Rock ’n’ Roll Britannia (BBC4, 9pm)

ROCK RULES: Cliff Richard talks about the rock ’n’ roll years

10:59am Friday 17th May 2013

THOSE who weren’t around to experience it probably think that popular British music began with the Beatles in 1963. It’s true that the Fab Four changed the music scene, but they weren’t the first artists to keep the public’s toes tapping or, indeed persuade them to ditch their usual reserve and get on the dance floor.

Would I Lie to You? (BBC1, 8.30pm)

10:58am Friday 17th May 2013

YOU might think, especially since he’s on our screens so much these days, that you already know all there is to know about Bake Off expert Paul Hollywood. However, everyone has a few surprises up their sleeves or skeletons in their closets, and more often than not it’s this show Would I Lie to You? which reveals them.

The Mentalist (Channel 5, 9pm)

10:54am Friday 17th May 2013

APART from making tea, driving Lisbon crazy, and outing murderers with clever mind games, Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) has spent the past five series of The Mentalist doing little else but hunting for Red John.

Man’s best friend

HOME NEEDED: Paul O’Grady with Twinkle the lurcher

3:49pm Thursday 16th May 2013

WE are a nation of animal lovers so perhaps it wasn’t surprising that a primetime series about Battersea Dogs and Cats home would attract viewers in their millions.

Keep qualm and carry on

21st Century polymath: Bill Bailey’s tour poster

2:47pm Thursday 16th May 2013

Bill Bailey talks to Steve Pratt about his life as an actor, musician, comic and TV and radio presenter.

It’s a vet’s life popping pills

Rhona raids the veterinary medicine cupboard to feed her addiction to painkillers

2:28pm Thursday 16th May 2013

RHONA the vet isn’t well in Emmerdale (ITV1). She’s sweating, she’s snappy, she can’t concentrate and she’s throwing up. She’s either pregnant or picked up something through spending much of her working life with her hand up a cow’s bum.

NCIS (Channel 5, 9pm)

ON THE CASE: Jamie Lee Curtis as Samantha Ryan in NCIS

11:22am Wednesday 15th May 2013

MARK HARMON is best known for his work as Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS.

The Chef’s Protege (BBC2, 6.30pm)

11:20am Wednesday 15th May 2013

WE’RE hardly in short supply of cooking competitions led by a rotating crop of flavour-of-the-month chefs, but the Beeb has yet another one – The Chef’s Protege.

The Apprentice (BBC1, 9pm)

11:15am Wednesday 15th May 2013

IT’S easy to laugh at some of the business hopefuls featured on The Apprentice. That’s all part of the fun of the show.

Frankie (BBC1, 9pm)

WELCOME TONIC: Eve Myles, who stars as district nurse Frankie Maddox

10:31am Tuesday 14th May 2013

NEXT time you’re tuning in to Popmaster on Radio 2, spare a thought for the nation’s district nurses. You might not realise it, but the dulcet tones of daytime favourite Ken Bruce can offer an oasis of calm for those at the hectic forefront of home-based medical care.

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