Television Programs of Interest (Sat 17th July to Fri 23rd July 2010)

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 17th July to Fri 23rd July 2010)

PLANET FOOD: SINGAPORE
Angela May digs into the diverse, multi-ethnic mixing bowl that is Singapore cuisine.
Saturday 17 July 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: G
CC
Duration: mins

VICTORIA'S EMPIRE: EP 3 OF 3
Comedienne Victoria Wood's tracing of the Victorian influence in the spread of the British Empire takes her across the world where she visits New Zealand's Bay of Islands. There she meets straight-talking Maori, Hone, who describes the "treacherous" Treaty of Waitangi of 1841 in which the British tricked the Maoris into giving them sovereignty over their land.
Sunday 18 July 2010 1.00am (early hours)
ABC2 Rating: G
CC Rpt
Duration: 55 mins

TREKS IN A WILD WORLD: BEST CANADIAN TREKS
Bradley Cooper treks along the Viking Trail; Steve Dunn goes horse riding to Birkenhead Lake, before discovering Black Tusk; and Bradley goes sea kayaking off the coast of Vancouver Island.
Sunday 18 July 2010 6.30pm
ABC1 Rating: G *Final*
CC
Duration: 30 mins

GREATEST CITIES OF THE WORLD WITH GRIFF RHYS JONES: HONG KONG - EP 6 OF 6
In the final program of this 6-part series Griff visits Hong Kong. A complex city that is a mix of the ancient and modern, East and West, and where consumerism and spiritualism live side by side.
Tuesday 20 July 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: PG *Final*
CC
Duration: 60 mins

A FORK IN AFRICA: ZANZIBAR
Like a pilau rice dish which is generously flavoured with a variety of colourful spices, the ethnic mix of Zanzibar - or Unguja, to call it by its Arabic name - varies widely, including Swahili, Shirazi Persian, Portuguese and Omani Arab people.
Wednesday 21 July 2010 4.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: G
CC WS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

CHEESE SLICES: ENGLAND - SERIES 4, EP 1 OF 10
Will visits influential cheese retailer Neal's Yard Dairy in London, where cheese champion Randolph Hodgson explains how English traditional farmhouse country cheese was saved from extinction.
Wednesday 21 July 2010 6.00pm
ABC1
CC
Duration: 30 mins

POH'S KITCHEN: EP 22 OF 40
On her recent trip to Malaysia, Poh noticed that in Malaysia there's no differentiation between breakfast, lunch and dinner. This got Poh thinking about breakfasts around the world and wanting to find out more about breakfast traditions.
Wednesday 21 July 2010 6.30pm
ABC1 Rating: G
CC
Duration: 30 mins

FEAST GREECE: GREEK OFFERINGS - EP 9 OF 9
In celebration of the wonderful culture and cuisine of Greece, Chef Barry Vera is back in the kitchen creating some Greek classics, adding his own imaginative twist.
Thursday 22 July 2010 4.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: G *Final*
CC WS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

MY FAMILY FEAST: THE BALINESE - EP 12 OF 13
Every year the Balinese Community of NSW gets together to celebrate Galungan - a cultural and religious holiday that marks the beginning of the most important religious ceremony in Bali. Galungan occurs every 210 days and lasts for ten days. Sean Connolly joins the recently elected president of the community, Ode Srijaya and his wife Putu, for the festivities that involve preparation of a feast, weaving of banten (baskets upon which food offerings are presented) and an offering to the ancestors at a temporary outdoor shrine.
Thursday 22 July 2010 7.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: G
CC WS
Duration: 30 mins

OZ AND JAMES DRINK TO BRITAIN: EP 5 OF 8
Oz and James are in Burton-on-Trent, and James is particularly excited at being reunited with his home brew. Oz sets to work making his own beer, which is based on an old Elizabethan recipe. The intrepid pair set out to taste some of the world's most extreme beers, and try their hands at being barmen for an evening at a pub in Stourbridge.
Thursday 22 July 2010 8.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: G
CC WS
Duration: 30 mins

THE SUPERSIZERS GO: SEVENTIES - EP 4 OF 7
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spend a week going back to the food of their childhood in the 1970s. Cooking for them at home is top chef Mark Hix. Giles grows his sideburns and Sue dons a wig of long hair as they dress in their flares and bright colours to go down memory lane.
Thursday 22 July 2010 8.30pm (not screening WA)
SBS ONE Rating: PG
CC WS
Duration: 60 mins

CLASSICAL DESTINATIONS: RETURN TO ST PETERSBURG - EP 13 OF 13
In the series finale, Classical Destinations returns to St Petersburg to meet and review some significant figures in its history: Pushkin, Catherine the Great and Rasputin. Our last tour of the current series features the music of the composers Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.
Friday 23 July 2010 4.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: G *Final*
CC WS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins