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08.55
Scrapheap Challenge

Liverpool team the Balloonatics and the Dorset-based Aquarium Crew are challenged to construct a mechanism that can throw a 100kg scooter as far as possible without the aid of gunpowder or compressed gases

Cast: Robert Llewellyn, Lisa Rogers
Director: Ben Cole

10.00
Scrapheap Challenge

Birmingham roadside recovery technicians the Rescuers and Bristol-based model-makers the Supermodels are challenged to build superbikes capable of racing head to head on the show's challenging motocross circuit. However, the teams are forbidden to use any authentic motorcycle parts in the process of developing their improvised vehicles. Robert Llewellyn and Lisa Rogers present

Cast: Robert Llewellyn, Lisa Rogers
Director: James Coldwell

11.05
Four in a Bed

The sports car-themed PitStop in Hertfordshire hosts the week's first round, as owners Melvyn and Sindy Rutter try to make a good impression. However, the absence of tea and coffee in the rooms does not go down well with the guests, and Melvyn's after-dinner talk about his collection of Morgans fails to spark much interest


Director: Matt Baker

11.40
Four in a Bed

Gill and Peter Tydie invite their fellow competitors to stay at the Victory at Mersea, Essex, a four-star B&B with 26 members of staff to run the bar, restaurant and accommodation. A trip to a local fishery gives one contestant an opportunity to annoy his peers, and the discovery of a hole in a bedsheet leaves the hosts feeling uneasy about their chances of success


Director: Matt Baker

12.10
Four in a Bed

Dave Botha hosts at his Butterfly Paragliding B&B on the Isle of Wight. Deborah Morrison and Wayne Bingham are unhappy they must sleep in a tepee in the garden and use an outdoor toilet, and claim they were served watery eggs and rubbery sausages for breakfast


Director: Matt Baker


12.45
Four in a Bed

Deborah Morrison and Wayne Bingham host the final night at Braddon Hall in Torquay, where Melvyn and Sindy take issue with their squeaky four-poster bed. The hoteliers try to entertain their guests by taking them for a game of archery, only for it to turn too competitive, and the group's true feelings surface during dinner


Director: Matt Baker

13.15
Four in a Bed

The contestants meet one last time to discover how much they have been paid by their fellow hoteliers and to air their grievances. One of the hosts gets upset about a series of large underpayments and a couple interrogate their guests about the criticism in their feedback, before the winner is announced


Director: Matt Baker

13.50
Jamie's 30 Minute Meals

Jamie Oliver continues his cookery demonstrations by preparing crispy salmon with rice, baby courgette salad, guacamole and berry spritzer

14.25
Jamie's 30 Minute Meals

Jamie Oliver creates spaghetti alla puttanesca with crunchy salad and garlic bread, as well as chocolate ganache, taking viewers through each step of the recipes in real time

Cast: Jamie Oliver

14.55
Jamie's 30 Minute Meals

Jamie Oliver prepares a Thai green curry with crispy chicken, kimchee slaw and rice noodles

Cast: Jamie Oliver

15.30
Jamie's 30 Minute Meals

Jamie Oliver presents a step-by-step guide to making a quick tapas feast, featuring tortilla, glazed chorizo, manchego cheese, cured meats and honey, stuffed peppers and rolled anchovies

16.00
Jamie's 30 Minute Meals

Jamie Oliver prepares spring lamb with a vegetable platter, mint sauce and chianti gravy, as well as chocolate fondue

16.35
Come Dine with Me

In the first of five programmes from Edinburgh, delicatessen owner and whisky connoisseur Tracy Dobbie uses alcohol to break the ice. Hoping to claim the £1,000 prize, she begins with a specially made cocktail and serves a main course containing a bottle of wine, but two of the guests are experts when it comes to drink


Director: Kirsty Lyall

17.10
Come Dine with Me

The second meal in Edinburgh sees the four contestants head to wine critic Paul Dwyer's house, with rifts already starting to appear. Not everyone is delighted with the vegetarian host's meat-free Tuscan menu, and his hopes of impressing them with lectures about grapevines are soon dashed


Director: Laura Collins

17.40
Come Dine with Me

Texas-born Tanya Williams tries to impress her guests in Edinburgh with six courses of cuisine from the southern states of America. However, it becomes apparent she may have bitten off more than she can chew and the atmosphere around the table turns decidedly cold


Director: Haydon Wallace

18.15
Come Dine with Me

Catering manager James Gammie puts his bartending experience to good use by serving a different cocktail with each course during his dinner party in Edinburgh. Although he did not see eye to eye with fellow diner Tracy Dobbie earlier in the competition, it seems his whisky concoction may finally win her round


Director: Laura Collins

18.50
Come Dine with Me

For the final meal in Edinburgh, Jennifer Crosbie hopes to impress her four guests and claim the £1,000 cash prize by improving on two dishes served up earlier in the contest. Paul Dwyer accepts her risotto might be better than his, but James Gammie is adamant his monkfish was tastier. However, the quality of food is not the host's only concern


Director: Haydon Wallace

19.20
The TV Book Club

Meera Syal, Dave Spikey and Laila Rouass are joined by Charley Boorman to discuss The Sisters Brothers, the Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by Patrick deWitt

Cast: Dave Spikey, Laila Rouass, Meera Syal, Charley Boorman

19.55
River Cottage Every Day

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall sets out to prove that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. He visits a school to demonstrate how to make pancakes and scones, and heads to Bristol's main train station to show commuters how to start the day in style. A canteen event also showcases a reinvention of the full English breakfast, featuring mushroom soup with brown sauce and bacon rind, and builder's tea granita


Director: Richard Hill

21.00
Jamie's Great Britain

Jamie Oliver travels to Yorkshire and discovers how the Industrial Revolution changed Britain's favourite dishes. From Persian-inspired lamb shanks with British ale, to Jewish smoked trout, the chef meets people from all over the world to learn how immigrant workers have drawn on their own ethnic culinary traditions to reflect the changing tastes of Britain today

22.00
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

Gordon Ramsay visits PJ's Steakhouse in Queens, New York, to provide his expert advice to the owners. They decided to turn a successful bar into a high-end restaurant, but without any previous experience in managing a business they have found themselves seriously in debt. With an over-confident chef and a partner propping up the bar, co-owner Madalyn faces a few difficult decisions

23.00
Heston's Victorian Feast

Heston Blumenthal combines myth, science and history to re-create great feasts. In the first programme, he takes inspiration from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, bringing to life the Mad Hatter's tea party. Among the surreal dishes he prepares are mock turtle broth, an edible garden, and absinthe-flavoured jelly, each of which is sampled by his guests journalists Rageh Omaar and Toby Young, actress Gemma Redgrave, presenter Dawn Porter and presenter Richard Bacon

00.00
Jamie's Great Britain

Jamie Oliver travels to Yorkshire and discovers how the Industrial Revolution changed Britain's favourite dishes. From Persian-inspired lamb shanks with British ale, to Jewish smoked trout, the chef meets people from all over the world to learn how immigrant workers have drawn on their own ethnic culinary traditions to reflect the changing tastes of Britain today

01.05
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA

Gordon Ramsay visits PJ's Steakhouse in Queens, New York, to provide his expert advice to the owners. They decided to turn a successful bar into a high-end restaurant, but without any previous experience in managing a business they have found themselves seriously in debt. With an over-confident chef and a partner propping up the bar, co-owner Madalyn faces a few difficult decisions

02.05
Heston's Victorian Feast

Heston Blumenthal combines myth, science and history to re-create great feasts. In the first programme, he takes inspiration from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, bringing to life the Mad Hatter's tea party. Among the surreal dishes he prepares are mock turtle broth, an edible garden, and absinthe-flavoured jelly, each of which is sampled by his guests BBC correspondent Rageh Omaar, actor Gemma Redgrave, presenter Dawn Porter, journalist Toby Young and presenter Richard Bacon

03.05
Deal or No Deal

Contestants try to outwit the anonymous banker and guess the contents of mystery boxes to win a big-money prize of up to £250,000. With Noel Edmonds

Cast: Noel Edmonds