40 saturday review Saturday May 28 2022 | the times
George Clarke’s
Flipping Fast
Channel 4, 9pmThe capitalist’s favourite
property show continues, with
Harriet top of the leaderboard
after making an £18,000 profit
on her first “flip” (buying a
property to sell for profit). But
it’s not always that easy, as the
brothers Ricky and Andrew find
out when they are stung by
massive auction fees and left
with a tiny budget to complete
a full renovation. Meanwhile,
mother and daughter Janet
and Olivia are in their Blackpool
hometown looking for a
bargain. George Clarke and
the sibling property experts
Scarlette and Stuart Douglas
are on hand to offer advice. JCBritain’s Beautiful
Rivers
More4, 9pmThe River Test, which runs
for 40 miles through the
Hampshire countryside, is
regarded as the birthplace of
modern fly-fishing, and Richard
Hammond tries his hand at the
sport in the second part of this
relaxing and informative series.
He meets a couple who live on
the banks of the Test and are
using it in their award-winning
gin distillery, and finds out how
water pollution is threatening
this rare chalk stream. His
journey concludes in
Southampton, where the river
meets with the saline waters of
the Solent to become one of
the world’s great ports. JC● BBC Scotland 7.00pm The Great Food
Guys (r) 7.30 Scotland’s Home of the Year
(r) 8.00 Inside Central Station (r) 9.00
The Nine 10.00 River City. Bob learns a
valuable lesson from a mysterious new
customer 10.30 Debate Night 11.30-
Midnight David Wilson’s Crime Files (r)
● S4C 6.00am Cyw: Peppa (r) 6.05 Guto
Gwningen (r) 6.20 Oli Wyn (r) 6.30
Octonots (r) 6.45 Cei Bach (r) 7.00 Odo
7.10 Blero yn Mynd i Ocido (r) 7.20
Anifeiliaid Bach y Byd (r) 7.30 Patrôl
Pawennau (r) 7.45 Ahoi! 8.00 Bing (r) 8.10
Cymylaubychain (r) 8.20 Meic y Marchog
(r) 8.35 Loti Borloti (r) 8.50 Ben a Mali a’u
Byd Bach O Hud (r) 9.00 Sblij a Sbloj (r)
9.10 Y Brodyr Coala (r) 9.20 Do Re Mi
Dona (r) 9.35 Sion y Chef (r) 9.45 Antur
Natur Cyw (r) 10.00 Peppa (r) 10.05 Guto
Gwningen (r) 10.20 Oli Wyn (r) 10.30
Octonots (r) 10.45 Cei Bach (r) 11.00
Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022 12.00 News
12.05pm Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022 2.00
News 2.05 Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022 3.00
Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022 3.30 Eisteddfod
yr Urdd 2022 6.30 Fi a Mistar Urdd (r)
7.00 Heno 7.30 News 8.00 Eisteddfod yr
Urdd 2022 9.25 News 9.30 Eirys: Mam yr
Urdd 10.30 Cymru, Alabama a’r Urdd (r)
11.30-1.00am Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022 (r)
(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing● BBC1 Wales As BBC1 except: 10.40pm
Life and Death in the Warehouse. Drama
inspired by real-world events (r)
11.40-12.05am Peacock. New ‘authentic’
Andy is set to go on a second date with
Georgia, but ‘old’ Andy resurfaces (r)
● BBC1 N Ireland As BBC1 except:
10.40pm Nolan Live. Debate on issues
affecting Northern Ireland, with Stephen
Nolan 11.40 Peacock (r) 12.05am Life
and Death in the Warehouse. Drama
series (r) 1.05-6.00 BBC News
● BBC2 N Ireland As BBC2 except:
10.00pm-10.30 Spotlight (r) 11.15 Inside
No 9 11.45 Unspun World with John
Simpson 12.15-12.45am BBC News
● BBC1 Scotland As BBC1 except: 2.15pm
Politics Scotland 3.00-3.45 Five
Bedrooms 10.40 Sportscene 11.30
Peacock (r) 11.55 Edit (r) 12.10am Debate
Night (r) 1.10 Weather 1.15-6.00 BBC News
● ITV Wales As ITV except: 10.45pm Face
to Face 11.15-11.45 Wales on TV (r)
● STV As ITV except: 10.30pm STV News
10.40 Scotland Tonight 11.05 It’ll Be
Alright on the Night (r) 12.05-3.00am
Teleshopping 3.50-5.05 Unwind with STV
● UTV As ITV except: 10.45pm
UTV Life 11.15-11.45 Ulster Giants. The
19th-century surveyors who created
the first large-scale map of Ireland (r)The Long Ships (PG, 1964)
Film4, 11am
Richard Widmark stars as the roguish Viking Rolfe, a warrior
searching for a priceless bell in Jack Cardiff’s kitsch adventure
yarn. After sending his rivals on a wild goose chase, Rolfe thinks
he is in pole position to grab the golden bell, known as the
Mother of Voices, but ends up battling for the prize with
a Moorish prince, played by Sidney Poitier. Widmark turned
down the film four times before agreeing to do it on the
condition that they cast his friend Poitier as the villain. The film
is unpopular in Scandinavia, but that hasn’t stopped two Scandi
production companies acquiring the film rights to the book
on which it is based. A remake has yet to materialise. (126min)
Joe ClayFilms of the day
Days of Bagnold Summer (12, 2019)
Film4, 12.15am
Boyhood, Harold and Maude and British sitcoms from the 1970s
are the touchstones in the directorial debut of the Inbetweeners
star Simon Bird. It’s a sun-kissed coming-of-age drama set in
Bromley, south London, that features Earl Cave (son of the singer
Nick) as disaffected 15-year-old Daniel, a heavy-metal obsessive
grinding through a no-hope summer with his librarian mum,
Sue (Monica Dolan, above with Cave). The genre is well-worn,
but smart writing and sterling supporting players (Rob Brydon,
Tamsin Greig, Alice Lowe) inject it with heartfelt originality.
The film is an adaptation of Joff Winterhart’s 2012 graphic novel
of the same name, and the soundtrack is by the Scottish indie
band Belle and Sebastian. (86min) Kevin MaherInside No 9
BBC2, 10pmWise Owl is the final offering
in the seventh series of the
darkly comic horror anthology.
It features a perfect pastiche
of the animated Charley Says
public information films of
the 1970s by Sam O’Leary,
starring the aforementioned
owl, whose catchphrase is
“Don’t be a twit-you”. Reese
Shearsmith (sporting an
indie-kid haircut circa 1991)
plays Ronnie, who seems to be
stuck in arrested development
for reasons that become clear
via animated sequences that
tell his traumatic backstory.
Ron Cook and Georgie Glenn
join Shearsmith and Steve
Pemberton. Ingenious
and creepy. JCRegional programmes
Wednesday 1 | Viewing guide
Critic’s choice The Repair
Shop Jubilee Special
BBC1, 8pm
There’s a right royal
assignment for Jay Blades and
the team of craftspeople in
tonight’s special episode of
The Repair Shop, with each of
the four items brought in
having a royal connection
(some more tenuous than
others). First to arrive at the
workshop is Peter McGowran,
chief of the Tower of London
Yeoman Warders (aka the
Beefeaters). He’s brought with
him a lantern that is steeped
in royal tradition — it is a key
part of the Ceremony of the
Keys, during which the
warders lock up the Tower
every night. The 103-year-old
lantern, which is lit by a single
candle, is starting to show
signs of wear and tear, and it
falls to the horologist Steve
Fletcher and the stained-glass
expert Matt Nickels to return
it to its former glory. Next in
is Diane Gould and her son,
Terry, who come from a long
line of London pearly kings
and queens. Diane has
brought in an unfinished suit
that belonged to her late
father, Alf, the pearly king of
St Pancras. Terry is keen to
carry on the family tradition,
but first Amanda Middleditch
and Julie Tatchell (the Teddy
Bear Ladies) have work to do
to make the suit fit for a king.
Elsewhere, the ceramics
conservator Kirsten Ramsay
is tasked with repairing a
handpainted commemorative
plate made to celebrate the
Golden Jubilee of Queen
Victoria in 1887; and there’s an
unusual tandem, which was
created by welding two
normal bikes together in 1977
(the year of the Queen’s Silver
Jubilee), and has emotional
significance for its owner,
John Phillips. Can the
metalwork maestro Dominic
Chinea and the bike expert
Tim Gunn, right with Phillips,
get it roadworthy once more?
Joe ClayCatch
up
Joe Wicks: Facing My
Childhood
BBC iPlayer
During lockdown Joe Wicks,
right, rallied millions of us
with his online PE
lessons. “This is a
weird time... but
we’re going to
get through it”
were the
words we
wanted to
hear. He
inevitably
received a lot
of correspond-
ence, most of
it positive(one person even knitted a
Wicks doll with long hair), but
some adults drew attention to
their mental health issues. The
son of a drug-addicted father
and a depressed mother with
OCD, Wicks faces up to many
difficult childhood memories
and examines the impact of
parental mental health via
many tears and honest
conversations with his family.
“You can’t love anyone
properly when you’re
intoxicated with
opiates,” says his
father, Gary. “It
numbs you
completely.
” Ben
DowellAttack of the
Zeppelins
PBS America, 7.40pm
The German bombing raids
during the First World War with
Zeppelins twice the size of
jumbo jets was the first
instance of total war in the
20th century. This programme,
first shown on Channel 4 in
2013, uses roundtable
discussions, CGI effects and
garden-shed experiments to
describe how they were built
(using vast hydrogen-filled
balloons made from the
intestinal linings of 250,000
cows), and how they were
eventually destroyed. The
engineer Dr Hugh Hunt sets
off a homemade incendiary
bomb. JC