BBC Two TV Guide

Jimi Famurewa, Harriet Kemsley, Colin Murray and Sara Pascoe test their general knowledge skills in a variety of trivia-based games across the week

Michael Portillo's journey reaches the naval port of Brest, home to France's oceanographic fleet. Aboard the 107 metre-long Pourquoi Pas, he hears how marine biologists deploy research submersibles 6,000 metres below the surface to study life in the deep sea. In the kitchen of a traditional boulangerie, Michael learns how to make a Breton favourite, a sweet, buttery cake called kouign-amann

Nigella Lawson reveals a secret passion when she prepares her dark and deviant liquorice pudding, then extols the virtues of fregola - the Sardinian sun-dried and toasted couscous - with tomato and clams. Her dinner-party guests are served butterflied leg of lamb and baby aubergines with oregano and roasted red onion, followed by meringue gelato cake with sharp raspberries and dark chocolate sauce for dessert

Iain Stirling challenges the six remaining teams to create sand sculptures on St Andrews beach that reflect what home means to them, with the duos having six hours until the tide comes in. Sadie Clayton and Jamie Wardley judge the efforts, which take in everything from Welsh valleys and family legacies to artistic studios and symbols of rebirth

When a mayday comes in from a yacht breaking up off the Norfolk coast, both the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston RNLI crew and Caister's independent lifeboats race to the rescue. In Pembrokeshire, the St Davids crew are alerted to two paddleboarders in distress. Just off the coast of Scarborough, a fisherman has slipped and has a suspected broken ankle

Two trauma calls reveal that the greatest dangers are not always the most obvious, testing the expertise, judgement and resilience of the emergency team at Southmead Hospital. They battle to save Paul, whose leg has been severed after being hit by a train, but who is in more immediate danger from an overdose that could cause severe liver damage. And they question the story of a man with a deep wound who denies being stabbed

Maisie Adam hosts the comedy show filmed at London's Hammersmith Apollo, warming up the audience before introducing stand-up routines by fellow comedians Michael Odewale and Susie McCabe

Analysis of the day's events, with Adam Fleming

Armand's demands test Louis to his limits, Lestat's soul searching revives memories, and Daniel's bowling is disrupted

In the Victorian era, the residents of the house on Calton Hill include Thomas Mains, a maker of expensive shoes whose customers won't pay. His wife, Ann, eventually takes the customers to court after his death. David Olusoga also assesses the lives of Thomas Glen, a famous bagpipe maker who runs a musical instrument shop in the city, photographer Archibald Burns, and a brothel-keeper, the mysterious Catherine Johnston