Television WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY 8 MAY
ANTHOLOGY
10.00pm BBC2 Catch up via iPlayer All aboard for the ninth and final series of the dazzlingly inventive Inside No 9, which starts asix-part shuffle towards its terminus with Boo to a Goose. The action unfolds in a train carriage — C9, to be precise —on astretch of Merseyrail’s Northern Line. The lives of nine late-night passengers intersect when the service stalls in atunnel, with new bonds forming while other relationships break down.
Could there be asex pest and/or thief among them or something even more sinister?
It’s great to see Siobhan Finneran in aNo 9at last, albeit paired with the buttoned-up Gerry (Reece Shearsmith), not her Benidorm hubby, Steve Pemberton, who here plays vicious drag queen Wilma. Mark Bonnar guest-stars as aparticularly nasty fellow traveller, while This Country’s Charlie Cooper seems to be experiencing homelessness very convincingly.
It all makes for abeautifully observed character piece, though you may be left chewing your lip in bemusement at the dénouement.
PATRICK MULKERN Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith: page 146
FOOD
7.00pm BBC2
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Since the 2001 racial disturbances in Burnley, Lancashire, the clergy and the imams have worked together to build bridges between the communities and show that “there’s more that unites us than divides us”. Key to this is an annual cricket match, so Andi Oliver “turns it up a notch” by swiftly sorting adelicious party menu that includes mushroom pies, curried Scotch eggs and juice ’n’ ginger shots —but the blustery weather is against them.
What also blows her away is Burnley’s community spirit. “Embracing differences and banishing the demons of the past is what life is all about,” she says emotionally.
PROPERTY
8.00pm C4 Catch up: C4 streaming Many of the house hunters asking for help have already spent hours trawling online and traipsing to viewings. But as the 41st series of the property show begins, Amanda and Annette have used adifferent approach. Their research thus far has entailed watching reruns of Location: with 40 series to binge on, they won’t have been short of episodes. With abudget of £800,000, Kirstie helps them find their forever home in West Sussex. Over in East Sussex, Danit and Rafi are on the hunt for their first pad. But with the pair torn between Brighton or Hove, Phil has his work cut out.
Then at 9pm, Stacey Solomon rescues another renovation —this time for newlyweds Shariqa and Imani.
DOCUMENTARY
8.35pm PBS America Catch up via Freeview Play
If you enjoyed BBC2’s Surgeons: at the Edge of Life (though enjoyed may not be quite the word), you’ll be interested in this two-part history of sur
