2 w. ago ROLAND WHITE reviews last night's TV: Is train buff Sandi's great rail trip an audition for Michael Portillo's job?

Everything in this feelgood programme was bathed in sunshine. You could virtually feel the summer holiday warmth in the air, and the cool breeze in her hotel room as she opened the shutters.

Events

2 w. ago Mary Berry's cottage pie with with a 'comforting twist' and is ideal family meal

Mary Berry shared her reinvented cottage pie recipe with cauliflower mash on BBC's Mary at 90: A Lifetime of Cooking.

Economics

3 w. ago ROLAND WHITE reviews Poison Water: Deadly tapwater scandal that left children drinking sulphuric acid

ROLAND WHITE: Michael Gove was ridiculed during the Brexit campaign when he said that people 'have had enough of experts'. After watching Poison Water, you might well think that he was right.

Events

3 w. ago ROLAND WHITE reviews Poison Water: Deadly tapwater scandal that left children drinking sulphuric acid

ROLAND WHITE: Michael Gove was ridiculed during the Brexit campaign when he said that people 'have had enough of experts'. After watching Poison Water, you might well think that he was right.

Events

3 w. ago ROLAND WHITE reviews Mary at 90: A Lifetime of Cooking: Dame Mary baking in Titchmarsh's garden

You might remember that John Major once defined Britishness as warm beer, long shadows on cricket grounds, and old ladies cycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist.

Events

3 w. ago ROLAND WHITE reviews Civilisations: Rise And Fall: BBC turns the history of Rome into a lecture on immigration and equality

BBC series Civilisations Rise And Fall seems to believe its core audience struggles with detail and has the attention span of a hyperactive squirrel.

Events

3 w. ago ROLAND WHITE reviews Prisoner 951 on BBC1: Nazanin's Iran hell made me yearn for the days of gunboat diplomacy

The people at Panorama who doctored President Trump's speech have done more damage to the BBC than they can possibly imagine.

Events

4 w. ago ROLAND WHITE reviews Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks: Do the paintings really look like omelettes? Ronnie Wood disagrees

He drew our attention to the movement and thickness of the paint, and highlighted the way the artist expressed turbulence and unrest.

Events

4 w. ago ROLAND WHITE reviews Cooper & Fry: Headless corpses? Evil spirits? All in a day's work for a Peak District cop

When people start new jobs in real life, they wait a few days to settle in. They're on their best behaviour, and they don't moan that it was much better at their old place.

Events

last month ROLAND WHITE reviews Celebrity MasterChef: Grace Dent's recipe for success? Make the cooks the stars

Celebrity MasterChef is further proof that you can make successful television from pretty much anything. The cooks' first task was to reveal a piece of food, and prepare something with that ingredient in question.

Society