TV Times – 10 August 2019

64 TV TIMES

Wednesday Highlights

DCI Mark Bell

Tall order: M alia ns

use mud to replaster

the Great Mosque

Liverpool captain:

Virgil van Dijk

Decor: Michelle

Ogundehin and

Fearne Cotton

Murder Case

● DOCUMENTARY /

9pm / BBC2 (NI, Thurs)

NEW

First shown on

BBC Scotland,

an insider’s look at a police

investigation led by DCI

Mark Bell into the

disappearance of Julie

Reilly, 4 7, who left her

Govan flat one day and

wasn’t seen again. An

insight into nuts-and-bolts

police work, and how they

use a range of methods

• new-fangled tech to good
  old shoe leather – to solve
  serious crime. ★★★★ SM

Sacred Wonders

● FACTUAL / 9pm / BBC1

Heat tests the endurance of the faithful

this week. In Mali, the unique Great

Mosque of Djenné, the largest mud-built

structure in the world, is in constant

danger of collapse. Every year, before the

wet season, the community has just one

day to replaster the walls in mud. It’s hot

work, as temperatures reach 4 0°C, but

worth the effort as anyone involved in its

repair has an easier path to paradise.

Meanwhile, in Japan, the landscape is

sacred, and in order to keep the spirits

happy, 12 torchbearers holding gigantic

flaming torches – weighing a massive

8st – have to purify a path the spirits

will travel on their way to the Nachi Falls,

a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A miracle

of man and nature. ★★★★ FW

Interior Design Masters

● REALITY / 8pm / BBC2

NEW

From Changing Rooms to

Homes Under the Hammer,

there’s no denying the joy of the ‘before’

and ‘after’ of a makeover show. Blend in

some Bake Off kindness and a dash of The

Apprentice competitiveness, and you’re on

to a winner. Tonight, 10 wannabe interior

designers decorate two show homes, and

soon wallpaper isn’t the only thing

clashing! Will judge Michelle Ogundehin

be as wowed as presenter Fearne Cotton

by pink arches, a black bedroom and wood

panelling? A colourful sample of spectator

TV designed to brighten up rooms all over

the country! ★★★★ ER

● See Fearne Cotton interview, page 16

UEFA Super Cup

● FOOTBALL / 7pm / BT Sport 2

LIVE

For the first time in this competition, two

English sides will compete for the trophy,

playing in Istanbul’s Vodafone Park (k-o 8pm). Liverpool

were the last Premier League team to win this cup in

2005, and their new captain, Virgil van Dijk, will be

looking to add this to his collection. Chelsea have also

won it, but that was back in 1 99 8, having lost in 2012

and then in 2013, too. Can Frank Lampard, their new

manager, concoct a way to beat the Reds? ★★★★ NP

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