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<body><![CDATA[Roll over each title to find out what Sunday Times television editor David Hutcheon is tipping . . .Dates and times for these programmes have still to be finalised in the broadcastersΓÇÖ schedules; full details of each weekΓÇÖs television listings can be found every Sunday in Culture magazine]]></body>
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<title><![CDATA[PalinΓÇÖs Himalayas]]></title>
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<body><![CDATA[After walking in HemingwayΓÇÖs footsteps, the former Python is following Sid James and Kenneth Williams in Carry on up the Khyber. This yearΓÇÖs trek comes with a ΓÇ£donΓÇÖt try this at homeΓÇ¥ caveat: what with war-torn Kashmir, the feuding Northwest Frontier, Maoist guerrillas in Nepal, and, arguably the most dangerous of all, meals with nomadic yak herders.]]></body>
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<title><![CDATA[FoyleΓÇÖs War]]></title>
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<body><![CDATA[A third helping of the most popular new crime series of the decade, with four more investigations for the wartime copper. Dastardly deeds on the south coast lead to a shabby murder and culminate in the Nazi invasion being repelled once more. Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks provide the thrills, gravitas and eye candy.]]></body>
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<title><![CDATA[Sex Traffic]]></title>
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<body><![CDATA[John Simm plays a charity worker investigating the plight of two Moldovan sisters in this two-part drama from Abi Morgan (the writer behind Murder and My Fragile Heart) and David Yates (the director of State of Play). There is a serious factual basis to the story: since 1991, when Moldova became independent, it is estimated that 1m people, 25% of the population, have ΓÇ£escapedΓÇ¥ abroad or been sold into sexual slavery.]]></body>
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<title><![CDATA[UK Music Hall<br>of Fame]]></title>
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<body><![CDATA[An audacious attempt to steal popΓÇÖs crown back from the stylistsΓÇÖ mannequins hogging the charts, with weekly two-hour shows dedicated to the past five decades. Ten artists will make the short list for each era, then you get to decide the winners. For the record, the Sunday Times television desk has cast its votes for Sir Cliff, Sir Paul, Sir Elton, Status Quo and Robbie, and canΓÇÖt wait for the poll winnersΓÇÖ concert.]]></body>
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<title><![CDATA[Who Do You Think You Are?]]></title>
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<body><![CDATA[The autumn blockbuster on BBC2 is a 10-part family history project to rival Restoration and Great Britons. We get advice on uncovering family trees, and celebrities trace their roots and learn how history affected their families. Jeremy Clarkson explores the industrial revolution, Meera Syal looks at the fall of the Raj, Ian Hislop digs into the Boer war and Bill Oddie discovers a sister he never knew he had.]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[The battle of the ballroom was one of the yearΓÇÖs surprise hits, and a much-needed fillip to Saturday nights, so it is not entirely unexpected that Bruce Forsyth has been offered a speedy reprise in order to erase memories of Johnny and Denise. Fake tans and fixed grins to the fore ΓÇô oh wait, David Dickinson was last series... No celebrity dancers have been named yet, but the terrifying Natasha Kaplinsky has promised to return.]]></body>
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<title><![CDATA[Spooks]]></title>
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<body><![CDATA[The third series finds our spies in disarray: Tom (Matthew MacFadyen) has vanished and Harry (Peter Firth) has been seriously injured. So can new arrival Adam (Rupert Penry Jones) pull the team together when they think a mole is involved? Viewers who find the drama too stylish, too well-groomed, should turn to the BBCΓÇÖs Spooks website, where among the bells and whistles you can prepare yourself for an interactive mission later in the series.]]></body>
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<title><![CDATA[Outlaw]]></title>
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<body><![CDATA[Phil Daniels, one of this nationΓÇÖs saving graces, plays an ambulance-chasing lawyer in a blackly comic and very non-PC drama about the unglamorous world of legal aid and magistrates courts. Not to be confused with Help! IΓÇÖm an Outlaw (ITV1), which is a new childrenΓÇÖs drama about a reluctant 18th century highwayman trying to look after his 10 brothers and sisters.]]></body>
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<title><![CDATA[A Thing Called Love]]></title>
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<body><![CDATA[When Channel 4 makes a drama about the search for true love, it splits the story between New York and London: when the BBC tries something similar, it is set in ΓÇ£the vibrant city of NottinghamΓÇ¥. Paul Nicholls is Gary, a painter and decorator on a quest to find his soul mate. Joining him on his mission is his pal Paula (Liz White), the only person who truly understands him. Can we guess where this is leading?]]></body>
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<title><![CDATA[Teachers]]></title>
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<body><![CDATA[Back in the jug agane. Channel 4ΓÇÖs most successful drama series ever returns for a fourth series, with new beaks Mathew Horne (a hypochondriac, atheist religious education teacher), Lee Williams (a hunky English master) and Daon Broni (the new cynic in the home economics department). Expect teenage angst, first-love neurosis and fragile relationships, plus some trouble that involves the pupils.]]></body>
