What’s on TV – 27 July 2019

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6.30 AM An Island Parish: Falklands 1 of 6.

Double-bill. (S, Rpt, HD) 7.0 0 2 of 6. (S, Rpt)

7. 3 0 Britain in Bloom West Yorkshire. (SL, Rpt)
   8.00 Great British Railway Journeys
   Hillhead to Connel Ferry. (SL, S, Rpt, HD)
   8.30 This Week in Parliament (S, HD)
   9.00 BBC News at 9 (S, HD)
   10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Discussion. (S, HD)
   11.00 BBC Newsroom Live (S, HD)
   1.00 PM Curious Creatures Wildlife quiz. (S, Rpt)
   1.30 Getting the Builders In Epsom. (S, Rpt, HD)
   2 .15 Best Bakes Ever Culinary series. (S, Rpt, HD)
   3.00 Hairy Bikers’ Best of British Bread. (S, Rpt)
   3.45 The Wonder of Animals Ants: Examining
   how ants have colonised the planet. (S, Rpt)
   4.15 Elephant Family & Me 1 of 2. Documentary
   in which Gordon Buchanan encounters
   African elephants in the wild. (S, Rpt, HD)
   5.15 Antiques Road Trip Antiques series. Paul
   Laidlaw and Catherine Southon set off on a
   search for items in Nottinghamshire. (S, Rpt)
   6.00 Celebrity Eggheads Quiz series. With Fern
   Britton, Lucie Green, Ben Thompson, Ortis
   Deley and Fiona Armstrong. (S, Rpt, HD)
   6.30 The Customer Is Always Right Consumer
   series in which British entrepreneurs’
   products are put to the test. (S, Rpt, HD)

6.00 AM Breakfast News and sport. (S, HD)

9.15 Wanted Down Under A couple sample

life in Melbourne for a week. (S, Rpt, HD)

10.00 Homes Under the Hammer Properties in

Kent, West Midlands and London. (S, Rpt)

11.00 Food: Truth or Scare (S, Rpt, HD)

11.45 Armchair Britain 6 of 10. Miriam Margolyes

narrates a guide to Bristol. (S, Rpt, HD)

12 .15 PM Bargain Hunt From the National Botanic

Garden of Wales in Llanarthney. (S, AD, HD)

1.00 News; Weather (S, HD)

1.30 Local News; Weather (S)

1.45 n800 Words 1 of 16. Return of the

comedy drama starring Erik Thomson.

Zak, Ike and Steve are missing at sea and

the town mounts a huge search-and-rescue

operation. Also stars Melina Vidler. (S, HD)

2.30 Escape to the Country Rural property series.

A couple with a budget of £800,000 search

for a new home in Wiltshire. (S, Rpt, HD)

3.30 Make Me a Dealer Antiques challenge.

Contestants from Essex compete. (S, Rpt)

4.15 Flog It! Antiques challenge series. From

Althorp in Northamptonshire. (S, Rpt, HD)

5.15 Pointless Quiz series. (S, Rpt, HD)

6.00 News; Weather (S, HD)

6.30 Local News; Weather (S)

REGIONAL VARIATIONS

■ WALES 1 1 .4 5 a m -1 2 .1 5 p m Showstoppers: Best of

the Royal Welsh 10.35 Warriors: Our Homeless World

Cup 11.05 This Country 11.35 Saving Britain’s Worst Zoo

1 2 .1 5 a m Have I Got News for You 1.00-6.00am BBC News

REGIONAL VARIATIONS

■ WALES

Programmes today are as above.

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10.00 News; Weather (S, HD)

10.25 Local News; Weather (S)

10.35 This Country Peeping Tom: 5 of 6.

Spoof documentary series. Kerry’s dad

is accused of being a Peeping Tom, and

Kurtan vies with Slugs over the affections

of a new girl in the village. (S, Rpt, HD)

11.00 Have I Got a Bit More Old News for You

An extended edition of the satirical quiz

from November 2018, with guest host David

Tennant. Comedian Reginald D Hunter and

playwright Lucy Prebble join team captains

Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. (S, Rpt, HD)

11.45 The Truth About Meat Documentary in

which Chris Bavin asks whether there is any

truth behind claims that eating meat causes

poor health, presenting a series of tests and

investigations to fi nd out. (S, Rpt, HD) Weather

12.50 to 6.00 AM BBC News (S, HD)

9.00 Who Do You Think You Are?

Naomie Harris: 2 of 8. Genealogy series.

Tonight, the actress traces her ancestry –

from Trinidad to Grenada to Jamaica –

discovering a startling link to slavery and

learning of a story of tragic poverty in the

city of Kingston. See feature, page 11. (S, HD)

8.00 EastEnders Ruby invites Stacey and

Martin on a double date with her and Max,

Sharon is on edge when the results from

the paternity test arrive, while Phil asks

Ben to help run the club. (S, AD, HD)

8.30 Panorama Boeing’s Killer Planes:

A report on the Boeing 737 Max. (S, HD)

7.0 0 The One Show Magazine presented by

Matt Baker and Stacey Dooley. (S, HD)

7. 3 0 Our Lives Taking on the Irish Sea:
   Documentary series. This edition follows
   the 12-strong crew from the Llangrannog
   Rowing Club as they prepare to compete
   in this year’s Celtic Challenge. (S, HD)

8.00 Nadiya’s Time to EatEasy End of Days:

3 of 6. Time-saving recipes for a zingy

beetroot pasta, a salmon poke bowl, and

an indulgent chocolate mousse. (S, HD)

8.30 University Challenge Student quiz

show. Tonight, Magdalen College, Oxford

takes on the University of York. (S, HD)

9.00 How to Break into the Elite

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One-off documentary in which Amol Rajan

investigates how much class still matters

in Britain’s leading professions, spending

time with working-class graduates looking

for prestigious positions to fi nd out what

it takes to break into the elite. (S, HD)

10.00 I Love 1984 Holly Johnson looks back

at the year when Nik Kershaw, Madonna,

Sade, and his own band, Frankie Goes to

Hollywood, had big hits. Plus, The A-Te am

hit TV screens, and Trivial Pursuit sparked

a new era in board games. (S, Rpt, HD)

10.30 Newsnight; Weather (S, HD)

7.0 0 Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico 2 o f 7.

Documentary series. Tonight, the chef

continues down the Californian coastline

immortalised by writer John Steinbeck,

through Los Angeles and into San Diego,

where a local fi shmonger cooks him the

best fi sh chilli he’s ever had. (S, Rpt, HD)

11.15 Tribes, Predators & Me Shark People of the

South Pacifi c: 1 of 3. Wildlife series in which

Gordon Buchanan meets different cultures

who live and hunt alongside predators,

beginning with men in the Solomon Islands

who freedive for fi sh with sharks. (S, Rpt)

12 .15 AM Sign Zone Starting with: 12 .15 Serengeti

Invasion: 3 of 6. Wildlife documentary series.

Kali the lioness entrusts her cubs to male

babysitter Sefu. (SL, S, Rpt, HD) 1.15 to 2 .10

AM C o u n t r y fi l e Rural series. The team visits

Cornwall, where John Craven heads to an

off-grid camp near Truro. (SL, S, Rpt, HD)

Listings for Welsh-language channel S4C (F’sat 120, Sky 134, Virgin 166) are on opposite page.

ITV, 7.30pm & 8.30pm Anxious wait...

Robert drops everything to be alongside

the pregnant Vicky at the hospital – after

her health takes a worrying turn for worse.

BBC1, 9.00pm Family history... Actress

Naomie Harris (Moneypenny in the recent

James Bond fi lms) heads to Trinidad and

Jamaica to learn more about her ancestry.

Photographs: ITV, BBC

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