Irresistible: Why We Can't Stop Eating
Channel: BBC Earth (DStv 184)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Documentary, Food
Why are ultra-processed foods so irresistible, and how they have come to dominate food culture?
This documentary by medical doctor and academic Chris van Tulleken features interviews with former food industry insiders who talk openly about the way in which popular foods have been designed to be irresistible.
Food companies go to extraordinary lengths to ensure their products connect with consumers - from using brain scans to assess the deliciousness of ice cream to carefully engineering the sound of a crunch.
Ultra-processed foods are hyper-delicious and super-convenient, have long shelf lives and are extremely cheap.
But a growing body of evidence is linking these products to our declining health.
Inside the Factory 9
Channel: BBC Earth (DStv 184)
TX Time: 19h00
Genre: Technology, Science, Food
With exclusive access to some of the world's biggest and busiest factories – some opening their doors to TV cameras for the very first time – this behind-the-scenes documentary series reveals the secrets of consumer goods.
New host Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visit factories that produce some of our favourite foods on a massive scale, from sliced bread to flapjacks and sausage rolls.
In the Season 9 premiere, "Sliced Bread": In a nostalgic episode of Inside the Factory, new presenter Paddy McGuinness visits the Warburtons bread factory in his hometown of Bolton, where he once worked as a youngster more than 30 years ago.
At Warbies, as the locals call it, he catches up with old friends and learns how the machines, ovens and conveyors he once cleaned enable the site to produce 1.4-million loaves of bread every week.
As a fitting return to the factory, Paddy makes a grand entrance by driving a tanker of flour through the gates.
As he manoevres his way to the intake area, he reveals that he was a young boy of 16 when he worked here - it was a Saturday job, cleaning out the massive bread-making machines.
However, the machines didn't run on Saturdays, which means that he's going to see them in action for the first time.
With a little trepidation, Paddy dons the obligatory hairnet and steps inside the factory to soak up the memories.
But he can't hang around reminiscing - there's sliced white bread to be made.
Elsewhere in the episode, Cherry visits the Dualit factory to learn how they make toasters and visits a brewery turning waste bread into pints of beer, while historian Ruth Goodman discovers why white bread was banned during the Second World War.
Unforgotten 2
Channel: S3
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Drama
Season 2 starts innocently enough with a routine river dredging operation.
When the scoop brings up a soggy, old suitcase, the workers open it and find a corpse sealed up so long that the tissues have turned to a soapy substance.
Gruesome forensic work identifies the victim as David Walker, a businessman missing for 25 years.
Cassie and Sunny locate Walker's wife, Tessa Nixon, now remarried.
A hard-bitten DI herself, Tessa reminds her fellow police officers that 63% of all murder victims are killed by their partners.
But Cassie and Sunny have other suspects to consider.
A pager found with Walker's remains leads them to Sara Mahmoud, a Muslim teacher who wishes she'd never heard of David Walker.
Other clues connect Walker with Colin Osborne, a gay attorney in the process of adopting a young girl with his partner; and Marion Kelsey, a harried nurse in a children's cancer ward.