Love Your Garden - Season 6
FTA Premiere from Friday 5 July 7:30 pm
Alan Titchmarsh and his team travel around Britain carrying out surprise garden transformations for the richly deserving. This horticultural hit combines advice and inspirational hints and tips for all.
Sister Boniface Mysteries - Season 2
From Saturday 13 July 7.30pm
Sister Boniface - nun, moped rider, wine maker and part-time forensic scientist. If there’s evidence to be found, Boniface will find it, with a little help from dashing DI Sam Gillespie.
Episode 1: Great Slaughter plays host to the summer roadshow of kids’ TV show ‘Jolly Roger’, much to the annoyance of editor Dinah Morgan (Abigail Thaw). Taking her frustrations out on the cast and crew, Dinah insists on a newer, thrill seeking version of Jolly Roger to spice things up in sleepy Great Slaughter.
Timbers are soon shivered however when Dinah is discovered smothered onset during a live show. Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson) is called in to investigate who could have committed the deed - action man Jono Hardy (Alan Emrys), cheeky chappie Danny Lemon (Mikey Collins), acrobatic Sandy Shanks (Alice Marshall) or ousted producer Fliss Forsyth (Rhiannon Clements).
Sister Boniface must parley with a parrot and probe a puppet to get to the bottom of the mystery before sabotage derails Jolly Roger’s most ambitious stunt yet.
Production credit: A BBC Studios production
Grand Designs Revisits - Season 23 Episode 3 of 3
Thursday 11 July 8.00 pm
In 2019 master carpenter Olaf and his partner Fritha built a triangular house on a tricky plot in West Sussex. Now presenter Kevin returns to see how life has been for Olaf, Fritha and daughter Lagertha.
Three and a half years ago, Olaf, a master carpenter, and his partner Fritha set out to create an oasis on a tricky slice of land in West Sussex, boxed in by a mainline railway and a busy A road. To add to this, half of the plot couldn’t be built on due to an underground mains sewer. All they were left with was a very small triangle on which to build their future life together.
With just one hundred and ninety thousand pounds in the bank, Olaf and Fritha had to use all the ingenuity they could muster to make their triangular 3-bedroom house come to life.
Sturdy retaining walls and foundations to combat traffic vibrations cost more than they’d hoped. The bewildering angles needed to create the sharp pointed hand-built timber frame stretched Olaf to his limits.
As super thick sound proofing walls were installed, and Olaf had his double decker bus future workshop delivered, the budget reached breaking point. At the same time Fritha and Olaf were going through IVF. It turned into one of the most stressful and pivotal moments of their lives.
Over two years since his last visit, presenter Kevin McCloud returns to see how life has been in their triangular house for Olaf, Fritha and young daughter Lagertha.
Grand Designs: The Streets - Series 3, Episodes 2 & 3
Thursday 11 July 8.50pm
Episode Two
Tim is eagerly anticipating the next stage of his life, hoping to move from a small flat in Bicester into an epic, architecturally daring home at Graven Hill. A man of machines, Tim plans not only to build the first basement in the area, but to fully kit it out as a workshop to tinker with his collection of motorbikes.
With the help of his dad Michael, this project is meant to be an opportunity to spend quality time together away from work. But soon, the stresses of the build begin to ramp up. The 5-tonne car lift Tim has ordered from China arrives on site but does not fit into the specially prepared hole in the basement.
Also, in this episode we revisit Jitinder whose house remained unfinished when we last met him – thanks to problems with moisture and his resin floor. Kevin goes back to experience the full majesty of his Hollywood Hills-style home.
Episode Three
When Jane and Richard met and fell for each other, Jane revealed that she was building her own home as part of a fresh start, Richard was inspired and decided to do the same.
Following in Jane’s footsteps, Richard chose a plot three doors down on the same street. Jane’s plan is for a beautifully crafted home with an inviting high-end kitchen, while Richard’s design will be minimal, sleek with some special architectural moments. Both houses will provide a new life for the five children they have between them, but quite how they’ll live in them, they don’t know yet, and if things don’t work out, they might not want to live in them at all.
