The Times - UK (2022-04-28)

12 Thursday April 28 2022 | the times

television & radio

Julia Bradbury:

Breast Cancer

and Me

ITV, 9pm

When Julia Bradbury

told her children of

her cancer diagnosis,

her daughter Xanthe

asked,“Can I still hug

you?” Bradbury has

told this story before,

but the innocence

and purity of that

question still jolts her.

project, Lucy Worsley

puts on a hard hat and

protective equipment to

observe the vast

challenges facing the

army of craftspeople

and engineers, which

range from clearing

tons of toxic lead dust

to raising the new spire.

The scaffolding inside

the cathedral is a work

of art itself, a metal

skeleton supporting

ancient stone.

Rebuilding

Notre Dame:

BBC2, 8pm

A £5 million restoration

project of Notre Dame’s

spire spiralled into an

even larger restoration

project when a fire

broke out and the 750-

tonne construction

took a header through

the cathedral’s roof.

Three years into this

five-year restoration

office, with the whip-

tongued agent

Rebecca (Lydia

Leonard) on the

rampage after Maggie

Smith is accidentally

sent Agent Provocateur

accessories as a gift,

and the heir to the

business Jonathan

(Jack Davenport)

juggling family loyalty

and the surprise arrival

of a new employee,

Misha (Hiftu Quasem).

unmistakable verbal

tics and circular

conversations with him.

The first episode

broadly follows the plot

of its French forebear,

with Dan (Prasanna

Puwanarajah)

struggling to tell Kelly

Macdonald (Kelly

Macdonald) that she

has lost the plum

role in the top franchise

Bird Woman. Hectic

scenes populate the

champagne at an

industry knees-up.

John Morton, the

series’ showrunner,

couldn’t be a better fit

to relocate the series

and introduce the

panicky agents and

tricky clients of the

London talent agency

Nightingale Hart; the

writer of W1A has

moved to an adjacent

Soho postcode and

brought those

Viewing Guide

Toby Earle

Ten Percent
Amazon Prime Video

The breakout
French
comedy-
drama Call
My Agent! has been
remade from a British
perspective. And
good news, mes amis;
this fizzes like free

Top

pick

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BBC1 BBC2 ITV Channel 4 Channel 5

7.00 The One Show Hosted by Alex

Jones and Ronan Keating

7.30 EastEnders Jean disappears, so

Stacey and Martin try to find her (AD)

8.00 MasterChef The semi-finalists create

a dish inspired by the chicken or the

egg, and deliver a three-course lunch

for the Royal British Legion’s

remembrance traditions (AD)

9.00 Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food

Stars A cheese-related task sees

the contenders having to navigate

themselves through terrifying

narrow caves, hundreds of feet

below ground (5/8) (AD)

10.00 BBC News at Ten

10.30 BBC Regional News and Weather

10.40 Question Time Fiona Bruce hosts the

political debate from Romford, East

London, inviting a panel of politicians

and other guests to answer questions

from an invited audience

11.40 Newscast Political chat

12.10am Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof The famous

faces strip down to their swimwear and enter an

extremely powerful man-made blizzard. With visibility

low and thousands of litres of ice battering them each

minute they are in there, they must reach the finish line

and plant their flag (r) (AD) 1.15-6.00 BBC News

7.00 Live Snooker: The World

Championship Coverage of the

opening session of the second

semi-final on day 13 from the Crucible

Theatre in Sheffield, where eight

frames are scheduled to be played.

Coverage continues on BBC4

8.00 Rebuilding Notre Dame Three years

after the devastating fire, Lucy

Worsley is given access to the

cathedral in Paris at a critical point of

the restoration as the reopening date

of 2024 nears. See Viewing Guide (AD)

9.00 Art That Made Us The splintering

that occurred under the Stuart

kings, as political, religious and

cultural divisions fuelled war.

See Viewing Guide (4/8) (AD)

10.00 Mortimer & Whitehouse:

Gone Fishing Bob and Paul head to

the Lake District (3/6) (r) (AD)

10.30 Newsnight Headline analysis

11.15 Snooker: World Championship

Highlights Action from day 13 at the

Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, as both

semi-finals got under way

12.05am In the Face of Terror (r) (AD)

3.05-4.05 Sign Zone: Interior Design Masters with

Alan Carr. The contestants redesign cafes in 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 (r) (AD, SL)

7.30 Emmerdale Ethan is given his most

difficult and controversial case,

Jai is determined to win Laurel round

but his day goes awry, and Noah

shows his sly colours (AD)

8.30 Homes for Ukraine: Welcome to

Britain? Tonight Accusations that

the UK government is not processing

claims from refugees quickly enough

9.00 Julia Bradbury: Breast Cancer and

Me The presenter talks about her

battle with the disease, filmed from

the very early days of her diagnosis

as she comes to terms with the news,

and prepares for a mastectomy.

See Viewing Guide (AD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten

10.30 Regional News

10.45 DNA Journey Olympic legends Torvill

and Dean embark on a journey that

brings them even closer as they

uncover their family history using

DNA and genealogy (r) (AD)

11.55 All Elite Wrestling: Rampage Hard-

hitting, high-flying wrestling action

12.45am Teleshopping Buying goods from home

3.00 Homes for Ukraine: Welcome to Britain? Tonight (r)

3.25 Wonders of the Border. Sean Fletcher explores

Britain’s longest ancient monument (r) (AD, SL)

3.50 Unwind with ITV 5.05-6.00 Tipping Point. Ben

Shephard hosts the arcade-themed quiz (r) (SL)

7.00 Channel 4 News

8.00 Luxury Food for Less How to buy

superior coffee at half the price and

the best value premium ready meals.

Plus, the identity of an inexpensive

chocolate brand that tastes as

good as its luxury rivals (AD)

9.00 Taskmaster Greg Davies sets more

perplexing and downright extraordinary

tasks for Ardal O’Hanlon, Bridget

Christie, Chris Ramsey, Judi Love and

Sophie Duker. Alex Horne monitors

proceedings (3/10) (AD)

10.00 Chivalry Jean convinces Bobby and

Cameron that they must fight to save

the marketing budget for the film.

See Viewing Guide (3/6) (AD)

10.30 Where Have All the Lesbians

Gone? Intimate and revealing

interviews address what it means to

be a lesbian today and why some gay

women feel as if they are being erased

from popular culture and social history

11.30 First Dates A 19-year-old computer

enthusiast goes on the first date

of his life (5/6) (r) (AD)

12.30am Ramsay’s Hotel Hell A family built inn with

huge debts in Oregon (r) (AD) 1.15 Wife Swap USA (r)

(SL) 2.00 Live MMA: Professional Fighters League.

Coverage of the second round of the 2022 season 4.00

Location, Location, Location (r) (AD) 4.55 Moneybags (r)

(AD) 5.45-6.05 Kirstie’s House of Craft (r)

7.00 Spring Gardening with Carol Klein

Carol celebrates some of the season’s

most beautiful — and tiny — flowering

treasures, looking at how to choose

them, how to plant them and

how to care for them (2/6)

7.55 5 News Update

8.00 Nick Knowles’ Big House Clearout

New series. The presenter helps more

families who are being crushed by their

clutter, beginning in Portsmouth,

where three generations are squeezed

together in a three-bed semi (1/12)

9.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second

Counts New series. Return of the

documentary following the work of

emergency teams in the A&E

department of Barnsley Hospital. A

two-year-old with dangerously low

blood sugar is rushed in (1/6)

10.00 Ambulance: Code Red

Paramedics are called out when a

child is run over on the way to school.

Blood flowing out of the boy’s ear

suggests he may have a fractured

skull and a brain injury (r) (AD)

11.05 Here Come the Gypsies!

In Hampshire, it is the day of the

renowned Cooper horse drive, and

hundreds of Gypsies gather to buy and

sell horses and ride out together

through the New Forest (3/6) (r)

12.05am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera (r)

1.00 The LeoVegas Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment

News on 5 3.10 Dogs with Extraordinary Jobs (r)

4.00 The Funny Thing About Christmas (r) (SL) 4.45

Wildlife SOS (r) (SL) 5.10 House Doctor (r) (SL)

5.35-6.00 Children’s Programmes (r) (SL)

6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Morning Live. Magazine show

hosted by Gethin Jones and Sam Quek 10.00 For Love or

Money. Scammers who sought financial support from

those they met online 10.45 Dom Digs In. Dom

Littlewood takes a walk on the wild side at the largest

zoo in the UK (AD) 11.15 Homes Under the Hammer.

Properties in Berkshire, Norfolk and Burton-on-Trent (r)

(AD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt. From the Peterborough

Festival of Antiques (r) (AD) 1.00 BBC News at One;

Weather 1.30 BBC Regional News; Weather 1.45 Five

Bedrooms. The housemates prepare to go their own ways

(r) (AD) 2.30 Clean It, Fix It. The team helps a mother

and daughter with little storage space (r) 3.00 Escape to

the Country. Alistair Appleton helps a couple find a home

in Pembrokeshire (r) (AD) 3.45 Antiques Road Trip.

Raj Bisram and Paul Martin visit Dorset, Devon and

Somerset (r) 4.30 The Bidding Room. Featuring an old

croquet set, a vintage Herman Miller chair and a

custom-built motorbike 5.15 Pointless. Quiz show hosted

by Alexander Armstrong (r) 6.00 BBC News at Six;

Weather 6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather 6.55 Party

Election Broadcast. By the Liberal Democrats

6.30am Bargain Hunt. From Ardingly, West Sussex (r)

(AD) 7.15 The Bidding Room. Items include a stone

cannon and a Clarice Cliff mask (r) 8.00 Sign Zone:

Gardeners’ World. Monty Don continues his revamp of the

dry garden, and Adam Frost goes back to basics and gives

advice for viewers who are starting a garden from scratch

(r) (SL) 9.00 BBC News 10.00 BBC News 12.15pm

Politics Live. The latest stories from Westminster and

beyond 1.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship.

Coverage of day 13 from the Crucible Theatre in

Sheffield, featuring the first eight frames of the opening

semi-final, as the players continue their bids to win

snooker’s most prestigious title. Last year’s corresponding

session ended 4-4 between Stuart Bingham and Mark

Selby, with Selby going on to win the match and the

championship 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games.

Sarah Kendall, Jay McGuiness, Linda Robson and Bobby

Seagull go toe-to-toe testing their general knowledge

skills in a variety of trivia-based games across the

week 6.30 My Unique B&B. Master craftsman Simon

Parfett and his team are in Warwickshire to turn a

200-year-old turret into a medieval-themed B&B (AD)

6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00 Lorraine.

Entertainment, current affairs and fashion news, as well

as showbiz stories and gossip 10.00 This Morning.

Daily magazine, featuring a mix of showbiz chat, news,

lifestyle features, topical discussion, health and beauty

advice and more 12.30pm Loose Women. The women

put the world to rights once more and invite a showbiz

guest to chat about what they are up to 1.30 ITV News;

Weather 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. David Dickinson and

the team value antiques in Llangollen, Denbighshire,

where items of interest include a milking stool and a

saucy movie poster (r) 3.00 Lingo. Six contestants

try to work out words that appear in the Lingo grids

and Puzzlewords (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

hosts as contestants from Middlesex, Southport,

Sunderland and Belfast pit their wits against one of

the ruthless Chasers 6.00 Regional News; Weather

6.20 Party Election Broadcast. On behalf of the

Liberal Democrats 6.30 ITV News; Weather

6.05am Countdown (r) 6.45 Cheers (r) 7.35 The King of

Queens (r) (AD) 9.00 Frasier (r) (AD) 10.30 Undercover

Boss USA (r) 11.25 Channel 4 News Summary 11.30

Couples Come Dine with Me (r) 12.30pm Steph’s Packed

Lunch. Weekday magazine show 2.10 Countdown. Justin

Webb joins Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner 3.00 A Place

in the Sun. A former nurse seeks a property on the east

coast of Italy (r) 4.00 A New Life in the Sun. A

Manchester couple’s plans to take over a Costa Blanca bar

are in jeopardy, a Spanish adventure golf course is given a

trial run and things do not measure up at a French gîte (r)

5.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses. In Almería,

husband-and-wife duo Steve and Sharon Garner help a

retired police officer and his wife find their ideal holiday

home for a budget of 115,000 euros 6.00 The Simpsons.

Homer, Marge and the kids fall asleep during an

extra-long sermon by the Rev Lovejoy, and dream they

are characters from the Old Testament (r) (AD) 6.30

Hollyoaks. As Ste and Sienna are about to make a

risky move, someone beats them to it. Things get

competitive between Juliet and Shaq when Luke

accidentally hires them both for the same job (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 offers advice to a

couple who have invested their money in a run-down

garden centre and a 400-year-old barn and farmhouse in

the Suffolk countryside (r) 1.10 5 News at Lunchtime

1.15 Home and Away. Ziggy thinks Theo’s attitude is a

problem and does not want to work with him 1.45

Neighbours 2.15 FILM: Kidnapped (PG, TVM, 2020)

Brooke befriends a guy she meets at her new school,

which leads to her being abducted from her own home.

Thriller starring Paige Searcy 4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in

the Sun. A couple who traded in the delights of Essex for

a home in a beautiful “pueblo blanco”, or traditional white

village, on a mountain overlooking the Mediterranean

5.00 5 News at 5 6.00 Neighbours. When Paul sees

Terese and Glen looking more than friendly, he confronts

his brother (r) (AD) 6.30 Eggheads. The Prophets of

Zoom take part in the quiz, hoping to topple the Eggheads

and claim the cash. Jeremy Vine presents