The Observer - 25.08.2019

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Thursday 29

The Motion Show (5/6)

9.30 Richard Barton:

General Practitioner!

(6/6) 10.0 The Castle

(1/2) 11.0 A Pocketful

of Rye (2/3) 11.15 The

End of the Pier 12.0 The

Goon s 1.0 To Be Sung ...

1.30 Ali: Me, My Family ...

2.0 E=mc2 (2/3) 2.15

Charisma: Pinning Down

the Butterfly (4/10) 2.30

Bindi Business (4/5) 2.45

My Life in Houses (4/5)

3.0 The Castle (1/2) 4.0

The Motion Show (5/6)

4.30 Richard Barton 5.0

Double Science (4/6)

5.30 Fresh from the

Fringe 6.0 Haunted 6.30

Great Lives (1/9) 7.0 The

Goon s 8.0 To Be Sung ...

8.30 Ali: Me, My Family ...

9.0 A Pocketful of Rye

(2/3) 9.15 The End of

the Pier 10.0 Fresh from

the Fringe 10.30 Mitch

Benn’s Crimes Against

Music (3/4) 11.0 The

Museum of Everything

(3/6) 11.30 Lionel

Nimrod’s Inexplicable

World (1/6) 12.0 Haunted

12.30 Great Lives (1/9)

1.0 To Be Sung ... 1.30

Ali: Me, My Family ...

2.0 E=mc2 (2/3) 2.15

Charisma ... 2.30 Bindi

Business (4/5) 2.45 My

Life in Houses (4/5) 3.0

The Castle (1/2) 4.0

The Motion Show (5/6)

4.30 Richard Barton 5.0

Double Science (4/6) 5.30

Fresh from the Fringe

Thursday 29

8.0 Th e Sheriff s Are Coming
(T) Tommy and Adie deal
with an unusual call out
to a sheep farm in Wales.
9.0 Fake Or Fortune? (T)
(R) A still life that may
have been painted by
William Nicholson, but
could be from one of
the 20th century’s
greatest art crimes.

8.30 Great British Railway

Journeys (T) (R)

Michael Portillo travels

between Taunton and

Newton Abbot.

9.0 China: A New World Order

(T) New series. A look

at Xi Jinping’s leadership

of China since 2013, and

how he is reshaping the

communist superpower.

8.0 Emmerdale (T) Moira

handles a tricky situation.

8.30 Th e Cruise: Sailing the

Mediterranean (T) (R)

Eleanor takes to the

stage for the last time.

9.0 Car Crash Britain: Caught

on Camera (T) (R) Near-

misses, including a man

who almost gets taken out

by an unsecured load.

8.0 Kirstie and Phil’s Love It

Or List It (T) Th e pair catch

up with Lucia and Matt,

who were split over what

to do with their four-bed

detached home.

9.0 Th e Secret Teacher (T)

Th e owner of a recruitment

agency goes undercover

at the Forest School in

Wokingham. Last in series.

8.0 Britain’s Parking Hell (T)

A look at how motorists

who park in the way, or

fail to pay fi nes, might be

unlucky enough to have

their cars towed away.

9.0 Secret World of Las Vegas:

24/7 (T) Meeting the

characters and hearing

the stories that make

up the gambling capital.

8.0 Skies Above Britain (T)

Two aspiring air traffi c con-

trollers begin the rigorous

three-year training course.

Last in the series.

9.0 World War Speed (T)

Historian James Holland

sets out to examine the

role played by drugs such

as methamphetamine

in the second world war.

6.30 Flog It! (T) (R) 7.15 A

Matter of Life and Debt

(T) (R) 8.0 Th is Farming

Life (T) (R) 9.0 News (T)

10.0 Victoria Derbyshire

(T) 11.0 Newsroom Live

(T) 1.0 Curious Creatures

(T) (R) 1.30 Home Away

from Home (T) (R) 2.15

Heir Hunters (T) (R) 3.0

Emergency Rescue Down

Under (T) (R) 3.30 Th e Hairy

Bikers’ Asian Adventure (T)

(R) 4.30 Tigers About the

House (T) (R) 5.30 Antiques

Road Trip (T) (R) 6.15 Live

Women’s International

Football (T) Belgium v

England (kick-off 6.30pm).

6.0 Good Morning Britain (T)

8.30 Lorraine (T) 9.25 Judge

Rinder (T) (R) 10.30 Th is

Morning (T) 12.30 Loose

Women (T) 1.30 News (T)

1.55 Local News (T) 2.0

Dickinson’s Real Deal (T)

(R) 3.0 Tenable (T) (R) 3.59

Local News (T) 4.0 Tipping

Point (T) (R) 5.0 Th e Chase

Celebrity Special (T) (R)

6.0 Local News (T) 6.30

News (T) 7.0 Emmerdale

(T) Ellis is frustrated with

Billy. 7.30 Tonight: Housing

Crisis –What Next for the

Elderly? (T) Should more

accommodation be provided

for our ageing population?

6.30 Mike & Molly (T) (R) 7.20

Th e King of Queens (T)

(R) 8.10 Everybody Loves

Raymond (T) (R) 9.10

Frasier (T) (R) 10.10 Th e

Big Bang Th eory (T) (R)

11.05 Th e Simpsons (T)

(R) 12.0 News (T) 12.05 A

New Life in the Sun: Where

Are Th ey Now? (T) (R) 1.05

Posh Pawnbrokers (T) (R)

2.10 Countdown (T) 3.0

A Place in the Sun (T) (R)

4.0 Th e Great Hotel Escape

(T) 5.0 Come Dine With Me

(T) (R) 5.30 Th e Simpsons

(T) (R) 6.0 Th e Simpsons

(T) (R) 6.30 Hollyoaks (T)

(R) 7.0 News (T)

6.0 Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy

Vine (T) 11.15 GPs: Behind

Closed Doors (T) (R) 12.10

News (T) 12.15 Celebs

on the Farm (T) (R) 1.10

Access (T) 1.15 Home and

Away (T) 1.45 Neighbours

(T) 2.15  Murder By

Text: Garage Sale Mystery

(Neill Fearnley, 2017) (T)

4.0 Friends (T) (R) 4.30

Friends (T) (R) 5.0 News (T)

5.30 Neighbours (T) (R) 6.0

Home and Away (T) (R) 6.30

News (T) 7.0 How Th ey Built

the Jumbo Jet (T) (R) (1/2)

Documentary celebrating

the Boeing 747 – “the plane

that shrank the world” ...

7.0 Beyond 100 Days (T) 7.30

Top of the Pops: 1988 (T)

Steve Wright and Mark

Goodier introduce the

edition fi rst aired on 26

May , featuring music by

Debbie Gibson, LA Mix,

Ofra Haza, Climie Fisher,

Aswad, the Style Council,

Hothouse Flowers, Mica

Paris, Scritti Politti, Wet

Wet Wet and Heart.

6.0 Breakfast (T) 9.15
Countryfi le Summer
Diaries (T) (R) 10.0 Homes
Under the Hammer (T) (R)
11.0 A Matter of Life and
Debt (T) 11.45 Britain in
Bloom (T) (R) 12.15 Bargain
Hunt (T) (R) 1.0 News (T)
1.30 Regional News (T)
1.45 Impossible (T) (R) 2.30
Escape to the Country (T)
(R) 3.15 Money for Nothing
(T) (R) 3.45 Murder,
Mystery and My Family
(T) (R) 4.30 Flog It! (T) (R)
5.15 Pointless (T) (R) 6.0
News (T) 6.30 Regional
News (T) 7.0 Th e One Show
(T) 7.30 EastEnders (T)

10.0 News (T)
10.25 Regional News (T) Weather
10.35 High Life (T) New series.
A 17-year-old suff ers her
fi rst episode of bipolar
disorder.
11.35 Who Do You Th ink
You Are? (T) (R) Th e
comedian Paul Merton
traces his roots.
12.35 Weather for the Week
Ahead (T) 12.40 News (T)

10.0 Th is Way Up (T)

10.30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does

Countdown (T) (R)

11.30 Call the Cops (T) (R)

12.30 Inside Alton Towers (R)

1.25 Kitchen Nightmares

USA (R) 2.15 Stath Lets

Flats (R) 2.45  Still

Alice (Richard Glatzer, Wash

Westmoreland. 2014) 4.30

Best of Food Unwrapped

(R) 4.55 CDWM (R)

10.0 Live at the Apollo (T) (R)

Frankie Boyle hosts Jack

Carroll and Holly Walsh.

10.30 Newsnight (T) Weather

11.15 Interior Design Masters

(T) (R) Th e contestants

are challenged to trans-

form shop interiors on

a Notts high street.

12.15 Th e Misadventures of

Romesh Ranganathan (T)

(R) 1.15 Sacred Wonders (R)

10.0 33 & Married to Granddad:

BIG Age Gap Love (T) (R)

11.05 Old School for Lazy

Kids (T) (R) (3/4)

12.05 My Extreme Swollen

Face & Other Medical

Mysteries (T) (R) 1.0

Th e 21.co.uk Live Casino

Show (T) 3.0 Access (T)

3.10 Gotham: Rise of the

Villains (T) (R) 4.0 NCIS (T)

(R) 4.45 House Doctor (R)

10.0 News (T)

10.30 Local News (T)

10.45 Sanditon (T) (R) Drama

starring Rose Williams

and Th eo James.

11.45 Rescue: River Deep,

Mountain High (T) (R)

12.10 Ideal World (T) 3.0 Tonight:

Housing Crisis – What

Next for the Elderly? (T)

(R) 3.25 ITV Nightscreen

5.05 Judge Rinder (T) (R)

10.0 WWII: Operation Crossbow

(T) Th e story of the second

world war technicians who

mapped enemy territory.

11.0 Immortal Egypt With Joann

Fletcher (T)

12.0Top of the Pops: 1988

(T) As above. 12.30 Art

of America (T) (3/3)

What Lies Beneath 1.30

Skies Above Britain (T)

3.0 World War Speed (T)

Dave
6.0am Teleshopping 7.10
The Hurting Double Bill
8.0 American Pickers:
Best Of 9.0 Storage
Hunters Double Bill
10.0 American Pickers:
Best Of Triple Bill 1.0
Top Gear 2.0 Cops UK:
Bodycam Squad 3.0 Cop
Car Workshop 4.0 Last
Stop Garage Double Bill
5.0 Top Gear Double Bill
7.0 Taskmaster 8.0 Have
I Got a Bit More News for
You 9.0 QI XL 10.0 Judge
Romesh Double Bill 11.0
Live at the Apollo 12.0
Taskmaster 1.0 Mock
the Week 1.40 Have I
Got a Bit More News for
You 2.40 Dave Gorman:
Modern Life Is Goodish
3.30 The Indestructibles
4.0 Teleshopping

E4
All programmes to 7pm
are double bills 6.0am
Hollyoaks 7.0 Rules of
Engagement 8.0 How
I Met Your Mother 9.0
Melissa & Joey 10.0 Baby
Daddy 11.0 Speechless
12.0 Brooklyn Nine-Nine

1.0 The Big Bang Theory

2.0 Melissa & Joey

3.0 Baby Daddy 4.0

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

5.0 Speechless 6.0 The

Big Bang Theory 7.0

Hollyoaks 7.30 Schooled

8.0 The Big Bang Theory

Double Bill 9.0 Celebs

Go Dating: The Finale

10.0 The Inbetweeners

Double Bill 11.10 The Big

Bang Theory Double Bill

12.05 Gogglebox 1.10

Celebs Go Dating: The

Finale 2.15 First Dates

3.10 Rick and Morty 3.40

Robot Chicken Double

Bill 4.10 How I Met Your

Mother Double Bill 4.55

Rules of Engagement

Double Bill

Film4

11.0am  The Three

Stooges (2012) 12.50

 Epic (2013) 2.55

 Percy Jackson:

Sea of Monsters (2013)

5.0  The Secret

Life of Walter Mitty

(2013) 7.20 

Chronicle (2012) 9.0

 Ghost in the Shell

(2017) 11.10 

Snake Eyes (1998) 1.15

 The Fury (1978)

ITV2

6.0am Planet’s Funniest

Animals 6.20 Totally

Bonkers Guinness

World Records 6.45

You’ve Been Framed!

Gold 7.10 Dinner Date

8.0 Emmerdale 8.30

Coronation Street

Double Bill 9.25 Ellen

DeGeneres 10.20

Superstore Double Bill

11.15 Dress to Impress

12.15 Emmerdale 12.45

Coronation Street Double

Bill 1.50 Ellen DeGeneres

2.45 Dinner Date 3.50

Dress to Impress 4.50

Take Me Out 6.0 You’ve

Been Framed! Family

Special 7.0 You’ve Been

Framed! Gold 8.0 Two

and a Half Men Double

Bill 9.0  Horrible

Bosses (2011) 11.05

Family Guy Double Bill

11.55 American Dad!

Double Bill 12.55 Two

and a Half Men Double

Bill 1.55 Superstore

2.20 Teleshopping

More4

8.55am Kirstie’s Fill

Your House for Free 9.10

Food Unwrapped 9.50

Escape to the Chateau:

DIY 10.55 Bake Off: The

Professionals 12.0 Find

It, Fix It, Flog It 1.05 Four

in a Bed 1.35 Four in a

Bed 2.10 Four in a Bed

2.40 Four in a Bed 3.15

Four in a Bed 3.50 Ugly

House to Lovely House

With George Clarke

4.50 Portrait Artist of

the Year 2019 5.5 0 The

Secret Life of the Zoo

6.55 The Supervet: Noel

Fitzpatrick 7.55 Escape

to the Chateau: DIY 9.0

24 Hour Baby Hospital

10.0 24 Hours in A&E

11.0 999: What’s Your

Emergency? 12.0 8 Out

of 10 Cats Does Count-

down 1.0 The Supervet:

Noel Fitzpatrick 2.0 24

Hours in A&E 3.0 Food

Unwrapped

Sky One

6.0am Wild Vets Double

Bill 7.0 Monkey Life

Double Bill 8.0 The Dog

Whisperer 9.0 Supergirl

10.0 The Flash 11.0 NCIS:

Los Angeles Double Bill

1.0 Hawaii Five-0 Double

Bill 3.0 MacGyver 4.0

Modern Family Double

Bill 5.0 The Simpsons

5.30 Futurama Double

Bill 6.30 The Simpsons

Triple Bill 8.0 An Idiot

Abroad 2 9.0 A League of

Their Own 10.0 Brassic

11.0 The Reluctant

Landlord Double Bill

12.0 Brit Cops: Rapid

Response 1.0 Warrior

2.0 Road Wars Double

Bill 4.0 Futurama Double

Bill 5.0 RSPCA Animal

Rescue Double Bill

Sky Arts

6.0am Plácido Domingo:

Legends of Opera 7.0

Auction 7.30 Watercolour

Challenge 8.0 Landscape

Artist of the Year

2015 9.0 Tales of the

Unexpected Double Bill

10.0 The South Bank

Show 11.0 Discovering:

Kirk Douglas /Bette

Davis 1.0 Tales of the

Unexpected Double Bill

2.0 André Rieu: European

Dream 3.0 Johnny Cash:

Song By Song Double

Bill 4.0 Discovering:

Roy Orbison /Little

Richard /Clark Gable /

James Stewart 7.0

The Seventies 8.0 The

Directors 9.0 Warren

Beatty: A Hollywood

Obsession 10.0 Battle of

the Brass Bands 11.0 Carl

Perkins & Friends 12.0

Johnny Cash: Behind

Prison Walls 1.0 When

Patsy Cline Was Crazy

2.0 Imelda May: Live

at Baloise Session 3.30

Chuck Berry: Music Icons

4.0 Discovering: Clark

Gable /James Stewart

Sky Atlantic

6.0am The British 7.0

Storm City 8.0 Fish Town

9.0 Discovering: Lee

Marvin 10.0 The West

Wing Double Bill 12.0

Without a Trace Double

Bill 2.0 Blue Bloods 3.0

The West Wing Double

Bill 5.0 Without a Trace

Double Bill 7.0 CSI: Crime

Scene Investigation 8.0

Blue Bloods 9.0 Divide

and Conquer: The Story

of Roger Ailes 11.0 The

Sopranos Double Bill

1.25 Dexter 2.30 Dice

3.05 CSI: Crime Scene

Investigation 4.05 The

West Wing Double Bill

Radio 3

6.30 Breakfast 9.0

Essential Classics 12.0

News 12.02 Composer of

the Week: Dufay (4/5)

1.0 Lunchtime Concert.

Mozart and Arrieu from

Schwetzingen. (3/4) 2.0

Prom 42: Clara Schumann

Piano Concerto. With

the Ulster Orchestra. 5.0

In Tune. With the folk

musician Martin Simpson.

7.0 Prom 53. Vaughan

Williams: Fantasia on a

Theme by Thomas Tallis.

Hugh Wood: Scenes from

Comus. 8.10 Interval:

Proms Plus Talk. 8.40

Elgar: The Music Makers,

Op 69. Stacey Tappan

(soprano), Anthony

Gregory (tenor), Sarah

Connolly (mezzo),

BBC SO and Chorus,

Andrew Davis. 9.30 Free

Thinking: Should Doctors

Cry? (R) 10.15 Prom 54:

Duke Ellington’s Sacred

Music. Music by Duke

Ellington, with the BBC

Singers, Nu Civilisation

Orchestra, pianist Monty

Alexander , Carleen

Anderson and the UK

Vocal Assembly. 11.45

Late Junction 12.30

Through the Night

Radio 4

6.0 Today 9.0 Her Story

Made History: Michelle

Bachelet (4/4) 9.30 One

to One: Life in Prison –

Alan Rusbridger Talks to

Dr Sohom Das (R) 9.45

(LW) Daily Service 9.45

(FM) Book of the Week

My Name Is Why , by

Lemn Sissay. (4/5) 10.0

Woman’s Hour. Includes

at 10.45 Drama: The

Country Girls, by Edna

O’Brien. (9/10) 11.0

Crossing Continents:

Kazakhstan – Port in the

Desert (6/9) 11.30 The

Art of Now: The World

in Their Hands. A visit

to Bellerby and Co of

Stoke Newington, north

London, who makes

globes. 12.0 News 12.01

(LW) Shipping Forecast

12.04 The Offing. By

Benjamin Myers. (4/10)

12.18 You and Yours 1.0

The World at One 1.45

Our House: 1997 (4/5)

2.0 The Archers 2.15

Drama: The Man With

the Hammer, by Phil

Porter. (R) 3.0 Open

Country (10/11) 3.27

Radio 4 Appeal: Anne

Frank Trust (R) 3.30

Open Book 4.0 The Film

Programme: Mark Jenkin

on Derek Jarman’s The

Garden 4.30 Inside

Science. Gareth Mitchell

and guests explore

the latest scientific

research. 5.0 PM 5.54

(LW) Shipping Forecast

6.0 News 6.30 The Tim

Vine Chat Show 7.0 The

Archers 7.15 Front Row

7.45 The Country Girls

(R) (9/10) 8.0 Making

History: Coastal Change

• Overfishing and the
  Death of the Seaside (R)
  8.30 In Business: Free


• and Easy? (5/9) 9.0
  Inside Science (R) 9.30
  Her Story Made History
  (R) 10.0 The World
  Tonight 10.45 Book at
  Bedtime: The Offing (R)
  11.0 Kevin Eldon Will See
  You Now. The comedy
  sketch show returns.
  (1/4) 11.30 Beyond
  Today: Why Aren’t
  Lesbian Couples Taken
  Seriously? (9/10) 12.0
  News 12.30 Book of the
  Week (R) 12.48 Shipping
  Forecast 1.0 As World
  Service 5.20 Shipping
  Forecast 5.30 News 5.43
  Prayer for the Day 5.45
  Farming Today 5.58
  Tweet of the Day (R)

Radio 4 Extra

6.0 To Be Sung

Underwater (4/5) 6.30

Ali: Me, My Family and

Muhammad Ali 7.0

Double Science (4/6)

7.30 Fresh from the

Fringe 2019 (1) 8.30

The Goon Show 9.0

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