Cornwall and Devon Walks with Julia Bradbury (STV, 8pm)
THE presenter leaves the mainland and heads for the Isles of Scilly, which lie 25 miles off the south-west tip of Cornwall. Just under 2500 people inhabit the archipelago, whose freehold is mostly owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. Bradbury is there to walk a five-mile circular loop around the northernmost island of St Martin’s, which is renowned for its white sandy beaches and beautiful azure seas.
The Bay (STV, 9pm)
LANCASHIRE is famous for its high precipitation level, and certainly in Lisa Armstrong’s life, it never rains but it pours. When we caught up with her last, she was happy about returning to work, but downbeat because she was back at the bottom of the pile, carrying out menial tasks and doing the work of a dogsbody, just as she would have done when she joined the force. To add insult to injury, her ex, Andy, turned up out of the blue claiming to be a new man.
Grand Designs (C4, 9pm)
GLOBAL warming may be a worrying issue, but Britain’s winters are still chilly and keeping our homes warm throughout can be an expensive business. However, energy conservationist Andrew is determined to get around high bills by creating a radical self-heating home for his family. If he succeeds, it will be the first of its kind in the UK, but there will be a lot of trial and error in his efforts to create a property that will store the warm of the summer sun in insulated earth banks.
Rose (Sky Arts, 10pm)
TO commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, Hope Mill Theatre’s award-winning revival of Martin Sherman’s one-woman play stars Maureen Lipman as a Jewish octogenarian looking back at her eventful life. Recorded in summer 2020 and directed by Scott Le Crass, the thought-provoking play follows a feisty woman who grows up in a Russian village in the early 20th century. Travelling around the world, Rose finds herself in different communities, from Nazi-ruled Europe to the US.
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