What’s on air today: Jim and Nancy Moir painting birds in Northumbria.

Pick of the Day: Drawing Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir.

Jim Moir stated in a recent interview that his Vic Reeves days are long past and he owes a lot to his new series. Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing then his own longtime surreal double role with Bob Mortimer. It’s not that Moir has stopped wearing silly hats when he’s birdwatching with his wife Nancy Sorrell before returning to his studio in Kent to paint his birds. “This is the best job I’ve ever had,” he tells Nancy. “It’s got everything I’ve ever owned…art, birds, and you.” They went to Northumbria in search of curlews, accompanied by actor friend Mark Benton.

race around the world

The teams are halfway through and begin their journey to the fifth checkpoint, located more than 3,000 km away on Manitoulin Island. But they only have one way out of Churchill, Manitoba: a night train and two buses from hell. The current leaders are struggling with the remaining quarter of their budget while Zainib is homesick and Trisha worries she will have to give up her race after bad news from home.

Matt Baker Country Travel: USA

Private country file The host delves into rural Florida life and learns that it is “the birthplace of the American cowboy”. He also visits a citrus orchard in Polk County to learn how tangerines are grown and harvested before helping with sorting and sorting in the warehouse. Meanwhile, the farmer explains that many other fruits are grown in Florida, including the rare guanabana or soursop. No, me too.

Saving lives in Leeds

Congenital heart surgeon Osama Jaber needs to perform life-saving surgery on 15-day-old baby Callie-Mae on her latest visit to Yorkshire’s life-saving hospitals. She was born with the two main arteries of the heart in the wrong position, which means her body is not getting enough oxygenated blood. Meanwhile, neurosurgeon Kenan Deniz operates on 30-year-old Sam. She suffers from debilitating headaches, having been born with a condition that causes the lower part of her brain to press against her spine.

Among women

Found in the BBC archives as part of a program marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, this is a highly acclaimed four-part adaptation of Booker’s 1998 novel by Irish author John McGahern. Tony Doyle is set in the middle of the century. A Republican frontier town and plays a controlling patriarch who fought for the IRA during the Revolutionary War and Irish Civil War of the 1920s.

naked attraction

The slightly truncated dating strip show returns, with Plymouth’s Sarah becoming the first returning picker, having previously appeared on the show as David. Sarah is now proudly pansexual and lives like a woman. She can’t wait to test her new body on the road and “hopes her first date as a woman is everything she’s dreamed of.” Meanwhile, 20-year-old plumber from Swansea Jamie, apparently tired of “attacks from pensioners at work” and came to the studio in search of love.