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COUNTRYFILE 6PM, BBC1

★★★★

To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Margherita Taylor is in the Quantock Hills, a

landscape that provided great inspiration to the Romantic poet during the years he lived in Somerset. According to Wordsworth, Coleridge was moved to write The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner after the two men – and Wordsworth’s sister Dorothy – took a walking tour of the Quantocks. Plus, Adam Henson meets competitors in this year’s

One Man And His Dog, and Tom Heap examines a crisis facing pig farmers.

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 7PM, BBC1

★★★★

Fiona Bruce and the team are

at Sefton Park Palm House in Liverpool, the Victorian glass house providing a beautiful setting for treasures including a rare Ming dynasty vase – bought in a charity shop – plus some unusual Finnish glass and a silver disc brought in by a member of local beat combo Gerry And

The Pacemakers.

FROZEN PLANET II 8PM, BBC1

★★★★★

This episode is all about frozen peaks, and we begin near the Equator on Mount Kenya. During the day the tropical sun keeps temperatures

high, but at night the frost descends. Timing is everything for a pregnant high-casqued chameleon – if she gives birth during the coldest part of this cycle of freeze and thaw, her newborns won’t survive. We move on to both the European and Southern Alps and then to Japan, and learn that the cold isn’t the only threat to wildlife: the destructive power of avalanches is recorded by high-speed camera racer drones. And we see how climate change affects one of the most famous mountain-dwellers of all:

the giant panda (left).

SIMON REEVE’S SOUTH AMERICA

9PM, BBC2 ★★★★ In part three of five, Simon is crossing the Andes, starting at the ruins of Machu Picchu, an iconic relic of the ancient Inca civilisation. Indigenous people now live in some of the poorest communities in the region, and Simon visits a valley where impoverished coca leaf farmers are in conflict with Peruvian police trying to shut down the cocaine trade. Higher into the mountains, he meets women trying to mine gold. Crossing the border into Bolivia, the country with the highest indigenous population in South America, he learns how cholas – the women who wear distinctive skirts and bowler hats – are fighting for greater representation and influence.

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