TV Times – 03 August 2019

64 TV TIMES

Wednesday Highlights

Jonesy sings the blues

Nisha Katona and

Fred do San Sebastián

Would you bet

on Lloyd?

Survival is no

laughing matter

for these hyenas

The Best

Little Prison

in Britain?

● REAL LIFE / 8pm / ITV

(not Wales)

More lessons for the rest

of Britain’s penal system

from the Isle of Man’s only

prison, where wing officer

Jonesy will soon be laying

down his guitar and

retiring. No one will miss

him more than Jonno, ‘the

worst burglar ever’ (says

his sister), and you get the

impression the feeling is

mutual. ★★★★ SM

Remarkable Places to Eat

● FOOD / 8pm / BBC2

LAST ONE

San Sebastián in the Basque

Country is known for having

more Michelin stars per square metre than

anywhere else in the world, so it’s no surprise

to see it as the final destination in this

series. Restaurateur Nisha Katona gets out

her little black book and begins by taking

Fred Sirieix to the two-Michelin-starred

Mugaritz, ranked in the world’s top 10

places to eat, where they have a meal of 20

courses. By contrast, they then eat at two

places with much simpler menus – tortilla

at Bar Nestor and chuletón steak at Casa

Julián in Tolosa. But which one prompts

Fred to say: ‘This is one of the most perfect

restaurants I’ve ever been to’? No doubt he’d

be more than happy to do another series,

and we’d love to see one too. ★★★★ JP

An im a l B a bies : First Yea r o n Ea r t h

● WILDLIFE / 9pm / BBC2

LAST ONE

Our final look at our six

baby animals’ first months

on Earth takes us to the end of their first

year, and it’s a time for most of them to

work out how to do things without their

mothers’ help. Ugandan mountain gorilla

Nyakabara soon gets the hang (literally)

of stripping bark off trees and picking

berries. Meanwhile, the Arctic fox cubs are

out on their own after their mother rejects

them, and they have to find their own food.

And spotted hyena twins Chowder and

Bisque have to go out and explore the Kenya

savannah alone and compete with lions

and rival packs for food – and survival.

It’s a real-life Lion King. ★★★★ LP

Can You Beat

the Bookies?

● DOCUMENTARY / 10.35pm (times vary) / BBC1

NEW

Lloyd Griffith explores how betting companies

make billions from our love of having a flutter.

He gives himself a budget of £7,500 and four weeks to see

if he can double it, talking to gamblers and immersing

himself in the world of betting. An honest and revealing

film about how easy it is to become addicted and how the

odds are stacked against the average punter. ★★★★ JL

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