The Times - UK (2022-04-13)

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friend who runs a youth

charity in Cardiff. As

the trio join Berry at

her home for their

lessons, she is helped by

Roman Kemp, the

radio presenter, and

Tom Read Wilson, the

presenter and actor, to

oversee the extras to

make the party go off

with a bang. Recipes

include a four-tier

clementine cake. Trust

in Berry. James Jackson

Mary Berry’s

Fantastic Feasts

BBC1, 8pm

In an episode

postponed from March

9 for a Question Time

special on Ukraine,

Mary Berry is here to

help with more unfussy

winning recipes. Three

culinary tyros want to

throw a spectacular

afternoon tea feast to

say thank you to a

witnessing the birth of

a street in Glasgow,

assisted by Natasha

Huq, an Edinburgh-

based architect and

historic buildings

consultant. Glasgow

city council has granted

six families permission

to build on a small plot

close to the city centre

and McCloud and Huq

visit the first project —

an American ranch-

style home.

next wave of self-

builders, starting with

Carlos and Maite, who

plan to build a Spanish-

inspired home. Maite,

who is from La Rioja in

northern Spain, is also

involved in the design

of the building, but

doesn’t have any formal

design training. She’s

being assisted by an

architect and they have

conflicting ideas.

McCloud is also

expect from an entire

street of grand designs,

with each of the

participants creating

their own highly

individual homes.

Three years later,

McCloud is back to

check on progress, and

what started with ten

now numbers more

than 100. As well as

revisiting some of the

original pioneers, he is

following some of the

experiments yet seen in

the UK was under way.

Ten households were

embarking on a

mission to build their

own homes and create

a new street and

McCloud followed the

progress of this bold

architectural

endeavour over the

course of a six-part

series. There was as

much jeopardy and

drama as you would

Viewing Guide

Joe Clay

Grand Designs:

The Streets
Channel 4, 9pm

From 2015 to
2019 Kevin
McCloud
made
repeated trips to
Graven Hill,
Oxfordshire, where one
of the biggest self-build

Top

pick

7PM

Early

8PM

9PM

10PM

11PM

Late

BBC1 BBC2 ITV Channel 4 Channel 5

7.00 The One Show Presented by

Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas

7.30 EastEnders Ben confronts the man

who hurled abuse at him the night

before, and Nancy spots Jean

wearing Linda’s scarf (AD)

8.00 Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts

The food writer teaches three novice

cooks — a fireman, a youth worker and

a boxing instructor — how to create

dishes for afternoon tea so they can

throw a thank you party for a woman

who runs a youth charity in Cardiff.

See Viewing Guide (1/2) (AD)

9.00 Interior Design Masters with Alan

Carr The contestants redesign cafes

in the seaside town of Margate, with

one team opting for a bold colour

palette, while the others channel the

colours of the sea with cool blues

and vintage shutters (6/8) (AD)

10.00 BBC News at Ten

10.30 BBC Regional News and Weather

10.40 Meet Joe Black (12, 1998) Death

takes over the body of a recently

deceased young man, and embarks on a

mission to claim the life of a powerful

media tycoon, but ends up falling in

love with his daughter instead —

leaving him on the horns of a dilemma.

Remake of 1934 romantic fantasy

Death Takes a Holiday, starring Brad

Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani,

Jake Weber and Marcia Gay Harden

1.35am-6.00 BBC News

7.00 Doctors Karen meets the new

receptionist, Maeve’s concerns rise and

Bear seeks Sid’s advice (r) (AD)

7.30 The Bidding Room Items include

an anatomical spider, a Victorian

commode and a signed Live Aid T-shirt.

Hosted by Nigel Havers (r)

8.00 Secrets of the Museum A series

of landscape prints made by John

Constable are revealed at the V&A.

Meanwhile, preparations are made

for a new exhibition examining the

less-familiar work of goldsmith Carl

Fabergé, and the memento of a royal

love affair goes on show (2/6) (AD)

9.00 Gazza Documentary charting the life

and career of football legend Paul

Gascoigne, whose on-field brilliance

has been rivalled by a troubled private

life. The first episode looks back to

Paul’s early years, when the young

talent from Newcastle found fame and

fortune. See Viewing Guide (1/2) (AD)

10.00 QI With Jason Manford, Jimmy Carr

and Victoria Coren Mitchell (r)

10.30 Newsnight Analysis of the day’s

events with Kirsty Wark

11.15 Unspun World with John Simpson

The week’s major global news stories

11.45 Thatcher & Reagan: A Very

Special Relationship Charles Moore

examines how the pair’s mutual trust

was tested to the limit (2/2) (r) (AD)

12.45am Sign Zone: Extraordinary Portraits The

artist Thomas Croft meets a former Royal Marine who

survived an explosion (r) (AD, SL) 1.15 Stanley Tucci:

Searching for Italy. The actor heads to Tuscany (r)

(AD, SL) 2.00-3.00 The Misadventures of Romesh

Ranganathan. Visiting Sierra Leone (r) (AD, SL)

7.30 Emmerdale Excited Meena rehearses

in her cell, Rhona bottles her emotions

to stay strong for her family, and Belle

is hopeful for a new future (AD)

8.00 Coronation Street Imran decides

to challenge Abi for custody of Alfie,

Beth betrays Craig’s confidence to a

shocked Faye, and Gary questions

Maria’s priorities. Meanwhile, Mrs

Crawshaw puts Daniel in an awkward

situation, and worried Billy persuades

Amy to speak to Summer (AD)

9.00 Kate & Koji When her lifelong enemy

suddenly decides to make amends,

Kate thinks she smells a rat (5/6) (AD)

9.30 Kate & Koji Kate stands against

Councillor Bone as the local police and

crime commissioner, while Medium is

set to leave for a job abroad (6/6) (AD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten

10.30 Regional News

10.45 Worlds Collide: The Manchester

Bombing Documentary examining the

events surrounding the Manchester

Arena attack on May 22, 2017, when

a terrorist detonated a suicide bomb,

killing 22 people and injuring more

than 800 others (1/2) (r) (AD)

11.40 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite

Hard-hitting action from the

world of All Elite Wrestling

1.25am Teleshopping 3.00 Bling. Gok Wan guides

another happy shopper through the process of selling old

items to buy something brand new (r) (SL) 3.50 Unwind

with ITV. Daily escape designed to calm the mind and

encourage relaxation and reflection 5.05-6.00 Tipping

Point. Quiz show hosted by Ben Shephard (r) (SL)

7.00 Channel 4 News

8.00 The Great Home Transformation

Emma Willis, Nick Grimshaw and the

design team help a couple in Swansea

whose three-bedroom semi is proving

a tight squeeze now that their adult

children have moved back in (2/6) (AD)

9.00 Grand Designs: The Streets New

series. Kevin McCloud and Natasha Huq

follow people building homes at Graven

Hill in Oxfordshire, the UK’s largest

mass self-build site, and the birth

of a new site in Glasgow city centre.

See Viewing Guide (AD)

10.00 Naked Attraction’s Best Naughty

Bits A romp through the Naked

Attraction archive celebrating some

of the most memorable characters —

those once seen, never forgotten. They

include a 75-year-old bisexual and

a woman who was looking for the

father of her future children (AD)

11.05 SAS: Who Dares Wins The reality

show returns with its toughest

training course yet, against the

backdrop of the Jordanian desert.

The initial 21 recruits are sent on

an intense journey to their base

through searing heat (1/6) (r) (AD)

12.35am Johnny Vegas: Carry on Glamping (r) (AD)

1.30 FILM: Funny Cow (15, 2018) Drama starring

Maxine Peake 3.15 Location, Location, Location (r)

4.10 Unreported World (r) (AD, SL) 4.35 Why Are Your

Energy Bills So High? Dispatches (r) (AD, SL) 5.05

Moneybags (r) (SL) 5.55-6.10 Kirstie’s House of Craft (r)

7.00 Should I Buy An Electric Car?

Alexis Conran takes an in-depth

look at electric cars as he asks

all the questions that motorists

looking to make the switch from

petrol to electric are asking

7.55 5 News Update

8.00 Police Interceptors The firearms

team race to the scene of an alleged

shooting, only to find themselves

embroiled in an unconnected domestic

incident. Elsewhere in the north of

Nottingham, the knife crime team

recognise the familiar face of a

dealer with a car full of cannabis

9.00 Compulsion Chris is rocked to the

core when he uncovers the truth about

Jenny’s gambling. In desperation,

Jenny revisits Sasha and they discuss

a plan to steal drugs from Jenny’s

workplace as she tries to secure the

first instalment of her repayment

to a loan shark (2/4) (AD)

10.00 Killer at the Crime Scene After

a student is found dead in his car,

investigators suspect his girlfriend’s

brother to be the culprit until he is

spotted on CCTV across town at

the time of the murder (5/8) (r)

11.05 Ambulance: Code Red A critical care

paramedic and the Midlands Air

Ambulance Trauma Team are

dispatched to give lifesaving treatment

to a motorcyclist who has been

thrown off his bike (4/10) (r) (AD)

12.05am 999: Criminals: Caught on Camera (r) 1.00

The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment News

on 5 3.10 Build a New Life in the Country (r) 3.55 OMG!

Make Me a Famous Face (r) (SL) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (r)

(SL) 5.10 House Doctor (r) (SL) 5.35 Peppa Pig (r) (AD)

5.40 Paw Patrol (r) (SL) 5.50-6.00 Pip and Posy (r) (SL)

6.00am Breakfast. News, entertainment and weather

reports 9.15 Morning Live. Magazine show hosted by AJ

Odudu and Gethin Jones 10.00 Scam Interceptors. Rav

Wilding and a team of ethical hackers hunt down phone

scammers 10.45 Close Calls: On Camera. The crew of a

British yacht are surrounded by a pod of killer whales

11.15 Homes Under the Hammer. Visits to south Wales,

Stoke-on-Trent and Kent (r) (AD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt.

From Epsom Downs racecourse (r) 1.00 BBC News at One;

Weather 1.30 BBC Regional News; Weather 1.45

Doctors. Karen meets the new receptionist, while Maeve’s

concerns rise and Bear seeks Sid’s advice 2.15 Father

Brown. A local writer is murdered, leaving the cleric

delving into her novel Lulu and Lucia for clues as to who

might have committed such a crime (r) (AD) 3.00 Escape

to the Country. A globetrotting couple search for a base in

the Wiltshire countryside (r) (AD) 3.45 The Repair Shop.

Items include a hat worn by a PoW in the Second World

War (r) (AD) 4.30 Bridge of Lies. Ross Kemp hosts the

game show 5.15 Pointless. Quiz hosted by Alexander

Armstrong, with Richard Osman 6.00 BBC News

at Six; Weather 6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather

6.30am Bridge of Lies (r) 7.15 Bargain Hunt (r) 8.00

Sign Zone: Dynasties (r) (AD, SL) 9.00 BBC News 10.00

BBC News 1.00pm Ready Steady Cook (r) 1.45 Eggheads.

Quiz show hosted by Dermot Murnaghan (r) 2.15 The

Best Dishes Ever (r) 2.45 The Customer Is Always Right.

Customers test out three new products, including a 3D

noticeboard, a mirror and indicator for bicycles, and

a range of healthy baking mixes (r) (AD) 3.30 The

Customer Is Always Right. Three entrepreneurs hear what

customers think of their inventions — a ring designed to

reduce snoring, a car-cleaning kit and a pet brush-cum-

massager. Presented by Lucy Alexander (r) (AD) 4.15 Big

Cats About the House. Following the work of big cat

expert Giles Clark, as he works to transform the Big Cat

Sanctuary in Kent into a centre of global excellence for

conservation (r) (AD) 5.15 Flog It! David Harper and

Paul Laidlaw search the picture galleries of the Bowes

Museum at Barnard Castle in Co Durham, with finds

including an illustrated book by Arthur Rackham (r)

6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games. With Alex

Beresford, Mathew Horne, Martel Maxwell and Chloe

Petts 6.30 Lightning. Quiz show hosted by Zoe Lyons

6.00am Good Morning Britain. Morning magazine

featuring a lively mix of news and current affairs, plus

health, entertainment and lifestyle features 9.00

Lorraine. Entertainment, current affairs and fashion news,

as well as showbiz stories and gossip. Presented by

Lorraine Kelly 10.00 This Morning. A mix of chat,

lifestyle features, advice and competitions. Including

Local Weather 12.30pm Loose Women. Another helping

of topical studio discussion from a female perspective,

featuring showbiz interviews 1.30 ITV News; Weather

2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. David Dickinson and the team

set up shop in Milton Keynes, where Mark Steven and

David Ford fight over a tin-plate toy car (r) 3.00 Lingo.

Contestants try to work out words that appear in the

Lingo grids and Puzzlewords. Hosted by Adil Ray (r)

4.00 Tipping Point. Ben Shephard hosts the

arcade-themed quiz in which contestants drop tokens

down a choice of four chutes in the hope of winning a

£10,000 jackpot 5.00 The Chase. Bradley Walsh presents

as four contestants work as a team to take on one

of the ruthless Chasers and secure a cash prize 6.00

Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather

6.10am Countdown (r) 6.50 Cheers (r) 7.50 Everybody

Loves Raymond (r) (AD) 8.45 Frasier (r) (AD) 10.15

Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. The chef travels to

Fishtown, Philadelphia, where he tries to help the owners

of the Hot Potato Cafe, which has not made a profit in

two years (r) 11.10 Undercover Boss USA. The CEO of a

restaurant chain joins the lower ranks of her business

12.05pm Channel 4 News Summary 12.10 Couples Come

Dine with Me. A fun-loving pair kick-off the competition

in Nottingham with a menu of comfort food (r) 1.10 Find

It, Fix It, Flog It. Cattle horns and a vintage pedal car are

among the items in Pembrokeshire (r) 2.10 Countdown.

Giles Coren joins Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner 3.00

A Place in the Sun. Searching for a property in the

countryside around Valencia, Spain (r) 4.00 A New Life in

the Sun. Glampsite owners in Portugal face the reality of

living off-grid (r) 5.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses.

A pilates fan searches for a holiday home in Alicante

6.00 The Simpsons. Three spooky tales, including Homer

being possessed by an evil toupee (r) (AD) 6.30

Hollyoaks. Darren helps Brooke have a realisation

about their relationship with Ripley (r) (AD)

6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine. The broadcaster

and guests discuss the issues of the day, with co-host

Storm Huntley joining him for phone-ins and reading out

viewers’ correspondence 12.15pm George Clarke’s Build a

New Life in the Country. The architect returns to a project

in Norfolk to turn a water tower into a family home and

finds there is still no kitchen or plumbing three years

after work began (r) 1.10 5 News at Lunchtime 1.15

Home and Away. Dean gets a shocking call 1.45

Neighbours 2.20 FILM: Burning Lies (PG, TVM,

2021) A woman falls for a firefighter after he rescues

her from a car crash, but his overprotective behaviour

turns to obsession. Thriller starring Annika Foster 4.00

Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun. A pair head out on a

horse riding excursion for a birthday, and a new bar is

opened up in Benalmádena 5.00 5 News at 5 6.00

Neighbours. Paul is reluctant to invest in Montana’s

cosmetics line, Karl is keen to show Susan he can give

her the life she deserves and Ned gets jealous when he

sees Harlow and Corey together (r) 6.30 Eggheads.

Jeremy Vine hosts as Dads’ Cafe try their luck against

the Eggheads to win the rolling prize fund