Week 42 Highlights

5 October 2011

World War II: The Last Heroes

42 is the most significant number in existence.

It is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.

And, perhaps even more importantly, it gave rise to popular 80s songsters Level 42.

What more do you need?

 

 

Saturday 15/10/2011
8:40pm
World War II: The Last Heroes 1/6
As the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War approaches, there are still veterans alive who can tell the story. Now that they're in their 80s and 90s, The Last War Heroes is a last chance to hear what it was actually like. Produced by the team behind the highly-acclaimed Blitz Street, this six-part series brings their battlefield memories to life in extraordinary detail, with the real bombs and the real ammunition used in all reconstructions.

 

Sunday, 16/10/2011
8pm
River Cottage Veg 1/7
Renowned carnivore Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall loves animals - both alive and on his plate. But now Hugh has challenged himself to spend the summer as a vegetarian, to see just what simple pleasures are being overlooked.

 

Sunday, 16/10/2011
9pm
The Secret Millionaire 1/6
The Secret Millionaire returns for a brand new series. Forty-year-old celebrity hairdresser Adee Phelan returns to the Essex coast, just a few miles from where it all began for him, this time as James McCarthy, an everyday hairdresser taking part in a new television series about 'pop-up' shops.

 

Monday, 17/10/2011
8pm
Brave New World with Stephen Hawking 1/5
Professor Stephen Hawking presents a global exploration of the scientific breakthroughs that are transforming our lives in the 21st century. With the help of some of the world's leading scientific figures - including Sir David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Aarathi Prasad, Lord Winston and Maggie Aderin-Pocock - this new five-part series reveals how science is striving for humankind's next leap forward.

 

Tuesday 18/10/2011

9pm
Mary Queen of Frocks 3/3
The doors are finally open at Mary Portas' first ever shop at department store House of Fraser. She's put her reputation on the line in an attempt to create the ultimate shopping experience for women over 40. Last in series.

 

Wednesday 19/10/2011
8pm
Kirstie's Handmade Britain 1/8
Queen of the handmade and all things crafty, Kirstie Allsopp returns with a brand new series that will really test her mettle as a craftswoman. Kirstie sets out to see if she can really cut it in the artisan world, travelling the country during the British summer visiting some of the finest county and agricultural fairs. In this first programme Kirstie heads to the Devon County Show, where she enters some of her finest baked goods in the Afternoon Tea competition.

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/kirstie-allsopp-interview

 

Thursday, 20/10/2011
8pm
Beeny's Restoration Nightmare 1/6
Last year Sarah Beeny and her husband Graham began the huge task of restoring their enormous country pile... and it was a nightmare. In this new series they face a whole new nightmare as they struggle to restore more of their 97-room Yorkshire home, Rise Hall.

 

Friday, 21/10/2011
7:30pm
Unreported World 3/10: Uganda's Miracle Babies
Reporter Jenny Kleeman and producer Suemay Oram travel to Uganda to investigate hydrocephalus: a preventable yet misunderstood condition that affects a quarter of a million babies a year in Sub-Saharan Africa. They visit Africa's only paediatric neurosurgery hospital and meet the mothers in a race against time to save their babies' lives.

 

Friday, 21/10/2011
9pm
Derren Brown: The Assassin
Derren Brown returns to our screens with The Experiments, a brand new four-part series. Each stand-alone episode asks and answers a single question featuring the usual inventive and jaw-dropping Derren Brown mixture of stunts, magic, illusion, suggestion and thought-provoking entertainment. In The Assassin, the first show in the series, Derren Brown investigates hypnosis and asks if someone could be hypnotised into killing a celebrity.

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/derren-brown-interview-2

 

Friday, 21/10/2011
10pm
Pete Versus Life 1/6: Mum's Cleaner
Rafe Spall returns to Channel 4 for a second, six-part series of the hit comedy sitcom, Pete Versus Life. In episode one, it's double trouble for Pete when he is accused of kidnapping an old lady's dog, while pretending to be a heroin addict to try an impress a Polish cleaner.

 

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