Television What To Watch Kitchen capers: Maeve and Lilly Higgins eye up food Todays highlights With Adam Hyland Pick Of The Day Maeve Higgins Fancy Vittles RT2, 10.30pm Maeve Higgins gives us a cookery programme with a difference as she and her sister Lilly, who is actually a very good cook, prepare feasts for various groups of people. With comic asides and musings on everything from growing up in Ireland to social etiquette, the Higgins sisters serve up a whimsical and laid-back programme. This episode sees them prepare a meal for their old school friends, so alongside the food, expect generous helpings of Maeves witty outlook on one-upmanship and female flattery. Lost Land Of The Volcano BBC1, 9pm The BBC team continue their trip around the stunning landscape of New Guinea, and this week George McGavin enlists the help of a local tribe in order to film the courtship rituals of birds of paradise. The unfortunate Steve Backshall doesnt get to see such colour and light, as he clambers around an underground river cave buried deep under a mountain, but what he finds is just as interesting. RT1 RT2 TV3 9.45 Judge Joe Brown 10.05 The Doctors 10.55 Dr Phil 11.45 Shortland Street (T) 12.15 Doctors (T) 12.45 Telly Bingo 1.00 News And Weather (T) 1.25 Home And Away (T) 1.55 Neighbours (T) Donna stands up to Paul. 2.20 EastEnders (R,T) 3.00 How Clean Is Your House? 3.30 I Want A Garden. Makeover show, with Diarmuid Gavin. 4.00 The Afternoon Show (T) 5.45 Nuacht RT 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 News And Weather 7.00 Living Lightly The McGregors plan to become self-sufficient. 7.30 EastEnders (T) The police quiz Lucas about Trinas recent whereabouts. 8.00 Fair City (T) Zumo plots to ruin the centenary parade. 8.30 How Long Will You Live? Revisited (T) Last in the series. 9.00 News And Weather (T) 9.35 Prime Time (T) Current affairs review, plus reports on breaking news stories at home and abroad. 10.15 The Liberties A series of 12 short films focusing on the colourful selection of individuals who can be found living in Dublins Liberties community. 11.15 The View A review of Sebastian Faulks latest novel. 11.55 RT News And Weather (T) 12.05 Boston Legal 1.00 FILM: The Family Tree (1983) 8.25 The Scooby-Doo Show 8.50 The Adventures Of Bottle Top Bill And His Best Friend Corky 9.05 Den Tots 2.05 The Den: Raggs 2.40 Tak And The Power Of Juju 3.05 Shaun The Sheep 3.15 Kazoo 3.30 Ballybraddan (R) 3.45 Neds Declassified School Survival Guide 4.15 The Latest Buzz 4.40 Ice 5.10 Hannah Montana. Adventures of a teenage pop star. 5.35 Neighbours. Donna stands up to Paul. 6.00 The Simpsons (T) Cartoon capers. 6.30 Home And Away (R,T) Aden and Belle arrive back from their honeymoon to break the news about her illness. 7.00 Two Wild: The Keepers Of The Planet (R) How humanitys need for space and food has threatened the elephant. 8.00 Two Wild: Oceans The team visits the Bahamas to explore the Atlantic Ocean. 9.00 Brothers & Sisters Rebecca and Justin continue to hide their feelings for each other. 9.55 Nurse Jackie New series. Dark medical comedy starring Edie Falco. 10.30 Meave Higgins Fancy Vittles New series. Spoof cookery series with the comedian and her sister Lilly. See highlights. 11.00 RT News On Two (T) 11.30 The Librarians With Book Week fast approaching, Frances decides to go on a diet. 12.00 FILM: The Battle Of Shaker Heights (2003) 7.00 Ireland AM 10.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show 11.00 The Morning Show With Sybil And Martin 11.50 Midday. Live daily chat show. 12.50 Xpos (R) 1.20 The Oprah Winfrey Show (R) Breast cancer awareness, with Christina Applegate. 2.10 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3.05 Emmerdale (R,T) J 3.30 Coronation Street (R,T) 4.00 Coronation Street (R,T) 4.30 Judge Judy. Real-life court cases. 5.30 News@5.30 6.00 Xpos 6.30 Friends (R) Phoebe encounters a suicidal office worker during her first day as a telemarketer. 7.00 Emmerdale (T) Nikhil and Jai clash when they hold interviews at the sweet factory. 7.30 UEFA Champions League Live Besiktas v Manchester United (Kick- off 7.45pm). The BJK Inonu Stadium provides the setting for the first game of the Red Devils Group B campaign as they face the Turkish champions. Alex Fergusons men failed in their bid to win successive titles when they were outplayed and outclassed by Barcelona in last seasons final, losing 2-0 in an uncharacteristically below-par performance. 10.00 UEFA Champions League Highlights 10.30 Fran: Assistant Manager New series. Spoof documentary. 11.00 Nightly News 11.05 Tonight With Vincent Browne The host presents a panel discussion on a variety of subjects. 12.00 to 3.00 Play TV. 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm :60second interview Marc Roberts Co Mayos Marc Roberts was pipped to the post by Dustin during his second crack at the Eurovision. No matter, the affable crooner of successful songs including For Once In Your Life and Mysterious Woman has a new album out later this year The Promise being its first single I dont think anyone has disappointed me because I havent really elevated anyone that high, but Id be gob-smacked about meeting Olivia Newton-John what theyre doing. Its like a physical Facebook. How do you find the experience of co-writing? Gary Barlow once said Its great to share the birth experience. And it is! Having said that, there has to be an underlying trust. When youre with somebody else you have to be open enough to give and take, and to throw your ideas out there and know youre not going to get laughed at. Whats your most diva-like request on tour? I drink loads of water. I did one show in Melbourne and it was 34C amazingly hot for a guy from Mayo. Everyone thought I was going to die sweating. I kept asking for water so they kept bringing up these tiny bottles that after each song Id throw into me and go again I sweated for Ireland. So thats probably my biggest diva request keep the water coming! Looking at your websites gallery youve met many dignitaries and celebrities. Who was a highlight? smacked about meeting is Olivia Newton-John. I know Cliff Richard through Daniel ODonnell, and Olivia Newton-John is one of Cliffs best friends. Cliff has said, You know, youd sound really good together in a duet. I remember thinking yeah, Id love that. And weve ended up e-mailing each other, believe it or not. But Ive never met her yet, and I think she would be the one who I would actually clam up on. Or run away from. If we did a duet, wed have to do it on the other side of the world or something. Have you ever been bitten by an animal or Dustin? Never by Dustin. Er, bird flu? But I was bitten by a dog once during panto. I was doing rehearsals and would go off for a walk with my script and I got bitten by this dog and had to go to hospital for a tetanus injection. Fortunately I wasnt in costume at the time. The Promise is available for download on iTunes from Friday. www.marcroberts.ie Interview by Lucy White What is the genesis of your new single The Promise? We all know the story of people arriving back from America into rural Ireland with their big BMW that they rented at the airport, to pretend theyre having an amazing life overseas. The Promise came out of that idea of a better life; that youll go to a place and everything will be rosy, and the promise being that you would get to come home, maybe die with your own people, revisit your old family. But sadly, for a lot of people, that didnt last, and in the current climate it could happen all over again the faceless Irish of America who havent the identity of either status. The idea of The Promise probably subconsciously came about because of meeting so many Irish performers in America and also people I went to school with, who saw my name on a poster and thought, Hey, I must go and see him! And then you find out John Denver one of my biggest idols. When I was a kid everybody told me that I sounded like him although it was never intentional as a kid, being told that you sounded like the Milky Bar Kid, because thats really what John Denver looked like at that time, was not something to be proud of. But once I started playing the guitar and really listening to his music, I totally identified with the mans values, of family and friends and nature. And then I got to meet him. His tour manager said: Marc Roberts meet John Denver, John Denver meet Marc Roberts.. I remember going: Howya! Then the next words that fell out of my mouth were: I sang your songs at weddings! Corny... Who has disappointed you? I dont think anyone has disappointed me because I havent really elevated anyone that high. But the one person I can say Id be honestly gob- 14 metrolife Tuesday, September 15, 2009 index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html