Grantchester Season 8
From Saturday 5 August 7:30pm
The crime-solving vicar returns in a brand new series as a young biker is killed after a charity motorbike race.
Episode 1
For the Vicar of Grantchester, the beautiful small village just outside Cambridge, life is always pretty quiet. Or at least, it was – right up until the moment that murder came his way.
In season 8, Will’s life has changed for the better. He is happily married to the brilliant Bonnie and due to become a father but his world is about to be rocked by a terrible accident.
The body of a 19-year-old biker is found in a field, the day after a charity motorbike race organised by Will. Ron Weller, a mechanic who trains young bikers, his son Jimmy, and many others mourn the loss of a fellow rider.
Will and Geordie struggle to work out who’d want to hurt a gifted young man.
Production Credit: A Co-Production of Kudos and MASTERPIECE for ITV
Gardening Australia Returns
Friday 18 August 7.30pm
Gardening Australia Returns
Josh visits a leafy loft, Tammy grows food in the shade and Clarence plants up a tree stump. Costa tours a Bollywood backyard, Millie preps for spring, and we meet a paleoecologist who sees the natural world as a history book.
We’re excited to be back after our winter break and share these inspiring stories with you!
Josh visits a couple who have transformed their home into a lush, plant-filled inner-city loft.
Millie builds a heated seed raising bay and completes transition-season jobs before the spring rush hits.
Clarence creates a living sculpture by planting epiphytic plants into an old tree stump.
Costa meets Bollywood actress Evelyn Sharma who is creating a gorgeous garden in Chinchilla.
Tammy shows us three easy edible greens that thrive in pots and part shade.
We meet a paleoecologist who studies how plants and people are interconnected and sees the natural world as a history book.
Jane helps with excess herbs; Jerry sharpens a spade; Hannah trains kale trees; Sophie installs protection netting.
Production credit: Executive Producer, Gill Lomas.
Our Vietnam War
Tuesday 15 August 9.30pm Ep 1 of 3
2023 marks 50 years since the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Narrated by Kate Mulvany, Our Vietnam War tells the story of Australia’s role in the conflict through the eyes of those sent to defend our interests.
2023 marks 50 years since the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Narrated by actor and writer Kate Mulvany, whose father was a conscripted soldier, Our Vietnam War tells the story of Australia’s entanglement in the conflict through the eyes of the men and women sent to defend our interests 5000 km from home.
‘A Popular war’ explains how Australia became entrenched in the war in an attempt to consolidate relationships with the United States. The government of Robert Menzies escalated military involvement, including a birthday conscription ballot that sent young Australian men to fight. While the Australian people were overwhelmingly supportive of the government’s Vietnam policy, small stirrings of dissent begin to appear.
Production credit: Produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. With assistance from the Dept of Veterans’ Affairs.
Compass: Hidden Children
Sunday 13 August 6.30pm
Brendan Watkins is the son of a priest and nun. It took him 30 years to find out, but he’s not the only one. Brendan meets other hidden children and their mothers, who‘ve suffered from the Church’s silence and denial.
When Brendan Watkins was a teenager he kept his adoption secret because he didn’t want to be targeted by bullies. Later, when he was about to start his own family he was blocked from finding out about his own genetic heritage by an almost impenetrable wall of secrecy from the Catholic Church and the State, before discovering the identities of his own biological parents, a priest and a former nun.
He also discovered that globally there are thousands of children of priests, just like him, who as adults found their biological parents through DNA testing and social media groups. And that while there are often no consequences for the priests, the church often treated these children and their mothers with cruelty and a lack of compassion.
In Australia one such mother tells of being pressured to have an abortion by three priests, and then pushed to have the child adopted after its birth. In Germany, a senior academic from the University of Frankfurt, and former nun Dr. Doris Reisinger, reveals her latest research which reveals hundreds of priests have been involved in forced adoptions or procuring abortions in the last 20 years.
Australia’s peak adoption body calls for a public and independent inquiry, and Brendan and another child of a priest, Linda Kelly Lawless, pursue fresh evidence of the scandal that church and state are trying to keep hidden.
Production Credit: Compass ABC TV
