TV Times – 27 July 2019

64 TV TIMES

WednesdayHighlights

Alex and Steph

George Clarke

looks at the UK’s

social housing

policy

Tom Hardy as

Spitfire pilot

Farrier

Eight-month-

old mountain

gorilla

Nyakabara

Shop Well

for Less?

● FACTUAL / 8pm / BBC1

Steph McGovern and Alex

Jones continue their

mission to help families

change the way they shop

without changing their

lifestyle. This week they’re

in Selby, Yorkshire, to try

to help the Mountford

family. To show the family

what they’re actually

paying out, Steph and

Alex set up a pop-up shop

in the family’s house – will

their shock therapy do the

trick? HHHJP

Council House Scandal

● FACTUAL / 9pm / C4

NEW

It’s 100 years since the first

council houses were built in

Britain after World War One. Today there

are just 2 million, compared with 6 million

in 1980. With social housing at an all-time

low in the UK and thousands of families

forced to live in appalling conditions in

temporary accommodation, architect

George Clarke meets some of those who

are suffering to reveal the extent of the

crisis. Raised in a council house himself,

George is on a mission to create good-

quality social housing once again and

takes inspiration from countries that have

got it right, including Austria, which puts

our government’s social-housing policies

to shame. Compelling viewing and an

urgent call to action. HHHHHTL

Animal Babies

● WILDLIFE / 9pm / BBC2

Learning to push against boundaries is

an essential part of development for any

infant, but one little monkey in Sri Lanka

is testing his troop’s patience. Five-month-

old toque macaque Jazir is the highest-

ranking baby in his troop of 34. But when

he begins to wield his power and steal food

from other babies, he gets a slap in the face

from another monkey and his mum

has to step in. Meanwhile, in Uganda,

eight-month-old mountain gorilla

Nyakabara has to learn the skills to climb

sky-high treetops and find food. But her

mum has been over-protective ever since

Nyakabara fell from a tree at just eight

weeks old. Scary! HHHHRM

Dunkirk

● FILM / Amazon Prime Video

Free to Amazon Primemembers from this week,

Christopher Nolan’s war movie grabs you from the first

moment and puts you on a French beach in 1940, where

the Nazis are breathing down the necks of thousands

of British soldiers. A snapshot of a single day, the film

follows Fionn Whitehead’s teenage soldier, Tom Hardy’s

gritty Spitfire pilot and Mark Rylance’s captain of a small

fishing boat, who sails over the Channel in a bid to assist

in the rescue. A masterpiece. HHHHHNP

WEDNESDAY

31 July