This week's best TV & radio: 21 - 27 November
Wed, 18/11/2009 - 22:56
WHAT'S ON TV
Country Tracks
Sunday - 11am - BBC One
Ellie Harrison goes on a journey along the Norfolk coast.
En route, she fishes for mussels, learns about famous singing postman Alan Smethurst, and goes on the trail of a true local legend, Admiral Lord Nelson.
She ends her journey in Great Yarmouth, with the strange story of the town's 1970s gas rush.
Countryfile
Sunday – 6pm – BBC OneJulia Bradbury and Matt Baker are on the Isles of Scilly, for the late flower-picking season and to see how ruby-red cattle are moved from island to island, to provide them with the best grazing land.Tom Heap investigates why burning trees is better for the environment than many of us think, and Jules Hudson finds out how riding for pleasure was no country past-time to begin with: it started in the heart of London.
Jimmy's Food Factory
Wednesday – 7.30pm – BBC One
Wednesday – 7.30pm – BBC One
In the barn, Jimmy makes a first attempt at turning some of his own farmed pork into square sandwich ham. He also tries to copy the trick that banana suppliers use to artificially ripen green imported bananas so they are ready for the supermarket.
Return to Pembrokeshire Farm
Thursday – 7.30pm – BBC Four
Griff Rhys Jones meets opposition from the locals over his plans to renovate the mill, and takes on another unusual restoration project
Thursday – 7.30pm – BBC Four
Griff Rhys Jones meets opposition from the locals over his plans to renovate the mill, and takes on another unusual restoration project
River Cottage
Thursday – 8pm – Channel 4
Hugh throws a chilli and pumpkin party, re-invents a fast food favourite and joins a group of fishermen in Cornwall who have found a market for line-caught squid.
Hugh throws a chilli and pumpkin party, re-invents a fast food favourite and joins a group of fishermen in Cornwall who have found a market for line-caught squid.
WHAT’S ON RADIO
Open Country
Saturday – 6.07am – Radio 4
Helen Mark and Time Team's Mick Aston investigate the story of the Hanbury Crater.
The Living World
Sunday - 6.35am - Radio 4
Dartford warbler numbers were reduced to only 20 pairs in Britain during the 1960s, thus becoming an iconic emblem of conservation. Lionel Kelleway visits the Arne RSPB reserve in Dorset in an attempt to see one of these rare and secretive little birds for himself.
Sunday - 6.35am - Radio 4
Dartford warbler numbers were reduced to only 20 pairs in Britain during the 1960s, thus becoming an iconic emblem of conservation. Lionel Kelleway visits the Arne RSPB reserve in Dorset in an attempt to see one of these rare and secretive little birds for himself.
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