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TV
Animals at Play
The Misadventures of
Romesh Ranganathan
Poldark
28 July
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6.30 AM Gardeners’ World (S, Rpt, HD)- 3 0 C o u n t r y fi l e From Cornwall. (S, Rpt, HD)
8.25 Beechgrove Horticultural series. (S, Rpt, HD)
8.55 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites (S, HD)
10.25 A Cook Abroad: Rick Stein’s Australia (Rpt)
11.25 Nigella: At My Table (S, Rpt, HD)
11.55 Talking Pictures Orson Welles. (S, Rpt)
12.40 PM fThe Third Man Vintage thriller
directed by Carol Reed. A writer goes in
search of the truth behind a friend’s death in
post-war Vienna. Stars Joseph Cotten and
Orson Welles. (100mins, 1949, PG, S, b&w,
W/S) Rating ★★★★★ See Filmweek, page 30
2.20 BMX World Championship Adele Roberts
presents action from the event, held this
year in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. (S, HD)
3.30 Swimming Jeanette Kwakye introduces
the fi nal day of the World Championships
staged in Gwangju, South Korea. (S, HD)
5.00 World’s Busiest Cities Hong Kong:
1 of 4. Documentary series. In this edition,
Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Ade Adepitan
examine life in Hong Kong. (S, Rpt, HD)
6.00 Mediterranean with Simon Reeve 3 of 4.
Travel series. In this edition, Simon travels
through Libya, visiting areas of the country
devastated by recent fi ghting. (S, Rpt, HD)
6.00 AM Breakfast News and sport. (S, HD)
9.00 News (S, HD)
10.00 Sunday Morning Live (S, HD)
11.00 Homes Under the Hammer (S, Rpt, HD)
12.00 NOON Bargain Hunt Shrewsbury. (S, Rpt)
1.00 PM News; Weather (S, HD)
1.15 Songs of Praise Religious music series.
Today, Aled Jones visits MotoFest Coventry- a huge free festival of motoring founded
by church leader James Noble. (S, HD)
1.50 Lifeline An appeal on behalf of JDRF. (S, HD)
2.00 Escape to the Country Hampshire. (S, Rpt)
3.00 Money for Nothing Salvage series. In this
edition, Jay Blades rescues three items
from a recycling centre in Walsall. (S, Rpt)
3.45 Shop Well for Less? Advice series. Alex
Jones and Steph McGovern offer shopping
tips to a family with eight children. (S, Rpt)
4.45 Fake or Fortune? 1 of 4. Antiques series.
An 18th-century landscape that could be
by Thomas Gainsborough. (S, Rpt, HD)
5.45 Pointless Celebrities A writers-themed
edition of the quiz. With Richard Madeley,
Dreda Say Mitchell, John O’Farrell, Lise
Mayer and Jenny Colgan. (S, Rpt, HD)
6.35 News (S, HD)
6.50 Local News; Weather (S)
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4.45pm Pointless Celebrities 5.35 Tudur’s TV Flashback
6.05-6.35pm Show Stoppers: Celebrating the 100th
Royal Welsh Show Highlights of the annual event.REGIONAL VARIATIONS
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6.00pm Remarkable Places to Eat As above, 7.00pm.
7.00-8.00pm The Repair Shop Restoring a train set.42 ENGLAND10.00 News (S, HD)
10.20 Local News; Weather (S)
10.30 Imagine... Arts series. Tonight, Alan
Yentob presents a profi le of Danish-
Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, whose
work is the subject of an exhibition at
Tate Modern on London’s Bankside. (S)
11.30 A Question of Sport Light-hearted quiz.
With ex-tennis player Greg Rusedski, Ireland
rugby union player Jason Stockdale, 1991
world 10,000m champion Liz McColgan and
ex-England defender Joleon Lescott. (S, Rpt)
12.00 M’T Our Lives The Last Showmen:
Documentary series. This edition focuses on
a family of funfair workers, looking at this
unique way of life and asking whether it is in
danger of becoming extinct. (S, Rpt) Weather
12.35 to 6.00 AM BBC News (S, HD)9.00 Poldark 3 of 8. Period drama starring
Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson.
Geoffrey Charles and Cecily’s relationship
continues to blossom – but George’s
sanity continues to deteriorate, while Ross
and Ned must spring into action when
disaster strikes. See feature, page 9. (S, HD)8.00 Antiques Roadshow Antiques series.
Fiona Bruce and the team visit the Black
Country Living Museum in Dudley, where
items examined include a 3,000-year-old
baby rattle, a typewriter used by author
Enid Blyton, and a script belonging to
actor Laurence Olivier. (S, Rpt, HD)7.0 0 Countryfi le Rural magazine. Tonight,
the team visits Gloucestershire, where
John Craven and Anita Rani celebrate
the 50th anniversary of the Riding for the
Disabled Association. Plus, Sean Fletcher
learns how to make a canoe out of fl ax.
Includes Weather for the Week Ahead.(S, HD)8.00 Animals at Play
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The Power of Play: 1 of 2. Documentary
looking at the reasons why young animals
enjoy playing, and how it can teach them
to survive in the wild, developing social
skills, mental agility, and hunting talents.
Concludes next week. See feature, page 27. (S)9.00 The Misadventures of Romesh
Ranganathan Zimbabwe: 1 of 5.
Return of the travel series. Romesh visits
Zimbabwe in the aftermath of Robert
Mugabe’s rule to discover whether or not
British people should be holidaying in the
southern African country once again. (S)10.00 Mandy One-off comedy short written
by and starring Diane Morgan. A woman
becomes obsessed with a sofa. (S, HD)
10.15 Sorry Comedy short written by and
starring Lolly Adefope. An actress fi nds
herself at the centre of a scandal. (S, HD)
10.30 Louis Theroux’s Altered States:
Choosing Death Choosing Death:
The presenter visits California, where the
terminally ill have the right to end their
own lives, and investigates the moral and
legal issues around this situation. (S, Rpt)
11.35 The 250 Million Pound Cancer Cure
Last week’s one-off documentary reporting
on two new centres being built in England
for proton-beam therapy. (S, Rpt, HD)
12.35 AM Sign Zone Starting with: 12.35 TV’s Black
Renaissance: Reggie Yates in Hollywood
(S, Rpt) 1.35 to 2.35 AM Holby City (S, Rpt)7.0 0 Remarkable Places to Eat Edinburgh:
2 of 4. Last week’s edition of the culinary
series. Tom Kerridge takes Fred Sirieix
to his favourite restaurants in Edinburgh,
including fi ne-dining restaurant Kitchin,
where the pair enjoy a venison dish.
Continues on Wednesday. (S, Rpt, HD)Listings for Welsh-language channel S4C (F’sat 120, Sky 134, Virgin 166) are on opposite page.N
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BBC2,8.00pmBall skills... Cheetahs
in Namibia feature in this two-part wildlife
documentary exploring why playing helps
young animals to develop survival skills.BBC2, 9.00pm Enjoying a quick dip...
In the return of the series, the comedian is
given a whistle-stop tour of what modern
Zimbabwe has to offer visiting tourists.BBC1, 9.00pm Carried to safety...
Sam (Tom York) joins brother Drake and
Ross on a rescue mission after a rock fall
at George Warleggan’s Wheal Plenty mine.Photographs: BBC