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JAMIE: WHAT TO EAT THIS WEEK – AUTUMN
8PM, CH4 ★★★★ There are consolations to the shorter daylight hours and cooler temperatures: autumn brings with it a bounty of produce, and Jamie is here to show you how to make the most of it. From aubergine and runner beans to blackberries and figs, sweet and savoury temptations are on the menu tonight. See Jamie’s Simply Delicious Recipes, page 63.
MOZART: RISE OF A GENIUS
9PM, BBC2 ★★★★ As with the series last year on Shakespeare, this is a very wellappointed piece, lavished with attention, detail and appraisals from an A-list cast of fans, musicians and experts, from Stephen Fry and Richard E. Grant to Dame Jane Glover and soprano Lucy Crowe. Featuring private letters, dramatic reconstructions and, crucially, his music, this promises to get to the heart of who Mozart really was.
THE WIVES 9PM, CH5 ★★★
Another contender for the British Big Little Lies. Instead of Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep, we’ve got a trio of ex-soap actresses (Jo Joyner, Tamzin Outhwaite and Angela Griffin) as the friends getting together to unpick a mystery, while wrangling their own personal demons. A year after the fourth member of their clique, Annabelle, disappeared, presumed dead, they reunite for another holiday in Malta, where Annabelle’s widower, Charlie, arrives with a shiny new, much younger girlfriend. That immediately piques the suspicions of the trio – and Beth (Joyner) in particular. Continues nightly until Thursday. See feature, page 7.
WE MIGHT REGRET THIS 10PM, BBC2
★★★ Freya and Abe (Kyla Harris and Darren Boyd) haven’t had much time alone, but a romantic getaway comes with some unique challenges, and you can probably guess what they are by now. After a lesson from Jo (Elena Surel, right, with Harris) in how it’s done, Abe feels ready to go it alone, and Freya, who’s never wanted a partner to feel that they’ve ‘needed to help me pee, or do my care’, is excited at the prospect of a night away. Let’s just say it doesn’t quite go to plan.
IN MY OWN WORDS: HANIF KURESHI 10.40PM, BBC1
★★★★ The latest in this highquality personal memoir series hears from one of our most acclaimed and outspoken writers. Hanif Kureshi reveals how his experience as part of an immigrant family in post-war Britain informed his writing and, as with his best-known works The Buddha Of Suburbia and My Beautiful Laundrette, recollections of his personal and professional lives are buoyed by great warmth and humour.