Snackmasters
Tuesday, C4 HD, 9.15pm
In this new four-part series,
First Dates maitre d’ Fred Sirieix
challenges some of Britain’s
best chefs to re-create a few of our
favourite snacks. First up, two-star
Michelin chef Daniel Clifford
(above left) and top Indian chef
Vivek Singh must create an exact
replica of the KitKat bar.
DID YOU KNOW?
Suzi Quatro is the aunt of Twi n Pea ks
star Sherilyn Fenn. The inspirational
bass-playing Detroit rocker, who had
a string of hits in the 1970s including
Can the Can and Devil Gate Drive, is
profiled in Suzi Q, Saturday,
Sky Arts HD, 9pm.West Virginia student Skylar Neese,
who was stabbed to death by her
high-school friends Rachel Shoaf
and Shelia Eddy in July 2012.
In Defense Of
Wednesday, 9pm
An examination
of the challenges
faced by lawyers
defending
notorious
criminals. First up
is John Henry
Browne, the man
who defended one
of history’s most
infamous serial
killers, Ted Bundy,
who confessed to
committing 30
murders before his
execution in 1989.
In Ice Cold Blood
Thursday, 9pm
Hosted by actor and rapper Ice-T,
these shocking cases involve
sex, money and murder, complete
with re-enactments, interviews
and archive footage. This week’s
case concerns the brutal killing of
a young woman on a Thanksgiving
weekend, and the year-long
investigation that uncovered the
sinister reason behind
her murder.The Mark of a Killer
Friday, 9pm
This look at the
terrifying behaviour
of serial killers begins
with Danny Rolling,
who was dubbed the
‘Gainesville Ripper’.
His murder spree in
Florida ended the
lives of five students
in four days in
August 1990, and he was
executed in 2006.OListings start on p68.
From the depths of the Amazon
rainforest to the scorching deserts
of Africa, Ed Stafford has survived
alone in some of the world’s most
hostile environments. But now the
famous adventurer is also putting
his family to the ultimate test.
In this one-off film, Stafford
will be spending a month on a
remote, uninhabited Indonesian
island – and he’ll be taking his
wife, Laura, and their 20 month-
old son Ran with him.
‘I believe there’s a better and
simpler way of living,’ explains
Stafford. ‘I’ve always enjoyed
exploring a “back-to-basics”
life and so I wanted to take my
family off-grid to see what
it was like. But having my young
son with me meant a lot more
responsibility and it wasn’t a
responsibility I took lightly.’SHELTER FIRST
Stafford, 43, has always been
passionate about the great
outdoors, but he wanted to know
how his family’s relationships
would be affected when stripped
of the modern trappings of life.
Will they discover a more natural,
wholesome way of living? Will
their relationships get closer, and
will Ran’s development accelerate?
Armed with only a couple of
days’ worth of water and somebananas for Ran, Stafford’s
first task is to build a makeshift
shelter to protect his son from the
elements. Yet, after being on the
island for just a few hours, disaster
strikes when a storm blows in.
‘I had to keep Ran out of the
wind and rain,’ says Stafford. ‘He’s
small and there was a real danger
of hypothermia setting in if we
hadn’t got some shelter up. At that
point I was wondering if I had
made the worst mistake of my life.’Thankfully, the family survived
their first night. And the next day,
the survival expert found a fresh
water source. After using his skills
to fashion a spear from scrap he
found on the beach, Stafford was
also able to provide his family
with their first proper meal.
‘Catching a wild pig and
cooking it for Laura and Ran was
a special feeling,’ he says. ‘I was
worried I’d been reckless and
irresponsible by bringing my
son here, but I think we proved
that it is possible for a family to go
and live off-grid and survive. I’m
super-proud of Laura and Ran- they’ve done so well.’
Castaway
family
NEW SURVIVAL
Ed Stafford: Man
Woman Child Wild
Sunday, Discovery HD, 8pm
Laura goes
fishingSerial killer
Ted BundyEd Stafford takes his
wife and toddler on the
adventure of a lifetime
Ran lends his dad
a helping handMurdered:
Joanna Yeates