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COUNTRYFILE CALL THE MIDWIFE

6PM, BBC2

★★★

Charlotte Smith and Steve Brown meet first-time farmers – including an ex-marine and a former hairdresser – up and down the country to hear about their experiences of breaking into the industry. Unsurprisingly, they report that the reality of farming is a far cry from the rural idyll so often imagined by the uninitiated. Meanwhile, on the Isle of Wight, Adam Henson visits a college offering a new agriculture GCSE course.

8PM, BBC1

★★★★ Tonight’s episode is all about Poplar’s men – Dr Turner and Sister Veronica arrange a men’s health talk at the surgery to discuss male contraception and a brand-new procedure, the vasectomy. New dad Spencer Wray, from the West Indies, is behaving more and more erratically, so he’s sent for a psychiatric review. And Matthew’s ‘Pops’, Sir Brigham, decides to visit, but relations between father and son are at an all-time low. Trixie (above) tries to smooth things over, but instead is forced to deliver some terrible news. discovered lashed to a sailboat. At first, the team think that there’s been a tragic accident, but nothing escapes our Vera and she soon suspects foul play. Can she piece together the victim’s final days and solve the murder?

SUNDAY

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