LADIES’ DAY 9pm, Channel 4

While the splendour of Ladies’ Day at the races is traditionally associated with the aristocracy, thousands of travellers also gather for the biggest dates in the gypsy calendar. This one-off special explores the bond between this community and their horses, from equine-themed christenings and fairs to road races in the dead of night.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two (S). 6.05 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 7.05 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 7.50 Claimed and Shamed (R,S,HD). 8.20 Sign Zone: The A to Z of TV Cooking (R,S). 9.05 Britain’s Big Wildlife Revival (R,S). 10.05 Robbed, Raided, Reunited (R,S). 10.35 HARDtalk (R,S,HD). 11.00 BBC News (S,HD). 11.30 BBC World News (S,HD). 12.00 Daily Politics Conference Special (S). 1.00 Classic Mastermind (R,S). 1.30 Great British Menu (HD).

2.00 Daily Politics Leader Speech (S,HD). 4.00 Coast (R,S,HD). 4.15 Incredible Animal Journeys (R,S). 5.15 Cash in the Attic (R,S).

BEING PAUL GASCOIGNE 9pm, ITV

NEW TRICKS 9pm, BBC1

The former England footballer gives cameras unprecedented access to his private life over a threemonth period, as he tries to rebuild relationships and battle his demons.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (S,HD). From Winsford, Cheshire.

3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD).

With guest Bill Bryson. 3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point (S,HD).

Quiz show, hosted by Ben Shephard. 5.00 The Chase (S,HD).

After Sandra’s departure, the detectives are anxious to meet their new boss, and DCI Sasha Miller wastes no time getting cracking with her first Ucos case, the murder of an Italian immigrant on a west London allotment 25 years earlier. With Tamzin Outhwaite joining Dennis Waterman and Denis Lawson.

Channel Channel 4

6.10 The Hoobs (R,S). 7.00 According to Jim (R,S,HD). 7.25 Will & Grace (R,S). 8.05 Frasier (R,S). 9.05 Everybody Loves Raymond 10.00 Four Rooms US (S,HD). 11.00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away (HD). 12.00 News (S). 12.05 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals (HD). 12.35 Kirstie’s Vintage Gems (HD).

12.40 Film: The Devil at Four O’Clock (S,HD) (1961). See Choices Above. ●●● 3.10 Countdown (HD). 4.00 Deal or No Deal (HD). 5.00 Come Dine with Me (S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 Cowboy Builders (R,S). 12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 Animal Maternity (R,S,HD). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.15 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (R,S,HD). 3.15 Film: Love Will Keep Us Together (S) (2010). Drama, with David James Elliott and Sharon Case. ●●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD).

5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD). Robbo’s life hangs in the balance.

Later Live – with Jools Holland, 10pm

Ade in Adland, 8pm

London Irish, 10pm

CSI: NY – Killing Spree, 9pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather.

6.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 3/20.

Homer becomes a tow-truck driver.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Joe struggles to digest yesterday’s news.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD).

Leah worries that VJ might have the same condition as Pippa.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Live chat and topical reports.

7.30 EastEnders (S,HD). Dexter struggles in his attempt to do the right thing. Followed by BBC News; Regional News.

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 61/140. Quiz show, hosted by Dermot Murnaghan.

6.30 James Martin’s Food Map of Britain (S,HD). 7/10. The chef explores the West Country.

7.00 The Hairy Bikers: Everyday Gourmets (R,S,HD). 2/6. Si King and Dave Myers demonstrate how to create a dinner for two that is fit for a king, but doesn’t cost the earth.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Rhona books herself into rehab.

7.30 Aussie Animal Island (S,HD).

2/6. The team carries out personality tests on the Tasmanian devils.

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S). Catherine McCarley talks about her decision to become a living donor and why she supports the idea of an opt-out system.

7.00 Monkey Life (R,S,HD). 19/20.

Kiki is introduced to fellow chimp Patricia.

7.30 Highland Emergency (R,S,HD). Followed by 5 News Update.

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8.00 Holby City (S,HD). 50/52.

Hanssen warns Malick to tread carefully after his recent behaviour, then suggests they work together, while Chrissie is struggling to juggle her treatment, work and motherhood.

8.00 The Great British Bake Off (S,HD). 6/16. The remaining contestants face three tasks involving sweet dough, making signature tea loaves as well as creating 36 sweet European buns for the showstopper round.

8.00 Ade in Adland (S,HD). 2/2.

Conclusion. Adrian Edmondson explores how TV commercials have reflected the ways in which households have changed over seven decades, from beauty products to home improvements.

8.00 Double Your House for Half the Money (S,HD). 6/10. Jo and Keith Mortimer have grand plans for a two-storey wraparound extension in Swindon, while Mei and Yui Tse are planning their second expansion in four years in St Albans.

8.00 New Cowboy Builders (S,HD).

New series. Dominic Littlewood and Melinda Messenger help a Nottingham couple who were left with two unfinished extensions, an incomplete roof and hazardous electrics.

Followed by 5 News at 9.

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9.00 New Tricks (S,HD). 9/10. See Choices Above.

9.00 The Wrong Mans (S,HD). 1/6.

New series. Comedy thriller, starring James Corden and Mathew Baynton.

9.30 The Sarah Millican Television Programme (S,HD). 1/6. See Choices Above.

9.00 Being Paul Gascoigne (S,HD).

See Choices Above.

9.00 My Big Fat Gypsy Ladies’ Day (S,HD). See Choices Above.

9.00 CSI: NY – Killing Spree (S,HD).

9/17. A gang member is discovered dead, having been cut in half with a chainsaw, and as the team surveys the scene, the victim’s phone rings and Flack recognises the number as Lovato’s. The next episode can be seen tomorrow at 9pm.

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New Tricks, 9pm

10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S). Followed

by National Lottery Update.

10.35 Girls Behind Bars: Stacey Dooley in the USA (S,HD). 1/3.

New series. The presenter explores different aspects of American life. Previously seen on BBC Three.

10.00 Later Live – with Jools Holland (S,HD). 2/8. With altrock veterans Pixies, soul singer Janelle Monae, country-blues musician Tony Joe White, electropop trio Chvrches and R&B outfit Barrence Whitfield and the Savages.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Followed

by Weather.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 When Ali Came to Britain (R,S). Documentary focusing on Muhammad Ali’s relationship with Britain, featuring contributions by those who met the boxer on his many visits.

10.00 London Irish (S). 1/6. See Choices Above.

10.30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (R,S). The studio receives a retro makeover as team captains Jon Richardson and Lee Mack are joined by guests Henning Wehn and David O’Doherty.

10.00 Castle (S,HD). 1/24.

See Choices Above.

10.55 Body of Proof (R,S). 1/9.

Neurosurgeon Megan Hunt gets a job as a coroner in Philadelphia after a car accident leads to her quitting the operating theatre. Crime drama, starring Dana Delany.

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11.35 Hart’s War (S) (2002). See Choices Above. ●●●

11.20 Today at Conference (S).

Highlights from the Labour Party annual conference in Brighton.

11.50 The Crane Gang (R,S,HD). 1/3.

The day-to-day operations of a mobile crane company.

11.35 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (S). The host takes his successful talk show stateside, where he invites American guests to air their differences, and dispenses his own judgment on the situation.

11.35 Rewind the Tube (R,S,HD).

Documentary looking back at the rise and fall of the 1980s music show, as a host of stars, from former presenters to bands, recall their contributions to the programme.

11.50 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (R,S,HD). 3/16. Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a successful businessman’s brother, who knew a secret concerning their mother’s death.

1.35 Weatherview (S). 1.40 BBC News (S,HD).

12.50 Sign Zone: The United States of Television: America in Primetime (R,S).

Alan Yentob continues to explore the history and influence of the most popular and enduring US drama series and sitcoms, with this edition focusing on TV characters who reflect individuality, diversity, eccentricity and quirkiness. 1.50 This Is BBC Two (S). 4.00 BBC Learning Zone

12.20 Jackpot247. Interactive gaming.

3.00 Loose Women (R,S,HD). Judy Murray joins Andrea McLean, Denise Welch, Sherrie Hewson and Jane McDonald to talk about her son Andy Murray’s Wimbledon win this summer. 3.50 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Textbased information service. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S). Guests air their differences.

12.35 Random Acts (S,HD). 12.40 Poker (S,HD). The Caribbean Adventure. 1.35 American Football: Hard Knocks (R,S).

2.30 KOTV Boxing Weekly (S). 3.00 Beach Volleyball (S). 3.55 Caterham Motorsports (R,S). 4.25 The Grid (R,S).

4.50 FIM Superbike World Championship (R,S). 5.15 SuperScrimpers (R,S,HD).

12.40 True Crimes: The First 72 Hours (R,S). The rape of a nine-year-old girl is linked to an unsolved murder. 1.05 SuperCasino 3.55 Divine Designs (R,S).

Liverpool’s cathedrals. 4.20 Great Artists (R,S). Profile of Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian. 4.45 House Doctor (R,S). A Clapham basement flat is overhauled. 5.10 Wildlife SOS (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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CASTLE 10pm, Channel 5

The return of the American drama about a wise-cracking novelist who shadows an NYPD detective. Beckett and her team investigate when the body of teacher is found lying on a ripped awning.

LONDON IRISH 10pm, Channel 4

New comedy about four Irish twentysomethings adjusting to life in London. Packy bumps into old friend Ryan, who lost a hand during a robbery at the petrol station they used to work at back home. Starring Kerr Logan, Sinead Keenan, Peter Campion, Kat Reagan, Ardal O’Hanlon and Tracey Lynch.

ITV2 ITV2

E4 E4

6.00 Emmerdale (R,HD). 6.25 Coronation Street (R,HD). 7.25 Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R). 8.10 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 8.40 Dinner Date (R). 9.40 Real Housewives of New York City (R,HD). 10.35 The Real Housewives of Vancouver (R,HD). 11.30 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD). 12.30 Emmerdale (R,HD). 1.00 Coronation Street (R,HD).

2.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R). 4.10 Real Housewives of Vancouver (HD).

5.05 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD).

6.00 Switched (R). 6.25 90210 (R,HD).

7.10 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 Glee (R,HD). 10.00 New Girl (R,HD). 10.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 11.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 11.30 Charmed (R). 12.30 Hollyoaks (R,HD). 1.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 New Girl (R,HD).

3.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 4.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Brainiac: Science Abuse (R,S). 7.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 7.30 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S). 8.00 Airline USA (HD). 8.30 Airline USA (HD).

9.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD).

1.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD).

FILM PICKS

Tuesday television&radio HART’S WAR 11.35pm, BBC1

THE DEVIL AT FOUR O’CLOCK 12.40pm, Channel 4

An American PoW exposes racism when he tries to defend a black airman accused of murder. Second World War courtroom drama, starring Bruce Willis.

Gold GOLD 6.10 Just Good Friends 6.40 Sykes 7.10 The Green Green Grass 7.50 Sykes 8.30 As Time Goes By 9.10 Goodnight Sweetheart 10.30 Last of the Summer Wine 11.50 One Foot in the Grave 12.30 Yes Minister 1.10 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 2.30 As Time Goes By 3.05 Jeeves and Wooster 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 Only Fools and Horses

A drunken missionary, a priest, and three convicts must save a colony of leper children from a volcano. Adventure, starring Spencer Tracy.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 7.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 8.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 9.00 SPFL Round-Up (HD). 9.30 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). 10.00 Haye v Fury – The Tactics (HD). A look ahead to the heavyweight fight between David Haye and Tyson Fury.

10.30 Live County Championship Cricket (HD).

Peter Andre: My Life, 8pm

How I Met Your ... 7.30pm

An Idiot Abroad, 8pm

Bring Me Morecambe ... 9pm

Behind the Ropes ... 11pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R). Sussex bachelor James looks for love. Narrated by Charlotte Hudson.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki star.

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 Futurama (R,S,HD). Part two of four. Mom tells her son the dark matter shortage is a scam.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.20 Yes Minister. Jim Hacker is kept in the dark by Sir Humphrey.

6.00 Football Gold. Classic action.

6.15 Football Gold 6.30 Sportswomen. Profiles of leading competitors.

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R).

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Camcorder calamities with Harry Hill.

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD).

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). Barney tries to get caught speeding.

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Homer prevents a nuclear meltdown.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Bart enters a golf tournament.

7.00 Open All Hours.

Arkwright loses his trousers.

7.40 Outnumbered. Sue and Pete try to make it through a wedding day.

8.00 Peter Andre: My Life (R,HD). Return of the reality show following the daily life of the Australian singer, businessman and TV personality.

8.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). Robin attempts to sabotage Barney and Patrice’s relationship.

8.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Guest starring Regina King.

8.00 An Idiot Abroad (R,HD). Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their friend and former radio producer Karl Pilkington on a world tour, beginning with a visit to China.

8.20 Outnumbered. Ben tries to get elected as the class rep. Domestic comedy, starring Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner.

7.00 Behind the Ropes – Haye v Fury (HD).

7.30 Soccer Special (HD).

Julian Warren introduces pre-match reports and news of all tonight’s goals as they go in, while studio guests keep an eye on the big games and talking points. Plus, a classified results roundup from all of this evening’s fixtures.

9.00 An Idiot Abroad (R,HD).

Karl Pilkington arrives in India, where he attends the Holi, a spring festival in which people throw coloured dye at one another, and takes an eight-hour bus ride to see holy men known as ‘the babas’.

9.00 Bring Me Morecambe & Wise. Tribute to the comedy double act, featuring clips from some of their earliest TV performances and an interview with Eric Morecambe’s widow Joan. Narrated by Victoria Wood.

9.00 The Magaluf 9.00 Rules of Engagement Weekender (HD). A trio (HD). Jen puts the wrong of London lads arrive date on Audrey’s baby eager for some action, shower invitiations. Last followed by two hardin the series. partying Norwich lasses – 9.30 Happy Endings (HD). but a night of heavy Max discovers some drinking soon takes its gossip about Jane and toll.

Alex.

10.00 Crazy Beaches (HD). A 10.00 Derren Brown: bar owner tries to set a Miracles for Sale (R). world record.

The showman investigates faith 10.30 Celebrity Juice (R,HD). healing in America.

With Carol Vorderman, Gino D’Acampo and Chris Ramsey.

10.00 Cop Squad (R,S,HD).

Documentary following the work of Cambridgeshire police officers as they tackle crime in a county renowned for its university, tourism and picture-postcard appearance.

10.00 Only Fools and Horses. 10.00 Premier League Del becomes a showbiz Review (HD). A look entrepreneur after back at recent fixtures in discovering a sensational the English Premier Tom Jones-style singer – League, as the season but it turns out he is not continued with matches all he is cracked up to be. affecting both ends of Comedy, starring David the table.

Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst.

11.40 The Inbetweeners: E4’s Top 10 Episodes (R). In the penultimate episode of the countdown, the gang goes on a field trip.

Comedy, starring Simon Bird.

11.00 Road Wars (R,S). The Proactive Squad from Thames Valley Police participates in Slough’s largest-ever drug raid, and officers from Texas deal with armed car thieves.

11.10 Gimme Gimme Gimme. Linda plans a surprise party for Tom’s 30th birthday, but the guest list leaves a lot to be desired.

11.50 Rev

11.00 Behind the Ropes – Haye v Fury (HD).

Following David Haye and Tyson Fury as they prepare for their heavyweight fight.

11.30 Spanish Football

1.10 America’s Got Talent (R,HD). Searching for the most gifted performers in the USA. 1.55 Up All Night (R,HD). Reagan tries to set a good example for Amy. 2.20 Teleshopping. Buying goods from the comfort of home. 5.50 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD). Textbased information service.

12.15 The Inbetweeners: E4’s Top 10 Episodes (R). 12.50 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.20 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.50 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 2.10 The Inbetweeners: E4’s Top 10 Episodes (R). 3.05 Scrubs (R,HD).

3.25 Scrubs (R,HD). 3.50 Glee (R,HD). 4.30 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

12.00 Road Wars (R,S). A cannabis factory is raided. 1.00 John Bishop’s Only Joking (R,S,HD).

1.30 Nothing to Declare (R,S).

2.00 Nothing to Declare (R,S).

2.30 Nothing to Declare (R,S).

3.00 Miami SWAT (R,S). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S).

12.30 The Comic Strip Presents: Dirty Movie. A postman awaits a morning showing of The Sound of Muzak at the local cinema. 1.10 Gimme Gimme Gimme. Linda plans Tom’s 30th birthday. 1.40 Rev. Adam has a crisis of faith. 2.10 The Comic Strip Presents: Dirty Movie

12.30 Capital One Cup Football (HD). 1.30 Behind the Ropes – Haye v Fury (HD). 2.00 Football Asia (S). 2.30 Spanish Football 3.30 Behind the Ropes – Haye v Fury (HD). 4.00 Pro Contract – The Football Dream 4.30 Premier League Review (HD). 5.30 Behind the Ropes – Haye v Fury (HD).

RADIO

11.20 Paranormal Activity (HD) (2007). Horror, starring Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat. Including FYI Daily. ●●●●

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 4.00 Greg James. Music and chat. 7.00 Zane Lowe. Ground-breaking tunes. 9.00 The Review Show with Edith Bowman.

The latest music, film and games releases. 10.00 Phil Taggart and Alice Levine. Music and chat. Midnight Punk Show with Mike Davies 2.00 Nihal 4.00 Dev Radio 2 5.00am Vanessa Feltz 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Jamie Cullum. F8.00 Jo Whiley.

Music and chat. 9.30 Nigel Ogden: The Organist Entertains 10.00 Silent Film 11.00 Mark Radcliffe’s Music Club Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composers of the Week: Sound of Cinema: British Film Music 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composers of the Week: Sound of Cinema: British Film Music 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert 10.00 Night Waves 10.45 The Essay: Sound of Cinema: Praising Powell & Pressburger 11.00 Late Junction 12.30am Through the Night

Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 9.00 The Life Scientific 9.30 One to One 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: Empress Dowager Cixi – The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 Shared Planet 11.30 The Secret Life of JS Bach Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 Call You and Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Our Dreams: Our Selves 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: Out of the Blue 3.00 Short Cuts 3.30 BBC National Short Story Award 2013 4.00 Document 4.30 Great Lives

5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 7.45 (LW) Writing the Century: Takes Two to Tandem 7.45 (FM) Writing the Century: Takes Two to Tandem 8.00 File on 4 8.40 In Touch 9.00 Inside Health 9.30 The Life Scientific 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Lady Susan 11.00 Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed 11.30 Don’t Log Off Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: Empress Dowager Cixi – The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 12.48 Shipping Forecast

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7.00 The Insider (S).

8.00 Motorway Cops (R,S). Traffic police enforce the law on Britain’s most dangerous highways.

9.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (S). A groom with a gym obsession is asked to plan his own ceremony.

10.00 Bad Education (S). Mr Fraser organises a special Abbey Grove Take Me Out. 10.30 EastEnders (R,S).

Dexter struggles in his attempt to do the right thing.

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

Stewie interferes with Brian and Jillian’s relationship.

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 American Dad! (R,S).

12.10 American Dad! (R,S). 12.30 Bad Education (R,S). 1.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S). 2.00 Fazer’s Urban Takeover (R,S). 3.00 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S).

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 World News Today; Weather 7.30 Nature’s Microworlds (R).

8.00 A Pembrokeshire Farm (R). The farmhouse is stripped down to its bare essentials.

8.30 Britain on Film: Worlds Apart.

Footage captured abroad by Look at Life.

9.00 Lost Kingdoms of South America (R). The rise and fall of Chimor, the continent’s first empire. Last in the series.

10.00 Hunt vs Lauda: F1’s Greatest Racing Rivals (R).

11.00 Deadliest Crash: The Le Mans 1955 Disaster (R).

12.00 France on a Plate (R). 1.00 Britain on Film: Worlds Apart (R). 1.30 A Pembrokeshire Farm (R).

2.00 Nature’s Microworlds (R). 2.30 Lost Kingdoms of South America (R).

1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Richard Bacon 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 7.45 5 Live Sport: League Cup Football 2013-14. Swindon Town v Chelsea. 10.30 Phil Williams 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert. Elgar, Mozart, Bach, Bizet. 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Bob Jones

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WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? 9pm, BBC1

John Simpson follows the trail of his greatgrandmother, who took her children and ran off with Wild West entertainer and aviator Samuel F Cody.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 Rip Off Britain (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 11.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 11.45 Claimed and Shamed (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD).

1.30 Regional News (S); Weather. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 Perfection (R,S,HD).

3.00 Escape to the Country (S,HD). 3.45 Country Show Cook Off (R,S,HD). 4.15 Flog It! (R,S). 5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

WHITECHAPEL 9pm, ITV

As the killer runs rings around the team, Chandler and Miles start to question the motives behind the gruesome deeds. The investigation is then further hampered when a new eyewitness claims the murderer looks like an old lady, and as the body count rises, Buchan works hard to find a precedent.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S,HD). 7.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 7.45 Claimed and Shamed (R,S,HD). 8.15 Sign Zone: Inspire: The Olympic Journey (R,S). 9.00 Inspire: The Olympic Journey (R,S). 9.30 Wild Shepherdess with Kate Humble (R,S). 10.30 Sign Zone: See Hear (S,HD). 11.00 BBC News (S,HD). 11.30 BBC World News (S,HD). 12.00 Daily Politics Conference Special (S). 1.00 Lifeline (R,S,HD).

1.10 Great British Menu (R,S,HD). 1.40 Live Cycling: World Road Time Trials (S). 4.10 Incredible Animal Journeys (R,S). 5.10 Cash in the Attic (R,S). 5.55 Party Political Broadcast (S).

SCIENCE BRITANNICA 9pm, BBC2

Professor Brian Cox celebrates Britain’s role in creating modern science, examining the obsessive and eccentric visionaries who developed a powerful new way to investigate nature.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (S,HD). David Dickinson and the team visit Congleton, Cheshire. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). With Pam Ayres and Blue. 3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point (S,HD). 5.00 The Chase (S,HD).

GOGGLEBOX 10pm, Channel 4

Some of Britain’s most opinionated and avid viewers comment on shows from the past seven days, from the comfort of their sofas.

The first edition includes discussions on The X Factor, The Great British Bake Off and Educating Yorkshire, as well as recent news stories. Narrated by Caroline Aherne.

Channel Channel 4

6.10 The Hoobs (R,S). 7.05 According to Jim (R,S,HD). 7.30 Will & Grace (R,S). 7.55 Frasier (R,S). 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S).

10.00 Four Rooms US (S,HD). 11.00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away (R,S,HD). 12.00 Channel 4 News Summary (S). 12.05 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals (R,S,HD). 12.35 Film: Reach for the Sky (S) (1956). See Choices Above. ●●●● 3.10 Countdown (S,HD). 4.00 Deal or No Deal (S,HD). 5.00 Come Dine with Me (S,HD).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 Cowboy Builders (R,S). 12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 The Railway: First Great Western (R,S,HD).

1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.15 NCIS (R,S). 3.15 Film: A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (S) (2006). Fact-based drama, starring JD Pardo. ●●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD).

5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD). Imogen’s abandoned car is discovered.

Eggheads, 6pm

Whitechapel, 9pm

Gogglebox, 10pm

Animal Maternity, 8pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather.

6.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.55 Party Political Broadcast (R,S).

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.25 Party Political Broadcast (S).

6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 4/20.

Marge is stalked by an escaped convict.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Frankie finds comfort with a guilty Ziggy.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD).

Sally struggles to find the right moment to talk to Pippa about her illness.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Hosted

by Matt Baker and Alex Jones.

Followed by BBC News; Regional News.

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 62/140.

Quiz show.

6.30 James Martin’s Food Map of Britain (S,HD). 8/10. The chef explores the west coast of Scotland.

7.00 The Hairy Bikers: Everyday Gourmets (R,S,HD). 3/6. Si King and Dave Myers demonstrate indulgent dishes for entertaining guests.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Eric tells Joanie the truth about Amy. 7.30 Coronation Street (S,HD).

Peter and Michelle argue in front of a potential client.

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S). Michael Lord, who had a kidney transplant in 2007 from a deceased donor, explains why he is against the opt-out clause.

7.00 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge (R,S,HD). Actor Robson Green pits himself against expert anglers.

Followed by 5 News Update.

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8.00 Watchdog (S,HD). 2/8. Richard E Grant investigates the car fault that could have put his daughter’s life in danger and the team reports on a holiday company that needs to brush up on its geography.

8.00 The House That £100K Built (S,HD). 2/6. Kieran Long and Piers Taylor help a woman who had to knock down her cottage and build a new one in its place, with just £50,000 of her savings left to complete the project.

8.00 Big Star’s Little Star (S,HD).

4/6. Stephen Mulhern hosts the entertainment show, featuring Lucy Pargeter and her daughter Lola, Andrew Whyment and his son Thomas, and Rosemary Shrager with her grandson Freddie.

8.00 The Three Day Nanny (S). 2/4.

Professional childminder Kathryn Mewes moves in with Sam and Jason Woods in Horley, Surrey, to tackle the behaviour of their troublesome triplets.

8.00 Animal Maternity (S,HD).

West Midland Safari Park’s director of wildlife decides whether to intervene in the delivery of an eland calf, while two aardvarks at Colchester Zoo approach their due dates.

Followed by 5 News at 9.

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9.00 Who Do You Think You Are? (S,HD). 10/10. See Choices Above.

9.00 Science Britannica (S,HD). 2/3.

See Choices Above.

9.00 Whitechapel (S,HD). 4/6. See Choices Above.

9.00 Grand Designs (S,HD). 4/11.

A Marine who was seriously injured in Afghanistan begins a project to build a specially adapted home with a cuttingedge design, on a budget of £250,000. Kevin McCloud follows their progress.

9.00 CSI: NY – Killing Spree (S,HD).

10/17. The co-owner and bartender of an exclusive nightclub is robbed and murdered, and the toxicity report reveals a build up of formic acid in the deceased’s system. The next episode can be seen tomorrow at 9pm.

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Father Figure, 10.35pm

10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S). Followed

by National Lottery Update.

10.35 Father Figure (S,HD). 2/6. The Whytes drive off to meet a friend of Roddy who can repair their TV, only for things to descend into mayhem when their vehicle breaks down.

Comedy, starring Jason Byrne.

10.00 The Culture Show: Northern Soul – Keep the Faith (S,HD).

14/32. See Choices Above.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Followed

by Weather.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 Great Night Out (R,S,HD). 6/6.

Glyn scuppers the lads’ plans to go to a much-anticipated football match, Hodge and Kath begin a trial course in parenting and Daz springs a surprise on Colleen. Last in the series.

10.00 Gogglebox (S). 1/13. See Choices Above.

10.50 Bouncers (R,S,HD). 3/3. In Sunderland, 48-year-old Jeff and amateur cage fighter Erdem are on the door of the club with the latest opening hours, and a man enjoys a night of 50p drinks. Last in the series.

10.00 Wentworth Prison (S,HD).

5/10. See Choices Above.

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(R) repeat (S) subtitles (HD) highdefinition

11.05 The League Cup Show (S,HD).

Action from the third-round ties, including Manchester United v Liverpool at Old Trafford, as the Red Devils aimed to avenge a 1-0 Premier League defeat at Anfield on the first day of the month.

11.20 Today at Conference (S).

Highlights of the Labour Party annual conference.

11.50 The Midwives (R,S,HD). 6/8.

Students undertake on-the-job training at Birmingham Women’s Hospital.

11.35 James Nesbitt’s Ireland (R,S,HD). 2/8. The actor meets people who enjoy an ideal work/life balance, from Co Clare surfer John McCarthy to Graham Roberts’ relaxed family-run fish smokers in Connemara.

11.50 Random Acts (S). A short film in which the hunter becomes the hunted.

11.55 iTunes Festival 2013 (S).

Highlights from the fourth week of this year’s music event.

11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (R,S). 3/23.

A casino worker is murdered.

Crime drama, starring Laurence Fishburne and Marg Helgenberger.

11.55 Inside Hollywood

12.05 Weatherview (S). 12.10 BBC News (S,HD).

12.50 Sign Zone: See Hear (R,S). Weekly magazine for the deaf and hard of hearing.

With voiceover. 1.20 This Is BBC Two (S).

Preview of upcoming programmes from BBC Two. 4.00 BBC Learning Zone

12.05 Jackpot247 3.00 Film: Columbo: Publish or Perish (S) (1974). The shabby sleuth tries to prove that a publisher hired a hitman to kill an author threatening to sign with a rival company. Crime drama, starring Peter Falk and Mickey Spillane. ●●●● 4.20 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Text-based information service. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S). Guests air their differences.

12.50 Shameless USA (S,HD). 1.50 Film: Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1961). Two best friends are caught up in a tragic love triangle when they fall for the same woman. Romantic musical drama, starring Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt, Rehman and Johnny Walker. ●● 4.25 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD). 5.10 Countdown (R,S,HD). 5.55 SuperScrimpers (R,S,HD).

12.00 Pokerstars: The Big Game (S,HD).

Highlights of a recent event. 12.50 SuperCasino 3.55 Divine Designs (R,S).

St Sophia’s Church, London. 4.20 Great Artists (R,S). The life and work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 4.45 House Doctor (R,S).

A Victorian villa in Garelochhead, Argyll and Bute. 5.10 Wildlife SOS (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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WENTWORTH PRISON 10pm, Channel 5

Erica’s (Leeanna Walsman) fiance bears the brunt of the governor’s pent-up sexual feelings for Franky, Liz argues with Doreen over the peer worker role and Will Jackson becomes the prison pin-up.

THE CULTURE SHOW: NORTHERN SOUL – KEEP THE FAITH 10pm, BBC2 Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason explores the history of the Northern Soul music and dance subculture that sprang up in the north of England in the late 1960s, investigating why it continues to inspire great devotion.

ITV2 ITV2

E4 E4

6.00 Emmerdale (R,HD). 6.25 The Xtra Factor (R,HD). 7.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R). 8.10 You’ve Been Framed! (R). 8.40 Dinner Date (R). 9.40 The Real Housewives of New York City (HD). 10.35 Real Housewives of Vancouver (R,HD). 11.30 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD). 12.30 Emmerdale (R,HD). 1.00 The Xtra Factor (R,HD).

2.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R). 4.10 Real Housewives of Vancouver (HD).

5.05 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD).

6.00 Switched (R). 6.25 90210 (R,HD).

7.10 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 Glee (R,HD). 10.00 New Girl (R,HD). 10.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 11.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 11.30 Charmed (R). 12.30 Hollyoaks (R,HD). 1.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 New Girl (R,HD).

3.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 4.00 Rules of Engagement (R,HD). 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 7.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S).

8.00 Airline USA (R,HD). 9.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 1.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S).

FILM PICKS

Wednesday television&radio REACH FOR THE SKY 12.35pm, Channel 4

BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY 10pm, ITV2

Biopic of Second World War pilot Douglas Bader, starring Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Alexander Knox, Sydney Tafler, Nigel Green and Lyndon Brook.

Gold GOLD 6.00 The Green Green Grass 6.30 Sykes 7.00 2point4 Children 7.40 Sykes 8.20 As Time Goes By 9.00 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 9.40 ‘Allo ‘Allo!

10.20 Last of the Summer Wine 11.40 Open All Hours 12.20 Yes Minister 1.00 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 1.40 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 2.15 As Time Goes By 2.55 Jeeves and Wooster 4.10 Last of the Summer Wine 5.30 Only Fools and Horses

A woman begins a new year by resolving to find love and give up her bad habits.

Romantic comedy, with Renee Zellweger.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 7.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 8.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 9.00 Capital One Cup Football (HD). 10.00 Behind the Ropes – Haye v Fury (HD). Following David Haye and Tyson Fury as they prepare for their heavyweight fight. 10.30 Live County Championship Cricket (HD).

Girlfriends, 9pm

The Big Bang Theory, 8pm

A League of Their Own, 9pm

The Two Ronnies ... 8pm

Behind the Ropes ... 7pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R). Daniel from London picks three blind dates. Narrated by Charlotte Hudson.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). With guest star Michael Trucco.

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 Futurama (R,S,HD). Part three of four. The gang is sucked into the alternative reality.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 6.30 Football Gold (S,HD).

6.45 Football Gold (S,HD).

Liverpool v Arsenal from the 2008/09 season.

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Camcorder calamities.

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). DIY disasters and parachute problems.

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD).

Freddie realises Sinead is trapped inside the burning Loft.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S). Lisa and Bart help Krusty find his father.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Homer fears the apocalypse is imminent.

6.10 Yes Minister. Sir Humphrey is being evasive. Starring Paul Eddington.

6.50 Only Fools and Horses. Del becomes a showbiz entrepreneur after discovering a sensational Tom Jonesstyle singer – but it turns out he is not all he is cracked up to be. David Jason stars.

8.00 Totally You’ve Been Framed! (R). Comical clips, including the worst Jedi in the world, a dog that makes a splash in a hot tub and a woman who gets goosed by a goose.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Comedy, starring Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki.

8.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Amy is caught in a conflict between Sheldon and Penny.

8.00 Harrow: A Very British School (S,HD). As the autumn term draws to a close, sixth-formers Hugh and Henry reflect on some of the school’s more eclectic traditions.

9.00 Girlfriends (HD). Ruby, Sophia and Mellissa choose two of the three remaining men each to take through to the final, having whittled their potential suitors down from 100.

Presented by Emma Willis.

9.00 The Inbetweeners 9.00 A League of Their Own 9.00 Only Fools and Horses.

Movie (HD) (2011).

Del discovers a statue of (R,S,HD). James Corden Awkward teenagers a Hindu god. hosts the sports-based Simon, Will, Jay and Neil comedy quiz, with 9.40 Blackadder II. Edmund plan a holiday to the Manchester City is challenged to a Greek island of Crete defender Joleon Lescott, drinking contest. after they finish their comedian Jon Richardson Comedy, guest starring exams, hoping to and TV presenter Gabby Miriam Margolyes, with experience drink, sex Logan.

Rowan Atkinson. and debauchery beyond their wildest dreams.

10.20 Blackadder II. Edmund 10.00 What’s the Story? (HD).

However, things do not 10.00 Chickens (R,S,HD). and Lord Melchett are George throws a dinner Sarah-Jane Mee presents quite work out as kidnapped by a master party. Comedy, guest a discussion show planned. Comedy based of disguise, but the starring Sally Phillips focusing on recent sports on the TV series, with Queen decides to pay with Simon Bird and Joe developments.

Joe Thomas, Simon Bird, only one of the ransom Thomas.

James Buckley and Blake demands. Comedy, guest 10.30 Cop Squad (R,S,HD).

Harrison. ●●● starring Hugh Laurie, The work of police with Rowan Atkinson officers in and Stephen Fry. Cambridgeshire.

8.00 The Two Ronnies Spectacle. New series.

The story of the comedy double act.

7.00 Behind the Ropes – Haye v Fury (HD).

7.30 Soccer Special (HD).

Julian Warren introduces pre-match reports and news of all tonight’s goals as they go in, while studio guests keep an eye on the big games and talking points. Plus, a classified results roundup from all of this evening’s fixtures.

11.00 Gimme Gimme Gimme. Tom and Linda go clubbing.

11.40 Rev. Adam becomes an accidental hero.

Comedy, guest starring Ralph Fiennes.

11.00 Behind the Ropes – Haye v Fury (HD).

11.30 Pro Contract – The Football Dream

12.00 Fake Reaction (R,HD). With Kimberly Wyatt, Greg Rutherford, Jeff Leach and Brian Belo. 12.50 America’s Got Talent (R,HD).

Searching for the most gifted performers in the USA. 2.20 Teleshopping. Home shopping.

5.50 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD). Textbased information service.

12.15 The Comic Strip Presents: Susie. A schoolteacher has an affair with a pop star. 12.55 Gimme Gimme Gimme. Tom and Linda go clubbing. 1.25 Rev. Adam becomes an accidental hero. 1.55 The Comic Strip Presents: Susie 2.25 The Comic Strip Presents: Fistful of Travellers’ Cheques

12.00 Capital One Cup Football (HD). 1.00 Spanish Football 2.00 Football Gold (S). 2.15 Football Gold (S). 2.30 Behind the Ropes – Haye v Fury (HD). 3.00 What’s the Story? (HD). 4.00 Pro Contract – The Football Dream 4.30 Capital One Cup Football (HD). 5.30 Behind the Ropes – Haye v Fury

RADIO

10.00 Bridget Jones’s Diary (HD) (2001). A single woman begins a new year with resolutions to find love, give up her bad habits and step up the career ladder. Her plans crumble as she tries to deal with her mother’s infidelity, get over a passionate fling with her boss and come 11.00 Rude Tube (R). Alex 11.30 Road Wars (R,S). Video to terms with her Zane presents a top 50 footage of dangers on feelings for an uptight countdown of the latest the road. lawyer. Drama, starring stunts on the web, Renee Zellweger, Hugh including base jumping Grant and Colin Firth. from a moving lorry and See Choices Above. hammock spinning. ●●●● 12.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.00 Suburgatory (R,HD).

1.30 Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (R,HD). 2.00 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 2.25 Bob’s Burgers (R,HD). 2.45 90210 (R,HD). 3.30 Being Erica (R,HD).

4.15 Glee (R,HD). 4.55 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 3.30 The Official Chart Update 4.00 Greg James 7.00 Zane Lowe. With live music from Maida Vale. 9.00 My Playlist. A varied team of guest celebrities takes over Radio 1, and selects the music. 10.00 Phil Taggart and Alice Levine Midnight Huw Stephens 2.00 Benji B 4.00 Dev Radio 2 5.00am Vanessa Feltz 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 The Folk Show with Mark

12.00 Road Wars (R,S). Thames Valley Police participate in Slough’s largest-ever drug raid. 1.00 Nothing to Declare (R,S). 1.30 Nothing to Declare (R,S). 2.00 Road Wars (R,S). 3.00 Miami SWAT (R,S). The work of the Miami Swat team. 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S,HD).

Radcliffe 8.00 Jo Whiley 9.30 Listen to the Band 10.00 The People’s Songs 11.00 Trevor Nelson’s Soul Show Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composers of the Week: Sound of Cinema: British Film Music 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 3.30 Choral Evensong 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composers of the Week: Sound of Cinema: British Film Music 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert 10.00 Night Waves 10.45 The Essay: Sound of Cinema: Praising Powell & Pressburger 11.00 Late Junction 12.30am Through the Night

Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 9.00 Midweek 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: Empress Dowager Cixi – The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 NHS: Changing Culture 11.30 The Rivals Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 You and Yours 12.57 News and Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Our Dreams: Our Selves 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: Out of the Blue 3.00 Money Box Live 3.30 BBC National Short Story Award 2013 4.00 Thinking Allowed 4.30 Media

Show 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 My Teenage Diary 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 7.45 Writing the Century: Takes Two to Tandem 8.00 Unreliable Evidence 8.45 Four Thought 9.00 Costing the Earth 9.30 Midweek 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Lady Susan 11.00 The Music Teacher 11.15 It Is Rocket Science 11.30 Don’t Log Off Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: Empress Dowager Cixi – The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

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BBC3 BBC3

7.00 Pop’s Greatest Dance Crazes (R,S).

7.05 Great Movie Mistakes IV: May the Fourth Be with You (R,S).

7.50 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (S) (2003).

Swashbuckling fantasy adventure, with Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. ●●●●● 10.00 Staying in with Greg & Russell (S).

10.30 Russell Howard’s Good News (R,S).

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 American Dad! (R,S).

12.10 American Dad! (R,S). 12.30 Staying in with Greg & Russell (R,S).

1.00 Bad Education (R,S).

1.30 Seann Walsh’s Late Night Comedy Spectacular (R,S). 2.30 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S).

3.30 Bad Education (R,S).

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 World News Today; Weather 7.30 Nature’s Microworlds (R).

Exploring ecosystems around the world, beginning with the Galapagos Islands.

8.00 Guilty Pleasures (R). Part one of two. How luxury items divided ancient Greek society.

9.00 Fabric of Britain. Paul Martin explores the secret history of wallpaper.

10.00 Grand Prix: The Killer Years (R).

The dangers of Formula 1 during the 1960s and 70s.

11.00 A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (R). Examining Britain’s fascination with murder.

12.00 Lost Kingdoms of South America (R). 1.00 Guilty Pleasures (R). 2.00 Nature’s Microworlds (R).

2.30 Fabric of Britain (R).

Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Richard Bacon 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport. Mark Pougatch presents the day’s sports news. 7.45 5 Live Sport: League Cup Football 201314. Manchester United v Liverpool (kickoff 7.45pm). 10.30 Phil Williams. News and sport. 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert. Haydn, Chopin, Mozart, Brahms. 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Bob Jones

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Thursday television&radio Thursday’s Television Guide TV PICKS

WATERLOO ROAD 8pm, BBC1

Rhiannon sends saucy pictures of herself to Darren, but they end up being shared around the school.

George makes a desperate bid to save his marriage.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 Rip Off Britain (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (S,HD). 11.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 11.45 Claimed and Shamed (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD).

1.30 Regional News (S); Weather. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 Perfection (R,S,HD).

3.00 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 3.45 Country Show Cook Off (R,S,HD). 4.15 Flog It! (R,S). 5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

PEAKY BLINDERS 9pm, BBC2

Two men claiming to be IRA sympathisers approach Thomas in the Garrison and offer to buy the missing crate of guns they have heard he has in his possession. The gang leader also goes to Cheltenham races with Grace, where he aims to persuade kingpin Billy Kimber to make the Peaky Blinders part of his operation.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 This Is BBC Two (S). 6.05 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 7.05 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 7.50 Claimed and Shamed (R,S,HD).

8.20 Sign Zone: The A to Z of TV Cooking (R,S).

9.05 Flog It! Trade Secrets (R,S). 10.05 Raymond Blanc: How to Cook Well (R,S). 10.35 HARDtalk (R,S,HD). 11.00 BBC News (S,HD). 11.30 BBC World News (S,HD). 12.00 Daily Politics (S). 1.00 Classic Mastermind (R,S). 1.30 Weakest Link (R,S). 2.15 Great British Menu (R,S,HD). 2.45 Oceans (R,S,HD). 3.45 Elephant Diaries (R,S).

4.15 Incredible Animal Journeys (R,S). 5.15 Cash in the Attic (R,S).

WOMEN BEHIND BARS WITH TREVOR MCDONALD 9pm, ITV

SUPER GIANT ANIMALS 9pm, BBC1

Life inside two of Indiana’s most dangerous women’s prisons, meeting inmates serving lengthy sentences and others who will never be released.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (S,HD). Valuing antiques in Oswestry, Shropshire. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). With guests Craig Revel Horwood and Tony Hadley. 3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point (S,HD). 5.00 The Chase (S,HD).

Steve Backshall travels across the world to encounter the largest animals he can find and discover the remarkable things their size enables them to do. Highlights include Steve swimming with Nile crocodiles in Botswana, dodging two-ton elephant seals in California and diving with sperm whales in the Caribbean.

Channel Channel 4

6.10 The Hoobs (R,S). 7.05 According to Jim (R,S,HD). 7.30 Will & Grace (R,S). 7.55 Frasier 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 10.00 Four Rooms US (HD). 11.00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away (R,S,HD).

12.00 News (S). 12.05 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals (R,S,HD). 12.35 Kirstie’s Vintage Gems (S,HD). 12.40 Film: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (S,HD) (1954). ●●●● 3.10 Countdown (S,HD). 4.00 Deal or No Deal (S,HD). 5.00 Come Dine with Me (S).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 Cowboy Builders (R,S,HD).

12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge (R,S,HD). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD).

1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.15 NCIS (R,S).

3.15 Film: Polar Storm (S) (2009). Disaster thriller, starring Jack Coleman, Holly Dignard and Tyler Johnston. Edited for violence. ●●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD).

5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

Eggheads, 6pm

Pat and Cabbage, 8.30pm

Educating Yorkshire, 9pm

Amanda Knox Trial ... 10pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather.

6.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 5/20.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Freddie realises Sinead is trapped inside the burning Loft.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD). Just as Maddy and Spencer appear to be getting along well, Sasha unexpectedly returns to the Bay. 6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Topical stories from around the UK. 7.30 EastEnders (S,HD). Carol receives an unexpected visitor.

Followed by BBC News; Regional News.

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 63/140. Quiz show.

6.30 James Martin’s Food Map of Britain (S,HD). 9/10. The chef travels to the flatlands of Lincolnshire.

7.00 The Hairy Bikers: Everyday Gourmets (R,S,HD). 4/6. Si King and Dave Myers make party food.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Amy makes a rash decision over Kyle.

7.30 Accents Speak Louder Than Words: Tonight (S,HD). Social stigma and snobbery concerning regional accents.

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S). A Catholic man shares his support for the opt-out system.

7.00 James Bond: The True Story (R,S). The real-life story behind Ian Fleming’s secret agent.

Followed by 5 News Update.

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EastEnders, 7.30pm

8.00 Waterloo Road (S,HD). 4/30.

See Choices Above.

8.00 The Wonder of Dogs (S,HD).

2/3. Kate Humble and Steve Leonard examine the differences in senses and abilities between breeds and look at how humans used these inherent skills to make dogs useful to them.

8.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Amy makes an admission to an unnerved Andy.

8.30 Pat and Cabbage (S,HD). 4/6.

The duo learn Dylan might be a father. Comedy, starring Barbara Flynn and Cherie Lunghi.

8.00 Location, Location, Location (S,HD). 6/9. Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help newlyweds seeking a four-bedroom house in Buckinghamshire, and sisters looking for a home in Berkshire and insisting on two of everything.

8.00 The Railway: First Great Western (S,HD). The emergency services are called into action at the Penzance depot. Followed by 5 News at 9.

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9.00 Super Giant Animals (S,HD).

See Choices Above.

9.00 Peaky Blinders (S,HD). 3/6. See Choices Above.

9.00 Women Behind Bars with Trevor McDonald (S,HD). 1/2.

See Choices Above.

9.00 Educating Yorkshire (S). 4/8.

The documentary follows the school lives of an unlikely pair of best friends – the irrepressibly chatty Safiyyah, who dreams of a career as a flight attendant, and gifted student Hadiqa, who has her sights set on becoming prime minister.

9.00 CSI: NY – Killing Spree (S,HD).

11/17. The team investigates the murders of an attorney and a mechanical engineer, with both victims turning out to have been shot with the same type of bullet. The next episode can be seen tomorrow at 9pm.

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10.00 Mock the Week (S,HD). 10/12.

Rob Beckett, Romesh Ranganathan and Josh Widdicombe join regular panellists Chris Addison, Hugh Dennis and Andy Parsons on the topical comedy quiz. Dara O Briain hosts.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD); Followed

by Weather.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 Ade in Adland (R,S,HD). 2/2.

Conclusion. Adrian Edmondson explores how TV commercials have reflected the ways in which households have changed over seven decades, from beauty products to home improvements.

10.00 My Tattoo Addiction (S). 1/3.

See Choices Above.

10.00 Amanda Knox Trial: 5 Key Questions (S,HD). See Choices Above.

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 Question Time (S,HD). 3/38.

David Dimbleby chairs a political debate from Uxbridge, west London, where a panel of guests answer questions from the studio audience.

11.35 This Week (S). Andrew Neil, Michael Portillo and guests discuss a week that saw the Labour Party hold its annual conference in Brighton.

11.20 Science Britannica (R,S,HD).

2/3. Professor Brian Cox celebrates Britain’s pivotal role in creating modern science.

11.35 Goodwood Revival 2013 (S,HD). Highlights from Goodwood House in West Sussex, as some of motor racing’s top names gathered for the world famous event.

11.05 The Fried Chicken Shop (R,S).

2/3. The documentary follows the takeaway’s manager Zahid, who has left his family behind in Pakistan so he can fulfil his dreams and provide for their future.

11.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (S,HD). 2/8. Goren and Eames investigate the apparent suicide of a banker. Crime drama, starring Kathryn Erbe.

11.55 Inside Hollywood. Magazine show.

12.20 Holiday Weatherview (S). 12.25 BBC News (S,HD).

12.20 The Review Show (R,S,HD). Martha Kearney and her guests discuss the new film adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel Filth, and an exhibition that draws parallels between Henry Moore and Francis Bacon.

1.20 Sign Zone: Dying for a Bargain – Panorama (R,S). 1.50 This Is BBC Two (S).

Preview of upcoming programmes from BBC Two. 4.00 BBC Learning Zone

12.30 Jackpot247 Interactive gaming.

3.00 Accents Speak Louder Than Words: Tonight (R,HD). Penny Marshall investigates whether social stigma and snobbery still exist toward some regional accents in Britain, revealing the results of a poll that may shed light on the issue. 3.25 ITV Nightscreen (HD). 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S).

12.10 Sex, Lies and Rinsing Guys (R,S,HD). 1.05 Random Acts (S). 1.10 Fabulous Fashionistas (R,S,HD). 2.05 Inside Nature’s Giants: Hippo (R,S,HD).

3.00 SuperScrimpers (R,S,HD). 3.55 Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures (S,HD).

4.15 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD). 5.00 Countdown (R,S,HD). 5.45 SuperScrimpers (R,S,HD).

12.00 SuperCasino 3.55 Divine Designs (R,S). Hindu and Jain art. Last in the series.

4.20 Great Artists (R,S). The life of El Greco, one of the most distinctive painters of the 16th century, whose work paved the way for the Baroque and provided the inspiration for 20th-century expressionism.

4.45 House Doctor (R,S). 5.10 Wildlife SOS (R,S). 5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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MY TATTOO ADDICTION 10pm, Channel 4

Documentary featuring father-of-six Paul, who reveals how his facial tattoos prevent him from getting work, and Duncan who expresses his grief at the loss of a friend through the ink on his body.

ITV2 ITV2 6.00 Emmerdale (R,HD). 6.25 Coronation Street (R,HD). 6.50 Life’s Funniest Moments (R). 7.25 Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R). 8.10 You’ve Been Framed! (R).

8.40 Dinner Date 9.40 Real Housewives of New York City (R,HD). 10.35 The Real Housewives of Vancouver (R,HD). 11.30 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD). 12.30 Emmerdale (R,HD). 1.00 Coronation Street (HD). 1.30 Life’s Funniest Moments (R). 2.00 Jeremy Kyle Show (R).

4.10 Real Housewives of Vancouver (HD).

5.05 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD).

AMANDA KNOX TRIAL: 5 KEY QUESTIONS 10pm, Channel 5

In November 2007, British exchange student Meredith Kercher was murdered in Perugia, Italy, with Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede being found guilty of the murder in 2009. This documentary explores what may happen at the forthcoming retrial.

E4 E4

6.00 Switched (R). 6.25 90210 (HD).

7.10 Ugly Betty (HD). 8.00 Charmed 9.00 Glee (HD). 10.00 New Girl (HD).

10.30 Mindy Project (HD). 11.00 Rules of Engagement (HD). 11.30 Charmed 12.30 Hollyoaks (HD).

1.00 How I Met Your Mother (HD).

2.00 Big Bang Theory (HD). 3.00 New Girl (HD). 3.30 Mindy Project (HD).

4.00 Rules of Engagement (HD).

5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 6.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 7.00 Dog the Bounty Hunter (R,S).

8.00 Airline USA (HD).9.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 1.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 2.00 Hawaii Five0 (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S).

5.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S).

FILM PICKS

Thursday television&radio BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT 10pm, BBC4

HAROLD & KUMAR GET THE MUNCHIES 12.20am, ITV2

Ridley Scott’s definitive version of his sci-fi thriller, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young and Daryl Hannah.

Gold GOLD 6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.00 2point4 Children 7.40 Sykes 8.20 As Time Goes By 9.00 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 9.40 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 10.20 Last of the Summer Wine 11.40 The Best of Les Dawson 12.20 Yes Minister 1.00 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 1.40 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 2.20 As Time Goes By 3.00 Goodnight Sweetheart 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 One Foot in the Grave

Two pot smokers set off on a quest to find the perfect burger. Comedy adventure, starring John Cho, Kal Penn and Paula Garces.

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 9.00 Capital One Cup Football (HD). 10.00 Behind the Ropes – Haye v Fury (HD). 10.30 What’s the Story? (HD). 11.30 Capital One Cup Football (HD).

12.30 Behind the Ropes – Haye v Fury (HD). 1.00 European Tour Weekly (HD). 1.30 Live European Tour Golf (HD). 5.30 Premier League World (HD).

Celebrity Juice, 10pm

Don’t Trust the ... 9pm

Chickens, 9.30pm

Blackadder II, 7.40pm

Live European Tour ... 1.30pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R). Ross from the Midlands chooses three blind dates. Narrated by Charlotte Hudson.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Comedy, starring Jim Parsons.

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.00 Futurama (R,S,HD). Part four of four. The aliens command all human beings to leave Earth.

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

6.20 Yes Minister. Jim faces an unenviable task.

Political comedy, starring Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne.

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Camcorder clips, including a flying dog.

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Featuring fights between cats and dogs.

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD). Jim faces a moral dilemma when he receives an offer from Fraser.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S,HD).

Homer gets a new assistant.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

With the guest voice of Britney Spears.

7.00 Open All Hours.

Arkwright invents a saint’s day.

7.40 Blackadder II. Edmund is challenged to a drinking contest.

6.00 Ringside (HD). Boxing magazine, including highlights of recent bouts and interviews with the stars currently causing a stir in the ring.

7.00 Capital One Cup Football. Highlights from the third round.

8.00 The X Factor USA. Kelly Rowland, Paulina Rubio, Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato are ready to judge the second instalment of the two-part round of auditions, hoping to find new talent across America.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). One of Sheldon’s favourite TV shows is cancelled.

8.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). Guest starring Seth Green and Peter Gallagher.

8.00 Modern Family (R,S,HD). The American comedy returns.

8.30 Modern Family (R,S).

Phil and Claire embarrass Haley while dropping her off at college.

8.20 Blackadder II. Edmund and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a master of disguise, but the Queen decides to pay only one of the ransom demands. Guest starring Hugh Laurie.

9.00 Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 (HD).

June goes on a blind date to improve her room-mate evaluation score.

9.30 Suburgatory (HD).

Yakult becomes depressed.

9.00 Trollied (S,HD). Richard gets the staff to attend a performance workshop.

9.30 Chickens (S,HD). The trio finally have more men to talk to when the soldiers return to Rittle-on-Sea on leave. Last in the series.

9.00 Only Fools and Horses.

Del enters the tourist trade. Vintage comedy, starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Lennard Pearce.

9.40 Gavin & Stacey. The happy couple return from their honeymoon.

10.00 Celebrity Juice (HD).

With team captains Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.

10.50 The Magaluf Weekender (R,HD).

A trio of London lads arrive eager for some action.

10.00 Road Wars (R,S). Police 10.00 The IT Crowd (R). officers combat vehicle Comedy, starring crime.

Richard Ayoade.

10.30 Road Wars (R,S,HD).

10.30 The IT Crowd (R). Jen The work of the gets involved with a Proactive Squad from rock band, Douglas Thames Valley Police. becomes a spaceologist, and Roy’s life is transformed when he injures his back.

8.00 Live Super League (HD). The opening qualifying semi-final (kick-off TBA). Eddie Hemmings and Mike Stephenson present coverage of the vital fixture, as the first side to reach the Grand Final is decided. Leeds Rhinos continued their march towards glory last season with a 13-12 victory at Wigan Warriors, who had finished top of the regular standings.

11.00 Gimme Gimme 11.00 Capital One Cup Gimme. Linda and Tom Football. Highlights land new jobs. Comedy, from the third round. starring Kathy Burke.

11.40 Rev. A talented new curate prompts Adam to doubt his abilities.

12.20 Film: Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies (HD) (2004). See Choices Above. ●●● 2.05 Up All Night (R,HD). Comedy about the fortunes of a TV producer and her supportive, stay-at-home husband.

2.25 Teleshopping. Buying goods from home. 5.55 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.00 Road Wars (R,S). A cannabis factory is raided. 1.00 Nothing to Declare (R,S). The work of customs officers in Australia. 1.30 Nothing to Declare (S). 2.00 Road Wars (R,S). A man runs amok with an axe in Leamington Spa. 3.00 Miami SWAT (R,S). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S).

12.20 The Comic Strip Presents: Fistful of Travellers’ Cheques.

Two students live out their cowboy fantasies. 1.00 The Royle Family.

Dave and Denise have important news. 1.30 The Royle Family.

Comedy, starring Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash. 2.00 Gimme Gimme Gimme 2.30 Rev

RADIO

11.00 Kick Ass Kung Fu (R,S,HD). Three disciples from Manchester undergo martial arts training in Hong Kong.

Last in the series.

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Fearne Cotton 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott Mills 4.00 Greg James 7.00 Zane Lowe 9.00 In New DJs We Trust. With Rockwell. 10.00 Phil Taggart and Alice Levine Midnight The Residency: Mosca 2.00 Toddla T 4.00 Dev Radio 2 5.00am Vanessa Feltz 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Bob Harris Country 8.00 Jo Whiley 10.00 Bill Kenwright’s Golden Years 11.00 Steve Lamacq’s Rock College Midnight Janice Long 2.00 Alex Lester

Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composers of the Week: Sound of Cinema: British Film Music 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composers of the Week: Sound of Cinema: British Film Music 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert. The BBCSSO performs Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Mozart’s Requiem. 10.00 Night Waves. Samira Ahmed visits the new Serpentine Sackler Gallery. 10.45 The Essay: Sound of Cinema: Praising Powell & Pressburger. Film critic Peter Bradshaw focuses on 1947 melodrama Black Narcissus. 11.00 Late Junction 12.30am Through the Night

Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 9.00 In Our Time 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: Empress Dowager Cixi – The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 From Our Own Correspondent 11.30 The Art of Radio Times Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 You and Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Our Dreams: Our Selves 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: Brief Lives 3.00 Ramblings 3.27 (LW) Radio 4 Appeal 3.27 (FM) Radio 4 Appeal 3.30 BBC National Short Story

7.00 Match of the Day Live (S).

England v Turkey (kick-off 7.05pm).

Coverage of the Group Six Women’s World Cup qualifier at Fratton Park in Portsmouth.

9.00 Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents (R,S).

Two teenagers embark on their first unsupervised holiday abroad.

10.00 Live at the Apollo (R,S).

With Jason Manford and Michael McIntyre.

10.30 EastEnders (R,S).

Carol receives an unexpected visitor.

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 American Dad! (R,S).

12.10 American Dad! (R,S). 12.30 Russell Howard’s Good News (R,S). 1.30 Staying in with Greg & Russell (R,S).

2.00 Fazer’s Urban Takeover (R,S). 3.00 The Insider (R,S).

BBC4 BBC4

7.00 World News Today; Weather 7.30 Top of the Pops: 1978 (R).

8.00 The Final Frontier? A Horizon Guide to the Universe (R).

9.00 Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies. How changing technology has taken film soundtracks in new directions.

Last in the series.

10.00 Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982). See Choices Above. ●●●●● 11.50 The Final Frontier? A Horizon Guide to the Universe Dallas Campbell explores scientific breakthroughs. (R).

12.50 Top of the Pops: 1978 (R). 1.30 The Golden Age of Canals (R). 2.30 Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies (R).

10.20 Gavin & Stacey. Smithy 10.00 School of Hard Knocks goes missing following (HD). Former rugby Nessa’s revelation, and union internationals Will the boys track him down Greenwood and Scott in an attempt to help Quinnell try to form a him accept his team consisting of responsibilities. Stacey troubled youths. prepares to move in with Gavin.

11.50 Crazy Beaches (R,HD). 11.00 iTunes Festival 2013 (R). Highlights from the A reveller decides to fly fourth week of this home after spending year’s music event. just 48 hours in Malia, while bar owner Chubby White attempts to set a new world record.

12.05 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 12.35 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 1.05 New Rude Tube (R). 2.05 Happy Endings (R,HD). 2.25 The IT Crowd (R).

2.50 The IT Crowd (R). 3.15 The Cleveland Show (R,HD). 3.40 Glee (R,HD). 4.20 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

BBC3 BBC3

Award 2013 4.00 The Film Programme 4.30 Inside Science 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 Fags, Mags and Bags 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 7.45 Writing the Century: Takes Two to Tandem 8.00 The Report 8.30 In Business 9.00 Inside Science 9.30 In Our Time. The history of the Mamluk dynasty. 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Lady Susan 11.00 Colin Hoult’s Carnival of Monsters 11.30 Don’t Log Off Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: Empress Dowager Cixi – The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

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12.00 NFL – A Football Life (HD).

Documentary series focusing on the lives of NFL players, coaches, owners and teams. 1.00 Live NFL (HD). St Louis Rams v San Francisco 49ers (kick-off 1.25am). Coverage of the NFC West fixture at the Edward Jones Dome, as the fourth round of matches gets under way.

12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Richard Bacon 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 8.00 5 Live Sport: 5 Live Boxing. Including a preview of David Haye v Tyson Fury. 9.00 5 Live Sport 10.00 Question Time Extra Time 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive 8.00 The Full Works Concert 10.00 Smooth Classics 2.00am Bob Jones

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Fr iday Television television&radio Friday’s Guide TV PICKS

STRICTLY COME DANCING 9pm, BBC1

Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly present the return of the pro-celebrity contest, which sees the first six of the 15 couples making their dance-floor debut.

BBC1 BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD). 9.15 Rip Off Britain (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 11.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 11.45 Claimed and Shamed (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (S,HD). 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD).

1.30 Regional News (S); Weather. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 Perfection (R,S,HD).

3.00 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 3.45 Country Show Cook Off (R,S,HD). 4.15 Flog It! (R,S). 5.15 Pointless (S,HD).

FILM RATINGS ●●●●● Excellent ●●●● Very good ●●● Good ●● Average ● Poor

MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD 8pm, Channel 4

Clark Gregg reprises his regular film role as Agent Phil Coulson in this superhero drama co-created by Joss Whedon. Coulson assembles a select group of highly skilled operatives to investigate strange new cases, beginning with a mission to track down a man who has acquired extraordinary powers.

BBC2 BBC2

6.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S,HD).

7.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming (R,S,HD). 7.45 Claimed and Shamed (R,S,HD). 8.15 Sign Zone: Wanted Down Under (R,S). 9.00 Flog It! Trade Secrets (R,S). 10.00 Question Time (R,S,HD). 11.00 BBC News (S,HD). 11.30 BBC World News (S,HD). 12.00 Daily Politics (S).

1.00 Classic Mastermind (R,S). 1.30 Weakest Link (R,S). 2.15 Great British Menu (R,S,HD).

2.45 Oceans (R,S,HD). 3.45 Elephant Diaries (R,S). 4.15 Incredible Animal Journeys (R,S).

5.15 Cash in the Attic (R,S).

THE IT CROWD: THE FINAL EPISODE 9pm, Channel 4

Roy (Chris O’Dowd) and Jen’s (Katherine Parkinson) reputations are put at risk when an incident involving spilt coffee and a homeless person ends up on the internet.

ITV1 ITV

6.00 Daybreak (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S).

9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

1.55 Regional News (S). 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (S,HD). 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show (S,HD). Features, music and conversation. 3.59 Regional Weather (S). 4.00 Tipping Point (S,HD). Quiz show, hosted by Ben Shephard. 5.00 The Chase (S,HD). Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh.

PIERS MORGAN’S LIFE STORIES: GLORIA HUNNIFORD 9pm, ITV

The presenter talks about her daughter Caron Keating’s death, the early days of her career and how, during an evacuation of Belfast’s Broadcasting House due to a car bomb outside the building, she decided to carry on with her radio show.

Channel Channel 4

6.00 The Treacle People (R,S). 6.10 The Hoobs 7.05 According to Jim (R,S,HD).

7.30 Will & Grace (R,S). 7.55 Frasier (R,S).

9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S).

10.00 Four Rooms US (S,HD). 11.00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away (R,S,HD).

12.00 News Summary (S). 12.05 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals (R,S,HD). 12.35 River Cottage Veg (R,S,HD). 1.35 Racing (S).

3.30 Countdown (S,HD). 4.15 Deal or No Deal (S,HD). 5.00 Come Dine with Me (S).

Channel Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 Cowboy Builders (R,S,HD).

12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD). 12.15 Police Interceptors (R,S,HD). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD).

2.20 The Mentalist (R,S,HD). 3.15 Film: Tornado Warning (S,HD) (2012). Premiere.

Sci-fi thriller, with Kari Wuhrer and Jeff Fahey. ●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD). 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD). Karl suspects Imogen has bulimia.

Mastermind, 8pm

Piers Morgan’s Life Stories ... 9pm

Alan Carr: Chatty Man, 10pm

Gigantic Gun: Monster Moves, 8pm

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD). Followed by Weather.

6.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.00 Eggheads (S,HD). 64/140. Quiz show, hosted by Dermot Murnaghan.

6.30 James Martin’s Food Map of Britain (S,HD). 10/10.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather.

6.30 ITV News and Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 6/20.

6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Fraser offers to ensure Jim is released from police custody if he gives up his half of the club.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD).

Zac accompanies Bianca to her dinner.

6.30 NewsTalk Live (S,HD).

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7.00 The One Show (S,HD).

7.30 Ronnie’s Animal Crackers (S,HD). A breeder introduces her unique French bulldogs.

Followed by BBC News; Regional News.

7.00 The Hairy Bikers: Everyday Gourmets (R,S). 5/6. Si King and Dave Myers demonstrate how to create gourmet lunches on a tight budget, and arrange a surprise meal for a dinner lady.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Jimmy and Nicola have a big argument over Steve.

7.30 Coronation Street (S,HD).

Hayley arrives at the cafe to find Christian waiting for her.

7.00 News (S).

7.55 4thought.tv (S). A man on kidney dialysis explains his support for an opt-out system.

7.00 World’s Strongest Man 2012 (R,S,HD). Action from the second of five qualifying heats in Los Angeles, California.

Followed by 5 News Update.

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Miranda, 8.30pm

8.00 EastEnders (S,HD). David has a confession for Carol.

8.30 Miranda (R,S,HD). 2/6. Tilly and Penny organise a charity winetasting event, prompting Miranda to do something for a good cause – but her attempts do not go according to plan.

8.00 Mastermind (S,HD). 7/31. The specialist subjects are Sebastian Coe, Eadweard Muybridge, the Byrds and Violette Szabo.

8.30 Gardeners’ World (S,HD).

24/31. Monty Don visits RHS Rosemoor in Devon.

8.00 Gino’s Italian Escape (S,HD).

3/6. Gino D’Acampo takes a look at the olive trees in Puglia that produce Italy’s famous oil.

8.30 Coronation Street (S,HD).

Steve hatches a plan to cheer Michelle up.

8.00 Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (S). See Choices Above.

8.00 Gigantic Gun: Monster Moves (S,HD). A team attempts to transport a 200-ton First World War gun 400 miles from a Royal Artillery base in Wiltshire to a museum in the Dutch city of Utrecht. Followed by 5 News at 9.

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9.00 Strictly Come Dancing (S,HD). See Choices Above.

9.00 David Attenborough’s Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates (S,HD). 2/2. The naturalist concludes his exploration of the evolution of vertebrates over the past 500 million years, looking at how mammals came to dominate the natural world.

9.00 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories: Gloria Hunniford (S,HD). 2/6.

See Choices Above.

9.00 The IT Crowd: The Final Episode (S). See Choices Above.

9.00 CSI: NY – Killing Spree (S,HD).

12/17. Off-duty NYPD officer Mark Riley is killed during a robbery and the CSIs puzzle over how suspect Anthony Lombardo sustained a gunshot wound in the incident but was not in the surveillance video or noticed by witnesses.

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10.00 QI (S,HD). 4/18. See Choices Above.

10.30 Newsnight (S,HD).

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD).

10.25 Regional News (S). Followed

by National Lottery Update.

10.35 John Bishop Live: Rollercoaster Tour (S,HD). The comedian performs his 2012 stand-up tour at Manchester Arena, touching on such subjects as 50 Shades of Grey and body waxing – in delicate places.

11.55 The Love Letter (S) (1999).

A divorced single mother finds a romantic note and wrongly assumes it is meant for her.

Comedy drama based on the novel by Cathleen Schine, starring Kate Capshaw and Tom Selleck. ●●

11.00 Weather (S).

11.05 Later with Jools Holland (S,HD). 2/8. Extended edition.

With Pixies, Janelle Monae, Tony Joe White and Chvrches.

1.20 Weatherview (S). 1.25 BBC News (S,HD).

12.10 Film: 10 Rillington Place (S) (1971).

See Choices Above. ●●●●● 1.55 Sign Zone: Question Time (R,S). David Dimbleby chairs a political debate from Uxbridge, west London, where a panel of guests answer questions from the studio audience. 2.55 This Is BBC Two (S).

Preview of upcoming programmes.

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10.00 ITV News at Ten (S).

10.30 Regional News (S); Weather.

10.35 The Break-Up (S,HD) (2006).

A thirtysomething couple’s seemingly perfect relationship deteriorates into a series of petty squabbles. But once they decide to call it a day, another problem presents itself – neither is willing to give up their home, forcing the pair to carry on living together, while each hopes the other will be driven away first. Comedy drama, starring Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and Joey Lauren Adams. See Choices Above. ●●

10.00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man (S).

5/18. Alan celebrates the show’s 100th episode, with chat and music by Justin Timberlake and Rihanna, and boxer David Haye’s thoughts about his upcoming bout with Tyson Fury.

10.00 Hens Behaving Badly (S,HD).

2/5. See Choices Above.

11.20 Big Fat Quiz of the 80s (R,S).

David Mitchell, Phill Jupitus, Alan Carr, Sarah Greene, Jack Dee and Jason Donovan demonstrate how much they remember about the 1980s.

Jimmy Carr asks the questions.

11.00 Reservoir Dogs (S) (1992).

A failed robbery ends in a bloodbath, and as the criminals lie low they try to work out whether someone betrayed them. Thriller, with Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth. ●●●●●

12.30 Jackpot247 Interactive gaming.

3.00 Film: Columbo: Playback (S) (1975).

An inventor manipulates security-camera footage to provide himself with an alibi for murdering his mother-in-law. Crime drama, starring Peter Falk, Oskar Werner, Gena Rowlands, Martha Scott and Robert Brown. ●●● 4.20 ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12.50 Random Acts (S). 12.55 Film: All About Steve (S,HD) (2009). ●● 2.30 The Ricky Gervais Show (R,S,HD). 3.00 2 Broke Girls (S,HD). 3.20 2 Broke Girls (S,HD). 3.40 SuperScrimpers: Top 10 Money-Saving Tips (R,S,HD). 4.35 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD). 5.20 SuperScrimpers (R,S,HD). 5.30 Countdown (R,S,HD).

12.55 SuperCasino 3.55 Motorsport Mundial (HD). A round-up of motorsport news. 4.20 Great Artists (R,S). The life and work of 17th-century artist Peter Paul Rubens, regarded as the chief exponent of the Baroque style during his eventful career.

4.45 House Doctor (R,S). Compilation of tips on colour. 5.10 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

5.35 Wildlife SOS (R,S).

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HENS BEHAVING BADLY 10pm, Channel 5

QI 10pm, BBC2

Sue Perkins, Ross Noble and David Mitchell join regular panellist Alan Davies on the comedy quiz. Host Stephen Fry asks a range of fiendish questions on the topic of knits, knots and other things starting with the letter ‘K’, with points being awarded for interesting answers as well as correct ones.

A bride-to-be turns her hen do into the prom night she missed, but her friends look set to derail the evening, and a Leicester woman has to call on her ex-boyfriend to babysit her five children.

ITV2 ITV2

E4 E4

6.00 Emmerdale 6.50 Life’s Funniest Moments 7.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 8.10 You’ve Been Framed! 8.40 Dinner Date 9.40 The Real Housewives of New York City 10.35 The Real Housewives of Vancouver 11.30 Millionaire Matchmaker 12.30 Emmerdale 1.30 Life’s Funniest Moments (R). 2.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R). 4.10 The Real Housewives of Vancouver 5.05 Millionaire Matchmaker (R,HD).

6.00 Switched (R). 6.25 90210 (R,HD). 7.10 Ugly Betty (R,HD). 8.00 Charmed (R). 9.00 Glee (R,HD). 10.00 New Girl (R,HD). 10.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 11.00 Rules of Engagement 11.30 Charmed (R).

12.30 Hollyoaks (R,HD). 1.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). 2.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 3.00 New Girl (R,HD). 3.30 The Mindy Project (R,HD). 4.00 Rules of Engagement 5.00 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

Sky1 Sky1 6.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 7.00 Road Wars (R,S). 8.00 Airline USA (HD). 9.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 12.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 1.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 2.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R,S,HD). 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (R).

4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S).

FILM PICKS

Friday television&radio 10 RILLINGTON PLACE 12.10am, BBC2

THE BREAK-UP 10.35pm, ITV

A couple’s relationship comes to an end, but neither wants to give up their home. Comedy drama, starring Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau.

Fact-based thriller based on the story of murderer John Christie, starring Richard Attenborough, John Hurt and Judy Geeson.

Gold GOLD 6.00 2point4 Children 6.30 Sykes 7.00 Goodnight Sweetheart 8.20 As Time Goes By 9.00 ‘Allo ‘Allo!

10.20 Last of the Summer Wine 11.40 One Foot in the Grave 12.20 Yes Minister 1.00 Open All Hours 1.40 Ever Decreasing Circles 2.20 As Time Goes By 3.00 Goodnight Sweetheart 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine 5.40 Only Fools and Horses

SkySports1 Sky Sports 1 6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 7.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 8.00 Good Morning Sports Fans (HD). 9.00 Capital One Cup Football 10.00 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). 11.00 NFL (HD). 12.00 Capital One Cup Football 1.00 Football Gold (S).

1.15 Football Gold 1.30 Live European Tour Golf (HD). 5.30 Champions League Weekly (HD).

The X Factor USA, 8pm

Rude Tube, 10.40pm

Don’t Sit in the ...10pm

Gavin & Stacey, 7.40pm

FL72 Live, 7.30pm

6.00 Dinner Date (R).

Three out of five possible dates cook meals, hoping to win the heart of London bachelor Martin.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD).

6.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco star.

6.00 John Bishop’s Only Joking (R,S,HD).

6.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Grampa inherits $100,000.

6.20 Yes Minister.

Humphrey tries to conceal information due for release under the 30-year rule. Paul Eddington stars.

6.00 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). A discussion on key fantasy football issues.

7.00 You’ve Been Framed!

(R). Camcorder calamities with Harry Hill.

7.30 You’ve Been Framed!

(R).

7.00 Hollyoaks (HD). Ste receives unexpected financial assistance.

7.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD).

7.00 The Simpsons (R,S).

Homer joins the power plant’s softball team.

7.30 The Simpsons (R,S).

Marge loses all memory of Homer.

7.00 Open All Hours. Roy Clarke’s comedy, starring Ronnie Barker.

7.40 Gavin & Stacey. The happy couple return from their honeymoon.

8.00 The X Factor USA. Kelly Rowland, Paulina Rubio, Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato take their places behind the judges’ desk and prepare for the third round of auditions, in which solo singers and groups compete for a place in the next phase of the competition.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). One of Sheldon’s favourite TV shows is cancelled.

8.30 How I Met Your Mother (R,HD). Part one of two. Guest starring Seth Green.

8.00 Modern Family (R,S,HD). Phil goes under the knife.

8.30 Modern Family (R,S,HD). Jay cannot sleep thanks to Gloria’s loud snoring.

8.20 Gavin & Stacey. Smithy goes missing following Nessa’s revelation, and the boys track him down in an attempt to help him accept his responsibilities.

9.00 Cloverfield (HD) (2008).

Five New Yorkers film the carnage wreaked by a giant monster attacking the city as they try to reach a stranded friend. Thriller, starring Michael Stahl-David and Lizzy Caplan. ●●●●

9.00 A League of Their Own (S,HD). Sports-based comedy quiz, hosted by James Corden, with Doctor Who star Matt Smith, TV host Jonathan Ross and British hurdling champion Perri ShakesDrayton joining the regulars.

9.00 The Royle Family.

Newlyweds Dave and Denise have an important announcement for the family.

9.40 The Royle Family. The relatives gather for Sunday lunch.

7.00 Haye v Fury – The Final Countdown (HD). A look ahead to the heavyweight fight between David Haye and Tyson Fury.

7.30 FL72 Live (HD).

Huddersfield Town v Blackpool (kick-off 7.45pm). Coverage of the Championship fixture at the John Smith’s Stadium, where the Tangerines are looking to continue their fine start to the season. The Terriers gained a win and a draw from the clubs’ meetings last season, and were only denied by a last-minute Nathan Delfouneso equaliser when the sides met here on Boxing Day.

10.00 Don’t Sit in the Front Row (S,HD). With Phill Jupitus, Celia Pacquola and Humphrey Ker. Hosted by Jack Dee. 10.30 Trollied (R,S,HD).

Richard gets the staff to attend a performance workshop.

10.20 Early Doors. Ken discovers that someone has been paying for drinks with forged banknotes, but luckily Phil and Nige are on hand to solve the mystery. John Henshaw, James Quinn and Craig Cash star.

10.00 Haye v Fury – The Final Countdown (HD). A look ahead to the heavyweight fight between David Haye and Tyson Fury.

10.30 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). A discussion on key fantasy football issues.

11.00 Chickens (R,S,HD).

Comedy, starring Simon Bird. Last in the series.

11.30 Road Wars (R,S). The work of the Proactive Squad from Thames Valley Police.

11.00 Early Doors. Phil and Nige celebrate a drugs raid. Comedy, starring Craig Cash.

11.40 Rev. Adam helps a parishioner who claims her home is haunted.

11.30 Premier League Preview (HD). A look ahead to the weekend’s fixtures.

12.10 Film: Unbreakable (HD) (2000). A seemingly ordinary security guard is baffled when he emerges unscathed from a train crash – but a mysterious stranger may know why. Drama, with Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson. ●●●● 2.20 Teleshopping 5.50 ITV2 Nightscreen (HD).

12.00 Road Wars (R,S). A suspected car thief causes problems for the officers. 1.00 Nothing to Declare (R,S). The work of customs officers in Australia. 1.30 Road Wars (R,S). 2.00 Road Wars (R,S).

3.00 Miami SWAT (R,S). 4.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S). 5.00 Stargate SG-1 (R,S).

12.20 Yes, Prime Minister: Re-Elected Celebration of the influential political sitcom, featuring contributions by Clive Anderson, David Frost and star of the original series Derek Fowlds.

1.30 Early Doors Ken discovers forged banknotes in the till. 2.00 Early Doors 2.30 Rev

12.00 FL72 Highlights 1.00 Haye v Fury – The Final Countdown 1.30 The Fantasy Football Club 2.30 Champions League Weekly 3.00 Football Gold 3.30 Premier League Preview 4.00 The Fantasy Football Club (HD). 5.00 Haye v Fury – The Final Countdown (HD).

5.30 Premier League Preview

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10.00 Pitch Black (HD) (2000). 10.40 Rude Tube (R). Alex A spaceship crashes on a Zane presents a top 50 desolate alien planet countdown of the latest inhabited by nocturnal stunts on the web. The predators. The amusing clips feature creatures’ fear of light base jumping from a seems to guarantee the moving lorry, hammock survivors’ safety – but spinning the hottest when an eclipse takes headcam action. place, they face a desperate struggle to survive. Their only hope 11.45 The Big Bang Theory lies with a convicted (R,HD). Leonard’s murderer, who is equally mother visits. Guest at home in the darkness starring Christine – but is far from Baranski. trustworthy. Sci-fi horror, starring Vin Diesel. ●●● 12.15 The Big Bang Theory (R,HD). 12.45 Friday Night Dinner (R,HD). 1.20 The Midnight Beast (R,HD). 1.50 Cardinal Burns (R,HD). 2.20 Rude Tube: Total Fails (R,HD). 3.10 Chris Moyles’ Quiz Night (R,HD).

3.50 Chris Moyles’ Quiz Night (R,HD). 4.30 Ugly Betty (R,HD).

Radio 1 6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw 7.00 Radio 1’s A List 10.00 Radio 1’s A List 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Radio 1’s A List 4.00 Radio 1’s A List 6.00 Radio 1’s A List 7.00 Annie Mac. The official start to the weekend. 9.00 Pete Tong. Dance tracks and interviews.

11.00 Skream and Benga. Dubstep with the duo. 1.00am Radio 1’s Essential Mix 3.00 Annie Nightingale Radio 2 5.00am Vanessa Feltz 6.30 Chris Evans 9.30 Ken Bruce Noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon 5.00 Simon Mayo 7.00 Desmond Carrington: The Music Goes Round 8.00 Friday Night Is Music Night

10.00 The Radio 2 Arts Show with Claudia Winkleman Midnight Huey Morgan 3.00 Richard Allinson Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics Noon Composers of the Week: Sound of Cinema: British Film Music 1.00 News 1.02 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon on 3 4.30 In Tune 6.30 Composers of the Week: Sound of Cinema: British Film Music 7.30 Radio 3 Live in Concert 10.00 The Verb 10.45 The Essay: Sound of Cinema: Praising Powell & Pressburger 11.00 World on 3 1.00am Through the Night Radio 4 5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today

5.58 Tweet of the Day 6.00 Today 9.00 Desert Island Discs 9.45 (LW) Act of Worship 9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: Empress Dowager Cixi – The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 Ashes to Ashes 11.30 Start/Stop Noon News 12.01 (LW) Shipping Forecast 12.04 You and Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World at One 1.45 Our Dreams: Our Selves 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Afternoon Drama: Brief Lives 3.00 Gardeners’ Question Time 3.35 BBC National Short Story Award 2013 4.00 Last Word 4.30 More or Less 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.30 The Now Show 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 7.45 (LW) Writing the Century: Takes Two to Tandem 7.45 (FM) Writing the Century: Takes Two to Tandem 8.00 Any Questions? 8.50 A Point of View 9.00 Friday Drama: Hombre. By Elmore Leonard. 9.59 Weather 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime: Lady Susan. By Jane Austen, abridged by Eileen Horne.

11.00 Great Lives 11.30 Don’t Log Off Midnight News and Weather 12.30 Book of the Week: Empress Dowager Cixi – The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

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7.00 Great Movie Mistakes 2011: Not in 3D (R,S).

7.15 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (S) (2003).

Action adventure sequel, starring Angelina Jolie and Gerard Butler. ●● 9.00 Orphan Black (S). The body that Sarah buried is found by the police.

9.45 Staying in with Greg & Russell XL (S). Extended edition of the chat show, hosted

by Greg James and Russell Kane.

10.30 EastEnders (R,S).

11.00 Family Guy (R,S).

11.25 Family Guy (R,S).

11.45 Bamboo (S).

12.10 American Dad! (R,S). 12.30 American Dad! (R,S). 12.55 Staying in with Greg & Russell XL (R,S). 1.40 Bad Education (R,S). 2.10 Don’t Tell the Bride (R,S). 3.10 Bamboo (R,S). 3.30 Russell Howard’s Good News (R,S).

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7.00 World News Today; Weather.

7.30 The Sound and the Fury: A Century of Music (R).

8.30 Transatlantic Sessions. New series. With Karen Matheson, Cara Dillon and Andy Irvine.

9.00 Rock ‘n’ Roll Britannia (R).

Examining British rock ‘n’ roll’s foundations.

10.00 The Enigma of Nic Jones: Return of Britain’s Lost Folk Hero. The guitarist and singer’s emotional comeback.

11.00 Richard Thompson BBC Four Session: Goodbye Television Centre (R).

12.00 Totally British 70s Rock ‘n’ Roll (R). 2.00 The Enigma of Nic Jones: Return of Britain’s Lost Folk Hero (R). 3.00 Transatlantic Sessions

Radio 5 Live 5.00am Morning Reports 5.30 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Noon Shelagh Fogarty 2.00 Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport.

Dan Walker previews the weekend’s sport. 10.00 Stephen Nolan 1.00am Up All Night Classic FM 6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet 1.00pm Jamie Crick 5.00 Classic FM Drive. With John Brunning. 8.00 The Full Works Concert. Last night’s Classic FM Live from the Royal Albert Hall. 10.00 Smooth Classics. With Margherita Taylor. 2.00am Bob Jones

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SONG OF THE FISHERMEN September’s Sunday evening shadows carpeted the cobbled street, Cooling breezes stirred the waters lapping by the harbour fleet, Gift-shop browsers slowly dwindled, ice-cream sellers closed their doors, Snack-bar staff in plastic aprons turned their thoughts to mopping floors.

Time for home, so we considered, ‘til that faint, seductive sound, Luring back retiring footsteps, unaware of turning round, Then the coy investigation, quickening as we neared the quay, Joining others gazing, spellbound, thronged beside the rippled sea.

‘Guide me O thou great redeemer,’ sang the choir that stood ahead, Blazer-suited, charcoal-flannelled, framed against the lifeboat shed, Sun-bronzed hands and ruddy faces, long inured to daily toil, Harmonising their defiance, joined to mock their mortal coil.

In the dying rays of sunset, bathed beneath an amber glow, Servant-waves paid kneeling homage at the harbour wall below, This a subtle role reversal fitting this majestic hour, Voices with the depth of oceans echoing the ocean’s power.

And as we watched and as we listened, ruffled by the coastal breeze, We were introduced by proxy to their lives upon the seas, Rising, falling, pitching, plunging, lifted skyward, then caressed

Ere the last, triumphant chorus, homeward bound upon the crest.

The Paignton Congress survived its move from Oldway to the Livermead House Hotel and the new venue has already been booked for the same week next year.

The main winners were as follows (all points out of 7):- Premier: 1st K Arkell (Paignton) 6. 2nd S Berry 5½. 3rd= F Rayner; A Crombleholme; C Fegan; D Mackle (Newton Abbot) and S Dilleigh (Bristol).

Challengers (U-180): 1st= N Burrows; C Costello; B Hewson (Tiverton) and M Waddington (Dorchester).

Intermediate (U-150): 1st= D Rogers (Exmouth) and A Wiggins both 5. 3rd= N Dennis; T Greenaway (Torquay); G Harrison and B Sandercock all 4½.

Minor (U-125): 1st J MacDonald 5½. 2nd= K

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Separate men whose occupation joined them in a common creed, One man’s pain is mine to suffer, one man’s wound is mine to bleed, One man’s song is but a murmur, lost upon the wind and foam, We shall stand and sing together, trusting in the coming home.

Spooner; R Hale; G Naldrett; P Gordon and L Bullock all on 5.

Arkell’s only slip-up was against the second seed who finished the game in style.

White: S Berry (214) Black: K Arkell (237).

English Opening – Symmetrical Defence [A39].

1.c4 c5 2.g3 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.d4 cxd4 7.Nxd4 Nxd4 8.Qxd4 d6 9.0–0 0–0 10.Qd3 Nd7 11.b3 Nc5 12.Qd2 Rb8 13.Bb2 b6 14.Rad1 Bb7 15.e4 a6 16.Rfe1 Ba8 17.Qe2 Qd7 18.h4 h5 19.Nd5 Bxb2 20.Qxb2 Bxd5 21.exd5 White now has long open lines for all his pieces, that he exploits to the full 21...b5 The best place to attack a pawn chain is as near the base as possible. If 21...e6 White has 22.Bh3 or 22.Qa3. 22.cxb5 Rxb5 Now that Black’s rook and knight are tucked away on the Q-side without any immediate threats, White can plan a direct attack on the K-side. 23.Re3 Re8 24.Rde1 Rb7 25.Qd2 Qb5 26.Bf1 Qb6 27.Bc4 f5 Preparing an outpost for the knight. 28.R3e2 Opening a diagonal for his queen. 28...Kh7 Black cannot allow the queen to invade on h6. 29.Bd3 Qd8 The Black king has no defending pieces, so White launches a double sacrificial attack. 30.Bxf5! gxf5 31.Re6 Black has little alternative but to retake, though it only delays the inevitable by one move. 31...Nxe6 32.Rxe6 Rh8 33.Rh6+ Good enough, but White missed the even quicker 33.Qg5 with mate next move.

33...Kg7 34.Qg5+ Kf7 35.Qg6+ Kf8 36.Rxh8# 0–1 Last week’s problem was solved by 1.R4b6! after which Black has four tries; i.e. cxb6+; Bc6: c6 & Ne5, but each is met with a different mate.

How did Black force a quick win in this game ending from 2011?

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But later on some quiet hillside, gazing out across the tide, Then would come the recollection stolen from the harbour-side, Men with nothing but their voices giving all they had to give, Bonded as a band of brothers, telling all of how they live.

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Polite applause was all we offered, that’s the way it is, somehow, For who will bare his soul to strangers, no, not we, not here, not now, Take it, keep it, hold it dearly like a heirloom handed down, Seize and store away the moment, hide it ‘neath a sombre gown.

Now and then, from out of nowhere, rising from the grime and grief, Comes a moment rich and poignant, mocking scorn and disbelief, Rapture has no plan or portent, mine was but a passing thing, Just to stand there, just to listen, just to hear those voices sing.

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Put a stop to silly arguments and instead work on building bridges. Fun times link to invites you were thinking of turning down but which could in fact turn out to be the perfect tonic. Money problems can and should be sorted out. Ring so we can talk.

Your need to be in charge has put quite a few noses out of joint and you’ve put up a wall between you and someone you genuinely care for. Heart-to-hearts are the key to you getting back on track. Call now for insight.

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You couldn’t hide your feelings if you tried this week.

Use your element of earth to form a practical approach to the problem which seemed to get the better of you earlier in the month. Venus promises an instant attraction. Ring now for the finer details.

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You’re so involved in a problem that you can’t see the wood for the trees. Talks had with fire signscan help you shape your career and finances more to your needs and desires. Give me a ring now to hear why I see so much travel as a part of your future this year.

You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family but you wouldn’t if you could. Variety is the spice of life and I can see from this week’s line-up that your varied inner circle gives you the confidence to make extraordinary announcements of your own.

This is a week of dramatic confessions. Don’t make any major decisions until you’ve fully digested what’s been said. Money you can make links to contracts still waiting to be signed. Ring now to hear which sign you can share your innermost secrets with.

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It’s pointless worrying about money when you don’t know if you’re in debt or credit. Make time to sit down and do an honest budget will help you get back in control. An influence from the past is back – you’ve changed, they haven’t. Don’t entertain them.

You’re in need of some changes. Not major ones but just some tweaks. Someone is trying to tarnish your reputation and it’s only by speaking the truth that you will gain the respect and support I know is important to you. Call now to hear why legal links are good.

Everyone seems to want you to get involved in an argument which doesn’t really concern you. Step away from any negative influences and to hang out with those you know bring out the best. Emails or letters demand to be sorted. Ring now for clear vision.

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21 2013 WEST COUNTRY LIFE 55

Where in the West?

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Puzzles Can you name and locate these five well-known West Country landmarks, as seen by Fran Stothard and Clare Green? Solutions below.

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1 The Head, a sculpture outside the library in Calne, Wiltshire. 2 An old sign in George Street, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. It now hangs over an opticians. 3 Underneath the Second Severn Crossing. 4 The Jubilee Clock in Weymouth

Crossword solutions West

Across: 1, Gaelic 5, Swiped 9, Crania 10, Ironed 11, Looe 12, Bibstone 14, Higher Fraddon 18, Sobriety 20, Rock 21, Afloat 22, Elijah 23, Deacon 24, Do-si-do.

Down 2 A Priori 3, Lanjeth 4, Cranborne 6, Wares 7, Pencoed, 8 Dudgeon 13, Berry Head 14, Husband 15, Gabalfa 16, Derbies 17, Olchard 19, Idaho.

Cryptic

Across: 9, A-muse-ment 10, Forth-with 12, Sole 13, Strand 14, Spenser 15, Brings out 17, Ins-I-sten-t 18, Engages 19, A-Mel-I-a 20, Blue 23, Drive home 25, Intricate 26, Leek (rev) 27, Sticky 29, Pas-tie-s 32, Blaspheme 34, Cane sugar 35, Rebirth 36, S-oot-he 37, Plan(E) 38, Tar-Paul-in 39, Concerned Down: 1, Passable 2, Building site 3, Sec-tions 4, Strait (straight) 5, Off drive 6, Grass skirt 7, T-he-East 8, The-re the-re 11, Issue 16, Gagged 19, Ace 21, Leaving alone 22, Miss-us 23, De-liberate 24, On the whole 25, I-c(r)y 28, C-re-asing 29, Pinching 30, Serenade 31, Spar-taN 33, A-(me)mber 34, Choice

Quick

Across: 9, Atrocious 10, Epicurean 12, Omit 13, Ostler 14, Winsome 15, Sumptuous 17, Priceless 18, Luckily 19, Canada 20, Emma 23, Universal 25, Mortified 26, Deem 27, Oxygen 29, Eminent 32, Refresher 34, Posthaste 35, Torpedo 36, Entrap 37, Lava 38, Dishonest 39, Clientele Down: 1, Carousel 2, Fruit machine 3, Dogsbody 4, Psalms 5, Terrapin 6, Viewfinder 7, Bunnies 8, Understand 11, Erode 16, Toilet 19, Col 21, Maiden stakes 22, Finish 23, Understudy 24, Six-shooter 25, Men 28, Garments 29, Ecstatic 30, Teenager 31, Develop 33, Ferns 34, Putsch

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