Jeremy Beadle has game-for-ed his last laugh.
Beadle had been suffering from pneumonia and was admitted to a London hospital last week. In recent years he had battled poor health after being diagnosed with a mild form of leukaemia in 2005. He also had a cancerous kidney removed.
The excellent Tim Healy guest-stars as a farmer who seems so nice he must be hiding something. Martin Shaw is the stolid detective with the variable cockney accent.
Unprecedented access to the holy city of Mecca is the core of this documentary that talks to everyone from the muezzin who makes the call to prayer, to the pilgrims to come.
While the arrival of Sister Brigid's sister Moira precipitates a moral dilemma for the well-meaning nun, Lizze goes uncomplicatedly bonkers for a half-naked hippie.
A fatal road accident and the disappearance of a teenager 20 years ago appears to be linked to the latest murder in the village of Dunstan. DI Barnaby ponders.
Kirsty Wark chats to chief judge Rosie Boycott about the six non-fiction books competing this year for a £30,000 prize. The BBC4-sponsored shindig is on London's South Bank.
Utterly exhilarating landmark movie musical that gave Gene Kelly and choreographer Stanley Donen their directing break. The opening sequence is magnificent, as three sailors (Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin) hail the delights of New York.
