ARMCHAIR TRAVEL TV diary October 2013
Always updating - keep revisiting
Sunday October 27
20.00 BBC2 N Ireland, Great Continental Railway Journeys: Madrid to Gibraltar
Michael Portillo again travels on European rail retracing journeys in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Guide. Beginning in Spain, he visits an attempted Royal assassination site in Madrid, before traveling to Cordoba. He discusses the story behind Bizet's Carmen in Seville and finds out about Winston Churchill's diplomatic mission in Algeciras and ends with stories of British espionage in Gibraltar
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| Michael Portillo Photo: BBC/FremantleMedia UK/Daniela Vagt |
21.00 BBC4 The Golden Age of Steam Railways
Repeat, Looks at those who rescued some of the old narrow gauge railways that served Great Britain's industries, mines, quarries, factories and docks. Shows how volunteers brought back the lines and steam engines that disappeared following the Second World War.
21.00 National Geographic, Bringing Down the Mob
New York police provide access to their high-profile anti-Mob campaigns in which 14 of the notorious Gambino family were apprehended in 2010
22.00 BBC4 The Golden Age of Steam Railways
Repeat, Looks at those who rescued some of the old narrow gauge railways that served Great Britain's industries, mines, quarries, factories and docks. Shows how volunteers brought back the lines and steam engines that disappeared following the Second World War.
22.00 National Geographic, Inside The American Mob: New York - Philly War
The struggles, murders and mobsters that dominated the New York/ Philadelphia crime families in the 1980s
Monday October 28
22.00 Inside The American Mob: Taking Down the Mob
How Attorney Rudy Giuliani crippled New York's crime families through an autobiography, surveillance and a network of informants
22.40 BBC4, Africa: The Future
Last in the series, David Attenborough looks at the present and future of Africa's wildlife, - rhino poaching - human encroachment on elephants' habitat. In Kenya he sees a young rhinoceros who has had his horn removed to ward off the threat of hunters, In Mozambique,the Gorongosa National Park - whether it can once again be a haven for wild animals after the damage caused by the civil war. Also he visits the Maasai warriors, who have become lion guardians.
Tuesday October 29
20.00 UTV Tales from Northumberland with Robson Green
Robson explores the history and culture of his home county, Northumberland Beginning on the remote Farne Islands and meeting National Trust rangers looking after one of the nation's largest bird colonies. At the port of Seahouses he revisits his childhood holidays
23.05 BBC1 N Ireland, Imagine - Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
New series. Alan Yentob with a profile of the American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, a former private in the 101st Airbourne who found fame when former Animals Chas Chandler brought him over to Great Britain where he revolutionised the music scene and became arguably the greatest rock guitarist of all time. This program features never-before-seen performance footage, home movies, family letters, and contributions from the Hendrix family, Paul McCartney and bandmates Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell.
Wednesday October 30
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| WB Yeats watercolour by Patrick Keenan |
Repeat. Exploring the later work of the poet. The programme also looks into the mystery surrounding his final burial place. Yeats died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France in January 1939 and re-interred at Drumcliff, Co Sligo in 1948
Friday November 1
12.35 Channel 4, The Quiet Man (1952)
We all know the story - retired American boxer, John Wayne, returns to the village where he was born in Ireland, where he finds love, Maureen O'Hara.
Locations: Ashford Castle, County Mayo; Castletown Railway Station is at Ballyglunin, Tuam, County Galway; Castletown is Clifden, Co. Galway; Horse racing scenes were shot at Lettergesh Beach, Connemara; White O'Morn cottage was in Maam, Co. Galway; Mary Kate runs across the river at Thoor Ballylee, Co.Galway and some scenes shot at Republic Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
October 20 - October 26
Sunday October 20
20.00 BBC2 N Ireland, Dive WWII: Our Secret History
Jules Hudson following a deepwater diving team as they search off the coast of Northern Ireland for shipwrecks of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest naval campaign of the Second World War. One of their first discoveries is an allied escort vessel sunk 40 miles off Donegal and the wrecks of German U-boats. Jules, back on land, finds the remains of a massive US military base in Derry
20.00 National Geographic, Inside The American Mob
The work of FBI Agent Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco, undercover for six years with the Bonanno and Colombo New York crime families.
21.00 BBC2 N Ireland, Groundbreakers: The Man Who Shrank the World
William Crowley with the story of Belfast mathematical physicist and engineer Lord Kelvin, who in the 19th century, played a major role in the installation of the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
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| An illustration used in The Man Who Shrank the World showing the Niagara and the Agamemnon taking in the last of the telegraphic cable in the Keyham dockyard, Devonport, England Illustration courtesy: Bill Burns |
Matthew Collings explores JMW Turner's paintings of the Thames, London. How the artist turned a boat into a floating studio and how his paintings documented and reflected on key moments of 19th-century history- the Napoleonic wars, social unrest and the industrial revolution
23.25 BBC2 N Ireland, The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors
Last in the series, Rageh Omaar on why the empire collapsed and how the former Ottoman lands after the First World War were distributed so as to created tensions that still reverberate in Europe and the Middle East. How modern-day Turkey turned its back on its Islamic past and took on a social revolution led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Monday October 21
21.00 BBC1 N Ireland, Murder in the Alps
A Panorama investigation into the killing of Saad al-Hilli, his wife Iqbal, her mother Suhaila al-Allaf and French cyclist Sylvain Mollier in the Alps just over a year ago. The two daughters survived the attack. Jane Corbin visits the scene near Lake Annecy and talks to witnesses who were there and speak for the first time.
22.00 National Geographic, Inside The American: Mob New York-Philly War
Looking at the struggles, the murders and the gangsters that dominated the New York and Philadelphia crime families in the 1980s
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23.00 ITV4, The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick's horror story based on a Stephen King novel. A writer takes a caretaking job at a remote mountain hotel. The opening aerial shots are at Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. The hotel is closed for the winter and the Nicholson character has been employed to look after its upkeep until the next season. But hauntings begin to happen and his sanity is becoming unbalanced starting a decent into a rampage through the hotel that threatens his wife and young son. Stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers. Other locations include: Yosemite National Park, California; Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood, Oregon acts as the hotel exterior.
Tuesday October 22
21.00 BBC4, The Art of Australia
In the last in the series Edmund Capon reveals how Australia was transformed from the 1960s onwards - the country's dependence on Britain and Europe ended and the indigenous art from the continent went worldwide.
22.00 BBC4, Storyville: Smash & Grab - The Story of the Pink Panthers
A notorious network of diamond thieves known as the Pink Panthers, includes exclusive interviews with their members. The rise of the group during the 1990s Balkan, many thought to be from Montenegro conflict is revealed and how they stole gems worth more than £270million in 241 robberies in cities in Dubai, Switzerland, Japan, France, Liechtenstein, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Monaco.
Wednesday October 23
23.15 RTÉ One, Mobs Mheiricea: Danny Greene
The life of`the Celtic Warrior' mobster Danny Greene, who attempted to seize control of organised crime in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. His skirmish with the Mafia that led to his assassination in October 1977.
Thursday October 24
21.00 ITV3 Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey: The Islands
Repeat. Joanna explores the islands, starting in Crete with the shepherds and hears about their key role in the fight against Nazi occupation. Then to Kos, and the birthplace of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine and then to an active volcano on Nisyros
Friday October 25
22.35 UTV Gino's Italian Escape: Puglia and Basilicata
Last in the series. Gino D'Acampo in Altamura, Puglia, visits a bakery and tries to shape one of the town's characteristic loaves. In Matera, Basilicata, he samples food traditionally eaten by the poor. Gino then shows how to make an Italian version of beans on toast. Returning to Puglia, he visits Alberobello and demonstrates how to stuff a rustic loaf with salami, piquant cheese and grilled vegetables.
Saturday October 26
22.00 National Geographic Salem Witch Trial Conspiracy
Katherine Howe investigates whether the witch trials in 17th-century Salem in Essex County, Massachusetts, USA, were used to gain power rather than to fight the Devil
October 13 - October 1923.15 RTÉ One, Mobs Mheiricea: Danny Greene
The life of`the Celtic Warrior' mobster Danny Greene, who attempted to seize control of organised crime in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. His skirmish with the Mafia that led to his assassination in October 1977.
Thursday October 24
21.00 ITV3 Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey: The Islands
Repeat. Joanna explores the islands, starting in Crete with the shepherds and hears about their key role in the fight against Nazi occupation. Then to Kos, and the birthplace of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine and then to an active volcano on Nisyros
Friday October 25
22.35 UTV Gino's Italian Escape: Puglia and Basilicata
Last in the series. Gino D'Acampo in Altamura, Puglia, visits a bakery and tries to shape one of the town's characteristic loaves. In Matera, Basilicata, he samples food traditionally eaten by the poor. Gino then shows how to make an Italian version of beans on toast. Returning to Puglia, he visits Alberobello and demonstrates how to stuff a rustic loaf with salami, piquant cheese and grilled vegetables.
Saturday October 26
22.00 National Geographic Salem Witch Trial Conspiracy
Katherine Howe investigates whether the witch trials in 17th-century Salem in Essex County, Massachusetts, USA, were used to gain power rather than to fight the Devil
Sunday October 13
00.05 - 2.30 RTÉ One LA Confidential (1997)
Worth watching or worth another watch: Based on James Ellroy's book of the same name. Three Los Angeles cops - an ambitious rookie, a hard-boiled veteran and a smooth character more interested in celebrity than justice - investigate a multiple slaughter, a bloodbath in a diner. The ensuing search for the perpetrators reveals a trail of crime and double-dealing in the police force. Set in 1950s , with Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, James Cromwell, Danny DeVito and Kim Basinger who won an Oscar for her role. Locations: in Los Angeles USA: Lynn Bracken's house is 501 Wilcox Avenue, Los Angeles; Nick's Liquor Store is at 1277 S. Cochran Ave, Los Angeles; Pierce Patchett's house is The Lovell Health House - 4616 Dundee Drive, Los Feliz, Los Angeles; .Hollywood More locations at: www.imdb.com/title/tt0119488/locations?ref_=tt_dt_dt
19.00 RTÉ One, Creedon's Cities- Galway
Repeat, John Creedon finds out how it has evolved and its distinguishing features. The most Gaelic of Irish cities and famous for its craic but Galway also has a darker side
22.20 UTV, Senna (2010)
Documentary- the life of Brazilian Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, his achievements over a 10-year period that saw him become world champion three times, until his death in a crash during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. It has unseen footage from F1 archives and contributions from Alain Prost and Jackie Stewart
22.00 National Geographic, Inside The American Mob
The 1970s: The story of the American Mafia, the mobsters and the law enforcers including the successful but dangerous work of FBI Agent Joe Pistone who spent six years undercover known as Donnie Brasco, with the Bonanno and Colombo crime families. There's still a price on his head. Also how US Attorney Rudolph Giuliani found his ultimate weapon in a book and used high-tech surveillance and informants to get at New York's Five Families
23.25 BBC2 N Ireland, The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors
Rageh Omaar compares the golden age of Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century with the troubled reign of Abdul Hamid II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rageh studies Ottoman architecture, religion and politics and how this Turkish empire became central the scrable for power in Europe
23.40 BBC4 La Vie en Rose (2007) Exploring the pivotal events in Edith Piaf's life, including her childhood years, with her grandmother, in Normandy and her affair with married boxer Marcel Cerdan, her car accident and the morphine addiction that resulted. Stars Marion Cotillard, Gerard Depardieu
Locations: Mostly shot in Prague, Czech Republic, but some at Brasserie Julien, 16 rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, Paris 10, France This Belle Epoque restaurant was favoured by Piaf and is still on the go.
Monday October 14
19.00 BBC2 N Ireland, Rick Stein's India
Repeat, Rick begins in the states of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, where the influence of the British Empire on eating habits can still evident. He enjoys the preeminence of fish and seafood in the cuisine in the cities of Kolkata and Chennai.
22.00 National Geographic, Inside The American Mob
The dangerous work of FBI Agent Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco, who went undercover for six years with the Bonanno and Colombo crime families in New York, USA
23.00 BBC4, Africa
David Attenborough and the wildlife spectacles of southern Africa, starting out in a rainforest discovered less than a decade ago. Thousands of butterflies dance and on a tiny island off Mozambique, green turtles emerge from eggs and begin their journey to the water. They also film one of the largest gatherings of great white sharks as 30 of them circle a dead whale
23.00 National Geographic, Drugs Incorporated
Investigating today's illicit drug industry and the heroin and cocaine dealers in Detroit, USA.
Tuesday October 15
19.00 BBC2 N Ireland, Rick Stein's India
Repeat, Rick visits Mumbai in search of the bombil, the fish used in Bombay duck and also about Parsee hospitality and their contribution to Indian cuisine. Then south to Pondicherry, where they have Indian dishes with a French twist. Then north along the coast to Mamallapuram for one of the best fish curries he has ever eaten. Rick demonstrates how to make the Parsee chicken dish sali murgh and aloo mattar
Wednesday October 16
22.00 BBC4, Repeat, The First Master Chef: Michel Roux on Escoffier
Michel Roux Jr profiles Georges Auguste Escoffier, who established restaurants in grand hotels worldwide. He looks at some of the chef's most delicious dishes, he investigates claims why the cook was fired from his job at the Savoy, London after eight years for wining and dining potential investors in his new business at the hotel's expense.
22.30 Sky Arts 1, The Beatles: From Liverpool to San Francisco
Documentary following the band's early career in Liverpool and subsequent rise to fame in cities like San Francisco, discovering how they conquered the charts and won millions of fans around the world
23.00 BBC4, Balmoral
Repeat, An examination of the royal family's most private residence for more than 150 years. It examines the role played by the monarchy in shaping modern Scotland, with Queen Victoria adopting Highland symbols, tartan and bagpipes.
23.30 RTÉ One, Mobs Mheiricea
The life and times of a mobster, John `Cockeye' Dunn, who once terrorised New York. He was executed in the electric chair in July 1949, and later became the inspiration for the Johnny Friendly character in On the Waterfront (1954)
Thursday October 17
19.00 BBC2 N Ireland, Rick Stein's India
Repeat, Rick looks for the best chicken korma in Lucknow, the difficulty of making rice dish pulao. In Punjab, he sees the the production of the unrefined sugar known as jaggery. He demonstrates nimish, a dessert with hints of saffron, pistachios and cardamom and makes the vegetarian curry paneer jalfrezi
22.00 Sky Arts 1 Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene once attempted suicide, while stimulating his creativity to produce novels including The Quiet American, Brighton Rock and The Third Man. The documentary weaves his novels into his life - his time as a British spy, his doubts about his Catholicism and the manic depression he suffered.
Saturday October 19
20.00 RTÉ Two, Wild Arabia
Exploring the mountains of Dhofar in Oman, where the annual Indian Ocean monsoon has created waterfalls and cloud forests. we see green sea turtles coming ashore, egg-stealing foxes and rare footage of striped hyenas fighting with Arabian wolves.
20.00 BBC4, Lost Kingdoms of Africa
Last in the series, Gus Casely-Hayford with the story of Bunyoro, a dynasty that used history and mythology to retain power over the Ugandan region - until the rise of Buganda on the shores of Lake Victoria. The arrival of Europeans in the region proved to be decisive.
21.00 National Geographic, Building the Empire State
The design and construction of the New York skyscraper
22.10 ITV4, Casino (1995)
Martin Scorsese's crime drama of the mobs move to Las Vegas to live, work and take over the running of casinos in the 1970s and 1980s. It reveals the extent of mob involvement in the casinos and on the ongoing investigations by the FBI. Ace Rothstein is the operator of the Tangiers casino, while his boyhood friend Nicky Nicky Santoro is the tough mobster, shaking down the casino and the punters. Ace falls in love with Ginger the hustler and Nicky descends into a life of drugs and violence. Stars Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone and James Woods. Locations in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Sam's San Diego house is at 357 Desert Inn Road; Some 'Tangiers' locations shot at Ballys Las Vegas - 3645 Las Vegas Blvd South and at Le Bistro Lounge, Riviera Hotel & Casino - 2901 Las Vegas Boulevard South; The parking foyer scene is at: Landmark Hotel - Convention Center Drive and Paradise Road; The Chicago nightclub is Moulin Rouge - 800 W Bonanza, Las Vegas and Nicky's restaraunt is Piero's Restaurant - 355 Convention Center Drive, Las Vegas. Other locations at www.imdb.com/title/tt0112641/locations?ref_=tt_dt_dt
22.55 BBC4, Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century - Arena Special
Ol' Blue Eyes, featuring interviews with friends and family highlight aspects of his personal life, including four marriages and Las Vegas business dealings
Sunday October 6
21.00 BBC2 N Ireland Groundbreakers: The Extraordinary Life of Castlereagh
The historian John Bew looks into surprising life and career of Dublin-born Lord Castlreagh, a former foreign secretary who was instrumental in the defeat of Napoleon yet became one of Britain's most reviled politicians before ending his own life in 1822. Just how reviled is shown in this poem by Lord Byron referring to his grand grave :
Posterity will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveller, and piss.
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| Lord Castlereagh Photo:National Trust/BBC |
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| Dr John Bew Photo: BBC Northern Ireland |
21.00 Channel 4, Homeland
New season. Return of the American thriller, with Brody still at large three months after the terrorist attack on Langley, Virginia, Saul plots a counterstrike. However, his attempts to revive the CIA's fortunes are hampered when Carrie faces a hostile senate investigation.
22.00 National Geographic, Britain's Underworld
Glasgow: The crime bosses, their activities and interactions with the police when they ruled Glasgow between the 1950s and 1990s.
23.00 National Geographic, Britain's Underworld
Liverpool: Curtis `Cocky' Warren, how he made money in drugs and how he was featured on the Sunday Times Rich List
23.25 BBC2 N Ireland, The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors
New series. Rageh Omaar outlines the 600-year history of the Islamic empire that encompassed European, Arab and north African lands and came to an end in the 1920s. He looks at the economic, social conditions and at their approach to non-Muslims. He traces the origins of the Ottomans, on the extraordinary speed at which nomadic horsemen from modern-day Turkey became powerful rulers on three continents
Monday October 7
21.00 BBC1 N Ireland, True North: The Wall
Examines life in the shadow of the Belfast 40ft Peace Wall, one of Northern Ireland's most volatile locations.
21.00 BBC3, Sex, Stags & Prague: Stacey Dooley Investigates
Stacey Dooley goes to Prague to find the seedier side of a city. Stacey ventures into brothels disguised as massage parlours and gentlemen's clubs to meet the ladies who entertain. She also goes on patrol with the police after drunken tourists to make sure they don't get in harms way
21.00 BBC4, A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
Last in the series, Historian Lucy examines one of the first high-profile killers: Dr Crippen, hanged in 1910 for poisoning and dismembering his wife. She looks at the interwar period, in the hands of authors Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers. After an elaborate initiation ceremony of the Detection Club, set up by a group writers from Great Britain in 1930, Lucy considers the influence of Alfred Hitchcock's films and Graham Greene's books on the murder-mystery story.
21.35 RTÉ One, Hector Breaks For the Border
Hector O hEochagain, from Navan, Co Meath, and Belfast-born Stephen Nolan cross into each other's territories and examine the psychology and history of the divide in Ireland
Tuesday October 8
21.00 RTÉ Two, Homeland
Season 3 Episode 2, Saul tries to track down those responsible for the Langley, Virginia, attack. Quinn takes matters into his own hands and Carrie learns who she can trust. The Brodys attempt to mend their broken family.
22.00 National Geographic, Jack the Ripper: The German Suspect
Myths surrounding the Whitechapel, London infamous killer Jack the Ripper have included him being a surgeon, royalty and even Impressionist painter Walter Sickert. Murder squad detective Trevor Marriott explains how he spotted a trail that police and other historians missed, and could reveal the murderer's identity… oh yeah.
Wednesday October 9
21.00 BBC2 N Ireland, Dan Snow's History of Congo
Dan Snow in the Central African country explains how the combination of slavery, colonialism, corruption and war led it to become one of the poorest nations on earth. He visits remote and dangerous places and discovers how the Democratic Republic of the Congo's resources and people helped make Britain rich over the centuries. He also learns of the part played during both world wars.
21.30 TG4, Mna Dibeartha
Documentary focusing on the convict women's arrival in Australia after a 16,000-mile journey in the dark holds of ships, then their assignment to masters, their incarceration and resistance
Thursday October 10
Vinnie Jones in the volcanic region of Kamchatka and joins poaching police protecting brown bears
Friday October 11
19.30 Channel 4, Unreported World
Kiki King and director James Brabazon travel to the Venezuelan capital Caracas, which has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the world. They join police in an squad dedicated to fighting back against the gangs responsible.
Saturday October 12
20.00 RTÉ Two, Wild Arabia
New series. Revealing the connections between the wildlife, landscape and people on the Arabian Peninsula. Features animals including oryxes, jerboas, horned vipers and scorpions. A journey with the Bedouin nomads -the only humans to have mastered in the desert.
September 29 - October 5
New season. Return of the American thriller, with Brody still at large three months after the terrorist attack on Langley, Virginia, Saul plots a counterstrike. However, his attempts to revive the CIA's fortunes are hampered when Carrie faces a hostile senate investigation.
22.00 National Geographic, Britain's Underworld
Glasgow: The crime bosses, their activities and interactions with the police when they ruled Glasgow between the 1950s and 1990s.
23.00 National Geographic, Britain's Underworld
Liverpool: Curtis `Cocky' Warren, how he made money in drugs and how he was featured on the Sunday Times Rich List
23.25 BBC2 N Ireland, The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors
New series. Rageh Omaar outlines the 600-year history of the Islamic empire that encompassed European, Arab and north African lands and came to an end in the 1920s. He looks at the economic, social conditions and at their approach to non-Muslims. He traces the origins of the Ottomans, on the extraordinary speed at which nomadic horsemen from modern-day Turkey became powerful rulers on three continents
Monday October 7
21.00 BBC1 N Ireland, True North: The Wall
Examines life in the shadow of the Belfast 40ft Peace Wall, one of Northern Ireland's most volatile locations.
21.00 BBC3, Sex, Stags & Prague: Stacey Dooley Investigates
Stacey Dooley goes to Prague to find the seedier side of a city. Stacey ventures into brothels disguised as massage parlours and gentlemen's clubs to meet the ladies who entertain. She also goes on patrol with the police after drunken tourists to make sure they don't get in harms way
21.00 BBC4, A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
Last in the series, Historian Lucy examines one of the first high-profile killers: Dr Crippen, hanged in 1910 for poisoning and dismembering his wife. She looks at the interwar period, in the hands of authors Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers. After an elaborate initiation ceremony of the Detection Club, set up by a group writers from Great Britain in 1930, Lucy considers the influence of Alfred Hitchcock's films and Graham Greene's books on the murder-mystery story.
21.35 RTÉ One, Hector Breaks For the Border
Hector O hEochagain, from Navan, Co Meath, and Belfast-born Stephen Nolan cross into each other's territories and examine the psychology and history of the divide in Ireland
Tuesday October 8
21.00 RTÉ Two, Homeland
Season 3 Episode 2, Saul tries to track down those responsible for the Langley, Virginia, attack. Quinn takes matters into his own hands and Carrie learns who she can trust. The Brodys attempt to mend their broken family.
22.00 National Geographic, Jack the Ripper: The German Suspect
Myths surrounding the Whitechapel, London infamous killer Jack the Ripper have included him being a surgeon, royalty and even Impressionist painter Walter Sickert. Murder squad detective Trevor Marriott explains how he spotted a trail that police and other historians missed, and could reveal the murderer's identity… oh yeah.
Wednesday October 9
21.00 BBC2 N Ireland, Dan Snow's History of Congo
Dan Snow in the Central African country explains how the combination of slavery, colonialism, corruption and war led it to become one of the poorest nations on earth. He visits remote and dangerous places and discovers how the Democratic Republic of the Congo's resources and people helped make Britain rich over the centuries. He also learns of the part played during both world wars.
21.30 TG4, Mna Dibeartha
Documentary focusing on the convict women's arrival in Australia after a 16,000-mile journey in the dark holds of ships, then their assignment to masters, their incarceration and resistance
Thursday October 10
21.55 RTÉ Two, Maia Dunphy's What Women Want
Happy Ever After: Maia Dunphy spends time with people whose relationships challenge the concept that there is only one standard model for the ideal union. She's in Howth, Co.Dublin with novelist Siobhan McKenna and cafe proprietor Graziano. And watch out for their favourite and my favourite coffee/wine bar Il Panorama, Howth
22.00 National Geographic, Vinnie Jones: Russia's Toughest Vinnie Jones in the volcanic region of Kamchatka and joins poaching police protecting brown bears
Friday October 11
19.30 Channel 4, Unreported World
Kiki King and director James Brabazon travel to the Venezuelan capital Caracas, which has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the world. They join police in an squad dedicated to fighting back against the gangs responsible.
Saturday October 12
20.00 RTÉ Two, Wild Arabia
New series. Revealing the connections between the wildlife, landscape and people on the Arabian Peninsula. Features animals including oryxes, jerboas, horned vipers and scorpions. A journey with the Bedouin nomads -the only humans to have mastered in the desert.
Photo: BBC/What Larks!
20.00 BBC4 Lost Kingdoms of Africa- The Berber Kingdom of Morocco
Repeat, Gus Casely-Hayford visits Morocco to examine stories of the Berber kings and their domain that stretching from northern Spain to west Africa. He discovers how they acquired their wealth, explores the architecture they commissioned and the ideas they promoted.
20.00 BBC4 Lost Kingdoms of Africa- The Berber Kingdom of Morocco
Repeat, Gus Casely-Hayford visits Morocco to examine stories of the Berber kings and their domain that stretching from northern Spain to west Africa. He discovers how they acquired their wealth, explores the architecture they commissioned and the ideas they promoted.
Sunday September 29
21.00 BBC2 Northern Ireland The Story of the Jews
Last in the series, Simon Schama on how the Holocaust and the creation of Israel in 1948 essentially changed what it means to be Jewish. He explains the creation of a Jewish homeland and the realities of conflict, dispossession and occupation that followed.
21.00 FOX Dexter
Last in the Miami based series. Dexter feels guilty that he did not kill Saxon. Elway and the Deputy Marshall search for Hannah believing she is trying to leave the country. Stars Michael C Hall. Last in the series
21.00 BBC4 Secret Voices of Hollywood
Revealing the secret world of the `ghost singers', who provided the voices dubbed for Hollywood screen legends.
22.30 BBC4 Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
Neil Brand looks at film soundtracks. He plays a theremin, an early Russian instrument used by Miklos Rozsa to evoke a psychological disturbance in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Vangelis on his inspiration for the Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner scores and interviews Walter Murch and Carter Burwell.
23.45 ITV4 Memphis Belle (1990)
One of the stars of this movie flew into Dublin this month as part of the Flight Fest.The American B-17 bomber with the shapely lady adorning her fuselage flew over an estimated 130,000 viewers gathered around the River Liffey and now we can watch her again tonight. The crewmen of said B-17 bomber prepare for their final flight before returning home. However, the mission - to launch a daylight raid on a supply factory in a heavily defended German city - threatens to be their most hazardous yet. Fact-based Second World War drama. Locations in England include: Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire.
Monday September 30
21.00 BBC4 A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
Lucy explores how science and detection influenced the popular culture of murder during Victorian times. Writers like Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins were engrossed by grisly crimes. She also reveals that when Jack the Ripper began his reign of terror in London at the same time Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was published the serial killer was first introduced to the British public
22.35 BBC1 N Ireland Saving Syria's Children - Panorama
Last in the series, Simon Schama on how the Holocaust and the creation of Israel in 1948 essentially changed what it means to be Jewish. He explains the creation of a Jewish homeland and the realities of conflict, dispossession and occupation that followed.
21.00 FOX Dexter
Last in the Miami based series. Dexter feels guilty that he did not kill Saxon. Elway and the Deputy Marshall search for Hannah believing she is trying to leave the country. Stars Michael C Hall. Last in the series
21.00 BBC4 Secret Voices of Hollywood
Revealing the secret world of the `ghost singers', who provided the voices dubbed for Hollywood screen legends.
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| 21.00 BBC4 Secret Voices of Hollywood: Betty Wand Photo: BBC/RDF Television West/Betty Wand |
22.30 BBC4 Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
Neil Brand looks at film soundtracks. He plays a theremin, an early Russian instrument used by Miklos Rozsa to evoke a psychological disturbance in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Vangelis on his inspiration for the Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner scores and interviews Walter Murch and Carter Burwell.23.45 ITV4 Memphis Belle (1990)
One of the stars of this movie flew into Dublin this month as part of the Flight Fest.The American B-17 bomber with the shapely lady adorning her fuselage flew over an estimated 130,000 viewers gathered around the River Liffey and now we can watch her again tonight. The crewmen of said B-17 bomber prepare for their final flight before returning home. However, the mission - to launch a daylight raid on a supply factory in a heavily defended German city - threatens to be their most hazardous yet. Fact-based Second World War drama. Locations in England include: Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire.
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| Memphis Belle over Dublin |
21.00 BBC4 A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
Lucy explores how science and detection influenced the popular culture of murder during Victorian times. Writers like Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins were engrossed by grisly crimes. She also reveals that when Jack the Ripper began his reign of terror in London at the same time Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was published the serial killer was first introduced to the British public
22.35 BBC1 N Ireland Saving Syria's Children - Panorama
Travelling inside Syria to show the disasterous impact of civil war on children. The camera crew, accompanied by British doctors, witness the aftermath of the bombing of a school by a napalm-like incendiary device and show medical facilities themselves under attack. Both crimes under international law.
Tuesday October 1
21.00 RTÉ Two Homeland
New series. Brody is still at large three months after the terrorist attack at CIA headquarters is in Langley, Virginia, a few miles west of Washington, D.C. Saul plots a counterstrike but his efforts to revive the CIA's reputation are dashed when Carrie becomes the focus of a hostile Senate investigation.
21.00 BBC4 House of Surrogates
Inside a clinic in rural India run by Dr Nayna Patel where childless couples from all over the world can pay for a local woman to act as a surrogate. The doctor houses the pregnant women - up to 80 individuals at a time, with three babies delivered every month. Critics accuse Patel of exploiting the poor, but she believes she is helping them to take charge of their lives and improve their future prospects with a life-changing amount of money
22.35 RTÉ One, Pauline Bewick: Yellow Man, Grey Man
Maurice Galway examines The Yellow Man project, a series of paintings by artist Pauline Bewick inspired by visiting the South Pacific. The programme takes a look at her home in Co Kerry
Friday October 5
22.00 FOX Low Winter Sun
Detective/Thriller set in crumbling Detroit. Frank prepares to testify in a major court trial and at the same time tries to protect Katia.
22.35 UTV Gino's Italian Escape
Gino D'Acampo visits Rome and finds the pancetta and guanciale he needs for a traditional pasta carbonara in front of the Colosseum. Then to Ariccia, a small town on the outskirts of Rome to sample porchetta - slow-roasted boneless pork stuffed with seasoning and rosemary and concludes by cooking a Roman-inspired dish of pan-fried lamb in rosemary and honey sauce with fennel salad
Tuesday October 1
21.00 RTÉ Two Homeland
New series. Brody is still at large three months after the terrorist attack at CIA headquarters is in Langley, Virginia, a few miles west of Washington, D.C. Saul plots a counterstrike but his efforts to revive the CIA's reputation are dashed when Carrie becomes the focus of a hostile Senate investigation.
21.00 BBC4 House of Surrogates
Inside a clinic in rural India run by Dr Nayna Patel where childless couples from all over the world can pay for a local woman to act as a surrogate. The doctor houses the pregnant women - up to 80 individuals at a time, with three babies delivered every month. Critics accuse Patel of exploiting the poor, but she believes she is helping them to take charge of their lives and improve their future prospects with a life-changing amount of money
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| Three surrogates at the door of the surrogate house. Photo: BBC/Special Edition Films/Hiral Patel |
22.35 RTÉ One, Pauline Bewick: Yellow Man, Grey Man
Maurice Galway examines The Yellow Man project, a series of paintings by artist Pauline Bewick inspired by visiting the South Pacific. The programme takes a look at her home in Co Kerry
Friday October 5
22.00 FOX Low Winter Sun
Detective/Thriller set in crumbling Detroit. Frank prepares to testify in a major court trial and at the same time tries to protect Katia.
22.35 UTV Gino's Italian Escape
Gino D'Acampo visits Rome and finds the pancetta and guanciale he needs for a traditional pasta carbonara in front of the Colosseum. Then to Ariccia, a small town on the outskirts of Rome to sample porchetta - slow-roasted boneless pork stuffed with seasoning and rosemary and concludes by cooking a Roman-inspired dish of pan-fried lamb in rosemary and honey sauce with fennel salad
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