TV Times – 27 July 2019

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Romesh uncovers

the beauty of

Zimbabwe

28 July

SUNDAY

28 July

Poldark

Gosford Park

● FILM / 9pm / Paramount

If you can’t wait for the

Downton Abbey film, whet

your appetite with writer

Julian Fellowes’ earlier

offering – another period

drama about life above and

below stairs – which won

him an Oscar.

BMX World

Champ’ships

● SPORT / 2.20pm / BBC2

Radio 1’s Adele Roberts

presents highlights from the

biennial event, which this

time comes from Belgium.

ALSO ON...

George’s suffering

increases, while Ross

makes a rash decision

● DRAMA / 9pm / BBC1

No matter what you think of

George Warleggan’s villainous

ways, seeing him grieve so deeply

for his wife, to the point where

he’s having visions of her, has

been heartbreaking. But things

come to a head in a brutal

manner when Uncle Cary

enlists a doctor to carry out a

barbaric cure for George’s so-

called madness, involving

leeches, blistering and shackling

him to the bed to (in the words

of the physician) ‘subdue his

spirit’. Far from providing a cure,

it simply pushes George to the

edge! Meanwhile, Poldark isn’t

Poldark without a mine disaster

and when Wheal Plenty suffers

a fatal rock collapse, Ross –

egged on by an impetuous Ned

• risks lives to stage a foolhardy
  rescue. Who will come out

alive? HHHHHHD

●See interviews, page 6

The Misadventures of

Romesh Ranganathan

● TRAVELOGUE / 9pm / BBC2

NEW

Romesh sets off on more travels to countries

you’re probably not going to find in your average

travel agent’s brochure, kicking off with Zimbabwe, once

ruled under the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe. Most

tourists don’t make it past Victoria Falls, so Romesh

shows us what we’re missing. HHHHLP

The Third Man

● FILM / 12.40pm / BBC2

A regular feature on ‘best ever’ film lists, this classic

British noir turns 70 this year. As a whole, it’s pretty

much a perfect film, but there are lots of separate parts

to recommend it, from Anton Karas’ zither theme to

Graham Greene’s screenplay and Orson Welles’ famous

speech about the cuckoo clock. It’s also got arguably the

best ending to a film... Earlier, at 11.55am, Orson Welles

features in Talking Pictures. HHHHHJP

Orson Welles in

the best film ever?

George’s mental

state becomes

even more fragile

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