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8pm, Channel 4
A handsome chow chow, a cockapoo who likes to be heard and a family of three who want to stick together – these are the pooches looking to match with a new owner this week. Will 11-year-old Luke be taking one (or some) home? Hollie Richardson
9pm, BBC One It's potatoes v tomatoes in this round of the business reality show, as the teams create dishes to entice the general public at lunchtime. True to Apprentice form, there are kitchen mishaps, risky promises and odd pricings aplenty, all of which lead to one candidate's last supper in the boardroom. Nicole Vassell
9pm, Channel 4 This hospital documentary manages to balance the trauma of emergency medicine with hopeful studies of the human condition. A 55-year-old woman is blue-lighted to Queen's medical centre in Nottingham, where staff soon realise their latest patient is, in fact, one of their most senior nursing colleagues, Sister Lou. HJD
9pm, Channel 5 Walter Raleigh is (not entirely accurately) credited with bringing potatoes and tobacco to Europe – and the Elizabethan explorer's legacy is the next to be scrutinised in James May's series. He starts by asking how Raleigh talked his way to the top of London high society using the art of persuasion. HR
10.30pm, Channel 5 A double-bill finale for the divisive Irish drama inspired by the 'Vanishing Triangle' – the high-profile disappearances of eight women during the 80s and 90s. A lead to the killer takes Lisa and Brennan to an abandoned slaughterhouse. Will they find the answers they're searching for? HR
Vesper (Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper, 2022), 9pm, Film4
Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper's coming-of-age sci-fi movie combines imaginative design with a fable-like feel. It's a dystopian story set in a new dark age with a genetically mutated ecosystem and citadels that control the few viable crops. Teenager Vesper (Raffiella Chapman) just about survives in a rural shack with her bedbound father, while keeping out of the way of the local bigwig, her uncle Jonas (an implacably brutal Eddie Marsan). But she has scientific skills that offer hope for the future, especially after an encounter with a mysterious citadel dweller (Rosy McEwen). Simon Wardell
The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick, 1955), 9pm, Sky Arts The final classic from the golden age of Ealing Studios, Alexander Mackendrick's piquant comedy pits a gang of robbers against a sweet old widow who lives near London's King's Cross station. Alec Guinness is the most famous name, playing their leader, Prof Marcus, but dramatically it's a group effort, with Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom and Peter Sellers part of his motley crew. Katie Johnson is the formidable Mrs Wilberforce, who rents out rooms to Marcus's 'string quintet' while they plan their next operation, and proves to be their unwitting nemesis. SW
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Folk might be the first genre applied to the Waterboys, but you could bung in punk, rock and roll, country, rhythm and blues and, er, chamber music. Eclectic, ken? The man himself, son of a college lecturer, is right literary, making a show and album aboot yon W.B. Yeats, and spending much time at Findhorn, the New Age (getting on a bit now, mind) community in the northeast of Scottishland. He formed the Waterboys in 1983, taking the name from a line in a Lou Reed song. The band's first single was A Girl Called Johnny, and their first group appearance on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test. Discernible inlfuences on their imaginatively titled debut, The Waterboys, included Patti Smith, Dylan, Bowie, Van Morrison and U2. Still, nobody's perfect. Their first tour began in Frankfurt, with Eddi Reader providing backing vocals for the first two gigs. 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But the big influence was always Yeats. For a fortnight in 2005, Scott read through his collected works over and over until certain words sparked the glimmer of a song. After two weeks, he had 10, later doubled to 20 and, with fiver more years' work, forming the basis for An Appointment With Mr Yeats. In 2010, this show had its world premiere in Dublin's Abbey Theatre, which Yeats had co-founded. Featuring a 13-piece lineup, the five-night show of 'psychedelic, intense, kaleidescopic … rock, folk and faery music' quickly sold out, receiving standing ovations and rave reviews. An album version, released in 2011, reached the top 30. As well as Yeats, Waterboys' concerts and albums have also featured the works of Burns, George MacDonald (Room to Roam), and Sufi poet Hafez. Greek god Pan has also made an apperance, as has Native American spirituality. After a couple of blues-ish albums, Where the Action Is came next, with Scott furthering his musical influences again by incorporating hippety-hop, if that is the expression. For his 14th album as a Waterboy, 2020's Good Luck, Seeker, Scott claimed to have channelled the Rolling Stones, Kate Bush, Sly Stone and Kendrick Lamar. Well, one out of four isn't bad. Devil's Music THE Irish Times described one track, Postcard from the Celtic Dream Time as, arguably, 'an insufferable Celtic Twilight circle of hell'. However, it acknowledged that opening track My Wanderings in the Weary Land featured fab lyrics: 'I witnessed the birth and funeral of Laddism/I heard the Great Unspoken/Saw cruelty masquerade as humour.' The Waterboys' 16th album (a double), Life, Death And Dennis Hopper, was released in April. An audio-biography described as the band's 'most audacious' offering yet, it was inspired by the colourful actor-director's lesser-known talents as a photographer, after Scott saw an exhibition of his work. Mike Scott comes out of posterity hitherto as a fine example of integrity, staying true to his artistic vision, ploughing his own furrow. "I never thought in terms of celebrity,' he has said. Ach, well, ye're an Icon noo, son.
