12 1GT Thursday August 6 2020 | the times
television & radio
contestants to have
entered the kitchen.
The first episode
explores whether first
impressions count as
Wallace and Torode
recall some of the best
and worst food they
have had to taste in
the early rounds of the
competition. In the
worst category, Sinitta
serving raw fish and
meat in 2016 will take
some beating.Celebrity
MasterChef: A
Recipe for Success
BBC One, 8pmThe celebrity variant
of the cookery show
has been running for
15 years. In this
entertaining six-part
series Gregg Wallace
and John Torode look
back at the exploits
of some of the 300
famous (well, mostly)Road to Brexit. In
the first of four
episodes Squeamish is
exploring “popular
entertainments” using
cleverly edited and
dubbed stock footage
and a nutty script
written by Berry and
his Toast of London
collaborator Arthur
Matthews that reads
as if they have been
ingesting psychedelic
drugs too.stopped being fun and
spontaneous,” she says.
But it just so happens
that Stu has consumed
his old man’s “special
hummus”, which
“contains enough
magic mushrooms to
kill a hippo”. Chaos
ensues. To follow, Matt
Berry returns as the
“rogue historian”
Michael Squeamish,
last seen in 2019
fronting the surrealSpiro as Stuart’s ex-
wife, who still lives
across the street. As
we rejoin the couple in
the ’burbs, Mack has
taken his foot off the
accelerator, but it’s still
a hectic watch. Stuart
and April have a baby
daughter, but their
relationship is faltering.
He has grown a
moustache at her
request, but it’s not
enough. “You’vea manic and expletive-
strewn 20 minutes in
the life of the hapless
wedding DJ Stuart
(Mack), whose new
girlfriend, April (Ellie
White), going into
labour was the least of
his worries. Mack and
White reprise their
roles as the unlikely
couple (she’s posh
and spiritual, he’s
a suburban dullard),
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7. 00 The One Show Alex Jones and Gethin
Jones host the magazine show7 .3 0 Fake Britain A report on the fake
alcohol being served to British
holiday makers in Greece (3/10)- 00 Celebrity MasterChef: A Recipe
for Success New series. The first in a
special run of episodes celebrating 15
years of the show. In this first edition,
John Torode and Gregg Wallace relive
some of the best and worst food from
the early rounds of the competition.
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attack, halfway up a live volcano he
was studying, but Humphrey suspects
one of his colleagues may have
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10 .45Imagine: My Name Is Kwame Alan
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uncovered during construction work in
aa cemetery and the evidence points to cemetery and the evidence points to
the murder of an alternative medicine
practitioner seven years earlier. Denis
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England v Pakistan. Action from the
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three-match series, taking place at
Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester8. 00 Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up
Star The contestants have to create
a look for UK’s best-selling gay
magazine, working on their models
to deliver bold looks using materials
that aren’t strictly cosmetic (4/8)9 .00QI With panellists Sara Pascoe, Alan
Davies, Josh Widdicombe and Benjamin
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Real-time sitcom starring Lee Mack.
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Spoof documentary with Matt Berry.
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and a parachutist is knocked
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team of experts are in Southport with
the Paiva family, helping mum Fatima
to ditch diet pills and quick fixes (3/4)- 00 Wonders of the Coast Path Sean
Fletcher travels down Cardigan Bay,
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dolphin population (3/6) (AD)
8.3 0 Inside Britain’s Food Factories
The factory secrets of Swizzels,
Mackie’s and Robinsons (AD)
9. 00 Inside the Ritz Hotel The
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10 .45 Unforgettable RWC Moments
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of outstanding individual performances
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Text-based information service 5 .05-6.00Judge Rinder.
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7. 55 The Political Slot Political comment
by the Liberal Democrats8. 00 Escape to the Château: Make Do
and Mend Dick and Angel Strawbridge
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teenager, creating the bed, shelving
and picture frames from pallets, and a
swing chair using the art of macramé.
Dick shows Chris how to re-lay and
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with construction involving
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with an adventurer who has climbed
the Matterhorn and swum oceans,
while a 73-year-old has her first date
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12.05am Wife Swap USA A vegan mother swaps lives
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George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces (r) (AD, SL) 2 .4 5 This Is
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and the tiny village of Eklutna as he
rides a freight train and the Aurora
passenger train (1/4) (r)8. 00 The Secret World of Your Rubbish
The waste disposal and recycling
documentary follows the work of staff
at Dungeness A, a decommissioned
nuclear power station in Kent, who
have to adopt extreme measures
to maintain the site (2/4)9 .00The Deceived The truth about Roisin
finally breaks through the web of lies
that has been spun between Cambridge
and Ireland, and Ophelia desperately
tries to escape. Last in the series10. 00 When Kids TV Goes Horribly
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selection of disasters from children’s
programmes, with contributions by
presenters Sally James, Andi
Akinwolere, Sarah Greene and Valerie
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Dec took things too far on a Saturday
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Meerkat Manor. One of the meerkats prepares to give
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Lost Land of the Volcano. Gordon Buchanan enlists a local
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This Morning. Daily magazine, featuring a mix of
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