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push((api) => api.addSlot({"key":"card","index":"1","searchTerm":null,"fullSearchTerm":null})); Mastermind 1972 Entertainment Game show Summary: Mastermind is a quiz show noted for its challenging questions and intimidating setting. Devised by Bill Wright, four contestants sit in a black leather chair and face two rounds, one on a specialised subject of the contestant's choice, the other a general knowledge round.
Magnus Magnusson hosted the original BBC series between 1972 and 1997. John Humphrys began hosting the series in 2003. Spin-off shows have included Junior Mastermind and Celebrity Mastermind.
Specialist subjects have included the life and works of Gilbert and Sullivan, the Dallas TV series, the World Chess Championships, the life of Martin Luther King and flags of the world. Fred Housego, a former London taxi driver, became a TV and radio personality after winning in 1980. His specialist subject was the Tower of London.
RT says:: Is it just me, or is everything just a bit more right with the world when BBC2’s triumvirate of quiz hosts are reinstated in the swivel chairs, their cards (or screens, for that matter) in hand, ready and poised to pose the questions? All three return for reassuringly familiar new series, beginning at 7.30pm with Clive Myrie, who warmly tees up a fresh run of Mastermind where we can expect “thrills and spills, quickfire questions and family fun. Unless, of course,” he adds, “you’re sitting in the black chair.
” Specialist subjects are Jürgen Klopp’s tenure at Liverpool FC, Jane Austen, Shania Twain and — a treat for many RT readers — Dad’s Army . At 8pm, Victoria Coren Mitchell welcomes the Al Frescans and the Midlanders for Only Connect’s opening heat, followed at 8.30pm by University Challenge , where Queen’s University Belfast are up against the University of Liverpool for a spot in the second round.
Meanwhile, it’s also the second round for Amol Rajan, who won over viewers old and new alike when he made his debut last year. His good-natured, avuncular style completes a trio of hosts who, while still delivering hard questions, do so with a welcome side of softness. FRANCES TAYLOR How to watch Long Lost Family 2011 Entertainment Reality Summary: 'Long Lost Family' finds Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell helping people reunite with long-lost relatives.
It premiered on ITV in 2011. RT says:: Touching on loss, pain and longing, this series always tugs at one’s heartstrings. However, a few stories are quite extraordinary.
Liz, who was adopted as a baby, had the strange feeling that she had a biological sibling somewhere. She was right and the reunion is joyous — but the real shock for her, and us, is discovering who adopted her older sister. Tracey also wants to trace a sibling.
Aged 16, her mother gave birth to her first child, but was forced to give him up — they had to wrench him from her arms. She carried the guilt and regret throughout her life. When he’s tracked down it’s a weight lifted from Tracey’s shoulders to know he has no ill feelings towards their late mother.
JANE RACKHAM How to watch My Tiger Family 2024 Documentary and factual Nature Summary: Documentary telling the epic 50-year story of an Indian tiger clan and its five most charismatic and powerful tigresses, who have revealed more about the lives of tigers than anyone thought possible. Their home is Ranthambhore in the northwestern Indian.state of Rajasthan, which is dominated by a huge, ancient fort and three crocodile-filled lakes teeming with tiger prey.
Valmik Thapar has dedicated his life to following the big cats, witnessing some of the most remarkable tiger behaviour ever seen and filmed RT says:: In north-west India, a ruined fort sits on a hillside, a thousand-year-old relic lost in the heart of the jungle. It’s far from uninhabited, though: the fortress of Ranthambhore is home to a sprawling dynasty of wild tigers. Since he abandoned his life in Delhi half a century ago in the wake of a failed marriage and relocated to Ranthambhore on a whim, film-maker Valmik Thapar has been charting the lives of generation after generation of the great cats.
His footage of them is ravishingly beautiful, but this personal and deeply felt film is not all about gorgeous wildlife photography. It’s also about Thapar and other conservationists’ battles to stop poachers whose activities have brought the tiger family to the brink of oblivion time and time again. CERI THOMAS How to watch Emergency Documentary and factual Science and technology Summary: The work of the London Major Trauma System, an interconnected network of hospitals, air ambulances and paramedics that was set up following the 7/7 bombings in 2005.
RT says:: As one paramedic says: “People make mistakes and get hurt. If we’re not there, they will die.” The docuseries about London’s trauma hospitals returns for a gripping series, airing across four consecutive nights.
Tonight’s critically injured patients include a pedestrian who’s been in a collision with a bus. Can orthopaedic specialists save his crushed leg? A paratrooper needs high-risk surgery on his compacted spine and pelvis to have a chance of walking again. An accountant’s taxi crashes into a lamppost en route to her husband’s birthday drinks.
And a 15-year-old puts his leg through a glass security door and is declared “code red” due to an arterial bleed. As frontline medical teams get to work, it’s miraculous to behold. MICHAEL HOGAN How to watch (window.
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addSlot({"key":"card","index":"2","searchTerm":null,"fullSearchTerm":null})); Forensics: Murder Scene Documentary and factual Summary: Documentary telling inside story of how forensic teams work alongside West Yorkshire police to solve and prosecute murders RT says:: With so many crime dramas on TV, you might think you know everything about how murder investigations are conducted. But this engrossing series following West Yorkshire Police takes us behind the blue police tape to demonstrate how every death leaves a deadly trace. In the critical “golden hour” after a young woman is brutally stabbed in her Leeds home, we join the forensic team and blood analysis experts as they meticulously assess the scene.
Gradually they and the detectives piece together what happened — until a breakthrough reveals that although it appeared to be a violent domestic argument, there was even more to this story. JANE RACKHAM How to watch Solar Opposites 2020 Drama Animation 15 Summary: Animation about a family of aliens who move to middle America, where they debate whether life is better there or on their home planet RT says:: This animated sci-fi sitcom about a family of advanced aliens crash-landing in suburban America is somewhat underrated. It comes from the brains behind Rick and Morty and boasts an enviable cast of voice talent: Dan Stevens, Tiffany Haddish and Sterling K Brown to name a few.
Now it returns for a fifth series of irreverent humour and eye-popping visuals. Newlyweds Terry and Korvo bask in married bliss, while their child-replicants Yumyulack and Jesse struggle to fit in at school. MICHAEL HOGAN How to watch On Her Majesty's Secret Service Arts and culture RT says:: Radio 4 Extra marks 60 years since the death of James Bond creator Ian Fleming with this abridged reading of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Joanna Lumley.
The tenth novel in the Bond series sees the spy on the hunt for villain Ernest Stavro Blofeld in the Swiss Alps, where he is brainwashing young women to carry out biological attacks on British agriculture. Bond also meets his match in Tracy, the doomed Contessa. The novel rarely appears among readers’ favourites but its 1969 film adaptation (above) often tops the polls thanks to some thrilling set pieces and an unrivalled score from John Barry.
George Lazenby took up the 007 mantle from thedeparted Sean Connery, starring opposite Dame Diana Rigg and Lumley herself, who had a walk-on part as one of Blofeld’s Angels of Death. TOM GOULDING How to listen Parallel Thriller Drama 2018 Isaac Ezban 104 mins 15 Summary: Sci-fi thriller starring Aml Ameen. A group of friends happens upon a portal that accesses alternative universes.
They use the knowledge from these worlds for their own gain, with dire consequences. How to watch Iolo's Valleys Documentary and factual Nature Summary: Iolo Williams ventures around Wales RT says:: Softly spoken Welsh naturalist Iolo Williams is back with a genial four-part exploration, first shown in Wales, of the Welsh valleys. It’s not an area where you would have found an abundance of wildlife in the peak of the industrial period when the landscape was scarred by coal and iron production.
But in the decades since heavy industry largely ceased in the area, nature has made a remarkable recovery. Starting his journey in the valleys above Swansea, Iolo finds bubbling streams full of dippers, glimpses a kingfisher and visits an old colliery site to see butterflies. He even manages to spot one of Wales’s rarest birds: the honey buzzard.
Continues on Friday. CERI THOMAS How to watch Call My Bluff 1965 Entertainment Family Summary: Fiona Bruce hosts the cryptic word quiz, with team captains Alan Coren and Rod Liddle RT says:: Slow TV is nothing new. TV parlour games Call My Bluff and Going for a Song , which both began in 1965, used to unfold in unhurried fashion.
Then as now, people enjoy that change of pace. These editions are from the shows’ 70s pomp. In Going for a Song (identify the antique and guess its value) Arthur Negus held court with his careful hands and West Country vowels.
Word game Call My Bluff saw a schoolmasterly Robert Robinson preside over true and bogus definitions of obscure words. The middle-classness of such enterprises was roundly mocked, memorably by Fry and Laurie (“Would that it were!”) and End of Part One . But both were genius formats that ran for years.
Who needs whizzy, anyway? MARK BRAXTON How to watch.
