Seven Days

MIKE MULVIHILL’S guide to the week’s TV

SATURDAY

THE WINDSORS: INSIDE THE ROYAL DYNASTY

7PM, CH4 ★★★

This final episode looks ahead to the future of the monarchy through an exploration of the lives of Prince William, who will one day wear the crown, and Prince Harry.

PHIL COLLINS AT THE BBC

9PM, BBC2 ★★★★

The drummer and singer was rarely out of the charts in the 1970s and 1980s, both as the lead singer of the band Genesis or as a remarkably successful solo artist. Here’s a round-up of his BBC performances on the likes of Top Of The Pops and other shows.

GRACE KELLY: LOST TAPES OF A PRINCESS

9PM, CH4 ★★★★

Made with the co-operation of Monaco’s ruling Grimaldi family – including Princess Grace’s son, Albert II – this new film charts the former Hollywood star’s life with the help of private family archives and home movie footage. An intimate, insider’s portrait.

CASUALTY

9.25PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Ollie’s symptoms are causing dad David a great deal of concern, but Rash is on the case, while Ethan’s symptoms seem to be getting worse.

SUNDAY

COUNTRYFILE 7PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Matt Baker and Anita Rani visit a dairy farm in County Down, Charlotte Smith looks at rural domestic violence and John Craven launches the Countryfile Photographic Competition.

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF CHOCOLATE

7PM, CH5 ★★★

The mouthwatering series returns with a look at the history of Toblerone, Milk Tray and Ferrero Rocher, and we take a tour of Whitakers Chocolates, a family-run firm in Yorkshire that dates back five generations.

BRITAIN’S MOST LUXURIOUS HOTELS 8PM, CH4 ★★★

The series ends with a visit to five-star country house hotel Chewton Glen in Hampshire. It’s half-term, and the likes of Amanda Holden and Chris Evans are staying with their families – but the worsening weather could put paid to plans for an extravagant outdoor party.

TIME 9PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Episode two of Jimmy Mcgovern’s drama, and Mark (Sean Bean) is finding life inside difficult to navigate – he’s being bullied by another prisoner, and he has been assigned a new cellmate – while guard Eric (Stephen Graham) learns his son has been attacked.

BRIAN COX’S ADVENTURES IN SPACE AND TIME

9PM, BBC2 ★★★

In part three of four, Professor Cox takes a fresh look at gravity – it seems that recent scientific breakthroughs are challenging physicists’ ideas of the very nature of reality – and, by revisiting some of his previous TV programmes, takes us on a tour of this natural phenomenon.

SAS: WHO DARES WINS 9PM, CH4 ★★★★

And so, just seven recruits are left in the competition based on the gruelling SAS selection process, but before they reach their final, brutal physical challenge – the ‘sickener’ – they must first undergo 48 hours of psychologically demanding interrogation.

MONDAY

YOUR HOME MADE PERFECT 8PM, BBC2 ★★★★

Lei Ying and her husband, David, have plenty of space in their Belfast home, but its layout doesn’t suit the demands of family life. Can a bold new design solve their problems?

FOOD UNWRAPPED 8PM, CH4 ★★★ Matt Tebbutt travels to Argentina to find out why the sunflower seeds we eat are so dear; Amanda Byram heads to Yorkshire to learn how rhubarb can grow without any light; and Andi Oliver discovers just how much added sugar goes into takeaway milkshakes.

LIVE: SUMMER ON THE FARM

8PM, CH5 ★★★★

Helen Skelton and Jules Hudson host a week of live programmes from Cannon Hall Farm in south Yorkshire, where tonight, Rob and Dave Nicholson are preparing for the busy months ahead. Peter Wright and Julian Norton from The Yorkshire Vet and Amanda and Reuben Owen from Our Yorkshire Farm also appear.

COOK CLEVER, WASTE LESS WITH PRUE & RUPY ★★★

8.30PM, CH4

In this last of the series, Prue Leith and Rupy Aujla help a pair of NHS doctors in Manchester to juggle their busy lives and the demands of their three children; to keep everyone happy, they’re cooking three different meals a night – and a lot of food is going in the bin.

PETER TAYLOR: IRELAND AFTER PARTITION 9PM, BBC2 ★★★★

The journalist and documentary-maker marks the centenary of the partition of Ireland by revisiting some of the many films he’s made over the past five decades, and reflecting on how his own understanding of the issue of a united Ireland has changed in that time.

24 HOURS IN A&E 9PM, CH4 ★★★

Basil, 76, who cares for his wife, who has dementia, is rushed to St George’s Hospital with a deep cut to his head after a fall down some stairs at home, while mum Delrose brings in five-year-old Robyn to have a large splinter removed from her bottom.

9-1-1: LONE STAR

10PM, SKY WITNESS ★★★★ See Showtime, page 12.

TUESDAY

THE DOG RESCUERS 7PM, CH5 HHH Alan Davies meets a Saluki whose fractured leg will need to be amputated, and a Staffie cross suffering from a terrible skin condition.

BAKE OFF: THE PROFESSIONALS HHHH

8PM, CH4

Liam Charles and Tom Allen welcome six new teams this week, and, after creating miniature versions of tiramisu and lemon meringue pie, they must transform a humble fruit crumble into a fine-dining dessert.

HOSPITAL

9PM, BBC2 HHHH

In this last of the series, all of the operating theatres at University Hospital Coventry reopen, and the surgeons have begun to treat patients whose cases were elective or non-urgent. It’s been a long wait.

999: WHAT’S YOUR EMERGENCY?

9PM, CH4 ★★★

It’s the night shift for South Yorkshire Police, and officers in Sheffield are called to help a man who has been badly injured in a fight. Just outside Doncaster, another man seems about to jump off a bridge, and in Rotherham, a fuel thief is up to his old tricks again.

WEDNESDAY

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

8PM, CH4 ★★★

It’s another look back over 20 years of house

hunting for Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer, this time focusing on some of the best and most memorable offers they’ve made.

BEFORE WE DIE 9PM, CH4 ★★★ Episode four, and Bianca works out what’s really happened to Stefan, while Christian – traumatised by what he’s done – agrees to take a trip with Davor to learn what he needs to know about Operation Krajina…

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF KILLERS

10PM, CH4 ★★★

Emilia Fox and leading criminologist David Wilson re-examine the evidence in the case of Suzy Lamplugh, the young London estate agent who disappeared in 1986, in this second of their true-crime series.

They narrow down the field of suspects to just one man – will he finally reveal the truth?

UNDERCOVER IN AFRICA’S SECRET STATE: DISPATCHES

11.05PM, CH4 ★★★

For more than five years, producer and director Evan Williams has been gathering secretly shot footage from inside Eritrea in eastern Africa to document the harsh reality of life under one of the most repressive and secretive dictatorships in the world.

THURSDAY

SECRETS OF YOUR SUPERMARKET FOOD 7PM, CH5 ★★★

While Sian Williams sets this week’s family a blind taste test find out whether they prefer tinned food to fresh, Nisha Katona learns how coffee beans are roasted and ground. Plus, Stefan Gates challenges chef Claire Thomson to create a meal from his pantry ingredients in the time it takes to order a takeaway.

THE GREAT NORTHERN GARDEN BUILD

8PM, BBC2 ★★★★

The story of the creation of the RHS’S fifth showcase garden – RHS Bridgewater in Salford – continues, and the major construction work is well under way. But will the pandemic delay its grand opening?

THE SUPERVET: NOEL FITZPATRICK

8PM, CH4 ★★★

It’s not just humans who’ve had life-changing surgery delayed by Covid – here, five-year-old Labrador Jeff faces the possibility of a risky operation after his condition deteriorated during the wait for an elbow replacement.

THE HOTEL INSPECTOR 9PM, CH5 ★★★★ When mum-of-two Sarah bought The Dukes, a pub in a Bedfordshire village, she fulfilled a long-held dream. Her first year was a success, but personal setbacks knocked her confidence and her business nose-dived. Can Alex Polizzi help Sarah to get back on her feet?

FRIDAY

INSIDE CULTURE WITH MARY BEARD

7.30PM, BBC2 ★★★

In this special programme, Mary Beard is in conversation with the acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half Of A Yellow Sun, Notes On Grief), who reveals that, when she was growing up in Nigeria, she was inspired by Enid Blyton.

UNREPORTED WORLD 7.30PM, CH4 ★★★ Maiduguri in Nigeria has been a frequent target of Boko Haram terror attacks. Now, though, with the militants being driven out and Covid restrictions easing, weddings are back on. Yousra Elbagir reports from a city determined to reclaim some of its joy.

GARDENERS’ WORLD 8PM, BBC2 ★★★★

While Monty Don plants out dahlias and tender vegetables, we visit a garden in Wales that’s packed with prehistoric plants.

A PANDEMIC POEM: WHERE DID THE WORLD GO? ★★★★

9PM, BBC2

Using a poem by Simon Armitage, this follows the pandemic from rumours of its arrival to the rollout of vaccines. We meet people and learn how they’ve been affected, from a pub landlord feeding his local community to a young mum looking after her children.

CROUCHY’S YEAR LATE EUROS: LIVE

10.45PM, BBC1 ★★★

Following on from England v Scotland (7pm, ITV), Peter Crouch, Maya Jama and Alex Horne have all the latest news from – and reactions to – the match, with guests Jamie Redknapp, Anne-marie and Mo Gilligan.