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SATURDAY

OLYMPICS 2020

6AM, BBC1 ★★★★★

The Tokyo Olympics finally get under way, and the BBC guarantees you the best seat in the house – that’s because there will be no crowds in the house. The Games will be played out in empty stadiums because of the pandemic, and with the Japanese capital eight hours ahead of the UK, prepare yourself for some late nights or early mornings if you want to catch the best of the live action.

RHS FLOWER SHOW TATTON PARK

7PM, BBC2 ★★★★

Arit Anderson, Rachel de Thame, Joe Swift and Carol Klein bring us more highlights from the last major RHS show of the season.

MICHAEL MCINTYRE’S THE WHEEL

8.30PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Originally meant to replace Michael Mcintyre’s Big Show, which couldn’t be made under Covid restrictions, this dizzying game show became a hit in its own right and returns for a new, second run. Celebrities help contestants to win – but only if they know the answers.

CASUALTY ★★★

In a special episode, Jacob struggles to work out the safest way to deal with their relationship as tensions with Tina escalate

during the course of a very challenging day.

9.35PM, BBC1 PAVAROTTI IN HYDE PARK 9.30PM, BBC2

★★★★

Katherine Jenkins introduces this chance to see the great Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti’s 30th-anniversary concert, which took place in torrential rain in London’s Hyde Park on July 31, 1991, before an estimated 125,000 people – including a bedraggled-looking Prince and Princess of Wales. This programme was due to be show non july 10, but was

postponed because of Euro 2020 football.

SUNDAY

COUNTRYFILE 6.30PM, BBC1 ★★★★ Matt Baker and Charlotte Smith help out on a community farm in Herefordshire, while Dwayne Fields and his team set out to climb Snowdon. Plus, Tom Heap learns why some plant-based products on supermarket shelves may not be as good for people as they think.

A VERY BRITISH COUNTRY HOUSE

8PM, CH4 ★★★

In this second of two visits to Cliveden during a busy summer season, wedding co-ordinator Lydia is overseeing the arrangements for a Chinese couple who have chosen the hotel for their Pride And Prejudice-themed photographs. What could possibly go wrong?

BAPTISTE

9PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Episode two of this dark Eurothriller, and the limping French detective (Tcheky Karyo) is still trying to help the British Ambassador to Hungary, Emma Chambers (Fiona Shaw), to find her missing sons. In a gut-wrenching turn of events, the pair discover that the boys have been kidnapped by a right-wing terrorist group, and time is running out…

PROFESSOR T 9PM, ITV

★★★

When a librarian is poisoned at a drinks reception, the police once again call on Jasper Tempest to help them to narrow down their list of suspects. But not everyone

is happy to have Professor T on the team.

THE HANDMAID’S TALE

9PM, CH4 ★★★

Having survived the bombing of Chicago, June is persuaded to board a ship to Canada, where she’ll be reunited with Luke and Nichole.

But she can’t bear to leave Hannah behind,

and makes a desperate bid to rescue her.

MONDAY

ONLY CONNECT 8PM, BBC2 ★★★★ Victoria Coren Mitchell challenges two more teams to think laterally; then, at 8.30pm, Jeremy Paxman poses the questions in another round of University Challenge.

HOW TO SAVE A GRAND IN 24 HOURS

8PM, CH4 ★★★

Not long after the first series of this moneysaving show comes a new, second run, with Anna Richardson and her team helping out more cash-strapped families. This week, they are in Blackburn with a family of three whose monthly food bill is £1,300.

LONG LOST FAMILY 9PM, ITV ★★★★ Paula had a happy childhood, but didn’t look like her white adoptive family; Lisa always wanted a sister, and discovered at 15 that she had one. Both women learn more about

the families they thought they’d never meet.

TAKEN: HUNTING THE SEX TRAFFICKERS 9PM, CH4 ★★★

Episode two of three, and the covert police unit is trying to gather intelligence on the organised crime group trafficking women into the UK to work in brothels. Officers meet the women and hear their shocking stories, but none of them is prepared to give evidence.

TUESDAY THE DOG RESCUERS WITH ALAN DAVIES

7PM, CH5 ★★★

Shar pei puppy Kia needs life-saving surgery after a fall, while Inspector Sarah Bagley uncovers a shocking case of cruelty in which an American bulldog is left bloodied and fighting to survive in the last of the series.

WILD CHINA WITH RAY MEARS

7.30PM, ITV ★★★

Ray heads for the Sichuan province – a region of mountains and bamboo forests – in the southwest of China, where he joins the rangers who are helping captive-bred giant pandas to learn to live in the wild.

SECRETS OF THE MUSEUM

8PM, BBC2 ★★★★

The V&A’S Museum of Childhood in east London is about to undergo a major refurbishment – but first, its collection of 30,000 toys and games must be packed away, some for the first time in 50 years.

24 HOURS IN A&E

9PM, CH4 ★★★★ The patients we meet tonight are Leo, who has been in a car crash; young Kieran, who has come off his skateboard; and 91year-old Lillian, who has had a fall at home.

OUR FAMILY FARM RESCUE WITH ADAM HENSON

9PM, CH5 ★★★

When James Baird took over the running of Potterland Farm after his father died, he found it tough to cope with the pressure, on both his health and the family finances. Will his plan to build a bespoke smokery to supply restaurants keep the farm afloat? Adam heads to Dumfries and Galloway to find out

WEDNESDAY

CHRIS PACKHAM: THE WALK THAT MADE ME

8PM, BBC2 ★★★★

In this very personal journey, the Springwatch presenter takes a wander around his home county of Hampshire, walking from Southampton to Winchester. Along the way, Chris reveals the life-saving impact nature has had on his health and wellbeing. This is definitely a side to the popular presenter that you won’t have seen before.

CRAIG AND BRUNO’S GREAT BRITISH ROAD TRIPS

8PM, ITV ★★★★

The Strictly stars are in Wales this week, and Craig Revel Horwood is behind the wheel: ‘I’m driving because I’m five per cent Welsh.’ They travel from Harlech to Holy Island, taking in, of course, Snowdon along the way.

KIRSTIE AND PHIL’S LOVE IT OR LIST IT: BRILLIANT BUILDS

8PM, CH4 ★★★

This week, Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer look back at two couples’ search for more storage. Should they move on, or invest in expanding their homes? Kirstie has a plan that leaves one couple open-mouthed… FAKE OR FORTUNE? 9PM, BBC1 ★★★★ See Showtime, page 14.

GEORGE CLARKE’S REMARKABLE RENOVATIONS 9PM, CH4 ★★★

George meets a Staffordshire couple who sold their house and ploughed their savings into the purchase and renovation of a derelict 19th-century coach house, and persuaded their parents to cash in their pensions and invest in it, too.

THURSDAY CAN I IMPROVE MY MEMORY? 8PM, CH4 ★★★★

It’s the semi-final, and the four remaining celebrities must overcome their fear of numbers as they memorise long lists packed with facts, dates and statistics. Only three will be going through to next week’s final.

A YEAR IN THE BEACONS 8.30PM, ITV ★★★

This new, four-part series follows life in Wales’s Brecon Beacons National Park over four seasons, beginning with autumn as the farmers head to the hills to gather their sheep.

NO BODY RECOVERED ★★★ 9PM, ITV

Mike O’leary disappeared in January 2020, his abandoned truck found a few miles from his Carmarthen home. This documentary

charts the police investigation into his murder, despite his body not being found.

ESCAPE TO THE CHATEAU: MAKE DO AND MEND 9PM, CH4 ★★★★

In the last of the series, Dick and Angel help a couple to turn part of their back garden into an al fresco bath house, using a 1960s pink bathroom suite they bought for £1.

GORDON RAMSAY: UNCHARTED

10PM, CH4 ★★★

Gordon heads for New Zealand to learn about Maori cuisine, with the help of Wellingtonborn chef Monique Fiso. She teaches him traditional techniques, and helps him to get to grips with some unusual ingredients.

FRIDAY

FISHING SCOTLAND’S LOCHS AND RIVERS 7PM, CH5 ★★★★

This week, having learned the basics, the celebs are eager to land a fish. But with two top sportsmen among them – Ian Botham and Linford Christie – things get competitive.

FIRST NIGHT OF THE PROMS

8PM, BBC2 ★★★★★

Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra open the Proms season with a programme that features Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and, at 9.05pm on BBC4, a world premiere by James Macmillan.

A VERY BRITISH HOTEL

8PM, CH4 ★★★ A compilation episode going behind the doors of London’s exclusive Mandarin Oriental hotel, which is hosting a party for writer Jilly Cooper – complete with Champagne, a stallion and a gate-crasher.

MICHAEL BALL’S WONDERFUL WALES 8PM, CH5 ★★★★★

For his final journey, Michael is in north Wales, seeing the sights of Snowdonia, the seaside town of Llandudno and the National Trust’s Erddig Hall in Wrexham, where he performs

with the renowned Fron Male Voice Choir.

DRAINING NEW YORK: WHAT LIES BENEATH? 9PM, CH5 ★★★

As the latest sonar technology allows the water and land of the Big Apple to be drained away, we discover a secret that lies beneath Manhattan’s skyline, an earth-shattering feat of engineering, a record-breaking icon and a casualty of the First World War.

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