Programme Information

Missing Live Ep 16/20

Monday 6 April to Good Friday 10 April

9.15-10.00am BBC ONE

• Press pack

Missing Live makes more urgent appeals for missing persons with up-to-the-minute information on cases featured during the current series as well as further stories of families and loved ones reunited.

Presented by Louise Minchin (BBC Breakfast) and Rav Wilding (Crimewatch), Missing Live details the valuable ongoing work of police forces across the country and the UK charity Missing People, as they try to discover the whereabouts of some of the approximately 200,000 people who are reported missing each year. In the final week of the current series, the programme highlights more cases in which the public's help is needed.

Missing person cases are often complex and involve mental health issues ranging from depression to anxiety about money. The series is therefore supported by the BBC's Headroom campaign, created to encourage people to look after their mental wellbeing.

If viewers can help with any of the appeals featured on the programme, they should contact Missing People on FreeFone 0500 700 700 (from the UK). Calls are confidential and lines are open 24 hours a day.

SS

To top

Stacey puts on a brave face and tries to put recent events behind her in the first visit of the week to Albert Square.

Meanwhile, Peggy informs Phil and Roxy that she has planned a Mitchell family dinner and Chelsea decides that, because of Theo, she wants to be more grown-up and responsible.

Stacey is played by Lacey Turner, Peggy by Barbara Windsor, Phil by Steve McFadden, Roxy by Rita Simons, Chelsea by Tiana Benjamin and Theo by Rolan Bell.

EB

During the Second World War, Lord Richard Attenborough's parents were among those who responded to the urgent appeal for British foster families by taking in two young European refugee girls who became part of their family. Lord Attenborough – together with three Kindertransport survivors – recount their moving experiences in this 30-minute film. The Kindertransport Story marks the 70th anniversary of the unique British rescue mission to save nearly 10,000 – mostly Jewish – children from the Nazis.

In the programme, a Passover Festival Programme for April 2009, three rescued children, Dorothy, Otto and Edith, all from Vienna and now in their eighties, tell their moving stories. They describe their memories of the violent persecutions of the Jews under Hitler, and how their desperate parents strived to acquire the necessary papers to send them away to Britain on the precious few places available on the Kindertransport trains. Little did the children realise that when they said their last goodbyes to their distraught parents on the railway platform, they would never see them again.

However, Dorothy, Otto and Edith consider themselves to be the "lucky ones" as a million and a half other children perished during the Holocaust.

GD/FB

Great British Menu

Monday 6 April

6.30-7.00pm BBC TWO

Two Scottish chefs are competing to cook at a homecoming banquet to honour men and women recently returned from active service in Afghanistan, in this week's Great British Menu. Michelin-starred chefs Alan Murchison (L'Ortolan and La Becasse) and Tom Kitchin (The Kitchin) are both determined to win and cook a meal bursting with the tastes of home.

Tom meets Scottish butcher John King to learn how to make haggis for his starter, using a secret recipe. And for his cheese-and-pickle sandwich starter, Alan hits Carnwarth to meet cheese-maker Humphrey Errington and learns how his Dunsyre blue is made.

Tom, who is the youngest Scottish chef ever to win a Michelin star, meets the farmers and founders of the Bramley Old Spot pig. Tom, who was one of the first chefs in the country to try the new cross breed, travels to the farm to see the pigs. Scotland is not known for its pork pies, but Alan wants to include one in his main course and meets a champion butcher and pie-maker who has developed many varieties of pie using game, cheese and cider.

On dessert day, Tom meets his cheese supplier to learn about an old Scottish cheese, Crowdie, which is coming back into fashion and which he wants to use in his cheesecake mousse. Inverness-born Alan needs oats for his "futuristic" pudding of raspberries and cream, so heads to Montgarrie Mills to visit one of the only traditional oatmeal mills left in the world.

To find out more about food in the Forces, both chefs spend the day with members of the 3 Rifles (a battalion of the Rifles Regiment) in Edinburgh. Tom and Alan compete against each other in a cooking challenge to see who can rustle up the most delicious dinner from ration packs. Finally, they chat to servicemen and women to find out what food they really miss when they're away.

Former Great British Menu champion Jeremy Lee drops by to inspire, motivate and keep a close eye on both chefs as they compete throughout the week.

CI2

To top

In tonight's final episode, ethnobotanist James Wong turns his attention to vegetables, demonstrating how to make a tasty artichoke snack as part of a low-cholesterol diet. He also uses garlic in a preparation to treat athlete's foot. There's also a beauty treat, as James turns cucumbers into a soothing eye gel.

James also makes sticking plasters from chillies and explains how their spicy properties could help relieve aching muscles. And a rugby team are eager to try out this remedy on their own limbs following a tough match.

Grow Your Own Drugs has brought together the nation's ever-growing passion for gardening, cookery and a healthy lifestyle. With James's botanical knowledge, combined with practical recipes, this fascinating series offers viewers a greater understanding of the properties of plants and how they can be turned into a whole host of natural remedies.

KA

To top

Stewart Lee discovers it's not easy making a comedy show about a global financial crisis

"What kind of creature makes his home in an investment opportunity? Only man. Home and investment are not the same thing. Home is a basic requirement of life. Like food. When squirrels hide acorns they are not trying to play the acorn market."

Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle marks the return to television of one of the finest stand-ups in Britain today. Each of the six, 30-minute episodes sees Stewart explore a different theme in a routine illustrated with sketches featuring an ensemble cast.

In the fourth episode of this new series, Stewart comments that it's not easy making a comedy show about a global financial crisis. But he's going to give it a go, trying to find out how the financial markets got themselves into this mess and who's going to get them out of it.

He also discovers that destroying your own home just might pay off; that those who put money under the bed and not in the bank were right all along; and – most horrifying of all – in London, one is never more than 10 ft from an estate agent. At least he's got fond memories of Woolworths, MFI and Zavvi...

CS

One of television's most critically acclaimed series, The Wire, continues on BBC Two.

Created by David Simon and set in Baltimore, The Wire's first season tells the story of a single drugs-and-murder police investigation from the point of view of the police and their targets.

Rawls looks to make a premature arrest in three murders linked to D'Angelo and Avon Barksdale. Meanwhile, McNulty and Greggs turn to Daniels to secure a delay in the murder cases and preserve the wiretap. While Wallace and D'Angelo struggle with their consciences after receiving "blood money" from Avon, Omar decides to turn witness after seeing his lover, Brandon's, body. After losing the war for arrest warrants, Rawls redoubles his efforts to get back at McNulty.

The Wire's ensemble cast includes: Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Idris Elba, Clarke Peters, Wendell Pierce, Domenick Lombardozzi, Andre Royo, Sonya Sohn, Michael K Williams and Wood Harris.

RN

Timmy Time – Timmy's Jigsaw Ep 1/26

Monday 6 April to Good Friday 10 April

Time to be confirmed CBEEBIES

• www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies

Timmy invites younger viewers to join him in his adventures at his nursery school

Nestling in the gently rolling hills is Timmy's nursery school, cosily housed in some old farm buildings. Complete with a messy play area, a story corner and a garden, this is the perfect place for a young lamb to start finding his place in the world...

From the makers of the much-loved and critically acclaimed Shaun The Sheep, little lamb Timmy stars in his own TV series. Being the "only lamb in the flock", Timmy has been used to getting his own way but now he has a lot to learn. Timmy can be a bit of a handful, but only because he is eager and enthusiastic.

Harriet Heron and Osbourne Owl, who run the nursery, have their hands full. But Timmy gets it right in the end – with a little help from his furry and feathery friends.

In today's opening episode, Timmy has lost the last piece of his jigsaw puzzle. But wandering the nursery to find it, he discovers other lost toy pieces. Returning these to their rightful owners but failing to find his jigsaw piece, he sadly begins to pack up the unfinished jigsaw – until his friends come to the rescue.

Only on CBeebies, Timmy Time is Aardman's first pre-school series, specially created for two- to five-year-olds. It combines the studio's world-class "stop motion" style with the colourful simplicity of classic pre-school animation. Timmy's nursery world is stylised, bright and colourful and the stories are presented with charm, humour and bags of fun.

FW