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  • UK TV Programme Highlights For Tuesday, 13 May

Pick of the day programme highlights for May 13th covering news, films, comedies, sci-fi, sport and all other programme categories picked daily by the DigiGuide staff

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Today's Pick Of The Day

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COOKERY: If you can't stand the heat....

It's difficult to know exactly what this fourth series of The F Word will be like because preview discs have been thin on the ground. However what is for certain is that chef Gordon Ramsay is likely to be as abrasive as ever, and the focus in this latest run of 12 episodes is on celebrities, their friends and their families, who will be staffing his kitchen... (Click to continue reading)

The F Word showing on Channel 4 at 9:00pm


Documentary

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Skirting the issues

Style guru Gok Wan continues his own brand of "women's lib" in How to Look Good Naked. In this episode, Gok meets wannabe actress Clare Coxon, 33, whose low body confidence is holding her back from pursuing her dream of appearing on stage. Clare hates her thighs so much she keeps them covered in trousers and wouldn't dream of putting on a skirt. (Click to continue reading)

How to Look Good Naked showing on Channel 4 at 8:00pm

Film

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I love the smell of napalm in the morning...

An American assassin is sent upriver to kill a rogue colonel in Francis Ford Coppola's hellish vision of Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness novel. This monumental Vietnam war movie has a moving soundtrack that captures the mood of the time. (Click to continue reading)

Apocalypse Now showing on Film4 at 9:00pm

Science Fiction Series

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A stark warning for Starbuck

Starbuck's mission to find Earth takes a detour via the Cylon base ship, where the Hybrid offers a stark warning to the pilot. (Click to continue reading)

Battlestar Galactica showing on Sky One at 9:00pm

Documentary

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Getting tougher

Six young fashion lovers swap shopping for the factories and backstreet workshops of India to learn how the clothes they wear are manufactured. The group embark on the most shocking leg of their journey so far in Mumbai, as they are put to work in the backstreet factories of Dharivi, the largest slum in Asia. (Click to continue reading)

Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts showing on BBC 3 at 9:00pm

Film

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Fishy tale

Comedy classic starring John Cleese. A bumbling gang of crooks doublecross each other to try and gain control of their priceless loot. Things take a detour when Cleese's dammed-up emotions are unlocked by Jamie Lee Curtis's coolly calculating vamp. (Click to continue reading)

A Fish Called Wanda showing on Sky Movies Comedy at 9:40pm

Documentary

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Tall tales

Broadcaster Mark Dolan immerses himself in the remarkable worlds of some incredible people in this new series exploring what it means to be anything but "average". Tonight he meets some of the world's tallest women. (Click to continue reading)

The World's Tallest Woman and Me showing on Channel 4 at 10:00pm

And don't forget some more for Tuesday...