Beat the Chef (C4, 5.30pm) PRESENTER and restaurateur Andi Oliver is back with the culinary contest, as skilful amateur cooks compete in two fast-paced cook-offs to win up to £10,000. They will go head-to-head with one of our four professional chefs: award-winning Mark Sargeant, Roux Scholar Frederick Forster, executive chef Sophie Michell and Michelin-starred Hrishikesh Desai. Today, Chris Topham, a former fighter pilot, hopes his beef stroganoff can hit the heights against Mark’s whole plaice with bourguignon sauce.
Great British Railway Journeys (BBC Two, 6.30pm) MICHAEL Portillo explores East Anglia between the First and Second World Wars. His journey begins in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, where a staggering discovery of early medieval cemeteries was made in 1939. At Leiston, he visits the oldest children’s democracy in the world, Summerhill School, which was founded in 1921 by a Scottish educator whose daughter is school principal today. After unearthing a nasty brush betwee
Andi Oliver
Beat the Chef (C4, 5.30pm) PRESENTER and restaurateur Andi Oliver is back with the culinary contest, as skilful amateur cooks compete in two fast-paced cook-offs to win up to £10,000. They will be go head-to-head with one of our four professional chefs: award-winning Mark Sargeant, Roux Scholar Frederick Forster, executive chef Sophie Michell and Michelin-starred Hrishikesh Desai. In the kitchen today is Chris Topham, a former fighter pilot who hopes that his beef stroganoff can hit the heights. Taking him on in culinary combat is Mark, out to prove he’s the top gun when it comes to cooking. Will Chris rise to the challenge of Mark’s whole plaice with bourguignon sauce?
Crowds returned to the Crucible for this year’s World Championship final (Zac Goodwin/PA)
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Seventeen days of the World Snooker Championship yielded its usual blend of drama and controversy – and finished in front of a near-capacity Crucible crowd.
But at the end of a long and Covid-affected season, what did this year’s tournament say about the state of the game and its most high-profile players?
Selby’s success in sapping his opponent’s swashbuckling spirit prompted Ronnie O’Sullivan, appearing as a pundit on Eurosport, to liken the three-time champion to a “boa constrictor” and warn: “He will tighten even more.”
Murphy had stomped into the final after reeling off seven straight frames to sink Kyren Wilson and the 2005 champion looked set to make good to on his vow to entertain after winning the first two frames of the match. But defeating Selby, who was unrepentant after being warned for slow play in his semi-final win over Stuart Bingham and had vowed to fight for “five years” if required to dredge up a victory, would prove easier said than done.
Updated / Saturday, 1 May 2021
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Mark Selby and Stuart Bingham play to a finish from 2.30pm on Saturday afternoon
Mark Selby was warned for slow play as Stuart Bingham won five frames in succession to wrest control of their World Snooker Championship semi-final at the Crucible.
Referee Ben Williams intervened to tell Selby to think about taking a stroke after the three-time champion took over three minutes deliberating during a 19th frame that ticked over the one-hour mark.
Bingham started the evening with a 131 clearance then made a valiant attempt at a maximum break, before ultimately fashioning a 13-11 advantage heading into their final session on Saturday afternoon.