Russia
vs England
Live
Wednesday
17 October,
Sky Sports 1, 3.30pm
The England team have got the
country talking again with some
belting performances in their
last two games. Who would have
thought Emile Heskey and Gareth
Barry would become the nation’s
favourite players?
But once again the team has
been beset by injuries, leaving
the hard work to veterans like John
Terry and Steven Gerrard in this
must-win clash.
This afternoon’s crucial Euro
2008 qualifier comes from the
Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, where
the Group E rivals clash on an
artificial pitch. The result of this
game will have a huge say on who
will qualify for next year’s Euro
Championship finals in Austria
and Switzerland. Let’s hope
Wayne Rooney’s got his shooting
boots on and McClaren sticks
with Barry instead of Lampard.
SPORT
monday 15 oCT Tuesday 16 oCT Wednesday 17 oCT
The Swiss Army
messed up on
the uniform
The Smallest People
In The World
Channel 4, 8pm They remain the size
of toddlers for the rest of their lives, but
primordial dwarves’ brains grow normally,
as this moving doc shows.
DOCU
Ross Kemp On Gangs
Sky One, 9pm Colombia’s
capital, Bogota, is known for its brutal
guerrilla fighting. The ex-EastEnder goes
to meet the big players, including the most
secretive gang of all, the Sicarios.
DOCU
The Relief Of Belsen
C4+1, 10pm
During the Second World War,
a British ambulance unit was
diverted from the frontline to help
the victims of a devastating typhus
outbreak in the Bergen-Belsen
prison camp.
DRAMA
Movie Connections
BBC1, 10.35pm In Shakespeare
In Love, Gwyneth Paltrow pretended to be
a man, but won the Bard’s love anyway. Go
figure. Here, the actors, writer, producers
and director discuss the making of the film.
DOCU
Gerrard’s thigh:
irresistible to
some
What The Ancients Did For Us
UKTV History, 6pm Where
would we be without the Romans? Learn
about the Circus Maximus, a mass
entertainment venue, and then demand
a game of Trivial Pursuit.
DOCU
Earth Story
UKTV Documentary, 8pm
The world’s longest mountain range lies
beneath the Atlantic Ocean under layers of
black water. So naturally, Aubrey Manning
takes an expedition down to explore it.
DOCU DOCU
Spooks
BBC1, 9pm An
undercover operation to assassinate
a terrorist goes wrong when
innocent civilians die and the
suspect lives – then it comes out
that it was a set-up and that a lethal
virus has been exposed.
DRAMA
Charlie Brooker’s
Screenwipe
BBC4, 10pm The acerbic critic peels away
the layers of the TV industry, looking at the
week’s highlights amid his own tongue-incheek
commentary. Highly amusing.
COMEDY
“Yep, the
zoom
works”
Lineker risked
his life for
the runway
photo shoot
Empire Of The Sun
Sky Movies Modern Greats,
5.10pm An English boy (a young Christian
Bale) is separated from his family by the
Japanese invasion of Shanghai and forced
to survive on his own in Spielberg’s war epic.
FILM
Seconds From Disaster
National Geographic, 8pm In
1990, the Scandinavian Star ferry caught
on fire, killing nearly half the passengers.
Ten hours after it was towed to Sweden,
the blaze was put out. Riveting and moving.
Drop The Dead Donkey
Paramount Comedy 2,
10.20pm Classic episode of the Nineties
comedy about a fictional newsroom. Henry
(David Swift) is confused when strange
things start happening to his column.
COMEDY
Match Of The Day
BBC1, 10.40pm It’s
Russia v England, and the stakes
couldn’t be much higher in the
penultimate match of the Euro 2008
qualifications. Gary Lineker shows
highlights for those who were still
at work when the match was on.
SPORT
Radio
& Podcasts
Friday Night Comedy
Radio 4 podcast, available
from Friday 12 October
Not happy with what’s on TV or the
radio? Download this surprisingly
entertaining podcast featuring
UK comics discussing current
events on ‘The News Quiz’.
“Short back and
sides. Touch the
’tache, I’ll kill you”
The Archive Hour:
Stalin’s Silent People
Saturday 13 October,
Radio 4, 8pm
Stalin’s reign of terror is well-known,
but what was going on in the
minds of his people? Historian
Orlando Figes reads from his
new book The Whisperers.
The Preposterous Files
Sunday 14 October,
Radio 4, 2.45pm
There’s a lot of random stuff in the
National Archive. Julian Putkowski
finds the case of an unconscious
man on a Polish ship in 1954 whose
origin stumped authorities.
Steve Lamacq’s In New
Music We Trust
Monday 15 October,
Radio 1, 9pm
The DJ plays the best upcoming
indie, giving new artists a shot.
A pleasant change from the usual
stuff that’s played ad nauseum.
Lamacq
insisted that
his ears must
always be out
of focus
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