Tonight's TV Pick: The sweet treats of a Victorian Christmas and the life and legacy of Roy Orbison
THE SWEET MAKERS: A CHRISTMAS TREAT, BBC2, 9pm
THE SWEET MAKERS: A CHRISTMAS TREAT, BBC2, 9pm
THE DETECTORISTS, BBC4, 10pm
BLITZ: THE BOMBS THAT CHANGED BRITAIN, BBC2, 9pm
RICK STEIN’S ROAD TO MEXICO, BBC2, 9pm
EMPLOYABLE ME, BBC2, 9pm
HARDLY anyone in Europe had seen a living elephant 150 years ago. They were just weird looking creatures in picture books.
IF I was a really boring person, I’d talk about how this week’s episode of The Apprentice (Wednesday, BBC1) was all about the gender divide, looking at how some men may be dismissive of women’s concerns, and how Harrison stood back from the rough and tumble of the task as he didn’t know anything about women’s fashion and didn’t seem especially keen to learn: what kind of big strong alpha male concerns himself with dresses and frills? But I’m not a boring person, so I won’t. Instead, I’m going to talk about the dread of being embarrassed.
MICHAEL MCINTYRE’S BIG SHOW, BBC1, 8.20pm
ELAINE C SMITH’S BURDZ EYE VIEW, STV, 8pm
INSIDE CHERNOBYL’S MEGA TOMB, BBC4, 9pm
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