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George Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations
9pm, Channel 4
Architect George Clarke presents this new six-part series shining a light on the people restoring some of the 200,000 unused commercial buildings across Britain and turning them into family homes. In tonight’s opening episode, Clarke meets Cornwall couple Richard and Sarah, who won a £50,000 auction bid to buy their Grade II listed high-street bank after it closed. We follow the pair as they navigate the mammoth task of renovating amid planning red tape.
Ammar Kalia
8pm, BBC One
A rarity enters the Repair Shop barn this week as Howard Bird brings in his late friend’s prized painting to be restored by conservator Lucia Scalisi. The work in question is a 17th-century portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I, which Scalisi soon discovers is extremely delicate.
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A distinctive laugh is part of a successful joker s comic arsenal. Jimmy Carr sounds like a seal with its flipper stuck in a door. Michael McIntyre giggles like a five-year-old girl.
But for other comedians, hearing one of those unmistakable laughs in the audience must turn the blood cold.
There s a recording of Frankie Howerd at the Establishment Club in Soho, from a comeback gig in the early 1960s (Frankie spent his career going away and coming back). One nasal bray keeps cutting through the crowd it s Kenneth Williams, and he s sozzled.
Rob Brydon suffered a similar heart-stopper at a gig on the Edinburgh Fringe. The laugh echoing from the back was simple yet instantly recognisable. Hah! Hah! Ha-ah! it went. Everyone started turning round to stare. Ronnie Corbett was in the house.