Bake Off: The Professionals (C4, 8pm)
LIAM Charles and Tom Allen welcome back the three best teams from both sets of heats, who join forces to face new rivals and their toughest challenges so far. For the first round, the teams are asked to create
24 perfectly identical classic kouign-amann and soaked babas in four hours. Then they must make a sugar showpiece inspired by insects incorporating 30 lollipops and 30 jelly sweets. Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden have to choose five of the teams to go into the quarter-finals.
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This Week on the Farm (C5, 8pm)
HELEN Skelton and Jules Hudson bring us all the week’s action from Cannon Hall Farm in South Yorkshire – much of which has been filmed by the farmers themselves. Rob and Dave are called out by South Yorkshire Police to assist with a deer that has been hit by a car on the M1. Back on the farm, the boys are making hay while the sun shines – which they will be bagging up and storing for their animals to eat during winter. Meanwhile, it is crunch time for Jon Bon Pony – will his time away from the ladies have improved his libido?
The Battle of Britain: 3 Days That Saved the Nation (C5, 9pm)
KATE Humble and Dan Snow mark 80 years since the Battle of Britain, when the RAF defended the country from the air. Over the next three nights, they examine three key dates in the fight to stop a Nazi invasion of Britain, beginning with August 15, 1940. This episode draws on the diary of Joan Fanshawe, a 19-year-old member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, who tracked the battle as it happened.
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24 Hours in A&E (C4, 9pm)
A TEENAGER with anorexia nervosa is rushed into the paediatrics emergency department with dangerously low blood pressure. Her mother reflects on her daughter’s lifelong struggle with her eating disorder, and the pain she feels at being unable to protect her child. A 66-year-old man who fell from a great height on to a concrete surface is brought into St George’s, and doctors fear he has sustained organ damage and internal bleeding. His daughter talks about their close relationship and the sacrifices her father has made over the years.
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