![]() The harrowing thriller is shaping up well for next week’s finale.Īnother glimpse of life in the slow lane as old pals Bob and Paul fish for roach, dace and river carp in the Avon in Hampshire and muse on life’s important subjects – including the etiquette of doggie dating for Ted the terrier. The formerly naked chef is off to Tunisia to sample its “heady mix” of European and African cuisine as ever, lucky lad, he scoffs his way through an array of mouth-watering dishes, including brik (stuffed savoury pastry) and bambalouni (doughnuts) – and tries his hand at making couscous, a task that is traditionally strictly women-only.Īfter last week’s revelations of the death certificates and what they indicate of the nuns’ wrongdoing in Irish mother-and-baby homes, Lorna (Ruth Wilson, excellent) and detective Colman (Daryl McCormack) team up to get to the bottom of the mess. ![]() It screams luxury and top-end design, but, as ever, Rinder is on hand to undercut any pretensions with his seemingly innocuous asides to camera. Monica Galetti and Rob Rinder rest their heads in Italy this week at Borgo Egnazia in Puglia its USP is that the recently constructed building is designed to look like a 200-year-old village. In Glasgow’s Pollok Country Park the finds include a rare Victoria Cross medal awarded to a Sikh soldier in the Second World War, while the modern sculptures one visitor brings along – which he rescued from a free bin outside a charity shop – may turn out to be the bargain of the series. One of those he meets is Pulp frontman and proud Yorkshireman Jarvis Cocker, who shares Davies’s love of the novel. After is a welcome repeat of Greg Davies: Looking for Kes (at 9.05pm) in which the Taskmaster host travels to Hines’s hometown – Hoyland Common in Barnsley – to visit the book’s locations and meet the people who inspired its characters, plus family and friends of the author. The programme, recorded at Oldham Coliseum, is the first in three-part series The Read the others follow later this year. It’s a grim read in parts as Hines does not sugarcoat life in a dilapidated Yorkshire mining village, or what impact growing up in a fractured home can have on young lives. It follows Billy, a young working-class boy troubled at home and at school, who finds and trains a kestrel that he names Kes. But this new series of performance readings of classic British novels allows us to slip back into that comforting past as Christopher Eccleston reads from Barry Hines’s 1968 book, better known by the title of its film adaptation, Kes, directed by Ken Loach. ![]() Being read to is a pleasure many of us leave behind when we depart either childhood or higher education.
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